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Mountain Valley Pipeline Fighter Blocks Easement with Vehicle

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cross-posted from Appalachians Against the Pipeline

“Max blocked access to a Mountain Valley Pipeline easement and equipment yard lot for 5.5 hours today!! During that time, workers and pipe trucks were unable to access the site, effectively halting work in the area.
Around 11:30 A.M., after the cops cut through the blockade vehicle’s welded shut doors and rebar, Max was extracted from the blockade and arrested.
In reference to the message painted on the side of the blockade vehicle, “Who Killed The World?,” Max stated: “The truth is, the end of the world is not new. Indigenous people around the world have faced and continued to face settler colonialism and genocide and have survived. As I sit here in Virginia, Palestinian people are confronting that same colonial violence as bombs fall on apartment buildings and families are forced from their homes. […] The people of Palestine and Colombia are in my heart today. The Indigenous people of occupied Turtle Island are in my heart today. Their fierceness emboldens me to take this risk in the fight against MVP.
“Hope is not a mistake. Resistance is not a mistake. Imagining our survival is not a mistake.”
Montgomery County resident Crystal Mello, who was present at the public rally today in support of Max’s blockade, added: “There have been many ‘proper’ channels taken, and many protests against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. All have gone unheard. It’s come to the point where it takes measures like this to grab the media’s attention and get people to listen. Meanwhile, MVP still can’t work on Cove Hollow Rd, a site they had to irresponsibly abandon, and I’m currently looking at a hill they have to blast. These are the things that should have caught people’s attention long ago. I stand in support of the protest today.”
Actions like this cost MVP time and money (adding to their ballooning budget and delaying their estimated completion date — nearly $3 billion over budget and 3.5 years behind schedule and counting), making the pipeline less profitable and decreasing the chances that it will ever be finished. Thank you, Max!
Donate to support Max and resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline: bit.ly/SupportMVPResistance
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Join us to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline on June 5-8

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An Indigenous-led movement has resisted Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline through legal advocacy, organizing and direct action for over seven years. Hundreds of actions have happened on the ground in Minnesota and across the world to stop it. Indigenous leadership has put out a call for people in all parts of the country to converge on Minnesota and engage in direct resistance.

As oil giant Enbridge builds Line 3 through Anishinaabe treaty land and the Mississippi Headwaters, we’ve heeded that call to escalate resistance to the pipeline at the Treaty People Gathering. On June 5-8, we will gather in Northern Minnesota to put our bodies on the line to stop construction and tell the world that the days of tar sands pipelines are over.

Go here to find out more about the gathering and sign up to get more information

Line 3 would bring nearly a million barrels of toxic tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin– through sacred wild rice beds, and the headwaters of the Mississippi. Its impact on Indigenous sovereignty, communities, wild places and the climate is devastating.

Resistance to Line 3 pipeline has resulted in hundreds of actions across the country, and around the world. It’s time for the rest of us to step and resist.

Climate Justice Forum: Nevada Lithium Mine Resisters, Idaho Oil & Gas Lease Hearing, Oregon Rail Bridge Fire, Minnesota & B.C. Pipeline Protests 5-12-21

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cross-posted from Wild Idaho Rising Tide

The Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activist collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features Protect Thacker Pass organizers and indigenous residents discussing encamped resistance to a proposed, massive, Nevada, lithium mine.

We also share news and reflections about an Idaho hearing on forced oil and gas leasing terms, an Oregon railroad bridge fire, and trainings, blockades, and upcoming actions against tar sands pipeline expansions in Minnesota and British Columbia.

Broadcast for nine years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots opposition to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Pipeline Fighters Sentenced to Jail Time for Tree-sits

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cross-posted from Appalachians Against the Pipeline
This week a Montgomery County judge sentenced the Yellow Finch treesitters to spend as many days in jail as they spent in the trees blocking the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Here is a message from Acre in Western Virginia Regional Jail after they were sentenced:
“Hi everyone. You probably just saw my sentence in the paper. I want folks to know regardless of how I’ve been charged, I stand behind my actions. I’ll go day for day tree for jail any day of the week to stop the damn pipeline.
I want people watching who may consider taking action against injustice to not be dissuaded by the law, to know the court is only there to protect the interests of wealthy corporate elite. That by jailing people for protecting the land and water, they show us time and time again how the judicial system is a right hand in colonialism and how it wears the blood of innocent life left in its wake.
Refugees from climate change are on the rise, immigrants remain locked in cages separated from their families dying at our border. And the jails are packed with people preyed upon by both the state and prison industry, exploited for labor and cash and tax cuts. Prison is modern slavery and should be abolished.
To those reading this weighing the efficacy of their actions, planning for the next protest: never forget you are standing for what is right! They may have me in a concrete box, but the woods and nature is something I hold with me always. I can still feel the coming birdsong and blossoms of late spring like a steady pulse. I can feel the soil and running water in my blood.
To believe this world was given to us to do what we want to it, to build monuments to our own ego, is backwards and dangerous. We are only a small part of this place and our relationship with the land and air and water is critical. It’s a fatal error to alienate and place ourselves above all the crawling and swimming and flying and growing things. Earth comes first remember? Show the world what you believe in.
Land for its own autonomy. Dirt for dirt’s sake.”
Donate to support continued resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline:
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appalachiansagainstpipelines@protonmail.com

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