Author: earthfirst

squat eviction & resistance in the South West

ille­gal evic­tion of squat in Bath
On Mon­day the 9th Feb­ru­ary, at 2.15pm, British Trans­port Police & Bath con­stab­u­lary con­spired to com­mit an ille­gal evic­tion of a new short-lived squat on the edge of Twer­ton, in Bath.

squat logo 13ille­gal evic­tion of squat in Bath
On Mon­day the 9th Feb­ru­ary, at 2.15pm, British Trans­port Police & Bath con­stab­u­lary con­spired to com­mit an ille­gal evic­tion of a new short-lived squat on the edge of Twer­ton, in Bath.

The for­mer Twer­ton-on-Avon rail­way sta­tion fell out of use in 1917, and was briefly the site of Androm­e­da Gar­den­ing Ser­vices owned by R. Pot­ter. R. Pot­ter was arrest­ed and found guilty of a huge can­nibis grow­ing oper­a­tion in the loft of the build­ing in 2003, and was believed to have been forced to sell the prop­er­ty to pay off the fine. The build­ing was lat­er occu­pied by Euro­pean squat­ters in 2006 & 2007, whom the local res­i­dents mis­tak­en­ly assumed were the can­nibis deal­ers. Con­tend­ing with that and con­fus­ing the issue, Net­work Rail also claimed squat­ters’ rights to the build­ing, and their twelve years’ were due to be up in August 2008, except for the inter­ven­tion of our Euro­pean friends.

A sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of squat­ters moved in on Fri­day the 6th of Feb­ru­ary, last week, through a dam­aged door­way and prompt­ly went about doing up their love­ly new 4‑storey home, con­tent in the knowl­edge that they were the new tem­po­rary own­ers.

The author­i­ties had oth­er ideas though, with BTP com­mit­ting crim­i­nal dam­age destroy­ing one of the pad­locks, crim­i­nal­ly break­ing and enter­ing as they boot­ed their way through the door, and then tres­pass­ing as they spread through the build­ing, ignor­ing the Sec­tion 6 notice that the occu­pi­er read out to them as they car­ried on their crime wave. Offi­cer 1306 par­tic­u­lar­ly of British Trans­port Police take note. They were alleged­ly act­ing off knowl­edge from a near­by prop­er­ty also rent­ing from Net­work Rail (were they fraud­u­lent­ly pre­tend­ing to be the own­er of that prop­er­ty, too, one won­ders?) who report­ed sus­pi­cious squat­ter-types enter­ing and leav­ing the build­ing — so police also broke their own rules on reveal­ing wit­ness­es. They then hand­ed over the occu­pi­er to Bath Con­stab­u­lary, who held him for a fur­ther 8 hours.

Bath Police did­n’t care about the fact that Net­work Rail aren’t the legal own­ers of the con­test­ed build­ing, and nei­ther did they care about the gui­dle­lines set down in PACE where they are oblig­ed to sup­ply inmates with writ­ing mate­ri­als, or food in sealed pack­ag­ing, or indeed respond to the sus­pec­t’s cries when hav­ing a claus­tro­pho­bia attack, or indeed offer him access to a solic­i­tor of his choice and repeat­ed­ly refus­ing him access to hsi phone call — though, they even­tu­al­ly caved on that.

It also appears that the police flunked their law exam: they were due to release the per­son with a cau­tion for tres­pass at 21.30 that night, until one of the embar­rassed CPS took their win­dow-lick­ing col­league aside and advised that it’s prob­a­bly best to do some­one for a crime, rather than a civ­il offense. So, cau­tuoned for elec­tric­i­ty extyrac­tion it was.

Also of note is that at no point was a legal warn­ing giv­en, nor a war­rant pro­duced. The offend­ing bad cop screwed up the Sec­tion 6 and shoved it in his pock­et with a scowl.

Good old Bath police.

But for read­ers out there, the prop­er­ty is still own­er­less and ripe for the tak­ing. And remem­ber: an attack one is an attack on all.

Don’t let ’em rot…

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ille­gal evic­tion avert­ed in Bris­tol

Feb­ru­ary 3, 2009
police soon change their tune…

About 1.30pm this after­noon a squat in eas­t­on was a tar­get of ille­gal evic­tion attempt.

Police, accom­pa­ny­ing the own­ers threat­ened to “kick the door down in half an hour” if the occu­pants did­n’t leave. In about 20 min­utes, around 20 local res­i­dents turned to show their con­cern to what was going on. The Police soon changed their tune, and before you knew it they had spo­ken to the own­ers and things would now pro­ceed through court.

Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea

Sea Shep­herd Crew Remain On Guard Behind the Nis­shin Maru

Sea Shep­herd Oper­a­tion Musashi
Update from the Ross Sea

Feb­ru­ary 7th, 2009
0700 Hours (Syd­ney Time)
1200 Hours (PST) (Feb­ru­ary 5th)
75 Degrees 57 Min­utes South and 164 Degrees 53 Min­utes West

Sea Shepherd rotten butter & collisionSea Shep­herd Crew Remain On Guard Behind the Nis­shin Maru

Sea Shep­herd Oper­a­tion Musashi
Update from the Ross Sea

Feb­ru­ary 7th, 2009
0700 Hours (Syd­ney Time)
1200 Hours (PST) (Feb­ru­ary 5th)
75 Degrees 57 Min­utes South and 164 Degrees 53 Min­utes West
Despite repeat­ed assaults by frus­trat­ed and increas­ing­ly vio­lent Japan­ese whalers, the Sea Shep­herd ship Steve Irwin con­tin­ues to stand guard behind the Japan­ese float­ing abat­toir called the Nis­shin Maru. The three Japan­ese har­poon boats are not in the area but the Sea Shep­herd crew is pre­pared to obstruct them should they return.

The Japan­ese have been accus­ing Sea Shep­herd of try­ing to obstruct their props with ropes yet the whalers have been try­ing to do the same thing to the Sea Shep­herd ship Steve Irwin. They are accus­ing the Sea Shep­herd crew of throw­ing rot­ten but­ter (which the Japan­ese refer to as “acid”) at them yet the whalers are throw­ing golf balls and chunks of met­al at the Steve Irwin crew. In addi­tion, the Japan­ese are blast­ing the Sea Shep­herd crew with water can­nons and Long Range Acousti­cal weapons — a son­ic gun that caus­es dis­ori­en­ta­tion, nau­sea and deaf­ness.

“I find it inter­est­ing that so called experts and politi­cians are quick to con­demn Sea Shep­herd’s tac­tics for uphold­ing con­ser­va­tion law yet say not a word about the esca­lat­ing phys­i­cal vio­lence direct­ed at us by the whalers who are break­ing the law,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son. “Their posi­tion of sid­ing with the poach­ers seems to be that if we did not put our­selves in this sit­u­a­tion we would not be expe­ri­enc­ing such vio­lence. The same could be said for any police­man and Sea Shep­herd is not down here to protest whal­ing, we are down here to obstruct ille­gal whal­ing as defined under inter­na­tion­al con­ser­va­tion law. We are down here to enforce the law, not to break it.”

There is a legal prece­dent for Sea Shep­herd’s inter­ven­tion and that is the Unit­ed Nation World Char­ter for Nature that allows for non-gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions to uphold inter­na­tion­al con­ser­va­tion law and in Sec­tion 21(e) specif­i­cal­ly in areas beyond nation­al juris­dic­tions.

The Japan­ese whale poach­ers have the advan­tage of supe­ri­or ships, faster, more pow­er­ful ships, they have weapons and they have the sup­port of their gov­ern­ment that will defend what­ev­er actions they take includ­ing the killing of our crew if that should occur.
On Feb­ru­ary 6th, two inci­dents occurred where the Steve Irwin col­lid­ed with har­poon ves­sels as they forced their way past the Steve Irwin’s block­ade in their pur­suit of their poach­ing activ­i­ties. These col­li­sions were not inten­tion­al on the part of Sea Shep­herd.

“Ear­li­er we filmed a whale being ille­gal­ly killed and we watched as that whale endured an ago­niz­ing death, thrash­ing about in its own blood for twen­ty-five min­utes,” said Cap­tain Wat­son. “We view the killing of that whale as cold blood­ed mur­der and we are com­mit­ted to doing every­thing we can, short of inflict­ing injuries our­selves, to pro­tect these defence­less, gen­tle, intel­li­gent and social­ly com­plex sen­tient beings.”

The har­poon boats have not returned to the Nis­shin Maru since the last inci­dent occurred at 1800 Hours on Feb­ru­ary 6th.

The Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety has made it clear to the gov­ern­ment of Aus­tralia that our inter­ven­tions which are becom­ing increas­ing­ly more dan­ger­ous because of Japan­ese aggres­sion can be avoid­ed by Peter Gar­rett and Kevin Rudd sim­ply mak­ing good on their pre-elec­tion promise to take the Japan­ese whalers to court.

“Because Gar­rett and Rudd have reneged on their promis­es to us, the peo­ple of Aus­tralia, we have been forced to defend these whales as Aus­tralian cit­i­zens in these hos­tile and remote waters sim­ply because some­one has to,” said Andrew Per­ry of Hobart, Tas­ma­nia.

—–

Steve Irwin Suf­fers Sec­ond Col­li­sion with the Japan­ese Fleet

Oper­a­tion Musashi
Update from the Ross Sea

Feb­ru­ary 6th, 2009, 1830 Hours (Syd­ney Time)
2330 Hours (PST) (Feb­ru­ary 5th)
75 Degrees 52 Min­utes South and 165 Degrees 18 Min­utes West

At 1800 Hours the har­poon ves­sels Yushin Maru No. 1 and the Yushin Maru No.3 decid­ed to run the Sea Shep­herd block­ade to trans­fer two dead whales to the flens­ing deck of the Nis­shin Maru. The Sea Shep­herd ship Steve Irwin was block­ing the slip­way to pre­vent the trans­fer in order to shut down the ille­gal Japan­ese whal­ing oper­a­tions.

As the Nis­shin Maru attempt­ed to hook onto the dead whale, the Steve Irwin and the Yushin Maru No.3 col­lid­ed with the for­ward star­board side of the Steve Irwin and the port stern side of the har­poon ves­sel com­ing togeth­er.

“We told them to not con­tin­ue their ille­gal whal­ing oper­a­tions and that we would be block­ing the stern slip­way of the fac­to­ry ship,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son. “They decid­ed to test our resolve and appar­ent­ly expect­ed us to retreat when they charged in ahead of us to make the trans­fer.”

Cap­tain Wat­son said that the Steve Irwin became dif­fi­cult to con­trol under a bar­rage of met­al objects, blasts from the water can­nons, and the dis­ori­en­ta­tion caused by the LRAD acoustic weapons that the whalers were using on the con­ser­va­tion­ists.

“I was dazed by the son­ic blasts being used on us at close range.” said Cap­tain Wat­son. “I have to admit it was dif­fi­cult to con­cen­trate with that devise being focused on us.”

“I’ve nev­er felt any­thing quite like it,” said Emi­ly Hunter from Toron­to, Cana­da. “It pen­e­trates the body and you can feel your mus­cles vibrat­ing. It made me dizzy and left me some­what dazed.”

The Steve Irwin suf­fered no notice­able dam­age from the col­li­sion and no one was seri­ous­ly injured. A few of the Sea Shep­herd crew were struck by golf balls and pieces of met­al. The crew of the Steve Irwin were unable to deter­mine if there was any dam­age done to the har­poon hunter killer boat.

The two whales were trans­ferred after the Steve Irwin shut down the oper­a­tions of the fleet for twelve hours.

“We are try­ing to make this as dif­fi­cult as pos­si­ble for them to con­tin­ue their ille­gal activ­i­ties, “said Mol­ly Kendall from Ade­laide, South Aus­tralia. “It is dif­fi­cult to see them mur­der­ing these whales and we are deter­mined to do every­thing we pos­si­bly can to stop this hor­rif­ic slaugh­ter.”

The Steve Irwin remains on the tail of the Nis­shin Maru to attempt to obstruct any fur­ther trans­fers in an effort to stop the unlaw­ful poach­ing of the whales by the Japan­ese whal­ing fleet.

“I wish we did not have to be down here in this dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tion,” said Cap­tain Wat­son. “I’ve said repeat­ed­ly that if Aus­tralia or New Zealand would agree to take Japan to the inter­na­tion­al court on this than we would back off. Because inter­na­tion­al law is not being enforced, we have no choice but to do what we can with the resources avail­able to us to defend these endan­gered whales in this estab­lished inter­na­tion­al whale sanc­tu­ary.”

—–

Update from the Ross Sea
Sea Shep­herd’s Oper­a­tion Musashi

Feb­ru­ary 6th, 2009
0800 Hours (Syd­ney Time)
1300 Hours (PST) (Feb­ru­ary 5th)
75 Degrees 44 Min­utes South and 165 Degrees 39 Min­utes West
The Sea Shep­herd ship Steve Irwin col­lid­ed with the Yushin Maru #2 this morn­ing as the har­poon ves­sel moved in to block the Steve Irwin’s attempt to pre­vent the trans­fer of a dead whale up the slip­way of the Nis­shin Maru.

“We were in the process of block­ing the trans­fer from the Yushin Maru #2 when the Yushin Maru #1 moved direct­ly in front of the bow to block us,” said Cap­tain Wat­son. “I could not turn to star­board with­out hit­ting the Yushin Maru #1. I tried to back down but the move­ment of the Yushin Maru #2 made the col­li­sion unavoid­able.”

The Yushin Maru #2 was trans­fer­ring a 2nd whale killed this morn­ing.

“The whalers have decid­ed to test our resolve,” said 1st Offi­cer Peter Ham­marst­edt. “They have esca­lat­ed this bat­tle to see just how deter­mined we are to pro­tect these whales. We’re shep­herds and we will do what we can to pro­tect our flock from these mur­der­ous poach­ers.”

The Yushin Maru #3 has also killed a whale but is unable to approach the fac­to­ry ship because the Steve Irwin is now guard­ing the slip­way.

The Sea Shep­herd crew intend to hold this posi­tion to pre­vent the trans­fer.

Earth First! tree planting weekend in Pennines Fri 13th-Sun 15th March

The annu­al and occa­sion­al­ly hedo­nis­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to plant thou­sands of native trees on a eco­log­i­cal­ly degrad­ed hill­side is hap­pen­ing in March. Organ­ised by Earth First!

EF! fist tree 1The annu­al and occa­sion­al­ly hedo­nis­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to plant thou­sands of native trees on a eco­log­i­cal­ly degrad­ed hill­side is hap­pen­ing in March. Organ­ised by Earth First! activists in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Calderdale com­mu­ni­ty group Treespon­si­bil­i­ty we will be based in Heb­den Bridge in Calderdale. If you fan­cy a week­end of hard but sat­is­fy­ing work plant­i­ng native wood­land com­bined with good food and social­is­ing put the week­end of the 13–15th March in your diary.

Earth First! tree plant­i­ng week­end…

Date: Fri­day 13th — Sun­day 15th March

Venue: We will be stay­ing in a camp­ing barn with com­fy beds and heat­ing. Bring a sleep­ing bag.

Trans­port: Get your­self to Heb­den Bridge train sta­tion for a pick up at 6pm or 8pm on the 13th. Pick­ups are avail­able by arrange­ment at oth­er times if you e‑mail in advance.

Food: All food will be cooked col­lec­tive­ly and will be veg­an.

Cost: £25 for the week­end. This includes all food and acco­mo­da­tion. You’ll have to sup­ply you own beer. We will be vis­it­ing the famous Blue Pig pub­lic house on the Sat­ur­day night.

Need more info? Con­tact: treesponsibility@yahoo.co.uk or call 07983743894

Communique released from ELF action at university

“Com­plete com­mu­nique of the action of Jan­u­ary 29:

Full communique released from ELF action at university“Com­plete com­mu­nique of the action of Jan­u­ary 29:

In the ear­ly morn­ing of Jan­u­ary 29, the sub­mis­sive fire­fight­ers in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) quelled a fire with­in the premis­es of the Col­lege of Sci­ences and Human­i­ties south cam­pus (CCH Sur) of the Uni­ver­si­dad Nacional Autóno­ma de Méx­i­co (UNAM). There a machine which destroys the Earth was left for­ev­er unus­able, and the admin­is­tra­tion offices of the cam­pus were burned.

The Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra (ELF) claimed this attack through a con­tact; we were informed that the uni­ver­si­ty had been destroy­ing a large part of the eco­log­i­cal reserve where a so-called ‘edu­ca­tion’ cen­ter is being built, sev­er­al vari­eties of trees and diverse plants were cut down, con­sid­ered to be in the way of their abil­i­ty to expand their facil­i­ties, and their mas­tery over nature; the progress and edu­ca­tion that they extol in their class­rooms is always based on dom­i­na­tion and anthro­pocen­trism. In this act by the UNAM, it is more than clear that not only do they wish to dom­i­nate and mold the minds of stu­dents, they also seek to expand the same con­trol over the land and the ani­mals that inhab­it her. That’s why the destruc­tive machine was burned, and why we also decid­ed to set a fire on cam­pus, now an indis­putable part of the eco­cide that edu­ca­tion imple­ments, which only wants to pro­duce peo­ple who are sub­mis­sive to author­i­ty and pow­er; they cre­ate beings who are unable to think and act for them­selves and are only edu­cat­ed to pro­duce and con­sume.

The mass media of mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, which hid the machine which had been burned, only now announced that part of the admin­is­tra­tive offices had been burned, and that this had been caused by Por­ro (shock groups) [groups orga­nized to dis­cred­it stu­dent move­ments]; we want to make clear that the ELF/FLT is not com­posed of such peo­ple, who are sent by their boss­es to do absurd and mean­ing­less things; our rea­sons are clear, as we strug­gle for total lib­er­a­tion (ani­mal, land and human), and if any­thing blocks us we will face it until its com­plete destruc­tion and elim­i­na­tion.

We know that the esti­mat­ed dam­age of this action was thou­sands of pesos, but still we are not sat­is­fied with that, and we will con­tin­ue mak­ing war on all that oppress­es us and will not allow us all to be hap­py– us, ani­mals and the land.

This was just a lit­tle mes­sage, for those who prof­it at the expense of the destruc­tion and dom­i­na­tion of the ecosys­tem.

ELF/FLT Méx­i­co”

anony­mous com­mu­nique (trans­la­tion) from http://directaction.info

National Squat Meetup. 14/15 March. Bristol Area

NOW IS A PERFECT TIME TO SQUAT
Now is a per­fect time to come togeth­er to share our col­lec­tive cre­ativ­i­ty, rage, and pride in our cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty; to come togeth­er for our­selves and look to our future with sol­i­dar­i­ty and pas­sion. Let’s meet and empow­er our­selves in our com­mon strug­gle!

CRACKS ARE APPEARING…

NOW IS A PERFECT TIME TO SQUAT
Now is a per­fect time to come togeth­er to share our col­lec­tive cre­ativ­i­ty, rage, and pride in our cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty; to come togeth­er for our­selves and look to our future with sol­i­dar­i­ty and pas­sion. Let’s meet and empow­er our­selves in our com­mon strug­gle!

CRACKS ARE APPEARING…
We feel it nec­es­sary to meet at a time when those at the top are los­ing their grip to dis­cuss ways we can work togeth­er to change our world from the bot­tom up. New spaces and oppor­tu­ni­ties are open­ing all around us and there is a grow­ing poten­tial for more wide­spread recog­ni­tion of the need for autonomous hous­ing action. The threat of evic­tion and home­less­ness hangs over more peo­ple every day. There are over a bil­lion squat­ters in the world. Now is the time to build a stronger net­work of resis­tance.

THIS IS A CALLOUT
This is a call­out for all those involved in secur­ing and main­tain­ing squats and autonomous spaces across the UK, and beyond, to meet and dis­cuss issues that affect us all as a com­mu­ni­ty. Fol­low­ing on from the huge­ly suc­cess­ful nation­al meet­ing in Leeds last year, and many small­er local gath­er­ings, that have hap­pened through­out the year, this year’s meet up will be in the Bris­tol area. Please bring your pos­i­tive ener­gy, enthu­si­asm and thoughts to share skills and engage in open dia­logue.

WE CAN CONSTRUCT A POSITIVE VISION OF THE WORLD
We hope to dis­cuss ways of strength­en­ing our net­work in defence of autonomous spaces, share suc­cess sto­ries from last year’s day of action and for­mu­late future plans and schemes for cre­ative chaos! The agen­da will be decid­ed between us all on Fri­day evening. Please arrive ear­ly if pos­si­ble to help us cre­ate the space. Any comments/ suggestions/ mad ideas please con­tact squatmeetup@googlemail.com

Relat­ed Link: http://squatmeet09.wordpress.com/

Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders’ London Summit. Join us!

Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn’t do bailouts.

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Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn’t do bailouts.

First the city traders spec­u­lat­ed with our homes, jobs and mon­ey – with dis­as­trous results. Now they are spec­u­lat­ing with our cli­mate and the very future of life on earth – and once again our gov­ern­ments are cheer­ing them on.

By cre­at­ing a brain-bend­ing sys­tem of car­bon pol­lu­tion licens­es, fos­sil fuel com­pa­nies and trad­ing firms have found a way to keep on churn­ing out glob­al warm­ing gas­es and to reap huge wind­fall prof­its at the same time.
Mean­while, the UK gov­ern­ment is jus­ti­fy­ing a third run­way at Heathrow and a coal-fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth by say­ing that these new “car­bon trad­ing” schemes will mag­i­cal­ly make all their emis­sions van­ish.

They are hand­ing con­trol of our cli­mate over to the same peo­ple and sys­tems that caused the finan­cial col­lapse. All the work­able and fair alter­na­tives aren’t get­ting a look-in

We need to stop this fool­ish­ness.

We’ve camped against the Heathrow run­way, we’ve camped against the Kingsnorth coal pow­er sta­tion. Now its time to camp against the over-arch­ing prob­lem: absolute faith in unfet­tered mar­kets and end­less eco­nom­ic growth. On April 1st the G20 lead­ers arrive in Lon­don. At a time of cli­mate cri­sis their response to the mar­ket melt­down is emer­gency loans to car man­u­fac­tur­ers, increased spend­ing to encour­age con­sump­tion, and bailouts for the very peo­ple who got us into this mess — just the thing that will make the cli­mate cri­sis worse.

Don’t let them get away with it: join our camp in the Square Mile! Gath­er at noon, April 1st, at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW. Bring a pop-up tent, sleep­ing bag, wind tur­bine, mobile cin­e­ma, action plans and ideas…let’s imag­ine anoth­er world.

Don’t let the finan­cial and fos­sil fools make the rules!

for updates, details on back-up plans, and mor­e­in­for­ma­tion, vis­it us again at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

To get involved, come to our plan­ning meet­ing on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 14th in Lon­don (arrive at the library hou­use, 52 Knatch­bull, at 1 pm for a 1:30 start) or come to the gath­er­ing on March the 6th/7th in Not­ting­ham.

Email g20 [@] climatecamp.org.uk for more infor­ma­tion.

Join the announce­ments list, the face­book page and event.

Please post this link, paste this text, and oth­er­wise spread the word!

Help cel­e­brate Fos­sil Fools Day and Finan­cial Fools Day

Group out in force for the final days of the shooting season + arrest report.

4.02.2009
A quick report from Glouces­ter­shire and Cotswold hunt sabs from the fields on the last Sat­ur­day before the end of the Pheas­ant shoot­ing sea­son.

4.02.2009
A quick report from Glouces­ter­shire and Cotswold hunt sabs from the fields on the last Sat­ur­day before the end of the Pheas­ant shoot­ing sea­son.

On our last walk­ing expe­di­tion through the beau­ti­ful Cotswold two weeks ago our small group of four came into some trou­ble with some of the secu­ri­ty from the Brimps­field park estate our small group of four were pushed around and shoved until we left the pub­lic foot­path which was clear­ly marked on the map. Appar­ent­ly it is fine to assault those who use a pub­lic right of way in the coun­try­side if shoot­ers are hav­ing a fun day’s mas­sacre. The atti­tude of those who pro­vide secu­ri­ty for the Brimps­field Park shoot­ing is far from legal, they open­ly admit on cam­era they know where we live and will be pay­ing us a vis­it, the shoot­ers have ON cam­era refused to break gun, leav­ing activists with tem­po­rary deaf­ness as cham­bers are emp­tied with­in inch­es of the heads of the sabs.

Sat­ur­day 31st Jan saw two land rovers packed with sabs stop five shoot­ers dur­ing a rough shoot in the Cotswolds, after decid­ing to move onto a dri­ven shoot in the area our land rovers were stopped by around 10 police vehi­cles and the while the dri­vers were being ques­tioned by police all sabs went for a nice walk along the foot­paths for a stroll. Unfor­tu­nate­ly although the dri­vers and vehi­cles were released by police they were fol­lowed by the yokels who pulled in front of the vehi­cles and called the police where two activists were arrest­ed for an appar­ent Aggra­vat­ed tres­pass and Sec­tion 5 Pub­lic order for caus­ing some­one to be harassed alarmed and dis­tressed.

One of the beat­ers made a state­ment say­ing that the two (one male, one female) had already been told to leave the land for three months by the police back in Novem­ber, and that they had caused him to feel alarmed, harassed or dis­tressed. They prob­a­bly can’t decide which of those three things they are as they are still look­ing in the “word meanins book” (dic­tio­nary) so they can check the def­i­n­i­tions.

Need­less to say, we will be back for the new sea­son and will con­tin­ue to fight these ani­mal abusers in our area until every last gun is silenced. Whilst prepar­ing for the new sea­son we will be out with our oth­er local fox hunts help­ing to pro­tect our wildlife.

More info check our new web­site below!

Glouces­ter­shire and Cotswold Hunt Sabs
warn@riseup.net
http://huntsabs.wordpress.com

Call out for solidarity anti-nuke actions on 26th April (Chernobyl Day)

A call out for com­mon actions against the con­struc­tion of a new nuclear pow­er sta­tion

A call out for com­mon actions against the con­struc­tion of a new nuclear pow­er sta­tion

Present-day Belarus is a post sovi­et coun­try, on which ter­ri­to­ry a regime, police state in form and neolib­er­al in essence, for­ti­fied its posi­tion. For already 14 years the coun­try is run by one and the same per­son Alexan­der Lukashenko, a pop­ulist at the begin­ning of his gov­ern­ing and open­ly pur­su­ing anti­so­cial reforms now. The free­dom of speech, free­dom of the press, free­dom of assem­bly is not about our coun­try. These basic val­ues as well as the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion are sup­pressed. Peace­ful gath­er­ings dis­per­sions, polit­i­cal tri­als, pre­ven­tive deten­tions all this has become a norm of polit­i­cal prac­tice in Belarus.

A few years ago the rul­ing top start­ed to con­sid­er anoth­er ven­ture­some project the con­struc­tion of a nuclear pow­er sta­tion (NPS). Lukashenko took a deci­sion regard­less of the pub­lic wish­es and com­mon sense. The deci­sion was made with the active sup­port of the inter­na­tion­al nuclear lob­by. The con­struc­tion is to be under­tak­en by a Russ­ian cor­po­ra­tion Rosatom. It is to be held in a seis­mi­cal­ly active zone, in a dozen kilo­me­ters away from Lake Naroch the largest lake in Belarus, which is eco­log­i­cal­ly unique for our coun­try and is a tourists and hol­i­day-mak­ers attrac­tion. On the con­struc­tion will be spent $4 bil­lion, which oth­er­wise could be out­laid for alter­na­tive ener­gy means devel­op­ment.

But the above-list­ed points pale before the fact that Belarus shared 70% of radioac­tive con­t­a­m­i­na­tion after Cher­nobyl nuclear acci­dent. But the gov­ern­ment and the pres­i­dent are absolute­ly not con­cerned about that. They want to cre­ate a delayed-action bomb in the coun­try, where one third of the ter­ri­to­ry is unfit for farm­ing and berries/mushrooms gath­er­ing.

We, Anti­nu­clear resis­tance, an anar­chy group, come out against nuclear pow­er engi­neer­ing on the whole and against the NPS con­struc­tion specif­i­cal­ly in Belarus. A part of polit­i­cal forces in Belarus, includ­ing oppo­si­tion, sup­port­ed the NPS con­struc­tion. Unlike them we do not believe in NPS safe­ty irre­spec­tive of the polit­i­cal regime, with­in which it is func­tion­ing and being con­struct­ed. Our activ­i­ty is based upon non-author­i­tar­i­an prin­ci­ples, we do not coop­er­ate with any polit­i­cal par­ties on a reg­u­lar base, but with eco­log­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions and grass­roots ini­tia­tives.

On 26 April, the anniver­sary of the Cher­nobyl nuclear acci­dent, an annu­al demon­stra­tion Charnobyl­s­ki Shlah (The Cher­nobyl Path) takes place in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the acci­dent and the peo­ple who fell the imme­di­ate and lin­ger­ing vic­tims of it. Start­ing with the year of 1996 anar­chists take part in the demo with eco­log­i­cal and anti­nu­clear slo­gans. But nowa­days the demon­stra­tion, instead of just mourn­ing and com­mem­o­ra­tive event, is
gain­ing a protest mood: in the coun­try, where dozens of thou­sands peo­ple have died as a result of the nuclear acci­dent after­maths and hun­dreds of thou­sands have acquired acci­dent-caused ill­ness­es or become hand­i­capped, a new NPS is to be con­struct­ed! And that is done accord­ing to the com­mon reg­u­la­tions of an author­i­tar­i­an police state not ask­ing the peo­ples opin­ion, but just con­fronting them with the fact.

On 26 April we will again take a most active part in the Charnobyl­s­ki Shlah (The Cher­nobyl Path), well try to pass along to every­one our clear anti­nu­clear posi­tion, will inform as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble of the approach­ing dan­ger. But now it is not enough! As an instru­ment of strug­gle against the state law­less­ness we rely on the inter­na­tion­al sup­port. We urge anar­chists, envi­ron­men­tal­ists, anti­au­thor­i­tar­i­ans of the world to car­ry out sol­i­dar­i­ty actions on 26 April 2009. We call for a decen­tral­ized day of action of any form, which could help peo­ple learn some­thing about our prob­lem and stop the impu­dent author­i­ty and their spon­sors from IAEA.

If you already take actions on 26 April on your local prob­lems con­cern­ing nuclear pow­er engi­neer­ing, please put on your list the demand for abo­li­tion of the NSP con­struc­tion in Belarus. You are also wel­come to par­tic­i­pate in The Cher­nobyl Path in Min­sk and oth­er actions in Belarus.

Togeth­er we will be able to stand up for the right for life on a clean and eco­log­i­cal­ly safe plan­et!

If you have any inten­tion to make sol­i­dar­i­ty actions with the Belaruss­ian anti­nu­clear move­ment or par­tic­i­pate in the demon­stra­tion in Belarus please con­tact us:

antiatombel@riseup.net

Spread out the call out through any acces­si­ble for you infor­ma­tion chan­nels

belarus anar­chists
http://belarus.avtonom.org

Sound weapons used against anti-whaling protestors

Feb­ru­ary 1, 2009
The Japan­ese whal­ing ships have been jam­ming Sea Shep­herd com­mu­ni­ca­tions and have been deploy­ing a long range acoustic weapon device to repel Sea Shep­herd boats. The sound waves cause dis­ori­en­ta­tion and nau­sea.

Sea Shepherd zodiacFeb­ru­ary 1, 2009
The Japan­ese whal­ing ships have been jam­ming Sea Shep­herd com­mu­ni­ca­tions and have been deploy­ing a long range acoustic weapon device to repel Sea Shep­herd boats. The sound waves cause dis­ori­en­ta­tion and nau­sea.

The Japan­ese whal­ing ships have been jam­ming Sea Shep­herd com­mu­ni­ca­tions and have been deploy­ing a long range acoustic weapon device to repel Sea Shep­herd boats. The sound waves cause dis­ori­en­ta­tion and nau­sea.

The deploy­ment of mil­i­tary weapon sys­tems in the Antarc­tic Treaty Zone is a vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al law. The whalers are becom­ing increas­ing­ly vio­lent in defense of their ille­gal activ­i­ties.

“It is a very dra­mat­ic scene out here as ships zig zag back and forth in thick ice and heavy swells,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son. “The whalers are deploy­ing water can­nons, con­cus­sion grenades, acoustic weapons, and throw­ing sol­id brass and lead balls at Sea Shep­herd crewmem­bers. If we were to do any of the things these thugs are doing, we would be denounced as eco-ter­ror­ists. There cer­tain­ly is a dou­ble stan­dard where whale killers can use vio­lence with­out fear of con­dem­na­tion from their gov­ern­ment and we can’t even defend our­selves with­out con­dem­na­tion from our gov­ern­ments. What is impor­tant how­ev­er is that despite the vio­lence from the whalers, no whales are being killed. They can’t get away from us and if we keep on their tail they can’t kill whales.”

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Sea Shepherd water-cannoned
A crewmem­ber from the Steve Irwin was slight­ly injured after being struck by a high pres­sure water can­non fired from the Japan­ese whal­ing fac­to­ry ship Nis­shin Maru. One of the cam­era­men on one of the Steve Irwin’s inflat­able boats was cut and bruised above the eye when a high pres­sure blast of water knocked him off his feet while he was film­ing.

A sec­ond crew mem­ber was also injured in the con­fronta­tion with the whalers. Lau­rens De Groot of the Nether­lands was slight­ly injured when struck in the face by a met­al ball thrown by whalers. Whalers onboard the Yushin Maru #3 threw sol­id brass and lead balls at crewmem­bers on one of the Steve Irwin’s inflat­able boats.

The Sea Shep­herd crew also dis­cov­ered that the Japan­ese whal­ing fleet is deploy­ing a new weapon in defence of their ille­gal whal­ing activ­i­ties.

The fac­to­ry ship the Nis­shin Maru and the two har­poon ves­sels in the fleet are equipped with Long Range Acousti­cal Devices (LRAD). This is a mil­i­tary grade weapon sys­tem that sends out mid to high fre­quen­cy sound waves designed to dis­ori­ent and pos­si­bly inca­pac­i­tate per­son­nel. It is basi­cal­ly an anti-per­son­nel weapons sys­tem.

The Steve Irwin has been chas­ing the Japan­ese whal­ing fleet for twen­ty-four hours at high speed through scat­tered ice fields and chang­ing weath­er con­di­tions for over three hun­dred miles west­ward across the top of the Ross Sea.

At 0500 Hours (Syd­ney Time) the Steve Irwin deployed two fast inflat­able boats and a heli­copter to harass the fleet and to hur­ry them along. Sea Shep­herd’s strat­e­gy is to keep the whal­ing fleet on the move. If they are run­ning they are not killing whales and no whales have been killed dur­ing the last 24 hours. In fact the Steve Irwin crew were excit­ed to see Fin whales swim­ming along­side the ship as they pur­sued the whal­ing fleet.

The Japan­ese har­poon ves­sels have been maneu­ver­ing very close to the Steve Irwin to intim­i­date and to try and lead the Sea Shep­herd ship away from the Nis­shin Maru. The con­fronta­tion that began in clear weath­er in dense ice and heavy swells became increas­ing treach­er­ous as fog and bliz­zard con­di­tions moved in around 0900 Hours.

The Steve Irwin crew retreat­ed when with­in range of the acoustic weapons.

“All we need to do is to keep them run­ning and to keep them from whal­ing and that is exact­ly what we are doing. It is prov­ing to be a very suc­cess­ful day,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son.

Weath­er con­di­tions are becom­ing increas­ing worse with heavy snow, fog, increas­ing swells and denser ice con­di­tions.

http://www.seashepherd.org/

ELF Mexico Torch Earth Destroying Machine

“An impor­tant eco­log­i­cal reserve locat­ed in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) is being destroyed by peo­ple who con­sid­er the land their prop­er­ty; plants and many trees have been ripped up from the roots for the expan­sion of Civ­i­liza­tion; because of this the ELF co

ELF Torch Earth Destroying MachineELF Torch Earth Destroying Machines“An impor­tant eco­log­i­cal reserve locat­ed in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) is being destroyed by peo­ple who con­sid­er the land their prop­er­ty; plants and many trees have been ripped up from the roots for the expan­sion of Civ­i­liza­tion; because of this the ELF could not remain still.

On the night of Jan­u­ary 29 we destroyed the win­dow of one of their machines and we sprayed enough gaso­line to leave the machine that destroys the earth com­plete­ly unus­able.

Dam­ages are esti­mat­ed to be sev­er­al thou­sand pesos for those bas­tard dom­i­na­tors of the earth.

The response will be like this, hard and to the point, if they con­tin­ue the mas­sacre!

FLT/ELF Méx­i­co”

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