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Arson at National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Research in Mexico

6 March 2011
anonymous report (translation by This Is Our Job):

“We, the Earth Liberation Front, take responsibility for the arson at the Mexican Valley Experimental Field in Texcoco, Mexico State. The field belongs to the National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Research (INIFAP), which is dedicated to the research and development of “improved technology” in the areas of agriculture, animal husbandry, and forest exploitation. For example, INIFAP has been responsible for the production of over 100 new genetic varieties of plants since 2005, greatly increasing the country’s crop production and therefore its demand for land to be deforested and polluted with pesticides and herbicides.

This year, INIFAP opened the National Center for Genetic Resources (CNRG), which is responsible for storing genetic samples of every species endemic to Mexico and Latin America.

The Scientists in this field argue that their project is beneficial to ecosystems, but if we analyze it, these people are really dedicating their lives to the creation of new types of organisms in the name of progress. If we leave such a great variety in their hands, will anything ever be out of their reach? INIFAP also carries out forestry research, which it uses to promote the increased deforestation of wild habitats. For example, two weeks ago INIFAP published an article about the timber industry, an institution that had developed “ecological” (note the quotes) furnaces for drying logs in the mountains north of Puebla. In its article, INIFAP made its hopes clear that these furnaces would lead to growth in the region’s forestry industry, thus threatening an environment in which all kinds of species coexist.

Therefore, we claim the following ecotages inside and outside this federal institution:

1. Leaving an incendiary device—made from three litres of gasoline, fuses for detonation, and air freshening pellets as delays—among hundreds of sacks of herbicide in a warehouse inside their facility.

2. Leaving another incendiary device—fueled by four liters of gasoline—at the entrance to the main building near the experimental field.

3. Leaving two incendiary devices inside two greenhouses outside and behind the facility.

4. Also leaving behind declarative and threatening graffiti—like “THIS TIME IT WAS FIRE, NEXT TIME IT WILL BE BOMBS,” “ELF,” “INIFAP = DESTRUCTION OF WILD NATURE,” “FLT,” “MORE GMOS, MORE FIRE,” among others—on the windows, floor, and walls of the main building; the walls of the other buildings; an INIFAP van; and the power generator.

We’ve struck again. We made use of months of thorough investigation to study the target, taking into account the shifts of the guards, who must have certainly been surprised to find out we were there that morning of February 27—leaping over their security fence, running through their parking lot, and turning our existence into a threatening aggravation to the projects of those who dream of total domestication. We infiltrated the institution itself as well as its fields, where the greenhouses were located. We shifted into action once again, our fire reigniting to damage and destroy the property of those who believe they own the planet on which we survive as the degenerate species of the technological-industrial system.

Keeping our imprisoned anticivilization comrades Adrián and Braulio in mind, we’re absolutely ready to make this type of attack a clear message to industries and institutions that implement technological development.

In another sense, the attack was a symbolic act directed at science and technology. To us, the action may have been of very little or no importance, but it was still necessary, since from our perspective it’s deplorable to sit around like mere passive spectators waiting for things to change. We don’t believe that this action is going to change reality right away, as that would make us either naive or overly pragmatic. But it does function as a desperate act of expression through which we signify that the reality we live in must be negated in its totality, and that the best negation is the destruction of whatever gives meaning to the establishment: “social peace,” normality, institutions, respect for property, etc. In this case, the destruction was directed at one of the major parts of modernity’s system of domination: techno-science. This time, the attack was on a federal government institution responsible for forestry research and biotechnology, among other things. As a pretext for its existence, we’re told that it is seeking a better life for the human beings who live in this country, creating acceptance of this kind of research among the populace. But, as we all know, there are also negative aspects, which to us have greater impact and are more unacceptable and than the benefits: the artificialization and domination of wild nature, especially of potentially free beings including human beings, plus the denial of the necessary autonomy for free human self-determination. On the one hand, the state grants itself the right and the obligation to provide its inhabitants with the means for their survival. On the other hand, the state isn’t even necessary, since it causes alienation whenever its subjects doesn’t find themselves directly immersed in activities that serve to satisfy their survival needs. This leads to numerous psychosocial problems, and of course generates the market as an intermediary, which in turn functions through the standardization of the massive present-day consumption that is deteriorating the environment. This is very much related to the institution we attacked, which attempts to make excuses for continuing its scientific barbarism by creating new technologies—in this case, biotechnologies that claim to solve the problems that science itself causes, fostering the idea that such ecosystem deterioration doesn’t matter as long as we have the science to fix it. Thus, a vicious circle is created that attempts to solve problems with more problems, under the pretence of a “better life.”

Our proposal is to negate the artificial reality that civilization has constructed, not indirectly, but by seeking a way of life that doesn’t involve domination—the most autonomous way of life possible within wild ecosystems and without intermediaries, especially those that are mere deceptions like science and modern dominating technology. Of course, this proposal won’t be accepted by most people, which is fine and even desirable, since among the problems posed by forms of social organization are the dominating structures conceived by mass societies. Therefore, we trust that people who have a truly critical and radical conscience will reflect on the real problems confronting us and act accordingly.

We continue to be the burning rage of a dying planet.

—Earth Liberation Front, Mexico”

“FRIENDS OF THE EARTH” TORCH CARS, ARGENTINA

2 March 2011
anonymous communique (translation):

“Arson attacks on vehicles in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Image: http://www.lahaine.org/b2-img11/arte.JPG

2 March 2011
anonymous communique (translation):

“Arson attacks on vehicles in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Image: http://www.lahaine.org/b2-img11/arte.JPG

We were fed up with the futile criticisms of the domesticated thugs who, under the guise of promoting our well-being, have taken the life from us with their machines of domination. We decided it was much better to look at what actions a person can take to make each day a little more free.

Far from wanting to debate and get ourselves involved in the absurd welfarist demands required to be a part of the reformist struggle, we say to them that we shit on their cages, cars and police … and on every person who is satisfied being a slave …
They should all feel unsafe because war has been declared on society by those who have respect for nature.

Freedom for our comrades imprisoned in the bomb case in Chile who are on hunger strike.
Greetings to those who spread word of our actions.

Arson attacks on automobiles during the last week of February 2011:
· 4×4 truck on Bahia Blanca and Melincue (Devoto).
· Automobile parked on Llavallol and Pedro Lozano, a block from the station, and at the door of the legal address of the publisher responsible for the district government (VDP) website.

Do it yourself, theory and practice.

Friends of the Earth.”

Sinixt Slhu7kin-Perry Ridge Protection Camp Re-established

On March 1 2011, the Slu7kin – Perry Ridge Protection Camp was re-established by Slocan Valley locals and supporters of the Sinixt Nation. The camp was first established by the Sinixt Nation and supporters on October 26, 2010. The Sinixt recently had their legal challenge for their rights to consultation dismissed by BC Supreme Court Judge Willcock.

Sunshine Logging Ltd, of Kaslo BC, responded within a few days after the ruling by beginning to plow the snow from the road. Locals responded quickly and moved in to prevent the machine from operating. Jeff Mattes of Sunshine Logging has been eager to get in and begin road building. The Sinixt have yet to receive court documents and are planning an appeal, today they asked the Attorney General to prevent Mattes and company from road building until they have had a chance to appeal.

Sunshine logging did not show up to work Thursday.

The camp is growing everyday. This is a community action to protect the community watershed. It is encouraged for people to bring their families, friends, prayers, food, camp supplies, building supplies, a love for the land and their humbled and honest warrior spirits. There is no threat of arrest by attending the camp.

The camp is located just south of the town of Slocan BC, 7km up the Little Slocan South Forest Service Road. Take Hwy Six to Gravel Pit Rd and follow the signs to the Little Slocan Lodge. You can’t miss it.

http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201748262749215460026.00049daae0331cd323924&ll=49.741233,-117.492428&spn=0.050586,0.169086&z=13

More info:

http://sinixtnation.org

http://perryridge.org

http://territoriesoffreedom.wordpress.com

Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/v/rWkQ8MFVHU8?fs

Indigenous Protesters Blockading Mine Owned by Goldcorp Assaulted, Taken Hostage in Guatemala

Update:
they’ve since been released.

On February 28, 2011, approximately 50 Indigenous men and women from Mayan communities affected by Goldcorp’s Marlin Gold mine in San Marcos, Guatemala, were attacked and taken hostage by a group of individuals said to have “strong ties” to the Vancouver-based mining company.

Update:
they’ve since been released.

For Immediate Release

San Miguel Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, Guatemala, February 28, 2011.
by San Miguel Ixtahuacan Defense Front

TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

THE SAN MIGUEL IXTAHUACAN DEFENSE FRONT

REPORTS

FIRST: Today, on February 28, 2011, communities took action to pressure the government of Guatemala to carry out the Precautionary Measures MC-260-07 granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which include the temporary suspension of the Marlin mine. The action consisted in peacefully blocking the main routes used by the company* in a way that respects the Constitution of our country, in which we have the right to protest.

SECOND: When the blockade began, a group of approximately 20 people assaulted Miguel Bamaca, despite the fact that the Presidential Human Rights Commission has granted him protectiv measures. Miguel Bamaca was beaten mercilessly by a family known as the Mejia family, together with neighbours who work for the company. These people have strong ties to the company and also to illegal business activities. This incident occurred at four thirty in the afternoon in a location known as Siete Platos.

THIRD: On the way back, near the community of San Jose Ixcaniche, approximately 70 members of this community intercepted the bus and began to assault various people who were travelling in the bus. Among them, our comrade Aniseto Lopez and others were beaten without being able to defend themselves. The attackers came armed with guns, stones, knives, sticks, and other weapons. Right now, approximately 50 people are kidnapped and being threatened by the community of San Jose Ixcaniche and the Mejia family.

Day of Action against Extraction, April 19/April 20 – 2011

Communities around the world are under attack from extractive industries that poison our families, kill our loved ones on the job, and destroy the ecosystems we cherish. The BP oil spill was unfortunately just one of an endless string of disasters born of an economic system that must endlessly consume the Earth’s resources.

Extraction is the act of taking without giving anything back. Extraction takes workers lives so corporations can make a few more bucks.
Extraction takes clean water and air and gives us blackened oceans and a climate in chaos. Extraction takes the natural wealth of communities and ecosystems and leaves behind poverty and ecological wastelands.

For a stable climate, clean air and water, we must stop the extraction of fossil fuels and other “resources.” From the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf Coast, people are fighting back against the extractive industries that have declared war on our planet. Rising Tide is calling for a day of direct action against extraction on the 1 year anniversary of the BP oil spill. On April 20th take it to the point of production.
Shut down a well site, occupy a mine, take over an office, blockade a bank. Nobody’s community should be a sacrifice zone. For climate justice and a liveable planet.

Rising Tide (North America)

October Minga Global/Week of Action for Climate Justice

6.12.10

6.12.10
On 12 – 16th October, responding to the Minga Global mobilisation in defence of mother earth and the Week of Action for Climate Justice, people around the world came together to take action. From Havana to Helsinki, Essex to El Alto, Montreal to Mendoza, people blockaded oil refineries, marched for indigenous rights, hung banners above motorways, held public meetings, and shut down corporate headquarters. Attention was drawn to the ongoing struggles in all parts of the world, with calls
for climate justice, indigenous sovereignty, public transport, and an end to fossil fuel extraction. The week of action was in solidarity with all the diverse movements who fight for social and ecological justice.

The struggles continue..

South Africa
– Sasol Day of Action
Earthlife Africa Jhb and partner organisations held a day of action to highlight the continuing climate and environmental atrocities committed by Sasol. There was a march on Sasol’s headquaters to highlight the fact that Sasol is one of the worst emitters of GHG on the African continent and produces about 75.4 million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually – about 21% of South Africa’s total greenhouse gas emissions per year.

In recent months Sasol has claimed to be concerned about the environment and its impacts on climate change, proposing that the delay of Project Mafutha is about its GHG emissions and the recent success using Sasol’s fuel for aviation. In reality however, the delay may be due to the cost of the project and the difficulty to obtain the coal and not about Sasol’s environmental concern. Sasol Chief Executive was reported as saying that the project would require extensive “support” from government.

In addition, if Sasol was truly concerned about global GHG emissions it would have not gone ahead with its plans to build CTL plants in China and GTL plant in Uzbekistan.

Makoma Lekalakala, Programme Officer for Earthlife Africa Jhb, states, “Sasol talks green but their actions show little regard for people and the planet. It is time for South Africans to hold companies like Sasol accountable for the damage they are causing to the environment and to our people.”

Sasol is South Africa’s biggest source of volatile organic compounds which include benzene, toluene and xylene (all cancer causing substances). In addition, dust from coal, slag and ash heaps blow across neighbouring settlements. Earthlife Africa Jhb and partners will continue to highlight the truths and hold Sasol accountable for the ongoing pollution in Sasolburg and the
surrounding areas.

website:
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/10/14/protesters-march-for-environmental-justice

Cuba

– Solidarity day with Haiti and against militarization, the consequence of climate change and in support of rights for Mother Earth.

12th. of October in Havana, Cuba

For this activity which occurred in the Martin Luther King memorial centre, a network of popular educators, groups of 100’s of people who work in diverse places and participative spaces in Cuba. We paid homage to Haiti with both songs and poetry. The idea for this was to interconnect a day of solidarity with Haiti with the resistance in Quito, Ecuador and to join with the Global Minga for Mother Earth, and to show our presence for the COP-16 conference in Cancun. It is because of this that we invited the ambassadors from the ALBA coalition countries (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and various other Caribbean countries) and the students from the Latin American school for the Americas.

Location: Casa de ALBA.

Guatemala

– March in Support of the day of dignity and the resistance of peasant farmers and native peoples

The National Coordination and Mayan convergence “Waqib’ Kej” and their organizations, call on the Mayan peoples, the Garifuna, and the Xinka in Guatemala to march on the 12th of October 2010 to commemorate the day of dignity and of resistance of peasant farmers and native peoples.

The march has the following objectives: to demonstrate our resistance to 500 years since the Spanish invasion, the genocide committed against our people, the threat which comes from the mega-projects to drive us from our land and territory.

The 12th of October represents an day to pay homage to and to salute our martyrs, grandfathers and grandmothers, who gave their lives in the fight for the defence of our land and territory deciding not to negotiate, not to compromise nor to sell their dignity.

Also the date commemorates and celebrates the victories and the advances made in our resistance, opposing the translation corporations (TNCs) and the Guatemalan state that renders to them.

The mobilization is being organized by The National Coordination and Mayan convergence “Waqib’ Kej”, and as such we wish to clarify that we have no links with other organizations that are not directly associated with us but which join with us in the mobilization.

We know of another similar action which takes place in our Capital (Guatemala city) and in other parts of the country but we consider it important that we clarify that they are quite different to our organization and as such not related to our movement.

That said, we invite our brothers and sisters to join with us in our march, in defence of Mother Earth and our Territory, which are being threatened by mega-projects, with the Guatemalan state’s compliance, and we invite the national media and their coverage of our march.

The National Coordination and Mayan convergence “Waqib’ Kej”

Ixim Ulew, Kajib´ I’x, Sej

Translated from the original, published in Guatemala, 7th of October 2010
http://waqib-kej.org/portal/2010/10/convocamos-a-marcha-reivindicativa-del-12-de-octubre-de-2010/

UK
– Crude Awakening
500 Climate activists blockaded the UK’s busiest oil refinery. The action started with an all woman affinity group locking themselves to immobilised vehicles, preventing oil tankers
from leaving the refinery to deliver oil to London. They were joined by hundreds more who set up a further blockade.

Terri Orchard, who took part, said:
“We don’t have a hope of tackling climate change if we don’t find a way to start moving beyond oil. But Big Oil is relentless. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic to the Canadian tar sands, oil companies are devastating local environments, trampling the rights of local communities, and pushing us over the edge to catastrophic climate change.

We are here at the source of the problem, at the UK’s busiest oil refinery, to stop the flow of oil to London. We’re here to put a spanner in the works of the relentless flow of oil and to say no more. This place, this whole industry, must become a thing of the past.”

The Crude Awakening is supported by a spectrum of direct action groups including the Camp for Climate Action, Plane Stupid, Rising Tide, Space Hijackers, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, Earth First! and the UK Tar Sands Network.

website:
www.crudeawakening.org.uk

– Avonmouth targeted by Bristol and Bath Rising Tide Activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide (1) dropped a banner reading ‘IMPORT CO2AL: EXPORT POVERTY’ from Avonmouth bridge near the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and environmental justice.

The Royal Portbury Docks contains one of the largest coal import terminals in the UK. Tracy Jones from Rising Tide said “Fossil fuel extraction devastates communities, from villages destroyed by floods in Pakistan to land grabs in Colombia, and is being resisted around the world. The failure of the Copenhagen climate summit shows that governments have their hands in the pockets of corporations and cannot be trusted. It’s up to ordinary people to take direct action to stop climate chaos.”

website:
risingtide.org.uk

– Action against RPS group Glasgow in Solidarity with communities in Co. Mayo and South Lanarkshire
On Saturday the 16th, RPS Group’s offices in Glasgow had its locks and signage destroyed by people who are outraged in their involvement with the Corrib Gas Pipeline in Co. Mayo Ireland and the Open Cast Coal mines of the Douglas Valley, south Lanarkshire, Scotland.

RPS is a large planning, engineering and environmental consistency that attempts to legitimize these controversial projects. Local resistance to these projects has arisen for many reasons, including their detriment to the environment. RPS claim to consult the local communities affected and use plenty of environmental rhetoric in their reports but in fact work with governments and big business to justify developments that are ruining peoples health, lifestyles and their environment.

website:
coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2185

– Action against Ayrshire Power and Peel Holdings
UK-wide coordinated direction actions targeting the headquarters of Clydeport, Ayrshire Power, and the company that owns them, Peel Holdings. A 30-metre banner has been unfurled from the iconic Clydeport crane on the River Clyde, and the headquarters of all 3 companies have been shut down in Glasgow and Manchester. These actions were taken in solidarity with communities resisting coal around the world.

Coal mining and burning damages the social, environmental and physical health of communities in Scotland and elsewhere. With plans to build a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston to burn imported coal, Peel Holdings and its subsidiaries are undermining coherent action on Scotland meeting our climate change obligations. Coal imported by Clydeport at Hunterston is also linked to human rights abuses of miners attempting to unionise in Columbia.

We are calling for an end for the industrial-scale burning of coal for profit, whether imported or domestic, and we call for workers and communities to create a socialised renewable energy system for a fair and sustainable future.

We have closed down these offices to open up a long-term strategic direct action campaign against all links in the industry chain locking us into a carbon-intensive future.

website:
coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2177

Uruguay

– Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day

518 years after the start of the European invasion, our Indigenous America resists.

For the defence of our “charrue” land!
We meet on Cagancha square at 17 hs.
We share: proclamation, music and singing, artistic expressions and reflections.
Artists: Oscar Massitta, Pocho Peralta, Iya Comuna y Basquadé.
Who calls: Adench and Basquadé Inchalá (Council of the Charrúa Nation) Montevideo, Plaza Cagancha, Uruguay

website:
http://www.servindi.org/actualidad/33624

France
– arret total!
A hundred of climate activists gathered this afternoon in front of the Total refinery of Normandy. The aim of the action, that had been planned since several months, was to shut it down. The activists found an unexpected help in the workers of the refinery. On strike against the pensions reform, they have blockaded the refinery and stopped production. The activists tried to enter the site to show their determination to see it permanently shut. They are accusing oil industry of contributing dangerously to climate change. The activists have tried to get to the site, past the police lines that have circled a 150 meters perimeter around the refinery, for several hours. Thirteen protesters on bikes have managed to do so and have joined the strikers at the entrance of the refinery and made a bike barrier.

At the same time, three activists had entered the Le Havre site of the Chevron plant, the second largest oil company in the U.S, planning to drop a banner.

In the morning, a demo had taken place in Le Havre and demonstrators had lead several protest activities throughout the city (such as replacing advertisements with messages against Total, a “gardening guerilla” or vegetable plantations in the city, the registering of a complaint against Total…)

One of the participants in the day of action, Emmanuel Verger, says: “We can’t solve the issue of climate change without finding a way to move beyond our oil-dependent society.

“Oil companies destroy local environments in extraction zones, they trample local and indigenous communities rights, and they are pushing us beyond the threshold of catastrophic climate change.

“ We are at the source of the problem, at the largest refinery in the country, that is also one of the country’s major greenhouse gas emitter. We are here to put the brakes on oil production and to say “enough”. We need to make this place and this industry become history.”

The protesters also express their support of the strikers of the oil refineries that are currently struggling to keep a fair pensions system: “Environmental justice won’t happen without social justice, adds Emmanuel. “Those who exploit workers, threaten their rights, and those who are destroying the planet, are the same people. We need to move towards a society and energy transition and to do it cooperatively with the workers of this sector.

“The workers that are currently blockading their plants have a crucial power into their hands ; every liter of oil that is left in the ground thanks to them helps saving human lives by preventing climate catastrophes such as the recent floods in Pakistan from happening.”

website:
www.campclimat.org/spip.php?article209

Canada
– Environmental Justice Toronto banner drop
Activists from Environmental Justice Toronto risked arrest by walking on to the Gardiner Expressway to hang a banner saying “Free Alex Hundert,” a community activist who has been in jail since being re-arrested after speaking at a public panel at Ryerson University in mid-September.

“Alex Hundert is a strong voice for indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. His work with AW@L in Guelph is an inspiration for all who are working to build a better world,” says Environmental Justice Toronto activist Brett Rhyno. “All charges against Alex should be dropped.These arrests, detentions, and false charges are part of a greater attempt to isolate effective and vocal community activists, and to criminalize dissent against the violent policies of the G20, policies that perpetuate environmental degradation, militarization, labour exploitation, and the theft of indigenous lands.”

October 12 is also the date of a global call for actions in support of Climate Justice, led by the Global Minga and Climate Justice Action networks. Globally, environmental and climate justice activists are marking this day in 1492 as the landing of Christopher Columbus on what is now known as the Americas, marking the beginning of centuries of colonialism. The extension of European greed into the Western Hemisphere globalized the exploitation of the Earth and its indigenous peoples in the endless pursuit for growth and profit. Today this translates to a neocolonial system of over-consumption, over-production, and over-extraction of the Earth’s finite natural resources.

“Only powerful climate justice movements can achieve the structural changes that are necessary to confront the climate crisis,” says Julien Lalonde, also from EJ Toronto. “All around the world today, climate justice activists are working collectively towards ending our addiction to fossil fuels, replacing industrial agriculture with local systems of food sovereignty and self-sufficiency, halting systems based on endless growth, and addressing the historical responsibility of the global elites’ massive ecological debt to the global exploited.”

website:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/environmental-justice-toronto-activists-drop-banner-gardiner-expressway-demanding-freedom-g20-

– Shell Station Bloackade, Climate Justice London Ontario and the Latin American-Canadian Solidarity Association (LACASA)
A Shell gas station in London Ontario Canada was closed down by activists from Climate Justice London Ontario and the Latin American-Canadian Solidarity Association:

“We rode and rallied in the streets, with a vision of liveable environments for everyone, everywhere. Through these actions, we followed up the Thanksgiving weekend by sharing our concerns about threats to native peoples across the world.”

The local rally was organized to join a day of action for indigenous rights, climate justice, and Latin American solidarity. At the protest Jonathan O’Glaisne (pronounced O Glaw-shnee) spoke about capitalist and imperialist interests invading and abusing County Mayo in Ireland. Jonathan also talked about how corporations like Shell are being met with wider opposition, as these companies try to exploit more and more people and environments, across the world. Shell to Sea, for example, has been challenging Shell in western Ireland, and a Shell station protest in Kitchener-Waterloo was another noteworthy case of resistance from southern Ontario. Other solidarity protests within the last month (Sept-Oct 2010) have taken place in Bristol and in South London, England.

Jonathan has family from the area of County Mayo that Shell has been targeting. His family had no choice but to leave Ireland due to the pressures of capitalism and imperialism in Ireland during the aftermath of the Anglo-Irish trade war between Ireland and Great Britain in the 1930s.”

website:
http://london.actforclimatejustice.org/events/october-12th-day-of-action/
http://withoutyourwalls.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/oct-12th-2010-global-day-of-action-for-climate-justice-protesters-close-down-a-shell-gas-station-london-canada/

– Climate Justice Montreal statement on indigenous struggles
Climate Justice Montreal backed the call to action and issued a statement of support, highlighting 10 indigenous struggles taking place in Canada:

“These ten Indigenous struggles, which could easily be twenty or thirty others, are challenging the status quo of fossil-fuel addiction and resource pillage in this country. Standing up to governments and corporations, struggling for their mountains, waters and climate, Indigenous communities deserve the support of everyone who cares about the health of our planet. As these communities battle to regain control over their lands, they struggle for us all.”

Lubicon Lake (Alberta): www.lubicon.org/
Grassy Narrows (Ontario): www.freegrassy.org
Pimicikamak (Manitoba): www.pimicikamak.com/
Wet’suwet’en (British Columbia): http://on.fb.me/bekx2K
Gwich’in (Northwest Territories): http://www.thebigwild.org/act/peel
Baker Lake (Nunavut)
Barriere Lake (Quebec): www.barrierelakesolidarity.org
Innu (Quebec/Labrador): http://teztanbiny.ca/
Bear River (Nova Scotia): http://www.defendersoftheland.org/bear_river
Defenders of the Land (National): www.defendersoftheland.org
website:
http://global.climate-justice-action.org/reports/view/28

Philipines
– Philipine Movement for Climate Justice
The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice held Rally/Picket at Malacanang, Mendiol

Website:
http://focusweb.org/philippines/content/view/395/52/

Finland
– October 12: Greenwash action in Helsinki, Finland
On 12th October 2010, the international day of climate action, a group of activists spent the afternoon doing a public greenwashing action in the city centre of Helsinki, Finland. The police arrested seven people on suspicion of vandalism.

The action consisted of “GreenWashStream” company representatives strolling the central commercial streets in Helsinki, offering passers-by free greenwash coupons which would allow people to cling to their over-consuming lifestyle with a clean conscience. On the backside of the coupon, one would find a critique against carbon trading, offsetting and other false solutions to climate change. While the dynamic marketing team was handing out coupons, a group of painters used waterbuckets and sponges to give a shiny “greenwashing” to the billboards and windows of companies with bad environmental and social reputations. Finally the police were called and the whole GreenWashStream crew was taken to the police station for questioning.

This action was aimed to remind people that while industrialised countries bear the primary responsibility for the climate crisis, carbon trading companies like GreenStream are diverting our attention away from real solutions to the climate crisis, such as rapidly reducing emissions in the industrialised North.

Further, polluting companies claim to reduce their carbon footprint by funding “sustainable” projects in developing countries. These projects are often related to energy production, such as modern coal power plants, wind farms or gigantic dam projects, which have a devastating impact on local communities. Only by stopping the vicious circle of unnecessary production, work and consumption can we curb climate change.

website:
www.hyokyaalto.org

Germany
– “Berlin fährt frei” (Berlin rides for free)
With the motto “Think global – Act local!” the Berlin based campaign “Berlin fährt frei” (Berlin rides for free) informed interested Berliners during its kickoff action on the global action day for climate justice. The “Berlin fährt frei” campaign puts its action in the context of the global action day for climate justice.

From 5 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon humorous small theatre performances and various information material enlivened the Berlin subway lines and stations and many passengers. The aim and focus of the action were to criticize the impact of private motorised transport on the one hand and the motivate a change to solidaristically, democratically organised free public transport that is not based on economic growth on the other.

The campaign found much resonance for its ideas: there was not only unanimous support that public transport in Berlin was too expensive and as first step we need to hinder next year’s planned price hikes, but one passenger doubted that the CO² goals of the Berlin Senate could be reached only with insulation and boiler replacements. A young father remarked that free public transport would reduce traffic in Berlin and make the streets safer for his children. There was a particularly good reception of the colourfully clad campaigners in the S-Bahn (the regional train, which last had a major crisis due to dwindling security standards), with one passenger asserting: “It can’t be that public services serve the profit interests of large concerns.”

Dieter Hartmann, active in “Berlin fährt frei” commented on the positive feedback from passengers during the action: “It is especially the link between environmental protection, social justice, democratic control of common goods and the perspective of a liveable city excites people about the campaign. Only by rethinking our way of life and economy are we able to fulfil our global responsibility on a local level. We’re quite happy about the start of the campaign and invite everybody to make Berlin a poster child for a truly environmental friendly free public transport.

website:
http://berlin-faehrt-frei.de/

Peru
Native organizations prepare for the march on the 12th. of October, Lima,

AIDESEP, 2nd of September 2010. The national front for sovereignty and for life – FRENVIDAS meets today in an amplified meeting to coordinate the national march for the 12th. of October and to discuss the steps toward the organization for indigenous protests; such as, forming into work commissions. Present at the meeting were social groups, students, women’s groups, workers and collectives.

This protest is a response to the fact that the current Peruvian government hasn’t the slightest intention to change their policy of attacking and discriminating against indigenous peoples; a president that severs dialogue and that only receives transnational corporations working in primary extractive and environmentally damaging industries into his presidential palace, but doesn’t even allow the indigenous protectors of life even to come close to him.

FRENVIDAS (The front in support of life) was founded on the 4th of June 2009, as an offshoot of the resistance of the Amazonian groups and a congregation of various social movements, workers, women, youth, students, village and city dwellers and various collectives.

It has a national executive commission made up from the following organizations:
AIDESEP, CCP, CNA, CONACAMI, SUCHOCOP, COICA, GIU and the DESC Alliance.

– Marcha de los Pueblos / March of the Peoples, Lima
The ratifying of an agreement of regional fronts South Macroregion took place in Tacna and then in Huancayo, around five thousand protesters marched in the capital of the country mainly to demand that the Peruvian gas is to supply the domestic consumption. And also against the electoral fraud against the candidacy of Susana Villaran / Confluence of the Left under the name of “March of the People”

PLATFORM OF STRUGGLE:

1.- In defence of Mother Earth.

2.- Constituent Assembly: Multinational and Intercultural Constitution.

3.- Right to sovereign consultation for the peoples.

4.- No to the privatization of natural resources and indigenous territories.

5.- No gas export, gas is for the Peruvians.

6.- Repeal of Supreme Decree No. 003-2006.PCM.

7.- No to the destruction of the National Sanctuary of Megantoni.

8.- For decent employment, salaries and wages.

9.- No to the criminalization of social protest and political persecution.

10.- No to privatization of land up to 40,000 hectares

11.- No expropriation of land in the rural communities of Olmos.

12.- Defence of the Andean peoples’ lands against mining concession.

13 .- No to hydroelectric dams at Inambari Paquitzapango, Salta Pucara, Langui Languna of Laius.

14.- No to electoral fraud by regional and municipal governments.

Organised and supported by the following:

CONACAMI, AIDESEP, CNA, CCP, FRENVIDAS, TAHUANTINSUYANOS, CGTP, CUT, UFREP, CONAFREP. FRENTE UNICO DE LOS PUEBLOS DEL PERU, FONAVISTAS, CORECAMIS DE AREQUIPA, TACNA, MOQUEGUA, PUNO, CUZCO, APURIMAC, JUNIN, PASCO, HUANCAVELICA, ICA, LIMA, ANCASH, PIURA Y LAMBAYEQUE, RONDAS CAMPESINAS- CUNARC Y CONARC, FRENTE DE DEFENSA DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES-LIMA, etc.

website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinadelascoronas/5121363818/
http://www.conacami.org/site/

Catalunya/Spain

– Global Minga for Mother Earth and her Peoples at Barcelona city

Who is the call from: Barcelona Transició
Tuesday, 12th october, 17h: March for an anticapitalist, antifascist and antiracist
12th of October. Catalunya Square (Telefónica)

“For common struggles, solidarity and tenderness between Peoples”

Tuesday, 12th of October, 17 hs.. March from Catalunya Square (Telefónica) to Rambla del Raval.

website:
http://repsolmata.ourproject.org/spip.php?article171
http://revoltaglobal.cat/article3149.html
http://barcelonaentransicio.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/minga-global/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145197678850368&ref=mf

USA
– People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day Through Climate Justice Education

Indigenous people’s movements around the globe have called for a day of action for climate justice on October 12, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “As we prepare for the next round of U.N. Climate Negotiations in Mexico next month, we are voicing our clear opposition to false market-based climate policies,” said Jihan Gearon, Energy Organizer for the U.S.-based Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). “Our actions and those of our allies this October 12 are part of the growing momentum in favour of real system change.”

In response to the October 12 call, many groups are engaging in educational workshops to stimulate long-term action for climate justice. The Los Angeles-based Bus Riders’ Union and Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Black Mesa Water Coalition on the Navajo Nation in Arizona will hold workshops on the Cochabamba Peoples’ Declaration on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth; the San Antonio, Texas-based Southwest Workers Union will host a community garden workday and ongoing education linking Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro to California’s Proposition 23. The objectives of these educational activities is to build grassroots capacity to address the climate crisis directly.

These local struggles and others around the globe are linked by a common commitment to global well-being, human rights and the rights of nature, and the growing awareness that efforts to mitigate the climate crisis must be rooted in equity, economic justice, and the dignity of all peoples.

The October 12 events occur following another day of climate action, the 10/10/10 Global Work Party. “However,” says Jihan Gearon, “the call to action for Indigenous Peoples’ Day is distinct. Native people are not ‘just getting to work’ to stop global warming. We’ve been caretaking the natural environment since the beginning of time. Only now that it’s almost too late, people outside our communities are beginning to get the message.”

“Our approach is not simply to address the symptoms of the problem,” adds Gearon, “but to attack the root causes.”

“We need decisive action, and not in the form of misleading policies like the U.N. REDD program (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), said Tom Goldtooth, Director of IEN. “While it pretends to protect forests, REDD and similar carbon-offset schemes allow continued destruction of our atmosphere and put our forestland and indigenous people’s homes, livelihoods, and cultures in continued peril.”

Indigenous Environmental Network is part of a growing coalition of community-based organizations across the U.S. who affirm that those who must lead the way to climate stability are those who’ve been most directly impacted, both by toxic industry and by historic appropriations of land and resources. Following the Cochabamba World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth convened by Bolivian President Evo Morales this past April, IEN and community-based groups worldwide are promoting the Cochabamba Declaration, the popular response to the widely ill-regarded Copenhagen Accord, as offering the most realistic approach to current ecological and social threats.

website:
http://climatevoices.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/people-across-the-u-s-celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-through-climate-justice-education/

Bolivia
– March in Defence of Mother Earth, El Alto

Convened by the National Council of Qullasuyo Ayllus and Markas, the march called for the adoption of a Law of Mother Earth in the national and international agenda and fundamentally affect the Multinational Legislative Assembly for approval of a law to protect and preserve Pachamama.

The mobilization went to the Plaza Murillo in the city of La Paz and included the participation of the National Federation of Peasant Women of Bolivia Indigenous Native – “Bartolina Sisa”-, the Intercultural Communities Confederation of trade unions of Bolivia (CSCIB), the farm workers single Confederation of trade unions of Bolivia (CSUTCB) and the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB), among others.

The concentration was on the Multifunctional Heriberto Ceja Gutierrez of the city of El Alto.

Website:
https://nacla.org/node/1460
http://www.cscbbol.org/
http://www.csutcb.org/
http://www.cidob.org/

Argentina
– Second Act in front of the consulate of Chile in Mendoza

Organized by the Coordinator of Native Identities and Field, was a demonstration because the 518 years of European invasion of Chilean lands and a petition with signatures demanding freedom of the Mapuche Political Prisoners on hunger strike in Chile was delivered.

website:
http://www.mapuche-nation.org/

– Information share Argentine Group: Movement for the defence of Mother Earth
Here in Buenos Aires four people from the Cochabamba.org.ar group manned/womanned a stand in the contrafestejo (Indigenous movements against Columbus Day) in the Avellaneda Park.

The group spoke to about 100 people giving them information about Climate Justice and the People’s Movement for Defence of Mother Earth.

website:
Cochabamba.org.ar

Ecuador

– Global march of people’s movements and peasant agricultural groups for people’s self-management and the construction of plurinational states

Callout from Via Campesina, for the first time different organizations such as rural farm workers, migrants, refugees, agricultural workers, the landless movements, and the displaced conducted a global movement together to reaffirm the identity of Abya Yala (Pre-Columbian term for the Americas).

Meet at Parque El Arbolito, in the city of Quito, Ecuador at nine AM.

website:
http://viacampesina.org/sp/

Farmers destroy DuPont transgenic rice

A transgenic rice variety, currently under trials at the Krishi
Vignan Kendra of the University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) in Doddaballapur taluk, near here, was destroyed by farmers on Wednesday.

A group of sickle-wielding farmers, owing allegiance to the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), barged into the 30-acre KVK premises at Hadonahalli, where the hybrid rice Seed Production Technology (SPT) developed by DuPont is undergoing ‘event selection trials’ on a one-acre area, and committed the
act.

About 30 activists entered the fenced one-acre area around 8.40 a.m., and destroyed the crop in about an hour’s time before the Doddaballapur Rural
police arrested them.

75 p.c. loss

An official at KVK estimated that the farmers destroyed about 75 per cent of the crop. Following the incident, the UAS has decided to destroy the remaining crop and cancel the field trial.

“The UAS has undertaken the trial clandestinely, and farmers in the neighbourhood have been kept in the dark.

“We will not allow field trials of transgenic crops developed by
multinational companies in our area,” KRRS leader and veterinarian C.S. Srinivas, told The Hindu. For, there is always a fear of contamination, he said.

The event selection trials have been approved by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee .

According to a Greenpeace activist, SPT technology is a proprietary technology of DuPont that allows increase of large quantities of genetically male sterile female inbred parent seed.

A top UAS official said that the project came to the university through Union Department of Biotechnology for a period of one year, and that the university was only a facilitator and regulator of bio-safety on field.

“It is unfortunate that the incident took place when the paddy was ready for harvesting over the next 7 to 10 days.”

Display boards put up at the field on information about the trials said that the paddy had been sown between July 20 and July 23, and transplanted on August 12.

The duration of the crop is 140 days.

The trial is being monitored by Head, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at UAS Shailaja Hittalmani, while N. Rajanna is the Programme Coordinator.

A few farmers owning land in close proximity to the research station also said that they had been asked not to grow paddy during this season.

“I normally grow paddy, but the university authorities asked me not to raise paddy crop this season. We were not told the reason,” N. Srinivas, who owns two acres adjoining the KVK, said and added that the authorities had informed about the possible crossing if he raised paddy during this season.

Meanwhile, vice-president fo the KRRS Venkata Reddy said that the genetically modified rice field trials had major violations and that the local panchayat was not informed. Though the Hadonahalli Gram Panchayat president H.A. Nagaraju acknowledged that information of the field trials had not been given to the panchayat, he, however, said KVK had benefited
farmers in the vicinity.

Sixteen farmers who were arrested on charges of trespassing and destruction of property were later released on bail.

Video at http://qik.com/video/19140535/i-say-no-to-gm-rice

Sinixt Nation Establishes a Protection Camp on Their Ancestral Land

The Sinixt Nation, declared extinct by the Canadian government more than 50 years ago, has set up a protection camp on their ancestral land, halting all commercial logging in the area known to the Sinixt Nation as “Slhu7kin”.

On October 26th 2010, the Sinixt Nation asserted their sovereignty by initiating the Sinixt Slhu7kin (Perry Ridge) Protection Camp on their ancestral lands. The Sinixt, by declaration, have established the “Sinixt Slhu7kin – Perry Ridge Wilderness Preserve to protect the rich bio-diversity on Perry Ridge and the collective domestic watershed interests of the Perry Ridge community.”

Sinixt Nation members, local residents, and supporters are gathered at the beginning of the Perry Ridge Forest Service road near the town of Slocan, BC. The camp has halted all commercial logging in the area.

After a complete refusal to consult with the Sinixt Nation, BC Timber Sales via BC Ministry of Forests and Range sold the logging rights to 4 controversial cut-blocks on Perry Ridge to Sunshine Logging LTD of Kaslo, BC. Sunshine Logging purchased the 2 year contract for approximately $330,000 after BC Timber Sales dropped the auction bidding price because no companies wanted to touch the highly contentious contract with a ten foot pole.

This isn’t the first time people have taken a stand to protect the area known as Slhu7kin to the Sinixt. In 1997 local residents, the Perry Ridge Water Users Association, and Sinixt members took both legal and direct action and successfully halted road building on the ridge. Over 300 people blocked the road demanding protection for the area.

Known as the Arrow Lakes Indian Band under the Indian Act, Canada officially declared the Sinixt extinct in 1956. This left Sinixt members living on the Colville Reservation (in the USA) or scattered among other nations in BC without recognition.

Many Sinixt returned to the Northern part of their territory to protect their ancestral burial sites in Vallican, BC in the late 1980’s when a BC Ministry of Transportation road development project desecrated their burial sites, removed bones and artifacts and placed them in museums. After a tremendous amount of effort from the Sinixt and supporters, remains of their ancestors were returned to them and were reburied at the site. The Sinixt to this day continue to live peacefully and re-occupy their land in Vallican making it the longest re-occupation in Canadian history.

Sinixt territory spans from the headwaters of the Columbia River north of Nakusp, to Kaslo in the West, Revelstoke in the East, and down into what is now known as Washington State. Over 80% of the territory lies on the “Canadian side” of the 49th parallel.

In BC alone, 15 dams were built on Sinixt Territory. In 1954, Kaiser Aluminum proposed a dam on Arrow Lake. The Keenleyside Dam flooded 140 Sinixt cultural sites. The Cominco smelter at Trail built a dam on the Kootenay River near the ancient Sinixt village of kp’itl’els. The zinc and lead smelter has since dumped over 13 million tonnes of toxic slag, including mercury, into the Columbia River.

“A visitor to the Columbia Basin will be unlikely to see any indication that there was ever a native culture that thrived for so long in this region. Most of the Sinixt traditional villages and burial grounds were flooded with the damming of the Arrow Lakes. We know of only one monument to the Sinixt. In the town of Edgewood, there is a totem pole that was erected in the late 1960’s. It was commissioned by B.C. Hydro as a commemorative to an extinct race.”

But the fact of the matter is that the Sinixt never had totem poles and they aren’t extinct.
What You Can Do

The Sinixt Nation and their supporters are encouraging people to help out any way they can.

Financial donations can be made payable to the Sinixt Nation Society. Mail well concealed cash, money orders and cheques to: The Sinixt Nation Society, RRI G-I6 C-2, Winlaw, BC VOG 2JO.

Contact the Sinixt Nation:

Marilyn James (Official Appointed Spokesperson)
Bob Campbell (Headman)
Phone: 250 226 6726
Fax: 886 685 7376

For more information and background, visit: http://sinixtnation.org, http://www.firstnations.eu/invasion/sinixt.htm, http://sinixt.kics.bc.ca, http://www.aaanativearts.com/colville-tribe/lake-indians.htm

More photos and updates can be found on the Sinixt Nation’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinixt-Nation/255421804460

Note sure how to say “Sinixt”? Want to know why the government says they don’t exist? Listen to the one-hour radio documentary: Keeping the Lakes Way: The Past and Future of the Sinixt

Kayford Mountain, USA – dozens march onto “reclaimed” site and plant trees

KAYFORD MTN., W.Va.–Forty-four people risked arrest yesterday on Kayford Mountain by trespassing on a Patriot Coal Company “reclamation” site to plant trees. “The coal companies sure as hell aren’t going to do anything about it – someone’s got to,” said Junior Walk, 20, of the Coal River Valley.

“The coal industry does not attempt to return the landscape to its previous biodiversity – leaving it up to the citizens to reclaim it themselves. Fixing the ruined landscape will provide long term jobs for those put out of work by the abolition of mountaintop removal” said John Johnson, a forester and environmentalist.

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People in the front of the march included Ken Hechler, Larry Gibson and two Colombian union coal miners, National President of Sintramienergetica Raul Sosa and Jose Brito of the SintraCarbon union. The Colombian Network Against Transnational Large-Scale Mining sent letter of support to Appalachian Rising. The two Colombians joined the march to the mine’s edge as part of a solidarity tour that included a meeting with the Matewan local UMWA and people working to save Blair Mountain. Free trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) hurt workers, communities and environments both here and in Colombia.

Leaders in their unions have been assassinated by paramilitaries, and the union says Alabama-based Drummond Co. is behind them. The tour is the result of work by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and possibly others.

Don’t miss the video from the day!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2010

Hundreds rally on Kayford Mountain; dozens march onto “reclaimed” site and plant trees

Contact:
Charles Suggs or Josh Graupera: 304.854.1937

NOTE: Information, Photographs, & Video will be updated on www.climategroundzero.org. Banners: Reclamation Fail; Over 500 Mountains Destroyed, Reclamation Jobs Now; EPA, We’re Doing Your Job

The standard reclamation practiced by mining companies is inadequate, which involves regrading high walls into gentle, highly-compacted slopes and seeding the rocky soil with grass. Some companies plant trees but rarely return to tend them–most trees don’t survive long. The extremely diverse mixed mesophytic forests of Central Appalachia, which rely upon the micro-climates created by the area’s folded land, cannot regrow on reclaimed surface mines. Native plants like ginseng require the steep north-facing slopes of Appalachia that retain moisture, and will never grow on the gentle slopes of a reclaimed strip mine.

The coal industry defends mountaintop removal by touting the flat land of reclaimed mine sites as prime for development. According to a recent report by the Natural Resoures Defense Council, however, “only about four percent of mountains in Kentucky and West Virginia, where the vast majority of this mining is occurring, had any post-mining economic activity.”

The day’s rally began in the Stanley Heir’s Park, a small island of green surrounded by 12,000 acres of mountaintop removal, much of which is in some state of reclamation.

“I am a 6th generation West Virginian from Mercer County and I’m a granddaughter and great granddaughter of coal miners. And they’d be mad about mountaintop removal,” Wendy Johnston said. “The battle of Blair Mountain lives on in my and my fathers’ spirit.”

The rally and action comes on the heels of the EPA’s recommendation to veto the Spruce No. 1 mine’s permit and Appalachia Rising, the largest national gathering of people in opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining to date. Appalachia Rising culminated with a march to the White House of over 2,000 people and 114 arrests for non-violent civil disobedience at the White House, PNC Bank, Department of Interior and Army Corps of Engineers.

Ken Hechler, a long-serving West Virginia statesman said at the rally, “I may be 96 but there’s a fire in my belly. I’m here to help save these beautiful mountains of West Virginia and put people back to work doing useful things.” Ken Hechler has been a vocal opponent of mountaintop removal since the early 1970’s.

Appalachia Rising: end mountaintop removal mining!

22.9.10

Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington, DC, September 25-27, 2010, calling for an end to the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining.

22.9.10

Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington, DC, September 25-27, 2010, calling for an end to the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining.

Mountaintop removal has already destroyed over 500 of the world’s oldest mountains and more than 2,000 miles of streams, and has contaminated our nation’s waters. Together, we will bring Appalachia’s cry to our nation’s capital: We must end mountaintop removal and transform the economies of Appalachia away from destructive mining practices and toward clean-energy jobs and a sustainable and healthy future.

The weekend includes two full days of strategizing workshops, learning, featured speaker panels and discussions, cultural events, and entertainment. On Monday, September 27, we will march, rally, and support individuals taking part in dignified non-violent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal mining.

Join thousands of Appalachian and national leaders, policymakers, coalfield residents and miners, concerned citizens, activists, mountain groups, environmental justice organizations, and Americans from coast to coast for this momentous movement-building summit, gathering, and call to action. Hear the voices of those most impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining, and let your voice be heard in this movement to offer America hope for a better future.