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Climate Activist Glues Herself To The Front Door Of Leeds Bradford Airport

18th May: A woman cli­mate activist blocked the entrance to Leeds/Bradford Air­port today, by super­glu­ing her­self in front of the revolv­ing door. The protest was against gov­ern­men­t’s fail­ure to curb the growth in air trav­el, in spite of the fact that it is the fastest grow­ing source of CO2 emis­sions from the Unit­ed King­dom.

18th May: A woman cli­mate activist blocked the entrance to Leeds/Bradford Air­port today, by super­glu­ing her­self in front of the revolv­ing door. The protest was against gov­ern­men­t’s fail­ure to curb the growth in air trav­el, in spite of the fact that it is the fastest grow­ing source of CO2 emis­sions from the Unit­ed King­dom.

The activist hand­ed the fol­low­ing state­ment to mem­bers of the pub­lic and air­port staff:-

“This is a peace­ful act of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. It is my inten­tion to dis­rupt the nor­mal work­ing of this air­port because it is an envi­ron­men­tal haz­ard. In so doing, I am stand­ing up for the poor­est of the world’s peo­ple, and for future gen­er­a­tions, who will bear the brunt of cli­mate chaos, caused by the afflu­ent lifestyles and fos­sil fuel addic­tion of the rich.

The planned three­fold increase in air flights is envi­ron­men­tal luna­cy. If run­away cli­mate change is to be avert­ed, glob­al car­bon emis­sions need to peak this decade, and decline rapid­ly there­after. There is no way that this can be achieved with­out halt­ing the explo­sion in air trav­el. Leeds/Bradford Air­port is plan­ning to expand to 8million flights a year, and if the pub­lic author­i­ties refuse to curb this envi­ron­men­tal men­ace, then respon­si­ble local cit­i­zens must act.

I AM SUPERGLUED IN POSITION PLEASE DO NOT HURT ME BY ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE ME!

I am not a ter­ror­ist. The real ter­ror­ists are the peo­ple who are destroy­ing the plan­et for prof­it.”

The activist was in posi­tion for about an hour, giv­ing her plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty to edu­cate those going in and out of the air­port. The police again showed a remark­able tol­er­ance for the crimes of Leeds Brad­ford air­port by arrest­ing the activist and stop­ping her from per­form­ng this vital pub­lic ser­vice. What are they like?

www.climatecamp.org.uk

Eviction & Injuction Against Squatted Garden? Reading Resists!

17.05.2007
Com­mon Ground Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den is due to open to the pub­lic for the first time this Sat­ur­day 19th May, with a BBQ, children’s dance exhi­bi­tion and live acoustic music. Through four months of hard vol­un­tary work, some local res­i­dents and activists have cre­at­ed a beau­ti­ful green space from land left as a derelict junk­yard by Read­ing Bor­ough Coun­cil. We’ve cleared rub­bish, secured the area, laid lawn, grown plants and built tables and bench­es. We have recy­cled and re-used and cre­at­ed some­thing pos­i­tive for oth­ers and our­selves. Through­out this time we have been occu­py­ing the for­mer Women’s Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre, left emp­ty after the coun­cil cut their fund­ing.

17.05.2007
Com­mon Ground Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den is due to open to the pub­lic for the first time this Sat­ur­day 19th May, with a BBQ, children’s dance exhi­bi­tion and live acoustic music. Through four months of hard vol­un­tary work, some local res­i­dents and activists have cre­at­ed a beau­ti­ful green space from land left as a derelict junk­yard by Read­ing Bor­ough Coun­cil. We’ve cleared rub­bish, secured the area, laid lawn, grown plants and built tables and bench­es. We have recy­cled and re-used and cre­at­ed some­thing pos­i­tive for oth­ers and our­selves. Through­out this time we have been occu­py­ing the for­mer Women’s Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre, left emp­ty after the coun­cil cut their fund­ing.

Today, we have found out that derelict land and build­ings are not left to rot by the coun­cil through sheer lazi­ness, but that they actu­al­ly pre­fer them this way. A coun­cil offi­cial has informed us this morn­ing that they are apply­ing to the court for our evic­tion and the evic­tion of the new Com­mon Ground Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den. Refus­ing to allow this pos­i­tive com­mu­ni­ty project to flower (excuse the pun!) or allow­ing Kates­grove res­i­dents a chance to decide the future of this area, the coun­cil is seek­ing an injunc­tion to pre­vent the planned open day and cel­e­bra­tion events this Sat­ur­day from tak­ing place.

We intend to car­ry on regard­less. This project is a source of pride for us, and we hope it can be the same thing for all our neigh­bours. We believe it to be a pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tion to the area and we sin­cere­ly hope you will feel the same. With this in mind we would like to extend an invi­ta­tion to all our friends, neigh­bours and those who sup­port us to vis­it the gar­den at any­time from now onwards. We also restate our invi­ta­tion to join in our cel­e­bra­tion of the open­ing day, this Sat­ur­day 19th May.

The entrance to the gar­den is through the alley­way next to the Women’s Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre at the bot­tom of Sil­ver Street, Kates­grove, Read­ing.

Against their injuc­tion and evic­tion is our stub­born deter­mi­na­tion — resist!

Love n Rage,
Com­mon Ground Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den Col­lec­tive
rgacollective(AT)hotmail.co.uk

Christiania under attack and Copenhagen-Update

15.05.2007
The police entered chris­tia­nia yes­ter­day to evict and demol­ish a house, that part­ly burned down a cou­ple of years ago. The evic­tion lead to a night of street fight­ing in the area. Time­line is trans­lat­ed from modkraft.dk

Christiania May 07 house eviction 115.05.2007
The police entered chris­tia­nia yes­ter­day to evict and demol­ish a house, that part­ly burned down a cou­ple of years ago. The evic­tion lead to a night of street fight­ing in the area. Time­line is trans­lat­ed from modkraft.dk

Yes­ter­day’s attack on chris­tia­nia has to be seen in con­nec­tion with the attack on Ung­domshuset the 1st of march which lead to a week of riots all over Copen­hagen. Again the police is now attack­ing a free space in Copen­hagen that has been under attack from both police and gov­ern­ment sev­er­al times the last cou­ple of years

The rea­son was offi­cial­ly that there had been made new con­struc­tions on the house which against the new admin­is­tra­tion “rules” for chris­tia­nia that for­bids any con­struc­tion at all, which also lead to anoth­er major police raid in sep­tem­ber 2006. Unof­fi­cial­ly it is said that the evic­tion might be a test from the police to see the reac­tion to evic­tions on chris­tia­nia, pri­or to the promised evic­tion of all “ille­gal­ly” build hous­es in the area..

From sev­er­al politi­cians and the opin­ion in gen­er­al among left rad­i­cals the offi­cial rea­son for the attack has been critized as being point­less. The house was offi­cial­ly asked to be removed by Chris­tia­nia them­selves back in 2006 and there has­n’t been any rea­son stat­ed why it had to be removed just now a month and a half after Ung­domshuset and a week before the court decides whether or not 3 hous­es on Chris­tia­nia should also be evict­ed.

To many it seems like the police is train­ing for these evic­tions of hous­es that are still in func­tion and also this might be an attempt to shift the pub­lic opin­ion AGAINST Chris­tia­nia by cre­at­ing and pro­vok­ing sev­er­al riots in the area week after week.

How­ev­er, the riots and fight­ing yes­ter­day also shows that the police isn’t always the strongest force. Peo­ple were caught by sur­prise this morn­ing when they attacked Chris­tia­nia but by evening the demon­stra­tors proved to be a much more pre­pared and stronger force than the police seem to have been pre­pared for.

Even though Copen­hagen might have seemed to dis­ap­pear again in the inter­na­tion­al news the city has been the cen­ter for huge polit­i­cal mobi­liza­tions time after time and there has been more and more focus on police bru­tal­i­ty in the dan­ish news.
At the same time sen­tences has been decid­ed by the city court against some of those peo­ple arrest­ed around 1st of march. Most of them have been con­fes­sion tri­als and might there­for not give any hint about future tri­als but in one or two tri­als peo­ple have been sen­tenced for long jail pun­ish­ments even though there was more civ­il wit­ness­es sup­port­ing them than police wit­ness­es against them.

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From modkraft.dk:

Kl. 01.51

The police has bloked Prins­essegade (main road to chris­tia­nia) and has parked a big amount of vans and offi­cers on the main square in the area Chris­tian­shavns Torv

The sit­u­a­tion seems unchanged.

Modkraft.dk is end­ing tonights reportage

Kl. 01.39

A police attack has­n’t begun any­way. Four police vans are parked across Prins­essegade with a num­ber of offi­cers in gas masks in front of and behind the vans.

Fur­ther up the street clos­er to Chris­tia­nia molo­tov cock­tails and tear­gas granats are thrown in each oth­ers direc­tion but with­out any real move­ment.

The police has all equip­ment ready but noth­ing is hap­pen­ing

Kl. 01.28

A wit­ness reports that the police has tak­en on gas­masks and is stand­ing next to their vans by the church half way between the square Chris­tian­shavns Torv and the entrance to Chris­tia­nia

The wit­ness thinks it looks like the prepa­ra­tion for a final attack on the demon­stra­tors.

Kl. 01.24

There has just been new clash­es between demon­stra­tors and police around Prins­essegade and Båd­mandsstræde.

The police moved for­ward in vans and had rocks thrown after them. The police then retreat­ed and fired tear­gas at the demon­stra­tors.

In return the demon­stra­tors threw at least 3 molo­tov­cock­tails at the police

It seems as if the clash­es does­n’t lead to any changes in posi­tion. The police has again retreat­ed.

Kl. 01.05

The fight­ing between demon­stra­tors and police seems to stop just as slow­ly. There aren’t as many demon­stra­tors on the street as ear­li­er in the evening.

There is still a lot of clash­es with the police where paint­bombs and molo­tovs are thrown at the police

A wit­ness has esti­mat­ed the num­ber of demon­stra­tors to be around 100 but there is more inside chris­tia­nia.

Kl. 00.55

After demon­stra­tors have been retreat­ed to chris­tia­nia they have now start­ed run­ning out in dif­fer­ent loca­tions in the area. There is fight­ing in a street next to Prins­essegade. The police is slow­ly retreat­ing.

There are still huge amounts of gas in the streets but the wind keeps spread­ing it out.

Kl. 00.41

There is still fight­ing between police and demon­stra­tors in Prins­essegade. Also there is still a lot of gas in the streets but the demon­stra­tors are just mov­ing accord­ing to the amount of gas, retreat­ing when there is too much. Molo­tovs are fre­quent­ly being thrown at the police

The demon­stra­tors are pour­ing water on the tear­gas bul­lets (?), mov­ing from one to anoth­er with water bot­tles.

The area is cov­ered with a huge police­force.

Kl. 00.24

The police has fired extreme­ly much tear­gas in the streets. A wit­ness says taht the demon­stra­tors are cry­ing and vom­it­ting. But peo­ple still havent giv­en up but are instead very aggres­sive. A lot is retreat­ing from the gas but sev­er­al demon­stra­tors are stay­ing.

Water and lemons are hand­ed out among the demon­stra­tors.

The wind in the area is con­tin­u­ing and the demon­stra­tors are moing towards the police as soon as the gas is gone.

Tear­gas has just been fired into chris­tia­nia over the musik­place Lop­pen (www.loppen.dk)

Kl. 00.18

There are burn­ing bar­ri­cades sev­er­al places in the area. In a par­al­lel street to Prins­essegade a larg­er bar­ri­cade is on fire

Kl. 00.13

Every­thing is qui­et on Sankt Hans Torv where a demon­stra­tion was sup­pose to start at mid­night. 15–20 demon­stra­tors are hang­ing out there and there isn’t any sign of dis­tur­bance.

Kl. 00.11

A clash is being pre­pared in Prins­essegade. The police has fired huge amounts of gas in the street but a wind is spread­ing it out. That makes the demon­stra­tors move for­ward as soon as the worst amount of gas is gone

The police seems to be hes­i­tat­ing, accord­ing to a source

Kl. 23.59

The police moved towards the demon­stra­tors a moment ago. They were met with rocks and the like.

One van was set on fire which is out again by now

A minute after the attack the police retreat­ed again and regrouped.
They fired gas at the demon­stra­tors

The demon­stra­tors have retreat­ed a bit but are very dis­ci­plined. They are yelling “Hold the line” to each oth­er. A wit­ness calls them “ready for bat­tle”

Kl. 23.55

The sit­u­a­tion is tense. Bar­ri­cades are build in Prins­essegade

By Båd­mandsstræde a small­er clash is hap­pen­ing. Oppo­site ear­li­er the police is hes­i­tat­ing a bit. At oth­er attacks the police has answered to demon­stra­tors’ attacks with pow­er­ful attack on them.

It is the demon­stra­tors that are offen­sive now.. They are yelling out paroles against police bru­tal­i­ty

The house the police evict­ed this morn­ing has been rebuild.

Kl. 23.47

SMS-mes­sages has called for a demon­stra­tion at Nør­re­bro at mid­night. As the demon­stra­tions on chris­tia­nia and in the area ear­li­er it is to protest the evic­tion of a house on chris­tia­nia ear­li­er today

Kl. 23. 42

There are two large burn­ing bar­ri­cades in Prins­essegade. One of them was attacked by a police 15 min­utes ago.

A new fire is being made between the two bar­ri­cades. The mood is tense & bat­tle-pre­pared.

The area has been blocked by police. No one can enter or leave the neigh­bour­hood. Even the metro has been stopped.

Wit­ness­es describe the sit­u­a­tion as silence before the storm

Kl. 23.33

Police has just start­ed a mas­sive and vio­lent attack on the entrance to Chris­tia­nia. This is after demon­stra­tors again has made attacks on the police. A sin­gle demon­stra­tor did­n’t make it away and has been arrest­ed and car­ried away

Kl. 23.23:

The police attacked the entrance to chris­tia­nia five min­utes ago. The demon­stra­tors replied with molo­tovs, rocks and bot­tles.

The police has retreat­ed again and a new attack is expect­ed.

There are sev­er­al burn­ing bar­ri­cades in the area

The riots start­ed short­ly after 22 o’clock where a demon­stra­tion on the main square in the area start­ed by sms’s start­ed a larg­er fire and build bar­ri­cades. The police attacked the demon­stra­tion after about 10 min­utes and at least 25 peo­ple were arrest­ed.

The demon­stra­tors spread out in the area after­wards and start­ed build­ing burn­ing bar­ri­cades around the entrances to chris­tia­nia.

Politiken.dk writes that at least 42 per­sons had been arrest­ed at 22.30

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Pic­tures & video: http://indymedia.dk/article/1153
http://politiken.dk/poltv/?ExtID=1646
http://politiken.dk/poltv/?ExtID=1646

More video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImOBGgLEBHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpse1ohja4g
playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D96F3A4AD2D6B746

Activists Occupy Downtown West Palm Beach Billboard protesting Florida Power and Light

West Palm Beach, May 14 — This morn­ing local activists from Project Aware­ness and Ever­glades Earth First! hung ban­ners and locked them­selves to a down­town rooftop bill­board to call for a sus­tain­able future for west­ern Palm Beach Coun­ty. They oppose FPL’s pro­posed West Coun­ty Ener­gy Cen­ter, cit­ing its con­tri­bu­tion to glob­al warm­ing, Ever­glades pol­lu­tion, and overde­vel­op­ment; and the Callery-Judge “Town Devel­op­ment,” which would jump­start urban sprawl in the Lox­a­hatch­ee area. Their mes­sages high­light the enor­mous water con­sump­tion cllowances already approved for each project, and pro­mote pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion in two forums ñ tomorrow’s 2pm coun­ty com­mis­sion meet­ing and the FPL’s Share­hold­ers meet­ing to take place at FPL’s Juno Beach head­quar­ters on May 25.

West Palm billboard actionWest Palm Beach, May 14 — This morn­ing local activists from Project Aware­ness and Ever­glades Earth First! hung ban­ners and locked them­selves to a down­town rooftop bill­board to call for a sus­tain­able future for west­ern Palm Beach Coun­ty. They oppose FPL’s pro­posed West Coun­ty Ener­gy Cen­ter, cit­ing its con­tri­bu­tion to glob­al warm­ing, Ever­glades pol­lu­tion, and overde­vel­op­ment; and the Callery-Judge “Town Devel­op­ment,” which would jump­start urban sprawl in the Lox­a­hatch­ee area. Their mes­sages high­light the enor­mous water con­sump­tion cllowances already approved for each project, and pro­mote pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion in two forums ñ tomorrow’s 2pm coun­ty com­mis­sion meet­ing and the FPL’s Share­hold­ers meet­ing to take place at FPL’s Juno Beach head­quar­ters on May 25.

Their col­or­ful ban­ners showed an alli­ga­tor chomp­ing a pow­er plant and read:

“Got Water? They would: FPL’s West Coun­ty Plant ->18 mil­lion gal­lons a Day;

“Callery-Judge Town -> 5 mil­lion gal­lons a day. Keep it Rur­al, Keep it Wild. No new FPL Plant”

For over a year envi­ron­men­tal groups have been fight­ing the West Coun­ty Ener­gy Cen­ter (WCEC), a nat­ur­al gas plant that FPL hopes to con­struct 1000 feet away from the Arthur R. Mar­shall Nation­al Wildlife Refuge in Lox­a­hatch­ee. As the alter­na­tive to fos­sil fuel plans, activists are pro­mot­ing ener­gy effi­cien­cy & renew­able ener­gy, which FPL claims is imprac­ti­cal, despite the Amer­i­can Coun­cil for Ener­gy Efficiency’s recent report on the poten­tial for effi­cien­cy and renew­able sources to meet Florida’s ener­gy demands.

“When it comes to renew­able ener­gy, the sci­ence has been there for years,” says local activist & physi­cist Lynne Purvis. “Why does FPL con­tin­ue to use old, dirty tech­nolo­gies? The answer can only be greed.”

The cur­rent drought and water short­ages spawn fur­ther con­cerns about FPL’s pro­posed WCEC water require­ments of 18 mil­lion gal­lons a day and the unknown water con­sump­tion of the hun­dreds of thou­sands of units of devel­op­ment enabled by the project, includ­ing Callery-Judge’s 5 mil­lion gal­lons a day.

“These projects are direct threats to Ever­glades Restora­tion,” declared Ever­glades Earth First! mem­ber Peter Shultz. “What we need is con­ser­va­tion, not more con­struc­tion.”

Dublin Shell to Sea – Bringing it all Back Home

Day of Action — They deserve it and you deserve bet­ter

On the 18th of May Dublin Shell to Sea is going to esca­late its cam­paign against Shell’s com­mand cen­tre – Cor­rib house on Lee­son Street with anoth­er day of action start­ing at 7.30 am sharp. This attempt to shut down Shell’s HQ, like our last day of action (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82200), is being called to high­light the incred­i­ble theft of our nat­ur­al resources that totals 51 bil­lion euros in the Cor­rib field alone. This is only pos­si­ble with your help; we encour­age every­one to come along.

1st Dublin Shell Day of Action 1
1st Dublin Shell Day of Action 2
Day of Action — They deserve it and you deserve bet­ter

On the 18th of May Dublin Shell to Sea is going to esca­late its cam­paign against Shell’s com­mand cen­tre – Cor­rib house on Lee­son Street with anoth­er day of action start­ing at 7.30 am sharp. This attempt to shut down Shell’s HQ, like our last day of action (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82200), is being called to high­light the incred­i­ble theft of our nat­ur­al resources that totals 51 bil­lion euros in the Cor­rib field alone. This is only pos­si­ble with your help; we encour­age every­one to come along.

Dublin Shell HQ mapFuel Pover­ty – A Nation­al Scan­dal
Ire­land is cur­rent­ly fac­ing a cri­sis. Our health ser­vice verges on the brink of col­lapse as our nurs­es are forced to strike for decent work­ing con­di­tions. Our politi­cians have told us they can’t give in, in fear we all might ask for decent con­di­tions.

We have been con­stant­ly remind­ed in the elec­tion cam­paign about how much we owe our politi­cians. We are told the Celtic Tiger has brought untold rich­es and this coun­try is now awash with mon­ey. This is true to a cer­tain extent. More mon­ey has been gen­er­at­ed and emi­gra­tion has stopped. But still all is far from per­fect in this coun­try. Mon­ey has been wast­ed and the great­est give­away is hap­pen­ing as we speak. 51 bil­lion euros of our nat­ur­al gas reserves is being giv­en to Shell, Marathon and Sta­toil (for more info on deal see http://www.publicinquiry.ie/reports.php). Whilst these fig­ures are often too big to con­tem­plate, it is some­times eas­i­er to look at who is being direct­ly affect­ed. As usu­al it is those who need help most who will be affect­ed worst.

Unbe­liev­ably, each win­ter, up to 3,000 peo­ple die pre­ma­ture­ly every year from fuel pover­ty (‘The Poten­tial Health Ben­e­fits of Improv­ing House­hold Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy’ Clinch and Healy 2000 and Help The Aged., source: http://www.eirigi.org/campaigns/naturalresources/fuel_p…y.htm). This is our par­ents and grand­par­ents who are dying. What is our politi­cians’ response to this? Instead of try­ing to solve the prob­lem they gave away the one thing that could alle­vi­ate the prob­lem – nat­ur­al gas. Above all else nat­ur­al gas could have ensured that three thou­sand peo­ple lived out their lives, but they chose to give it away instead (http://www.publicinquiry.ie/reports.php).

Roy­al Dutch Shell A.G.M. in The Hague
Whilst our politi­cians are to blame they are not the only ones. Shell, Sta­toil and Marathon are the thieves in this sit­u­a­tion and are mak­ing away with enor­mous amounts of our resources. This week one of the thieves, Shell, will cel­e­brate their grotesque prof­its at their A. G.M. in Hol­land. It’s quite telling that the only place that Shell’s board of direc­tors can be held to account (if you are rich) is in a con­fer­ence hall in The Hague. We the right­ful ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the nat­ur­al gas deposits off our west coast won’t have a say.

The new ben­e­fi­cia­ries are peo­ple like the Queen of Hol­land (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Beatrice) Lord Kerr of Kin­lochard (also direc­tor of Rio Tin­to, Jeroen van der Veer, Lin­da Cook, Andy Pyle and Ter­ry Nolan (for oth­er mem­bers of Shell’s board of direc­tors see (http://www.search.shell.com/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi). Through­out this week Roy­al Dutch Shell will wine and dine the glob­al elite and divide out 51 bil­lion euros of our mon­ey.
At this meet­ing the rest of Shell’s share­hold­ers will get the chance to see how their invest­ments are doing and decide what to do with €51 bil­lion they stole from you and Shell’s exec­u­tives this year will no doubt have a nice cig­ar and cham­pagne at your expense.

These men and women with their suits and brief­cas­es will sit smug in The Hague with their caviar in the knowl­edge that they have ripped off a coun­try that needs its resources bad­ly — Our health ser­vice verges on the brink of col­lapse as our nurs­es are forced to strike for a decent wage, our elder­ly now live in fear of Win­ter as up to 3000 peo­ple die each year from fuel pover­ty and pen­sions are being pri­va­tised.

What you can do?
But all is not doom and gloom, on Fri­day the 18th just as Shell’s Irish elite arrive back hav­ing giv­en away our resources to the glob­al rich. Dublin Shell to Sea plans to greet these peo­ple by shut­ting down their Irish nerve cen­tre and head­quar­ters – Cor­rib House. This is the build­ing where all deci­sions are tak­en, where they hatched the plans to steal our resources and tar­get the Mayo com­mu­ni­ties in their relent­less pur­suit of prof­it. So come and join us in protest­ing against these crim­i­nals and block­ade their offices on Fri­day the 18th of May – they deserve it and you deserve bet­ter!

Relat­ed Link: http://www.shelltosea.com

Squatted Community Garden Opening Day — Sat 19th May — Reading!

“COMMON GROUND”
(Read­ing Squat­ted Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den)
** OPENING DAY! **

SATURDAY MAY 19TH,
1pm till Late!
** BBQ, live acoustic music and dance exhi­bi­tion by local kids from 6pm! **

“COMMON GROUND”
(Read­ing Squat­ted Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den)
** OPENING DAY! **

SATURDAY MAY 19TH,
1pm till Late!
** BBQ, live acoustic music and dance exhi­bi­tion by local kids from 6pm! **

A group of anti-cap­i­tal­ists in Read­ing have cre­at­ed a beau­ti­ful gar­den from a squat­ted piece of derelict land for our com­mu­ni­ty to use and enjoy. On Sat­ur­day 19th May we will be open­ing to the pub­lic for the first time, hope to see you there!

Lim­it­ed acco­mo­da­tion is avail­able, 1st come 1st serve — please let us know asap, thanx!

The entrance is through the alley­way, next to the Wom­ens Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre, Sil­ver Street, Cen­tral Read­ing, UK. We are 10mins walk from train sta­tion.

“Any­thing is pos­si­ble when we take the ini­tia­tive”

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please email rgacollective(AT)hotmail.co.uk

New cars smashed while on transportation by train

Since the G8 in Gle­nea­gles 2005 there has been sab­o­tage on 3 dif­fer­ent dates, with esti­mat­ed dam­age about £200,000 plus,bristol indy­media has been spared the post­ings for legal rea­sons.

Since the G8 in Gle­nea­gles 2005 there has been sab­o­tage on 3 dif­fer­ent dates, with esti­mat­ed dam­age about £200,000 plus,bristol indy­media has been spared the post­ings for legal rea­sons.

EAST KENT EARTH FIRST!

This report announces the for­ma­tion of a new cam­paign­ing and action group to be called EAST KENT EARTH FIRST!

The group is based in Can­ter­bury, but already has sup­port from peo­ple in the Med­way Towns, Sit­ting­bourne, Herne Bay and Thanet as well as Can­ter­bury. Most of the peo­ple involved have a back­ground in the Ani­mal Rights move­ment and recog­nise the need to broad­en out into Eco Action and relat­ed issues. Be it GM crops, Air­port expan­sion, unnec­es­sary devel­op­ment, or diverse oth­er issues we shall seek to edu­cate, inform and protest, notwith­stand­ing the cur­rent clam­p­down on rea­son­able protest. There will short­ly be a web­site up and run­ning, but in the mean­time any­one inter­est­ed in being involved should

This report announces the for­ma­tion of a new cam­paign­ing and action group to be called EAST KENT EARTH FIRST!

The group is based in Can­ter­bury, but already has sup­port from peo­ple in the Med­way Towns, Sit­ting­bourne, Herne Bay and Thanet as well as Can­ter­bury. Most of the peo­ple involved have a back­ground in the Ani­mal Rights move­ment and recog­nise the need to broad­en out into Eco Action and relat­ed issues. Be it GM crops, Air­port expan­sion, unnec­es­sary devel­op­ment, or diverse oth­er issues we shall seek to edu­cate, inform and protest, notwith­stand­ing the cur­rent clam­p­down on rea­son­able protest. There will short­ly be a web­site up and run­ning, but in the mean­time any­one inter­est­ed in being involved should
con­tact the fol­low­ing email address. mattclowes@riseup.net

Video — You Plant, We Dig

Short video of the April 21st anti-GM ral­ly and pic­nic that end­ed with the attempt­ed under­plant­i­ng of organ­ic pota­toes in a field thought to be ear­marked for a BASF GM pota­to crop tri­al in Hedon near Hull.

Short video of the April 21st anti-GM ral­ly and pic­nic that end­ed with the attempt­ed under­plant­i­ng of organ­ic pota­toes in a field thought to be ear­marked for a BASF GM pota­to crop tri­al in Hedon near Hull.

8 mins, 19mb, H264 encod­ed

See also www.mutatoes.org

Plane Stupid Callout for Local Groups

Plane Stu­pid (www.planestupid.com) is call­ing out for local Plane Stu­pid groups to form to fight the fastest grow­ing cause of cli­mate change (avi­a­tion) in your area. Plane Stu­pid thinks that local groups tak­ing action in their area but with­in a wider net­work of Plane Stu­pid activists is the best way to fight the unsus­tain­able growth of the avi­a­tion indus­try. If you would like to set up a group in your area all you need is a few enthu­si­as­tic mem­bers com­mit­ted to using direct action to fight cli­mate change.

Plane Stupid plane fist logoPlane Stu­pid (www.planestupid.com) is call­ing out for local Plane Stu­pid groups to form to fight the fastest grow­ing cause of cli­mate change (avi­a­tion) in your area. Plane Stu­pid thinks that local groups tak­ing action in their area but with­in a wider net­work of Plane Stu­pid activists is the best way to fight the unsus­tain­able growth of the avi­a­tion indus­try. If you would like to set up a group in your area all you need is a few enthu­si­as­tic mem­bers com­mit­ted to using direct action to fight cli­mate change.

The 2003 Avi­a­tion White Paper out­lines plans for between dou­ble and triple the cur­rent num­ber of pas­sen­ger flights. This involves mas­sive air­port expan­sion all over Britain at rate equiv­a­lent to the build­ing of a new Heathrow every 5 years. The UK’s top cli­ma­tol­o­gists pre­dict that avi­a­tion’s emis­sions alone are pre­dict­ed to exceed the gov­ern­men­t’s tar­get for the coun­try’s entire out­put of green­house gas­es in 2050 by around 134%. (Tyn­dall Cen­tre for Cli­mate
Chan­g­eRe­search)

Plane Stu­pid has become one of the direct action groups of the emerg­ing grass­roots cli­mate move­ment in Britain. Our dra­mat­ic impact has come by means of a series of high-pro­file direct actions and a near obses­sive focus on clear, basic demands that peo­ple under­stand: the scrap­ping of air­port expan­sion plans, a tax on air­craft fuel and
plane tick­ets, and an end to unnec­es­sary and unsus­tain­able short haul flights.

Since we formed in less than 18 months ago; we have dis­rupt­ed the world’s largest inter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion indus­try con­fer­ence in Cen­tral Lon­don; ground­ed planes through the occu­pa­tion of a taxi­way at the short-haul East Mid­lands Air­port; blocked the entrance to BAA’s head­quar­ters at Heathrow twice; staged a roof-top protest at easy­Jet’s cor­po­rate head­quar­ters in Lon­don, tem­porar­i­ly shut down tens of trav­el agents across the UK and helped angry Heathrow res­i­dents dis­rupt the trans­port min­is­ter’s speech. We also inspired and over­saw Britain’s first nation­al day of action against short haul flights, which saw local groups hold demon­stra­tions at six region­al air­ports and out­side Flight Cen­tre trav­el agents in cities across the UK.

Gov­ern­ment and indus­try’s prof­i­teer­ing from cre­at­ing cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change will go unchecked unless YOU do some­thing today! Join us by set­ting up a local group with some like mind­ed peo­ple in your area to help us scrap air­port expan­sion, get avi­a­tion fuel and tick­ets taxed and end­ing short haul flights.

Con­tact info@planestupid.com or call 07948 219 493 for advice on set­ting up a local group or for some­one to come and speak in your area about Plane Stu­pid. Also on the 12th and 13th of May we will be at the Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change con­fer­ence in Lon­don (http://www.campaigncc.org/) where you can come and speak to us.

www.planestupid.com
info@planestupid.com