Borneo tribe mounts new blockades against rainforest destruction

30 July 2009
Dozens of Penan tribes­peo­ple armed with blow­pipes and spears have erect­ed block­ades across the roads cut by log­ging com­pa­nies deep into their for­est in Bor­neo. The block­aders are call­ing for an end to log­ging on their land.

30 July 2009
Dozens of Penan tribes­peo­ple armed with blow­pipes and spears have erect­ed block­ades across the roads cut by log­ging com­pa­nies deep into their for­est in Bor­neo. The block­aders are call­ing for an end to log­ging on their land.

Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al is call­ing for recog­ni­tion of the hunter-gath­er­er Penan tribe’s land rights and a halt to all devel­op­ment on their land with­out their con­sent.

Malaysian police are at the block­ades, but no arrests have been report­ed.

One Penan man told Sur­vival, ‘This piece of for­est is the only place left for us to hunt and find food. But there’s only a lit­tle bit left. Last night I went hunt­ing and came back with noth­ing. If we can’t save this bit of for­est, we will have noth­ing to eat.’

The Penan live in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of the island of Bor­neo. They have been strug­gling for more than twen­ty years to stop the com­pa­nies clear­ing their forests. Some have been suc­cess­ful, but many have seen their forests dev­as­tat­ed, their rivers pol­lut­ed and the ani­mals and plants they rely on for food dis­ap­pear.

Now, where the valu­able trees have all been tak­en, the com­pa­nies are start­ing to clear the land com­plete­ly for oil palm plan­ta­tions. Palm oil is used in many foods and cos­met­ics, and increas­ing­ly for bio­fu­els.

Survival’s direc­tor Stephen Cor­ry said today, ‘The log­ging and oil palm com­pa­nies are rob­bing the Penan not just of their forests but of their food and water. It is essen­tial that the Malaysian gov­ern­ment rec­og­nizes the Penan’s rights to their land and stops allow­ing the com­pa­nies to take every­thing in sight.’

The noto­ri­ous Malaysian com­pa­ny Sam­ling is log­ging in the Long Daloh area, and a sub­sidiary of the com­pa­ny KTS is log­ging in the Ba Marong area.

Sur­vival researcher Miri­am Ross vis­it­ed the Penan ear­li­er this year, and is avail­able for inter­view.

Vis­it Survival’s web­page about the Penan

For more infor­ma­tion and images please con­tact Miri­am Ross:
T (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or (+44) (0)7504543367
E mr@survival-international.org

Two Irish Anti-Shell Campaigners Jailed for Civil Disobedience

31.7.2009

— Eight and four month sen­tences show dra­mat­ic increase in repres­sion —

31.7.2009

— Eight and four month sen­tences show dra­mat­ic increase in repres­sion —

Shell to Sea cam­paign­ers Mau­ra Har­ring­ton and Niall Har­nett were sen­tenced to four and eight months in jail respec­tive­ly at Bell­mulet dis­trict court today. Both pro­test­ers have been con­vict­ed for tak­ing action as part of a cam­paign of peace­ful civ­il dis­obe­di­ence against the ill-fat­ed Cor­rib Gas Project. Mau­ra was giv­en her four month sen­tence under Sec­tion 8 of the Pub­lic Order Act; ‘fail­ing to com­ply with the direc­tions of a Gar­da’. The sen­tence was hand­ed down in rela­tion to an inci­dent that occurred duing a protest at Shel­l’s ‘land­fall’ com­pound gate on 30th August 2008. Niall was sen­tenced to eight months in rela­tion to two sep­a­rate inci­dents. He was giv­en a four month sen­tence under Sec­tion 8 of the Pub­lic order act, and anoth­er four months under Sec­tion 2, for the sup­posed assault of a Gar­da.

Mau­ra had dri­ven her car to the gate of the com­pound which is the site where the high pres­sure gas pipeline is to come ashore. She then refused to move her car in one of sev­er­al acts of peace­ful civ­il dis­obe­di­ence that Mau­ra has engaged in. This is the third time this year that Mau­ra Har­ring­ton, retired local school prin­ci­pal, has been jailed for peace­ful­ly protest­ing against the Cor­rib Gas project.

The alleged assault for which Niall was con­vict­ed occured at the com­pound fence and eye wit­ness acounts and video footage shows Niall attempt­ing to aid anoth­er pro­test­er gar­da who is being vio­lent­ly assault­ed by a Gar­da. Niall, who is on his way to Castlerea Prison (Co. Roscom­mon.) after sen­tenc­ing this after­noon said:

“I have been jailed for my oppo­si­tion and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence to Shell and their facil­i­ta­tors in the Irish State, and for my part in a bril­liant protest which will con­tin­ue and will grow. They will not get away with the destruc­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty, the envi­ron­ment and the give­away of Irish nat­ur­al resources. My motives are pure, and this sen­tence will have served a pur­pose if it expos­es the lengths the State will go in their com­plic­i­ty in the rip-off of Ireland’s nat­ur­al resources”.

Both defend­ents were forced to choose between sign­ing restric­tive bonds to keep the peace or lengthy jail terms. The bonds would have placed lim­its on and pre­vent­ed each of them from exer­cis­ing their demo­c­ra­t­ic rights to free­dom to protest and free­dom of move­ment. Under such bonds they would have been for­bid­den from attend­ing any protest and exclud­ed from the areas around any Shell sites.

Shell to Sea spokesper­son Ter­ence Con­way said: “Cer­tain promi­nent pro­test­ers appear to have been tar­get­ed in an attempt to crush resis­tance in the area. These jail sen­tences rep­re­sent the lastest exam­ples of a sus­tained cam­paign by the state, in con­junc­tion with Shell, to crim­i­nalise and intim­i­date the local com­mu­ni­ty and their sup­port­ers in order to imple­ment their project at any cost. Mau­ra and Niall are coura­geous cam­paign­ers against the destruc­tion of the envi­ron­ment, the threat to health and safe­ty and the give­away of Ire­land’s nat­ur­al resources. ”

A protest was organ­ised by Dublin Shell to Sea group for Thurs­day 30th July out­side Moun­tjoy prison where Mau­ra was tak­en after sen­tenc­ing on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Daring Action Gets Supplies To Vestas Workers Occupation

30.7.2009
A group of twen­ty peo­ple suc­cess­ful­ly brought vital sup­plies into the Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry on the Isle of Wight this after­noon, to the whoops and cheers of the occu­py­ing work­ers.

30.7.2009
A group of twen­ty peo­ple suc­cess­ful­ly brought vital sup­plies into the Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry on the Isle of Wight this after­noon, to the whoops and cheers of the occu­py­ing work­ers.

The group includ­ing work­ers, local sup­port­ers, and cam­paign­ers from the Cli­mate Camp, Work­ers Cli­mate Action, the Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion and Work­ers Lib­er­ty split into two teams. At around 2pm, one team approached the main entrance of the fac­to­ry, car­ry­ing decoy bags of food, to draw off police and secu­ri­ty guards. While this first team was being escort­ed and car­ried bod­i­ly from the site, a sec­ond team ran through a hedge and were able to pass a large sack of sup­plies up to the occu­py­ing Ves­tas work­ers. The sup­plies were based on a wish­list pro­vid­ed by the occu­piers, and includ­ed food, drink, and cru­cial­ly a ket­tle with tea and cof­fee.

Jim Spencer, a mem­ber of the Cli­mate Camp who took part in the action, said the Ves­tas man­age­ment have been attempt­ing to starve the occu­piers out. After much protest, they are cur­rent­ly pro­vid­ing them with one insub­stan­tial meal per day such as a sin­gle slice of piz­za or a lone sand­wich per work­er. This is an utter dis­grace, and so many of us camped out­side have been think­ing about how to get sup­plies in to them. It turned out that some of the fac­to­ry work­ers and their local sup­port­ers were think­ing the same way, so we all decid­ed to work togeth­er.

Mr Spencer went on: The fact that work­ers, locals, envi­ron­men­tal­ists and labour cam­paign­ers are all work­ing togeth­er reflects how impor­tant this occu­pa­tion is. It’s vital to the fac­to­ry work­ers and their fam­i­lies, it’s vital to the local econ­o­my, and it’s vital in the fight to avert cli­mate dis­as­ter. The Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry must be saved.

ENDS

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A Number of Small Actions in Reykjavík

Dur­ing the last days, a num­ber of small actions have tak­en place in Reykavík; ban­ner drop in the cen­ter of Reyk­javík, graf­fi­ti and stinky liq­uid at Jarðb­o­ranir and a night­time shut-down of Útlendin­gastof­nun.

UtendDur­ing the last days, a num­ber of small actions have tak­en place in Reykavík; ban­ner drop in the cen­ter of Reyk­javík, graf­fi­ti and stinky liq­uid at Jarðb­o­ranir and a night­time shut-down of Útlendin­gastof­nun.

This morn­ing, July 30th, a huge ban­ner was dropped in the cen­ter of Reyk­javík, bring­ing atten­tion to the con­nec­tion and co-oper­a­tion between the alu­mini­um indus­try and the weapon indus­try. The ban­ner said: “30% of all alu­mini­um goes to the weapon indus­try – Stop the alu­mini­um indus­try!” From the begin­ning of our cam­paign we have not only focused on the destruc­tive envi­ron­men­tal impact of alu­mini­um pro­duc­tion and big dams, but also the social and humane impacts. Alcoa in Ice­land has steadi­ly refused the con­nec­tion, but with only a lit­tle look at the web­site of n.b. Alcoa Defense, one sees with own eyes that Alcoa does not only pro­duce alu­mini­um for weapon man­u­fac­tur­ing, but proud­ly takes a huge part in the design of mil­i­tary equip­ment of all types.

Sev­er­al arti­cles have been writ­ten about the issue as well as many press releas­es fol­low­ing Sav­ing Iceland’s actions:
Lygar og Útúrsnúningar (in Ice­landic only)
Agya, What Do You Mean With Devel­op­ment?
Sav­ing Ice­land Block­ades Rio Tinto-Alcan’s Smelter in Haf­nar­fjörður
Sav­ing Ice­land Dis­rupts Inter­na­tion­al Alu­mini­um Con­fer­ence in Ger­many

Drill your own heads!
Yes­ter­day night Sav­ing Ice­land received an anony­mous let­ter titled Sol­i­dar­i­ty Action, which though did not include any pho­tos:

“The work­ers of Jarðb­o­ranir received a dis­gust­ing sur­prise this after­noon. The company’s fan­cy entrance was cov­ered in rot­ten and smelly liq­uid. Rot­ten like their hearts, smelly like the mon­ey they earn by drilling the Earth. The mes­sage we wrote to the work­ers was: DRILL YOUR OWN HEADS — BASTARDS!”

Jarðb­o­ranir (Earth Drilling ) owns the drills that are used to search for geot­her­mal ener­gy. Jarðb­o­ranir have recent­ly signed con­tracts with sev­er­al ener­gy com­pa­nies; Landsvirkjun, Reyk­javík Ener­gy and Þeistareykir ehf. about drilling for ener­gy, which is meant to run already con­struct­ing and upcom­ing alu­mini­um smelters.

The lack of pub­lic knowl­edge about test drilling is one of the main rea­sons for the myth about geot­her­mal ener­gy being ‘green’ and sus­tain­able. For each test drill, a piece of land in the size of a foot­ball field has to evened out, e.g. for road con­struc­tion. The test drilling’s effi­cien­cy is very lim­it­ed; only very few of the holes end up pro­vid­ing ener­gy. By then the area is already destroyed and the destruc­tion won’t be tak­en back.

Com­pa­nies like Jarðb­o­ranir have not been very vis­i­ble in the cri­tique and resis­tance against the destruc­tion of Iceland’s wilder­ness, but is as impor­tant as the alu­mini­um and ener­gy com­pa­nies. With­out every sin­gle part of the chain, the chain does not work.

Útlendin­gastof­nun

Poke in a bel­ly!
And a lit­tle off-top­ic but still con­cern­ing the Ice­landic gov­ern­ment…

On Wednes­day morn­ing, Útlendin­gastof­nun (The Direc­torate of Immi­gra­tion) was tar­get­ed by no-bor­der activists. The anar­chist web­site Afta­ka pub­lished this press release:

“This morn­ing, when the work­ers of The Direc­torate of Immi­gra­tion showed up to work, they faced closed and locked doors. There­fore they could not start their every­day job: To look for ways how to deport refugees to depor­ta­tion camps in Greece or to the open death in their own home coun­tries.

After long-last­ing and inef­fec­tive protests, arti­cle writ­ing and meet­ings with the author­i­ties, a small group to the issues in its own hands, glued the locks of the office’s doors, threw red paint on the walls and wrote S.S. on win­dows.

The group real­izes that the action is very small-scale, only a tiny lit­tle poke in the bel­ly of a gigan­tic insti­tu­tion, but hopes that it will become a fig­ure­head and an inspi­ra­tion for oth­er groups who are tired of protest­ing against fas­cism and will rather break it down with their own force.

The action group Poke in a Bel­ly!”

This hap­pened only one day after Sav­ing Ice­land glued and closed the offices of six insti­tu­tions and com­pa­nies that are involved in the heavy indus­tri­al­iza­tion of Ice­land.

Climate Camp Scotland Legal Briefing Released

The Legal Guide for Cli­mate Camp Scot­land, tak­ing place next week, is avail­able now from our web­site.

Go to http://climatecampscotland.org.uk/?page_id=291

See you all next week!

The Legal Sup­port Work­ing Group

The Legal Guide for Cli­mate Camp Scot­land, tak­ing place next week, is avail­able now from our web­site.

Go to http://climatecampscotland.org.uk/?page_id=291

See you all next week!

The Legal Sup­port Work­ing Group

ELF Mexico Targets Former City Councilman’s Truck & Telmex

Plan­e­tary destruc­tion has been at a peak now for sev­er­al years, as this has been hap­pen­ing the enor­mous com­plic­i­ty of gov­ern­ments (what­ev­er form they take: fas­cist, social­ist, demo­c­ra­t­ic, repub­li­can or any oth­er shit­ty one) with pri­vate com­pa­nies, both domes­tic and for­eign, engaged in large scale eco­cide is amaz­ing, leav­ing only rem­nants of what were once large wood­ed regions and green areas of wilder­ness. Civ­i­liza­tion has almost com­plete­ly destroyed it.

ELF Burns Former City Councilman's Truck in Protest of Corruption and Urban Sprawl in Mexico Plan­e­tary destruc­tion has been at a peak now for sev­er­al years, as this has been hap­pen­ing the enor­mous com­plic­i­ty of gov­ern­ments (what­ev­er form they take: fas­cist, social­ist, demo­c­ra­t­ic, repub­li­can or any oth­er shit­ty one) with pri­vate com­pa­nies, both domes­tic and for­eign, engaged in large scale eco­cide is amaz­ing, leav­ing only rem­nants of what were once large wood­ed regions and green areas of wilder­ness. Civ­i­liza­tion has almost com­plete­ly destroyed it.

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Com­mu­nique: 07.21.09

ELF Burns For­mer City Coun­cil­man’s Truck in Protest of Cor­rup­tion and Urban Sprawl in Mex­i­co

Com­mu­nique:

“Plan­e­tary destruc­tion has been at a peak now for sev­er­al years, as this has been hap­pen­ing the enor­mous com­plic­i­ty of gov­ern­ments (what­ev­er form they take: fas­cist, social­ist, demo­c­ra­t­ic, repub­li­can or any oth­er shit­ty one) with pri­vate com­pa­nies, both domes­tic and for­eign, engaged in large scale eco­cide is amaz­ing, leav­ing only rem­nants of what were once large wood­ed regions and green areas of wilder­ness. Civ­i­liza­tion has almost com­plete­ly destroyed it.

Today, those peo­ple direct­ly con­nect­ed to the destruc­tion of the envi­ron­ment for urban­is­tic devel­op­ment con­tin­ue to be tar­gets of the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra [Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front]. They have names and address­es and we, with rage, con­vic­tion and gaso­line will not stop in our strug­gle against all that destroys the plan­et of which we are a part, along with the ani­mals, the wind, the plants, the water, the trees and all the nat­ur­al ele­ments wor­thy of being respect­ed.

This time the tar­get that we hit was in a small town in Mex­i­co State. A for­mer town coun­cil­man who vot­ed for urban­ist expan­sion in a large sec­tion of green­space, where dozens of trees were cut down to build a pedes­tri­an cor­ri­dor, was vis­it­ed by the FLT.

Upon reach­ing the area around his home, we looked on as this mur­der­er was watch­ing his plas­ma TV, com­fort­able in his lux­u­ry couch­es, enjoy­ing the exploita­tion (this bas­tard also now owns a social event hall where plates of dead ani­mal bod­ies are served) and the cor­rup­tion of his past polit­i­cal admin­is­tra­tion. Our action was to leave a clear mes­sage for this destroy­er of ecosys­tems at the door of his home with a note that read: ‘It will all be paid for some­day’. Lat­er we placed an incen­di­ary device under one of the front tires of his small truck, the device worked well and in a few min­utes a flame was lift­ed to the skies, fill­ing the streets of the town with chaos. Haulers who had been pass­ing through, des­per­ate­ly joined with the evil­born eco­cidist who at that moment shot out of his house to find that his truck was on fire. They man­aged to con­trol the fire and so this time the dam­age was not as we had planned it to be if the fire had spread fur­ther. The result was dam­age to the front sec­tion, the win­dow and the tire of the small truck. Nonethe­less what we have caused is incal­cu­la­ble dam­age, dam­age that can­not be quan­ti­fied, the psy­cho-emo­tion­al dam­age that this destroy­er of the earth will have after watch­ing his truck set on fire right before his nose and after a few min­utes he will see our intim­i­dat­ing mes­sage.

The destroy­ers of the earth will receive what they deserve, not from a judge, nor from the laws that gov­ern Mex­i­co which is cur­rent­ly in the midst of a mil­i­tary siege, but from cells of con­cious peo­ple fed up with the dev­as­ta­tion of the earth, they will receive blows …from the Frente del Lib­eración de la Tier­ra.

‘Years after many dozens of trees were cut down, small flow­ers returned to be reborn from between the cracks in the pave­ment that divides up the city’

ELF Méx­i­co”

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Com­mu­nique: 07.20.09

ELF Tar­gets Telmex Branch office in Mex­i­co

Com­mu­nique:

“On the last night of July 20th we went to one of the many Telmex branch offices in Mex­i­co State. Its walls were very high and around this was met­al fenc­ing used to pro­tect the prop­er­ty. Police pres­ence a few streets away and the secu­ri­ty cam­eras did not stop us from car­ry­ing out our action. Our action was fast, while one of us sealed the front door with a lot of glue, anoth­er left a clear mes­sage below the door which read:

‘All the paint­ed and cut tele­phones, the tele­phone con­trol box­es set on fire, the burned trucks with punc­tured tires, these are not tech­ni­cal prob­lems, they are acts of sab­o­tage against the bio­ci­dal Telmex com­pa­ny, as is this warn­ing attack.

We are the Lud­di­tas Con­tra La Domes­ti­ca­cion de la Nat­u­raleza Sal­va­je [Lud­dites Against the Domes­ti­ca­tion of Wild Nature] and we form part of a cell of the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra F.L.T. [Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front E.L.F.], this is only a warn­ing mes­sage, get ready for war!

For the Lib­er­a­tion of the earth
Sabatage the bas­tards!

And in case the threat was not enough for the employ­ees, the day after they were fright­ened by this mes­sage we threw a home­made bomb into the facil­i­ty, ignor­ing the sign hang­ing out­side this office that said that any act that dam­aged the prop­er­ty would be con­sid­ered an attack on the chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in gen­er­al and was there­fore a fed­er­al crime. The bomb det­o­nat­ed a few sec­onds after our escape, the sound was deaf­en­ing and could be heard from two streets away.

We know very well that civ­i­liza­tion will col­lapse one day, but there must be an accel­er­a­tion of that col­lapse.

Atten­tive­ly, The cell of the ELF-LCDNS Méx­i­co”

Source — http://www.elfpressoffice.org

Flotilla / vigil against nuclear power, Bradwell, Essex — Sun 9 August

Sun­day, 9th August 2009 — from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
join a peace­ful sum­mer vig­il in the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary

The future of the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary should con­cern every­one. Any despoil­ing of this unique facil­i­ty will take away the oppor­tu­ni­ty for its enjoy­ment for many gen­er­a­tions to come.

Sun­day, 9th August 2009 — from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
join a peace­ful sum­mer vig­il in the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary

The future of the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary should con­cern every­one. Any despoil­ing of this unique facil­i­ty will take away the oppor­tu­ni­ty for its enjoy­ment for many gen­er­a­tions to come.

This does not apply just to “the water­folk”, but to all who enjoy out­door pur­suits and activ­i­ties around the Estu­ary, such as local res­i­dents, fish­er­men, bird­watch­ers, ram­blers and walk­ers, wild­fowlers and for those who just like the “open and peace­ful space of the Estu­ary”.

If we are not vig­i­lant, the Estu­ary, as we like it, could be irre­triev­ably ruined for the future.

The inten­tion is to attract recre­ation­al and com­mer­cial users of the estu­ary and its sur­round­ings to join a PEACEFUL VIGIL at Brad­well in protest against the devel­op­ment of a pro­posed new nuclear pow­er sta­tion (pos­si­bly more than one) and the asso­ci­at­ed high lev­el radioac­tive waste dump.

Water­craft -

anchor/float about off the beach to include yachts, motor­boats, dinghies, kayaks canoes and “what­ev­er” between 14.00 and 16.00 hrs

Show your par­tic­i­pa­tion by dis­play­ing flags/banners, if afloat — from the rig­ging – make these up out of old bed­sheets or some­thing sim­i­lar. Just dis­play any­thing to show your protest!

Walk­ers, bird­watch­ers and beach­combers -

make it an out­ing – bring fam­i­ly and friends and enjoy a pic­nic or bar­be­cue on the beach in front of the old sta­tion.

If you unable to get afloat or vis­it Brad­well, a group will be meet­ing for a pic­nic from 1.30 onwards on West Mersea beach, close to St Peter’s Steps, and just a short walk down Coast Road from West Mersea Church. — Don’t for­get to bring a sun­shade if it’s a sun­ny day, espe­cial­ly if you are bring­ing any chil­dren!

DIRECTIONS: If com­ing by rail and/or bus, the two-hourly West Mersea bus 67 leaves the North Sta­tion bus stop from 8.10am onwards on the south side of the bridge. So for exam­ple if you get the one which leaves North Sta­tion at 12.10pm, Colch­ester High Street at about 12.15pm, and the bus sta­tion at 12.20pm it gets to Mersea near the church at 12.50pm.

Don’t for­get there are spe­cial bar­gain bus fares on Sun­days. The bus returns at 3pm, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm and 11pm so you can make a day of it. Cut your car­bon foot­print and leave your car at home for a change per­haps if you would nor­mal­ly trav­el by car???

There is free car park­ing behind the library if there are any spaces, or you can park along var­i­ous roads includ­ing St Peter’s Road — go past the church and it’s to the right off Coast Road.

We want to high­light:

* Envi­ron­men­tal dam­age to the Estu­ary fore­shore, wildlife, plea­sure and com­mer­cial fish­ing and local oys­ter indus­tries
* Poten­tial restric­tion on access for recre­ation­al use to the Estu­ary and its fore­shore
* Long term on site stor­age of high­ly radioac­tive waste
* Increased health risks to sur­round­ing pop­u­la­tion result­ing from tox­ic waste and from the lack of long term evac­u­a­tion plans for the sur­round­ing areas
* Neg­a­tive Visu­al impact of the new facil­i­ty and the reten­tion of the for­mer sta­tion

Black­wa­ter Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG)
http://www.banng.org.uk

Saving Iceland Closes Nature Killer’s Offices

July 28 2009
Last night Sav­ing Ice­land closed the offices of com­pa­nies and insti­tu­tions that are heav­i­ly respon­si­ble for extreme destruc­tion of nature. Super-glue was put in to the locks and signs put up say­ing: “Closed because of destruc­tion of nature!” Lock­smiths had to be called to open the doors when work­ers showed up in the morn­ing.

July 28 2009
Last night Sav­ing Ice­land closed the offices of com­pa­nies and insti­tu­tions that are heav­i­ly respon­si­ble for extreme destruc­tion of nature. Super-glue was put in to the locks and signs put up say­ing: “Closed because of destruc­tion of nature!” Lock­smiths had to be called to open the doors when work­ers showed up in the morn­ing.

The com­pa­nies and insti­tu­tions that were tar­get­ed have all shown their deter­mined crim­i­nal will against Ice­landic nature and don’t stop at any­thing in their search for an easy finan­cial growth and favor­able con­tracts, even with com­pa­nies who have scan­dalous his­to­ry. These com­pa­nies should have been closed long time ago to pre­vent more destruc­tion to take place.

The fol­low­ing com­pa­nies and insti­tu­tions were tar­get­ed: the Min­istry of Indus­try and the Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, who have cleared the way for heavy indus­try here in Ice­land; ÍSTAK (con­struc­tion com­pa­ny), which takes care of most of the earth destruc­tion that has to take place before test drills and the con­struc­tion of heavy indus­try relat­ed build­ings; Jarðb­o­ranir (Earth Drilling), which owns the drills that are used for geot­her­mal drilling all over the coun­try; and HRV (engi­neer­ing com­pa­ny), which does most of the Envi­ron­men­tal Impact Assess­ments for heavy indus­try projects as well as tak­ing a big part in design­ing the infra­struc­tures con­nect­ed to heavy indus­try.

Sav­ing Ice­land also closed an office shed on one of ÍAV’s (con­struc­tion com­pa­ny) con­struc­tion areas in Reyk­javík, but the com­pa­ny is now busy with build­ing Century’s alu­mini­um smelter in Hel­gu­vík.

Camp for Climate Action Scotland

There is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

ccs stickerThere is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

For a week of low-impact liv­ing and high-impact direct action, keep 3–10 August free and join us in Scot­land to take direct action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change and eco­log­i­cal col­lapse. This sum­mer the strug­gle against a cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem intent on extin­guish­ing life on the plan­et will hit the Firth of Forth!

What’s hap­pen­ing:

We’re going to set up camp some­where around the Firth of Forth, a part of the cen­tral belt of Scot­land lit­tered with pow­er sta­tions, cor­po­rate HQs, gas and oil refiner­ies, open cast coal mines, a nuclear pow­er sta­tion and a cement fac­to­ry. We want you to join us to hold the peo­ple and sys­tems respon­si­ble for cli­mate change to account.

The camp will focus on sup­port­ing groups of peo­ple tak­ing action against a whole range of tar­gets. If you’re com­ing with a group of friends that’s great – we’ll help you choose tar­gets and actions, and if you’re com­ing alone there will be plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet oth­er peo­ple to work and take action with.

The camp will have as low an eco­log­i­cal impact as pos­si­ble so expect com­post toi­lets, grey water sys­tems and micro-renew­able ener­gy. There will be kitchens on site where campers will make three meals a day so there’s no need to bring any food or cook­ing equip­ment. Organ­ised hor­i­zon­tal­ly, the camp will pro­vide lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties to get involved, be cre­ative and prac­ti­cal and learn new skills. There will be work­shops, dis­cus­sions and oppor­tu­ni­ties to link up with oth­er peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns.

We hope to work with and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with local com­mu­ni­ties and ongo­ing cam­paigns around the camp’s local­i­ty to build on what oth­ers are already doing and for the camp to have long-last­ing pos­i­tive impacts.

How to get there:

The loca­tion of the site will be announced just before the start of the camp – check here or phone the info num­ber which will be avail­able short­ly before the 3rd for direc­tions to the camp. If you’re com­ing by pub­lic trans­port get your­self to Edin­burgh Waver­ley or Glas­gow Cen­tral train sta­tions and be pre­pared to trav­el – info-points will tell you the train sta­tion to get to and how to get there. There will be shut­tle bus­es from the near­est train sta­tion to the camp. If you can’t make all of the camp, just come along for a day, a week­end or what­ev­er you can.

What to bring:

Camp­ing gear — a tent, sleep­ing bag and mat, prac­ti­cal cloth­ing and footwear. Be pre­pared for rain and sun. Ban­ners and dec­o­ra­tions to make our site beau­ti­ful and any­thing else that you would like to see. But most impor­tant­ly, bring all of your friends!

We will also be ask­ing for dona­tions to cov­er costs of food and expens­es for the camp. Sug­gest­ed amounts will be made avail­able clos­er to the time.

What not to bring:

It is pos­si­ble that you will be searched by police on enter­ing the site – penknives and any­thing that may be con­strued as a weapon is best left behind. You may also want to pro­tect your per­son­al details but remem­ber, if you don’t bring a cash card, bring enough cash to cov­er your trans­port, food dona­tions etc.

Know your rights!

Check­out the web­sites below for some advice on deal­ing with the police.
http://www.faslane365.org/en/legal
http://www.g8legalsupport.info/guide/

Up to date legal infor­ma­tion and advice will be avail­able at the camp.

Chil­dren:

Are most wel­come and there will be a kids space that peo­ple will be able to vol­un­teer for.

Dogs:

If you bring dog(s) please take respon­si­bil­i­ty for them. We ask that you keep them on a lead as there have been inci­dents at past camps that we’d pre­fer to avoid.

If you want more infor­ma­tion or to get in touch email us on climatecampscotland@riseup.net

See you there!

Come to our next meet­ing!

Edin­burgh, Wednes­day 29th July, 12:00–16:00, For­est Cafe Action Room, 3 Bris­to Place

in the mean­time, get your­self down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!
See: http://coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk/

Mainshill Solidarity Camp

Get down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp as soon as you can, evic­tion is expect­ed soon.
In the mean­time watch the film and get inspired.

Film
Youtube “Main­shill sol­i­dar­i­ty camp”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG43wAy2RTY

Web­site
www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk

Map
Search for “Dou­glas, Lanark­shire” on Google maps
http://maps.google.co.uk/

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Get down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp as soon as you can, evic­tion is expect­ed soon.
In the mean­time watch the film and get inspired.

Film
Youtube “Main­shill sol­i­dar­i­ty camp”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG43wAy2RTY

Web­site
www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk

Map
Search for “Dou­glas, Lanark­shire” on Google maps
http://maps.google.co.uk/

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