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[shellnodotorg]

On Friday, June 3rd, a crude oil train traveled through the scenic Columbia River Gorge, a national treasure and one of the most beautiful spots in a cou...

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Hundreds Rally Outside NEB Pipeline Hearings

Hundreds Rally Outside NEB Pipeline Hearings

Hundreds Rally Outside NEB Pipeline Hearings in Burnaby, as Citizens & First Nations Call on Trudeau to Scrap Kinder Morgan Review

Press Release from the Wilderness Committee

BURNABY, BC – Local residents, First Nations representatives and environmental groups gathered today outside the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project to call on the Prime…

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[theecoreport]

TimberWest Sped Up Logging In The Great Bear Rainforest

TimberWest Sped Up Logging In The Great Bear Rainforest

Logging Company targets endangered BC rainforest ecosystems

Press release from BC Sierra Club

VANCOUVER, B.C. ─  New information compiled by Greenpeace, ForestEthics Solutions and Sierra Club B.C reveals that logging company TimberWest sped up logging in the Great Bear Rainforest and targeted globally endangered rainforest ecosystems before stricter logging regulations come into effect. The…

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[beattheraid]

Statement

Repression is part and parcel in democracy. In a democracy the rulers require complete control over the people. Revolts are countered with political repression in the form of arrests, armed raids and physical and emotional harassment by the police. Movements are watered downed by mainstream environmental groups such as Forest Ethics and Greenpeace. These groups wish to reform colonialism instead of eliminating it. These groups, much like Enbridge and BP, rely upon capitalism and cooperation with the state to exist. These mainstream environmental organizations frack the rebellion out of people in the form of referendums, voting and waving signs. Meanwhile, they  use our radical words only to dilute, co-opt and contribute to polluted deals undermining real grassroots movements and then ensure us that democracy is still drinkable.  In the past and in our future they will continue to isolate and turn their backs on people risking their lives and freedom to save whats left of this planet.

I was recently a target of this very police repression. I woke up to yelling at my front door. Once I was somewhat up and alert, I looked out my window only to see a plain clothed cop pointing a gun at me. From my room I listened to them tell my room mates one by one to exit the house. The detective, Bert Rainey, shaking pointing a loaded gun at my comrades. Once I made my way to the living room I had the second gun pointed at me. I was arrested on 8 counts of mischief under $5000 for alleged graffiti. Yet to be charged.

On June 12, 2014 Detective Rainey returned to take a DNA blood sample from me. These cops took my blood, but the rebellion in my veins was never given up and still flows relentlessly.

In November we obtained affidavits widening the investigations to attacks on banks, 61 graffiti tags, vandalism of community policing centres, and arson to a bank and a housing complex. Totaling over $500,000 in damages. Another affidavit alleged the “no pipelines” tagger to also be the prolific “Anoy” tagger.

On November 6, 2014 there was a hearing for the further detention of the items seized. The judge extended detention for 7 more months. Ironically, the lawyer representing the VPD last name is Toy, which is a slang term for a new graffiti tagger.

Most of the evidence of these crimes are under a sealing order. As of right now it seams the only thing I am guilty of is being an anarchist and political organizer in occupied Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).

I always knew that one day I would be arrested or raided. I am an anarchist. I actively engage in the struggle for freedom, equality and anarchy. I am virulently, as stated by Detective Rainey, against the police.  I believe in and fight for a world where mutual aid, autonomy and community is celebrated and promoted instead of ongoing genocide, exploitation and destruction of indigenous lands in the name of capital.

It was the states intention to isolate and intimidate me, my comrades and others engaged in the anti-pipelines fight. They have failed and will continue to do so. I have not ended my organizing. The solidarity I have felt though my comrades, strangers and friends has been heart warming and brings new embers of  love and rage into my heart.  It was the states intention to intimidate me out of the struggle. I have only grown closer. Our life is the struggle. I will not back down. We will not back down.

[jaydokie]

Groups sue over oil shipments in older rail cars

Groups sue over oil shipments in older rail cars

SEATTLE (AP) — Environmental groups sued the U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday over the shipment of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars.

Accident investigators have complained for decades that the cars are too easily punctured or ruptured when derailed, leading to spills.

The lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics says the agency failed to respond to a legal…

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[jaydokie]

Groups seek ban of oil in older railroad tank cars

Groups seek ban of oil in older railroad tank cars

SEATTLE — Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive oil train wrecks and the department’s own findings that those accidents pose an “imminent hazard.”

The petition filed Tuesday by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics seeks an emergency order within 30 days to…

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[houseofodd]

Go, go, go! Get the word out to stupid Dole and do a little fb bombing tumblr!