How will an Obama Administration handle Native Rights issues in the face of fossil fuel expansion? That’s the question raised in a good article from by Joe Friesen in the Globe and Mail today. Several northern Indigenous leaders will soon visit the President Elect to ask for support in battling dirty oil development on their [...]

While many of us are spending the holidays with our friends and families, activists from United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice are on the ground in eastern Tennessee providing relief to the coal ash disaster. This is a monumental and unprecedented environmental catastrophe. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) disaster is now estimated at 5.3 million cubic [...]

Yesterday morning, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal fired power plant in Harriman Tennessee spilled approximately 500 million gallons of toxic coal ash into the Tennessee River and surrounding areas. Here’s the blog post from The Alliance for Appalachia’s website: TVA’s Coal Ash Sludge Pond Bursts This Tennessee TVA spill is over 40-48 times bigger [...]

Here is an important new story that just came out on BBC news about palm oil expansion in Colombia. Although Indonesia and Malaysia still produce the vast majority of the world’s palm oil, countries like Colombia and Brazil are the new frontier- more land to be clear cut and more communities to by displaced for [...]

On Dec. 19th University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher entered an auction that was selling off hundreds of thousands of acres for oil and gas development in the wilderness of southern Utah. Continually outbidding industry speculators, or when outbid driving the price up, DeChristopher effectively monkey-wrenched the auctioning off of once protected wilderness. [...]

Great video from www.thebigask.eu. See it here: And then, if you haven’t yet, sign up to get updates on the biggest climate action ever on March 2nd.

Here’s a pretty grim look at the racial violence that came in the aftermath of Katrina. White militias in Algiers Point, a white enclave in New Orleans, declared war on African-Americans. They viewed African-Americans venturing into their neighborhoods as “fair game” and many homicides resulted. Many of my friends and comrades in anarchist [...]

This video was made by Yong Ping Loo from Singapore from the last day of youth action at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Conference of Parties (COP14). We are everywhere.

Youth action frames the conversation at the UNFCCC in Poznan, Poland Young people from around the world made their voice heard today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate change in Poznan, Poland. After an inspiring speech from Al Gore, over 200 young people from India to the U.S. to the Congo held a spontaneous action [...]

Santa Clause was arrested while delivering stockings of coal and bundles of switches to the CEO’s of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Delivering coal is the least favorite part of Santa’s job but when TVA held a public meeting at their office in Chattanooga; Santa knew he had to deliver years of backlog coal first hand. [...]