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Lifelong Oklahoma Residents Lock Down Against Keystone Pipeline
56-year-old Gwen Ingram of Luther, Okla. is arrested after locking herself to machinery being used to construct the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, April 16, 2013 From Great Plains Tar Sands...
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Protesters Swarm Site of First Proposed Tar Sands Mine in US
No Utah Tar Sands! From Utah Tar Sands Resistance: Dear Cameron Todd, Fighting the toxic stench of chemicals and exposed tar, people entered your tar sands test pit this weekend. The raid was to expose...
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Brazilian Indians Occupy Congress in Protest of Land Law
Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments to steal more of their land, April 19, 2013 © José Cruz/ABr From Survival International: As Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the...
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The Red River Showdown
From Tar Sands Blockade TUSHKA, OKLAHOMA – Monday, April 22, 2013, 10:00AM – On Earth Day 2013, to mark the close of the State Department’s public comment period for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL...
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Pennyslvania Residents Demand DEP Stop Catering to Oil, Gas Interests
An aquatic protest of Pennsylvania’s embrace of fracking and drilling, April 22, 2013 From the Shadbush Collective: [Yesterday], Earth Day, residents harmed by fracking and dozens of their allies...
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The Showdown Continues: Lockdown in Oklahoma
From Tar Sands Blockade BREAKING: Lula, OK—Thursday, April 25, 7:30AM -A protester with the group Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance has stopped construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by locking his...
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Lockdown Halts Keystone XL Work in Oklahoma
From Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance: Earlier this morning two Texas residents locked themselves to machinery being used to construct TransCanada’s dangerous and controversial Keystone XL tar sands...
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35 Arrested Protesting “Frac(king) Sand” Mining
A frac sand mine. The forested area on the slope is the original habitat. From Winona (MN) Daily News, by way of the Earth First! Newswire: Thirty-five people were arrested for trespassing during a...
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Enbridge pipeline protesters close Ontario highway
from CBC A highway near Hamilton, Ont., was blockaded for almost 90 minutes Monday morning as a group stopped traffic to protest Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow of its pipeline that cuts through a...
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Anti-Fracking Banner Dropped in Illinois State Capitol During Debate
A banner unfurled during fracking hearings in the Illinois state capitol rotunda, May 8, 2013 For Immediate Release: May 8, 2013 Contact: Josh Trost 312-343-8259 risingtide.chi@gmail.com Springfield,...
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International Support Needed for Protesters Occupying Belo Monte Dam
Indigenous people affected by the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Xingu, Tapajós and Teles Pires rivers occupy the Belo Monte Dam construction site, May 2, 2013.Photo Ruy Sposati /Agência...
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Activists Storm “Unconventional” Fossil Fuel Conference
From Peaceful Uprising: Peaceful Uprising, Utah Tar Sands Resistance and Deep Green Resistance Great Basin May 7 stormed the Unconventional Fuels Conference in Salt Lake City, piercing fossil fuel lies...
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67-Year Old Locks Down to Stop Willits Bypass
From Save Little Lake Valley: Bob Chevalier, a 67 year old Willits resident, locked himself to an excavator this morning and stopped Caltrans work [on the US-101 bypass in Willits, CA]. He did this to...
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Lockdown Disrupts Keystone Pipeline Construction in Oklahoma
From Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance: Hughes County, OK, May 14th, 7 am Early this morning Bailey and Holly, both of whom are local Oklahomans and with Cross Timbers Earth First!, walked onto a...
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Massachussetts Lobster Boat Blockades Coal Barge
From Common Dreams: Stearing a lobster boat called the Henry David T., two climate activists on Wednesday attempted to blockade a shipment of West Virginia coal from arriving at Brayton Point Power...
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TransCanada Reps Kicked Out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
From Tar Sands Blockade: “You’re not welcome here… We’ve said no from day one.” And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation last week....
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Indigenous Representatives Walk Out on State Department Over Keystone Pipeline
The Keystone tar sands pipeline was rejected by 10 sovereign indigenous nations on May 16, 2013 From Huffington Post: The State Department, still with “egg on its face” from its statement that Keystone...
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Occupy the Pipeline Disrupts Greenwashing Gala
From the Earth First! Newswire: [Occupy the Pipeline] took to the high seas [last night] to interrupt the New York League of Conservation Voters’ Spring Gala, which was funded by the hydro fracking...
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Direct Action Continues Against Willits Bypass
Two protesters locked to equipment being used to drain wetlands to build a US-101 highway bypass in Willits, CA, May 20, 2013 Undaunted by a string of recent treesit evictions, opponents of the US-101...
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Anti-fracking Activists Occupy Illinois Governor’s Office
Springfield, IL — Twenty concerned citizens occupied Illinois Governor Pat. Quinn’s office Tuesday to protest his support of a state bill to regulate hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” After being...
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