Blockade

A Look At Cuba: Democracy And Resistance To US Interference

June 10, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Blockade, Cuba, Democracy, Travel Ban

The Trump administration designated Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as a "Troika of Tyranny" and has been ratcheting up pressure on all three countries through economic blockades, creating dissent and covert attacks. This includes manipulating popular opinion in the US to demonize them and build support for intervention. All three countries have in common that they are resisting US domination. Recently, President Trump announced a travel ban to Cuba, which will curtail the possibility of people being able to visit and see for themselves that things are not as they have been told by the media. We speak with Netfa Freeman, who just spent two weeks in Cuba and who has done Cuba solidarity work since the early 1990's, about the situation there, how the US is interfering and what Cubans are doing to resist.

Water Protector Scales Water Well-Drilling Rig

March 20, 2019 Rivera Sun, Popular Resistance Resist! Blockade, Water is Life, Water protecting

Water Protector Buck Johnston of Taos, New Mexico pulled off a daring 4-day direct action at the top of a multistory well drilling rig this week. On March 14th, accompanied by a small action support team, he scaled the equipment and hooked into the top of the multi-story tower with a climbing harness. He brought food, water, sleeping bag, and a plan to remain in place for four days. Buck Johnston's action has already achieved one of its important goals: breaking the silence in the community around the deep well drilling.

Three NY Farmers & An Educator Arrested For Tractor Blockade To Halt Massive Fracked Gas Power Plant

January 16, 2019 Sane Energy Project, Popular Resistance Resist! Blockade, Fracked Gas, Green New Deal

Four New Yorkers were arrested early Wednesday morning for using a tractor to block a cargo shipment on Route 55 in New Milford, CT destined for the Cricket Valley Energy Center construction site, a massive 1100-megawatt gas-fired power plant under construction in Wingdale, New York. Opponents of the plant say if construction is completed and the power plant is allowed to begin operating, it will become one of the largest sources of air pollution in the Northeast.

Solidarity With Amazing Resistance To Destruction Of Hambacher Forest

September 17, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Blockade, climate crisis, Coal Mining, Resist

The Hambach Forest, which one could call the last “primeval” forest in Central Europe, is being stubbed for Europe’s biggest climate pollutant – the Rhenish lignite mining area of RWE (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier), in which RWE mines brown coal. Whole villages and the health of human beings are destroyed in this process. To prevent all of this people squatted the Hambacher Forest and take part in other effective and direct Actions. Join us!

New Tree Sit Blocks Mountain Valley Pipeline

September 5, 2018 Appalachians Against Pipelines. Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Oil and Gas

Elliston, VA — Early Wednesday morning, two new tree sits were erected in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Montgomery County, VA. These blockades are protecting trees on the pipeline easement that have not been cleared, and are located within 5 miles of a site where the pipeline is proposed to cross the Roanoke River. The pipeline fighters in the trees are Lauren Bowman, a 24-year-old resident of Montgomery County originally from Pulaski County, and a second protester going by Nettle.

Why The US Lets Israel Get Away With Murder

August 20, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Blockade, Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Fifty one years ago, the Israeli military attacked a US Naval vessel and, mysteriously, the President prevented the US military from protecting the people on that ship and the investigation was a sham. We speak with a survivor of that attack, Joe Meadors, about the efforts to expose what happened and why he currently risks his life to save Palestinians. We also cover recent news, including the cancellation of the military parade, the new Iran Action Group announced on the anniversary of the 1953 coup, next steps for North Korea, pipeline successes and an update on wealth inequality.

Retired Schoolteacher Blockades Pipeline On Family Land

July 31, 2018 Appalachians Against Pipelines Resist! Blockade, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

Monroe County, WV — On Tuesday, July 31, a West Virginia grandmother halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) by blockading herself in a 1971 Ford Pinto elevated off the ground at a pipeline work site. The blockade is being carried out by 64-year old local resident, author, retired schoolteacher, and grandmother Becky Crabtree on the section of pipeline easement that is ravaging the land her family lives on in Monroe County. Banners at the site read “Defend What You Love” and “Resist All Pipelines;” messages on the Pinto include, “Power to the People” and “The Fire is Spreading.”

NLG Condemns Forest Service For Blocking Food & Water To Pipeline Protester

May 13, 2018 By Alan Graf and Joel Richard Kupferman, National Lawyers Guild Environmental Committee Resist! Blockade, Pipelines, Tree Sitting

The Environmental Justice Committee of the National Lawyers Guild stated it condemns the actions of the United States Forest Service in denying basic necessities to a Virginia protester in violation of international law and 18 USC §2340(2)(b). The protester, a pod-sitter, with the forest name of “Nutty,” has sat in a pod since March 28, 2018, on a 50-foot pole in the Giles county section of Jefferson National Forest challenging the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The 50-foot pole is attached by guy wires to a gate on a road. MVP, having already started the construction of a 300-mile pipeline scheduled to carry fracked liquid natural gas, has commenced tree-cutting in the county in preparation for pipeline construction. The US Forest Service has closed off areas near Nutty and her pod, denying access to water protectors who support her, but more importantly, denying her food and water and subjecting her to smoke, bright lights and noise in an attempt to force her down from her perch atop of the pod.

Inside the Growing Appalachian Anti-Pipeline Movement

April 29, 2018 ByStaff for It's Going Down Resist! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Blockade, Pipeline

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with several people involved at the Three Sisters encampment in Virginia fighting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the tree-sit at the Little Teel Crossing in Virginia fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and someone that has been an on the ground supporter of the various encampments and tree-sits in both Virginia and West Virginia. Wanting to know more about how the movement has grown to feature now up to 7 people in the trees, including various home and landowners that are threatened with eminent domain, we discuss how various relationships were made and certain tactics popularized. In our discussions, we talk about everything from ongoing police repression, to how people go to the bathroom while up in a tree, but also political education, and also not putting radical politics, messaging, and ideas on the back burner.

Energy Transfer Partners Cuts Trees, Resisters Continue Struggle

April 12, 2018 Camp White Pines, Facebook. Resist! Blockade, Oil and Gas

Before dawn on Sunday, April 8, 2018, Energy Transfer Partners sent work crews onto the Gerharts’ homestead to cut down three trees and a monopod that had been defended since the 2016 tree-clearing. Based on the timing and tactics of this underhanded, cowardly attack, Energy Transfer Partners had invested significant resources in surveilling Camp White Pine. At Camp White Pine we are reminded of the wisdom, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds,” as well as the collective courage and resilience of all life. It is this lack of understanding of our cause that Energy Transfer will not win. Right now little pines are already sprouting from the trees felled at Camp White Pine. As a part of its vision for the long-term future, Camp White Pine plans to distribute seedlings to willing supporters and welcoming land. Well after our struggle ends and Energy Transfer Partners’ name is wiped from the stock market, the seeds from these trees, whose lives were abruptly ended, will grow.

Water Protectors Shut Down Pipeline Construction In Wisconsin

November 16, 2017 Staff of Makwa Iniative, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockade, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Rights, Lockdown, Pipelines

By Staff from Makwa Initaitive. Water Protectors from the Makwa Initiative halted the last piece of construction for the Wisconsin section of Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 pipeline project. Two water protectors locked themselves to construction equipment halting work at the site. Police arrived approximately 15minutes after the lockdown began. At this time there are 2 Water Protectors known to be under arrest in Superior, WI and 2 Water Protectors still locked onto machinery. A water protector stated, “We have attended public hearings, marches, and rallies. At this point we feel like the only way we can make are voices heard is by locking our bodies to the equipment. The state has recorded our comments, catalogued them, and say they factor them into their decision on whether or not to permit the project. We want them to stop expanding tar sands infrastructure. We need to be thinking about our children’s futures.”

Wells Fargo Blockaded, Demanding Divestment From Tar Sands

November 14, 2017 Alex Cohen, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockade, Divestment, Indigenous Peoples, Tar Sands, Wells Fargo

By Alex Cohen, for Earth Defense Coalition. On November 14, 2017, five water protectors took action in solidarity with front line Indigenous resistance efforts at Camp Makwa to stop the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota. The activists locked down to each other and used their bodies to disrupt business as usual at Wells Fargo, one of the major financial players behind this genocidal, extractive fossil fuel project. Wells Fargo has 743 million invested into Enbridge who is responsible for Tar Sands and the Line 3 pipeline threatening and ravaging through Indigenous lands, water, wild rice, and sovereignty in Minnesota. This action is one of hundreds taking place across the globe to call for divestment from financial institutions invested in the destructive fossil fuel industry.

Trump Administration Ignoring World; Hardens Blockade On Cuba

November 12, 2017 Staff, www.plenglish.com Educate! Blockade, Cuba, Donald Trump

By Staff for Prensa Latina. Despite the international community overwhelmingly urging at the UN Washington ought to put an end to the economic, financial and trade blockade on Cuba, the US government has otherwise announced harsher restrictions for Americans interested in doing business with Cuba and traveling to the island, in compliance with the presidential memorandum that reverses important aspects of the rapprochement between the two countries. The State, Commerce and Treasury departments announced the adoption of 'coordinated actions' to implement the document signed by President Donald Trump on June 16 in Miami, Florida, which includes vetoing Americans to make transactions with more of 180 Cuban companies. In addition, the new measures stipulate that all non-academic 'people-to-people' educational trips ought to be organized and led by organizations that are subject to US jurisdiction.

Women’s Boat To Gaza Prepares A New Challenge To Israel’s Blockade

August 20, 2016 Joe Catron, www.truth-out.org Resist! Blockade, Gaza, Israel, Women

By Joe Catron for Truthout - When two dozen women sail from Barcelona on September 14, mounting the latest international challenge to Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip, their boats -- the Amal, or "hope," and Zaytouna, or "olive" -- will confront a seemingly intractable impasse. "There is no freedom of transport or travel owing to the closure of cross points and borders, which led to the death of a score of patients [from Gaza] who were unable to receive their treatment abroad,"

Albany Protest: Five Arrested After Oil Train Delayed

May 15, 2016 Lindsay Ellis, www.timesunion.com Resist! Blockade, Oil, Oil Trains

By Lindsay Ellis for the Albany Times Union. A daylong effort to block crude oil trains brought hundreds of people near the Port of Albany, where they sat on train tracks and listened to speeches, sang and discussed nationwide and local environmental issues. The Albany event on Saturday, organized by the coalition Break Free From Fossil Fuels, was one of several around the country and world this month. More than 400 of the 1,500 people registered said they would be willing to be arrested for physically blocking the trains. At about 1 p.m., activists Marissa Shea and Maeve McBride delayed an oil train coming from North Dakota into the Port of Albany by rappelling off a railroad bridge that crosses the reservoir. They were arrested with three others and released on their personal recognizance.

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