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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND ACTION CAMPS
May 17th-19th – Central Wisconsin Action Camp – Stevens Point, Wisconsin
The Central Wisconsin Action Camp will bring together organizers and activists from Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region to foster a culture of direct action that challenges false solutions to environmental and economic problems including upcoming regional infrastructure projects.
May 19th-27th – Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp – Damascus, VA
Join Mountain Justice this year near Damascus, VA. Mountain Justice has grown from a fast burning brush fire that helped push Mountaintop Removal to national awareness into a critical support network at the base of a growing, national anti-extractive industry movement for social and environmental justice.
May 26th-June 1st – Resist the Biotech Tree Conference – Asheville, North Carolina
Join activists from around the country to protest an international gathering of scientists and industry executives who are working to replace our native forests with genetically engineered tree farms.
June 15th-23rd – Wild Roots Feral Futures – Southwest Colorado
For the 5th year running, the Wild Roots Feral Futures (WRFF) eco-defense, direct action, and rewilding encampment will take place in the forests of Southwest Colorado this coming June, 2013.
July 23rd-29th – Trans and Womyn’s Actions Camp – Near Eugene, Oregon
TWAC is a movement to unite, support and inspire trans and women activists to take action against patriarchy, oppression and exploitation and in defense of our communities and ecosystems.
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Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to Keystone XL Heavy Machinery — Halts Construction
Last week Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, from Warr Acres, has locked herself to a piece of heavy machinery effectively halting construction on TransCanada’s Keystone XL toxic tar sands pipeline. This action comes in the wake of the disastrous tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower Arkansas, where an estimated 80,000 gallons of tar sands spilled into a residential neighborhood and local waterways.
Read more – Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance
Environmentalists Put Their Bodies on the Line to Protest Keystone Pipeline Profiteers
Last month in the nation’s capital, five members of DC Rising Tide participated in a peaceful act of civil disobedience against one of the corporations that stands to profit from the Keystone XL Pipeline. The five were arrested by DC metro police after a sit down peaceful protest in the lobby of 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is the DC corporate office of Valero Energy Corp. Valero owns oil refineries that are poised to receive at least 20% of the tar sands exported from Canada through the nation’s heartland to Texas.
Read more – Rising Tide North America
Global Day of Action against Chevron and the Pacific Trail Pipeline
Everywhere Chevron operates they exploit land and people for shareholder profit, often they use force and intimidation, very rarely do they take responsibility for the consequences. From the US to Nigeria, Australia to Equador, Brazil to Bangladesh, Chevron brings death and destruction. In Canada, Chevron’s Pacific Trail Pipeline threatens unceded indigenous land. Last month groups from around the world united and took action in solidarity with the Unist’ot’en and all frontline communities affected by Chevron, to clearly state, Chevron your time has come your days are numbered! Stop Fracking Chevron!
Read more – Unist’ot’en Camp
Newswire
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TWAC Storms Prison Industry Giant GEO Group’s HQ in Boca Raton
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Seattle Tar Sands Protesters Lock Down in Canadian Consulate in Protest of Tar Sands.
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Activist Climbs Flagpole Outside LyondellBasell, Hangs Banner Denouncing Investment in Tar Sands
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Podcast on climate justice organizing with an anti-colonial focus
Upcoming
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May 17th-19th – Central Wisconsin Action Camp – Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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May 19th-27th – Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp – Damascus, VA
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May 26th – June 1st – Resist the Biotech Tree Conference – Asheville, North Carolina
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June 15th-23rd – Wild Roots Feral Futures – Southwest Colorado
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July 23rd-29th – Trans and Womyn’s Actions Camp – Near Eugene, Oregon