#forestdefenders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forestdefenders, aggregated by home.social.
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New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
Youtube
Invidious
Solidarity with the @[email protected] forest squat that was evicted yesterday!! 🌳🖤
I wish all those captured by the state a good recovery, and much power to future protests!! I'm very glad you're all already free!
Devastatingly, all the activists were evicted over the day, and the tree houses cut down. But the trees still stand, the time to fight for the survival of this forest is not yet over!
For more infos and updates on future protest against the cutting of Langener Bannwald, follow https://www.instagram.com/bannybleibt1312/ on instagram, or the Telegram channel under https://t.me/bannybleibt !
Banny lives! Alle Wälder Bleiben!
A quick spacey (and dirty) synthfolkpunk rendition of the German forest squatting rewrite of the Spanish revolutionary song, A Las Barricadas. #folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab -
New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
Youtube
Invidious
Solidarity with the @[email protected] forest squat that was evicted yesterday!! 🌳🖤
I wish all those captured by the state a good recovery, and much power to future protests!! I'm very glad you're all already free!
Devastatingly, all the activists were evicted over the day, and the tree houses cut down. But the trees still stand, the time to fight for the survival of this forest is not yet over!
For more infos and updates on future protest against the cutting of Langener Bannwald, follow Banny Bleibt on Instagram, or the Telegram channel , or keep an eye on the blog
Banny lives! Alle Wälder Bleiben!
A quick spacey (and dirty) synthfolkpunk rendition of the German forest squatting rewrite of the Spanish revolutionary song, A Las Barricadas.
#folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab #folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab -
New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
Youtube
Invidious
Solidarity with the @[email protected] forest squat that was evicted yesterday!! 🌳🖤
I wish all those captured by the state a good recovery, and much power to future protests!! I'm very glad you're all already free!
Devastatingly, all the activists were evicted over the day, and the tree houses cut down. But the trees still stand, the time to fight for the survival of this forest is not yet over!
For more infos and updates on future protest against the cutting of Langener Bannwald, follow Banny Bleibt on Instagram, or the Telegram channel , or keep an eye on the blog
Banny lives! Alle Wälder Bleiben!
A quick spacey (and dirty) synthfolkpunk rendition of the German forest squatting rewrite of the Spanish revolutionary song, A Las Barricadas.
#folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab #folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab -
New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
Youtube
Invidious
Solidarity with the @[email protected] forest squat that was evicted yesterday!! 🌳🖤
I wish all those captured by the state a good recovery, and much power to future protests!! I'm very glad you're all already free!
Devastatingly, all the activists were evicted over the day, and the tree houses cut down. But the trees still stand, the time to fight for the survival of this forest is not yet over!
For more infos and updates on future protest against the cutting of Langener Bannwald, follow https://www.instagram.com/bannybleibt1312/ on instagram, or the Telegram channel under https://t.me/bannybleibt !
Banny lives! Alle Wälder Bleiben!
A quick spacey (and dirty) synthfolkpunk rendition of the German forest squatting rewrite of the Spanish revolutionary song, A Las Barricadas. #folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab -
New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
Youtube
Invidious
Solidarity with the @[email protected] forest squat that was evicted yesterday!! 🌳🖤
I wish all those captured by the state a good recovery, and much power to future protests!! I'm very glad you're all already free!
Devastatingly, all the activists were evicted over the day, and the tree houses cut down. But the trees still stand, the time to fight for the survival of this forest is not yet over!
For more infos and updates on future protest against the cutting of Langener Bannwald, follow https://www.instagram.com/bannybleibt1312/ on instagram, or the Telegram channel under https://t.me/bannybleibt !
Banny lives! Alle Wälder Bleiben!
A quick spacey (and dirty) synthfolkpunk rendition of the German forest squatting rewrite of the Spanish revolutionary song, A Las Barricadas. #folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewälderbleiben #bannybleibt #bannylebt #forestdefenders #ukulelemusic #alasbarricadas #acab -
Link to #Fundraiser...
Max and Will #LegalDefenseFund
Help us fight off a major government fine for the #ProtestCamp at #ThackerPasshttps://givebutter.com/max-and-will-legal-defense-fund
#MutualAid #ForestDefenders
#ThackerPass #ProtectBiodiversity
#ProtectThackerPass #BLM #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #USPol #DefendNature #DefendMotherEarth #LithiumMining #ProtectTheSacred -
My nature & ancient trees loving heart breaks, every time I see more clearcut deforestation. With the rapid acceleration of climate change, our foolish, greedy, short-sighted government continues to accept dirty deals with ecocidal corporations - going against public interests. They greenwash & whitewash while still allowing mass clearcuts to happen in disappearing ancient forests on the island.
Please - don't stop fighting to #ProtectOldGrowth #forests 🌲❤️🌲 #AncientTrees need #ForestDefenders in times of increased, rampant #CorporateGreed & sellout #ecocide enabling governments ✊️
#BCNewDeathParty #BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #Nature #ProtectNature #WildFirst #BCForestryReform #deforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #photography #BanCorporateLobbyists #DavidEby #BCNDP #EbyTheEnabler #ProtectForests #BCTourism #VancouverIsland #Cowichan #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BCgovernment #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #StopDeforestation #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #Canada #WorldInMyEyes #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #Activism #ActivistPhotography #Environmentalist #EcoJustice #FightForNature #NatureGuardians #StopTheSaws #CrimesAgainstHumanity #morose #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismVanvouverIsland #EcoCrimes #monochrome #BWphotography #BWphoto #ThickTrunkTuesday
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They keep killing the ancients.
Men who kill elder trees, are men who kill their children's futures.
Souls must be disconnected from nature & their spirits desperate for money, for them to be OK destroying #OldGrowth forests, for a temporary paycheque.
There are more ethical ways to earn a living.
Stop believing industrial & government #greenwashing lies.
#ClearcutLogging kills #ecosystems & throws #ecological balance out of whack.Government tells us to not fret, that they're managing #forestry better - they're #greedy, #sellout #LIARS. You can go see for yourself, how many clearcuts are still happening on big scales, at several places across Vancouver Island & some parts of BC interior where greedy corporations are decimating the last inland #TemperateRainforest in the world. Our #neoliberal BC NDP government is OK with ongoing mass ecocide - they get money from industry lobbyists 🤑🤮😡
Don't stop, fighting to #ProtectOldGrowth #forests 🌲❤️🌲 #AncientTrees need #ForestDefenders in times of increased, rampant #CorporateGreed & sellout #ecocide enabling governments ✊️
#BCNewDeathParty #BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #Nature #ProtectNature #WildFirst #BCForestryReform #deforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #photography #BanCorporateLobbyists #DavidEby #BCNDP #EbyTheEnabler #ProtectForests #BCTourism #VancouverIsland #Cowichan #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BCgovernment #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #StopDeforestation #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #Canada #WorldInMyEyes #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #Activism #ActivistPhotography #Environmentalist #EcoJustice #FightForNature #NatureGuardians #StopTheSaws #CrimesAgainstHumanity #morose #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismVanvouverIsland #EcoCrimes #monochrome #BWphotography #BWphoto
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#BigOil’s Plan To #Criminalize #Pipeline #Protests
By ExposedByCMD Editors
| June 18th, 2024
at 12:21 PM (CDT)"#AnneWhiteHat found herself facing up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested for two counts of felony trespassing in September 2018 under one such law, which had just taken effect in Louisiana following pressure from oil and gas lobbyists.
She was one of four Native women who founded a resistance camp called L’eau Est La Vie, which was organizing nonviolent direct actions in protest of the #BayouBridgePipeline — a now-operating 163-mile pipeline owned by #EnergyTransfer that transports crude oil throughout the state. The protests ranged from a rendition of 'Crawfish the Musical' on the construction site to protesters locking themselves to pipeline equipment to tree sits in the centuries-old cypresses the company planned to tear down.
"The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the tail end of the #DakotaAccess route — White Hat had already joined her relatives to participate in the resistance camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. 'I felt like it was a righteous cause, not to let them comfortably continue to threaten the waters of Indigenous #FirstNations,' she said. 'I was inspired from the work up North and just couldn’t let them continue down here unanswered and unchecked.'
White Hat had just finished leading a prayer ceremony when she was arrested at a boat ramp miles from the pipeline construction site. She was hauled into a sheriff deputy’s car with two other women and driven through tall sugar cane fields on the way to jail.
'It was terrifying,' said White Hat. 'We’re way out in the middle of nowhere. I was like, ‘Is this the point where I actually disappear?’
Investigative journalist Karen Savage was arrested that day, too — her second arrest under felony trespass charges as she reported on the Bayou Bridge protests. She was one of the only reporters to travel to the Atchafalaya Basin swamp, where the pipeline was being constructed.
By the time the water protectors got to the swamp, Savage said, they 'had done everything — they went to public meetings, they had petitions, they wrote letters, they tried to meet with the governor — they did everything they tell you in school, to participate and use your civil obligation in your community.' Despite their best efforts in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states in the country, said Savage, 'nobody was listening.'"
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/
#BigOilAndGas #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
#DirectAction #CorporateFascism #CriminalizingDissent
#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists #NoDAPL -
#Lawsuits Have Become the Weapon of Choice Against #Activists
Legal intimidation suits known as “#SLAPPs” are becoming the norm for private #corporations and #governments trying to silence those who speak out on matters of public interest.
by Katie Redford
July 17, 2023“On May 31, #Atlanta #SWAT teams with riot gear and battering rams broke down #MarlonKautz’s door. Police dragged Kautz and two colleagues to jail in their pajamas, charging them with #MoneyLaundering and charity fraud.
“Kautz, Adele MacLean, and Savannah Patterson, are volunteer board members of the #NetworkForStrongCommunities Inc., which was incorporated in 2020. Through it, they are able to raise funds for the #AtlantaSolidarityFund (#ASF). Since 2016, the fund has bailed out people arrested in #Georgia while exercising their First Amendment right to protest and helped them find legal help.
“Recently, the ASF has supported Atlanta activists who have been protesting a new $90 million police training center known as '#CopCity,' arguing that it will rob Atlanta of a #VitalGreenLung and increase inequality in surrounding neighborhoods. The state of Georgia, on the other hand, has charged dozens with 'domestic terrorism' for participating in largely peaceful protests.
“Georgia authorities claim that the money laundering charge is based on evidence of a fund transfer to another organization, but they haven’t shared any other details about their allegations. Magistrate Judge Altman, who presided over the bail hearing, described the state’s evidence as 'unimpressive,' reinforcing the defendants’ claims that the arrests are politically, not legally, motivated.
“Shortly after the arrest, Governor Brian Kemp announced that the state would go after everyone involved, and Attorney General Chris Carr tweeted that the funders of the bail and legal defense fund were next. As an executive director at a climate philanthropy who made charitable donations to the ASF for legal defense, I had to wonder: Was my door going to be battered down next?
“Some of the accused may have trespassed or destroyed property, but to charge protesters with 'domestic terrorism' and a legal defense fund with money laundering is a cynical political act that bears no relation to the misdemeanors alleged. Any American committed to democracy should be interested in making sure these charges lose in both the court of law and the court of public opinion.
“These charges seek to silence and stop opposition to an unpopular development project. They also telegraph a message to others in the state and nationwide: We will not tolerate lawful protest in Georgia. This strategy is known as strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP), which is an intimidation lawsuit, typically used by private corporations against those who speak out on matters of public interest. Various state governments are increasingly deploying this tactic, too.
“SLAPPs don’t usually win in court, but that’s not what they’re intended to do. Instead, they set out to threaten activists and drain the financial resources of social movements. They often unfold as years-long wars of attrition, where corporations and governments with disproportionately large resources grind down the financial, emotional, and legal capacities of activists. The threat of such a suit—typically brought against individuals or groups that confront powerful people or institutions—discourages free speech and association, chilling democracy itself.
“As a lawyer on the front lines of climate justice activism, I witnessed firsthand how a SLAPP was used to weaponize the law against free speech and association. During the mass protests by Indigenous water protectors and environmentalists campaigning against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, SLAPPs were used widely.
“As #StandingRock became a global cause célèbre, the pipeline’s owners brought a $900 million #racketeering case against individuals and #NGOs like #BankTrack and #Greenpeace, alleging a vast global conspiracy to damage the company’s reputation and bottom line through fraud and #defamation.
“A federal court ultimately dismissed the lawsuit. But despite its eventual failure in court, the SLAPP tactic served its intended purpose: intimidation. #KrystalTwoBulls, one of the Standing Rock organizers that my organization represented, said that being sued tangled her up, practically and emotionally, in a legal battle that diverted her attention, taking her away from her work on the climate crisis and #Indigenous #LandRights.
“She began to #censor herself; she withdrew from her community and the movement, fearing that conspiracy allegations might extend to anyone she touched. And that, of course, is the point of these suits: to send out the message to either shut up or suffer the consequences.
“The case against #Kautz in #Atlanta similarly seeks to spark fear in activists and donors against supporting #FirstAmendment rights and legal defense. There is reason to believe that prosecutors may also be preparing #RICO charges against anti–Cop City activists, another dangerous use of the legal system to quell #grassroots movements.
“Since Standing Rock, over 20 states have passed '#CriticalInfrastructure' laws, which dramatically increase civil and criminal penalties related to protests at or near #FossilFuel projects. #DomesticTerrorism laws like that in Georgia have a similar intention: to weaponize the legal system against critics and stifle #DissentingVoices.
“I have no doubt that the majority of the domestic terrorism charges around Cop City will fail. But in the process, a political point will have been made, at the expense of the constitutional right to free speech. People protesting to protect the #environment and #climate will have been publicly accused of being harmful to America’s security, and they will have been forced to defend themselves—likely at exorbitant cost—against a 30-year jail sentence. Other potential activists will surely remember these charges when they consider whether it’s worth it to attend a concert, sit-in, or protest.
"The best strategy for stopping SLAPP suits in their tracks, whether they emanate from the private sector or are used by the state, is to keep speaking out, to support defamed activists, and to make the litigants pay a price. About 30 states have introduced legislation that protects against SLAPPs. And last year, #Jami Raskin introduced the #SLAPPProtectionAct of 2022 to #Congress. It must be reintroduced.
“My organization, #EquationCampaign, created a fund to provide lawyers and legal support for people who face this kind of legal retaliation for their environmental and climate work. I’m astonished at the wide range of people who need our help: from #farmers and ranchers to #journalists and #IndigenousActivists. All of them are on the receiving end of David vs. Goliath legal tactics that have long served powerful interests with near-endless resources.
“Absent federal protections, we all must be vigilant in the face of the egregious proliferation of #antiprotest laws and lawsuits.
“#Democracy and the future of this #planet require people to speak up. The law should serve—not silence—those of us who do."
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/slapp-legal-intimidation-activists/
#ForestDefenders #DefendTheForest #StopCopCity #DirectAction #Fascism #RICO #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #NoDAPL #DakotaAccess #StandingWithStandingRock
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I took a selfie in my "Protector of the Woods" guise. Thinking of all the young (and old, and middle-aged) #ForestDefenders and #ClimateJustice warriiors out there! #NeverGiveUp!
#DefendTheForest #Nature #DefendNature #EnvironmentalJustice
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#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023
"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.
"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'
"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."
Background: Back to Fairy Creek
"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.
"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.
"Until now.
"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."
Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy