India: Protesting Iron Ore Mining in Sonshi
By Ashok Shrimali / CounterView There is no end to misery of 45 tribals of a small Goa village, Sonshi, who were arrested in April this year for protesting against air and noise pollution which villagers say is caused by thousands of trucks running via the small road in the village. Kept in judicial lockup for nine days in April, pressure began building when they refused to sign the bail bond and…
Honduras: Two Members of COPINH Attacked
from IE Network Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was an environmental activist, indigenous leader of her people, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). On Friday, June 3oth, at approximately 2:36 pm, Bertha Zúniga and a friend were on their way back home after visiting in the community of Cancire of the Municipality of Santiago…
The “Aymarazo” Protests in Peru, Six Years Later
by Real World Radio / Posted on Inter Continental Cry It’s been six years since the socio-environmental conflict known as the ‘Aymarazo’ in Peru, a mobilization that happened in the province of Puno in 2011, against the mining project ‘Santa Ana’, owned by the Canadian company Bear Creek Mining Corporation. The project proposed is an open-cast mine near the border with Bolivia, which had planned…
Thirteen-Person Lockdown at Fracking Site, Lancashire, UK
by Press Association / The Guardian Protesters at Preston New Road in Fylde, Lancashire, on Monday. Photograph: Kristian Buus Protesters have blockaded the entrance to a fracking site as part of a month of action to resist the controversial drilling process. The group of 13 protesters, including three local councillors, arrived at the site on Preston New Road in Fylde, Lancashire, in the early…
Anti-Fracking Group Runs 80 Miles in NM Heat
from KOB Read the letter delivered to BLM at http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/DocServer/6.26_FrackOffChaco_Awareness_Run_BLM_Letter.pdf?docID=17552 June 26, 2017 08:26 PM FARMINGTON, N.M. – A group in the Four Corners area is on an environmental mission. Members went on an 80-mile run in the June heat to deliver a message to federal authorities. “They said it was about 103 yesterday. It was…
Georgia Town Fights Becoming Coal Ash Dumping Ground
by Georgina Gustin / Inside Climate News JESUP, Georgia—Peggy Riggins remembers standing against the wall of a windowless meeting room on a January day last year. Dozens of people sat in folding chairs, others crowded the aisles and more packed the hallway outside, tilting their heads to hear. The Wayne County commissioners were unaccustomed to a big audience. But over the previous weeks, the…
Direct Actions for Animal Liberation: June 2017 Recap
from Bite Back June 28, 2017 – France: CUSTOMER LIST LEAKED FROM FOIE GRAS PRODUCER The ALF hacked the foie gras producer La Ferme Schmitt; anonymous report: “……. A.L.F …….Morality vs Legality la ferme schmitt ==> foie gras & others -client list [RELEASED…] June 23, 2017 – France: HACKERS DUMP LIST OF HUNTING FEDERATION MEMBERS On June 4, the website (www.boucherie-bretagne.com) of the Breton…
Haul No! Report Back: Building Momentum in Resistance to Grand Canyon Uranium Mining and Transport
from Haul No In late 2016 Indigenous anti-nuke & sacred sites organizers decided something had to be done to confront the threat of radioactive uranium ore transport from the Grand Canyon to the White Mesa Mill. In December of 2016, volunteer-based Haul No! was formed to raise awareness, organize, and take action to protect sacred lands, water, and our health from this toxic threat. Haul No! got…
Update on the Rondy: We’re Broke!
from Earth First! Newswire Organizing this year’s Rondy has been a fun (if slightly overwhelming) experience for the few people who have spent the past week in the woods, digging shitters, finding locations for workshops, and trying to figure out how to cause the least amount of damage to the area we will be occupying for the week. Unfortunately, despite the enormous amount of energy that has…
Ukraine: Kiev Fish Farm’s Excavators Torched
from Insurrection News Received on 24.06.17: Kiev, Ukraine: anarchists set on fire 2 excavators Near the fish farm “Nyvky” on the territory of Svyatoshynskyi ponds, located on the Nivka river, two dragline excavators were burned. 23.06.2017, about 1 a.m., the anarchists approached earth-moving machines, which for months were…
Two Killed in Big Bend Power Plant Explosion, Tampa, FL
by Matthew Haag / The NY Times The Big Bend Power Plant in Apollo Beach, Fla., south of Tampa, where two people were killed in an explosion on Thursday. Four other workers were critically injured.CreditLuis Santana/Tampa Bay Times Two people were killed and four others were critically injured on Thursday afternoon in a reported explosion at a large coal power plant near Tampa, Fla., the…
UK: Grow Heathrow Runway Protest Community Given 14 Days to Leave Site
by Sandra Laville / The Guardian Grow Heathrow occupies land near Heathrow that has been squatted and turned into gardens and a community space. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian [Last modified on Thursday 29 June 2017 12.11 EDT] A community project set up to protest against a third runway at Heathrow has been given 14 days to leave its home by the high court. Grow Heathrow took over a…
People’s Climate March 2017 by Rachel Levelle / 350pdx.org Climate Justice means hard work. It’s tempting to assign labels or catchphrases to movements. The concept of climate justice or environmental justice has caught massive traction in organizing groups, but as easy as it is to put on a banner, it’s even easier to lose sight of what it really means. (more…)
A mountaintop removal site in eastern Kentucky. (Photo: iLoveMountains.org) by Zoe Loftus-Farren / Truthout Last month the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew its request for funding for construction of a maximum-security prison atop a former mountaintop-removal coal-mining site in eastern Kentucky. The proposed $444 million facility, planned for Letcher County, has faced ongoing…
Following up on the Fight Toxic Prisons 2017 Convergence
from FightToxicPrisons.org [The following letter was sent to all who registered for the 2017 FTP Convergence, but we felt there was pertinent info in here for the rest of you as well. Have a look, take some action, write some prisoners to tell them about it, and pass it on.] Greetings Toxic Prison Fighters, Earlier this month we held our second annual national convergence, bringing together…
