Blockade

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.

How The Big Greens Contain & Dissolve Resistance

September 7, 2014 kat yang-stevens, groundworkforpraxis.com Strategize! Blockade, Environment, NGO Complex

The mainstream environmental “movement” in the US has done almost nothing to counter the political and economic conditions that make participation in their contrived organizing spaces inaccessible to many people from the very communities bearing the brunt of degradation and state violence. At the same time, these hyper-visible Big Greens draw attention, recognition, and visibility away from localized and community-based grassroots organizing. In fact, these white-led liberal elite NGOs have time and again refused to take direction from primarily-impacted communities and have incorporated racist and colonialist elements directly into their recruitment tactics. Silencing the voices of leaders of indigenous communities and communities of color while often simultaneously using their images and appropriating bits and pieces of their cultures is a deeply entrenched mode of operation for many Big Greens. They often mash together multiple Indigenous cultures as if they were one, a method that reels in their target consumers, who often possess deeply misguided ideas of “Native Americans as the first environmentalists” and who can often be seen engaged in reformist “support work” that thinly veils their commitment to the settler colonial project.

Oil Train Halted By Mother Suspended Above The Tracks

September 3, 2014 Bill Moyer, www.BackboneCampaign.org Resist! Blockade, Energy, Environment, Gas, Oil, Oil Trains

Five local residents have stopped work at a Burlington Northern Santa-Fe Rail Yard in Everett by erecting a tripod structure on the outbound railroad tracks, directly in front of both a mile-long oil train and a coal train. Seattle resident Abby Brockway - a small business owner and mother - is suspended from the structure 18 feet above the tracks while four other residents are locked to the legs of the tripod. The group is demanding an immediate halt to all shipments of fossil fuels through the Northwest and calling on Governor Inslee to reject permits for all new fossil fuel projects in Washington, including proposed coal and oil terminals.

Palestine Mural Unveiled In Oakland, Activists Prepare To Block Boat

August 12, 2014 Henry Norr, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! Arts, Blockade, Israel, Palestine

A huge, brightly colored mural expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine was dedicated Sunday in Oakland with a ceremony that included poetry, music, traditional Palestinian and native-American dance, and the opening of an art exhibit from and about Palestine. Located in the East Bay city’s trendy Uptown district (on 26th Street between Telegraph and Broadway), the public-art project was sponsored by Art Forces (formerly the Break the Silence Media and Arts Project), the Estria Foundation and NorCal Friends of Sabeel. Excerpts from their announcement: The Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural adopts the image of the tree as a central motif and global visual signifier to link seemingly disparate issues and distant locations. Spanning 157 feet and reaching 22 feet high, the mural is comprised of nine separate panels, where each artist or team of artists has painted his or her own interpretation of a tree to address social and political issues. These issues include the shared histories of colonization, environmental exploitation, internal exile of indigenous peoples, resilience and resistance to these injustices…. The twelve participating artists come from a wide array of backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures.

August 16: NYC Solidarity With Blockade Of Israeli Ship

August 11, 2014 Al-Awda NY, www.al-awdany.org Resist! Blockade, Israel, Palestine, Protest, Solidarity

Come out on Saturday, August 16 at 1 PM (42nd & 2nd) in NYC to show your solidarity for this critically important action in Oakland: Join Labor for Palestine, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and many others to show support for: Stop Israel at the Port. Zionism isn’t welcome on our Coast! West Coast Blockade of the Israeli Zim Ship. What’s happening? The world has watched in horror as Israel has continued to bombard and devastate Gaza. Millions around the globe have come out in support of the Palestinian people and against the Zionist regime, holding massive marches, demonstrations, and actions. Here in the Bay, San Francisco witnessed some of the biggest mobilizations in recent years, with a series of marches, each bringing out thousands of people. It’s time to step it up.

Blockade Israeli Zim Ship At Port of Oakland 8/16

August 3, 2014 Bay Area Intifada, www.bayareaintifada.wordpress.com Resist! Blockade, California, Gaza, Israel, Wars and Militarism

Whats happening? The world has watched in horror as Israel has continued to bombard and devastate Gaza. Millions around the globe have come out in support of the Palestinian people and against the Zionist regime, holding massive marches, demonstrations, and actions. Here in the Bay, San Francisco witnessed some of the biggest mobilizations in recent years, with a series of marches, each bringing out thousands of people. It’s time to step it up. Call to Action Palestine is calling us to action! Palestinians laborers, Palestinian General Federation Trade Union (PGFTU), have called on workers around the world to refuse to handle Israel goods. Palestinians throughout Gaza, the West Bank and 1948 Palestine have demonstrated their unity in the struggle against Apartheid Israel and have taken to the streets in the tens of thousands, bravely facing Israeli military armed with US made weapons to call on the international community to stand with them as they resist Zionism throughout all of historic Palestine. We will be answering this call by organizing community pickets at the Port of Oakland, asking the longshoreman to honor this request and to stand with the people of Palestine as they have done in the past.

Officer Decides Not To Arrest Protester After Conversation With Her

August 2, 2014 Blackland Prairie Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! ALEC, Blockade, Criminal Justice and Prisons

We were told by an insider who had talked with the officer in charge of yesterday's action that he was moved by a conversation he'd had with one of the people locked down that he decided not to arrest them. Whytney gave us the run down of the conversation that she had with the officer that moved him so much that he decided not to arrest her at the action: [The officer] said, "I think you wanted to get arrested today," I said, "It's not that I want to get arrested, it's that when I decide to take an action I accept that that's a possible consequence, but I decide it's worth the risk." He said, "Have you been to jail for this kind of thing before?" I said, "Yes," so he asked me, "What else do you protest?" And I said "Police brutality." And he said, "Where?" And I said "Everywhere. My father was murdered by a cop when I was 14. I don't want what happened to us to happen to anyone else, anywhere." And he said, "I have a 16 year old daughter. If she lost me, she'd be devastated. I'd be devastated if I lost her. If something like that happened to me, she probably would be in there chaining herself up too."

21 Utah Tar Sands Blockaders Arrested

July 23, 2014 Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands, Utah

Land defenders in Utah locked themselves to equipment being used to clear-cut and grade an area designated for the tar sands’ companies processing plant, as well as a fenced “cage” used to store the equipment. Others formed a physical blockade with their bodies to keep work from happening, and to protect those locked-down to the equipment. Banners were also hung off the cage that read: “You are trespassing on Ute land” and “Respect Existence or Expect Resistance.” 13 people were arrested for locking to equipment. An additional six people were arrested after sitting in the road to prevent the removal of those being taken away in two police vans. Two of the protesters arrested were injured. One was taken a nearby hospital to be treated, while the other is being treated at the Uintah County Jail. The nature of their injuries is not being disclosed by the county sheriffs. A media representative from Unedited Media was also arrested. Two additional people were arrested when they arrived at Uintah Country Jail to provide support to the land defenders inside. An estimated 10 armed deputies with police dogs were standing outside the jail wearing bullet proof vests.

Breaking Action Alert: Enbridge Blockaded

July 18, 2014 Climate Connections, www.climate-connections.org Resist! Blockade, Enbridge, First Nations

Individuals from Six Nations and their allies have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. The work stoppage began around 10am this morning. Individuals involved asked workers to leave, asserting that the land is Haudenosaunee territory guaranteed under the Haldimand deed, and that Enbridge’s workers were present without consent or consultation. “Meaningful consultation isn’t just providing information and going ahead without discussion – it’s giving the opportunity to say no and having a willingness to accommodate.” says Missy Elliot. “Enbridge left a voice message on a machine with one person. That’s not meaningful – it’s not even consultation.” Emilie Corbeau, there in support of Six Nations points out. Those involved intend to host an action camp, filling the time with teach-ins about Six Nations history, indigenous solidarity and skill shares centering on direct action. The group states that they’ve tried the other processes available to them and here out of necessity. “We’ve tried pursuing avenues with the NEB, the township and the Grand River Conservation Authority. Our concerns were dismissed. What other choice do we have if we want to protect our land, water and children?” Missy Elliot of Six Nations asks.

Stop Mountaintop Removal: Activists Blockade Headquarters

June 20, 2014 Staff, www.rampscampaign.org Resist! Blockade, Coal, Energy, Environment, Mountaintop Removal

Three activists with Mountain Justice and Radical Action for Mountains and People’s Survival (RAMPS) are currently stopping business as usual at Alpha Natural Resources headquarters in Bristol, VA, in protest of Alpha’s devastating practices of mountaintop removal coal mining. Activists were protesting the opening of new mines on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia. Two protestors are locked in front of the front doors of the office, while a third is hanging from a flag pole displaying a banner that reads “Save Coal River Mountain” “That mountain is the mountain I learned to hunt on, it’s the mountain that’s sustained my family for generations. I’ll be a dead man before I see them take what’s left up there,” said Junior Walk, of West Virginia.

Energy Exports Action Camp

June 1, 2014 Staff, www.energyexportsactioncamp.wordpress.com Educate! Blockade, Energy, Environment

We want to connect local concerned people with each other and also with people fighting the ravages of mountaintop removal and fracking in their communities, showing that it’s the same fight and creating better understanding between us all. We want to make sure that our lives and those of future generations won’t be marred by the negative health impacts that accompany every gas liquifaction plant or coal terminal or mountaintop removal site or fracking well. The Energy Exports Action Camp is being held to increase the ability of people who care to stop disastrous projects in our region — like the proposed Cove Point liquid natural gas export facility and the existing Baltimore coal export terminals. The impacts of these industrial operations affect us directly in the Chesapeake Bay area, but they also finance more devastating practices farther away. Mountaintop removal and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) are two extreme methods currently used to extract coal and gas from beneath the ground — and it’s the money reaped from exporting these materials abroad that makes these unbearable procedures economically feasible.

Vermont Gas Headquarters Blocked, Banner Dropped

May 28, 2014 Staff, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Blockade, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking

Climate justice activists blockaded the main entrance to Vermont Gas's headquarters and dropped a massive banner from the roof, demanding the company immediately cancel its plans to build the fracked gas pipeline. Police are on scene, and the company's retail offices are effectively shut down for the day. Sara Mehalick, a resident of Plainfield, Vermont, has locked her neck to the main entrance of the building, effectively blockading the doors shut. She released a statement about why she undertook today's action: Today I'm taking action because Vermont Gas is intent upon shackling our communities to fossil fuels, and condemning us to irreversible climate change. We have a responsibility to the communities whose land, water, and air are being poisoned by fracking, and we're determined to make sure that this fracked gas pipeline does not move forward. Today we're here to tell Vermont Gas to cancel their construction plans, or expect to see growing resistance.

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