Action at Mainshill: Tree felling stopped again in solidarity with communities

At 10:30 Tues­day morn­ing (10/11/2009) activists from the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp stopped a mas­sive har­vest­ing machine from work­ing at the site, and one per­son locked-on to it by the neck.

Work was stopped for 5 hours and the pro­tes­tor who locked on will appear in Lanark court tomor­row. Today is the 14th anniver­sary of the hang­ing of Ken Saro-Wiwa & 8 oth­er Ogo­nis for resist­ing Shell in the Niger Delta. This action was done in remem­brance of them & in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties across the world who are still fight­ing cor­po­rate oppres­sion.

Harvester-divingAt 10:30 Tues­day morn­ing (10/11/2009) activists from the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp stopped a mas­sive har­vest­ing machine from work­ing at the site, and one per­son locked-on to it by the neck.

Work was stopped for 5 hours and the pro­tes­tor who locked on will appear in Lanark court tomor­row. Today is the 14th anniver­sary of the hang­ing of Ken Saro-Wiwa & 8 oth­er Ogo­nis for resist­ing Shell in the Niger Delta. This action was done in remem­brance of them & in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties across the world who are still fight­ing cor­po­rate oppres­sion.

This action is one of many that has tak­en place at Main­shill Wood, in a relent­less and deter­mined cam­paign of direct action to stop Scot­tish Coal and Lord Home open­cast­ing the site.

This action is in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties who have their health destroyed, their envi­ron­ment pol­lut­ed and coun­try­side trashed, all for the quick prof­its of open­cast coal min­ing. It is also in sol­i­dar­i­ty with oth­er com­mu­ni­ties around the world fight­ing sim­i­lar bat­tles – com­mu­ni­ties such as in Ross­port, Co. Mayo in Ire­land fight­ing Shel­l’s raw gas pipeline, and indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties in the Niger Delta also fight­ing Shell and their para­mil­i­tary forces and envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty is a weapon in the glob­al strug­gle against big cor­po­ra­tions and cli­mate chaos, and link­ing our move­ments makes us stronger.

Join us at Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp to con­tin­ue the strug­gle.

No new coal!