Resources for Frontline Communities

1.) BXE Frontline Community Support Fund

BXE is able to support frontline community action to stop fossil fuel infrastructure with small grants up to $1000. Click here to learn more and to apply:

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/U6ie-Nc3gMJlHBG1G8hZGRgLlL8oxPTka6EEYVEpDVc/

2.) “Fight Back!: An Intro to Resisting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Your Community”
Updated version coming soon (2025)

BXE has written a short guide to FERC and community organizing to support frontline struggles!

3.) “When a Pipeline Facility Comes to Your Town: Experience and Recommendations from a Grassroots Perspective.”

Ted Cady of Myersville, MD, turned his town’s nightmarish fight against Dominion’s fracked-gas compressor station into a powerful presentation: “When a Pipeline Facility Comes to Your Town: Experience and Recommendations from a Grassroots Perspective.” You can download it here: Natural Gas industry overview part 1 and Natural Gas industry overview Part 2.

4.) Please check out these guides to community organizing and direct action tactics:

Earth First Direct Action Manual (3rd Edition)

Organizing Cools the Planet

Training for Change

Sprout Distro Direct Action Zines

Full Spectrum Resistance

5.) Halt the Harm Presentation – a photo-montage created for this conference in Philadelphia by past field organizer Jimmy Betts.