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FANG Escalates Protest in New England

by FANG / Popular Resistance The past three days Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG) has been nonviolently escalating their efforts to stop the fracked-gas power plant proposed for Burrillville and to confront other forms of injustice. It’s all part of an unannounced Week of Action, that FANG is simply calling #theWOA. Coordinating these actions takes resources, please consider pitching in to so…

Black students and students of color at Brandeis have occupied the office of the interim president for over 72 hours in protest of racism and the lack of racial diversity on Brandeis’ campus and campuses nationwide. Here’s an quote from an article on the Boston Globe: 

“As a department born out of student protest, we believe it is our intellectual and moral obligation to support our students in their struggle to transform Brandeis into a truly 21st century university,” a statement posted to the department’s Facebook page read. (x)

“On Thursday, November 19th, #ConcernedStudents2015 issued a list of 13 demands to the Brandeis University administration, holding them accountable to their mission of “ recogniz[ing] the need to analyze and address the ways in which social, cultural and economic inequalities affect power and privilege in the larger society and at Brandeis itself.” 24 hours later, at 1:30 PM, the #ConcernedStudents2015 marched to Interim President Lisa Lynch’s office and began a sit-in with the intention of staying until the list of demands are met in full.”

LIST OF DEMANDS Presented to Brandeis University by Concerned Students 2015

Monday Night Football Banner Drop Causes “Significant Disturbance”

Activists protesting Bank of America’s financing of a liquefied natural gas facility in Maryland suspended themselves from the upper deck of BofA stadium during the Panthers’ Monday Night Football game. Sergio Tovar by Cleve R Wootson Jr and Sergio Tovar / Charlotte Observer Activists protesting Bank of America’s financing of a liquefied natural gas facility in Maryland suspended themselves from…

Twelve Arrested Blocking Pipeline Through Residential Area of Boston

photo from Resist the West Roxbury Pipeline from Resist the West Roxbury Pipeline Twelve courageous souls shut down the Spectra Construction site at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline this morning. They sang and chanted and hundreds of supporters honked inn cars and cheered them on. Students from Hampshire College, Amherst College and UMASS Amherst joined West Roxbury residents in a spirited show…

Three FANG Activists Have Locked Themselves to Spectra Construction Equipment in Rhode Island

by Bob Plain / RI Future Activists opposed to methane gas expansion locked themselves to construction equipment being used to prepare an area in Burrillville for a gas pipeline project early Monday morning. “I expect them to be arrested at some point today,” said Sherrie Andre, who sent out a press release and photos of the action on behalf of FANG, or Fighting Against Natural Gas. “If not, they…

RCMP Planning Mass Arrest of Unist’ot’en under Bill C-51, Supporters Warn

image from subMediaTV from ThinkPol The RCMP are preparing to carry out a mass arrest operation against the indigenous Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northwestern BC under Harper government’s Bill C-51 labelling as terrorists First Nations activists exercising their Aboriginal Title and Rights to protect their lands from oil and gas development, according to a joint statement by…

Unist’ot’en Call for Physical Support and Solidarity

from Unist’ot’en Camp https://vimeo.com/133859916 Dear Friends and Supporters, It is becoming clear that the situation here is moving toward an escalation point. Chevron has set up a base in Houston in order to do work on the section of Pacific Trails Pipeline that crosses our traditional territory. In recent days a low-flying helicopter has flown over the camp several times following a route…

FANG Tree Sit Halts Construction of Spectra Pipeline, Met with Chainsaws and K-9 Units

from Earth First! Newswire

According to the group anti-gas group FANG (Fighting Against Natural Gas), “This morning FANG co-founder Sherrie Anne Andre launched a tree-sit to prevent construction of Spectra’s fracked-gas pipeline expansion.

The 60 foot high tree-sit is located just yards away from a fracked-gas compressor station in Burrillville, Rhode Island that Spectra wants to nearly double…

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Anti-Pipeline Protestors Take Over Spectra Office, Issue “Final Notice”

from FANG: Fighting Against Natural Gas (Facebook)

Earlier today people from across the Northeast converged and took over Spectra Energy’s office in Waltham, MA.

A “Final Notice” was delivered to Spectra, letting them know that they have 40 days to cancel their northeast fracked-gas pipeline expansion project or face escalated resistance.

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