On July 20, over 400 protectors led by Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island took escalated action by blocking the entrance to the Fort Sill military post in Lawton, O.K. shutting down the freeway for two hours.
Saturday morning just before 10:00 A.M., a group of 30-40 pipeline fighters walked onto a Mountain Valley Pipeline work site near Elliston, Virginia, blocking construction at the site.
An intergenerational road blockade disrupted work at Monument Gate early this morning, blocking access to the contentious active logging plans on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed. Three elder activist women nearing eighty, and one in her thirties, locked their bodies together and sat in front of the gate, closing it to logging traffic and drawing the presence of several Humboldt County Sheriffs.
At 6 A.M. Wednesday morning, a pipeline fighter locked themself to a piece of equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline site, preventing construction. The anonymous protester climbed atop an excavator and locked themself to it. Banners at the site read “NO PIPELINES, NO EXTRACTION, NO COMPROMISE” and “MOUNTAIN DEFENDERS, WATER PROTECTORS, STAND WITH US.”
I sit up in my perch, listening to the thunder of trees falling, close, across the creek on brushy ridge. Fourteen so far, this morning. I think about a future without forests. Trees are falling down the coast from so-called British Columbia to California. (Fifteen trees down, now). Cedars, Firs, Redwoods becoming lumber, pulp, biomass, tree plantations….. Smoke.
At the Yellow Finch tree sits in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, cops have left the scene (for now). MVP is still lurking down the road. We are still asking for local support — if you are available and can come out today during the day, we’d love to see you. If not, donate.
A message from Philip who is involved in one of the tree sits outside of Elliston, VA, which is actively blocking the Mountain Valley Pipeline, (MVP). The statement marks 200 day of active resistance to the pipeline.
In this episode, first we talk to one of the four valve turners who in Minnesota in mid-February, took direct action against an Enbridge pipeline, shutting it down.
In Pirkanmaa, Finland, people who are concerned about Dragon Mining’s environmental impacts are taking action again.
Mankato, MN- On December 26th, 2018, a tripod with a noose around an Abraham Lincoln figure was erected at so-called “Sibley Park.” The banner dropped from a nearby railway bridge read “Hangman’s Park,” with a large noose in the middle of the banner.