direct action

Urgent 911 to EPA, OSM: Fearless Tree-Sit in Coal Blasting Area Calls Out WV DEP Scandal and Failed Regulations

In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners from their 80-foot-high platforms. Within 300 feet of the Massey Energy's Edwight mountaintop removal blasting site, above Pettry Bottom and Peachtree in Raleigh County, West Virginia, the protesters called on the federal agencies to crack down on the scandal-ridden West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) and the stop the unsafe and reckless blasting in the area.

Posted in coal, direct action, mountaintop removal, protest

Nonviolent Direct Action, Solidarity and Struggle

A year ago, 44 ordinary people from 17 different countries sailed to Gaza in two small wooden boats. We did what our governments would not do -- we broke through the Israeli siege. During the last year the Free Gaza Movement has organized seven more voyages, successfully arriving to Gaza on five separate occasions.

Posted in Activism, direct action, Israel/Palestine

The Writing on the Wall

Palestinian youth activists Yousef Nijim and Faris Arouri, in collaboration with the Dutch NGO “Send a Message Foundation,” are engaged in a nonviolent campaign to combat the oppressive infrastructure of Israeli occupation. Setting their sites on the separation barrier which destructively meanders through Palestinian life and land, they assert their international solidarity and national identity through graffiti art.

Posted in civil disobedience, culture, direct action, Israel/Palestine

Global Trend for Sit-Ins and Occupations as Mass Redundancies Continue

Trade union leaders warned tonight that the direct action seen at the Vestas factory was likely to be repeated elsewhere as workers refused to "bend their knee and accept their fate" in the face of mass redundancies caused by recession.

The sit-in at the Isle of Wight wind turbine plant was the latest in Britain, they said, and was part of a wider trend of militant tactics being used as far afield as the US, South Korea and China.

Posted in direct action, financial crisis, labor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 9, 2009
10:15 AM

CONTACT: Health GAP

Christine Campbell, 202.409.9786 campbell@housingworks.org
Asia Russell, 267.475.2645 asia@healthgap.org

AIDS Activists Take Over Capitol Rotunda to Demand Action on AIDS From Obama and Congress

AIDS Activists Risk Arrest in Capitol Building Demanding Promised Funding & Policy Changes

With a new HIV infection every 9 ½ minutes in the US, why are we bailing out the bankers and leaving people with HIV without?

WASHINGTON - July 9 - Dozens of AIDS activists from across the Northeast U.S. risked arrest today, staging a loud demonstration inside the Capitol Rotunda on the eve of key Congressional votes on appropriations for life-saving programs and one day before President Obama’s first trip to Africa since his election.

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Posted in AIDS, direct action, healthcare

14 Arrested in Latest Massey Protest

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Fourteen people were arrested Thursday after an anti-mountaintop removal protest that shut down the dragline shovel at a Massey Energy operation in Boone County for several hours, police said.

Four activists scaled the boom of the huge, crane-like mining machine to unfurl a large banner that said, "Stop Mountaintop Removal." Other protesters spread a similar banner out on the ground.

Posted in coal, direct action, Energy, Environment, mountaintop removal, protest

Daring Dragline Protest Launches 7 Days That Will Shake Mountaintop Removal Operations

Four daring protestors accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama administration involved in the recent mountaintop removal mining policy decisions has ever bothered to do: These four American patriots made an actual visit to a mountaintop removal site.

They also went beyond the call of duty.

Posted in coal, direct action, mountain top removal, nonviolence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2009
7:16 PM

CONTACT: Peace Action

Jonathan Williams, Coordinator, Student Peace Action Network (SPAN), (443) 474-8919 cell, SPAN@peace-action.org
Pat Elder, Peace Action Montgomery County, 202-210-3467
Paul Kawika Martin, Political Director, 951.217.7285 cell, pmartin@peace-action.org

Seven Arrested at Philadelphia Mall Over Military Recruiting Practices

300 Veterans, military families, religious leaders and voters rallied, marched and closed the "Army Experience Center" to decry the Army pilot program that entices teens with violent video games

PHILADELPHIA - May 2 - Several hundred demonstrators from a coalition of 30 national and regional veteran, youth and peace groups, including the Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, Student Peace Action Network, protested what they claimed were unethical military recruitment of teenagers at Franklin Mills Mall in northeast Philadelphia.

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Founded in 1957, Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze), the United States' largest peace and disarmament organization, with over 100,000 paid members and nearly 100 chapters in 34 states, works to abolish nuclear weapons, promote government spending priorities that support human needs, encourage real security through international cooperation and human rights, and support nonmilitary solutions to the conflicts with Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. http://www.Peace-Action.org

Peace Action Education Fund's, Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) works with students on over 100 campuses nationwide. http://www.StudentPeaceAction.org

PeaceAction Montgomery, Coalition for Peace Action, Peace Action of Staten Island and BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action are all affiliates of Peace Action and helped organize the protest.

Posted in direct action, military recruiting, protest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2009
8:01 AM

CONTACT: Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
CNA: Chuck Idelson 415-559-8991
CSEA: Carolyn Constantino 408-821-9545

Hundreds of Healthcare Activists to Rally in Los Angeles Outside White House Forum on Healthcare, TODAY

Rally @ 8:30, Program @ 9:00

Healthcare Grassroots Wants a Place at the Table for Single-Payer/Universal Healthcare Reforms

LOS ANGELES - April 6 - WHAT: Hundreds of nurses, physicians, school employees, clergy, seniors, patients, and healthcare activists will rally TODAY outside the Los Angeles White House Forum on Healthcare Reform to strongly urge a real debate over single-payer/universal healthcare and any proposed bailouts of private health insurance corporations.

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Posted in Activism, direct action, healthcare singlepayer

Resist or Become Serfs

America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite's rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us.

Posted in Activism, bailout, direct action, financial crisis, protest