Author: earthfirst

Success for City Indians: 4WD targetted in Denmark

4th Jan­u­ary 2008

Orig­i­nal­ly from Swe­den a move­ment of “city indi­ans” tar­get­ting large 4WD cars has spread wide­ly in Den­mark, while in Swe­den a truce has been declared.

The num­ber of attacks on high pol­lu­tion 4WD city cars have been increas­ing steadi­ly in Den­mark since the city indi­ans first began in Swe­den some months ago. New year’s eve saw anoth­er wave of actions in Copen­hagen.

4th Jan­u­ary 2008

Orig­i­nal­ly from Swe­den a move­ment of “city indi­ans” tar­get­ting large 4WD cars has spread wide­ly in Den­mark, while in Swe­den a truce has been declared.

The num­ber of attacks on high pol­lu­tion 4WD city cars have been increas­ing steadi­ly in Den­mark since the city indi­ans first began in Swe­den some months ago. New year’s eve saw anoth­er wave of actions in Copen­hagen.

Mean­while in Swe­den where the actions start­ed a truce has been declared by the CI. “It seems our actions have had effect, the mes­sage that city jeeps have no place in our cities has got­ten through. But if we don’t con­tin­ue to see decreas­ing sales of the cars the hatch­et is eas­i­ly unburied”, the CI in Swe­den said in a state­ment on their web­site.

The CI in both Swe­den and Den­mark have received count­less death threats on their web­sites.

Rainforest chief killed in Borneo for his opposition to logging

Jan­u­ary 3, 2008
Kelea­su Naan, a Penan chief­tain and long­time activist against log­ging, dis­ap­peared in Octo­ber while check­ing ani­mal traps. His
tribes’ worst fears were con­firmed when they found what they believed to be Naan’s remains last month. Accord­ing to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press, the chieftain’s nephew, Michael Ipa, has stat­ed that the body had sev­er­al bro­ken bones, lead­ing Ipa to believe that “he has been killed by peo­ple involved in log­ging”.

Jan­u­ary 3, 2008
Kelea­su Naan, a Penan chief­tain and long­time activist against log­ging, dis­ap­peared in Octo­ber while check­ing ani­mal traps. His
tribes’ worst fears were con­firmed when they found what they believed to be Naan’s remains last month. Accord­ing to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press, the chieftain’s nephew, Michael Ipa, has stat­ed that the body had sev­er­al bro­ken bones, lead­ing Ipa to believe that “he has been killed by peo­ple involved in log­ging”.

Kelea­su Naan had been one of the key fig­ures in the Penan community’s fight against log­ging. He was also a plain­tiff and wit­ness in a land rights claim that has been await­ing tri­al since 1998.

One-hun­dred Penan vil­lagers walked six­ty miles this week to lodge a report at the clos­est police sta­tion and demand an inves­ti­ga­tion into Naan’s death. This is not the first time that Penans involved in anti-log­ging activ­i­ty have dis­ap­peared under mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances. Two activist Penans dis­ap­peared in the 1990s. In 2000, Bruno Manser, a Swiss envi­ron­men­tal­ist and cham­pi­on of Penan rights, also dis­ap­peared in the jun­gle. No sign of him has been found, and some believe he was assas­si­nat­ed.

Log­ging in Bor­neo has been ram­pant since the 1980’s. In 2005 just over 50% of Borneo’s for­est remained. More recent­ly palm oil
plan­ta­tions have increased pres­sure on the forests. Naan’s Penan com­mu­ni­ty had man­aged to keep log­ging out of what the vil­lagers claim is their ances­tral land, but they now believe that sev­er­al tim­ber com­pa­nies plan to resume log­ging. Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ples of the Malaysia’s Sarawak region, the Penans num­ber around 10,000. They cur­rent­ly live in set­tle­ments, but have not com­plete­ly aban­doned their tra­di­tion­al nomadic ways. They sub­sist off small gar­dens, hunt­ing, and gath­er­ing. Since so much of the Penan’s resources come from the for­est, its dis­ap­pear­ance may mark their own.

http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-borneo_hance.html

Celebrating the end of the carbon economy

This after­noon, at 5pm. mem­bers of Groen­front will join togeth­er in the cen­tre of cap­i­tal­ism in the Nether­lands: the Beur­splein in Ams­ter­dam. Here they will bring out a toast to the record-high price of oil of $100 per bar­rel. Since 2003 the price of oil has sky-rock­et­ed, with the rate some­times climb­ing sev­er­al dol­lars a day. Groen­Front-activist Rogi­er: “What the earth needs is eco­nom­ic ‘shrink­age’. The cli­mate cri­sis and the peak­ing oil pro­duc­tion show us that we need to adjust to the lim­its of our ecosys­tem”.

This after­noon, at 5pm. mem­bers of Groen­front will join togeth­er in the cen­tre of cap­i­tal­ism in the Nether­lands: the Beur­splein in Ams­ter­dam. Here they will bring out a toast to the record-high price of oil of $100 per bar­rel. Since 2003 the price of oil has sky-rock­et­ed, with the rate some­times climb­ing sev­er­al dol­lars a day. Groen­Front-activist Rogi­er: “What the earth needs is eco­nom­ic ‘shrink­age’. The cli­mate cri­sis and the peak­ing oil pro­duc­tion show us that we need to adjust to the lim­its of our ecosys­tem”.

Peakoil is the geo­log­i­cal­ly deter­mined peak­ing and — after that — shrink­ing of oil pro­duc­tion. The remain­der of oil becomes hard­er and hard­er to retrieve, demand­ing a still greater tech­no­log­i­cal and finan­cial effort.
It looks as if the world­wide pro­duc­tion of oil has reached that peak. Every fol­low­ing year, the pro­duc­tion will decrease. The decreased sup­ply in com­bi­na­tion with an ever increas­ing demand will push up the price of oil. Exec­u­tives of, among oth­ers, Total, Cono­co, Philps, Sau­di Aram­co and the Libyan Nation­al Oil Cor­po­ra­tion have already stat­ed that they are not able to meet the cur­rent demand for oil. The last few years have seen low­er yields from oil fields in the US, Mex­i­co and the North Sea. The Inter­na­tion­al Ener­gy Agency expressed its con­cerns over the ever grow­ing gap between sup­ply and demand in the glob­al oil mar­ket.

Whether the record-high price of $100 is ben­e­fi­cial to the envi­ron­ment depends on the way the oil-addict­ed soci­eties react. If the short­age in oil will be com­pen­sat­ed for with pol­lu­tive replace­ments, like agro­fu­els, uncon­ven­tion­al oil and syn­thet­ic diesel from coal and nat­ur­al gas, the world still has not learned its les­son. This record-high price should be used as a wake-up call: fos­sil fuels are lim­it­ed and already we are faced with the con­se­quences.

Fam­i­lies in the Unit­ed States are seri­ous­ly con­cerned with the oncom­ing win­ter because of the great­ly increased cost of petrol. Trans­port and fish­ing sec­tor in Europe are antic­i­pat­ing protests against the risen price of diesel fuel. In Third World coun­tries — where fuels are usu­al­ly sub­sidised — gov­ern­ments are faced with a choice: an emp­ty trea­sury or upris­ing. In Africa and Asia a grow­ing amount of fish­er­men are forced to stay ashore because of the high costs of fuel. Farm­ers are not able to bring their prod­ucts to the mar­ket place. Peakoil starts to rear its ugly head every­where.

“The cli­mate cri­sis and the deple­tion of fos­sile fuels show us that a rad­i­cal change in our eco­nom­ic sys­tem is an absolute neces­si­ty,” says Groen­Front activist Rogi­er. “Fail­ing to do so means wait­ing for an eco­nom­ic reces­sion which will hit the peo­ple who are already hav­ing dif­fi­cul­ties to cope. A redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth is nec­es­sary, but most of all a choice has to be made for a lit­tle less wealth. We can do that now, vol­un­tar­i­ly and peace­ful­ly, or wait until both econ­o­my and ecol­o­gy force us to do so.” In con­clu­sion, Rogi­er states: “Eco­nom­ic shrink­age is the only real solu­tion to the approach­ing eco­nom­ic and eco­log­ic cri­sis.”

Hunger strike in France to protest gene-altered crops

PARIS: The mil­i­tant French sheep farmer Jose Bove and as many as 15 of his sup­port­ers were expect­ed to begin a hunger strike Thurs­day aimed at rais­ing pres­sure on the French gov­ern­ment to impose a long-term ban on grow­ing genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crops.

PARIS: The mil­i­tant French sheep farmer Jose Bove and as many as 15 of his sup­port­ers were expect­ed to begin a hunger strike Thurs­day aimed at rais­ing pres­sure on the French gov­ern­ment to impose a long-term ban on grow­ing genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crops.

In a news­pa­per inter­view pub­lished Wednes­day, the anti-glob­al­iza­tion activist vowed not to eat again until a ban was in place.

Bove cap­tured world­wide atten­tion for help­ing to orga­nize the ran­sack­ing of a McDon­ald’s restau­rant nine years ago to protest the influ­ence of multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions. Since then he has served time in a French prison for dam­ag­ing gene-altered crops.

While his cam­paigns have struck a sym­pa­thet­ic chord in many parts of France and Europe where gene-altered foods are wide­ly mis­trust­ed — and where Bove is some­thing of a folk hero — the lat­est protest against altered crops comes as divi­sions over the poten­tial ben­e­fits of the tech­nol­o­gy appear to be deep­en­ing across the region.

Some Euro­pean Union offi­cials remain wary of using prod­ucts that could endan­ger insects and fish and dis­turb ecosys­tems, but oth­ers have redou­bled calls to ease restric­tions on altered seeds as a way of keep­ing farm­ing glob­al­ly com­pet­i­tive at a time of sky­rock­et­ing food prices.

The Euro­pean agri­cul­ture com­mis­sion­er, Mar­i­ann Fis­ch­er Boel, warned farm min­is­ters in Novem­ber that Europe’s resis­tance to import­ing genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied prod­ucts like live­stock feed was con­tribut­ing to the ris­ing cost of rais­ing pigs and chick­ens and could pose a threat to the meat indus­try.

In Octo­ber, the French pres­i­dent, Nico­las Sarkozy, dis­ap­point­ed sup­port­ers of a long-term ban by announc­ing a tem­po­rary freeze on genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied seeds pend­ing the out­come of a review of the tech­nol­o­gy that is expect­ed ear­ly this year.

Bove has said he is under­tak­ing his hunger strike to push the French gov­ern­ment into mak­ing a much longer-term com­mit­ment to end seed cul­ti­va­tion.

Genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied corn is already import­ed into sev­er­al EU coun­tries, includ­ing France and Ger­many, where it is used to feed ani­mals like cows and chick­ens. But only one genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crop is cur­rent­ly grown in Europe, a form of corn pro­duced by Mon­san­to and nine oth­er com­pa­nies called Mon 810 that is the main tar­get of Bové’s protest.

Aus­tria, Hun­gary and Poland are among coun­tries that already have banned the Mon­san­to corn.

A long-term ban ‘is the only thing that will put an end to this hunger strike,’ Bove told the French dai­ly Sud Ouest in an inter­view pub­lished Wednes­day. ‘Promis­es won’t be sat­is­fac­to­ry.’

Bove told Sud Ouest that he would con­duct the hunger strike in a well-known pub­lic loca­tion in Paris where he would not cause any secu­ri­ty prob­lems. He declined to reveal the where­abouts of the loca­tion before Thurs­day.

Bove began reduc­ing his intake of alco­hol, meat, eggs and cheese at the end of Decem­ber to start accus­tom­ing his body to the fast, dur­ing which he said he expect­ed to lose half-a-kilo­gram, or about one pound, of weight each day, he told anoth­er French news­pa­per, Midi Libre.

‘This hunger-strike is a well-con­sid­ered com­mit­ment, not a sui­ci­dal act,’ Bove told Midi Libre.

By James Kan­ter Inter­na­tion­al Her­ald Tri­bune, Jan­u­ary 2 2008 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/02/europe/gmo.php

ELP Information Bulletin (29th of December 2007)

Dear friends

ELP has just received two bits of Amer­i­can news. First off ALF/ELF pris­on­er, Jonathan Paul, has released his first prison dis­patch. Sec­ond­ly, we have been infored that ALF/ELF pris­on­er. Chris McIn­tosh has been moved to a new address:

Dear friends

ELP has just received two bits of Amer­i­can news. First off ALF/ELF pris­on­er, Jonathan Paul, has released his first prison dis­patch. Sec­ond­ly, we have been infored that ALF/ELF pris­on­er. Chris McIn­tosh has been moved to a new address:

First­ly here is the dis­patch from Jonathan Paul.…

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11.14.07

Friends, sup­port­ers and fam­i­ly,

This is the first of 51 month­ly dis­patch­es I will be writ­ing until I am released in 2011. Although I will be writ­ing to let every­one know how I am doing while incar­cer­at­ed at FCI Phoenix, the pur­pose of these dis­patch­es are not going to be about me, but about the real issues that threat­en life as we know it on this plan­et.

First, I would like to thank every­one who has writ­ten me in the last few weeks. Your let­ters of sup­port have over­whelmed me with emo­tion and have giv­en me strength and hope. I thank all of you from the bot­tom of my heart. From the Anar­chist writ­ing group in NY, to my tribe of friends and to those I have nev­er met, the time you took to write to me has giv­en me much strength. I would like to put out spe­cial thanks to my sis­ters, Car­o­line and Alexan­dra, my won­der­ful Mom (Mum­sie) and my dear sweet wife, Tami. I under­stand your love is uncon­di­tion­al and with that I am blessed to have you as my fam­i­ly. To my wife Tami — who has been by my side since 1999, your devo­tion and com­mit­ment to me is unmatched by any­one, ever. Thank you for help­ing me pick up the mess left in the wake of this very dif­fi­cult time in our life. To those who are sup­port­ing Tami on a dai­ly basis — I thank you also. All I can to all of you is I would do the same for you and I am in your debt.

As for life here in prison, I want you all to know I am okay. Every day that pass­es is a day clos­er to my free­dom. I look for­ward to that day and that day will come.

I want to say a few words about some­one who has inspired and amazed me over the years, a com­mit­ted
activist who has been “down” for a very long time. Moved to activism after expe­ri­enc­ing the bru­tal
pover­ty and racism expe­ri­enced as a part of every­day life, Amer­i­can Indi­an Move­ment war­rior, Leonard
Pelti­er, has been in prison for over 30 years and is serv­ing two life sen­tences for crimes he did not
com­mit. Leonard worked to pro­tect his peo­ple and the earth from the pow­er­ful ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions and the
gov­ern­ment they rule. On the Pine Ridge reser­va­tion in the 1970’s the tra­di­tion­al Native Amer­i­cans fought for their way of life while under attack from the gov­ern­ment spon­sored goons, the FBI and the coal and ura­ni­um ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions that want­ed the Black Hills for resources. The Native Amer­i­cans of this land have been sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly destroyed and oppressed in a geno­ci­dal cam­paign since the white man first stepped his ugly foot on North Amer­i­ca.

Leonard was accused and con­vict­ed of killing two FBI agents dur­ing a shootout on the Pine Ridge reser­va­tion in 1975. Leonard was wrong­ly con­vict­ed in 1977 based on coerced tes­ti­mo­ny and sup­pressed evi­dence. Leonard’s case is one of the most egre­gious exam­ples of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al and inves­tiga­tive mis­con­duct in the his­to­ry of Amer­i­can jurispru­dence. I first became aware of the strug­gles of the Amer­i­can Indi­an Move­ment when I was in jail for resist­ing a polit­i­cal grand jury in 1992–1993. I read In the Spir­it of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen while incar­cer­at­ed and could­n’t put it down. Leonard’s sto­ry gave me strength dur­ing my 6 months resist­ing the grand jury. When I was released from jail I was com­pli­ment­ed on my strength and all I could think of was Leonard’s strength.

When I turned myself into prison last month, one of the first books my wife sent me was In the Spir­it of
Crazy Horse. I read this book, for the sec­ond time, behind bars and fin­ished it in the first two days. I
con­sid­er the strug­gles of AIM and think about their fight not only against geno­cide, but also eco­cide.
Our strug­gles are one strug­gle.

To my sup­port­ers and friends — when you sit down to write me a let­ter, please put the paper aside and
write to Leonard Pelti­er. He has been in prison for more than 30 years — he has remained strong with
unprece­dent­ed integri­ty. If you sup­port me, please sup­port him. He has sac­ri­ficed his free­dom for his
peo­ple and for moth­er earth. Leonard needs to hear from our “tribe”…the envi­ron­men­tal and ani­mal rights move­ments for his strug­gle is our strug­gle. Show him and his peo­ple that we are all part of one move­ment — a move­ment to stop the geno­cide, eco­cide, and oppres­sion of all beings. We are one and when we join into one we may actu­al­ly move for­ward and be able to effect change. By sup­port­ing Leonard, you are sup­port­ing me. If Leonard hears from you and it makes him smile, gives him some hope and strength, and lets him know that he is not and nev­er will be for­got­ten, then you are giv­ing me the strength and strength to our move­ments.

Please write to Leonard at the fol­low­ing address:

Leonard Pelti­er

# 89637–132

USP LEWISBURG

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 1000

LEWISBURG, PA 17837

In sol­i­dar­i­ty for the earth and ani­mals,

Jonathan Paul

#07167–085

FCI Phoenix

Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion

37910 N. 45th Ave.

Phoenix, AZ 85086

Jonathan’s co-defen­dants:

Daniel McGowan
#63794–053
FCI Sand­stone
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
PO Box 1000
Sand­stone, MN 55072

Nathan Block #36359–086
FCI Lom­poc
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
3600 Guard Road
Lom­poc, CA 93436

Joy­an­na Zach­er #36360–086
FCI Dublin
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
5701 8th St — Camp Parks- Unit E
Dublin, CA 94568

Friends and Fam­i­ly of Jonathan Paul
PMB# 267
2305 Ash­land St., Ste. C
Ash­land, OR 97520

Sec­ond­ly, an ELP sup­port­er has informed us that Chris ‘Dirt’ McIn­tosh has moved. Chris’ new address is:

Chris McIn­tosh
#30512–013
FCI Fair­ton
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
PO Box 420
Fair­ton, nj 08320
USA

Accord­ing to www.BOP.gov Chris is expect­ed to be at this address until 2012.

Please send let­ters of sup­port to Chris, Jonathan Paul, and all the oth­er pris­on­ers. Remind them they are not for­got­ten.

ELP Sup­port Net­work

+++++++++++++++++

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers Sup­port Net­work
BM Box 2407
Lon­don
WC1N 3XX
Eng­land
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Shoshone Defenders of Mount Tenabo Constructing Encampment (occupied North America)

Decem­ber 1, 2008
At some point today, sev­er­al men will begin con­struct­ing a per­ma­nent arbor on the South­ern flank of Mt. Ten­abo, where they will camp and mon­i­tor the Cana­di­an min­ing com­pa­ny Bar­rick Gold.

Shoshone protest placardShoshone mountain destructionDecem­ber 1, 2008
At some point today, sev­er­al men will begin con­struct­ing a per­ma­nent arbor on the South­ern flank of Mt. Ten­abo, where they will camp and mon­i­tor the Cana­di­an min­ing com­pa­ny Bar­rick Gold.

The encamp­ment was called on dur­ing last week’s protest, where Shoshone Grand­moth­ers and their sup­port­ers attempt­ed to con­front Bar­rick Gold and bring an end to the destruc­tion of the pin­ion for­est — which began almost imme­di­ate­ly after the com­pa­ny got approval to go ahead with its ‘Cortez Hills Expan­sion Project.’

A mas­sive cyanide heap leach gold mine, the project will ulti­mate­ly destroy approx­i­mate­ly 6,800 acres of land — frac­tur­ing along with it, the spir­i­tu­al life and cul­tur­al prac­tices of the Shoshone Peo­ple.

“This is our treaty land. It was a treaty made with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. It was not made with a for­eign nation. And it is a for­eign min­ing com­pa­ny that has come into our coun­try and is destroy­ing our moun­tain, our land, our food, our med­i­cine and they have no respect,” stat­ed one Grand­moth­er at the protest.

“…It can’t go on. It’s per­pe­trat­ing geno­cide against the Native Amer­i­can peo­ple. And we are not the only Native peo­ple suf­fer­ing this dis­tress,” said anoth­er. “It is hap­pen­ing world over; but we hap­pen to be West­ern Shoshon­es and this is our land and we’re protest­ing the poi­soned water, the destruc­tion of the land, the road we’re stand­ing on here, the big machines: every­thing that the min­ing indus­try stands for. They say they’re doing it respon­si­bly, but they’re not because when they leave the West­ern Shoshone peo­ple will still be here and the land will be bar­ren.”

To help make sure this doesn’t hap­pen, the West­ern Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) asks that you help by mak­ing any of the fol­low­ing the dona­tions:

  1. 24 Nuts and Bolts (bolts need to be 1 foot in length with match­ing nuts)
  2. Gaso­line for saws and haul­ing costs.
  3. Food items such as eggs, bacon, meat, pota­toes, beans, etc. (includ­ing some sweets!)
  4. Helpers — to assist with con­struc­tion of arbor and for sup­port in the encamp­ment
  5. Mon­e­tary dona­tions for all of the above
  6. Moral sup­port and prayers

You can con­tact Joyce McDade for addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion, e‑mail: EJMcDade20@wmconnect.com

Happy Valley Occupation Celebration — Two Years! (Aotearoa/New Zealand)

SAVE HAPPY VALLEY!
OCCUPATION CELEBRATION — TWO YEARS!
THE WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 2nd-3rd, 2008

SAVE HAPPY VALLEY!
OCCUPATION CELEBRATION — TWO YEARS!
THE WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 2nd-3rd, 2008

You are invit­ed to the Save Hap­py Val­ley Coali­tion’s cel­e­bra­tion of our SECOND suc­cess­ful year of occu­py­ing Hap­py Val­ley. We have been con­tin­u­ous­ly occu­py­ing Hap­py Val­ley since Jan­u­ary 28th 2006 in order to pre­vent Sol­id Ener­gy from turn­ing it into an envi­ron­men­tal­ly dev­as­tat­ing open­cast coal-mine. Despite spies, 6000 snails from Augus­tus trans­ferred in ice­cream con­tain­ers, the destruc­tion of a near­by moun­tain, Sol­id Ener­gy’s plans for mas­sive expan­sion, and the Octo­ber 15th raids on activists, peo­ple have man­aged to keep Hap­py Val­ley safe so far! Yay for train track block­ades, film nights, alter­na­tives to min­er­als forums, demos, radio inter­views, every­one’s actions, and the OCCUPATION!

The Save Hap­py Val­ley Coali­tion, and any­one who wish­es to join us for the week­end cel­e­bra­tion, will be meet­ing at Les War­ren Park, in West­port, at 8am on Sat­ur­day 2nd Febu­rary 2008. (The major­i­ty of us will trav­el to West­port from Christchurch on the Fri­day night, car pool­ing can be arranged thru the coor­di­na­tor).

You will need all of your own tramping/camping gear and food, enough for the dura­tion of your intend­ed stay and you need to be pre­pared for unpre­dictable weath­er; rain; sun; hot and cold. This means that you must have have suit­able footwear, water­proof and warm cloth­ing, a sleep­ing bag and a tent (unless you have arranged to share with some­one else). An extend­ed gear list will be made avail­able to you when you con­firm plans with the occu­pa­tion coor­di­na­tor. If you do not have the required gear we may be able to pro­vide it for you, but please ensure that by the Fri­day you have the cor­rect gear.

We will be leav­ing the val­ley / return­ing to West­port on Sun­day the 3rd but it would be awe­some if you are able to stay longer in the val­ley!! Please let the coor­di­na­tor know.

We hope you can join us. Please RSVP so we can coor­di­nate eas­i­ly 🙂 Please let us know if you have any spe­cial needs that are of con­cern, we will be as accom­mo­dat­ing as pos­si­ble and we can pro­vide you with as much infor­ma­tion as you require.

For more infor­ma­tion please con­tact the occu­pa­tion coor­di­na­tor.

Thanks for your sup­port!

Frances Mar­tin
Occu­pa­tion Cel­e­bra­tion Coor­di­na­tor
frances.crayon@gmail.com
021 2037040

www.savehappyvalley.org.nz/occupation

If you can­not make it for this week­end but are able to vis­it the val­ley at anoth­er time please con­tact us! 🙂

York & Ainsty South Hunt Sabbed — Hunt Slash Tires Following Sab Success

26.12.2007
SABOTEURS FROM THE YORK HUNT SABS GROUP TODAY MONITORED THE YORK AND AINSTY SOUTH HUNT, SAVING LIVES AND CONFRONTING THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIONS

York & Ainsty South Hunt26.12.2007
SABOTEURS FROM THE YORK HUNT SABS GROUP TODAY MONITORED THE YORK AND AINSTY SOUTH HUNT, SAVING LIVES AND CONFRONTING THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIONS

York & Ain­sty South Hunt today met in Eas­ing­wold Mar­ket Square for their annu­al PR stunt and Box­ing Day Hunt. The Mas­ter put on a show whilst doing a speech, try­ing to act wel­com­ing to the “antis” and rant­ed how they should be tol­er­at­ed as the hunt always wel­comes oppos­ing views. Whilst he was busy talk­ing to the sup­port­ers, hunt sabs fed the hounds dog bis­cuits to make them more respon­sive to mon­i­tors in the field and laid a non-harm­ful cit­ronel­la scent which stops them smelling fox­es. The two police offi­cers present had already told peo­ple they would­n’t be fol­low­ing the Y&AS to enforce the ban.

As they set off, to a slow start, the mas­ter became very intol­er­ant and raised his whip to hit a sab as more cit­ronel­la was laid in front of the hounds — fun­ny how their atti­tude changes when there’s no pub­lic round.

About an hour in, the hunt begun flush­ing cov­ers with a full pack of hounds — some­thing which is ille­gal under the hunt­ing bill — and there was no drag any­where in the area, nor seen through­out the day. As hounds went into cry, sabs were on the oth­er­side of the cov­er ready to get between the fox and hunt pack when they broke cov­er and went into chase. Fol­low­ing this, sabs made howls (a noise made by fol­low­ers if a fox is seen) to dis­tract the hunt mas­ter who was unaware of the sabs on the oth­er­side. He then began ral­ly­ing the hounds towards the direc­tion of the noise and encour­ag­ing them, only to be caught on video cam­era by the mon­i­tors when he, and the full pack of hounds, broke cov­er. Fox bur­rows in the woods were filled in — some­thing done the morn­ing of the hunt so no chased ani­mals can get down the holes — this makes them eas­i­er to find, chase and kill as they have nowhere to hide. After this, the mas­ter (who coin­ci­den­tal­ly claimed to be legal­ly hunt­ing in his ear­li­er speech!) was asked about the ban and points of law were put to him as he was being filmed; his reply — a mid­dle fin­ger and mut­ter­ing of “Fuck Off”. This was then changed to point­ing and say­ing he’ll speak lat­er when he realised he was being filmed.

They then moved onto anoth­er, big­ger cov­er and did the same but chased a fox. Due to sabs’ inter­ven­tion and lay­ing of cit­ronel­la, two chased roe deer and fox­es escaped from the hounds. Due to the cov­er­ing of the scent by mon­i­tors, the pack was con­fused and the hunt moved on to try and avoid being filmed break­ing the law. The land own­er then came to escort sabs out of the cov­er and was con­front­ed about his allowance of an ille­gal activ­i­ty occur­ring on his land; unable to answer he began rant­i­ng on about tres­pass and tried grab­bing the video cam­eras.

Lat­er on as the Y&AS head­ed back towards Eas­ing­wold to pack up, hunt sup­port­ers slashed two tires on the land rover used by sabs — obvi­ous­ly in envy of their days lack of suc­cess and sabs dis­rupt­ing their ille­gal hunt.

THE YORK AND AINSTY SOUTH, LIKE MANY OTHER HUNTS, ARE CLAIMING IN THE PRESS THEY CONTINUE TO HUNT WITHIN THE LAW. THIS IS NOW EXPOSED AS A LIE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR HUNTS WITHIN THE AREA AND INTERVENE, SAVE LIES AND ENFORCE THE LAW.

YORK HUNT SABS

http://www.huntsabs.org.uk

December’s Greek round-up of bank, cash machine & Group 4‑Wackenhut vehicle attacks

Arson at a bank’s ATM (Athens, 24/12/2007)

Source (greek only-page bot­tom): http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=91228912

At 4:43 in the morn­ing, the ATM of a Kyprou Bank sub­sidiary in cen­tral Athens, was set on fire. There was no respon­si­bil­i­ty claim.

Arson at a bank’s ATM (Athens, 24/12/2007)

Source (greek only-page bot­tom): http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=91228912

At 4:43 in the morn­ing, the ATM of a Kyprou Bank sub­sidiary in cen­tral Athens, was set on fire. There was no respon­si­bil­i­ty claim.
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Molo­tov cock­tail attack against secu­ri­ty vehi­cles (Athens, 24/12/2007)

Source (greek only): Eleft­herotyp­ia — http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=91228912

Accord­ing to “Eleft­herotyp­ia news­pa­per report the “Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Attack Groups” (Epanas­ta­tikes Omades Epithe­sis) claim respon­so­bil­i­ty for the arsons of “Group 4 Securi­cor” vehi­cles in Kolonos, Athens. “On Dec. 24 we attacked the pri­vate guard com­pa­ny “Group 4‑Wackenhut” head­quar­ters destroy­ing around 15 vehi­cles used in mon­ey trans­fers. This com­pa­ny, apart from own­ing pri­vate pris­ons in Amer­i­ca and Eng­land, in our coun­try con­sti­tutes the most impor­tant piece of the grow­ing police-like corp of secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als that floods the streets, breed­ing the big broth­er shov­ing cam­eras, cir­cu­lat­ing the banks’ wealth and guard­ing diverse cap­i­tal­ist tar­gets con­tribut­ing in the increas­ing social con­trol and repres­sion.”
They also men­tion:
“The mes­sage here is clear. When deal­ing with the rage of insur­gents they can­not be safe, even in their head­quar­ters. Our attack was an action of sol­i­dar­i­ty to our empris­oned com­rades: Gian­nis Dim­i­trakis, Gior­gos Vout­sis-Vogiatzis, Mar­ios Tsoura­pas, Chris­sos­to­mos Kon­tore­vithakis, Vagge­lis Botzatzis as well as to the pris­on­ers of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Organ­i­sa­tion Novem­ber 17 that are being kept under a state of total iso­la­tion. It is an action of sol­i­dar­i­ty to the insur­gent pris­on­ers of April, many of whom face tor­ture and con­stant trans­fers. It all con­tin­ues…”
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Police cam­era sup­ply box on fire (Thes­sa­loni­ki, 21/12/2007)

Accord­ing to reports at http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=807773 a group of indi­vid­u­als set on fire a police cam­era pow­er sup­ply box, on Ethikis Amy­nis Street, Thes­sa­loni­ki.
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Arson at an Empo­ri­ki Bank (Volos, 21/12/2007)

Source: (greek only-page bot­tom: http://www.taxydromos.gr/article_detail.asp?node_serial=001001&node_id=2&article_id=7803)

Uniden­ti­fied per­sons caused a gas can­is­ter explo­sion at a bank sub­sidiary in Volos, around 4:30 in the morn­ing, at Empo­ri­ki Bank on Iolk­ou and Kon­stan­ta street, caus­ing dam­ages to the bank’s ATM. Police sus­pects indi­vid­u­als from the city’s anti­au­thor­i­tar­i­an milieu.
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Potatoes to Heavy Industry — Xmas blockade in Iceland with video

24 Decem­ber 2007
On Sat­ur­day nine ‘jólasveinar’ wan­dered into the Hell­isheiði Pow­er­plant by Mount Hengill, express­ing their oppo­si­tion to the rise of heavy indus­try and oth­er nature dev­as­tat­ing activ­i­ties in Ice­land, as well as sol­i­dar­i­ty with human nature con­ser­va­tion­ists. (The jolasveinar are 13 Ice­landic san­tas, born of a child-eat­ing troll moth­er, who descend from the moun­tains in the days before christ­mas to sneak through the hous­es, steal­ing, teas­ing and caus­ing mis­chief.)

Jule Lads action24 Decem­ber 2007
On Sat­ur­day nine ‘jólasveinar’ wan­dered into the Hell­isheiði Pow­er­plant by Mount Hengill, express­ing their oppo­si­tion to the rise of heavy indus­try and oth­er nature dev­as­tat­ing activ­i­ties in Ice­land, as well as sol­i­dar­i­ty with human nature con­ser­va­tion­ists. (The jolasveinar are 13 Ice­landic san­tas, born of a child-eat­ing troll moth­er, who descend from the moun­tains in the days before christ­mas to sneak through the hous­es, steal­ing, teas­ing and caus­ing mis­chief.)

“We decid­ed to take a stroll by there before com­ing to town, and give out rot­ten pota­toes to the naughty indus­tri­al­ists, and maybe a gift or two to the work­ers that do their jobs bad­ly” said Pot­taske­fill (Pot scraper) on behalf of the group. Naughty Ice­landic chil­dren such as these tra­di­tion­al­ly get a rot­ten pota­to in their christ­mas shoe.

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The Jule Lads, Nordic trolls who’s tra­di­tion pre­ceed Father Christ­mas, descend­ed upon a geot­her­mal pow­er sta­tion which is being enlarged to pow­er the enlarge­ment of an alu­mini­um smelt­ing fac­to­ry by RUSAL/Nordural. Hengill was once a beau­ti­ful moun­tain range, at the edge of a high­ly vol­canic area in Ice­land, a ski resort pep­pered with nat­ur­al hot pools and steam­ing rocks. Now it is noth­ing but a scream­ing fac­to­ry.

The Jule lads join up for a spe­cial direct action with the Sav­ing Ice­land col­lec­tive as they left to town… the video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfY5Ou31SWE

Please con­sid­er com­ing out to Ice­land for our 2008 action camp, we need all the help from activists we can get. This island is Europe’s last wilder­ness and with huge dams, geot­her­mal pow­er plants, pow­er lines, tar­mac roads, pol­lut­ing fac­to­ries, not to men­tion all the ter­ri­ble affects on the sur­round­ing sea, and a whole host of oth­er forms of destruc­tion.

More pho­tos at:
http://www.savingiceland.org/node/1077