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November, 2020 - Police are violently removing forest defenders who have been occupying the trees from Dannenröder forest in Germany. The people occupying the forest are trying to prevent it being cut down to make way for another new highway. Police have already injured one occupier by cutting their safety rope, causing them to plunge to the ground, and another almost died when police cut down the tree that they were still attached to. [video]/[video]/[article]
August 15 2020 - Local environmentalists clashed with security and police at an encampment on mount Kushtau near the Russian city of Sterlitamak, set up by environmentalists in an attempt to block plans by chemical company BSK to start exploiting the hill. [video]
21 October 2018 - Members of anarchist collective Rouvikonas attack the Canadian embassy in Athens, Greece, in retaliation for the gold mining project in Skouries by Canadian company Eldorado Gold Corp, that will destroy the local environment. [video]
2016 - Riot police beat unarmed protesters against the planned construction of an incinerator near a river in Guangdong province, China. [video]
May 14 2016 - On the second day of the Ende Gelände days of action against coal thousands of protesters blocked railways used to transport coal shipments in Germany. [video]
May 13 2016 - Thousands of environmentalist activists got together in Germany for several days of direct action against coal mining. On day one of Ende Gelände 2016 they occupied several diggers in the Welzow-Süd open pit mine, and blockaded surrounding railways. [video]
October 14 2015 - Guangdong, China: Four days of violent resistance to a proposed Waste Incinerator project have left dozens arrested and several injured, both police and villagers. The pollution in the area is so bad that residents fear they and their children will not survive another major source of pollution nearby like the new privately owned waste incinerator would be. [article]
May 10 2015 - A cop gets hit in the face by a well aimed rock during a protest against the Tia Maria copper mining project in Peru. [video]
May 14 2015 - Since 2009, demonstrators have opposed Southern Copper Corp's project to exploit the hills surrounding the Cocachacra province. In just over 6 weeks, at least 3 people have died and hundreds have been wounded as protests turned violent. Protesters are mainly farmers from neighbouring regions who say the mining project, named Tia Maria, will contaminate their land and water. [video]/[video]
May 6 2015 - Riot police hurl rocks at demonstrators protesting against the construction of the Tia Maria copper mine in Peru. Protesters have been resisting the mining project since 2009, fearing the mine will pollute the scarce water sources in the arid region. At least 3 protesters have died in the latest round of protests. [video]
March 5 2015 - Units from the Greek riot police (MAT) and its anti-terrorism special force (EKAM) clashed with residents from the town of Ierissos and the nearby Skouries mine in Northeastern Greece. Security forces were searching for suspects from the February 17th attack on the mining site, when 40 masked individuals raided the facilities, torching machinery, vehicles and containers used as offices.
Locals erected barricades of burning tyres to stop the police from coming into town and searching their homes for suspects. Six platoons from the MAT and EKAM elite police units stormed Ierissos. Residents claim tear gas was fired near school and children were affected. Locals say the mining project, 95 percent owned by Canadian company Eldorado Gold Corporation, will threaten the region's tourism income and environmental stability by polluting the peninsula with mercury, arsenic and cyanide. [video]
March 7 2015 - British police arrest a bunch of polar bears during a march against climate change in London. [video]
Activists protesting the building of a highway through Khimki forest near Moscow fight "security" hired to beat up protesters [video]
Hundreds of Romanian anti-fracking protesters break down the fences around a Chevron exploration site. Some 250 people gathered near the village of Pungesti chanting “Chevron go home". Following the incident, the US company later announced it was suspending activities in the area.
