Posted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide Health Professionals Urge FERC to Deny a Controversial Plan to Expand a Fracked Gas Pipeline More than 500 physicians, nurses, and other public health officials signed onto a petition calling on FERC to deny TC Energy’s proposed fracked gas pipeline expansion Pipeline passes through rural,… Continue reading
cross-posted from Defend the Atlanta Forest FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 5, 2023 CONTACT: defendtheatlantaforest@protonmail.com MULTIPLE STATE AND LOCAL POLICE AGENCIES VIOLENTLY RAID WEELAUNEE FOREST MUSIC FESTIVAL, WEEK OF ACTION PERSEVERES ATLANTA, GA. Tonight multiple police agencies dressed in militarized gear and armed with lethal weapons raided a local family-friendly music festival in a public park within the Weelaunee forest. They used excessive force to arrest dozens of concert-goers and threatened to shoot people in the… Continue reading
Feb. 20, 2023 For immediate release: PRESS RELEASE Info: Email forestaction@riseup.net Follow lost_coast_forest_action on Instagram for updates. Venmo@forestdefense to support. HUNGER STRIKE AND BLOCKADE FOR THE REDWOODS IN HUMBOLDT Humboldt County, CA–On Sunday night, February 19th, forest defenders set up a sky-pod blockade, occupied by a protester commencing a hunger… Continue reading
Cross-posted from the Family and Friends of Jen Angel [Rising Tide North America note: Jen Angel was a long time independent journalist, radical media activist and former member of Rising Tide North America. We’re heartbroken by the news of her passing.] “Update from Family and Friends on the Death of… Continue reading
Frontline organizers in Atlanta are calling for urgent support to Stop Cop City. For years, forest defenders, abolitionists and the community of Atlanta defended the Weelaunee forest and prevented the construction of a massive police training compound. On January 18, the Atlanta Police Department murdered Tortuguita, a leader of the… Continue reading
The Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) is trying to build the largest police training facility in the US (also known as Cop City) in the Weelaunee Forest, an urban forest in southeast Atlanta, GA. The forest in Southeast Atlanta is home to wetlands that filter rainwater and prevent flooding and plays… Continue reading