earthfirst – Page 168

ELF Torches Telmex Cell Tower in Mexico State

The night of October 4th we headed into the brush surrounding the Atizapan viaduct above the Mexico-Toluca highway in Mexico State to sabotage one of the many properties that belong to the earth-destroying Telmex company. It was a huge cell phone tower protected by a metal fence. The environmental impact of placing a tower like this on the land is unquestionably harmful, since to place it in this natural area they had to cut many trees where different species of animals lived; in addition to the many waves that these towers emit they leave the land barren and dry.

In analyzing these effects as well as other things, we arrived at the conclusion that a sabotage must happen right now against this machine that destroys the ecosystem and expands civilization! We will not allow companies like Telmex to continue indulging in the luxury of going around turning the earth into a commodity for a few to profit from without having their properties receive a crushing response from eco-radicals.

That’s why we assembled an incendiary device with six liters of gasoline, we penetrated this private property, destroying their fences, and put the device high above the cables which conducted telephone signals. As expected our gift worked perfectly and the fire completely destroyed the cables in addition to power boxes that they connected to below. They exploded leaving this tower of the filthy Carlos Slim unusable, causing thousands of pesos in losses.
This action is dedicated to all the cells that in September carried out acts that appeared up in mass media outlets. The war against everything that seeks to dominate us continues. Let’s continue on!

Also through this communique we wish to express our most sincere and direct solidarity with those imprisoned on the second of October during the State repression against student groups, alternative media reporters and anarchists in the national capital and in Oaxaca. We know that businesses (including Telmex) demand that the state act as their servant so unequivocally that the state will seize innocent people; we have all witnessed the ineptitude and sham it carried out
against college activist Ramsés Villarreal.

Solidarity with individuals now in prison, by fighting directly against the riot police, should happen by any means. We do not know these people in prison and we are not in the least interested in prosecuting them as surely the soft-anarchists, the Stalinist-anarchists, the red-unionists and other shitty reformist groups would be, neither are we interested in saying whether they are innocent or guilty; that is a measure that the state and its judges decide. Our part is to change tactics to fight and return to the state all the blows that it has given us. Today is the time, the insurgency is day by day and we will no longer wait to arm our revolution.

Frente de Liberación de la Tierra

Spanish:

La noche del 4 de Octubre nos dirigimos dentro de la maleza en el viaducto Atizapan, sobre la autopista Mexico-Toluca
en el Estado de Mexico; para sabotear una de las tantas propiedades de la empresa destructora de la tierra Telmex, se
trataba de una gran torre de telefonía celular la que estaba protegida por una valla metálica. El impacto ambiental de
implantar una torre como ésta en la tierra es indiscutiblemente dañina, pues para imponerla en la naturaleza se tuvieron
que talar diferentes arboles en donde vivían distintas especies animales, contribuyendo así a que muchas de las ondas
que emiten tales torres dejen a la tierra estéril y seca.

Al analizar estas repercusiones y demás cosas, llegamos a la conclusión de que un sabotaje contra tal estado de
maquinarias destructoras de los ecosistemas y que expanden la civilización se debe de dar ahora! No vamos a permitir que
las empresas como Telmex sigan con su tradicional lujo de andar convirtiendo a la tierra en una mercancía para lucro de
unxs cuantxs sin que sus propiedades reciban una respuesta contundente de lxs eco-radicales.

Es por eso que hemos armado un dispositivo incendiario con seis litros de gasolina, hemos penetrado tal propiedad ?
privada? destruyendo sus rejas y hemos puesto tal artefacto arriba de los cables que conducían señales telefónicas. Como
se esperaba nuestro regalo funciono a la perfección y el fuego destruyo por completo los cables además de que las cajas
de poder que se encontraban debajo de éstos explotaron dejando la torre propiedad del asqueroso Carlos Slim inutilizada,
causando perdidas de miles de pesos.

Esta acción esta dedicada a todas las células que en septiembre hicieron acto de presencia en todos los medios de in
comunicación masiva, la guerra contra todo lo que nos quiere dominar continua, sigamos adelante!

También por medio de este reporte queremos expresar nuestra mas sincera solidaridad directa con las personas presas el
pasado dos de octubre durante la represión implementada por el estado contra grupos de estudiantes, reporterxs de medios
alternativos y anarquistas en la capital del país y en Oaxaca, sabemos también que las empresas (en las que también se
encuentra Telmex) exigió a su sirviente el estado de manera tajante que se apresaran personas después de la por todxs
vista, ineptitud y montaje que armaron contra el activista universitario Ramsés Villarreal.

La solidaridad con los individuos ahora presos, por pelear de manera directa contra los anti disturbios debe de
manifestarse de todas maneras. Nosotrxs no conocemos a estas personas no nos interesa en lo mas mínimo criminalizarlos
como seguramente lo harán las agrupaciones de anarco-blandxs, anarco-estalinistas, sindicalistas rojos y demás cagada
reformista, tampoco estamos interesados en decir si son inocentes o si son culpables esa es una medida que el estado y
sus jueces dictan, pero lo que si nos corresponde, es cambiar de estrategia para luchar y regresar todos los golpes al
estado que nos ha dado, hoy es el tiempo, la insurrección es día a día y no vamos a esperar mas para armar nuestra
revolución.

Frente de Liberación de la Tierra

http://www.elfpressoffice.org

517 years of resistance: Global mobilisation for Mother Earth, Monday 12 October

517 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

12th October is an international day of protest in solidarity with indigenous people and against global warming – a “Global mobilisation for Mother Earth”

517 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

12th October is an international day of protest in solidarity with indigenous people and against global warming – a “Global mobilisation for Mother Earth”

Come and join us to support the “Minga” of indigenous resistance called by the Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indigenas (CAOI). We support the struggle of Latin American native peoples and protest against the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union and agro-fuels.

MEETING POINTS (Mon 12-10-09)

4:45 Colombian Embassy 3 Hans Crescent SW1 (Knightsbridge tube)
5:30 Peruvian Embassy 52 Sloane Street SW1
5:50 Spanish Embassy Chesham Place SW1
6:30 UK Foreign Office Parliament Street SW1 (Westminster tube)
7pm Department for Energy and Climate Change 3 Whitehall Place SW1 – where we will join the Agro-fuels don’t ROC(k)! demonstration against renewable energy subsidies for Agro-fuels called by the Campaign against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch and Food Not Fuel.

NO TO EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS!

The European Union (EU) plans to open up the Andean region’s services, natural resources and biodiversity to even greater despoliation by pushing through Free Trade Agreements that favour multinational corporations. The deals made behind closed doors by the governments of Colombia and Peru are a threat to Andean integration. The EU is trying to isolate the progressive governments of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Alongside them are the indigenous peoples and their organisations who were never consulted over the negotiation process. Indigenous peoples do not recognise the EU agreements because they will destroy ancestral territorial rights and collective knowledge. The UK government is particularly responsible for this policy – the former EU Trade Commissioner was Peter Mandelson who has been replaced by another Labour politician, Baroness Cathy Ashton.

FOOD NOT FUEL!

The UK government is diverting renewable energy subsidies to subsidise power stations that use agro-fuels. While the UK’s last but one factory producing wind turbines has closed and solar energy firms are struggling, vast “renewable energy” funding is going to agro-fuels which actually make global warming worse and threat food security around the world. In Colombia the cultivation of African Palm for agro-fuels is linked with displacement and violence, while destroying biodiversity and the fertility of the soil.

INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE – VIVA LA MINGA!

The indigenous people have had enough; they will not put up with false promises, lies and trickery any more. They are out on the streets fighting: to “liberate Mother Earth” from the destructive alliance between multinational corporations and local elites, and for a dignified future for their children and their communities. They are a moral force rising from below to reclaim what is justly theirs, life itself.

Bolivia Solidarity Campaign · Colombia Solidarity Campaign · Hands Off Venezuela · Latin American Workers Association · Movement of Ecuadorians in the UK · Polo Democrático (UK) · Rock around the Blockade ·
P&p Coordinadora Latino-Americana c/o PO Box 8446, London N17 6NZ

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BAA to back down on Third Runway – or maybe not!

Update: Insisting that expansion is still on the cards, BAA said: “We remain convinced that a third runway is the only viable, costed and thought-through way of meeting the need for extra runway capacity to maintain this country’s global connections to the rest of the world.”

It also described the process of drawing up a planning application as “complex,” adding that it “was always going to take until after the general election”.

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Activists had reason to cheer as the Third Runway at Heathrow was kicked into touch this weekend. The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that E.on has delayed plans for a new Coal Powered Power station at Kingsnorth. Direct Action is bringing Direct Results.

At the Conservative Party Conference, senior BAA figures revealed that, if the Tories win the next election, the company will give up the fight for a third runway – according to today’s Sunday Times.

Theresa Villiers, the shadow transport secretary, said: “It seems BAA has woken up to the fact that we mean what we say on Heathrow and that if we win the general election there will be no third runway.”

BAA has said that before the election it will not submit a planning application and will not sign large contracts in an attempt to “bounce” a future Conservative government to go ahead.

The Conservatives had already warned BAA that they would not be pushed into accepting a runway by this tactic and told BAA not to sign any construction deals.

Publicly, BAA executives are urging the Tories not to “close the door” on expansion plants and say they are still working on the project. But The Sunday Times reports that they admitted they were surrendering in a meeting with aides to Villiers last week.

Chile: Luxury cars, meat markets, bank branch vandalized

reported anonymously (translation):

“Santiago, between October 3 and 4, $hile. There are many reasons why we went out to disrupt the order of those who we consider our enemies. During an impromptu tour of the disgusting city, we found bourgeois property, butchers, doctors and bankers, those who protect and maintain their lives through this nauseating system of domination, those who love the monotony of work-consumption, aiming to get just a little power, that’s what gives them the tranquility they need to sleep at night.

reported anonymously (translation):

We sabotaged:
– 4 luxury cars (3 4×4 trucks and 1 car) had their tires split.
– 4 luxury cars were scratched with a sharp, metal tool, leaving chaotic designs ruining the expensive paint jobs.
– 6 meat markets ended-up with the locks on the doors and the padlocks on their shutters sealed with metal pieces and superglue.
– A psychiatric clinic was left with its doors glued.
– A BancoEstado bank branch was attacked with stones, resulting in two windows and the entry door shattered.

Symbols of progress and power, leading promoters of environmental destruction, from toxic substances and the use of fuel to the disgusting smoke they spew as they drive, they build the roads deforesting and killing thousands of natural hectares and following their progress lie the cold bleeding bodies of so many animals. Because of this we decided to attack these machines.
Mutilated and piled up bodies as mere objects of consumption, this is the image that doesn’t bother anyone, with a blindfold over their eyes; anthropocentrism is responsible for making humans believe they are masters of the Earth, exploiting for their own well-being everything that exists on the planet. It’s because of this that we glued the meat markets, where the butchers had to replace and repair the locks and padlocks.
Centers of conditioning, repressors of inherent impulses that pigeonhole people according to their conduct; institutions that seek to change and mold us so we are adapted to their instruments of control, committed to exterminating all dissenting ideas of normalcy and order; that’s why we sealed the doors of a psychiatric clinic, while officials were still inside. In this place they don’t lock up the people who write diagnoses.
Institutions that promote exploitation and progress at the expense of crushing and enslaving people, animals and the earth.

For capitalism everything is a source of power and profit; introducing the ideology of power throughout the world, disguised in multiple forms; it is because of the power that the banks represent that we attacked a bank branch; with a large stone we hit the metal structure, breaking two windows and the door.

We know that these acts of sabotage were not an impediment to the targets and they will continue their work; it was only a momentary break and an inconvenience to those who saw the extent of our exploits.

This is a minimal gesture of solidarity and a greeting for all those who have felt the enemy’s blows on their skin, who have been encaged and separated from their loved ones. We salute our comrade Axel Osorio, who has demonstrated that the cages did not stop him and that his struggle continues from the dungeons, and to Cristian Cancino, accused of being a supplier of gunpowder, to comrades Pablo Carbajal and Matías Castro accused of the attack on the PDI. To comrades Daniel and Francisco, recently on trial in Italy for robbery and subversive association. To our comrades in Greece accused of belonging to a cell responsible for bombings, a cell which continues attacking, showing the futility of the powerful who accuse people who are unrelated to the attacks. To comrades in Mexico, where the powerful also kidnapped a comrade, holding him responsible for the September bombings, comrades stronger than the powerful who try to stop the attacks on authority.

The war has also cost the deaths of many comrades throughout the world, recently it took away our friend Mauri from us, the product of an accident that could have been avoided. Mauri will be remembered as the warrior that he was, loving comrades and desiring the death of enemies, a savage in the war against society, Mauri this is for you and as well as all the actions that are still to come!
For the companion Diego Rios, who 4 months ago made his escape and went underground refusing to fall into the hands of the authority. To him we say, flee, Diego, run and continue to expose the vulnerability of the powerful, from here we embrace every word of your communiques and with these actions we salute you.

We invite all the comrades who read this message to continue attacking the powerful on all fronts. We salute in the spirit of war, and we send our strength through action.

This is just the beginning!

Banda Salvaje e Insurrecta en Guerra Contra la Dominación [Wild Insurgent Group in the War Against Domination]”

Spanish:

“Santiago entre el 3 y 4 de octubre, $hile. Muchas son las razones que nos animan a salir a sabotear el orden de quienes consideramos nuestros enemigos. En el transcurso de un improvisado recorrido por la asquerosa ciudad, nos encontramos con propiedades de burgueses, matarifes, doctores y banqueros, quienes defienden y mantienen con sus vidas estenauseabundo sistema de dominación, amantes de la monotonía del trabajo-consumo encaminados por lograr conseguir un poco de poder, lo que les da la tranquilidad que necesitan para poder dormir.

Saboteamos:
– 4 vehículos de lujo (3 camionetas 4×4 y 1 auto) terminaron con sus ruedas rajadas.
– 4 autos de lujo rayados con un elemento metálico y filoso, dejando marcas de caóticos diseños arruinando sus costosas capas de pintura.
– 6 Carnicerías, las cuales amanecieron con las cerraduras de las puertas y los candados de las cortinas metálicas selladas con pedazos de metal y pegamentoextrafuerte.
– Un clínica de diagnóstico psiquiátrico quedo con sus puertas selladas con pedazos de metal y pegamento extrafuerte.
– Una sucursal del BancoEstado fue apedreada, resultando dos cristales y la puerta de acceso destrozadas.

Símbolos de progreso y poder, principales promotores de la destrucción ambiental con sustancias tóxicas, desde el uso de combustible hasta el asqueroso humo que expelen al moverse, construyen sus caminos deforestando y asesinando miles de hectáreas naturales y tras su avance yacen los cuerposfríos y desangrados de muchos animales. Por eso decidimos atacar
estas máquinas.
Cuerpos mutilados y amontonados como simples objetos de consumo, es este el panorama que no asombra a nadie, con una venda en los ojos el antropocentrismo se encarga de hacer creer que los humanos son amos de la Tierra, explotando para su bien todo lo que en el planeta existe, es por eso que sellamos estascarnicerías, donde los matarifes tuvieron que
cambiar y reparar las cerraduras y los candados.
Centros de condicionamiento, represores de impulsos inherentes que encasillan a las personas de acuerdo a sus conductas, instituciones que buscan transformarnos en moldes adaptados a instrumentos de control, empeñados en exterminar todo idea desidente de la normalidad y el orden, es por eso que sellamos las puertas de una clínica de diagnóstico
psiaquiátrico, cuando los funcionarios aún se encontraban dentro, en este lugar no encierran a personas solo se emiten evaluaciones.
Instituciones promotoras de explotación y progreso, a costa de aplastar y esclavizar a personas, animales y la tierra. Para el capitalismo todo es fuente de poder y ganancias, implantando la ideología del poder por todo el mundo, disfrazada demúltiples formas, es por el poder que representan los bancos que atacamos una sucursal y con una gran piedra golpeamos su estructura metálica, rompiendo dos cristales y la puerta de acceso.

Sabemos que estos sabotajes no fueron un impedimento para que los objetivos atacados continuaran con sus labores, solo fue un frenomomentáneo y una incomodidad para quienes apreciaron nuestras hazañas.

Éste es un mínimo gesto de solidaridad y un saludo de ánimo para todxs aquellxs que han sentido en su piel los golpes del enemigo, que han sido enjauladxs y separadxs de sus seres queridxs. Saludamos al compañero Axel Osorio, que ha demostrando que las jaulas no lo apagan y que su lucha continua desde las mazmorras, a Cristian Cancino acusado de ser proveedor de pólvora, a los compañeros Pablo Carbajal y Matías Castro acusados del ataque a la PDI. A los compañeros Daniel y Francisco recientemente juzgados en Italia por robo y asociación subversiva. A lxs compañerxs en Grecia acusadxs pertenecer a una célula responsable de explosiones, célula que a seguido atacando, mostrando la inutilidad del poder que acusa a personas que no están relacionadas con los ataques. A lxs compañerxs en México, que también el poder les había secuestrado a un compañero responsabilizándolo de los bombazos de septiembre, compañerxs a ser fuertes que el poder intentara por todas las formas detener los ataques contra la autoridad.

La guerra también a costado la muerte de muchxs compañerxs en todo el mundo, recientemente nos arrebato al compa Mauri, producto de un accidente que podría haber sido evitado. Mauri serás recordado como el guerrero que fuiste, amando a tus compañerxs y deseando la muerte a tus enemigos, un salvaje en guerra contra la sociedad, Mauri para ti estas y todas las
acciones que realizaremos!
Para el compañero Diego Ríos, quién ya hace 4 meses emprendió su fuga y asumió la clandestinidad negándose a caer en las manos del la autoridad.
Le decimos huye, Diego, huye y sigue exponiendo la vulnerabilidad del poder, desde aquí abrazamos cada palabra de tus comunicados y con estas acciones te saludamos.

Invitamos a todxs lxs compañerxs que lean este mensaje a continuar atacando el poder desde todos los frentes, ánimo compañerxs que en la guerra nos saludamos y damos fuerza mediante la acción.

Esto es solo el comienzo!

Banda Salvaje e Insurrecta en Guerra Contra la Dominación”

http://www.directaction.info

12,000 mink freed from fur farms, one farm to close

Media in Denmark have reported that more than 10,000 mink were released from cages at Danish fur farms this week. Media in Sweden has reported that approximately 1,000 mink were released from cages at a farm in Eksjo, Sweden early on October 5.

TWO FUR FARM RAIDS IN THREE DAYS, 11,000 MINK FREED (Denmark)

Media in Denmark have reported that more than 11,000 mink were released from cages at Danish fur farms this week. During the night of October 6, 6000 mink escaped from a farm near Søndervig after cages were opened and fences surrounding the property were destroyed. Then, early on October 9, 5000 mink were freed from cages at a farm in Fousing.
(photo: Morten Melhede / dagbladetringskjern.dk)

1000 MINK RELEASED FROM CAGES, FARM WILL CLOSE! (Sweden)

Media has reported that approximately 1,000 mink were released from cages at a farm in Eksjo, Sweden early on October 5.
Water pipes and equipment at the farm were also damaged. It was the fourth time that the farm had been targeted, most recently in April.

The farmer has announced that the farm will close.

Source: Bite Back Magazine

Sabotage and digger-diving – work stopped twice in two days at Mainshill Wood

For the past two weeks Scottish Woodlands and others contracted by Scottish Coal have been devastating parts of Mainshill Wood, those beyond the Solidarity Camp. Plantation forest is being felled at an alarming rate, with massive harvesting machines and JCBs tearing up more of Scotland’s countryside. Scottish Coal is establishing its own site, south of the Solidarity Camp and right in the middle of Mainshill Wood. Your solidarity is urgently needed – this work must be stopped.

An anonymous communique was received after three of the four large pieces of harvesting machinery on site were sabotaged in the early hours of Thursday morning. Work is on-going round the clock, but did not start until 4 or 5pm on Thursday, being delayed for many hours. The communique reads:

“On the morning of Thursday 8th of October three heavy vehicles had their locks glued. These vehicles belong to Scottish Woodlands Ltd, who have been subcontracted by Scottish Coal to clearfell Mainshill Wood.

The vehicles damaged have been working to prepare the Mainshill Wood area for coal extraction. If it is open casted then it will join several other mines in the Douglas Valley, two of which are currently expanding.

Scottish Coal, the land owner Lord Home and the government and more than prepared to sacrifice the health of local communities and environment, as well as contribute to climate change and nearly universal environmental degradation for wages, bonuses, targets and profits.

This action was taken by a group of autonomous people in solidarity with all those who oppose the development of Mainshill Wood into an open cast coal mine.”

Digger-Diving

On Tuesday night at around 9:30pm, long after it had got dark, residents of the Solidarity Camp suddenly realised that a massive harvesting machine was cutting through the last line of trees separating the camp from the rest of the site, dangerously close to where people live and were sleeping, both in treehouses and tunnels.

Residents quickly surrounded the machine, and tried to explain that the driver was putting people’s lives at risk. The driver, breaking the companies own health and safety regulations, continued working despite people being within metres of the machine. At one point the saw blades on the end of the harvester’s arm were swung within a metre of a resident’s head. Eventually after much shouting and whistle-blowing, the harvester was chased back to the access gate.

Shortly after, another piece of heavy machinery that collects the felled trees tried to make its way up the access path, but was blocked by residents of the camp. The driver refused to stop and kept moving towards the people blocking its path, and only did when it was clear that the windscreen might be redecorated if the machine wasn’t stopped. One driver exclaimed “I don’t care” in response to a resident shouting “you’re going to kill someone!”, while the second driver at one point jumped out of the cab in pursuit of a resident and shouted “I’m going to kill you”.

That same night, a resident in a surrounding community had called Strathclyde police after a house was attacked with air-rifles. The police didn’t bother to show up. At the Solidarity Camp, however, within 20 minutes two police vehicles and four officers braved the mud and threatened to arrest anyone stopping work, claiming the residents were endangering themselves by coming close to the machinery, despite the fact that the machinery practically came on to the camp! The only compromise was that Scottish Woodlands agreed to stop felling trees at night.

The above hightlights the disregard that Scottish Woodlands and Scottish Coal have for the safety of Solidarity Camp residents (not to mention the health of local communities) and how Strathclyde Police are complicit in protecting property and the interests of private business, and not people.

Come to Mainshill

Your support and solidarity is urgently needed at Mainshill. Even if just for a few hours, people are needed. You can go and stop work for the day, chop wood, build barricades and defenses, or do the washing up. It is impossible to stress how fast the work on the site is happening, and how quickly the area is being devastated.

Mainshill Solidarity Camp
– e-mail: mainshill@riseup.net
– Homepage: http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/

Hit the Production of Climate Chaos – get involved – 13th December call for actions

The climate catastrophe has not happened by random chance and the melting glacier is not its place. Our economic system, the way it produces goods, and the way they are transported and finally consumed is the root of climate change.

We do not believe that this COP will solve the climate crisis. The delegates, NGOs and company representatives are stuck in an ideology of never ending economic growth and universal market solutions to all human-made problems, such as ecological destruction. Social justice issues are consequently ignored.

On December 13th we call for action on this economic system. We encourage affinity groups to take action on targets in Copenhagen, and abroad. In the Morning of December 13th we will also shut down the harbour of Copenhagen through a mass action blockade. The harbour is a key symbol of the global free-market economy. Here becomes visible what is usually hidden: ecological deterioration, economic and social exploitation, and utter injustice.

Since the dawn of colonialism the global shipping industry has been characterized by violence. What was once gold pillaged from the Incas is these days profit based on cheap resources and cheap labour – usually transported by ships. Today, container shipping is one of the foundations of capitalism. There are hardly any regulations: fuel is not taxed, emissions are not subject to control and borders are seemingly non-existent for container ships. At the same time, the never ending need for more cheap goods is almost limitless. The ‘free’ global flow of goods continues to grow – with benefits for only the few.

But whereas these flows of goods can enter the EU/ rich world freely, humans cannot. As soon as people do not have the right passport or enough money when entering rich countries, they are put in prisons, deported and deprived of the most basic human rights. And the militarisation of the seas is not just happening around the EU borders. It is also used to protect international shipping, like in Somalia where international fishing fleets have robbed Somali fishermen of the fundamental elements of their existence.

Finally, international shipping is more than just a method of transport for the global economy. It is in itself a primary cause of climate change. Approximately 5% of Global Greenhouse Emissions are produced by the shipping industry. Container ship fuel is basically toxic waste left over from petrol production, containing high amounts of sulphur and mercury. And like international flights, nobody is responsible for shipping industry emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.

Climate justice and real social change will not come from above. Effective change has to come from everyone – affected, responsible, and observer. True change has to be organized and realized by people all over the world – all people on the streets and in the fields. We say no to the power of governments, companies and so-called non-government organisations which are only interested in maintaining their power, influence and flows of capital.

We will try to stop this madness for a day. Fighting for climate justice means changing our economic system and this needs to happen here in the rich global north, which reaps the most benefits from the disaster. For the free flow of people and ideas, instead of flows of goods to benefit the few.

Contact htp@riseup.net to get involved with planning the action, or come to one of our next meetings: Berlin October 3-4 & Copenhagen October 18.

‘Ratcliffe 114’ Protestors at Court – Callout for support – updated

The Ratcliffe protestors being persecuted for ‘conspiracy’ are at court next week – show some support!

There are 3 groups appearing in Nottingham Mags on the 12th 13th and 14th – they need our support to show we will not be intimidated.

Solidarity – No conspiracy!

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Ratcliffe 114 – one more charged, now 25

The Guardian mentions the M1 case:

The Ratcliffe protestors being persecuted for ‘conspiracy’ are at court next week – show some support!

There are 3 groups appearing in Nottingham Mags on the 12th 13th and 14th – they need our support to show we will not be intimidated.

Solidarity – No conspiracy!

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Ratcliffe 114 – one more charged, now 25

The Guardian mentions the M1 case:

“Sometimes these cases – such as the conspiracy to commit public nuisance charge brought against members of the “No M1 Widening” campaign in 2007 – are just thrown out by the judges. But sometimes, as in the conspiracy cases against animal rights activists and anti-arms manufacturing campaigns, they are treated extremely seriously. The impact on the lives of the accused is enormous, because under the terms of a conspiracy charge, you can be forbidden to talk to anyone involved, which can involve housemates, family, friends. Your possessions can be seized (Julie White of the M1 campaign had her door broken down by police, her computer seized and held for a year, and even items taken off her washing line) and held on remand for the duration of the trial.”

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“if the court allows the case and convictions follow, it has catastrophic implications. Any activist involved with planning any kind of illegal direct action could be charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.

As White says: “You could pick up anyone you wanted. We’re getting into thought crimes now.” Is that what the police are after?”

Disrupting E.ON at London City University undergraduate fair + Kingsnorth shelved, or not? (+ Tilbury)

7th October 2009

7th October 2009
E.ON, were holding a talk at the student recruitment fair yesterday. The company is responsible for the planned new coal power stations at Kingsnorth, which combined would produce the same carbon emissions as Ghana. With the report by the Global and Humanitarian forum stating that three hundred thousand people are already dying already each year due to climate change, it isn’t a viable option.

The group of activists stormed the talks yesterday by E.ON, getting past the security guards who were holding a pretty tight presence outside the doors, quite possibly due to the continued protests against E.ON at student fairs last year http://leaveitintheground.org.uk/?p=185 .

While three burly guys jumped on one activist, the others handed out flyers to the bemused students woken up from the corporate PowerPoint slumber. An activist took to the podium to tell the audience what E.ON are really about. Claiming themselves as a Green Energy Company while 95% of their investment is into non renewable energies is a clear sign of greenwashing and the corporate bullshit that students have to listen to.

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Kingsnorth power station plans axed – Local Campaigners Respond

8.10.2009
The timing couldn’t be better, Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway (KCAM) and WDM hosted a debate tonight to discuss the future of coal in Medway. The meeting culminated in the announcement that E.on have essentially pulled out of building a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth.

Local campaigner Trish Marchant said “Its fantastic news for us, but it’s a small victory. We in Medway will be sending our support to the next local group who take on the fight” In a heavy blow to the government’s plans to promote energy from coal, the German company have said they will not pursue the new plant in the UK until at least 2012.

Jane Harris, a local KCAM campaigner said “This is a step in the right direction, it shows that people really do have the power to challenge the government and corporations. However, according to UN figures climate change is currently responsible for 300,000 deaths per year. We need to seriously rethink any plans to use new coal, we need to be focusing on renewable green energy”.

Should the project have gone ahead, the coal units would have been be the first to be built for more than 20 years.

Dave Davidson, a resident of the peninsula said “I’m cautious about Eons real agenda. Are they trying to apply pressure to Ed Milliband to make a decision or are we really seeing the change we have been working for. I hope for the future of our planet that it’s the latter.”

Jill Osborne of Tipping Point said “Its been amazing working alongside such committed locals. The people of Medway certainly know how to mount a resistance. This victory will be a huge inspiration to climate change campaigners across the world.”

http://kcam.co.cc

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– Climate Camp responds

Wednesday, 7 October 2009: Climate activists celebrated victory against carbon intensive coal power last night, as energy company E.ON announced they were indefinitely delaying building a new power station in Kent. The Camp for Climate Action targeted the Kingsnorth site in August 2008 1 as coal is one of the most environmentally destructive ways of generating electricity.2

E.ON’s anouncement comes as hundreds of activists prepare for the Great Climate Swoop on 17th October, when they plan to take control of Ratcliffe-on-Soar3, another coal-fired power plant operated by E.ON 4. Activists will be co-ordinating the protests through text messages and twitter, which were also used to plan the G20 protests.

Activist Dennis Stevens said: “This is an amazing victory which shows how ordinary people can take back the power from corporations and government which do not value people and the environment. We need a social movement to develop community control of our energy supply and our society; not our current system which ignores the needs of people and the climate.”

Resistance by Climate Camp activists to the Kingsnorth plan has been widespread, including the Tipping Point shop in nearby Gillingham which works within the local community to expose E.ON’s greenwash, and actions targeting E.ON’s PR firm Edelman and construction firms bidding for the Kingsnorth contract. Climate Camp activists have also dumped coal at E.ON student recruitment events, given out leaflets at FA Cup football matches sponsored by E.ON, and even disrupted a climate change conference sponsored by the energy giant itself.5

Emma Jackson added: “E.ON are finally recognising that the days of building new coal-fired power stations are over. Now we have to start shutting down existing power stations, and that’s why we’re going to Ratcliffe-on-Soar next week. And if E.ON try and bring back their plans for Kingsnorth then we’ll be back there too”.

More information on the Great Climate Swoop at Ratcliffe on Soar is available at thegreatclimateswoop.org

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

1 Kingsnorth would have been the first coal-fired power station in the UK for more than 30 years.

2 If built, Kingsnorth will emit between 6 and 8 million tons of CO2 every year. If all the coal plants proposed for Britain are built, an extra 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year would be pumped into the atmosphere, almost a tenth of the UK’s current total emissions.

3 Ratcliffe-on-Soar is the UK’s third most polluting power station and emits more CO2 each year than Costa Rica.

4 climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009

5 leaveitintheground.org.uk/?p=185

Tel: 07772861099, 07040900905 or 07932096677
Email: press@climatecamp.org.uk

http://tippingpoint.co.cc

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Or is it really a success?

Headlines would suggest a major ground breaking victory for the enviromental movement and the campaign against new coal with the announcement by Eon however the Tipping Point blog suggests the news might not be so significant (see http://climateshop.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/news-sinking-in/). Eon has since confirmed that it remains in the governments competition to build a demonstration carbon capture and storage facility attached to a coal-fired power plant by 2014 and since the winner is unlikely to be announced untill 2011 how can Eons annoucement be taken as a victory?

All Eon are saying is that they a likely to delay commiting cash to build the new plant for the next two or three year so that certainly does not translate as shelving the project, not when they are still seeking the billion pound gift from Ed Miliband to trial the CCS.

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What does this mean for coal in the UK?

It is the suspension of the key project that has so far defined the battle over new coal in the UK. It is therefore highly significant, but not a fatal blow. The investment freeze could be un-frozen with the right level of subsidy, and has no direct impact on the other plants being considered for CCS demonstration. There is now a new threat emerging at Hunterston in Scotland, from a consortium including RWE and Dong energy (a Danish utility) for a plant identical to Kingsnorth, and they are claiming they will build with or without Government assistance.

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Health warning – report from mainstream newspaper, hence “ecofriendly”!!!

POWER FIRM HALTS PLANS FOR NEW GREEN STATION 12th November 2009.

PLANS to build a new, ecofriendly power station in South Essex have been put on hold.

The existing power coalfired power station at Tilbury is due to be decommissioned in 2014,possibly even in 2013.It had been expected that its operators, npower, would replace it with a new power station, but on Monday they announced they wouldn’t now be making an application to build a new supercritical coal-fired power station at the site.

There has been a power station at Tilbury since 1956, with oil-fired Tilbury ‘A’ coming online to the national grid a year later.Coal-fired Tilbury ‘B’ followed in 1967 and has operated, with significant efficiency upgrades since then. The original station was mothballed in 1981 and eventually demolished in 1999, allowing the creation of the station’s innovative environmental centre.

However, a European directive which came into force on 1 January, 2008 gave the power station just 20,000 hours of operating life before it has to be replaced by a more environmentally-friendly, carbon efficient system (see further below for data *1* ). Nigel Staves, Tilbury Power Station manager, estimates that timescale will run out as early as 2013. He says: “Given the current market, we are unable to make an economic case for this new coal power station. “We are also considering the outcome of the Government’s policy review on the conditions for new coal stations. For this reason, our plans for Tilbury are now on hold. “However,we firmly believe new, more efficient, coal-fired generation should ultimately have a role to play in a low -carbon economy alongside gas, nuclear power and increasingly renewable energy sources. “We continue to see the Tilbury site as an important one, both to RWE npower and in terms of the future of power generation in the UK. “Given the existing energy infrastructure and proximity to areas of high demand for electricity, it is an obvious choice for power generation. “We are now reviewing potential options.”

RWE npower said this meant it would not be progressing with its bid for Government funds to develop a carbon dioxide capture demonstration plant at a new Tilbury station, but it remained interested in other opportunities to develop the technology.

Sheffield Social Centre – New Location & another eviction hearing!

New location announced for the Anti-Capitalist, Non-Hierachical, Liberated Space.

Sheffield social centre has moved, nothing else has changed.

New location announced for the Anti-Capitalist, Non-Hierachical, Liberated Space.

Sheffield social centre has moved, nothing else has changed.

The new location is 10 Northumberland Road, just off Glossop Road. The building was vacant when we entered and no criminal laws were broken.

We are keen to enter into discussion with the buildings owner to avoid costly legal proceedings. In the meantime the cafe and the full programme of events are running as usual in this open and inclusive community space. Come down any time, all are welcome.

http://sheffieldsocialcentre.org.uk/

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9.10.09: yesterday, at around 5pm, notices were served at 10 Northumberland which state that a trespass hearing is due to take place at Sheffield County Court at 10:30am on Wednesday 14th October.