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Chinese villagers riot over pollution

19 September 2011
A solar panel factory in eastern China has been shut down after protests by local residents over pollution fears.

Some 500 villagers staged a three-day protest following the death of large numbers of fish in a local river.

19 September 2011
A solar panel factory in eastern China has been shut down after protests by local residents over pollution fears.

Some 500 villagers staged a three-day protest following the death of large numbers of fish in a local river.

Some demonstrators broke into the plant in Zhejiang province, destroying offices and overturning company cars before being dispersed by riot police.

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RIOTS have broken out in China against a factory polluting local water as resistance grows globally to the neoliberal industrial nightmare.

Reports China Forbidden News: “Villagers in Haining city, Zhejiang province in China have held three days of protest against Jinko Solar Co. discharging heavy cancer-causing pollution.

“Villagers and journalists were beaten by company security. The protesters beat local officials and overturned four police cars. The police also fired tear gas.

“Online sources state that over 10 people are injured or dead.

“A human rights activist said that Chinese Communist Party’ (CCP) system was causing the struggle in people’s lives.

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“We feel that it is socially responsible to close the factory first and to take corrective measures,” company spokesman Thomas Jing told the BBC.

He said there had been accidental discharge into the surrounding area during a rainstorm at the end of August.

He said chemicals used at the factory had been stored in an open area rather than a warehouse, and that the covering had been ripped off during the unexpectedly harsh weather.

Mr Jing said the firm was investigating whether the fluoride was responsible for the death of the fish. A clean-up was also under way, he said.

…

“The Jinko Solar company is a subsidiary of a New York Stock Exchange-listed Chinese solar company, fully financed by Hong Kong Paker Technology Co., Ltd.

“They produce solar wafers, cells and other products, exporting to more than twenty countries within Europe, Asia, and the United States.

“The plant is located in Haining city, Zhejiang province and Shangrao city, Jiangxi province.
There are over 10,000 employees and the plant covers more than 165 acres.

“Villagers blame the company for discharging polluted water and harmful gases into the environment, causing the massive deaths of fish floating in the river.

“Local villagers found that there were over 10 people who developed cancer as a result of the pollution.”

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This is the latest example of Chinese citizens being spurred to action over environmental worries. Last week, Shanghai halted production at two factories over worries about lead poisoning.

Last month, a chemical factory in the north-eastern city of Dalian was ordered to move after 12,000 residents took to the streets over pollution fears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14968605
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/09/chinese-villagers-riot-over-pollution.html

Get ready for Hinkley blockade – 5th Stop New Nuclear newsletter

Welcome to our fifth Stop New Nuclear newsletter. With little more than two weeks to go, we need to make a last effort to mobilise even more people to the blockade of Hinkley Point on 3 October.

Welcome to our fifth Stop New Nuclear newsletter. With little more than two weeks to go, we need to make a last effort to mobilise even more people to the blockade of Hinkley Point on 3 October. More than 100 people have pledged to blockade, and 150 to support – can we reach the total of 300 pledgers within the next two weeks? Or even 400? Please help us to spread the information, and ask your friends, family, colleagues, … to pledge.

Since our last newsletter, we were able to welcome CND Cymru as a new member of the Stop New Nuclear alliance, and we also received more organisational pledges, among them Cumbria and Lancashire CND, No Need for Nuclear, Stop Oldbury, and the French Sortir du Nucleaire. This broad support is important, as it shows the strength of our resistance against new nuclear power stations in Britain.

News about Hinkley Point

We have been told that West Somerset Council and Electricite de France (EDF) have now reached an agreement about the money to be paid by EDF (section 106 agreement),and this agreement will probably go through the Council’s planning committee on 29 September. Once that happened, EDF will have a green light to start with the preliminary works for Hinkley Point C, even though it has not even applied to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for the reactors themselves.

However, EDF is already late with the removal of asbestos from the site, which has been left over from the construction of Hinkley Point A. According to the planning conditions, work should have been completed by 31 August, but it is still continuing, and EDF is now applying for an extension until February 2012. Although EDF is in breach of the conditions attached to its planning permission, County Council planners have decided not to take any action. The Council is concerned,however, that if the work continues into the winter months it could disturb migratory birds which fly along the coast past Hinkley Point (see Stop Hinkley press release, 14 September 2011).

The Environment Agency is presently consulting on two environmental permit applications in relation to Hinkley Point C: make disposals and discharges of radioactive wastes operate combustion processes (standby generators).

Objections to both applications need to be in by 6 October 2011.

More information is available on the website of the Environment Agency at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/132474.aspx.

The Marcoule nuclear plant in the south of France on Monday 12 September which killed one worker and injured four others, highlighted again the dangers of nuclear power. The plant, which is partly run by a subsidiary of EDF, stores large quantities of radioactive waste and produces mixed oxide (MOX) reactor fuel containing plutonium. There are also a number of decommissioned reactors from the early years of the French nuclear programme.

Stop Hinkley responded with the following statement:

“The accident in France is a sobering reminder of what can go wrong when a country commits itself so heavily to nuclear power, including all the problems associated with handling radioactive waste. Yet we are now proposing to import French technology to Hinkley Point and store waste there for 100 years or more. After Fukushima in Japan this accident serves as yet another tragic reminder of the dangers of nuclear power and the urgent need for the UK government to follow the lead taken by Germany in phasing it out.” (see http://stophinkley.org/Health/ExplosionSept2011.htm)

Training

Several Stop New Nuclear trainings for the blockade of Hinkley Point took place in recent weeks – in Bristol, Swansea, Glastonbury, Bridgwater, Compton Dundon, and today in London. Two more trainings will take place:

Exeter, Sunday, 25 September
A non-violence training for people from Exeter interested in participating in the Stop New Nuclear blockade of Hinkley Point on 3 October will take place on Sunday, 25 September 2011 from 1pm to 5.00pm.
Place: University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Amory Building, Room 105
Contact: exeter [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk

Leeds, Sunday, 25 September
A non-violence training for people from Yorkshire interested in
participating in the Stop New Nuclear blockade of Hinkley Point on 3 October will take place on Sunday, 25 September 2011 from 2.00pm to 6.00pm.
Place: Leeds Metropolitan University – City Campus, LS1 3HE, Caleverley Building, Room CL 309
Contact: Yorkshire CND, phone 01274 730 795, Email dominic [at] yorkshirecnd.org.uk

We will not able to organise more trainings in the two weeks before the blockade, but for everyone who still wants to participate in a training, there will be several training sessions in the camp on the weekend before the blockade:

Saturday, 1 October, 7.30-10.30pm
Sunday, 2 October, 8.00-11.00am and 2.00-5.00pm

Legal observer/legal support workshop Sunday 3.00-5.00pm

Please register if you want to take part in any of these workshops at training [at]stopnewnuclear.org.uk, especially if you do not want to stay in the camp. You can also register by calling our info number 0845-2872381.

Register for the Stop New Nuclear camp!

We already have more than 45 people registered for the Stop New Nuclear camp, which is about 4 miles from Hinkley Point. The camp will be a space to prepare for the action (non-violence training and legal observer training workshops will take place in the camp on Saturday evening and Sunday during the day), but also a place to meet other activists, to share experience, and to make plans for the future.

Please note that the camp will be alcohol and drug free, and that dogs are not allowed, as there are sheep nearby.

It is important that you register for the camp, so that we can plan food, but also so that we can send you the exact location and directions how to get to the camp. Your can register on our website at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/register.

Demonstration in Bridgwater, 1 October

Our weekend of actions will kick off with a demonstration in Bridgwater on 1 October. We will have several speakers, music, and possibly other performances.

Assembly is from 1pm on at Kings Square in Bridgwater, next to the EDF offices. From there we will walk about 20-30 minutes through Bridgwater and end the demonstration with a rally at Cornhill.

After the demonstration, a shuttle service will be organised to the Stop New Nuclear camp. There is also a local bus, and we will end in time for people to catch the local bus.

A map marking the assembly point and the location of the rally is
available at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/node/48.

Transport and parking

On 3 October, we will organise transport from the camp to the blockade, and back to the camp. But we will need your help! Let us know if you have spare seats in your car, or if you are willing to drive a car/minibus. We still need drivers! Please contact us urgently on campaign [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk.

Transport is also being organised from Glastonbury (a coach will be leaving at 9am,to arrive at 10am), Bristol, and possibly from other places. Please check out our transport section at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/transport, and use our travel forum to ask for and offer transport.

Parking will be available about 200-300m from the main gate on Wicks Moor Drove, the main and only access road to Hinkley Point. However, this parking is not suitable for coaches. Coaches will need to drop off their passengers and park elsewhere.

We need your help

We need a lot of help to make the campaign a success. We need:
Drivers (30 September – 4 October, transport to and from the camp, to and from the blockade, and from police stations).
1st aiders (for the camp and the blockade)
marquees of any size – from 10-100 persons

Please contact us at campaign [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk if you can help, or have any questions.

Mobilise!

Two weeks to go. Two weeks to make this campaign and the blockade a success. Please help us mobilise for the campaign. If you need fliers (see http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/node/10), please let us know, and we will send you some as long as stock lasts. And talk to your friends, neighbours, colleagues and anyone you can think of to join you at the blockade. We need to send a strong message to EDF and government that we will resist nuclear new built in Britain, not only at Hinkley, but everywhere.

Donate

Stop New Nuclear is being organised on a shoe string budget, and we need your donations to make the blockade a success. We need to hire minibuses and other transport for the blockade, we need to set up infrastructure for trainings and workshops in the camp, we need to print more fliers, and and and. Unfortunately, all this costs money.

According to our present calculations, we will be about £1,300 short! Please help us to close this funding shortfall urgently.

Please give generously. You can donate online at
http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/donate, or you can send a cheque made payable to StopNew Nuclear to:
Stop New Nuclear
c/o 5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
Thank you!

Stop New Nuclear
Stop New Nuclear is a campaign to stop new nuclear power stations and is an alliance of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Stop Nuclear Power Network UK, Kick Nuclear, South West Against Nuclear, Shutdown Sizewell, Sizewell Blockaders, Trident Ploughshares, and Stop Hinkley

Email: campaign@stopnewnuclear.org.uk
Web: http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk

Dale Farm locks on against eviction

Hundreds of people are gathered to resist the eviction of part of the Dale Farm traveller site which is due to begin today.

Hundreds of people are gathered to resist the eviction of part of the Dale Farm traveller site which is due to begin today.

Defences that have been built over months have been strengthened with several supporters are now locked on to concrete barrels and to different parts of the gate barricades with d-locks around their necks. Vehicles and even a washing machine are being used to block the main gate and a huge amount of press and tv are at the site.

Actions against this year’s 6th biennial DSEi Arms Fair

Actions against this year’s 6th biennial DSEi Arms Fair at the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands kicked off last week in the run up to the event. This week’s resistance began with a candlelit vigil on Monday night followed by a day of action of Tuesday, dawning to reveal a subvertised billboard as well as a huge ‘Destroy DSEi’ banner hung between cranes.

A critical mass of cyclists was out and about all day with explosive sounds and various groups blockaded entrances to the arms fair and death dealing companies such as Aerospace Defence & Security Group. There were die-ins all over the place, including outside the BAe Systems building and at the National Gallery, where the official arms fair reception was held on Tuesday evening, guests being greeted with chants of “Scum!”

Actions in Westminster during the day included a CAAT ‘supermarket shopping’ event and a Christian demonstration against drones with street theatre. This later moved on to General Atomics, which makes the British Reaper drone. A priest from Bradford was allowed to reach the main DSEi entrance after announcing that he’d come to perform the official exorcism. Many other actions and visual events took place in and around Docklands. FIT were all over the place, some thinly disguised as ordinary cops, with FITwatchers keeping a close eye on them. Two arrests were reported during the day, one for spray painting anti- arms fair slogans and one for fence climbing. Several more arrests were reported outside the National Gallery in the evening. [More]

On Wednesday, around 15 people marched from central London to the Excel centre. Despite a blanket 30-day ban on marches still in place in the City of London and the borough of Tower Hamlets, there was no police harassment.

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.

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#

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:
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 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…

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.

Banner Making Session @ Passing Clouds in Dalston this Monday

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.

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

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#

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:

“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”

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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”

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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

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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:

“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.