Author: earthfirst

Indian fishermen reject nuclear plant

13 September 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear power is growing across the world, fuelled by the Japanese disaster and now this week’s explosion in France.

13 September 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear power is growing across the world, fuelled by the Japanese disaster and now this week’s explosion in France.

In India, IBN reports that 10,000 fishermen staged a day-long fast protesting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) being set up in the district under Indo-Russian collaboration.

It says: “Around 10,000 fishermen from various hamlets in and around Koodankulam joined a core group of more than 100 fellow fishermen of Idinthakarai whose indefinite fast on the issue entered the third day on Monday, police said.

“More than 4,000 people had observed a fast on Sunday protesting against the plant.”

It added in an update: “Expressing their solidarity, hundreds of fishermen from Kanyakumari left for Koodankulam on Monday to participate in the hunger strike that is going on for the closure of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant .

“Led by the Kanyakumari parish priest Leon Kenson, fishermen from Kanyakumari, Kovalam, Chinna Muttom and surrounding areas gathered in front of Our Lady of Ransom Church at Kanyakumari on Monday morning and left for Koodankulam in more than 50 vans.

“Earlier, the country boats in Kanyakumari and over 300 mechanized boats at Chinna Muttom fishing harbour did not venture into the sea as a form of protest.

“Apart from that, the fishermen’s children from Kanyakumari studying at various schools and colleges in the district did not report to their classes today (September 12) and also accompanied their parents to participate in the hunger strike at Koodankulam.”

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY VAN TORCHED, SPAIN

13.9.11

anonymous communique, translation from This Is Our Job:

13.9.11

anonymous communique, translation from This Is Our Job:

"This morning, a van belonging to the multinational 'construction company' PERI was torched. PERI is one of the most powerful companies in the construction industry, which is dedicated to destroying the Earth through the building of highways, power stations, etc.

We no longer recognize life, colonized as it is by science and technology. Nor can we talk about life skills, as the dead have replaced the living. In this tomb of cement and sugar, we are surrounded by millions of dead objects. The nanotechnology and biotechnology industries are the new dictatorships to be toppled. They are the new masters of the world, patenting life and imposing a form of nonlife devoid of any kind of autonomy. In the war against them, we must arm ourselves with every possible method and attack incessantly. We recognize a part of nature in ourselves, and we fight against whomever would take away and destroy that nature. There is no time to lose. Our desire and passion will put an end to everything that dominates us.

Civilization (not anarchy!!!!) is the highest expression of order. Therefore, instead of the order and control that drive us to madness, we embrace chaos, individuality, and the uniqueness of every living thing.

Whoever talks about revolution and class struggle without critiquing science and technology has a corpse in their mouth.

For Billy, Silvia, Costa, Marco, and our insurgent brothers and sisters in Chile, Greece, Mexico, etc.

'And if your heart isn't broken by the knowledge of what they are doing to the world we love, then I feel sorry for you. Maybe you're no longer alive. But if the death of the planet we love makes you cry, then take those tears and turn them into action.'
—Rod Coronado"

Spanish:
"Esta madrugada fue incendiada una furgoneta de la multinacional 'constructora' PERI, una de la empresas más fuertes en el sector de la construcción, que se dedica a destruir la tierra mediante obras de autopistas, centrales elelctricas…..

Ya no reconocemos la vida, colonizada por la ciencia y la tecnologia, más bien podriamos hablar de la tecnica de la vida, donde lo muerto ha sustituido a lo vivo, rodeados de millones de objetos muertos, en esta tumba de cemento y azucar. Las empresas de nano y biotecnologia son las nuevas dictaduras a las que derribar, son ellas las nuevas amas del mundo, quienes patentan la vida y quienes nos imponen una forma de no-vida en la que desaparece cualquier forma de autonomía, es en la guerra contra ellas en la que debemos armarnos de todos los medios posibles y atacar sin cesar, reconocernos una parte de la naturaleza y luchar contra quién nos aleja de ella y la destruye. No hay tiempo que esperar es nuestro deseo y pasión acabar contra todo lo que nos domina.

La civilización (y no la anarquia!!!!) es la máxima expresión del orden, por eso abrazamos el caos, la individualidad y la peculiaridad de cada ser vivo, contra el orden y el control que nos llevan a la locura.

Quien habla de revolución y de lucha de clases sin criticar la ciencia y la tecnologia tiene un cadaver en la boca.
A Billy, Silvia, Costa, Marco, a nuestras hermanxs insurrectxs en Chile, Grecia, Mexico……

'Y si no se te parte el corazón al saber lo que le están haciendo al mundo que amamos, siento lástima por ti, quizás ya no estés vivx. Pero si la muerte del planeta que amamos te hace llorar, entonces toma esas lágrimas y conviértelas en acción.'
Rod Coronado."

Land & Freedom camp, London

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Freedom

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Freedom

Greetings,

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to highlight the issue of the economics of land ownership and the politics and laws regarding the use of the land locally and globally.  We want to communicate the myriad of effects that the current system has including:

  •  the almost complete restriction of access to land to live (and grow) autonomously and sustainably by common people in the UK and around the world due to laws governing use of the land and/or economic domination of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensuing effect of artificial scarcity of available land that the restriction of access creates: driving up the cost of housing and reducing it’s availability in both cities and the rural areas.  This creates a slave culture where people struggle to make end’s meet in crammed urban environments or as for the most of the world’s population even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the modern legacy of political structures that serve the interests of the land owning establishment which have been previously constructed through history by the same priveleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these structures continue to push forward  dispossessing people locally and globally: whether it be the UK Gov’s agenda to ban squatting, evicting people from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dispossession of people from the land they depend on for their survival.
  • the completely undemocratic, unsustainable and dangerous control of the natural resources by private corporations for profit, monopolising production of humanities bare necessities: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarcity, destruction of eco-systems, climate change, peak oil etc…

We go peacefully to Clapham Common calling for a radical change in the economics of land ownership: a redistribution of land locally and globally and a reform of the laws which currently prevent reasonable access to the land by the common people. 
We are common people!

Land & Freedom Camp opening ceremony

On Saturday 17th September, we will be meeting at the Bandstand on Clapham Common from 12 o’clock onwards for the opening ceremony of the Land & Freedom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, presentations, a people’s assembly, games and a picnic.  If you want to, bring an instrument, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Freedom Camp opening ceremony.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Location: Bandstand, Clapham Common.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Transport: Clapham Common tube or Clapham South. Buses from Clapham Junction.
Contact: 07963 475 195 for any questions.

Banner Making Session @ Passing Clouds in Dalston this Monday

If you fancy making some beautiful banners, this Monday (12th Sept), there will be an oppurtunity to paint banners for the Land & Freedom Camp at Passing Clouds from 6-8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or banner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F banner making session
Time: 6-8 p.m
Location: Passing Clouds, Dalston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Transport: Haggerston/ Dalston Kingsland.
Contact: 07963 475 195.

Final planning meeting @ the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday.

The final open planning meeting for the Land & Freedom Camp will be this Wednesday (14th Sept) in the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London from 6 p.m onwards. The purpose of the meeting will be logistical preparation for Saturday’s opening ceremony and the rest of the camp, PR strategy organisation and networking the event. 

Event: final L&F planning meeting.
Time: 6 p.m
Location: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Transport: nearest tube: Waterloo
Contact: 07963475195

Call out for presentations, music and performance for Land & Freedom Camp

Have you got something you would like to present relating to the core issues of the Land & Freedom Camp?  Perhaps you’d like to express yourself through music, poetry, theatre or another art form? Have you got an activity or workshop that will empower people?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Common between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d prefer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the location to be posted on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are currently short of: tarps, tents, banner material, cooking pots, food & water containers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videography, real journalism, photography, art, cooking, communicating, facilitating, skipping, tatting & funning 8)

Join the Networks and spread the word:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845#

follow us on Twitter : @freetheland

www.landandfreedom.squat.net

Fliers and posters for sharing and printing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land andfreedom/land-freedom-ca mp-poster+105652

Flier———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Contact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere”

 

Gerrard Winstanley & 14 others TheTrue Levellers Standard Advanced – April, 1649

Email Contact email: Land_and_freedom-medium
Lan & Freedom

Greetings,

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept til Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to highlight the issue of the economics of land ownership and the politics and laws regarding the use of the land locally and globally.  We want to communicate the myriad of effects that the current system has including:

  •  the almost complete restriction of access to land to live (and grow) autonomously and sustainably by common people in the UK and around the world due to laws governing use of the land and/or economic domination of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensuing effect of artificial scarcity of available land that the restriction of access creates: driving up the cost of housing and reducing it’s availability in both cities and the rural areas.  This creates a slave culture where people struggle to make end’s meet in crammed urban environments or as for the most of the world’s population even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the modern legacy of political structures that serve the interests of the land owning establishment which have been previously constructed through history by the same priveleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these structures continue to push forward  dispossessing people locally and globally: whether it be the UK Gov’s agenda to ban squatting, evicting people from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dispossession of people from the land they depend on for their survival.
  • the completely undemocratic, unsustainable and dangerous control of the natural resources by private corporations for profit, monopolising production of humanities bare necessities: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarcity, destruction of eco-systems, climate change, peak oil etc…

We go peacefully to Clapham Common calling for a radical change in the economics of land ownership: a redistribution of land locally and globally and a reform of the laws which currently prevent reasonable access to the land by the common people. 
We are common people!

Land & Freedom Camp opening ceremony

On Saturday 17th September, we will be meeting at the Bandstand on Clapham Common from 12 O’Clock onwards for the opening ceremony of the Land & Freedom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, presentations, a people’s assembly, games and a picnic.  If you want to, bring an instrument, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Freedom Camp opening ceremony.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Location: Bandstand, Clapham Common.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Transport: Clapham Common tube or Clapham South. Buses from Clapham Junction.
Contact: 07963 475 195 for any questions.

Banner Making Session @ Passing Clouds in Dalston this Monday

If you fancy making some beautiful banners, this Monday (12th Sept), there will be an oppurtunity to paint banners for the Land & Freedom Camp at Passing Clouds from 6-8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or banner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F banner making session
Time: 6-8 p.m
Location: Passing Clouds, Dalston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Transport: Haggerston/ Dalston Kingsland.
Contact: 07963 475 195.

Final planning meeting @ the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday.

The final open planning meeting for the Land & Freedom Camp will be this Wednesday (14th Sept) in the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London from 6 p.m onwards. The purpose of the meeting will be logistical preparation for Saturday’s opening ceremony and the rest of the camp, PR strategy organisation and networking the event. 

Event: final L&F planning meeting.
Time: 6 p.m
Location: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Transport: nearest tube: Waterloo
Contact: 07963475195

Call out for presentations, music and performance for Land & Freedom Camp

Have you got something you would like to present relating to the core issues of the Land & Freedom Camp?  Perhaps you’d like to express yourself through music, poetry, theatre or another art form? Have you got an activity or workshop that will empower people?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Common between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d prefer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the location to be posted on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are currently short of: tarps, tents, banner material, cooking pots, food & water containers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videography, real journalism, photography, art, cooking, communicating, facilitating, skipping, tatting & funning 8)

Join the Networks and spread the word:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845#

follow us on Twitter : @freetheland

www.landandfreedom.squat.net

Fliers and posters for sharing and printing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land andfreedom/land-freedom-ca mp-poster+105652

Flier———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Contact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere”

 

Gerrard Winstanley & 14 others TheTrue Levellers Standard Advanced – April, 1649

Email Contact email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org

“>landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org

ELF ACTIONS IN RUSSIA APRIL/MAY 2011

received anonymously:

received anonymously:

“During the night of may 4th we sneaked upon another tree harvester and torched it, using the heavy rain as cover. 15 minutes later it exploded (we suspect fire in hydraulics to be the cause). Police and city officials confirmed the successful torching and evac of the destroyed vehicle (link to the eco-campaign site with citations: http://ecmo.ru/news/n-1778/).

This spring saw works to clearcut a huge Khimki forest continue unabated. In spite of numerous and massive people protests, all the legal and liberal stuff (polls, petitions, law suits, concerts, demos, vigils, etc.), authorities, law enforcement, and their fascists and mafia lackeys (forever together in Russia) push for the completion of clear-cuts so that they may get on to the actual road-building. And in one part of the forest they’ve already redirected a flow of a river (a single and major body of water and site of significant avian population in the area) to facilitate construction of a road junction link: (in russian, but has photos http://ecmo.ru/news/n-1772/).

We ask of all whom it may concern to consider actions against Vinci, France (the international consortium financing this deforestation project), as it seems the only viable target outside Russia. Appreciation for your solidarity out there, people, and our solidarity with your local fights of our global resistance!

– ELF-Russia, International Network of Action and Solidarity/ Informal Anarchist Federation”

—–

reported by activists in Russia:

“An ELF group claims responsibility for torching of a workers’ shed (the building was checked to ensure it was unoccupied prior to the attack) at a treecut site in southern Moscow (Bitcevski forest) on the night of april the 11th. An 5 litres of gasoline and incendiary device for time delay were used because of close proximity to guardhouse and serious sentry presence in the region. The forest has seen numerous ecotage actions (spiking, torchings of vehicles and storage sheds, etc), hence intense police attention. No photos or videos were released. The shed and its contents exploded 5 minutes later for unknown reasons.
– ELF-Russia, International Network of Action and Solidarity – Informal Anarchist Federation”

—–
Bitcevski

“Urban guerillas” in Moscow have claimed responsibility for the torching of a large excavator at a condominium construction site near the Bitcevski forest on April 9. The condominium is being built in part by the Russian Military Intelligence Service. Military personnel are supposed to be stationed in the building. Video from the action and the Russian communique available here: http://blackblocg.info/index.php/protestnye-dejstviya/93-gorodskie-partizany-atakovali-tochechnuyu-zastrojku-v-yasenevo

—–

anonymous report:
“On the night of april the 5th, 2011, an excavator was set aflame and exploded 10 minutes later at the highway construction site that cuts through forests of Moscow region.

– ELF-Russia”

VILLAGERS RESIST POWER PLANT, DRILLING VEHICLE BURNED, TURKEY

reported by activists in Turkey:

reported by activists in Turkey:

“On 5th of September, drilling vehicles of Anadolu Group (this group is the biggest partner of McDonalds Turkey, Coca Cola Turkey) which tries to build a thermic power plant to Gerze-Sinop tried to enter Yaykil village. Local people and eco-activists barricaded the roads to village for defending their land, but police and gendarme attacked people with tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons and batons. Activists answered this attack with stones and slogans. During the police attack some buildings, barns, farms and bushes caught fire; 25 activists and 4 policemen injured.

Because of their resistance, drilling vehicles left the village. At night police took 6 activists in custody from their homes.

At night of September 6, a drilling vehicle which was waiting in a gas station near the village was burned by unknown people. The vehicle is totally destroyed. Gendarme and local police is still searching for the arsonists in Gerze.

For pictures you can check out: http://www.gerzegundem.com/son-dakika/yaykilda-kan-akti-h545.html

For the video of police attack:
http://webtv.sabah.com.tr/webtv/videoizle/gerzede-polisten-cevrecilere-sert-mudahale

Animal and Earth Liberation Supporters from Turkey”

DSEI protest convergence space

Convergence space for DSEI protest now open – all welcome.

St. Margaret’s House Settlement
21 Old Ford Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9PL

We have taken the above space (a former Vegan restaurant) and have opened it as a convergence space for next weeks DSEI protests. All welcome.

Please bring sleeping bags and an open minded attitude to how we can close DSEI this year.

Convergence space for DSEI protest now open – all welcome.

St. Margaret’s House Settlement
21 Old Ford Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9PL

We have taken the above space (a former Vegan restaurant) and have opened it as a convergence space for next weeks DSEI protests. All welcome.

Please bring sleeping bags and an open minded attitude to how we can close DSEI this year.

There are currently 20 of us and we expect to have over 30 others arriving Friday and Saturday, we are not working with the ‘fluffy’ demos of Disarm DSEI and CAAT, we are about stopping DSEI.

Occupy! Manchester – 2nd October Tory Party Conference

From 2-5 October 2011 the Conservative Party are coming to Manchester to hold their annual conference. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in implementing their disastrous program of public sector spending cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This conference should not go unopposed. We intend to make the opposition to the cuts and the widely shared belief in a better alternative future visible, and we’d like to do this with you!

From 2-5 October 2011 the Conservative Party are coming to Manchester to hold their annual conference. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in implementing their disastrous program of public sector spending cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This conference should not go unopposed. We intend to make the opposition to the cuts and the widely shared belief in a better alternative future visible, and we’d like to do this with you!

Tories not welcome!

We have been inspired by the large and vibrant student protests that took place last winter, by the dynamic and high-impact actions of UK Uncut, and by the popular demonstrations we are witnessing across North Africa, the Middle East, Spain and Greece. The times are changing and people are speaking out against injustice and inequality.

What are you planning to do?

We need to try new forms of opposition. We have marched in our tens of thousands at previous party conferences, and in our hundreds of thousands in London. Crucial as they are, more marches in bigger numbers will not be enough. As the anti-war protests of 2003 showed, the government finds them easy to ignore. As anger at the Con-Dem cuts grows we need to make it more visible.

The cuts are for the benefit of the rich – we refuse to pay for their crisis!

The TUC have called a national demonstration to be held in Manchester on Sunday October 2nd. That afternoon anti-cuts protestors will occupy Albert Square to create an assembly of protest on the doorstep of the Tory’s conference, a symbol of the mass opposition to the cuts and a place for real
debate and discussion about the alternatives and the possibilities.

Come ready to make noise, and stay for the long haul!

Occupy!MCR

Supporters so far:

* Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union – Manchester and Merseyside.
* Education Activist Network.
* Geoff Brown, Secretary of the Manchester TUC (pc).
* Manchester Book Bloc.
* The Manchester Green and Black Cross.
* Manchester UKuncut.
* Manchester University Staff against the Cuts.
* Manchester University Student Union.
* Queer Resistance North-West.
* Real Democracy Manchester.
* Shift Magazine.
* Socialist Workers Party.
* Socialist Worker Student Society.

German coal blockade during climate camp

30.08.2011
Since 10.30 this morning a group of over 50 activists have been blockading a coal transport railway in the Cologne area. The action takes place at the same time as the nearby international Climate Camp, protesting the open-cast mining of brown coal (www.klimacamp2011.de)

30.08.2011
Since 10.30 this morning a group of over 50 activists have been blockading a coal transport railway in the Cologne area. The action takes place at the same time as the nearby international Climate Camp, protesting the open-cast mining of brown coal (www.klimacamp2011.de)

The activists peacefully blocked the line early this morning, erecting banners and greenwashing the railway tracks. The protest is aimed at energy giant RWE, which operates a number of power stations in the area and is responsible for about 10% of Germany’s carbon dioxide emissions.

The protest is being kept well-supplied with blankets and food by members of the climate camp, and is currently preparing for a night on the tracks.

The international climate camp is situated in the village of Manheim which is scheduled to be destroyed in order to enlarge a brown coal strip mine. Brown coal, or lignite, is a less pure form of coal and is therefore much less energy-efficient and creates greater emissions than regular coal.

The international climate camp includes guests from as far afield as Colombia and Azerbaijan and aims to build links within the international climate justice movement, calling for urgent system change, not climate change.

Genetically Modified Papaya Farm Sabotaged in Hawaii

8.9.11

According to Hawaii County police, thousands of GE papaya trees were sabotaged last month, apparently by machete on the Big Island.

8.9.11

According to Hawaii County police, thousands of GE papaya trees were sabotaged last month, apparently by machete on the Big Island.

“It’s hard to imagine anybody putting that much effort into doing something like that,” said Delan Perry, vice president of the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association to the Associated Press. “It means somebody has to have passionate reason.”

Workshop for Actions and Alternatives – all-year-climate-camp

There’s something strange about climate change: It’s well-known, there’s no need for general education. Everybody supports approaching the problem and stopping human-caused climate change.

There’s something strange about climate change: It’s well-known, there’s no need for general education. Everybody supports approaching the problem and stopping human-caused climate change.
Although governments promise answers and solutions, we’re just watching a rapid increase of the climate catastrophe. Thus the suspicion comes to mind, that the right solutions haven’t been found – or rather that they’re not acceptable for economy and governments.
The question arises, if our world can wait for a solution. People in regions, where it comes to food shortage, scertainly not. At first, people in poor regions won’t be able to adapt to changes. Droughts or floods will force them to flee. Mostly various reasons urge people to flight, yet climate change will play an increasingly important role.
This fact by itself questions the distribution of raw materials and food on this world – or why the poorest, who contributed the smallest part of climate-relevant greenhouse-gases so far, shall bear most of the damage.
Europe guards itself: Legal barriers for fleeing persons are intolerably high and on the Mediterranean Sea, the European police force “frontex” provides a hardly passable blockade. We see this situation as cynical and dissatisfying – for the fleeing it’s rather fatal. On the basis of this example we want to illustrate that it’s about more than energy-saving lamps and recycled paper. Neither do we see the nuclear phaseout in Germany, linked to a half-hearted energy transition, as a solution. There’s a lot to do…

This flyer addresses to all persons, who are not willing to wait for a solution “from above” anymore. The aim shall be to take the initiative yourself, to see yourself as an active person in this “political power game”, in which we usually just should move as consumers. Let’s create determined, progressive politics together from below – for an entirely different climate.

Why in the Rhenish brown coal-mining region?
In this region, brown coal is mined in three opencast mines, mainly for six gigantic coal-fired power stations, whereby the vast bulk of CO2 in Europe is emitted. What “Wendland” is for nuclear energy, the Rhenish brown coal-mining region has to become for carbon energy. We want to work together with concerned locals – whole villages are forced to resettle – in solidarity against destruction.
We want to present a lively counter-image to capitalist destructiveness! Here, experimental living of a climate-neutral future, over there the tear-off edge, the hole – square-kilometres of destruction. Decide now!

Space for learning
Courses and seminars shall be provided in a Do-It-Yourself culture. Themes turn around climate-neutral life, non-hierarchical methods and forms of organisation, diverse kinds of theoretical stuff and methods of resistance. And since we neither belief in homogeneous concepts from above against climate change, nor find them desirable, we consider a debate from below necessary. A debate, in which everyone is invited to take part, which isn’t build up on expert’s hierarchies, which doesn’t seek unification, but which can stand different positions, in hope that there will arise syntheses out of tensions in between.

And action…
The workshop shall serve as a platform for different actions against destruction of the environment and living space. Thereby we focus on developing putting into practice methods of actions, which we together do with persons from there and elsewhere, which aim at the emancipation of the single individuals.

The Workshop for Actions and Alternatives is being built up from September (2011) on in
52355 Düren, Kallsgasse 20

How to get there and latest infos:
waa.blogsport.de

If you feel appealed by this text, there are diverse possibilities how you can take part:
– Come and see what we’re doing
– Contribute your ideas and talents (of organisation for example)
– Get in touch if you want to teach or learn something
– Distribute this flyer
– Offer your abilities: Lay-outing, writing, do research
– Donations of money would also help:
account of donation: