From It’s Going Down Early Tuesday morning, September 18th, a group of indigenous water protectors from the Ginew Collective, raised a tipi and blocked a bridge at the headwaters of the Mississippi, halting work at a road expansion site for the recently permitted line 3 pipeline. While the tipi blockade
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URGENT: Hurricane Florence Phone Zap
As Hurricane Florence barrels towards the East Coast 170,000 people behind bars lie directly in it’s path with no ability to evacuate in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. We need your help putting pressure on each state to ensure the horrors that happened at FCI Beaumont during Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Florence
This is an urgent message Hurricane Florence is projected to hit the coast along North and South Carolina late this week (likely Thursday night). This will be the first major hurricane to hit the US this year and there is now little doubt that this will be a major, prolonged
A Week of Anti-Fascist Actions
Anonymous submission to Conflict MN The first week of September, Antifa 161 & MASS Appeal answered an international call for a week of anti-fascist actions in the form of banner drops, distributing agit-prop, and other forms of demonstrating solidarity with communites fighting fascism worldwide. Autonomous actions were taken by various
Training Tour Begins This Week!
The “Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” Training Tour is back on the road this fall Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Trainers will be visiting about 20 locations in the West. See our events calendar here. More details coming very soon! It kicks off at the Uplift Youth Climate Conference September 14-16,
Bring Climate Justice to Prison Abolition
This week, a global climate justice convergence in San Francisco will coincide with the national prison strike. Alongside the Prison Ecology Project and Fight Toxic Prisons, Nation Inside’s #StopTheHeat Campaign has been drawing connections between these movements, and now it’s time to turn it up a notch. Take action here
6 Protesters Arrested After Anti-fish Farm Demonstration in Victoria
Protesters boarded the Orca Chief vessel at Point Hope on Wednesday CBC News, September 5, 2018 Six protesters were arrested after a demonstration against fish farms at a shipyard in Victoria early Wednesday. The group boarded the dry-docked Orca Chief vessel in the Point Hope shipyard around 7:30 a.m. PT.
Unmarked Graves of Children from Residential School Found Beneath Manitoba, CAN RV Park
CTV News, August 31, 2018 Campers have for years parked their RVs at the Turtle Crossing campground along the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, without knowing that it’s situated on the site of unmarked graves of more than 50 Indigenous children who died at the Brandon Residential School. But Anne Lindsay,
Federal Court of Appeal Quashes TransMountain Pipeline Construction Approvals
Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project sit on rail cars at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. On Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed Ottawa’s approvals to build the expansion project. (Dennis Owen/Reuters) Some Indigenous groups and environmentalists
5 Arrested as Burnaby Pipeline Protest Camp Dismantled
An excavator on site dismantles a structure at Camp Cloud in Burnaby, B.C. (Rafferty Baker/CBC) Deadline for camp structures and shelters to be removed was Sunday Roshini Nair, CBC News ,August 16, 2018 Five protesters were arrested Thursday morning as city officials and police moved in to dismantle Camp Cloud, the pipeline
Brock University to Strip Ex-Prof of Title After Racist Tweets
On a lonely train to nowhere: retired Brock University professor Garth Stevenson. Tweets on account of retired professor Garth Stevenson attacked Indigenous people by Grant LaFleche, Aug 8, 2018, The St. Catharines Standard Brock University is distancing itself from a retired political science professor whose social media accounts shared racist
Cost to Twin Trans Mountain Pipeline Now $1.9B Higher, Kinder Morgan Says
Steel pipe to be used in the pipeline construction of the Trans Mountain expansion project at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. (Dennis Owen/Reuters) Pipeline to West Coast now projected to be done by December 2021 The Canadian Press, August 7, 2018 Kinder Morgan Canada documents say expanding the Trans
Judge Bans Salmon Farm Opponents — Except Independent Biologist — From Getting Too Close
By Ainslie Cruickshank, Star Metro Vancouver, August 2, 2018 VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted Atlantic-salmon farming company Marine Harvest an interim injunction to prevent both specific protesters and members of the public from getting too close to more than 30 of its sites. The only exception
Blockade Halts Work at Iron Ore Mine on Labrador-Quebec Border
CBC News, August 1, 2018 Workers at Tata Steel Minerals’ Schefferville mine, near the Labrador-Quebec border, have been sent home after a blockade was set up by members of a local First Nations community. The blockade, set up Thursday night by the Innu community of Matimekush-Lac-John, is on the access
The Ethical Concerns Regarding Mystery Shopping & Corporate Industrial Psychology
We now live in an era where technological advancements and unbridled capitalism have created algorithms and other tracking techniques to not only monitor our interests and our purchases, but to also manipulate us into purchasing items on the fringe with strategically placed advertisements, offers, or other suggestive psychological-based sales