About

This site is a resource for people involved in resistance to I-69.  While we are focusing on the campaign in Indiana, we will also include news relevant to communites throughout the planned route.  We will post notices of upcoming public meetings, news from actions, information about the DoT’s plans, and more.  You can contribute news, articles, and opinions by emailing us at i69news@riseup.net

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A short introduction to the I-69 project:

I-69 is a proposed superhighway that is linked to a number of free trade schemes.  It has been envisioned as a means to more efficiently link up the low-wage sweatshops and factories of Latin America with the markets of the U.S. and Canada at the cost of billions of dollars, thousands of displaced people, and tens of thousands of acres of trashed farmlands and wilderness.

 As such, it is an attack on workers in both the U.S. (where factory jobs continue to be lost) and Latin America (where local contractors seek to move sweatshop production to more and more remote locations, where wages can be even lower and safety standards less enforced).  It is an attack on farming communities in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississipi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.  And it is an attack on forests and wetlands across the center of the U.S.

In Indiana alone, I-69’s construction would mean the: 
*division of dozens of communities.
*eviction of 400 families.
*destruction of 5,000 acres of farmland, 1,500 acres of forest, and nearly 500 acres of  wetlands.