Naomi Klein, 294 : 'This (Halkidiki in Greece) is an outpost of a territory some have taken to calling 'Blockadia'. Blockadia is not a specific location on a map but rather a roving transnational conflict zone that is cropping up with increasing frequency and intensity wherever extractive projects are attempting to dig and drill, whether for open-pit mines, or gas-fracking, or tar sands oil pipelines.
What unites these increasingly interconnected pockets of resistance is the sheer ambition of the pining and fossil fuel companies...'
298 'Blockadia's multiplying front line.'
What units Blockadia too is the fact the people at the forefront ... do not look much like your typical activist, nor do the people in one Blockadia resemble those in another. Rather, they each look like the places where they live, and look like everyone.
... not and environmental movement at all, since it is primarily driven by a desire for a deeper form of democracy, real control...
... 298 'Similar scenes, more reminiscent of civil war than political protest'... In Pungesti, Romania, 'As in Greece, the responses from the state was shockingly mililatized, especially in such a pastoral environment.'
Autour du Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada & Alberta tar sands, 'that historic wave of civil disobedience in Washington DC in 2011', and also has : 'brought together use unexpected alliance of Indigenous tribes and ranchers along the pipeline route that became own as "the Cowboy and Indian alliance" (not to mention unlikely coalitions that brought together vegan activists who think meat is murder with cattle farmers whose homes are decorated with deer heads.' 302.
Direct-action groups. The 'group Tar Sands Blockade first coined the term "Blockadia" in Zigust 2012, while planning what turned into an 86day tree blockade challenging Keystone's construction in East Texas.'
What unites these increasingly interconnected pockets of resistance is the sheer ambition of the pining and fossil fuel companies...'
298 'Blockadia's multiplying front line.'
What units Blockadia too is the fact the people at the forefront ... do not look much like your typical activist, nor do the people in one Blockadia resemble those in another. Rather, they each look like the places where they live, and look like everyone.
... not and environmental movement at all, since it is primarily driven by a desire for a deeper form of democracy, real control...
... 298 'Similar scenes, more reminiscent of civil war than political protest'... In Pungesti, Romania, 'As in Greece, the responses from the state was shockingly mililatized, especially in such a pastoral environment.'
Autour du Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada & Alberta tar sands, 'that historic wave of civil disobedience in Washington DC in 2011', and also has : 'brought together use unexpected alliance of Indigenous tribes and ranchers along the pipeline route that became own as "the Cowboy and Indian alliance" (not to mention unlikely coalitions that brought together vegan activists who think meat is murder with cattle farmers whose homes are decorated with deer heads.' 302.
Direct-action groups. The 'group Tar Sands Blockade first coined the term "Blockadia" in Zigust 2012, while planning what turned into an 86day tree blockade challenging Keystone's construction in East Texas.'
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