This Coastal Town in Maine Banned Tar Sands and Sparked a War with the Oil Industry
by Sabrina Shankman / InsideClimate News Members of Protect South Portland, who oppose the plan to pipe tar sands oil from Canada to the city’s harbor, wore light blue T-shirts to City Council meetings in support of the “Clear Skies Ordinance.” Opponents wore red with the words “American Energy.” Credit: Dan Wood SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine—Can communities say no to energy companies? Hundreds of miles…
Germany: Hambi Preparation for Conference of Polluters 23, Ende Galaende, Climate Demos, and Actions
from Hambach Forest As the corporate elites fronted by global fossil cartels co-opt and monopolize the UN Climate Negotiations bringing it into the largest lignite district in Germany this year and into Katowice Poland, the center of Silesian Coal Mining district for the next Climate Summit. It is only radical, direct-action and grass-roots responses that are becoming the last line of defense…
Canada: Warriors Remove Kinder Morgan Anti-Salmon Spawning Nets
from Warrior Publications Wild Salmon Warriors returned home yesterday after conducting a two week observation and removal of Kinder Morgan’s anti-salmon spawning mats that illegally disrupted four water ways in Secwepemc Territory. The mats were installed without any knowledge or consent of the Nation, just as the Kinder Morgan pipeline is continuing without the free, prior and informed consent…
Milan: Anti-fascist action for animal liberation
from Contagio Antispecista Anti-fascist action for animal liberation (Milan – 30/10) On the last 30th of October several antispeciesist activists met in front of the courthouse of Milan (Italy). They came from various cities in an independent and individual way, without any flag that could identify their origin or identity (there were only international antifascist and antispeciesist flags), and,…
from Goongerah Environmental Centre Twenty conservationists have established a forest blockade in East Gippsland to prevent logging machinery entering an area of old growth forest due to be logged this week by the Victorian state government logging agency VicForests. The old growth forest in the ‘Princess Cut’ logging coupe in the Kuark forest, 40 kms north east of Orbost, has never been logged…
UK Mining Firm in Court Over Claims it Mistreated Environmental Activists
by Owen Bowcott / The Guardian A UK-registered mining company, which is now part of Glencore, is facing claims in a London court that it hired security forces to mistreat environmental activists protesting about a copper mine in Peru. Two demonstrators died and others were left with serious injuries following the confrontations which lasted for several days during May 2012 on a remote hillside in…
from Warrior Publication Building a massive ski resort on B.C. land considered sacred to a First Nation does not breach religious rights, the Supreme Court of Canada says in a decision released Thursday. The landmark 7-2 decision paves the way for development of the Jumbo Glacier resort in the Kootenays region of British Columbia, despite strong objections from the Ktunaxa Nation. The Ktunaxa…
Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Stop Fracking
by Movement Rights / Intercontinental Cry After suffering for years with poisoned water and serious health issues due to fracking and injection wells on and near their reservation the governing body of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma voted to pass a statute recognizing the rights of nature on Friday, October 20, 2017. When enacted, the Ponca will be the first tribal nation to recognize the rights…
Another Call for Submissions for the Earth First! Journal Winter Issue
Dear readers, We are currently seeking submissions for the winter issue of the Earth First! Journal. We are looking for artwork, high-resolution photographs, poetry and other creative writing, critical analysis, reflections, how-to guides, reviews, and especially updates from your campaigns! Really, we’ll take anything that puts the Earth first. The normal deadline for the winter/Yule issue is…
Uruguay: Butcher Shop Sabotaged in Montevideo
from Frente de Liberación Animal translated by Earth First! Journal Before dawn on November 1st, we used explosive artifacts to destroy the windows of a central butcher shop in Montevideo; we also glued their locks shut, simply because animals should not be fucked with. We frame this action within the “Global Week of Antispeciest Actions” We reaffirm the need to consider the fight against animal…
Hydro Electric Firm, Honduran Military Planned Berta Caceres Murder
from TeleSur A hydroelectric company that environmental activist Berta Caceres had fought plotted with Honduran military and security forces to kill the Indigenous leader in March 2016, an independent commission has found. The investigation was carried out by the International Group of Advisors and Expert Persons, which is comprised of several lawyers from Guatemala, Colombia, Holland and the…
Canada: Five Demonstrators Arrested for Protesting Kinder Morgan
by Megan Devlin / CTC Vancouver RCMP officers arrested five anti-Trans Mountain pipeline demonstrators Saturday who attached themselves to a Kinder Morgan boat in the Burrard Inlet as part of a massive flotilla protest against construction on the pipeline expansion. An RCMP boat approached the demonstrators, and activist organizations captured footage of the arrests. “I can confirm there were…
Mariner East II Pipeline Construction Crews Approaching Pennsylvania’s Camp White Pine; Help Needed
from Camp White Pine Construction crews are closing in on both sides of Camp White Pine. For nearly two years, Elise and Ellen Gerhart, along with many allies, have been holding tree sits on their property to defend their land from Energy Transfer Partners’ Mariner East II Pipeline. The project would destroy their family’s land in order to export highly volatile fracking waste to Europe for…
Conservationists Win Court Battle to Stop Clearing of Old-Growth Victorian Forest
by Michael Slezak / The Guardian Conservationists have won an injunction stopping a Victorian government-owned business from clearing old-growth trees in the Kuark forest in East Gippsland. Environmental Justice Australia, representing the Fauna and Flora Research Collective, took VicForests to the supreme court on Wednesday and successfully won an injunction stopping the logging of an area known…
