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  • Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Water Protectors Lockdown At Wisconsin Enbridge Site

    from West Fargo Pioneer

    t09.14.17 Bob King — 091517.N.DNT.PROTESTSUPERIORc4 — Ta’sina SapaWin (center) of Cloquet, makes points about treaty rights, land and energy use with Superior police officer Joe Markon during a protest at Michel’s Corp LLC, a contractor for Enbridge, in Superior Thursday morning. At right, officer Marc Letendre, listens in. About a dozen protestors were present. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com

    SUPERIOR, Wis. — Five people were arrested during protests Thursday, Sept. 14, after blocking entrances at an Enbridge pipeline contractor in Superior.

    It was the sixth “lockdown” protest in roughly three weeks by people identifying themselves as water protectors, and the first one inside the city limits.

    The protesters against the Line 3 project locked themselves to their vehicles and attempted to block two gates outside the entrances to the Michels Corp. facility on Stinson Avenue. Authorities arrived en masse and, after hours of negotiation, ended up cutting through the locking devices used by protesters.

    “We tried to first negotiate,” said Assistant Superior Police Chief Matt Markon. “As a last resort we had to get them out of the positions they’d put themselves in.”

    The protesters were arrested on misdemeanor charges ranging from trespassing and resisting arrest to disorderly conduct — including one woman who Markon said elevated the protest by using loud profanity. They remained in the Douglas County Jail as of Thursday afternoon.

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  • Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Running Down the Walls in Bloomington Will Raise Funds for Marius Mason

    from Support Marius Mason

    Running Down the Walls is an annual 5k run/walk/jog organized by Anarchist Black Cross chapters internationally to raise money for political prisoners/prisoners of war. This is the first year that Bloomington ABC will be participating.

    Register as, or Sponsor, a Participant

    * Promote – Print and distribute the poster to friends and around town.

    * Run/walk/bike/roll in the 5k – If you want to participate, please contact us to register with your name (or an alias) and how much money you plan to pledge. We are asking for $20, but any amount of money will work. Please contact us at rundownthewallsbloomy [at] riseup [dot] net to register.

    * Sponsor a participant. If you have a friend or family member participating in the 5k, you can sponsor them by giving them money to bring to the event, or coming yourself and donating there.

    All money raised during Running Down the Walls will go directly to eco-anarchist trans prisoner and former Bloomington resident Marius Mason.

    The 5k

    We will be starting on at Ninth Street Park, aka Rev Ernest D. Butler Park. More info on the precise starting point coming soon.

    For a list of Running Down the Walls runs in other cities, visit It’s Going Down.

  • Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Friday, September 15th, 2017

    Community Resistance in the South is Throwing a Major Wrench in Pipeline Plans

    by Skyler Simmons / Earth First! Newswire

    In the past week the West Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced that it is rescinding the water quality permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to be built through their state, while North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper just announced that his DEQ will be delaying a decision on granting water quality permits for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline until December.

    While neither of these decisions are the final death blow for these destructive pipeline projects, they do represent major victories for the grassroots efforts throughout the South to fight dirty energy projects. It is important to understand that these decisions did not come out of the goodness of the hearts of state governments. They came because strong social movements have forced them to do so.

    These decisions came as activists coordinated multiple protests in VA and NC against the piplelines. In VA, protests were held at every Department of Environmental Quality office in the state, culminating in a blockade of the DEQ headquarters in Richmond resulting in 19 arrests. Meanwhile in NC, a group of activists are conducting a two week long fast in front of the DEQ headquarters in Raleigh and held a large rally on Sept 20th. A solidarity rally was also held at the DEQ office in Asheville, NC, the second protest there against the ACP  in a month.

    Back in VA landowners along the Mountain Valley Pipeline route have been successful in using direct action to repeatedly keep pipeline surveyors off their land. Despite dirty tricks by the survey company, community members have been able to come together to block the paths of the surveyors, causing costly delays for the pipeline builders.

    Both the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines would bring massive amounts of fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia, with the ACP continuing into North Carolina. If built, the pipelines would result in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to building dozens of new coal plants, or adding millions of new cars to the road. These pipelines aren’t dead yet, but if strong community organizing and direct action continue, they are likely not long for this world.

     

  • Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Greece: Electrical Transformer Destroyed by Fire

    from Anarchist News

    We are confronting technology to the extent that it is a tool in the hand of the bosses and capitalism, taking away our capabilities practical or not. Their target is to establish any kind of technology as crucial for each one of us, to enslave each mind and body to one or the other technological means that at first sight makes our lives easier and more pleasant.

    The real consequence on the other hand, is the destruction of social and human relations and of the earth and nature. All of this for the development of robust social control and making profits.

    An inner part of the technological complex is telecommunications, which cause people many harmful symptoms.

    Telecommunications are part of a totalitarian plan for control, where recording communications feed the data banks of states for domestic security reasons. The national and multinational corporations that have monopoly of these tools cooperate with the state, collecting data and actively take part in that repressive system.

    Moreover, the telecomunications of today, within cutting-edge smartphones and web social networks, develop fake relationships away from what we consider the reality of social relationships, allowing us to communicate more when at the same time we meet each other less and less.

    On the evening of the 3rd to 4th of May we got in and incinerated the box of the high voltage electronic transformer at the OTE building at Sykies. It is the same building in which the telecommunications antennas are stationed. In this way we tore a hole in the invisible network that is all around us.

    Anarchist Cell – Destruction of the Existent

  • Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Canada: Indigenous People Occupy Illegal Fish Farms

    from subMedia

    After 30 years of peaceful opposition, indigenous nations of western “Canada” have had enough and have begun occupations of illegal fish farms to disrupt their operations. A call has been made to occupy the offices of the ruling New Democratic Party (NDP) of “British Columbia” to help put an end to the harmful practice of fish farms, that endangers the local salmon populations.

    To find out how you can help visit cleansingourwaters.com.

  • Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    West Virginia DEP Withdraws Approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline

    from WDTV

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia environmental regulators say they are rescinding approval for building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry natural gas down the center of West Virginia for 195 miles.

    In a letter Thursday, the Department of Environmental Protection says it’s vacating the water quality certification issued in March, which followed review of the projected impact on the state’s waters.

    The pipeline would extend south from north-central West Virginia through 11 counties to the Virginia state line and 108 miles through six counties in that state.

    In June, five citizen groups asked a federal appeals court to overturn the state approval.

    DEP spokesman Jake Glance says during a review of that appeal, “it was determined that the information used to issue that certification needs to be further evaluated and possibly enhanced.”

    (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

  • Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    Thursday, September 14th, 2017

    For Leonard Peltier’s Birthday: A Statement from Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE)

    Artwork by Leonard Peltier

    from FightToxicPrisons.org

    [Note: Amidst recovery from an unexpected triple bypass heart surgery and the largest hurricane threat seen in years, political prisoner Leonard Peltier turned 73 this week, on September 12, inside Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Central Florida. FIREE released the following statement on his birthday and , September 15, the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons will hold a rally in downtown Gainesville, FL to honor him and call for his freedom after over four decades of torture and slavery inside the world’s largest prison system. Find out more about Peltier, including his address to send a birthday card, here.]

    STATEMENT OF THE FLORIDA INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EQUALITY FOR LEONARD PELTIER’s BIRTHDAY

    Greetings:

    The Florida Indigenous Rights & Environmental Equality (FIREE), Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, and other organizations this September celebrate the birthday of Anishinabeg and Lakota Akihito political prisoner Leonard Peltier.

    Peltier remains a Prisoner of America’s longest war, its war on the Indigenous peoples of this great Turtle Island. Ostensibly Peltier was convicted on the killing of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who invaded the sovereign Oglala Lakota Nation with a warrant they did not have to arrest someone they knew was not there.  Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who were at the Jumping Bull “Tent City” location on June 25, 1975 defended the women and children of the camp from the unknown assailants who happened to be from the FBI. Cour D’Alene AIM member Joseph Killsright Stuntz gave his life in the defense of this encampment. A year later in Cedar Rapids, IA an all-white jury acquitted AIM organizers Darrell Butler and Robert Robideau of criminal charges because they acted in self-defense. The FBI altered evidence and ensured the prohibition of exculpatory evidence to ensure the conviction of Leonard Peltier during his subsequent Fargo, ND Trial.

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  • Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    EF! Journal Irma Update: We’re Still Here, We Just Don’t Have Power

    A quick note from the Earth First! Journal Crew in Lake Worth, FL. Our community was fortunate to be spared the worst of Irma but we are still without power. If you have tried to get a hold of us in the past several days we’ll get back to you as soon as the power is back on. In the meantime we are helping to coordinate grassroots disaster relief efforts and help get supplies to parts of the state that were harder hit. We’ll be back soon as soon as we can manage. Thanks!

  • Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    Indonesia: Land Rights Struggles Intensify

    by Vincent Bevins / The Guardian

    A eucalyptus pulpwood plantation that lies next to natural forest to the east of Pekanbaru, Sumatra. Photograph: Daniel Beltrá

    It is cold and late on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Huddled around a map, a group of elders are planning their battle strategy. In a milestone victory last year, they were promised rights to the land their village has controlled for generations, but today they have had bad news. The local inspector wants to slice off a piece of the forest where they harvest benzoin – a substance like frankincense – and give it to a large pulp company. They see this as a betrayal.

    The elders debate in a mix of languages – Batak and bahasa Indonesia – while sipping tea and planning how they will resume the fight the next day. For years now, almost every day has involved this kind of planning.

    “We continue the battle. It’s the only option,” says Arnold Lumban Batu, as the group confers with two members of a local community rights organisation. “Honestly, many of us would rather die than lose.” (more…)

  • Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

    Into the Trenches: Pipeline Sabotage in Hamilton, ON

    from Anarchist News

    Pipelines are war; one built from the insatiable greed of corporations which have normalized violence against the land and its living. Our resolve within this struggle intensifies with each audacious assault Enbridge launches; each time they dismiss the concerns and requests of Indigenous Nations. Every court proceeding. Every act of intimidation. Every lie or false claim of safety or necessity. We’ve had enough.

    So back when Enbridge started shipping in pipeline segments for their line 10 expansion, we started sabotaging them.

    There are vast networks of pipeline infrastructure throughout Turtle Island. They are indefensible; perfect opportunities for effective direct action that harms nothing but an oil company’s bottom line. It’s in this spirit that we found ourselves going for long moonlit strolls through the trenches of the freshly dug line10 right-of-way. Wherever we felt the urge, we drilled various sized holes into pipeline segments while spilling corrosives inside others.

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