January 7, 2007 • Category Actions, Rising Tide • 1 Comment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2006
Earth First! and Rising Tide North America took to the high seas today to protest monoculture industrial timber plantations and genetically engineered trees. This action launches a Southern solidarity campaign to end deforestation and expose the social impacts in Chile, Brazil and the US South caused by timber plantations. The campaign demands a global ban on the new threat of genetically engineered trees.
photo: Langelle/Global Justice Ecology Project
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January 7, 2007 • Category Actions, Rising Tide, Critical Mass • No Comments
Bicyclists shut down Interstate to demand ‘Climate Justice’, 1 arrest made
Mass civil disobedience draws links between global warming and human rights on Katrina Anniversary
Asheville, NC (Friday August 25th, 2006) – Approximately 100 bicyclists took to the streets this afternoon to demand “climate justice” for communities such as New Orleans who are already suffering from the effects of a warming planet. The ride, organized in 30 different cities by Rising Tide North America (RTNA), was held to draw attention to the links between fossil fuels, climate change, and destructive hurricanes. The Asheville ride was organized by TRNA’s local affiliate, Katuah Earth First!, as well as other organizers.
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January 7, 2007 • Category Actions, Mountaintop Removal, Rising Tide • No Comments
In a Daring Challenge to the Power of the Coal Industry, Activists Blockade Power Plant
More pictures and information at Mountain Justice Media
July 10, 2006, Carbo, Virginia - Early this morning, activists with Earth First! and Rising Tide North America set up a non-violent blockade of American Electric Power’s (AEP) nearly 50 year old Clinch River coal fired electric facility. Emitting millions of pounds of pollutants yearly, the Clinch River coal plant threatens the health and lives of thousands of downwind residents and the surrounding environment. Burning coal is not only a primary factor behind global climate change, but also drives the expansion of large scale strip mining. Large scale surface mining destroys forests, streams and communities as it alters the Appalachian landscape forever.
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January 7, 2007 • Category Actions • No Comments
Katuah Earth First! has been doing direct action for over fifteen years now. Most press releases and images of those actions are buried in filing cabinets and old Earth First! Journals now, but here is some of what we still have available.
Earth First! Blockades Chip Mill
In 1999, Earth First! blockaded the Willamette (now Weyerhauser) chip mill down in Rutherford County, just east of Asheville. This action included a banner on a crane and 10 people got arrested, and the blockade lasted for six hours.
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