Action Reports

Letter to Industry and Government with Warning About Trespassing on Wet’suwet’en Territory Today Unist’ot’en allies are rising up in cities across North America, and around the world, to deliver a message to industry and government warning them…

People Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL Pipe To Halt Construction

[Continue reading this post, or check here, for updates throughout the day. Join the fight against Keystone XL by coming to our next Mass Action Camp starting on January 3, one month from today!] For more photos of today’s action, visit Tar San…

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Tar Sands Blockaders Lock Themselves to Trucks Outside Valero’s Houston Refinery

Activists Begin Sustained Hunger Strike, Demand That Valero Divest from Keystone XL Pipeline HOUSTON, TX – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 8:00AM –-Longtime Gulf Coast activists Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Jr. have locked their necks to oil tanker tru…

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Two arrests in home demo against Primate Products in Florida

Last week, on October 28, two Smash HLS activists were arrested during a home demo protest. They need to raise funds for legal fees to fight the bogus charges. Smash HLS is a grassroots activist group aimed at shutting down Primate Products. Primate Pr…

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Updates from Michigan Fracking Protest

Prosecutor caves to pressure and drops the felony charges. Everyone is now out without bail! [Read original story about their action here]  15 people left the Mineral Rights Auction protest at the Lansing Center yesterday and headed to the office of S…

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5 Charged with Felonies in Michigan Fracking Protest, Bail Needed

Today, October 24, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Michigan held another Mineral Rights Auction.  The DNR is currently auctioning off 196,000 acres of land in Michigan.  This auction is one of the first steps toward Horizontal Hydrolic F…

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14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

Fourteen activists including groundWork‘s Bobby Peek, Earthlife’s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa‘s Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put …

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Croatan Earth First! Locks Down Against Fracking

Seven members of Croatan Earth First! and participants from our Piedmont Direct Action Camp locked together today, barricading the front of North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) building in downtown Raleigh. Providin…

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Earth First! Journalist popped at Tar Sands Blockade

[Yeah, that's right. We EF! Journalistas occasionally escape the doldrums of office life and get out to the woods to raise some hell. The following is a first hand account, re-posted from TarSandsBlockade.org] One Blockader’s Story (Day 25) Monda…

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Long Walk to Freedom

I’m laying down in an open field in East Texas, staring upwards and reflecting. Small groups of stars peek out from the increasingly puffy clouds, signaling morning rain. My nostrils fill with slight scents of dandelion, horse mint, pennyroyal and co…

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East Texas Tar Sands Action Camp Coming Up, Daryl Hannah Approved!?

Tar Sands Action Camp, Oct 12 – 14 Join the fight to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Actress and activist Daryl Hannah was arrested Yesterday alongside East Texas farmer, Eleanor Fairchild while defending her farm from the Keystone XL tar sands pip…

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Hudson Valley Earth First! Continue to Resist Fracking in New York

Residents in western Orange County began fighting the project over a year ago, and have taken every legal step possible. FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) approved the project with a 3 to 2 vote, unprecedented in their history as a rubber…

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Rally to Shut Down Injection Wells at Ohio Courthouse

Appalachia Resist! announces an Action Camp, November 2-4 in Athens county Today, over 80 people gathered outside the Athens County Courthouse to show support for the legal case of Madeline ffitch, and to demand that the Hazel Ginsberg Injection Well b…

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Love and Rebellion in the East Texas Woods

I’m writing to ya’ll from a safe space nearby the Tar Sands Blockade in rural east Texas.  Early this week, heeding the call of friends and comrades already on site, we assembled a crew of Earth First!ers from the Northeast US and made the…

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When Big Oil Attacks

Tuesday afternoon in East Texas, after police brutally tortured two protesters locked to a backhoe and workers resumed destruction of the forest, members of the Tar Sands Blockade, determined not to be deterred by violence, moved in to try and stop wor…

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More Jobs on a Dead Planet?

Bummer Reports of Pro-Industry “Protest” Around the World As the Earth shows ever-increasing, irrefutable signs of overlapping global crises in biodiversity loss, climate change and human cancer rates, the work-vs-ecology debate continues t…

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Texas Tar Sands Blockade Continues Despite Police Torture

Despite summer being over, things continue to heat up in Texas for the Tar Sands Blockade as we enter day 3 of the tree-sit.  On Monday, 8 people took to the trees to defend the land from clear-cutting that would allow for continued construction of th…

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People Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Tree Village

DATELINE WINNSBORO, TX — This morning two Texas-born Tar Sands Blockaders have locked themselves to a critical piece of equipment for TransCanada’s Keystone XL construction in order to protect a massive tree village in the direct path of th…

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