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U.S. | Environment & Forest DefenseEarth First! group calls for eco-action during RNC in Tampa
Organizers from Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) invite eco-activists far and wide to join us in bringing our message to the RNC this month.  EEF! blockades Loxahatchee FPL plant construction, 2008 by Clinton Tyree Organizers from Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) invite eco-activists far and wide to join us in bringing our message to the RNC this month.While we stand in solidarity with those who will be out struggling for social and economic justice, we also feel there is a need to contribute an action-based analysis which views the ecological crisis as a central concern for those of us struggling to change the direction of this society. Our primary intention is to bring a message of fighting the energy empire, which controls politics in service of its own agenda. On the local front, corporate energy giants and Republican politicians have pushed to open Florida’s coast to off-shore drilling for oil and gas, permitted thousands of megawatts of new fossil fuel power plants in the state, and collaborated on plans to fuse the biotech industry with energy giants. On the national agenda, Republican politicians and lobbyists are promising industry heads support for tar sands exploration, gas fracking, coal mining and new nukes.  EEF! joins anti-coal plant blockade in southwest Virginia, 2006 Most groups planning to protest the Republican National Convention next week have focused on the wealth gap and the economy in general. But the history of failed civilizations show us that economic crises begin and end with ecological crisis. Our environmental message of protecting the planet from industrial pillage is needed here and now, more than ever. All of us working on issues of pollution, water, development, energy, climate, greed, and the corruption that ties it all together, should be out in the streets of Tampa and St. Pete next week. (And out to protest the Democratic Convention the following week in North Carolina, for most of the same reasons.) EEF! plans to have a presence throughout the RNC events. In particular, local organizers with ResistRNC.org in Tampa have called for August 30th to have a theme “promoting Environmental efforts.” We invite other environmental activists from across Florida and beyond to join us in taking action on this day to expose and confront the ecocidal elite.  An infamous EEF! swamp defender liberating a parking lot, 2009 We’ll be having an open meeting for those in South Florida wishing to discuss plans and make props for the RNC on August 22, 5pm at the Night Heron Grassroots Activist Center. We may also re-convene in Tampa/St. Pete on the 29th to discuss plans for the 30th, Details TBA. We are working on a series of flyers, posters and other EF! literature to circulate during the week. Please get in contact if you are interested to assist with producing or distributing these. As mentioned, EEF! plans to participate in the scheduled marches and rallies (see list below), and to stay flexible for opportunities to express our solidarity with other movements and our outrage at the industrial nightmare driven by the corporate politics represented by the RNC. Get in touch: evergladesearthfirst [at] gmail.com Anti-RNC events we know about:All Week Occupy Tampa and World Food Not Bombs gathering site, for food and tent space. Check here for details Romneyville camp – All Week. Check updates here and find out how/if you can stay there August 26th August 27th August 28th  EEF! activists join the front lines of the anti-fracking resistance in the Marcellus region, 2012 August 30th August 31st A reminder from the folks at ResistRNC.org, who are calling for decentralized direct actions: “Those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.” -Sun Tzu, Art of War End the Energy Empire -Everglades Earth First!
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