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Aza @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 10:01 UTC

New video: Forest Squat A Las Barricadas
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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

#folkpunk #folk #synthpunk #music #queermusic #allewalderbleiben

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2023-11-24 · 16:12 UTC

The #Tonawanda #Seneca Nation’s Fight to Protect the #BigWoods and stop STAMP

By Margaret Wooster (WNY Environmental Alliance) with Sarah Howard (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation + Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation) June 16, 2023

"One of Western #NewYork’s greatest treasures is a 20,000-acre #wetland-#grassland complex located mainly in the Town of Alabama, and locally known as 'Alabama Swamp.' It is also known as the Sixth Great Lake, a glacial lake now largely underground but surfacing in the plentiful streams and pools that make this watery landscape essential to the many reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds who live or pass through, especially during spring migration.

"This area is also home to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, a federally recognized Nation and part of the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy. The extraordinary #biodiversity of this area is in large part a testament to their ongoing #stewardship and reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human beings who also call this place home.

"But now, this place, and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation itself, faces an existential threat to their well-being. The #GeneseeCounty Economic Development Center (#GCEDC) has purchased 1,260 acres of habitat and farmland to build a Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (#STAMP) adjacent to the Nation’s territory. The site is also located within a few miles of multiple state and federally protected areas, including the #Iroquois National #Wildlife Refuge and the John White Wildlife Management Area.

"The STAMP plan capitalizes on federal and state subsidies for #microchip fabrication. To date, however, its only tenant is Plug Power, a #HydrogenFuelCell manufacturer whose product will have to be trucked many miles to market, undermining its justification as 'green power.'

"Two other possible developers – semiconductor producer #EdwardsVacuum and the warehouse developer #ScannellProject – would pave or build over the site’s northern 600-plus acres and bring an extra 140 #cars and #diesel trucks per hour up the narrow country road that leads to the refuge and through the Nation.

"However, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and their allies, including other local residents and numerous environmental organizations, are fighting back against this industrial development. In February [2023], the GCEDC applied for a 'Full Campus Incidental Take Permit' that would allow them to remove habitat for #endangered and threatened #wildlife species known to occupy the site, including the #ShortEaredOwl and the #NorthernHarrierHawk. In response to the hundreds of letters it received from the public about this permit, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) required the GCEDC to hold a public hearing, which took place on May 11 in the town of Basom.

"More than 185 people attended the hearing. All 49 who spoke were opposed to the permit and the majority expressed opposition to the entire STAMP project. Speaking in opposition were numerous members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, including titleholders, as well as allies from groups including the Buffalo Niagara #Waterkeeper, #SierraClub, #SaveOntarioShores, SUNY ESF, University of Rochester, Western New York Environmental Alliance and the #CleanAirCoalition of Western New York. In the words of Tonawanda Seneca Nation Sub-Chief Scott Logan (Bear Clan), 'If this permit were to be granted, it would be an immense injustice to #MotherEarth. And as a #Haudenosaunee person, and all the Haudenosaunee People in here, that is our birthright. It is our, what we are here for, is to protect the earth. And the STAMP Project goes a hundred percent against what we are — what we’re all about.'

"The STAMP site is located immediately adjacent to the Nation’s present-day reservation boundaries. Indeed, the most intensive manufacturing will be located along the project’s border with the Nation. However, as their Council of Chiefs has repeatedly stated in public comment letters and letters to agencies responsible for granting permits sought by the developers, the project’s approval process has continuously and egregiously undermined the Nation’s #sovereignty. In violation of their status as a federally recognized #TribalNation, the Tonawanda Band of Seneca’s Council of Chiefs – their traditional governance structure – has not been afforded a robust consultation process in decision-making about the project. Instead, opportunities for consultation have been perfunctory at best, and have focused almost exclusively on mitigation.

"In their official letter to the NYDEC regarding the proposed Part 182 Take Permit (mentioned above), the Nation’s Council of Chiefs wrote that, 'The Tonawanda Seneca Nation opposes this habitat destruction and would directly be impacted by it. The permit would allow for unmitigated incidental take on Nation lands when, inevitably, increased human presence, noise, excavation, light and traffic would disturb these species and turn them away… We do not want our Territory, people or future generations to be burdened by the negative impacts of these projects. This is a human rights issue for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Haudenosaunee, who would bear a disproportionate burden from the industrialization of the land at STAMP.'

"The Council of Chiefs has demanded that a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be carried out to assess the possible impacts on the Nation, its culture and its environment; to date there has been no such study and the 2012 STAMP EIS (which did not analyze impacts on the nation) is badly outdated."

https://globaljusticeecology.org/tonawanda-seneca-nation/

#ForestDefenders #SenecaNation #FirstNations #NativeAmericanRights #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #HydrogenPower

#tonawanda #seneca #bigwoods #newyork #wetland #grassland

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 23:12 UTC

We live in troubled times when #ClimateActivists and #ForestDefenders are shot, and their killers get off scott-free.
#Tortuguita #StopCopCity #JusticeForTortuguita

#climateactivists #forestdefenders #tortuguita #stopcopcity #justicefortortuguita

𖠰G̷̈̒̌͛͑̚͝ͅR̴̺͙̺̰͌̉͒̉͠M̴̏𖠰 @[email protected] · 2023-03-03 · 09:48 UTC

Tapes + CDs ONLY available today from STERILE RECORDS bandcamp.

These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended.

Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places.

Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors.

 RESIST TO EXIST

Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today from Sterile Records: https://sterilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/gone-dark-pollutant-7

#coldsoresound #sterilerecords #nearfuture #pollutant #drumNdrone #hambacherwald #hambacherforst #forestdefenders #waterprotectors #forestdefender #resistance #sombre #melancholic #noise #darkambient #anarxnoise #gonedark #pylon #grid #collapse