Stop Off-Road Vehicles from Tearing Up the Wild in Eastern Oregon

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project Action Alert

Stein’s Pillar, in the middle of the Ochoco National Forest. Image source: Hiking blog

A corporate-supported lobby is pushing for extensive ORV (or OHV, Off-Highway Vehicle) trail systems on the public lands of Ochoco National Forest. The Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (BMBP) is mobilizing a flood of public comments to the Forest Service on the OHV project, which are due in a week. All the info you’ll need to make an informed comment is available below, from the incredible research of BMBP. 

Send email comments post-marked no later than April 15th on the “Ochoco Summit Trail System Project” Draft Environmental Impact Statement to the Ochoco Summit Planning Team, c/o Ranger Slater Turner, via: comments-pacificnorthwest-ochoco@fs.fed.us

Image from the Ochoco Trail Riders

You can also fax or mail comments to the Ochoco Summit Planning Team:
Ochoco National Forest
c/o Ranger Slater Turner
3160 NE 3rd St.
(541)416-6695
Prineville, OR 97754

Learn more about the BMBP, which was founded by Earth First!ers over 20 years ago, in a recent article from the Beltane 2012 edition of the Earth First! Journal, written by BMBP director Karen Coulter. The group is a leading model of grassroots biodiversity activism and the successful strategy of “paper-wreching” the industry-driven permitting process. Read on to see a glimpse of how its done…   

Climate Resistance in Bloom

From Rising Tide North America’s March Update:

UPCOMING ACTIONS AND ACTION CAMPS

• March 16th – 23rd – Tar Sands Blockade Week of Action
• March 18th – 22nd – Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance – Ponca City, Oklahoma
• March 24th – 30th – EF! Climber Guild Climb Camp – Finger Lakes region of NY

Read more from Rising Tide here.

Stop Tar Sands Profiteers Week of Action Kicks Off

[Check out EF! Newswire’s featured article on “Deutsche Bags, the Keylime XL Pipeline and a Week of Eco-Action to Remember“]

Grassroots organizations across the US and Canada are taking action from March 16th to March 23rd to demonstrate that TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a toxic investment.

Over 30 actions and events are planned this week to directly confront the corporate profiteers bankrolling the Keystone XL pipeline and the broader tar sands industry. These actions come at a critical time as investor confidence in Alberta’s tar sands is waning due to major delays and resistance to Keystone XL’s construction timeline.

Red Lake Chippewa Blockade Enbridge Tar Sands Pipelines

Cross-posted from Tar Sands Blockade

For over two weeks now, Nizhawendaamin Inaakiminaan (We Love Our Land) has been occupying land directly above four pipelines across an easement that Enbridge has claimed since 1949 when the company, then called Lakehead Pipe Line Company, installed the first of four pipelines across land owned by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa despite not having an easement from the Red Lake Chippewa Nation. These pipes carry toxic tar sands, Bakken oil, as well as Canadian crude. By threatening the local lakes, these pipes endanger the lives and economic livelihood of Red Lake Band members.

The grassroots group of Red Lake Chippewa and Anishinaabe Indians is joined by blockaders and solidarity activists determined to shut down the pipelines, hold Enbridge to account for stealing land, and protest Enbridge’s proposed expansion of the nearby Alberta Clipper toxic tar sands pipeline.

Day of Action Against Chevron and the Pacific Trail Pipeline

Call for solidarity actions March 30 2013

“No consent? No fracking pipelines, no climate crimes!”

American oil giant Chevron wants to build a destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate catastrophe cliff edge. Chevron is the new corporate face of the Pacific Trail Pipeline project, having recently become 50/50 partners with Apache to build a fracking gas pipeline across 500 kilometres of largely unceded land, from Summit Lake to LNG plants planned for Kitimat.

On March 30th we will greet them with resistance across BC and around the world. As politicians put economic growth and industry interests ahead of carbon common sense and indigenous rights, it is up to us take direct action to raise the cost of pushing ahead with the project, and raise the stakes in the PR battle.

We encourage autonomous creative direct action against Chevron and any others involved in the development and financing of Pacific Trail Pipeline. Occupy offices, drop banners, demonstrate in city centers, lock-down at the pumps, subvert the Chevron brand, hand out leaflets… the choice is yours! Everywhere they operate, Chevron exploits land and people for money, often through the use of force, and without taking responsibility for the consequences. Battles against environmental racism and illegal oil wars, movements for indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice – we amplify our resistance by uniting our struggles, so we are calling for solidarity actions and events against Chevron across Canada and around the world.

The Pacific Trail pipeline can still be stopped.

Four Directions Call to Action in Support of Traditional Lakota Grandmothers

Genocidal warfare is still being waged against the traditional and full-blood Lakota people, and to end it, we need your attention and support right now!

STAND BEHIND THE LAKOTA GRANDMOTHERS!

The Lakota Solidarity Project with the Lakota Cante Tenza Okolakiciye (Strong Heart Warriors) are issuing an International Call To Action for both Native and non-native Warriors, Activists, Artists, Culture-Jammers, Organizers, Community Builders, Freedom Fighters, #Idle-No-More Supporters, Occupy Groups, Indignados, Organizations, Coalitions, Networks, Spiritual Communities, Elders and Youth to join us at this critical moment to help end the genocide of the traditional and grassroots Lakota Oyate (people) and support the renewal of traditional matriarchal – Grandmother led- leadership.

Right now, Lakota Grandmothers, Elders, Warriors, and Oyate who are the remaining traditional language speakers, culture holders, and freedom fighters, are being deliberately inflicted with conditions of life intended to bring about their destruction.

CLICK HERE for more EF! Newswire coverage of the Lakota struggle

Mountain Justice Spring Break Action Camp!

Are you excited about today’s Anti-Frack action in Ohio?  Do you want to keep fighting the fracking craze that is sweeping our beautiful lands?

Then high tail it to Virgina this March for Mountain Justice Spring Break!

March 2-10 2013 in Virginia 

March 10-17 2013 in Northern

West Virgina

Learn about and take action against the destructive effects of the dirty life-cycles of coal and natural gas!

Stand in solidarity with the communities in Virginia, West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania facing the ongoing destruction of coal mining and hydraulic fracturing!

See mountaintop removal coal mining and hydraulic fracturing natural gas extraction up close!

Take direct action against the dirty coal industry!

Tasmanian Activists Challenge Mining in The Tarkine

Cross-posted from http://www.nativeforest.net/ and The Advocate

Groundswell Activists and the occupied banner drop. Nicely done.

Two female activists from environmental direct action group Groundswell have taken peaceful action to highlight the detrimental impacts that mining in the Tarkine will have on healthy devil populations living in the region.

Tar Sands Blockade: Oklahoma! Training Camp

A coalition of Great Plains residents against the Tar Sands is excited to announce a training camp in March, this time in Oklahoma. Long a stronghold of the oil empire, we must ignite a fire of resistance in the belly of the beast. See you there!

Please, begin to make your travel arrangements today for the Ponca City, Oklahoma area and we’ll be contacting you with more details soon. 

Mobilize to Stop GE Trees!

Organize to Stop the Tree Biotechnology 2013 Conference from Deciding the Future of the World’s Forests this Spring in Asheville, NC, Marriot Renaissance Hotel

“The world doesn’t just need more trees. We need trees that can do more.”
–ArborGen, “The Next Monsanto,” GE tree research and development company

Call to action from Global Justice Ecology Project:

“From May 26-June 1, industry leaders, scientists and policy makers will meet in Asheville, NC for the Tree Biotechnology 2013 Conference. The conference will discuss current and future applications of GE trees, including large-scale plantations of GE eucalyptus trees for pulp and biofuels in the southern United States, from South Carolina to Texas.  We will be there to take action.  Will you?”