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California Bypass Struggle Continues with Third Blockade
Treesit against a US-101 bypass highway in Willits, CA, Jan 28, 2013 From the Earth First! Newswire: Willits, CA-Local residents say Caltrans tried to bulldoze their way through Federal and State...
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Kicking off the Week of Action Against Tar Sands Profiteers
Anti-Keystone Pipeline banner from 2013 Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade The Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers started on Saturday and runs through this coming Saturday, March 23rd. Although...
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Protesters Blockade Planned New York Fracking Facility
Photo source: Ecowatch From Common Dreams: 12 protesters have been arrested in Watkins Glen, New York after demonstrating against the development of a natural gas and liquid petroleum storage facility,...
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Argentinian Police Beat Protesters at Nuclear Plant Occupation
Nuclear Cooling Tower From Weekly News Updates on the Americas: A group of 40 Argentine environmentalists invaded the Embalse Nuclear Center in the central province of Córdoba on Mar. 11 to mark the...
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Indigenous Nations Fight on Against Panama Dams
Ngobe-Bugle protestors block a highway in a Feb 2012 protest against exploitation of their land. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) From Weekly News Update on the Americas: Some 80 indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé...
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More Arrests in Willits Bypass Fight; Treesit Still Going
A treesit against a US-101 bypass highway in Willits, CA, has been in place since Jan 28. Eight people were arrested yesterday protesting the construction of a US-101 highway bypass around the town of...
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Third Indigenous Occupation Launched Against Belo Monte Dam
Kayapo Dancers vow to defend their territory from Brazil’s plans for the Belo Monte Dam in 2008 From International Rivers: Altamira, Brazil – Today [Thursday, March 21] some 150 protestors from four...
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Week of Action Against Tar Sands Profiteers So Successful it Spills Over into...
The Week of Action Against Tar Sands Profiteers was a stunning success, with 55 actions taking place across North America targeting the companies involved in the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Read a...
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Willits Bypass Treesitter Launches Hunger Strike
Warbler, treesiting against a US-101 bypass highway in Willits, CA, since Jan 28, is now on hunger strike. Five days after the California Highway Patrol began blocking food and water deliveries to her,...
View ArticleCable Sabotage Will Slow Internet Traffic for a Month
The recent sabotage of an undersea telecommunications cable near Egypt will slow Internet service for three or four weeks in 14 countries from France to Singapore, news media have reported.
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22 Injured in Oaxaca Wind Farm Protest
from EF! Newswire Some 1,200 agents from the police forces of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca tried unsuccessfully on March 26 to remove local residents who were blocking a road leading to the Bii...
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In Guatemala, State Violence is on Trial but Repression Continues
Police, military and private security attack peaceful anti-mining protesters at the San Rafael mine in Guatemala, Sep. 2008 This article examines the connection between resource extraction, big...
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Three Recent Actions Against Tar Sands and Keystone Pipeline
Seattle Rising Tide blockades the Canadian Consulate to protest tar sands and the Keystone Pipeline, Apr 3, 2013 Three recent actions against the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL pipeline: • On April 3,...
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Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to KXL Heavy Machinery in Solidarity With...
From Tar Sands Blockade In response to the ongoing devastation from the Exxon tar sands spill in Mayflower, Arkansas a 79 year-old grandmother locked her neck to KXL heavy machinery and has halted...
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New Treesit Launched Against Willits Bypass!
January 2013 treesit in Willits, CA against a planned Highway 101 bypass From the Press Democrat: Despite the abrupt removal and arrest of five tree-sitters within the Willits bypass construction zone...
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Protests, Lawsuits and Arson: South American Mine Resistance
Thousands of indigenous peoples led by CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador) converge on Quito in March 2012 after a 15-day march demanding an end to open pit mining and new oil...
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Woman arrested after hours-long protest of Enbridge oil pipeline
Red Lake Nation News “An act of civil disobedience over an oil pipeline on the Red Lake Indian Reservation ended with a moment of civility Wednesday. Angie Palacio, after being handcuffed to the front...
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Inuit Fight On Against Muskrat Falls Dam
Inuit Elder James Learning is arrested on April 5, 2013, in protest of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project on the Lower Churchill River in Labrador, Canada. Photo by Derek Montague/The Labradorian...
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Protesters Crash Coal-Funded “Science” Conference
Protesters outside the coal-funded ARIES “research” conference, April 15, 2013 From Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (RAMPS): Charleston, W.Va. — Today two protesters disrupted the first...
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Activists Mock Fracking-Environmental NGO Connection with Mock Wedding
From Ecowatch: A coalition of Pennsylvania and Ohio students and residents staged a mock wedding today at the EQT Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, to condemn the misguided union of corporations and...
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