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How Boston Activists Shut Down I-93

January 17, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blockade, Police abuse, Racism

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/ Resist! Blockade, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Pipelines

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 Educate! Blockade, Cuba

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 Resist! Blockade, Fracking, Nonviolence, Seneca Lake

"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 Resist! Blockade, killed by police, Police abuse, police brutality, Racism

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 Educate! Blockade, Israel, Law, Palestine, Trade, Türkiye

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 Resist! Blockade, BXE, Cove Point, Fracking

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 Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, FERC, Fracking

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 Resist! Blockade, Cover Point, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Gas

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 Resist! Blockade, Tar Sands

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 Newsletter Blockade, Climate Change, Cove Point, Extreme Energy, Ferguson, Fracking, Gas, Internet, Net Neutrality, Oil, Pipelines, Police abuse, police brutality, Snowden, Tar Sands

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.

Thousands #FloodWallStreet to Target Climate Profiters

September 23, 2014 Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Sit-In

NOOR: So it's about 10:45. We're here down at Bowling Green. You can see the hundreds, if not thousands of people that have gathered behind me. In a few moments, people will be marching from Bowling Green, which is at the southern tip of lower Manhattan, down up to Wall Street. Barricades are already up. But they're going to try to put the bodies on the line and commit acts of civil disobedience to send Wall Street a message. I talked to a few people about why they're taking part in the action. ISHAM CHRISTIE, UNION ORGANIZER: The leaders in this country--the politicians, the economic leaders--aren't going to do anything on climate change unless they're pushed by a lot of people. And yesterday's big march was great. It showed that there was a tremendous amount of support for climate change. But I think we need to sort of take a step further and really hold the institutions, like Wall Street, like the financial sector, accountable for their destruction of the climate.

Flood Wall Street Sit-In Surrounds Wall Street Bull, 100 Arrests

September 22, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Finance and the Economy, Flood Wall Street

The Flood Wall Street Protest began at the WW II Memorial in Battery Park at the lower tip of Manhattan at 9:00 AM. Speakers from around the world representing people from Africa, Central America, South America, North America and Asia spoke to the crowd of approximately 3,000 about how climate change is already impacting their environment and lives with droughts, floods, heat waves and massive storms. The group than practiced the resistance action of the day -- flowing like water down in the financial district leading to a sit-in, in an undisclosed area. . . .they surrounded the iconic Wall Street bull, the Flood Wall Streeters sat down and blocked the streets. The sit-in lasted from about noon until just before 4:00 PM when the group decided to march to Wall Street for the closing bell of the trading session. . . In the end, approximately 50 people were arrested.

What To Expect At the Weekend Of Climate Protests

September 19, 2014 Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Organize! Blockade, Climate Change

There are all sorts of events going on, and it's really great, because this is a coming together of people from all kinds of movements who care about the climate. We've been involved with the New York Climate Convergence, which begins on Friday afternoon with an anti-oppression training at Saint Peter's Church and then moves into plenaries and a full day of workshops on Saturday. Over 100 workshops are being planned to really talk about the root causes of the climate crisis and what the real solutions are to it and how do we build a more effective movement to address the climate crisis. And then there's also Trade Unions for Energy Democracy is doing a conference. There's a youth conference on Saturday. On Sunday we'll be marching. And then there's been a call for people to come to the United Nations and occupy it to show some resistance. Starting Sunday night. That will run through the whole UN Summit. And, really, because--and we can get into that more--the real corruption of United Nations and their failure to take effective action around the climate crisis. On Monday morning we'll be participating in Flood Wall Street, which is an action down in the New York Stock Exchange area to call out the climate profiteers. There's also a people's climate summit starting on Monday, organized by a lot of climate justice organizations, as well as there's festivals and art events and really a lot going on. If people want to go to our website, PopularResistance.org or ConvergeForClimate.org, they can learn about these events.

Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands Disrupts Pipeline Work

September 14, 2014 Bu Staff, www.michigancats.org Resist! Blockade, Energy, Environment, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

On Monday, August 25, 2014 – at about 7:30am this morning, two men locked their necks with bicycle U-locks to a pipeline construction truck, immobilizing it, as it was exiting a Precision pipeline storage yard at 3565 East Lakeville Road. This action has resulted in a back-up of trucks that have been blocked from exiting the pipe yard. At the time of this writing, there is a police presence around the two persons locked to the truck as well as dozens of other supporting protesters. Acting to disrupt Precision Pipeline, 20-year-old Duncan Tarr and 21-year-old Dylan Ochala-Gorka, both Michigan residents and organizers with a group called the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MICATS), demand a halt to Enbridge’s expansion of line 6B as well as restitution for those still suffering from effects of the 2010 tar sands disaster.

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