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New Tree Sit Blocks Mountain Valley Pipeline

September 5, 2018 Appalachians Against Pipelines. , , ,
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. , , ,
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 , ,
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 , ,
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 , ,
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. ,
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 , , , ,
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 , , , ,
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 , ,
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 , , ,
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 , ,
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.

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.
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