Underground Action Calendar

The Underground Action Calendar exists to publicize and normalize the use of militant and underground tactics in the fight for justice and sustainability. We include below a wide variety of actions from struggles around the world, especially those in which militants target infrastructure, because we believe this sort of action is necessary to dismantle civilization. Listing an action does not necessarily mean we support or stand behind the goals, strategies, or tactics of those actionists.

This page highlights specific actions. See also our Resistance Profiles for broader information on the strategies, tactics, goals, and effectiveness of various historic and contemporary resistance groups.

If you know of a published action appropriate to add to the Calendar, contact us at undergroundpromotion@deepgreenresistance.org

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DateLocationActionURLTargetsAttacksTags
2015-02-25FlagstaffArizonaUSFiber-optic line supplying data to much of northern AZ severedhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-internet-phone-lines-centurylink-fiber-optic-line-cut-vandalism/11
2014-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 141 timeshttp://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=1184290&menu=yes00100000000010000000000
2012-08-15Saudi ArabiaInsider strategically infects Aramco with a virus, erasing data on 75% of the corporate computershttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/strategy/time-is-short-cyber-sabotage-in-saudi-arabia/00001000000000000000000
2014-12-22GermanyReport of a cyberattack on a steel mill earlier in the yearhttps://www.rt.com/news/216379-germany-steel-plant-hack/11
2014-11-16EdmontonCanadaNatural gas pipeline sabotaged with high-powered riflehttp://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/natural-gas-pipeline-shot-with-high-powered-rifle-mounties/11
2014-03-25ColombiaRebels bomb the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline, with an indigenous community blocking repairshttps://www.jsg.utexas.edu/lacp/2014/04/month-long-colombia-pipeline-shutdown-cuts-oil-output-7-pct/0010000000110000000000
2016-00-00ColombiaRebels bomb the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline at least 43 timeshttp://www.financecolombia.com/attacks-disrupt-major-cano-limon-covenas-pipeline-in-eastern-colombia/00000000000010000000000
2014-11-05BrusselsBelgiumConstruction equipment burned in solidarity with the fight in Testethttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/brussels-construction-equipment-burned-solidarity-fight-testet1001
2014-10-28Santo DomingoSan CristobalDominican RepublicSaboteurs remove bolts from 14 electric towers, damaging 24 in totalhttp://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2014/10/28/53155/Sabotage-sought-to-take-down-power-grid-Dominican-Republic-Utility0101
2016-01-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMilitants bomb multiple pipelines in coordinated campaignhttps://africajournalismtheworld.com/2016/01/18/nigeria-three-days-of-attacks-on-pipelines-in-niger-delta/0010000000010000000000
2014-10-14SinaiJordanMilitants sabotage a gas pipeline between Egypt and Jordanhttp://www.timesofisrael.com/militants-sabotage-egypt-jordan-gas-pipeline-in-sinai/101
2014-10-14British ColumbiaCanadaWarriors burn down Imperial Metals Ruddock Creek Mine bridgehttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/ts%E2%80%99ka7-warriors-burn-down-imperial-metals-ruddock-creek-mine-bridge10001
2014-10-07La AraucaniaChileArmed group sabotages construction site and vehicleshttp://news.yahoo.com/video/arson-destroys-three-trucks-two-191827814.html1001
2014-10-14ChicagoIllinoisUS17 day outage after air-traffic control radar facility sabotagedhttp://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/10/14/radar-facility-hit-by-sabotage-working-after-17-days-offline.html10011
2016-02-00Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers bombs three pipelineshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers0010000000010000000000
2014-08-06Papua New GuineaArmed villagers storm nickel mine, burning machinery and damaging office equipmenthttp://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1568592/papua-new-guinea-villagers-storm-nickel-mine-injure-five-chinese-workers10011
2014-07-30Cape TownSouth AfricaRailway signal cables systematically cut, widely disrupting servicehttp://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=668070&sn=Detail1100
2014-06-17UkraineNatural gas pipeline bombedhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10909446/Huge-Ukraine-gas-pipeline-explosion-caused-by-bomb.html00100000000010000000000
2014-07-12Bessines-sur-GartempeFranceTrain carrying nuclear waste derailedhttps://deepgreenresistancenewyork.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/sabotage-of-nuclear-train-in-france/01100
2014-06-00GironaSpainSabotage over two months of vehicles related to the Very High Tension Linehttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines10001
2014-06-11NogalesArizonaUSIncendiary device set under the valve of a diesel tank at a power station adjoining a substationhttp://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2014/06/16/threats-cyberattacks-just-serious-sabotage-seen-power-plant/10592857/100001010
2014-06-03GenoaItalyTractors sabotaged in protest of high speed rail projecthttp://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/06/14/three-more-vehicles-sabotaged-in-italys-no-tav-struggle/00101
2015-01-23GadchiroliMaharashtraIndiaNaxalites torch 13 construction vehicleshttp://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/naxals-torch-tractors-trucks-in-gadchiroli-maharashtra-115012301252_1.html1000000000000000000010
2014-05-20BolognaItalyCables cut and cockpits burned in protest of high speed rail projecthttp://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=169871010110
2014-05-14Russia Natural gas pipeline from Ukraine to Russia bombedhttp://frankivchany.if.ua/zhittya/815-na-prykarpatti-stavsia-terrakt011
2014-05-00CataloniaSpainVehicles, towers, and generators related to High Tension Lines sabotagedhttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines0001011
2014-02-11San IgnacioPeruAwajún people hold mining engineer hostagehttp://countervortex.org/node/13006101
2014-02-08IndiaNaxalites torch two construction tractors and an earth moverhttp://www.news18.com/news/india/maoists-torch-2-tractors-earth-mover-in-east-champaran-667290.html1001
2014-02-00CataloniaSpainSabotage of towers and cables related to High Tension Lines http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines00110
2014-01-00CataloniaSpainExcavators related to High Tension Lines sabotagedhttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines0001
2013-04-16San JoseCaliforniaUSSaboteur(s) cut communication cables, then shoot multiple transformershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack010111
2013-10-27MichoacanMexicoGroup simultaneously attacks nine substations with Molotov cocktails before torching four gasoline stationshttp://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mexico-blow-up-nine-electrical-plants-20131027-story.html#axzz2jUerhrpy110010
2013-10-05CabotArkansasUSMan pulls down two electrical poles with a tractorhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/10/08/us/arkansas-grid-attacks/index.html110000
2013-10-02BryanskBryanskRussiaSawmill torched with two incendiary deviceshttp://325.nostate.net/?p=903811000
2013-09-03US-Canada BorderNuts unbolted on a tower supporting a High Voltage Direct Current power line http://325.nostate.net/?p=90040101
2013-08-09'Immigrant X' sabotages an immigration database, falsifying information about hundreds of undocumented immigrantshttp://www.immigrantx.org/?p=666100
2013-08-00CataloniaSpainOver four months, twenty excavators, vehicles and machines sabotaged, plus trails blocked in fight against High Tension Lines http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines01101
2013-06-00CataloniaSpainVehicles related to High Tension Lines sabotagedhttp://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/catalonia-wave-sabotage-against-high-tension-lines101
2013-06-25New BrunswickCanadaShot-hole driller set on firehttp://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/shot-hole-driller-goes-flames-two-security-trucks/1810410001
2013-05-01BelarusPower pylons cut with hacksaws near a nuclear power plant construction sitehttp://325.nostate.net/?p=792201001
2013-05-01Central OregonUSSaboteurs disable a rail line with copper wirehttp://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/05/03/rail-lines-in-central-oregon-sabotaged-in-solidarity-with-pnw-anarchists/1100
2013-04-30MaribYemenMilitants sabotage power lines and an oil pipelinehttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160503201456/http://www.energytribune.com/76397/yemen-halts-oil-supplies-after-attack-on-pipeline1011
2013-04-15Sana'aYemenMilitants sabotage power transmission lines in Yemenhttp://www.sabanews.net/en/news305962.htm0110
2013-04-11YanacochaPeru400 protestors storm the Minas Conga mine, destroy equipment, and occupy the sitehttps://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/protests-lawsuits-and-arson-south-american-mine-resistance/1001011
2013-04-08East AyrshireScotlandMilitants sabotage critical equipment belonging to Scottish Coal at Powharnal open cast coal minehttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160330102729/http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/3313410101
2013-04-03Derrylin / Ballyconnell borderIrelandSaboteurs cut power and communication lines servicing manufacturing plantshttp://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/local/sabotage-attacks-on-the-quinn-group-1-4958441100110
2013-04-23USHack sending threatening Twitter message causes stock market panichttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall100
2013-03-27EgyptSaboteurs cut crucial undersea internet cablehttp://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/saboteurs-cut-undersea-internet-cable-near-egypt/011
2013-03-08MoscowRussiaELF torches vehicles used to extract sand for highway constructionhttp://www.directaction.info/news_mar13b_13.htm1001
2013-02-10KrasnodarRussiaALF-Kuban sets fire to construction vehicleshttp://fromrussiawithlove.noblogs.org/?p=131611
2013-02-17SkouriesGreeceSeveral dozen masked activists set fire to machinery, vehicles, containers and mobile offices at the Hellas gold minehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-2148977911001
2013-02-01DevonEnglandTwo wind turbines topple with support base bolts removedhttp://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/02/01/Sabotage-may-have-felled-UKwind-turbine/UPI-71001359750999/11
2013-01-00IndonesiaELF attacks two electrical substationshttp://325.nostate.net/?p=699500010
2013-01-07Combe Haven ValleyUKALF/ELF sabotages construction efforts in solidarity with the aboveground campaigns against a roadhttp://www.directaction.info/news_jan12_13.htm10
2013-01-01FranceHigh-power electric transmission pylons partially cut with hacksawshttp://antidev.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/hack-attacks-against-power-lines-in-france/1001
2013-01-03BathamptonUKArson at transmitter site in knocks out television and radio in 80,000 homes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256525/Bathampton-arson-attack-transmitter-site-leaves-80-000-homes-TV-radio.html101
2012-12-16YemenMilitants use explosives to sabotage the country's only liquified natural gas pipelinehttp://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/122830/Yemen_LNG_Confirms_Sabotage_Cause_of_Pipeline_Explosion101
2012-12-02MaribYemenMan sabotages oil pipeline and electric towershttp://www.yementimes.com/en/1630/news/1682/Marib-pipeline-attacked-electricity-towers-sabotaged.htm10011
2012-11-15British ColumbiaCanadaOld-growth clear-cut delayed by removal of survey tapeshttp://www.coastreporter.net/article/20121123/SECHELT0101/311239976/-1/sechelt/vandalism-delays-logging-in-ew00201
2011-10-17YanacochaPeruProtesters block road and torch eight pieces of earth-moving equipmenthttp://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=112611001011
2012-05-22BristolUKRailway signaling burnedhttp://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/25/anarchists-claim-railway-signalling-bristol11
2011-10-05EngalsvikNorwayAgenda 21 opens a valve to sink the whaler Onsoyvaeringenhttp://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-Norway/BitebackReports.htm11
2011-02-00Al-IrishEgyptA Beduoin blows up a natural gas plant with rocket-propelled grenadeshttp://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-israel-pipeline-2011-2?IR=T1001
2010-04-02SvolvaerNorwayAgenda 21 opens 2 valves, sinking the docked whaler Sofiehttp://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2010/04/09/agenda-21-strikes-again-21111
2015-07-14Berre-l'EtangFranceSaboteurs explode two tanks at petrochemical planthttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-3353734510000010000000000000000
2015-06-24Mauna KeaHawaiiUSProtesters block Mauna Kea access road with boulders, postponing building of Thirty Meter Telescopehttp://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29403152/governors-office-says-tmt-construction-on-hold-until-further-notice000000000000001000000
2003-10-20AndersonCaliforniaUSMan removes bolts from high voltage tower; is also suspected of doing so to three Oregon towershttp://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/03/local/me-bolts3000000001000000000100
2014-08-07MaranhoBrazilKa'apor Indian warriors confront and expel illegal loggers, confiscating their equipment and burning their truckshttp://avax.news/fact/Amazonian_Warriors_at_War_for_the_Trees.html100000100100000000010
2004-10-09Oak CreekWisconsinUSElectrical transmission tower with bolts removed falls on second tower, causing a 4 hour blackouthttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/6228355000000001000000000100
2003-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 179 times, with 34 attacks on the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipelinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1o_Lim%C3%B3n%E2%80%93Cove%C3%B1as_pipeline0010000000010000000000
2009-07-00Pouce CoupeBritish ColumbiaCanadaWiebo Ludwig bombs a natural gas pipeline and a well headhttp://culteducation.com/group/1228-wiebo-ludwig/22164-timeline-of-the-encana-pipeline-bombings.html0010001000010000000000
2009-01-04TomslakeBritish ColumbiaCanadaWiebo Ludwig damages a shed housing a sour gas pipeline, but not the pipeline itselfhttp://culteducation.com/group/1228-wiebo-ludwig/22164-timeline-of-the-encana-pipeline-bombings.html001100000010000000000
2008-10-00Dawson CreekBritish ColumbiaCanadaWiebo Ludwig bombs three sites in campaign against EnCana pipelinehttp://culteducation.com/group/1228-wiebo-ludwig/22164-timeline-of-the-encana-pipeline-bombings.html001000000010000000000
1979-00-00MinnesotaUSOver two years, "Bolt Weevils" topple 20 power line towers and shoot out nearly 10,000 electrical insulatorshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU_project_controversy000000001001000100100
1979-02-05LisbonPortugalThe whaler Sierra is sunk by a magnetic mine while undergoing repairshttp://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1354&context=cwilj11
1986-11-08HvalfjordurIcelandSea Shepherd sabotages Iceland's only whale processing factoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Hvalur_sinkings%200001000001000000000000
1980-04-27VigoSpainSea Shepherd sinks the whalers Isba I and Isba II with mines, thus ending Spanish whalinghttp://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1354&context=cwilj11
1994-01-24GressvikNorwaySea Shepherd sabotages the whaler Senethttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/talk.environment/2tmdzySLd3Y/yr9pu45yo-EJ0100000001000000000000
1986-11-09ReykjavikIcelandSea Shepherd opens valves to sink two whaling shipshttp://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/10/world/militants-sink-2-of-iceland-s-whaling-vessels.html11
1992-12-27RekefjordNorwaySea Shepherd sabotages the whaler Nybraenahttps://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/talk.environment/2tmdzySLd3Y/KG_m6UbwlMoJ11
1996-10-30MortsundLofoten IslandsNorwayAgenda 21 opens valve to sink the whaler Elin-Torilhttp://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199711/msg00291.html11
1998-00-00NorwayAgenda 21 sinks the whaler Morildhttp://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2009/04/428802.html11
2007-08-30SvolvaerNorwayAgenda 21 sinks the whaler Willassen Senior, which is then scrappedhttp://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-Norway/BitebackReports.htm11
2009-04-23HenningsvaerNorwayAgenda 21 opens a valve to sink the whaler Skarbakkhttp://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-Norway/BitebackReports.htm11
2008-11-28KentEnglandOne person crashes turbine at coal power station, halting power for four hourshttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/11/kingsnorth-green-banksy-saboteur11
2016-05-04DantewadaChhattisgarhIndiaNaxals torch conveyor belt at NMDC unit affecting the transportation of iron orehttp://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/naxals-torch-conveyor-belt-at-nmdc-unit-transportation-hit-116050400201_1.html10100000010000000000000
2016-04-23ElsdorfNRWGermanySaboteurs set fire to high-voltage cables at the Hambach minehttps://325.nostate.net/2016/04/26/heavy-attack-on-high-voltage-cable-in-hambach-germany/1000000000001000000000
2016-04-23OaxacaMexicoExplosive attack against CORTV Oaxacahttps://325.nostate.net/2016/04/26/explosive-attack-against-cortv-oaxaca-by-informal-anarchic-individualities-mexico/0010000000000000001000
2016-02-17CeyhanTurkeyOil pipeline carrying 600,000 barrels per day sabotagedhttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-oil-pipeline-turkey-idUSKCN0VW24U0000000000010000000000
2016-01-26CanadaActivists close valves on pipelineshttp://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/01/26/pipeline-builders-facing-new-obstacle-in-western-canada-saboteurs/0000000001010000000000
2013-08-21CabotArkansasUSHigh-voltage transmission line brought down, and bolts loosened on towerhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/10/08/us/arkansas-grid-attacks/index.html0000000001001000000100
2014-04-27ColombiaRebels stop and set fire to 12 vehicles carrying contractors and equipment to repair the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipelinehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/colombian-rebels-torch-convoy-repairing-ecopetrol-pipeline-221346600--finance.html1000000000100000000010
2001-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 263 times, with 170 attacks on the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipelinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1o_Lim%C3%B3n%E2%80%93Cove%C3%B1as_pipeline0010000000010000000000
2015-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 80 timeshttp://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=1184290&menu=yes00100000000010000000000
2007-12-00GadchiroliMaharashtraIndiaNaxalites blow up a cell phone tower and torch five construction vehicleshttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Naxals-strike-again-in-Nagpur/articleshow/2596181.cms1010000000000000001110
2002-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 74 times, with 41 attacks on the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipelinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1o_Lim%C3%B3n%E2%80%93Cove%C3%B1as_pipeline0010000000010000000000
2016-05-10BelaganjBiharIndiaMaoists torch construction vehicleshttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Maoists-attack-road-construction-co-office/articleshow/52228655.cms1000000000100000000010
2016-05-05Andhra PradeshIndiaMaoists fell trees onto railroad trackhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/Maoists-disrupt-train-movement/articleshow/52117372.cms0000000000000010000000
2013-09-29CabotArkansasUSFire set at a substation control househttp://www.cnn.com/2013/10/08/us/arkansas-grid-attacks/index.html1000000000000000010000
2011-11-19NetherfieldNottinghamUKThieves steal copper from substation, disabling ithttp://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-1588887800000000001000000010000
2005-09-22Niger DeltaNigeriaMore than 100 armed militants storm and shut down offshore oil platformhttp://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/offshore-gas-and-oil-attacks/html0100001000100000000000
2004-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 103 times, with 17 attacks on the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipelinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1o_Lim%C3%B3n%E2%80%93Cove%C3%B1as_pipeline0010000000010000000000
2011-12-17BlackwaterQueenslandAustraliaMine equipment vehicles torchedhttps://www.cqnews.com.au/news/3m-mine-trucks-torched/1215256/10000000000000000000010
2016-00-00UKStrategic, informed, and prolonged sabotage of freight signals disrupts rail traffic on an ongoing basishttp://deepgreenresistance.uk/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/underground-actions-dont-hear/0000000001000010000000
2006-01-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks pipelines, an oil platform, and a flow stationhttp://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/offshore-gas-and-oil-attacks/html0110001100110000000000
2006-02-18Escravos CoastNigeriaMEND storms the Forcados oil loading terminal, burning tankers and bombing pipelines and the loading platformhttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110317071752/http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/resources/timeline0110001100010000000000
2015-12-21BayelsaNigeriaNatural gas pipeline sabotagedhttp://sweetcrudereports.com/2015/12/22/eni-declares-force-majeure-on-nlng-exports/00000000000010000000000
2006-12-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMilitants occupy and shut down on- and off-shore oil facilitieshttp://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/39146/Nigeria_Oil_Output_on_the_Rebound_Despite_Rebel_Attacks00000010000100000000000
2007-05-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks pipelines and offshore facilitieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta0110001100110000000000
2008-05-03NigeriaMEND attacks pipelineshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta0010000000010000000000
2008-06-19Delta StateNigeriaMEND attacks an offshore Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, shutting down 10% of Nigeria’s crude oil productionhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7463288.stm0110001000100000000000
2008-09-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks multiple pipelines and plants over one weekhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7626712.stm0010001000010000000000
2009-05-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks multiple pipelineshttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110317071752/http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/resources/timeline0010000000010000000000
2009-07-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks 6 pipelines, wells, and facilities, including their first attack outside the Niger Delta regionhttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110317071752/http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/resources/timeline0010001000010000000000
2009-06-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND attacks more than a dozen pipelines, wells, and flow stationshttps://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110317071752/http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/resources/timeline0010001000010000000000
2010-11-21WarriNiger DeltaNigeriaMEND sabotage an oil pipeline feeding the Warri refineryhttp://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-delta-idUSLDE6AM07M201011230010000000010000000000
2011-03-16Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND bombs an Agip oil flow stationhttp://www.marsecreview.com/2011/03/attack-on-oil-facility/0010000000010000000000
2004-01-01ChelmsfordMassachusettsUSMan cuts 18 cables in multiple incidents, causing phone and cable outageshttp://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_285418900000000001000000001000
2012-02-04Bayelsa StateNigeriaMEND sabotages an Agip oil pipelinehttp://www.crudeoildaily.com/2012/02/nigerian-oil-militants-mend-strikes.html0010000000010000000000
2016-11-15AbujaFCTNigeriaThieves steal a 1.2km run of power cableshttp://sweetcrudereports.com/2016/11/15/power-vandals-steal-cable-worth-millions-of-naira-in-abuja/00000000001001000000000
2014-03-00Niger DeltaNigeriaMEND bombs multiple pipelineshttps://africajournalismtheworld.com/tag/mend-nigeria/00100000000010000000000
2013-03-00Delta StateNigeriaMEND sabotages two pipelineshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta0010000000010000000000
2013-04-13Bayelsa StateNigeriaMEND bombs an oil wellhttp://www.legaloil.com/NewsItem.asp?DocumentIDX=13660536970010001000000000000000
2013-06-15AbajiNigeriaMEND blows up 2 gasoline tanker truckshttp://www.informationng.com/2013/06/mend-claims-responsibility-for-attack-on-petrol-tankers-near-nations-capital.html0010000000000000000010
2013-07-14Rivers StateNigeriaMilitants blow up oil pipelinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta0010000000010000000000
2015-05-14MallecoChileArsonists burn a shed containing logging equipment, destroying a tractor and excavatorhttps://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/two-arson-attacks-on-logging-trucks-in-the-province-of-arauco-wallmapu-so-called-southern-hile/1001000000000000000010
2015-05-14Araucania RegionChile20 hooded gunmen scare drivers away with guns before setting their logging trucks on firehttps://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/two-arson-attacks-on-logging-trucks-in-the-province-of-arauco-wallmapu-so-called-southern-hile/1000000000100000000010
2015-06-30San Francisco BayCaliforniaUSThree fiber-optic cables cut in the last of 11 attacks over a year on high-capacity internet cableshttp://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/30/california-internet-outage/29521335/0000000001000000001000
2015-09-09MontrealQuebecCanadaTwice in three weeks, copper wire placed to connect both sides of railroad tracks, disrupting commercial rail transportd=http://anarchistnews.org/content/two-moments-oil-railway-sabotage-montreal0000000001000010000000
2015-10-06TachiraVenezuelaSniper explodes a transformer, causing a 10 day loss of 200 MW of powerhttps://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=1122355&print=yes0000000000000000110000
2015-10-26ElsdorfNRWGermanySaboteurs destroy 8 construction machines needed for an opencast coal minehttp://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2015/10/29/hambach-forest-defenders-in-germany-sabotage-mining-equipment/0000001001000000000010
2015-12-18PahangMalaysiaFive bauxite mining trucks burned by members of the publichttp://cleanmalaysia.com/2015/12/18/five-bauxite-lorries-burned-by-an-angry-malaysian-public/1000000000000000000010
2015-11-09MozambiqueCommunity members seize mine site and set equipment ablazehttp://www.voanews.com/a/mozambique-rioters-attack-canada-owned-mine/3060358.html10000000010100000000010
2016-02-12GenoaItalyTwo TAV construction bulldozers sabotagedhttp://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2016/02/12/ 1000000001000000000010
2016-02-10GirondeFranceTelephone poles uprootedhttp://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=225440000000000000000001000
2016-01-31TrentoItalyTwo electrical repeaters sabotagedhttp://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=224121000000000001000000000
2014-12-31MallecoChileArsonists destroy one forestry helicopter, and partially damage anotherhttp://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/mapuche-attack-occupation-helicopters-used-to-deforest-territory/1000000000000000000010
2014-01-01North SantanderColombiaELN detonates explosives at four crude oil holding pools along the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipelinehttp://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/eln-launches-attack-against-oil-pipeline-infrastructure-in-colombia/0010000000010000000000
2011-11-25Sinai PeninsulaEgyptMasked gunmen blow up a gas pipelinehttp://www.rawstory.com/2011/11/egypt-gas-pipeline-blown-up-again-state-media/0010000000010000000000
2015-11-23CrimeaUkrainePower lines to Crimea sabotaged, then repair blockedhttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-idUSKBN0TC1BG20151123#utOWDYYffFpWT5YG.970010000000101000000100
2016-03-16AlgeriaGas facility attacked with rocketshttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/africa/algeria-bp-statoil-gas-facility-attack.html0010001000000000100000
2016-03-10PeruAmazonian tribe holds government officials hostage after oil spillhttp://returntonow.net/2016/03/10/amazonian-tribe-takes-government-officials-hostage-after-oil-spill/0000000100000000000000
2009-09-04EverettWashingtonUSELF uses an excavator to topple two local radio station broadcasting towershttp://www.heraldnet.com/news/ecoterrorists-claim-toppling-of-krko-radio-towers/0000000001000000001100
2016-10-23Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers disables Chevron export pipeline to follow through on warning not to repair infrastructurehttp://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/26/the-niger-delta-avengers-are-back--and-theyve-got-big-oil-in-their-crosshairs.html0010000000010000000000
2008-10-13TorontoOntarioCanadaRail lines blocked and electrical components hit with molotov cocktailshttp://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-support-ecosabotage-emma-murphy-ellis.html#ecosabotage1000000001000010001000
2011-11-28OregonUSRail line sabotaged with copper wirehttps://greycoast.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/southern-oregon-anarchists-sabotage-rail-line/0000000001000010000000
2016-07-31New SharonIowaUSDakota Access Pipeline construction equipment torched at three siteshttp://whotv.com/2016/08/01/arson-targets-bakken-oil-pipeline-in-iowa-causes-millions-in-damages/1000000000000000000010
2016-11-29Otu-JeremiDeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate bombs 42" oil pipelinehttps://www.naij.com/1065537-shall-fight-last-man-alive-niger-delta-militants-warn-nigeria.html0010000000010000000000
2016-12-22GreeceGreen Nemesis contaminates food and beverages produced by multinational corporations, forcing removal of products from the shelveshttp://legalinsurrection.com/2016/12/greece-pulls-diet-coke-heinz-ketchup-after-eco-terrorist-threats/0000000000000000000000
2017-01-16HytheAlbertaCanadaConstruction equipment appropriated to dig out a section of pipelinehttp://www.theprovince.com/news/national/vandals+used+heavy+equipment+pull+chunk+pipeline+ground+northern/12725043/story.html0000000000010000000000
2016-04-12IndenNRWGermanySaboteur damages powerline pylon required by an open pit minehttp://hambachforest.blogsport.de/2016/04/26/sabotage/0000000000001000000100
2015-06-20WittmanArizonaUSWooden cell tower pole cut down, causing it to fall on power lines and trigger a power outagehttp://www.cbs5az.com/story/29369530/cellphone-tower-sabotaged-causing-power-outage0000000001001000001100
2017-01-04IranArab group bombs two pipelineshttp://bigstory.ap.org/article/431258c9e3234833805aba0d9a3d9c39/arab-separatists-claim-2-pipeline-bombings-southern-iran0010000000010000000000
2017-03-00IowaUSJessica and Ruby burn holes with a torch through the Dakota Access Pipeline at multiple aboveground valve shut-offshttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/dakota-access-dapl-pipeline-ecosabotage/1000000000010000000000
2017-04-00IowaUSJessica and Ruby burn multiple Dakota Access Pipeline valve sites, their electrical units, and heavy equipmenthttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/dakota-access-dapl-pipeline-ecosabotage/10000000000010000000010
2016-11-00Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers bombs 4 oil pipelineshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers0010000000010000000000
1978-02-15Steele CreekAlaskaUSTrans Alaska Pipeline bombedhttp://www.reuters.com/article/oil-pipeline-alaska-idUSN09209531201101090010000000010000000000
2001-10-04LivengoodAlaskaUSIntoxicated man shoots a hole in the Trans Alaska Pipeline with a high-powered gunhttp://www.reuters.com/article/oil-pipeline-alaska-idUSN09209531201101090000000000010000100000
2017-02-26DunnellonFloridaUSMan shoots holes in the Sabal Trail Pipeline with a riflehttps://www.wuft.org/news/2017/02/27/sabal-trail-pipeline-shooter-identified/0000000000010000100000
1977-12-18LemónizBizkaiaSpainETA attacks Guardia Civil post guarding Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, under construction but never to be completedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3niz_Nuclear_Power_Plant0000000100100100000000
1978-03-17LemónizBizkaiaSpainETA bombs reactor station of Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, under construction but never to be completedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3niz_Nuclear_Power_Plant0010000000000100000000
1979-06-13LemónizBizkaiaSpainETA bombs turbine area of Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, under construction but never to be completedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3niz_Nuclear_Power_Plant0010000000000100000000
1981-01-29LemónizBizkaiaSpainETA kidnaps chief engineer of Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, under construction but never to be completed. When their demand that construction halt are not met, they execute him.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3niz_Nuclear_Power_Plant0000000100000100000000
1982-05-05LemónizBizkaiaSpainETA assassinates chief project engineer of Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, under construction but never to be completedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3niz_Nuclear_Power_Plant0000000100000100100000
2016-09-25KanabUtahUSSniper shoots the cooling radiator on a substation transformer, disabling the transformer for monthshttp://www.deseretnews.com/article/865663594/Power-company-offers-rare-50K-reward-for-information-on-vandalism.html0000000000000000110000
2016-07-00Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers bombs nearly two dozen pipelines and wellshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers0010001000010000000000
2015-12-23Ivano-FrankivskUkraineHackers launch a sophisticated attack, months in the works, to shut down dozens of substationshttps://www.wired.com/2016/03/inside-cunning-unprecedented-hack-ukraines-power-grid/0000100000000000010000
2017-04-16Mexico CityMexicoExxon facility bombed in solidarity with the anarchists of the Aachen casehttps://itsgoingdown.org/mexico-city-explosive-attack-exxon/0011000000000000000000
2017-01-08Padre La CasasLa AraucaniaChileArson attack against real estate agency construction vehicles in Mapuce landhttp://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-la-araucania/2017/01/08/nuevo-ataque-incendiario-en-la-araucania-siete-vehiculos-quemados-en-padre-las-casas.shtml1000000000000000000010
2016-11-16ContulmoAraucoChileGroup blocks road with trees and burns logging truckhttp://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-la-araucania/2017/01/08/nuevo-ataque-incendiario-en-la-araucania-siete-vehiculos-quemados-en-padre-las-casas.shtml1000000001000001000010
2016-10-15ReasnorIowaUSDakota Access Pipeline construction equipment torchedhttp://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10/someone-set-2-million-dakota-access-pipeline-construction-equipment-fire/1000000000000000000010
2016-09-29Delta StateNigeriaNiger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate blows up oil pipelinehttp://allafrica.com/stories/201609301155.html0010000000010000000000
2016-09-23RiversNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers bombs Bonny 48" oil pipelinehttps://www.channelstv.com/2016/09/24/niger-delta-avengers-bomb-bonny-pipeline-in-rivers/0010000000010000000000
2016-09-18EkuigboDeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate bombs major oil pipelinehttp://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Niger-Delta-Separatists-Attack-Nigerian-Crude-Pipeline.html0010000000010000000000
2017-04-20OlympiaWashingtonUSConcrete poured on train tracks to stop transport of fracking equipmenthttps://itsgoingdown.org/olympia-wa-train-tracks-sabotage-stop-fracking-equipment/0000000001000010000000
2017-02-00VancouverWashingtonUSMultiple incidents: 6-gauge booster cables attached to rail junctions, triggering the signaling system and shutdown of the trackshttps://web.archive.org/web/20170301192020/http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/2030000000001000010000000
2016-05-00Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers blows up nearly two dozen pipelines and wellshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers0010001000010000000000
2016-06-00Niger DeltaNigeriaNiger Delta Avengers bombs dozens of pipelines, a well, and a platformhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers0010001000010000000000
2015-10-00Venezuela13 incidents: saboteurs or thieves cut power transmission cables and try to topple towershttps://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=1122355&print=yes0000000001001000000100
2016-05-00NewarkNottinghamshireUKSubstation shot on three occasions with light gun, causing three power cutshttp://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-3638392500000000000000000110000
2017-08-00WallmapuAraucoChileTwo groups burn 47 logging truckshttps://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/wallmapu-47-logging-trucks-destroyed-as-the-trial-of-10-mapuche-comunerxs-begins/10000000000000000000010
2017-09-00BelgiumArsons destroy buildings of two arms manufacturers; a device at a third site is defusedhttps://insurrectionnewsworldwide.com/2017/10/23/belgium-wave-of-arson-attacks-targeting-international-arms-industry-contractors/10010000000000000000000
2004-11-30StanhopeQuebecCanadaGroup bombs Hydro-Quebec electric towerhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050929091625/http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewactiondetail&actionId=6100100000000000000000100
2012-11-02ConcordVermontUSFour young vandals shut down high voltage power line for two days by shooting out 163 insulatorshttp://www.caledonianrecord.com/littleton_record/news/local/power-line-vandalism-considered-national-security-threat/article_6a927682-af15-515c-8842-e7e8916e75b3.html00000000000001000100000
2014-02-23North ConwayNew HampshireUSVandals shoot power line insulators, causing a minor outagehttp://www.caledonianrecord.com/orleans_county_record/news/k-people-in-nh-lose-power-after-shots-are-fired/article_47985af4-08a9-58ac-a79f-3c249b481394.html00000000000001000100000
1988-09-25Grand CanyonArizonaUSGroup cuts thirty-four power poles, disrupting power at three uranium mines, perhaps contributing to mine closurehttps://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=19880925000900000000001001000000100
2013-04-02ZueitinaLibyaPipelines to oil port bombedhttps://jamahiriyanewsagency.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/libya-pipeline-explosions-result-of-sabotage/00100000000010000000000
1986-05-14Palo VerdeArizonaUSMetal-weighted ropes thrown onto wires to short circuit high voltage power lineshttps://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=19860514001500000000001001000000000
2017-12-25JerusalemArkansasUSRaccoon Rebellion puts a lock on a pipeline operating valve, demonstrating how easy it is to access critical infrastructure https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/raccoon-rebellion-strikes-diamond-pipeline-christmas/00000000001010000000000
1988-10-07IlobascoSan SalvadorFMLN rebels destroy three power towershttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/19806/SALVADOR-REBELS-DESTROY-3-POWER-TOWERS.html00100000000001000000100
2017-11-14TurinItalyAnarchists burn mobile phone mastshttp://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=2891810000000000000000001000
2017-11-10NamusBelgiumHooded militants set fire to electric booths causing damage to fiber optic cablinghttp://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=2897410000000000000000001000
2016-05-25TiranaAlbaniaTwo men set off explosive device damaging three turbines of a hydroelectric planthttps://seenews.com/news/deliberate-blast-at-gjegjan-hpp-in-albania-causes-3-mln-euro-damages-report-52620800100100000000100000000
2016-05-24DagestanRussiaAssailants detonate explosive device at transmission towerhttps://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=20160524000800100000000001000000100
2016-05-00AraucaniaChileMapuche activists hold logging employees hostage and set fire to forestry equipmenthttps://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=20160516006910000001000000000000010
2015-12-31BohdanivkaKhersonUkraineExplosive device detonated on a power pylonhttps://jamestown.org/program/ukraine-stops-power-supply-to-russian-annexed-crimea/00100000000001000000100
2015-03-27Punta de MataMonagasVenezuelaArmed group storms oil and gas plant, cutting pump supply cables to strand 80,000 barrels of oil and 1200 million cubic feet of gashttps://venezuelanalysis.com/news/1130600000010001100000000000
2014-12-10Los AngelesCaliforniaUSMan burns down seven story apartment complex under constructionhttp://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-davinci-fire-20160510-snap-story.html10010000000000000000000
2012-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 151 timeshttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/guerrilla-oil-pipeline-attacks-surge-amid-colombias-slow-peace-talks/00100000000010000000000
2011-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 84 timeshttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/guerrilla-oil-pipeline-attacks-surge-amid-colombias-slow-peace-talks/00100000000010000000000
2010-00-00ColombiaRebels attack pipelines 31 timeshttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/guerrilla-oil-pipeline-attacks-surge-amid-colombias-slow-peace-talks/00100000000010000000000
2013-00-00ColombiaRebels attack oil installations 259 timeshttp://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-07-12/news/sns-rt-us-colombia-oil-attack-20140712_1_cano-limon-covenas-rebel-attack-arauca-province00100000000010000000000
2011-06-12MenloIowaUSTrack "gapped open" in attempt to derail a train http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/iowa-authorities-investigating-train-sabotage.html00000000001000010000000
2017-12-00USFour operations in two weeks signal track blockage with copper wirehttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/strategy/time-short-stopping-trains/00000000001000010000000
2013-04-03BograBangladeshPaddle clips removed to loosen rail lineshttps://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/04/03/another-rail-sabotage-in-bogra00000000001000010000000
2013-08-07 TorontoOntarioCanadaSignaling cables severedhttp://nationalpost.com/news/go-train-signalling-cables-severed-by-thieves-looking-for-copper-wire-police00000000001000010000000
2012-07-26BurgundyFranceCable on TGV high-speed train line cuthttp://en.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120726-delays-southbound-french-railway-after-tgv-sabotage00000000001000010000000
2008-11-08FranceMetal bars hooked on overhead power cables in four locations to sabotage high-speed TGV rail lineshttps://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1858191,00.html00000000001000010000000
2007-11-21FranceHigh-speed TGV network sabotaged in multiple locations with arsons and shutting of signal switcheshttp://www.huliq.com/42553/french-rail-network-sabotaged10000000001000010000000
2004-07-00ItalyTwo cell towers blown up, following one burned in Junehttp://archive.indymedia.org.nz/article/69687/anarchist-action-report-world-wide.html10100000000000000001100
2004-08-15RomeItalyOctopus fishing hooks suspended from cables in attempt to rip away train electric supply http://archive.indymedia.org.nz/article/69687/anarchist-action-report-world-wide.html00000000001000010000000
2016-11-19ItalyIncendiary device placed on train trackshttps://waronsociety.noblogs.org/?p=965710000000000000010000000
2016-01-27Sinai PeninsulaEgyptGas pipeline bombed for at least the 30th time, frequently disrupting exports to Jordan and Israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Gas_Pipeline00100000000010000000000
2016-12-01AnbarIraq80 electric transmission towers bombed in the 3rd such attack in dayshttps://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/attack-80-electricity-towers-anbar-leaves-2-casualties/00100000000001000000100
2014-04-00Ain al-JahashIraqKirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline shut down for years by bombings and attacks on repair crews, stopping up to 400,000 bpd of oil pumpinghttp://www.targetexploration.com/Iraq-Turkey.pdf00100001000010000000000
2017-05-00Wallapo CountyIowaUSJessica and Ruby burn hole with a torch through the Dakota Access Pipeline at aboveground valve shut-off sitehttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/dakota-access-dapl-pipeline-ecosabotage/10000000000010000000000
2016-11-08Buena Vista CountyIowaUSJessica and Ruby burn five pieces of Dakota Access Pipeline construction equipmenthttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/dakota-access-dapl-pipeline-ecosabotage/10000000000000000000010
2008-12-00LebanonOregonUSPower line insulators shot with .22 rifle, causing electrical outage.http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/four_men_sentenced_for_shootin.html00000000000001000100000
2016-03-30TyngsboroMassachusettsUSIncendiary devices placed on power lines, but discovered before being activated.http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/03/31/suspicious-devices-strapped-power-lines-tyngsboro-locust-avenue-state-police/10000000000001000000000
2013-07-11PhoenixArizonaUS500kV transmission line damaged by rifle fire targeting insulators.https://publicintelligence.net/dhs-electric-grid-attacks/00000000000001000100000
2011-08-18GreenvilleNorth CarolinaUSInsulators on 115kV transmission line shot, causing power outage.https://publicintelligence.net/dhs-electric-grid-attacks/00000000000001000100000
1999-12-30BendOregonUSLarge transmission line tower toppledhttps://publicintelligence.net/dhs-electric-grid-attacks/00000000000001000000100
2011-06-00EugeneOregonUSSubstation equipment damaged in attempt to disrupt transmission service.https://publicintelligence.net/dhs-electric-grid-attacks/00000000000000000010000
2014-12-00TacomaWashingtonUSFour incidents over three months of high-voltage power line insulators shot out.https://www.bpa.gov/news/newsroom/Pages/Insulator-damage-endangers-public-power-reliability-ratepayers-foot-repair-bill.aspx00000000000001000100000
2002-07-03BergamoLombardyItalyAntenna and transmitter installation slightly damaged with incendiaries. (page 15)https://archive.org/details/GreenAnarchy1010000000000000000001000
2002-00-00Lane CountyOregonUSTransmission line insulators shot out on multiple occasions, in attacks carefully calculated to minimize risk of capture. (page 25)https://archive.org/details/GreenAnarchy1000000000000001000100000
2002-06-00BovillIdahoUSInsulators on 500kV transmission line shot out, causing nine hour power outage and shot down of Dworshak Dam's powerhouse.http://www.elp.com/articles/2002/06/vandalism-on-bpa-power-lines-reaches-seven-year-high.html00000000000001000100000
2002-02-00Papua New GuineaPower line pylon cut, interrupting operations at gold mine. (page 25)https://archive.org/details/GreenAnarchy1000000000011001000000100
2002-07-00Papua New GuineaTen power pylons blown up on two separate occasions, possibly disrupting electricity to gold mine. (page 25)https://archive.org/details/GreenAnarchy1000100000010001000000100
2009-08-05GlentaggartSouth LanarkshireScotlandActivists damage 6.5km long coal conveyor belt, forcing coal to be trucked for two days from the mine to a power plant.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/aug/06/mainshill-coal-protest00000010001000000000000
2016-03-11VillabonaGipuzkoaSpainCounterweights of rail line cut, creating voltage drop halting train traffic.https://en-contrainfo.espiv.net/2016/03/21/asturias-spanish-trains-sabotaged-in-solidarity-with-monica-and-francisco/00000000001000010000000
2016-03-06Avon Gorge, BristolUKMultiple rail lines (tracks?) cut with a portable disc cutter.https://325.nostate.net/2016/03/22/sabotage-of-coal-rail-transport-line-in-avon-gorge-uk/00000000001000010000000
2017-08-00Saudi ArabiaSophisticated cyberattack presumably by a nation state comes close to causing explosion at petrochemical planthttps://www.cyberscoop.com/trisis-ics-malware-saudi-arabia/00001010000000000000000
2017-01-00Saudi ArabiaComputers crashed in multiple petrochemical plants, requiring months to recoverhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/technology/saudi-arabia-hacks-cyberattacks.html00001010000000000000000
2018-04-03ExtonPennsylvaniaUSTractors for pipeline construction sabotagedhttps://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/direct-action/property-destruction/pennsylvania-energy-transfer-partners-pipeline-equipment-sabotaged/00000000001000000000010
1981-11-27San JuanPuerto RicoThe Macheteros blackout luxury districts by bombing two substations, apparently with pipe bombs placed between transformer walls and radiatorshttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/29/us/puerto-rico-terrorist-group-takes-responsibility-for-blackout.html00100000000000000010000
1978-01-19SeborucoPuerto RicoSubstation bombed, leaving large section of San Juan without electricityhttp://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=19780119000800100000000000000010000
2014-08-27San JoseCaliforniaUSSubstation attacked a year prior, supposedly hardened, has fence cut and equipment stolenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/us/california-power-substation-attacked-in-2013-is-hit-again.html00000000001000000010000
1981-00-00Fort PierceFloridaUSTransformer shot with gunfirehttps://www.newspapers.com/newspage/134970251/00000000000000000110000
1981-03-28Martin CountyFloridaUSTwo substations bombed simultaneously, other sources say with dynamite https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/134970251/00100000000000000010000
2018-03-12Orange CountyFloridaUSMan falls asleep while driving and crashes car into transformerhttps://www.wftv.com/news/local/fhp-man-crashes-into-transformer-after-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel/71478924000000000000000000010000
1990-04-23WatsonvilleCaliforniaUSEarth Night Action Group cuts two wooden transmission poles with hand saw, then topples steel towerhttp://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-25/news/mn-330_1_santa-cruz00000000001001000000100
1987-07-00Owens ValleyCaliforniaUSTwo guy wires on DC intertie tower cut, toppling two towers and disrupting the line for two dayshttp://lindsey-usa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/07T-007-DC-ERS-4-1989.pdf00000000001001000000100
2009-07-20DartfordKentUKLocks cut on cable bridge and fire set, damaging four major electric circuits and causing widespread outages for dayshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8160508.stm10000000000001000000000
1987-03-00Miami to Fort LauderdaleFloridaUSConductor bundles on 500kV transmission line shothttp://simson.net/ref/1988/IEEE_Working_Live.pdf00000000000001000100000
2017-06-08Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSDrone accidentally crashed into high voltage line, causing two hour power outagehttps://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/09/drone-crash-knocks-out-power-to-1600-in-mountain-view/00000000000001000000000
2013-10-07North CotabatoPhilippinesMan attempts to topple transmission tower with a hacksaw, following bombing of another tower two weeks beforehttp://www.manilatimes.net/militiamen-civilians-foil-attempt-to-topple-ngcp-tower-in-north-cotabato/43003/00100000001001000000100
2017-10-02CarmenMaguindanaoPhilippinesTransmission tower bombed in the latest of multiple attackshttps://mindanaoexaminer.com/rebels-bomb-ngcp-tower-in-south/00100000000001000000100
2014-02-00Sultan KudaratMaguindanaoPhilippinesTwo attempted bombings of transmission towershttp://www.manilatimes.net/army-on-alert-vs-maguindanao-bombers-of-power-lines/74799/00100000000001000000100
2015-00-00MindanaoPhilippines9 transmission towers toppled out of 16 bombed, bring the island's electric grid close to collapsehttp://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/51482/00100000000001000000100
2016-00-00MindanaoPhilippinesAt least six transmission towers bombedhttps://www.philstar.com/nation/2016/05/04/1579819/ngcp-clear-7-mindanao-power-lines00100000000001000000100
2008-00-00MindanaoPhilippinesAt least 20 transmission towers bombedhttps://elektrisidadpilipinas.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-transco-tower-in-lanao-sur.html00100000000001000000100
2016-01-26BaghlanAfghanistanTaliban destroy one transmission tower and damage two others, then prevent repairshttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/asia/taliban-electricity-afghanistan-uzbekistan-kabul.html00000001000001000000100
2015-00-00AfghanistanMore than 2,000 attacks on cables and towers transporting electricity from the Kajaki Damhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/asia/taliban-electricity-afghanistan-uzbekistan-kabul.html00100000001001000000100
2008-09-08HoodsportWashingtonUS230 kV power line shot down, and another damagedhttps://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/person-who-shot-down-mason-county-power-line-sought/00000000000001000100000
1967-00-00KentuckyUSTwo coal mining shovels and a grader dynamited, and two trucks, an auger, and a bulldozer destroyed with carbon (ammonium?) nitratehttps://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nonviolent_direct_actions_against_coal00100010000000000000010
2007-00-00DhinkiaOdishaIndiaOn two occasions, employees of steel maker Posco kidnapped in protest of eventually canceled plans for a steel planthttps://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_p/posco/20071013_hostage.html00000001010000000000000
2016-00-00AssamIndiaAt least 100 incidents of cut fiber optic cables reported per day state-widehttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/BSNL-to-take-up-cable-cutting-with-new-govt/articleshow/52549341.cms00000000001000000001000
2008-00-00AssamIndiaNearly 500 incidents of cut fiber optic cables in an unspecified time period (page 70 of PDF)https://ia800208.us.archive.org/16/items/GreenAnarchy25/GA25.pdf00000000001000000001000
2010-10-09DangrigaStann CreekBelizeUtility grade batteries stolen from substation for the second timehttps://ia800208.us.archive.org/16/items/GreenAnarchy25/GA25.pdf00000000001000000010000
2008-00-00BeiraSofalaMozambique18 batteries and other equipment stolen from third substation to fall victim to theft this year (page 70 of PDF)https://ia800208.us.archive.org/16/items/GreenAnarchy25/GA25.pdf00000000001000000010000
2018-05-24BirimaKirkukIraqTwo power lines destroyed simultaneously, triggering blackouts in two citieshttps://sofrep.com/103805/islamic-state-operatives-sabotage-iraqi-infrastructure-by-attacking-the-power-grid/00000000000001000000100
2005-05-15BrisbaneQueenslandAustraliaElectric company discovers bolts were removed from two transmission towers in attempt to topple them (page 34 of PDF)https://ia600203.us.archive.org/18/items/GreenAnarchy21/GA21.pdf00000000001001000000100
2004-07-00ToowombaQueenslandAustraliaElectric company discovers bolts were removed from transmission tower in attempt to topple it (page 34 of PDF)https://ia600203.us.archive.org/18/items/GreenAnarchy21/GA21.pdf00000000001001000000100
2017-00-00AnambraNigeriaOver 200 electric transformers (presumably mostly small street units) vandalizedhttps://guardian.ng/news/over-200-transformers-vandalised-in-anambra-says-eedc-official/00000000001000000010000
2014-11-05Franklin TownshipPennsylvaniaUSNine rifle shots fired to severely damage electric transformer by leaking its cooling fluidhttp://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/local_news/gunfire-hits-northwestern-rec-transformer-service-disrupted/article_ccdfbd1e-663a-11e4-b39f-9b951a2ac888.html00000000000000000110000
2005-03-02LopatcongNew JerseyUSValves opened to drain coolant oil from two transformers (page 27 of PDF)https://ia800200.us.archive.org/4/items/GreenAnarchy20/GA20.pdf00000000001000000010000
2004-05-00FinlandConstruction vehicles torched to slow construction of super highway (page 24 of PDF)https://ia802302.us.archive.org/31/items/GreenAnarchy18/GA18.pdf10000000000000001000010
2004-06-16DanvilleVermontUSCell tower toppled, cutting area cell service and shutting down a radio stationhttps://ia802302.us.archive.org/31/items/GreenAnarchy18/GA18.pdf00000000000000000001100
2005-00-00BalochistanPakistan5 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000100000
2006-00-00BalochistanPakistan19 attacks blow up gas pipelines and transmission towershttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000011000000100
2007-00-00BalochistanPakistan31 attacks blow up gas pipelines, transmission towers, rail track, and grid station (substation?)http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000011010110100
2008-00-00BalochistanPakistan31 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2009-00-00BalochistanPakistan29 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2010-00-00BalochistanPakistan2 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2011-00-00BalochistanPakistan52 attacks blow up gas pipelines, gas wells, and oil tankershttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100010000010000000010
2012-00-00BalochistanPakistan28 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000001000000000
2013-00-00BalochistanPakistan10 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2014-00-00BalochistanPakistan17 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2015-00-00BalochistanPakistan10 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2016-00-00BalochistanPakistan2 attacks blow up gas pipelineshttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2017-12-28Jalall/BolanBalochistanPakistanGas pipeline blown uphttp://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/data/Attacks_Gas_pipeline.htm00100000000010000000000
2004-04-00SondrioLombardyItalyIn three incidents, transmission towers toppled with explosives (page 22 of PDF)https://ia801407.us.archive.org/6/items/GreenAnarchy17/GA17.pdf00100000000001000000100
2003-11-21MarneBergamoItalyElectric transformer torched to disrupt supply to nearby Bayer factory (page 22 of PDF)https://ia801407.us.archive.org/6/items/GreenAnarchy17/GA17.pdf10000000000000100010000
2004-02-10South OceanBahamasFour electric poles cut down, with cascading systems failure knocking out two power plants and causing an hours long blackout on two islands (page 21 of PDF)http://greenanarchy.anarchyplanet.org/files/2012/05/greenanarchy16.pdf00000000001001000000100
2013-05-28Clifton PierBahamasSabotage by suspected insider severs power cables and maintenance lines to power plant engine, probably damaging ithttp://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/2013/05/bec-sabotaged-36163.html00000000001000100000000
2004-06-08Newfoundland and LabradorCanadaTwo fiber optic cables cut, affecting nearly 250,000 customers, in latest of more than 20 attacks on telecommunications (page 58 of PDF)https://ia802302.us.archive.org/31/items/GreenAnarchy18/GA18.pdf00000000001000000001000
2000-09-00VenezuelaAt least four incidents of attacks on transmission towers from Guri Dam, including toppling seven towers overnighthttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1981-07-04MoabUtahUSThree 345 kV transmission towers cut and toppledhttp://www.landrights.org/ALRA.oregon.eco-terrorism.htm00000000001001000000100
1980-00-00ColoradoUS3.2 miles of power lines downed after supports sawn throughhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1996-02-00OregonUSPipe bombs used to attack SCADA control system at hydroelectric planthttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00100100000000000010000
1987-07-12CosenzaCalabriaItaly150 kV transmission tower sawn and pulled downhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1987-09-09BrasimoneItalyTransmission tower toppledhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1988-03-08CosenzaCalabriaItalyTransmission tower cut downhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1988-03-12ItalyTwo transmission towers in different areas sawn and toppledhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
1988-06-09VicenzaVenetoItalyMain electrical line destroyed by flameshttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf10000000000001000000000
1988-10-15NoceCatanzaroItaly150 kV transmission tower partly sawn downhttp://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/electric-funeral1.pdf00000000001001000000100
2018-05-00PhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSCable housing of cell tower torchedhttps://phlanticap.noblogs.org/cell-phone-tower-fire/10000000000000000001000
2018-06-00PennsylvaniaUSLiquidation system of excavator on pipeline construction site sabotaged, in such a way as to inflict permanent damagehttps://phlanticap.noblogs.org/sabotage-at-mariner-east-2-pipeline-construction-site/00000000001000000000010
2010-08-10Lake St LouisMissouriUSPipe bomb explodes at substation, causing minor damage at site of unsuccessful arson a year priorhttps://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stcharles/lake-saint-louis-police-find-suspected-pipebomb/article_7b5dab0a-a621-11df-b3d6-00127992bc8b.html10100000000000000010000
2002-02-24Salt Lake CityUtahUSCrude bomb placed between breakers at substation causes black out and oil refinery firehttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/1001724/A-guilty-plea-in-Oly-bombing-of-power-substation.html00100000000000000010000
1977-08-30SausalitoCaliforniaUSGroup bombs substation, blacking out 6,000 customershttps://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-Sausalito-substation-is-bombed-by-terrorists-2776315.php00100000000000000010000
2978-03-14Contra Costa CountyCaliforniaUSTwo bombs damage substation, blacking out up to 60,000 customershttps://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/24/archives/coast-bombing-expected-to-go-on-despite-arrests-interaction-between.html00100000000000000010000
1975-03-27BarstowCaliforniaUSFive pipe bombs wipe out three banks of transformers and blackout 35,000 homeshttps://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/09/archives/a-power-substation-on-coast-is-bombed-2d-time-in-12-days.html00100000000000000010000
1975-04-08BarstowCaliforniaUSClosely guarded substation transformers bombed second time in 12 days, blacking out 22,000 homes and small businesshttps://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/09/archives/a-power-substation-on-coast-is-bombed-2d-time-in-12-days.html00100000000000000010000
1976-01-01SeattleWashingtonUSSubstation bombed, blacking out 2,000 customershttps://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/02/archives/substation-and-office-damaged-in-bomb-blasts-in-seattle-area.html00100000000000000010000

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  4. I wish that positive action would be taken to replace the polluting sources of energy. About 35 years ago I saw a functional unit that took the sewer waste and turned it into energy. The byproducts we sterile compost and sterile distilled water and a very small amount of oxygen. Only the waste from two homes went into it and it produced enough electricity to amply supply seven homes. Would this not be a kinder to the Earth way to make electricity? The compost was wonderful, smelled like pine forest duff, very clean and was great for growing plants.

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    1. I agree, it’s probably the hocus pocus around bird deaths and noise pollution. More birds die by flying into domestic windows by some huge order of magnitude yet you don’t see them boarding up windows.

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  6. DGR includes acts by CIA-sponsored pseudo-rebels in Syria as part of this list. DGR talks a good game about “feminism.” What will Syria look like under the CIA-back Jihadis and the Shria order they hope to impose on Syria. Assad’s regime is nothing to admire, but its fall will only aid the forces of reaction in the region. It will shift the balance of power in the region to the Gulf states and Israel, away from Hezbollah and Iran. As the imperialists are supporting the so-called “rebels” so too is DGR. Lenin taught that the first duty of a revolutionary in an imperialist country is to oppose their own empire. For all the criticism DGR has received over its trans comments, the support for the imperialist conspiracy against Syria is far more offensive.

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    1. Hi Jazzer,

      Thanks for reading and commenting. The purpose of the Underground Action Calendar is to publicize and normalize the use of militant actions & sabotage in resistance efforts, not to promote the ideology or goals of those who carry them out. The actions included in the Calendar come from a wide spectrum of political movements, and by no means do they all match DGR’s perspective or goals. What they have in common is the use of underground resistance, mostly against industrial infrastructure; DGR believes that without the application of that force resistance will never be successful, and that’s why these actions are included here–to promote and normalize that kind of resistance.

      If you familiarize yourself with the ideology and work of DGR, it should be unequivocally clear that DGR is resolutely anti-imperialist. Aside from including that one action on this list, where has DGR ever expressed support for the anti-Assad rebels in Syria? I think it’s a big leap to say including that one action is equivalent to supporting “imperialist conspiracy”.

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  7. Less humans=more NATURE and more Living World and more birds, animals etc.

    The ultimate Green action is refusing to have children and for women to control their fertility SAFELY and PRIVATELY even where this is forbidden.

    It’s time for women to TAKE back our reproductive rights!

    In this time of backlash against women’s reproductive rights, it’s necessary to reclaim our ability to control our own bodies without having to ask permission in governmental and religious arenas controlled by men! Please post and share this with at least 3 women and it will go viral!

    Menstrual extraction (ME) is a process by which menstrual blood is removed from the uterus using an airtight, hand-operated suction device to eliminate inconveniently-timed periods (in cases of going camping, athletic events, etc.

    It can also be used for low-risk early abortions (up to 7 weeks) without anesthetics and a greatly decreased risk of infection. It removes the fertilized egg soon after the first missed period.
    ME is often an outpatient procedure, sometimes performed at home by a trained medical professional. Most patients said it’s far more comfortable and less painful than standard abortion procedure.

    The most common device used is called a Del-Em. The cannula is inserted into the uterus through the undilated cervix. A syringe, with a one-way bypass valve prevents air from entering the uterus, which can be fatal. It creates the suction necessary to evacuate the interior of the uterus. The material collects in an airtight glass jar.

    In a very few cases, a second extraction process must be performed if the abortion was not completed the first time. The procedure should be performed by a trained medical professional. However, with proper training, women who aren’t medical professionals can also be taught to safely perform ME in self-help groups. ME should never be attempted alone. Materials used to construct a Del-Em device are easily obtainable through a laboratory or chemistry scientific catalogue or are common items (a jar, aquarium tubing, etc)

    Resources
    http://www.sisterzeus.com Sister Zeus’ site is a HUGE resource for women’s reproductive rights and health issues. To find a self-help group of women trained to safely do ME, Sister Zeus suggests checking with midwives, feminist health centers, fertility counselors and local feminists. Finding a self-help group is difficult since ME is barely legal since ME can be used when not pregnant. Groups may be found by word of mouth
    Sister Zeus will help you find women in your area to start a self-help group and learn safe ME. http://www.sisterzeus.com/StateList.html
    Email: sister_zeus@geocities.com All information kept confidential.

    •A woman’s Book of Choices, Abortion, Menstrual Extraction RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer. “There is power in these pages, more power than any law can give us,” said Barbara Ehrenreich. It includes a list of books about abortion herbs (Misuse of herbs can be dangerous so always consult a sympathetic midwife-herbalist), how to safely perform ME, (safe up to 7 weeks into pregnancy) and how to make a Del-Em device from cheap common items.

    IMPORTANT NOTE! There are three mistakes (on pages 116, 142 and 241) that say “TWO way bypass valve” As can be seen on the diagram on p 143, it’s a ONE way bypass valve)!

    •A New View of a Woman’s Body by the Federation of Feminist Women’s health Centers. It’s difficult to find but full of high-quality information to help you understand your body. Contains information Sister Zeus found nowhere else. •A Difficult Decision-A compassionate Book About Abortion by Joy Gardener

    • Planned Parenthood Ph: 1-800-230-PLAN http://www.plannedparenthood.org
    Birth control can stabilize the human population on our overburdened planet and help save Nature from being overrun by humanity.• The population increased more since 1950 than during the previous four million years. Decreasing food supplies indicate Earth’s ability to feed humanity began diminishing in 1994. (WorldWatch Institute). • Ninety million babies are born each year. The UN Population Foundation found that 80 million births are either ill timed or unintended.

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    1. “The ultimate Green action is refusing to have children”

      Even if I’m not sure if it is the ultimate green action its sure not a burden to life and planet to stay away from having children, so you def rise a good point.

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  8. Great to see another useful direct action news cite from DGR… not unlike NAALPO or Bite Back.. but I do agree with some of the above comments that the selection of actions to report is important.. While there are issues with wind turbines, and renewable energy for the purpose is delivering power to industry is a major issue, small-scale wind can be a much less destructive and self-determined form of energy.. and should not be a priority in DEW.. I also question the posting of the grid sabotage in Syria.. if you report this then why not report all the other hundreds of acts of war that any militant group carries out on infrastructure? Thanks for what you do!

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  9. This kind of news emboldens the environmental movement’s nonviolent work while also nurturing the possibility of a smart & effective underground – thank you! (Love the sidebar at the right with all those great links). For serious scholars and activists, this page has a ton of great reading.

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  10. @alexbudd

    “What they have in common is the use of underground resistance, mostly against industrial infrastructure; DGR believes that without the application of that force resistance will never be successful, and that’s why these actions are included here–to promote and normalize that kind of resistance.”

    Regarding, “February 25, 2015, Flagstaff, AZ, fiber-optic line severed that supplied phones, TV and Internet to much of northern AZ (roughly Phoenix to Flagstaff) “, How does cutting off the internet help people organise resistance?
    The internet is the one tool we have going for us, in terms of having access to information that has been traditionally kept to the ruling classes (of wealth, race and gender).
    This isn’t an attack, but a genuine question. How can you justify destroying the means of self-education to millions of people as a general positive force?

    I think maybe you hoped for an industrial impact, where it is the industrial sector which will most easily find alternative means to accessing the internet, and the average person who will be left unable to function in this modern world.

    Use industrial-targeting viruses like stuxnet or something.

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    1. Yes I agree, attacking the Internet is the wrong target. Without information there will be no revolution. Let’s go after those corporations that are doing the most damage to the planet and to life.

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      1. Internet seems to rather have the effect that more and more people becomes less into actual action and more to sit and waste time on the internet.
        But for now maybe Internet is not the most important thing to take down but if someone would manage I would not mind that much.

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        1. Agreed. We should keep in mind that the internet is first and foremost a tool for corporations (and the governments which serve them) to expedite extraction of resources and “production.” Secondly, it’s become another means to pacify the mass. Only a small number of people use the internet to organize for resistance.

          All that said, there probably are more critical targets which are just as vulnerable. The most effective reason to target telecommunications is probably in conjunction with another attack, like when the shooters at the Metcalf substation first cut the cables to prevent 911 calls from being placed.

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  11. Sabotage is good. The sabotage is in it’s infancy stage. There Should be a thousand % more and a thousand % more devastating sabotage. After all, humanity is up against the most dangerous and the most sophisticated, 100% corrupt, Authoritarian/Totalitarian, Police-State in the history of the world. There should be a thousand police officers killed daily across the nation; four to ten major bridges blown up weekly across the nation, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,…………….

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