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Climate Justice Alert: Hambacher Forest blockade threatened with eviction!

The stumbling German energy giant RWE is preparing to deliver its final blow against the climate justice movement, thus kicking off the final battle around German lignite: just after a massive killer of a heat wave, and right when the government-appointed “coal commission” is debating an end to lignite mining in Germany, RWE is threatening to evict the occupation of the Hambacher Forest in order to cut down what remains of this majestic old growth forest. They’ve even announced the dates: it will happen between the 22nd of August and the 22nd of September.

And evicting the occupation is the same as cutting down the trees of Hambacher Forest! So before the coal commission even reaches a decision on the future of lignite mining, our enemy RWE wants to create facts on the ground by destroying one of the major hot spots of the climate justice movement. But RWE is making a mistake, they’re underestimating the strength and sheer numbers of the climate justice movement: we can and will create a hell of a shit storm in and beyond the Hambacher Forest! RWE doesn’t have a clue how many people in Germany and from all over Europe will fight to protect the Forest and the climate. We say: Ya Basta! No more coal: not a single tree, house or village for your madness!

This is the situation: while RWE is preparing the eviction — mapping the forest, calculating where the next path should be cleared, and targeting the comrades who have been defending the forest and every single tree for the last 6 years with ever more repression – we are preparing a determined defence of one of the most important locations not just for the climate justice movement, but for social movements in Europe as a whole! From the climate camp in the Rhineland, and as Ende Gelände, we are calling to all environmental and climate justice activists, climate NGOs, frontline communities, trade unionists, faith-based groups antifascists and anarchists, those fighting against useless mega-projects and defenders of mother earth, we are calling on everyone fighting the everyday insanity of capitalism to come and help us protect the Hambacher Forest, to fight for climate justice.

The campaign Aktion Unterholz, whose ‘action consensus’ closely resembles that you know from Ende Gelände, will be on site the day after the eviction begins, supporting all actions resisting the clearing – and we all need to support Unterholz. Don* expect the all around package and come prepared (Unterholz is already madly busy). Get organized, come to the forest, stand with us!

Website: https://aktion-unterholz.org/ Email: aktion_unterholz(at)riseup.net Twitter: use the Hashtags #HambiBleibt #AktionUnterholz #EndCoal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Aktion-Unterholz-187750488576047/ Should you not be online next week, but rather in Groningen with the comrades from Code Rood, not to worry: on Thursday, 30.8., a meeting to discuss the defence of the Forest will take place at 2:30 pm in the EG goes Europe-tent. We cannot yet tell you how Ende Gelände will respond to this new situation, but will send an update on that out next week. Donations to Kupo e.V. IBAN: DE44300501101004781488 BIC: DUSSDEDDXXX reference: AU Lots can be done, but most importantly: get organized, and come to the forest. You can also raise money by throwing solidarity parties or collecting donations, share stories and news of the struggle on social media (Facebook and twitter), organize action training’s or info events, donate…. Make use of your networks and contacts to journalists or organizations that could support us. If you live somewhere RWE has an office, do by all means stop by there and send us some pictures. Spread this message as widely as you can. Not an inch for coal. Ya Basta: they shall not pass!

Originally published by Indymedia NL.

UK: Coal Nee More! Mass Action Camp Against Opencast Coal [05-09 Sept] 

Join us for a camp to unite front line communities in the North East of England fighting the impacts of opencast coal extraction with people from far and wide to take mass direct action to shut down the new opencast coal mine in Pont Valley, County Durham. WE DON’T WANT YOUR COAL – KEEP IT IN THE GROUND!

5th – 9th September 2018 /// Pontop Hall Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9ED, UK.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/594480087603278/

The beautiful northeast countryside is under threat from devastating opencast exploitation, fuelling the power stations which are bringing us to climate emergency. With ecocide on our doorsteps and governments and corporations continuing business as usual, the need for direct action has never been more urgent. It’s up to us!

On Saturday 8th we will take mass direct action against Banks together to stop opencast mining. Let’s unite our power, together we are invincible! It will require people to take on various roles – from cooking food to taking action or documenting the day – so put it in your diary and rally your friends.

This camp will link struggles against opencast coal and fossil fuels in the UK and beyond – to bring solidarity between our movements. We will share workshops and stories; swap skills and ideas and learn how to resist the corporations that are destroying our planet. From mass catering to climbing trees, from lock-on building to wild food foraging and everything IN between; come, learn and apply new skills, meet new people including local residents and share your experiences with others.

Inclusivity and diversity are our weapons – so come whoever you are and whatever your experience. There is plenty of space to pitch a tent or inside accommodation is available, just let us know: [email protected], please also get in touch with any other accessibility needs.

Food available on a pay-as-you-feel donation.

PROTECT PONT VALLEY The local community have been fighting applications for opencast in Pont Valley for 50 years. Durham council refused planning permission three times. Ignoring local democracy, the government overruled this decision and Banks Mining Group have since begun their opencast coal mine. Banks have broken planning conditions and are committing wildlife crimes against protected species on the site. Although much of the ecological destruction has already happened, we need to hold them to account, show resistance to their destructive practices to prevent further opencast mining in the valley.

NO TO DRURIDGE BAY We will demand the rejection of the appeal for another of Banks Mining Group’s opencast sites nearby at the iconic Druridge Bay in Northumberland. Banks’ application had been rejected in 2018 on grounds of climate change by the then Secretary of State for Communities. Banks Group’s challenge to this rejection will be heard in the High Court on the 17th October. We can’t allow another opencast to happen – we must take action against Banks and show solidarity with communities near the potential opencast.

NO OPENCAST MINING Opencast mines involve big machines (and very few workers) stripping the soil of a large area to attain coal. This tears up the landscape, literally turning it upside-down, and driving away wildlife. Opencast mining exposes local communities to high levels of dust, tremors from dynamite explosions and noise/light pollution.

Coal is the most carbon intensive of all fossil fuels. It releases vast amounts of carbon dioxide when burned pushing us further into climate catastrophe. Coal is becoming increasingly insignificant in the UK energy mix and the UK government have committed to phasing out coal by 2025 – so why are we opening new opencast coal mines?

More about the history of the campaign can be found here – https://www.coalaction.org.uk/

Looking forward to seeing you in September. Love and rage xxxx

GREECE: POSTER AGAINST THE TAP! (Trans Adriatic Pipeline)

No to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, being built in Greece, Albania and Italy, to transport natural gas from the Caspian sea to Europe.

In 2003 the first plans were made. In 2015 the first works started in Albania, now the pipeline is being built as well in Greece as in Italy. Its starting point is near the Greek village Kipoi at the Turkish border (where it is connected to the already existing Trans Anatolian Pipeline). From there it would cross a big part of northern Greece, run through Albania, go into the Adriatic sea, to finally reach Salento, Italy. Along the pipeline in Greece 22 block valve stations would be built (points of possible interruption and/or maintenance), and 2 stations (near Kipoi and Serres) where the pressure is augmented to improve transportation.

In Italy a struggle is taking place against this new project of power which consists of an offensive combination of pamphlets, newspapers and posters, acts of sabotage, deomnstrations and attacks against the structures of the pipeline itself as well as the companies benefiting from its construction and exploitation.

Also in the Greek region of Kavala, local people have managed on different occasions to physically block the continuation of the works. The State and the energy industry would like us to believe that if they spend an unimaginable amount of money, destroy land and militarize entire zones to build new gigantic infrastructures, it is in order that we can live our daily lives.

But besides the money flow it will guarantee to the States and companies involved in the TAP, we should ask ourselves, what is all this energy really for? It is not our basic needs that demand the amounts of energy being produced today. It is the industries of goods that keep this capitalist world going, it is the war industry, it is the constant flux of information and ‘human capital’, it is… It is fuel for the society which keeps on producing wealth for some, poverty and misery for many.

Every plan realized without any real resistance is a lesson in pacification. It carries a social message, which wants to show that our environment does not exist, it will always be their environment. And so they transform a field into a prison, a forest into a gas compression station, a mountain into a gold mine, and so on and so on.

Until one rises up and throws, even by a simple act, sand in the machine. The tentacles of the TAP reach far. There is the pipeline in construction itself, with its digging works, the construction of its block valve and compression stations, spread over hundreds of kilometres.

In Greece alone there are companies like Makedoniki Etm Ee, Siemens and Gaia SA in Thesaloniki, and Ellaktor, J&P Avax SA, Corinth Pipeworks SA, Terna SA, Siemens, Kantor, Geomatics Sa, C&M Engineering, Speed SA in Athens that are directly participating in the construction works. There are the project offices in Thessaloniki, Athens, Komotini and Kozani. And of course there are the politicians, their offices, holiday houses, golf courts, favourite restaurants… And then there is every piece of infrastructure of the money, communication and product flow of the capitalist system which the TAP wants to become a part of.

The veins of domination spread to many places. With subversive creativity we can trace and interrupt them…

For more info on the struggle against the TAP: https://actforfree.nostate.net/?s=against+tap

Greece: Eco-social Camping in Mesochora – 20-22 July

Our comrades from Antiauthoritarian Movement are co-organizing together with the initiative Mesochora-Acheloos SOS from the 20-22 July a political camping in Mesochora. Since years local citizens together with activist from other cities in Greece are resisting against an infrastructure project, the diversion of the river Achelooos.

Feel free to mobilize and participate in the camping which will include meetings with the locals, discussions about eco-social struggles and actions. For more information please contact [email protected].

The diversion of the waters of the Acheloos River is the largest water planning project in Greece. Acheloos, also known as Aspropotamos, whose tributaries are located in the Pindus mountain range, is the second longest river in the country, and on it, three large hydroelectric dams with major impacts on the ecosystem have already been constructed, since the 1960s.

The diversion of Acheloos’ waters to the neighboring district of Thessaly was designed on the principle of unlimited and unchecked capitalist “growth”, and it has been a bi-partisan project: The political system of the country, the current government and the former governments, the state electricity company (ΔΕΗ) and other energy companies, all view the Acheloos River and the surrounding forests, the mountains, as well as the sea and all natural resources, as their own private property that they can sell and buy to increase their profits and power.

Although this diversion project was cancelled six times in courts, although it was refused funding by European funds and despite the strong reaction of the local society and the ecological organizations, the current government, against its pre-election promises, continues the project, partly through the segmentation method. On August 2017, the country’s ministry of environment signed a permit to operate the giant 150-meter-high dam, built on the upper reaches of the river, next to the Mesochora village that faces the danger of extinction if the dam operates. This authorization was granted on the pretext of the production of hydroelectric power, despite the fact that the dam’s estimated contribution to the country’s energy reserves would be miniscule, and that large hydroelectric dams worldwide are not considered as Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This permit is an appetizer for those who support the diversion of the river towards Thessaly, since only a few kilometers below, at Sykia, another hydroelectric dam, which is part of the diversion project, has been built but has not been put into operation yet.

For at least 30 years, the residents of Mesochora resist the destruction of their village and environment, and from 2007 to 2010, a dynamic ecological movement emerged all over Greece, against the plunder of the remaining water of Acheloos, proposing the social ecological management of water as an inalienable natural common good. Three campsites were organized on the banks of the river, near Mesochora and respective demonstrations have been held on the crest of the dam. From 2017 the Mesochora residents and citizens from all over Greece created the Mesochora-Acheloos SOS Initiative to strongly express their opposition to the operation of the Mesochora dam and the diversion of the river. In this context, given the ecological impacts of the operation of major dams, and the desolation evident on the river banks and stream, we demand the definitive cancellation of the project and the demolition of the dam.

The issue of water and energy management is a profoundly social issue – it cannot be left to the arbitrary plans of governments that treat their citizens as simply voters, neither to the appetites of energy companies which are only interested in increasing their profits. In order to protest for the definitive cancellation of the plan and the salvation of Mesochora, the Mesohora-Acheloos SOS Initiative invites everyone to a three-day free camp on the river banks, in Mesochora from 20 to 22 July 2018, which will include open assemblies, discussions, screenings, and cultural events.

From the June 5th & July 5th, the sixth "Month for the Earth Against Capital" will take place.

We call on activists around the world to organize all kinds of actions in defense of the earth and against capital.

It is clear that global capitalism and the impact of the devastation of the planet affect us all. Therefore, it is important that this topic finds resonance across the planet.

More information and reports on the campaign:

porlatierraycontraelcapital.wordpress.com

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Coast Salish Territories: Indigenous Land Defenders Denounce Criminalization at Burnaby Mountain

As resistance to a Kinder Morgan pipeline continues in so-called British Columbia, indigenous land defender SunTree Johnson Larue has been arrested and is in need of solidarity. The following press release discusses the current situation. For ongoing updates, follow Camp Cloud.

For the past six days, Secwepemc land defender SUNTREE JOHNSON LARUE has been in police custody after an undercover police ambush at Burnaby Mountain. The RCMP targeted Suntree with a coordinated and forceful attack as he was walking near the gates of the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby.

Suntree recently traveled to Burnaby to stand with Coast Salish peoples to defend their collective Indigenous rights and title. Over half the length of the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline threatens to cross through SunTree’s own unceded Secwepemc territory in the interior.

“We as Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of fighting for our homelands and lifeways in the face of corporate-colonial threats like the Kinder Morgan pipeline. But whenever we exercise our inherent rights, we are subject to criminalization and human rights violations,” says KANAHUS MANUEL of the Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society and Tiny House Warriors. “Canada is abusing its power by using police and courts to try to silence us. We cannot accept the systematic and illegal criminalization of Indigenous land defenders for exercising our internationally-protected Indigenous Rights and Title.”

According to GRAND CHIEF STEWART PHILIP, “With our voice, in the courts, or the streets, on the water, or the land, whatever it takes, we will stop Kinder Morgan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval of this reckless Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline project denies inherent Indigenous Title and Rights and violates the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On Saturday April 7 at 11 am I will be leading a march and getting arrested at the gates of Kinder Morgan. As an Indigenous person, I am affirming my personal and collective right and commitment to the land and the water.”

CRYSTAL SMITH, a young Indigenous teacher, recounts her violent arrest at Burnaby Mountain:“The day after my graduation ceremony, I went up to Burnaby Mountain with my mother and two children. Several people including myself stood in front a truck. The police approached us but several people asserted their Indigenous rights and we sang the Women’s Warrior Song. I left the front of the truck and was standing on the side when two police officers approached me. I asserted my inherent rights as a Tsimshian and Haisla woman. Within seconds I heard my mother, who was being physically harmed by the police, and my son who had just left my arms. I struggled as I watched my kids who were scared and I tried to get to them, but the police forced me into a stretcher. What was clear to me that day was how the police were so much more violent in their treatment of Indigenous bodies.”

“This is not the first time Canada has violated our inherent Indigenous laws and jurisdiction and criminalized us for upholding our responsibilities. We survived through Potlatch Laws for over twenty years when our people faced jail for practicing our potlaches. Now we are being arrested for defending our inherent and constitutionally-protected rights to land, water, and culture.”

All along the Kinder Morgan pipeline route from the interior to the coast, Indigenous nations do not consent to the Kinder Morgan pipeline project. Coast Salish spiritual leaders recently raised a traditional Watch House near the Kinder Morgan pipeline route.

South East Trans and/or Women’s Action Camp

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Local community organizers from so-called Western North Carolina will be hosting a rural and urban direct action camp in the Smoky Mountain region April 26th-29th open to all trans and/or woman identified folks. This camp will serve as a safer-space for people of diverse gender identities who are systematically overshadowed by our cis-normative and androcentric radical movements in addition to the larger male-dominated society. SETWAC will happen during a time in our region where the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline running through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, could potentially be under construction. Grassroots efforts have been aiming to halt the pipeline through varying methods and SETWAC hopes to hold a conversation about what resiliency through this struggle looks like.

SETWAC will focus on southern and Appalachian community building, healing through togetherness, and combating the patriarchy. We hope to incorporate and bring together a wide range of individuals from folks in rural appalachia to southern cities. The relationship between environmental movements and transformative racial and transgender justice is crucial and something that we hope to create discussion around. Being in the spring season, there will be an abundance of wild edibles and medicinals surrounding the camp area. This four-day camp will offer workshops on a wide range of topics such as earth skills, conflict resolution, botany, tree climbing, direct action, anti-racist organizing, indigenous caucus, black leadership training, prisoner support, security culture, herbalism and much, much more!

For security purposes, we will not announce the location of the event until some weeks before. To get registered: https://goo.gl/forms/zo2jquNqqwkq3G4l2. But we can say, that west of Asheville North Carolina is some beautiful mountains

More information will be announced in the coming months, stay tuned! If you have any questions feel free to contact us at: [email protected]

Earth First! Winter Rendezvous in Southern Mississippi

Greetings and a Happy Gregorian New Year to All!

An autonomous group of Earth First!ers has been busy all winter long searching for a small corner of swamplandia, deep down in the dirty gulf south, that might be willing to host the finest gathering of scumbags to ever assemble… since like seven months ago. And to our own surprise, we did manage to find the perfect place: rural and accessible, beautiful and wild, amphibian and terrestrial, noisome and moist.

From the wetland bayous of the Gulf Coast, we are excited to invite Earth First!ers and like minded accomplices from all corners of Turtle Island to join us for the 2018 Winter Rendezvous and Organizer’s Conference: February 23-28th. This year’s gathering will be taking place in occupied Choctaw territory, roughly 70 miles east of New Orleans. The event will begin with the Winter Rendezvous on Friday the 23th, which will last through the weekend. The rendezvous portion of the event is open to anyone who shares affinity with the Earth First! movement and/or its guiding principles of biocentrism, deep ecology, and direct action (of course this means law enforcement and other similarly positioned/opinionated assholes are not welcome). The weekend will be filled with workshops and panel discussions featuring local organizers and community leaders from across the Gulf South, as well as skill shares and trainings on topics like mutual aid disaster relief, fighting toxic prisons, practicing good consent, climbing on rope, and many more.

On Monday, February 26th, we will begin to transition into the   Organizer’s Conference (OC) portion of the event. This half of the gathering is intended for folks who are involved in movement organizing work and want to spend several days meeting and discussing the finer points of improving on that work. We are still in the process of setting the agenda for the OC and welcome suggestions/requests to [email protected]. The OC is designed for a much narrower audience than the Winter Rendezvous, meaning we expect there will be many folks who will only attend the Rendezvous portion over the weekend and then head home sometime on Monday the 26th.

We will be camping about a dozen miles upstream from the Gulf Coast itself, but tragically this nearby coastline was colonized and adulterated long, long ago. The land was stolen by white supremacists (aka capitalists) and used as a slave-operated cotton plantation, then in the early 20th century the plantation was converted to a luxury hotel with an accompanying golf course, which was then replaced in 1979 by a 2,280 acre highly toxic titanium dioxide plant, operated by the chemical giant Du Pont. This intertwined history of structured domination illustrates why we refer to the Gulf South region as the Belly of the Beast.

Here’s another fun fact: over 80% of all US oil pipelines terminate along the Gulf Coast between Houston and New Orleans. This region is home to more oil, gas and chemical refining infrastructure than anywhere else on planet Earth, yet even here the industrial capitalists remain unsatisfied. We are inundated with new infrastructure proposals every year, including projects like the recently permitted Bayou Bridge pipeline, the tail end of ETP’s Dakota Access Pipeline system. In sum, the Belly of the Beast is where we must fight to prevent the Gulf South from devolving into the world’s largest toxic sacrifice zone.

So, if you love singing in the sun as much as you hate crying in polar vortexes (at least that’s what we assume y’all must be doing up there), then please join us in the Gulf South this February! Belly of the Beast Earth First! wants you to put on those action socks and grab a flotation device. The swamps are calling.

See ya there!

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 Some improved ‘it’s okay’ poster designs to spread around the neighborhood.

‘Do not let nature be destroyed by profit!’

Call to Action: Support Water Protectors at Camp Makwa  

Warriors at Camp Makwa Frontline Camp need your help obtaining these things to continue fighting to protect our water and land on Anishinaabe territory.

Things we’re in need of:

1. 4X4 Truck with towing capacity of F250 2. 40 Chords of Firewood 3. Carpenters and Teams of Skilled Builders 4. Those Experienced in Non-Violent Direct Action

If you’re interested in sending money or supplies, our amazon wishlist, supply list and youcaring donation pages are ALL currently up to date and on our fb group’s pinned post.

Please SHARE this with your networks so we can get camp winterized and focus on taking down Enbridge’s Line 3 black snake.

Miigwech family!

via: Makwa Initiative - Line 3 Frontline Resistance

Remi Fraisse was a 21 year old environmental activist murdered by French military police using a flash grenade at a protest against the Silvens Dam project on the 26th of October 2014.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/polish-police-car-on-fire-480262211801

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