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25 Drone Protesters Arrested In Blockades At Gates To Creech AFB

April 5, 2016 Shut Down Creech, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
By Shut Down Creech. Anti-drone protesters executed waves of multiple non-violent peaceful actions at Creech Air Force Base throughout the morning last Friday, April 1, with the intent of interrupting the drone killing activities that take place there. Creech AFB, in southern Nevada, is the primary Command Center for the CIA's and President Obama's Drone Assassination program. At the most heavily used eastern gate, a total of 13 people were arrested in 4 separate actions. After military personnel re-opened the main base gate in the later morning after the 1st action there, three more waves of blockades occurred. The 3rd and 4th waves breeched a barricade near the gate and continued to block the road, ultimately stalling gate operations for nearly an hour totally, counting all actions at that gate. Another 4 were arrested at a 2nd gate. The first incident at the eastern gate occurred at approximately 7:00 AM when a group of six children and eight adults all dressed as angels, performed a mock drone attack on a funeral.

US And Cuba: New Tactic, Same Goal

August 10, 2015 Gloria La Riva, www.liberationnews.org , , , ,
By Gloria La Riva for Liberation News - Hillary Clinton reflects that of many in the U.S. ruling establishment—soon, perhaps a majority—who are now suddenly clamoring for a different approach in U.S. policy to try to accomplish the same aim of the last 56 years: destabilization of Cuba’s government and system. President Barack Obama spoke similarly on Dec. 17, “… we will end an outdated approach that, for decades, has failed to advance our interests. … ” Clinton’s Miami speech was filled with disingenuous claims about helping the Cuban people, in the typically arrogant attitude of U.S. imperialists towards Cuba, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. Cuba faces new challenges with U.S. plans at “engagement” and subversion. Congressional funds are currently financing more anti-Cuba “democracy” programs. But if there is a people, country and government that can face those challenges and continue defending the Revolution, it is Cuba. The ulterior designs of the US on Cuba can keep on trying another 56 years. They will fail again.

Social Service Advocate Launches Tree-Sit to Prevent Pipeline

May 19, 2015 FANG, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
A local woman launched a tree sit at the edge of a gas compressor station in Burrillville this morning to prevent its proposed expansion. The station, owned and operated by Spectra Energy, pressurizes and moves gas along the “Algonquin” Pipeline. Spectra is planning to nearly double the capacity of the compressor station as part of the highly protested “AIM” pipeline expansion project. Sherrie Anne Andre, a member of FANG (Fighting Against Naturals Gas), and a Rhode Island native is holding the tree-sit “indefinitely”. The sit is aimed at preventing the tree clearing necessary for constructing the addition to the compressor station. Andre is occupying a platform that is suspended 60 feet high on a tree located just yards away from the existing gas compressor station. A banner hanging from the platform reads “Spectra’s Toxins are Trespassing on Our Bodies, #StopSpectra”, highlighting the health impacts that residents face during the extraction, transportation and burning of fracked-gas.

Giant Oil Rig Arrives In Port Angeles, Greeted By sHellNo!

April 17, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , , ,
Eric Ross of the Backbone Campaign which is a member of the sHellNo Coalition told the media that the Port Angles protest was a training run for the "festival of resistance" scheduled for the arrival of the oil rig in Seattle on May 16th. Ross told the Peninsula Daily that the ocean oil-drilling process is “a travesty for the environment” and is “damning the next generation,” Ross said. Some of the signs read “Arctic Drilling Equals Climate Chaos” and “Shell Oil Kills.” "We just want to greet them, say 'Hello.' Let them know that they're not gonna slip in unnoticed. And of course, they'll be greeted again in Seattle," said Greenpeace spokeswoman Cassady Sharp to the Associated Press.

How Boston Activists Shut Down I-93

January 17, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , , , ,
Activists protesting what they call "police and state violence against black people" chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels and blocked a busy Boston-area highway at the height of the Thursday morning commute. The protesters north of the city chained themselves together using plastic pipes. A total of 29 people were arrested at the two protest sites. A statement explaining the protest: "In the past 15 years, law enforcement officers in Boston have killed Remis M. Andrews, Darryl Dookhran, Denis Reynoso, Ross Baptista, Burrell “Bo” Ramsey-White, Mark Joseph McMullen, Manuel “Junior” DaVeiga, Marquis Barker, Stanley Seney, Luis Gonzalez, Bert W. Bowen, Eveline Barros-Cepeda, Daniel Furtado, LaVeta Jackson, Nelson Santiago, Willie L. Murray Jr., Rene Romain, Jose Pineda, Ricky Bodden, Carlos M. Garcia, and many more people of color. We mourn and honor all these lives. We must remember, Ferguson is not a faraway Southern city. Black men, women, and gender-nonconforming people face disproportionately higher risk of profiling, unjust incarceration, and death. Police violence is everywhere in the United States. A comment on the inconvenience " Disruptions are temporary. Structural racism in this country is ever-present. These disruptions don’t occur in a vacuum. Context informs them. To get that many people to disrupt life all across America means that the legal, less risky channels for addressing one’s grievances have been exhausted.

Spectra Energy’s Office In Waltham, MA Shut Down

December 18, 2014 Staff, www.earthfirstjournal.org http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/ , , , ,
One person climbed and hung off of a 24 foot tall tripod and others blocked office entrances while a band played music and balloon banners were released. Two arrests were made. The action was part of the week of "Respect and Resistance" to stop Spectra's proposed expansion of a major fracked-gas pipeline through the Northeast. The New England group Fighting Against Natural Gas has conducted two rousing actions in the last two days against greenwashing, fracking, and energy infrastructure. On Wednesday morning a group of New Englanders were arrested for occupying and shutting down the offices of Spectra Energy to protest the company’s plans to expand a network of fracked gas pipelines in the region. The group deployed multiple banners demanding funders divest from Spectra Energy due to the impacts of the company’s projects to local communities and the climate, with one of them hanging from a 24 foot tripod and refusing to leave.

President Obama Begins US Coexistence With Cuba

December 18, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org ,
President Obama, as part of a prison swap has released the remaining members of the Cuban 5 and lifted some restrictions on the US relationship with Cuba. President Obama said "We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries." The US economic blockade of Cuba began 51 years on in 1961. The change in relations follows 18 months of negotiations over the release of prisoners by both countries that led to a fuller negotiations on the relationship between the two nations. It included secret negotiations in Canada, a meeting in the Vatican, and a final 45-minute telephone call between Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro on Tuesday. Not getting enough attention in discussion of this significant shift is the ongoing campaign to Free the Cuban 5.

Power Of Protest: Seneca Lake Judge Reconsiders Sentences

December 9, 2014 Charlie Haeffner, www.odessafile.com , , ,
"Judge Berry told us tonight he doesn't like to jail people because sometimes his granddaughter stops speaking to him." That's true, too. He did. In fact, as I sit here recalling that particular evening, the judge said a number of things that were interesting, if only for the fact that other court sessions -- at least those I've observed -- don't veer as readily into the interpersonal. The evening was noteworthy too because the direction of court cases there (at least those begging jail sentences) took an abrupt turn. The prevailing philosophy went from "Go Directly to Jail for 15 Days" to "Let's Talk About It." "I don't like putting people in jail," he said, adding that he has a granddaughter who doesn't like it either, and on occasion "doesn't speak to me" because his job requires such difficult decisions. "For those of you who have a grandchild," he said, "to have a granddaughter" react like that "is terrible."

Across The US People #ShutItDown Over Ferguson

November 25, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , , , ,
Across the country anger built as people began to understand that the Ferguson grand jury rather than having a prosecutor seeking the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson who killed Mike Brown, played the role of defense lawyer to prevent an indictment of Wilson. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, who should have recused himself but refused to do so despite conflicts of interests, announced the decision of the grand jury sounding like a defense lawyer for Wilson. The corruption of the grand jury process began with him and grew from the roots of systemic racist police enforcement in Ferguson. There have been numerous informed commentators making the point that the grand jury was handled in a way so that the "prosecutor" got what he wanted -- no indictment.

ICC Criticized For Failure To Prosecute Israel

November 7, 2014 Center For Constitutional Rights, www.ccrjustice.org , , , , ,
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following response to the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not be opening a full investigation into the 2010 Israeli attack on a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza. Israeli forces killed nine people, including 18-year-old U.S. citizen Furkan Doğan who was shot several times as he was filming the 4:00 a.m. raid and then shot in the face at point blank range as he lay there wounded. It is outrageous that the ICC is refusing to prosecute Israeli officials despite acknowledging that there's a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes were committed.

Gas Export Foes Arrested at Cove Point Construction Site

November 5, 2014 Anne Meador, www.cetology.org , , ,
Nine activists wearing blue jumpsuits and yellow hardhats scaled a massive dirt mound at the site. Three protestors were stopped by sheriff’s deputies, but six reached the summit and held a banner aloft saying, “WE > Dominion Profits”. They sat down as they were approached by law enforcement officers, who then cuffed them. The officers led some down the dirt hill but carried others. The nine protestors were charged with trespassing and failure to obey. The two photographers were charged with trespassing. All were held in jail overnight. “I see the huge risks that [Cove Point] poses,” said Dr. Margaret Flowers, a protestor who climbed the hill. “The risks to the surrounding community are huge, and that alone is a reason to stop it.”

FERC Blockaded, DNC Protested Before Mid-Term Elections

November 3, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , ,
A total of 47 people were arrested today protesting fracking projects approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This was the first day of the Beyond Extreme Energy week of protests at FERC. The protests seek to to shut down FERC throughout the week. On Monday, 25 people were arrested at FERC, 7 were arrested at a construction site for the Cove Point fracked gas export facility in Maryland and 15 were arrested at the Senaca Lake storage facility in New York. At FERC more than 100 protesters blockaded three entrances to FERC, including the entrance to the garage. They used a variety of forms of blockades and creative resistance artwork. Artwork included images of families adversely impacted by fracking as well as a town. BXE wantd to show that FERC is destroying families and communities and needs to be shut down. Police from Homeland Security destroyed the town and pulled down the images as part of its effort to protect FERC. In the afternoon the BXE protesters march to the Democratic National Committee to make a point, on the day before Election Day, that the Democrats are losing the vote of people concerned about climate because the policies they are putting forward continue to make climate change work.

Activists Halt Construction of Cove Point LNG Export Terminal

November 3, 2014 Staff, www.energyexportsactioncamp.wordpress.com , , , , ,
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland mother Kelly Canavan locked herself to a piece of equipment at a construction site in Solomons integral to the project. Canavan is the president of AMP Creeks Council, a small nonprofit organization that focuses on land use and zoning policy. She is also part of Stopping Extraction and Exports Destruction (SEED), an umbrella group of mid-Atlantic activists fighting energy extraction and exports. “The AMP Creeks Council has been opposing this project through several lawsuits for about a year,” Canavan said. “Now that FERC is poised to preempt any further victories we might be awarded in Calvert County, and Maryland officials at every level continue to support Dominion instead of residents, we are forced to take this stand. This is a peaceful protest to call attention to the carelessness and injustice that have characterized the course of this project from the beginning.” “The destruction of this prominent area in the Solomons community is tangible proof of the determination of both Dominion and Maryland politicians to steamroll residents’ rights.” Canavan said.

Impact Of Protests: Canadian Oil Sands Profits Fall 65%

November 2, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org ,
More evidence that protests, lawsuits and blockades work. The Canadian oil sands are seeing a dramatic decline in profits . . . Canadian Oil Sands (OTCQX:COSWF) reports Q3 net profit fell 65% Y/Y to C$0.18/share, citing lower revenue and foreign exchange-related losses. Q3 sales volume rose to 87,787 bbl/day, up4% Y/Y, but average crude prices fell to C$102.58/bbl from C$112.55 a year earlier, and operating expenses rose to to C$47.73/bbl, up from $46.15. Cuts its annual maximum output target to 100M barrels of oil, down from a previous 104M barrels and an initial forecast of up to 110M barrels. Canadian Oil Sands owns a 37% stake in its main operating asset, Syncrude, with six other companies owning the remainder, including lead operator Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) unit Imperial Oil (NYSEMKT:IMO) and Suncor Energy (NYSE:SU).

Popular Resistance Newsletter: Internet Emergency

November 1, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
The FCC meeting on December 11 is likely to be the day they announce new rules for the Internet. We’ve made a lot of progress in ensuring net neutrality but are not there yet. We need you to act now. Take two steps: Take a photo of yourself holding a sign that says #RealNetNeutrality, #ReclassifyTheInternet. You can add another slogan if you like, e.g. Save the Internet, Equal Access for All, My Voice Matters. Then upload a photo to the campaign page: My Voice Matters that will show a broad national consensus for no compromise on net neutrality. Sign up to join us in taking action this Thursday evening. We are urging people to take a very simple action to save the Internet. Organize an event in your community, at your college quad, a local Comcast or Verizon – or wherever works for you. The event should be in the evening so you can hold your cell phone lit up to symbolize the Internet. And, hold a sign like the one we describe in the first action. Sign up your event on our map. Do this now so we quickly show momentum and build the day of action; and people can learn about your event and join you.
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