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Lobbying

Spokane Moves to Ban Oil Trains and Legalize Direct Action Against Fossil Fuels

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ACTION ALERT Direct Action Spokane Initiative Banning Coal and Oil Trains Through Spokane Background: On Friday, June 10th, Gunnar Holmquist, M.D. filed an initiative with the Spokane City Clerk which seeks to ban the transportation of crude oil and coal through the City of Spokane, because of climate change and the threat to public safety. … Continue reading Spokane Moves to Ban Oil Trains and Legalize Direct Action Against Fossil Fuels →
Lobbying

Hoopa Valley Tribe: San Luis Settlement Agreement will “Condemn Tribe to Poverty”

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By Dan Bacher / Intercontinental Cry On May 24, the Hoopa Valley Tribe from Northern California filed its objection to two bills proposed in the House of Representatives to implement the controversial San Luis Settlement Agreement, saying the agreement would “forever condemn the Tribe to poverty.” The Tribe filed its complaint prior to a hearing on … Continue reading Hoopa Valley Tribe: San Luis Settlement Agreement will “Condemn Tribe to Poverty” →
Direct Action

Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience

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New Law Shields People from Arrest for Protesting Project By Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Grant Township, Indiana County, PA: Grant Township Supervisors passed a first-in-the-nation law that legalizes direct action to stop frack wastewater injection wells within the Township. Pennsylvania General Energy Company (PGE) has sued the Township to overturn a local democratically-enacted law … Continue reading Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indigenous Autonomy

New Finnish Forestry Act could mean the end of Sami reindeer herding

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Sámi representatives call for swift support from the international community By Hannibal Rhoades and Tero Mustonen / Intercontinental Cry Featured image: Sámi and reindeer. Photo by Dutchbaby @flickr (some rights reserved). An unprecedented land grab will threaten the last old growth forests of Finnish Lapland and the homeland of the indigenous Sámi Peoples if a new Forestry … Continue reading New Finnish Forestry Act could mean the end of Sami reindeer herding →
Lobbying, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Movement Building & Support

Protect Prairie dogs! Join us Monday, March 21st, and Help Kill House Bill 16-1010

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By Wildlands Defense In Colorado, a house bill has been introduced to the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee entitled “A bill for an act concerning the authorization process for the release of destructive rodent pests into a county.” If passed, this bill will make it increasingly difficult to save prairie dogs and the land … Continue reading Protect Prairie dogs! Join us Monday, March 21st, and Help Kill House Bill 16-1010 →
Mining & Drilling

Utah Lawmakers Scheme to Fund California Coal Terminal

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By Center for Biological Diversity SALT LAKE CITY­— Republican lawmakers in Utah are attempting an eleventh-hour maneuver that would use $53 million in state sales tax money to pay for a California coal-export terminal. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams (R-Layton) has proposed using $53 million in sales-tax revenue targeted … Continue reading Utah Lawmakers Scheme to Fund California Coal Terminal →
Colonialism & Conquest, Indigenous Autonomy

Indigenous Peoples Did Not Consent to the TPP

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Featured image: Maori protests on February 4th signing of the TPP in Auckland, New Zealand. Photo by Dominic Hartnett By Cultural Survival The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, if approved, would be the largest trade agreement in history involving 11 countries including the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and … Continue reading Indigenous Peoples Did Not Consent to the TPP →
Culture of Resistance, Strategy & Analysis

Derrick Jensen interviewed about Deep Green Resistance, “transphobia,” and more

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Edited transcription of an interview by John Carico for The Fifth Column How do you feel about Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party of America? I’m not a huge fan of the Green Party. I did a talk ten years ago at the Bioneers conference, which is about social change and environmentalism. One year … Continue reading Derrick Jensen interviewed about Deep Green Resistance, “transphobia,” and more →
Indigenous Autonomy

Indigenous Otomí-Ñätho Exercise Autonomy to Defend Lands

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Featured Image: Like Cheran, Michoacán, and the Zapatista Caracoles of Chiapas, the Ñätho community of Huitzizilapan have exercised their sovereignty and voted to form their own communal assembly. Photo: Más de 131. By Mas de 131 / Global Voices Translated by Glenn Bower Huitzizilapan, whose old name is N’dete, which means “big town”, currently encompasses 12 indigenous Otomí-Ñätho communities living in the … Continue reading Indigenous Otomí-Ñätho Exercise Autonomy to Defend Lands →