Direct Action

Mexican Students Block Highway, Demand Justice For 43 Missing

October 6, 2014 TeleSurTV, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Direct Action, Mexico, police brutality, Student Activism

Hundreds of students of the Teacher Training College of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, are blocking the Mexico-Acapulco highway to demand justice for their 43 colleagues who last week were allegedly kidnapped by local police and gunmen. The highway is a key road, linking Mexico City with Acapulco Port, one of the most frequented destinations for both domestic and international tourists. According to several media reports, the students are now allowing all cars to pass through Palo Blanco tollbooth for free. The students are joined by relatives from the 43 youth who have been missing since Friday September 26, when police agents from Iguala, Guerrero, along with unidentified gunmen shot at several buses being used by the students, and kidnapped 43 of them.

Demonstrators ‘Disrupt’ St. Louis Symphony For Mike Brown

October 6, 2014 Rebecca Rivas, www.stlamerican.com Resist! Art, Direct Action, Ferguson, Racial Justice

Just after intermission, about 50 people disrupted the St. Louis Symphony’s performance of Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, singing “Justice for Mike Brown.” As symphony conductor Markus Stenz stepped to the podium to begin the second act of German Requiem, one middle-aged African-American man stood up in the middle of the theater and sang, “What side are you on friend, what side are you on?” In an operatic voice, another woman located a few rows away stood up and joined him singing, “Justice for Mike Brown is justice for us all.” Several more audience members sprinkled throughout the theater and in the balcony rose up and joined in the singing.

Federal Court Upholds EPA Veto Of Spruce Mountaintop Removal Mine

October 3, 2014 Earth Justice, www.earthjustice.org Organize! Climate Change, Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Law, Mining

Today Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of a permit for one of the largest and most extreme mountaintop removal coal mines ever proposed in Appalachia, the Spruce No. 1 Mine. The court found no merit in the coal industry’s case, and found that EPA’s decision to veto the Clean Water Act permit for this mine was reasonable and fully supported by the scientific record. Statement from Emma Cheuse, Earthjustice counsel who argued on behalf of several Appalachian groups in defense of the EPA’s veto: “Today’s court victory is a win for all Americans who believe our children deserve clean water and healthy lives without facing the increased threats of cancer, birth defects and early mortality associated with mountaintop removal coal mining."

When NOT To March (Or Rally)

October 3, 2014 Andrew Willis Garces, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Climate Change, Direct Action, People's Climate March

But too often we use marches and rallies in place of any other public action to put pressure on decision-makers and build support for our campaign. They’re good for partying or as a mass mobilization after grassroots support is built — but there are many more effective ways to create low-risk opportunities for gathering people together. On the heels of the People’s Climate March last weekend, where more than 300,000 people gathered to demand international action on climate change, it’s important to take the time to reflect on what marches can accomplish — and what other tactics can be used instead.

4 Things We Need To Do To Win The Climate Fight

October 1, 2014 Harvey Wasserman, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Direct Action, Energy, Environment

1. Local organizing is our ultimate source of power. The green movement has the great luxury of tangible targets. The King CONG corporations (Coal, Oil, Nukes, Gas) need actual land on which to do their dirty work. So we can fight them inch-by-inch, at the source. 2. But our planet as a whole is now infected with a lethal mega-virus—the global corporation, a metastasized cancer that usurps human rights but shuns human responsibilities. 3. As we work this through, there are inter-related issues we can’t avoid. 4. For each of us there’s also a deep internal dimension to this work. Being an activist is itself a great leap of faith.

Demonstrators Arrested In Sit-In To Save Dyett High School

September 25, 2014 Chicagoist, www.chicagoist.com Resist! Direct Action, Education, Law

Nearly a dozen demonstrators were arrested late last night in City Hall after chaining themselves to the statue on the 5th floor in front of Rahm Emanuel’s office. The protesters staged their sit in— beginning in the late afternoon— to request Emanuel take their demands surrounding the looming closure of Dyett High school seriously. According to DNAInfo, Dyett students and their supporters state that CPS and the Mayor have slowly starved the school to death after it was slated to be phased out in 2012. Presently, only 13 students are enrolled in the school, which is one of the only open-enrollment schools in the area. CBS2 reports other nearby schools— King College Prep High School and Kenwood Academy High School— are selective enrollment.

Global Day Of Action Against Drones

September 25, 2014 Global Day of Action, www.globaldayofaction.nationbuilder.com Resist! Direct Action, Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

We demand that all governments cease the production and acquisition of armed drones, as well as their research and development, and work towards a worldwide ban of these weapons. We further demand that our governments prohibit the use of drones for surveillance and prohibit using space satellites, ground stations, and military bases to enable drone surveillance and to trigger drone killings. We call on people all over the world to join us in the Global Day of Action on October 4. If you or your group are planning an action or event for October 4 and would like to post information about it on this website, please email a brief description to Anastasia of CODEPINK at anastasia@codepink.org.

Factory That Makes Drones For Israel Shut Down

September 24, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Direct Action, Israel, Palestine, Scotland

Activists in Scotland were arrested Tuesday for blockading and shutting down Thales UK, renowned Govan, Glasgow-based weapons manufacturer, to protest the company's role in producing drones used by Israel against Palestinian people. Early Tuesday morning some protesters climbed onto and occupied the factory roof while others obstructed the building's entrances by lying on the ground and attaching to each other by arm tubes. The six blockaders on the ground were arrested first. Then police attempted to starve out the roof occupiers by cutting off their food and water supply, as well as their blankets, for approximately five hours, Blair Poutney, a supporter of the direct action, told Common Dreams by phone.

Polar Bear Blocks Coal Train, Greenpeace Unloads It

September 24, 2014 BBC, www.bbc.com Resist! Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Protest

Greenpeace activists halted a freight train carrying 1,500 tonnes of coal to a power station. The freight train was heading to Cottam power station in north Nottinghamshire when 50 people flagged it down. A large polar bear model was later placed on tracks to block them, cutting off the main supply route to the power station, the group said. British Transport Police said it was talking to campaigners and "facilitating a peaceful protest". The activists said they had enough food and water to occupy the train for the one-day UN climate summit in New York.

Climate Protesters Block Oil Train Terminal Tracks

September 23, 2014 Rob Davis, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

More than 20 demonstrators have blocked the tracks leading to an oil train terminal near Clatskanie to protest the shipment of crude oil to the facility on the Columbia River. Protesters with the group Portland Rising Tide provided photos showing a 27-year-old activist, Sunny Glover, sitting in a tripod of 20-foot-high metal poles erected over the tracks Thursday afternoon. No arrests have been made. A Columbia County Sheriff's Office receptionist said the sheriff and deputies were en route. It's the second oil train protest on tracks in Oregon since June, when the same group blockaded an oil train terminal run by Arc Logistics on the Willamette River near Portland. Five climate protesters were also arrested in early September outside an Everett, Wash., rail terminal.

The Economics Of ‘Flood Wall Street’

September 23, 2014 Bryce Covert, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Direct Action, Flood Wall Street

It may sound like it’ll cost a lot to fight climate change. But it may cost more to stay on our current course of taking little action. The cost of failing to adapt could be a staggering $1,240 trillion, compared to $890 trillion if we make changes. The U.S. director of the Office of Management and Budget has estimated that it will cost the United States billions of dollars if we fail to act, given the cost of increasingly intense damage from storms, wildfires, and drought. Climate change will also hamper important pieces of our economic system. If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current path, we’ll experience a 50 percent drop in labor productivity by the end of the century thanks to heat stress. The cost of such a decrease could be more than that of all other climate change costs combined. A changing climate will also devastate an important sector of the economy: agriculture. With increasing droughts, heat waves, and changing precipitation patterns, it’s likely that we’ll see a 40 percent crop reduction by 2100 if things continue as they are.

The Wheel Turns, The Boat Rocks, The Sea Rises

September 20, 2014 Rebecca Solnit, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Climate Change, Direct Action, Energy, Environment

To make personal changes is to do too little. Only great movements, only collective action can save us now. Only is a scary word, but when the ship is sinking, it can be an encouraging one as well. It can hold out hope. The world has changed again and again in ways that, until they happened, would have been considered improbable by just about everyone on the planet. It is changing now and the direction is up to us. There will be another story to be told about what we did a quarter century after civil society toppled the East Bloc regimes, what we did in the pivotal years of 2014 and 2015. All we know now is that it is not yet written, and that we who live at this very moment have the power to write it with our lives and acts.

Why Protest?

September 15, 2014 Mike Wendling, www.bbc.co.uk Resist! Direct Action, Protest

To protest is to make a statement that challenges a particular way to do things. To challenge the hegemonic power of the state. Elite culture in England has been challenged through creative direct action. The Vietnam War was met with hostility in universities throughout the United States. The stereotype of protesting is wrong. People that protest are most likely, compared to non-protestors, to speak to political representatives. They are also more likely to use protest as an extension of their engagement with the political system, not the only way to engage. Protesting is one way to practice democracy and, in our time, perhaps the only way to maintain the process towards democratization. And anyone can protest. What gets you to protest?

All Charges Dropped Against MI CATS Tar Sands Protestors!

September 12, 2014 Jake McGraw, www.michigancats.org Resist! Arrest, Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Law

On July 24th in memory of the 2010 Tar Sands disaster in the Kalamazoo River, over 20 protesters gathered for an afternoon of speeches, music, and, resistance to the controversial Enbridge line 6B. During the protest Al Smith and Jake McGraw were wrongfully arrested on the Polly Ann Trail outside of a Precision Pipeline staging area in Oxford, adjacent to Lakeville Elementary School. They were taken into custody and charged with failure to obey a police command and mass picketing. This morning both charges were dismissed in Rochester Hills District Court. “It is a clear conflict of interest for a corporation such as Enbridge to contract local police forces as their private security guards. The dismissal of our charges is evidence of this conflict. We were acting within our first amendment rights to peacefully protest. We were wrongfully arrested in violation of our civil rights. I was assaulted by a security guard that day. Today, we were vindicated thanks to the commitment to justice by our National Lawyers’ Guild attorney Denise Heberle.” Jake McGraw, from Hartland Michigan.

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