Author: earthfirst

Beat the Chainsaw Pledge, Hereford

HEREFORD GREEN PARTY PRESS RELEASE:

Forty-nine locals vow to stand in front of chain­saws to pre­vent loss of Mead­ow trees.

HEREFORD GREEN PARTY PRESS RELEASE:

Forty-nine locals vow to stand in front of chain­saws to pre­vent loss of Mead­ow trees.

A capac­i­ty crowd of near­ly 300 peo­ple filled two floors of Here­ford’s Water­shed build­ing last night, to hear a coali­tion of groups talk about the Envi­ron­ment Agen­cy’s poor­ly-designed flood defence scheme for the City. Atten­dees expressed sup­port for the pro­vi­sion of effec­tive flood defences — but also con­cern over the Coun­cil’s lack of vision and lead­er­ship in pass­ing the cur­rent scheme by which estab­lished trees on Bish­op’s Mead­ow will be need­less­ly cut down. Green Par­ty prospec­tive Coun­cil can­di­date Mar­tin Wyness asked peo­ple if they would be will­ing to stand under the affect­ed trees, there­by mak­ing it impos­si­ble for work­ers to fell them. Forty-nine peo­ple expressed a com­mit­ment to stand in the way of the chain­saws in order to pro­tect Here­ford’s won­der­ful cul­tur­al and nat­ur­al her­itage.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic attend­ing the meet­ing expressed sur­prise that local ward Coun­cil­lors were not present to take ques­tions as to why they had not robust­ly chal­lenged the scheme dur­ing the plan­ning process. Dis­ap­point­ment was voiced as to why that process was not pub­li­cised suf­fi­cient­ly for res­i­dents to engage with it effec­tive­ly.

The Green Par­ty hopes that Coun­cil­lors who felt they could not chal­lenge the Envi­ron­ment Agency and DEFRA before, because of fears of los­ing fund­ing, will now find the courage to stand with the coali­tion as it demands that the scheme is rethought.

Green Par­ty prospec­tive Coun­cil can­di­date Mar­tin Wyness asked the Envi­ron­ment Agency rep­re­sen­ta­tive present at the meet­ing: “Can you give an assur­ance that the trees affect­ed will not be cut down in a rush in order to beat restric­tions caused by the immi­nent bird nest­ing sea­son?” The Envi­ron­ment Agency’s reply was that a sur­vey would be car­ried out.

Because it is still too ear­ly for nest­ing, this effec­tive­ly means that the chain­saws can come at any moment, even before the Envi­ron­ment Agency or Coun­cil looks at any alter­na­tive pro­pos­als.

The Green Par­ty is dis­ap­point­ed that Here­ford Lib­er­al Demo­c­rat MP Paul Keetch has until now, not seen fit to ques­tion the scheme prop­er­ly until he saw the scale of pub­lic con­cern. Here­ford needs a dynam­ic and pas­sion­ate Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment who will argue the case for keep­ing the mon­ey on the table while we amend the detail of these plans that would do so much dam­age to Here­ford’s his­toric envi­ron­ment. A some­what reluc­tant Mr. Keetch said on radio yes­ter­day “I am assured by the Envi­ron­ment Agency that if there is fine tun­ing that can be done, it will be done”. Let us hope he holds the agency to that promise.

ENDS

NOTES FOR EDITORS

It is quite pos­si­ble that Elgar walked beneath the trees that will be destroyed by this scheme. There is also a memo­r­i­al on the site that says that Elgar penned The Enig­ma Vari­a­tions after see­ing the Cathe­dral organist’s dog fall into the riv­er at this spot.

The coali­tion is ful­ly in favour of a flood defence scheme for the city, but not this one.

RRA Archi­tects showed their alter­na­tive and sym­pa­thet­ic pro­pos­al to the pub­lic meet­ing.

The coali­tion in favour of bet­ter flood defences includes: -

Cycle Here­ford
The Dis­abled Users Access Group
Friends of Cas­tle Green
Friends of the Earth
Fod­der
The Green Par­ty
The Here­ford Civic Soci­ety
RRA Archi­tects
St James and Bar­ton­sham Com­mu­ni­ty Asso­ci­a­tion
Water­shed

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact:
Mar­tin Wyness
Media — Here­ford & South Here­ford­shire Green Par­ty
07809 150344
mediasouth@herefordshiregreens.org.uk
www.herefordshiregreens.org.uk

new squatcafe/social centre coming soon in Somerset

13th Feb

Hi,
the cider squir­rel syn­di­cate, occu­pants of the stu­dio­Qau­ton­a­mous vil­lage are embark­ing on a new project for which we are call­ing for sup­port. the inten­tion is to occu­py a space in cen­tral Bridg­wa­ter to use as a veg­an cafe cum social cen­tre. We Want to include a library, computer/publishing work­shops, jug­gling club, radikal cin­e­ma and a space for art and fundrais­ers and par­ties. We are call­ing out for any help indy­medi­ans can offer-from dona­tions of food, equip­ment, lit­er­a­ture, movies, labour, paint, elec­tri­cal equip­ment, plates cups teabags, allot­ment space, smiles, advice, tim­ber ANYTHING. We project is to be self sus­tain­ing through dona­tions, fundrais­ers and sheer barefaced deter­mi­na­tion. At present we have 0 pounds for the project so any­thing you can help pro­vide will enable us to cre­ate the space our dying town is cry­ing out for. Any­one who can help or would like more info get in touch on mookdetat@hotmail.com

13th Feb

Hi,
the cider squir­rel syn­di­cate, occu­pants of the stu­dio­Qau­ton­a­mous vil­lage are embark­ing on a new project for which we are call­ing for sup­port. the inten­tion is to occu­py a space in cen­tral Bridg­wa­ter to use as a veg­an cafe cum social cen­tre. We Want to include a library, computer/publishing work­shops, jug­gling club, radikal cin­e­ma and a space for art and fundrais­ers and par­ties. We are call­ing out for any help indy­medi­ans can offer-from dona­tions of food, equip­ment, lit­er­a­ture, movies, labour, paint, elec­tri­cal equip­ment, plates cups teabags, allot­ment space, smiles, advice, tim­ber ANYTHING. We project is to be self sus­tain­ing through dona­tions, fundrais­ers and sheer barefaced deter­mi­na­tion. At present we have 0 pounds for the project so any­thing you can help pro­vide will enable us to cre­ate the space our dying town is cry­ing out for. Any­one who can help or would like more info get in touch on mookdetat@hotmail.com

Thanks all

hap­py resist­ing x

Demo in Edinburgh in the defence of Rospuda

20 Feb 2007
On Fri­day at 2 pm, in front of Pol­ish con­sulate there will be a dome in sup­port of Pol­ish protest site
against the destruc­tion of the largest in Europe wild wet­lands in Rospu­da Val­ley (google the area to find more about the case)

20 Feb 2007
On Fri­day at 2 pm, in front of Pol­ish con­sulate there will be a dome in sup­port of Pol­ish protest site
against the destruc­tion of the largest in Europe wild wet­lands in Rospu­da Val­ley (google the area to find more about the case)

Take a look at the fuckin’ pic­tures:
www.greenpeace.org/poland/multimedia/slajdy/dolina-rospudy-z-lotu-ptaka‑2

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pl.indymedia.org/pl/2007/02/26397.shtml
www.szkocja.net/forum/messageview.aspx

On the Ground Ireland: Day four, the Monday picket, video and report

Fears on ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Rats. Big ones. Per­haps Bertie Ahern and his cor­po­rate bud­dies had stormed the camp, attempt­ed to make a prof­it nest under the com­mu­nal ben­der and, as usu­al, couldn’t agree on any­thing and began squab­bling, squawk­ing and squeak­ing, claw­ing out each oth­ers eye­balls.

Fears on ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Rats. Big ones. Per­haps Bertie Ahern and his cor­po­rate bud­dies had stormed the camp, attempt­ed to make a prof­it nest under the com­mu­nal ben­der and, as usu­al, couldn’t agree on any­thing and began squab­bling, squawk­ing and squeak­ing, claw­ing out each oth­ers eye­balls.

Video 190207_Corrib_picket — video/x‑ms-wmv 5.6M

The ear­ly morn­ing pick­et saw peo­ple gath­er­ing again out­side the main gates of the con­struc­tion site again, this time at 7.30am.

The Gar­da were out in ear­ly, two vans, sev­er­al patrol cars and an unmarked blue car full of grin­ning senior offi­cers, who drove up and down the road all morn­ing.

30 to 40 pro­tes­tors pick­et­ed the trucks, cars and bus­es bring­ing in the work­ers. But the Shell con­tract­ed work­force was now minus five, accord­ing to local peo­ple. Five more work­ers quit after the Fri­day morn­ing protest.

The pick­et last­ed sev­er­al hours, includ­ing a tea-break at the Shell-to-Sea infor­ma­tion hut. Then the “musi­cians” decid­ed to give the work­ers a lit­tle scare, and send the mes­sage the protest to this pipeline and gas ter­mi­nal was not going away. They ran to the front gate and fence and used sticks to ham­mer out as much noise as they could muster until the only remain­ing police van drove up out front. The musi­cal pro­tes­tors retreat­ed back to the infor­ma­tion cen­tre and then took up perch oppo­site the main entrance again and ham­mered out beats on drums and bar­rels.

For now, there seems no real retal­i­a­tion from the Gar­da. There was a lit­tle point­less shov­ing of sev­er­al of the known local mem­bers, but it amount­ed to noth­ing.

The destruction of primeval Rospuda Valley is approaching! React!

The last moment to step in and stop the destruc­tion of primeval swamps and for­est in Cen­tral Europe: the Rospu­da Val­ley Bypass. A let­ter by Adam

Dear Ladies and Sirs,

I do not know if You are aware that Poland is build­ing a road through a part of Europe’s last primeval for­est- the Rospu­da Val­ley Bypass.

Rospuda valleyThe last moment to step in and stop the destruc­tion of primeval swamps and for­est in Cen­tral Europe: the Rospu­da Val­ley Bypass. A let­ter by Adam

Dear Ladies and Sirs,

I do not know if You are aware that Poland is build­ing a road through a part of Europe’s last primeval for­est- the Rospu­da Val­ley Bypass.

The primeval swamps in pic­tures:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=rospuda%20valley&ie=UTF‑8&oe=UTF‑8&sa=N&tab=wi

The invest­ment is con­tra­dic­to­ry to EU reg­u­la­tions on prepa­ra­tion of trans­port invest­ments, how­ev­er, the Com­mi­sion has not informed yet about the results of the inquiry, nor threat­ened the Pol­ish gov­ern­ment with penal­ties high enough to deter it from run­ning the most con­tro­ver­sial trans­port invest­ment in Europe with­out hav­ing the deci­sion process inspect­ed by the EU.

Con­cern­ing thae whole deci­sion process that took place, nev­er in my life have I seen less demo­c­ra­t­ic pro­ce­dure. There was not a cor­rect trans­port invest­ment appraisal pro­ce­dure, nor any demo­c­ra­t­ic dis­pute or pub­lic inquiry. It was all done as in a total­i­tar­i­an state.

There were two vari­ants that were sav­ing the val­ley: one- the Chodor­ki vari­ant, and sec­ond one- the Augustów East­ern Bypass vari­ant. Both were left out of trans­port appraisal pro­ce­dure due to no clear rea­son except for wish to manip­u­late with the results to sup­port one par­tic­u­lar vari­ant that was destroy­ing the nature but was sav­ing the paper­work need­ed to buy out the plots of land from local peasants.There is no oth­er argu­ment in choice of this par­tic­u­lar cor­ri­dor than the sav­ings in paper­work!

Here­with I accuse Pol­ish gov­ern­ment of will­full manip­u­la­tion with the data in order to pro­tect incom­pe­tence of the peo­ple who pre­pared this invest­ment. In my opin­ion the for­mal doc­u­ments were pre­pared after the deci­sion has been tak­en, and their goal was not to find the best bypass vari­ant, but to jus­ti­fy exact­ly this option by strate­gic manip­u­lat­ing with the choice of vari­ants analysed.

The vari­ants includ­ed by gov­ern­ment:
http://www.transpolska.most.org.pl/rozpuda/warianty2.jpg

The vari­ants exclud­ed from for­mal appraisal:
http://www.transpolska.most.org.pl/rozpuda/warianty2.jpg
http://www.transpolska.most.org.pl/rozpuda/warianty4.jpg

I would like to inform You that now it is expect­ed that with­in no more than a week the trees will be chopped off. I think that You should act prompt­ly enough, if You want to save the val­ley.

Adam, Trans­pol­s­ka

Ear­li­er doc­u­ments on the issue:
1. UK Indy­media — EMERGENCY ACTION: WE NEED 100 HARDCORE DIRECT …

“The bull­doz­ers will start destroy­ing the Rospu­da Val­ley wet­lands – unless they meet … The Rospu­da Val­ley is a nat­ur­al trea­sure, pro­tect­ed by Nature 2000. …”

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362519.html

2. UK Indy­media — Pol­ish ultra­catholic gov­ern­ment is build­ing a road …

“In the first step of the Via Balti­ca cor­ri­dor the by-pass of Augustów through the Rospu­da Val­ley will be built. Cur­rent­ly it is the the most con­tro­ver­sial …”

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/355034.html?c=on

Trans­pol­s­ka
http://www.transpolska.most.org.pl/

Radley Lakes

The Oxford Mail reports that Antho­ny Bai­ley was arrest­ed for pos­si­ble tres­pass when being evict­ed from a camp where npow­er wish to destroy a wildlife site with sul­phur rich pow­er sta­tion ash. They also report that he has a bro­ken arm.

The Oxford Mail reports that Antho­ny Bai­ley was arrest­ed for pos­si­ble tres­pass when being evict­ed from a camp where npow­er wish to destroy a wildlife site with sul­phur rich pow­er sta­tion ash. They also report that he has a bro­ken arm.
Unre­port­ed are sto­ries that he broke both arms in 2 places and near­ly died in Abing­don police sta­tion. Details not known but appar­ent­ly he was kept in an inter­view room for some 9 hours with noth­ing hap­pen­ing.
Also the police are report­ed­ly guard­ing him in the John Rad­cliffe hos­pi­tal and demand­ing the names of all his vis­i­tors.
The alleged tres­pass was in open/wooded ground near the lakes and not in any pri­vate house or build­ing.

M1 widening actions pigged

Police News Man­age­ment, Incom­pe­tence and Poor Atti­tude To Peace­ful Protest Exposed After They Pre­vent Peace­ful Cli­mate Camp Action With Mas­sive Over Reac­tion

Today, Mon­day 19th of Feb­ru­ary, peace­ful pro­test­ers from the Camp For Cli­mate Action had planned a series of events to high­light the envi­ron­men­tal cost of widen­ing the M1. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, a mas­sive police pres­ence, total­ly out of pro­por­tion to the pro­posed protest, appears to have con­tributed to mas­sive tail-backs on the motor­way near Sheffield. The pro­test­ers decid­ed not to go ahead with their event after being offered a ridicu­lous­ly lim­it­ed space in which to make their point and no pro­test­er actions took place at any time. At no point did any of them approach close to the motor­way, and they could not have there­fore caused the tail­backs as the Police sug­gest­ed to local radio. In fact, there had been an acci­dent on that stretch, which com­bined with the road­works and the police pres­ence, was prob­a­bly the cause of the delays.

Police News Man­age­ment, Incom­pe­tence and Poor Atti­tude To Peace­ful Protest Exposed After They Pre­vent Peace­ful Cli­mate Camp Action With Mas­sive Over Reac­tion

Today, Mon­day 19th of Feb­ru­ary, peace­ful pro­test­ers from the Camp For Cli­mate Action had planned a series of events to high­light the envi­ron­men­tal cost of widen­ing the M1. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, a mas­sive police pres­ence, total­ly out of pro­por­tion to the pro­posed protest, appears to have con­tributed to mas­sive tail-backs on the motor­way near Sheffield. The pro­test­ers decid­ed not to go ahead with their event after being offered a ridicu­lous­ly lim­it­ed space in which to make their point and no pro­test­er actions took place at any time. At no point did any of them approach close to the motor­way, and they could not have there­fore caused the tail­backs as the Police sug­gest­ed to local radio. In fact, there had been an acci­dent on that stretch, which com­bined with the road­works and the police pres­ence, was prob­a­bly the cause of the delays.

In a sec­ond embar­rass­ing mis­take, the Police seem to have believed that the action had been planned by the No M1 Widen­ing Cam­paign. In fact, the Camp For Cli­mate Action was sole­ly respon­si­ble. The police prob­a­bly don’t realise the link between traf­fic growth and wors­en­ing cli­mate change which threat­ens us all.

Sam Nex­ter said “Tony Blair has claimed that the gov­ern­ment is tak­ing cli­mate change seri­ous­ly but bil­lions of pounds of tax­pay­er’s mon­ey is now being wast­ed on a scheme that will do noth­ing to ease con­ges­tion but will increase emis­sions. There are much more effec­tive and eco­nom­ic ways to tack­le con­ges­tion such as improv­ing pub­lic trans­port and trans­fer­ring freight onto the rail­ways.”

“Its mad that, on top of pay­ing for dan­ger­ous motor­way build­ing, mon­ey is also wast­ed pay­ing large num­bers of police to sit around in vans.” he added.

The work to widen this stretch of M1 start­ed a month ago, and work on the sec­tion between junc­tion 6a-10 is already well under way. In total 115 miles of the M1 is due to be widened from the M25 to Mil­ton Keynes and from Leices­ter to Leeds, cost­ing a total of over £3.74 bil­lion. Many peo­ple believe the widen­ing will allow traf­fic to grow, caus­ing more CO2 emis­sions. Road trans­port already accounts for 21% of emis­sions in the UK and ris­es every year.

info@climatecamp.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

Radley Lake: The destruction begins — updates

15.02.2007

The Oxford Mail report­ed last night that a pro­test­er has been arrest­ed at the Radley Lakes site after work­ers start­ed prepar­ing the area for the con­tro­ver­sial dump­ing of pow­er sta­tion ash.

15.02.2007

The Oxford Mail report­ed last night that a pro­test­er has been arrest­ed at the Radley Lakes site after work­ers start­ed prepar­ing the area for the con­tro­ver­sial dump­ing of pow­er sta­tion ash.

“The Ant” as the man is know, had set up camp out­side the Thrupp Lake. He went into the area owned by RWE npow­er after work­men began clear­ing trees today and was arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion of aggra­vat­ed tres­pass.

http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk

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Radley Lat­est

17.02.2007
Work has begun in earnest now, with most of the trees on the islands cut down.
NPow­er’s law­ers have also issued an injunc­tion, served on 6 named indi­vid­u­als, plus any­one else they can man­age to serve one on down there, pret­ty much cur­tail­ing most of your civ­il lib­er­ties in that area.
This includes tak­ing phot­graphs of “pro­tect­ed indi­vid­u­als” (guys with chain­saws and secu­ri­ty guards), set­ting up any camp with­in a half mile radius of the lake, car­ry­ing equip­ment that could be used to set up tripods, or spike trees, protest­ing with­in 5 yards of a “pro­tect­ed indi­vid­ual”…
Appar­ent­ly, the secu­ri­ty guards were feel­ing har­rased.
So- care­ful not to breath too heav­i­ly either- you might end up get­ting nicked for that too.
So far 3 peo­ple have been arrest­ed in the lat­est wave of the protest- 1 in breach of the injunc­tion (for dar­ing to take pho­tos on a pub­lic high­way!).
Camps will be demol­ished after 6 hours, and Camp Kylie, pre­vi­ous­ly home to “The Ant” was demol­ished in the wee small hours of the morn­ing (no arrests, as there were no longer any occu­pants, as they’d all been nicked!)

Sug­gest­ed action- go down there, bear wit­ness, and I leave it up to you as to whether or not you take any notice of this injunc­tion.
I did­n’t!

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back­ground & update

RWE NPow­er have gone to great expense to try and gag the local press, TV and
even Radio, to pre­vent the news get­ting out there that they are trash­ing
Thrupp Lake and cut­ting down hun­dreds of trees, caus­ing dis­tress to the
nest­ing birds and caus­ing pain to the local res­i­dents who have made an
appli­ca­tion to have the place classed as a Town Green.

It all start­ed when NPow­er evict­ed a group of peo­ple who decid­ed to occu­py
the house called San­dles which had remained unoc­cu­pied for 18 months. They
went in on the 6th Feb with a team of thug­gish indi­vid­u­als with faces hid by
bal­a­clavas and sledge­ham­mered their way through a plate glass win­dow to gain
access to the house. Two girls sleep­ing next to the win­dow were trau­ma­tised
and lucky not to have been injured by the fly­ing shards of glass.

After they had evict­ed the occu­pants, the secu­ri­ty guards, still with their
bal­a­clavas decid­ed to film any­one and every­one who came near the lakes.
Film­ing vehi­cle reg­is­tra­tion num­bers and eaves­drop­ping on con­ver­sa­tions,
they were car­ry­ing out their patrols with gus­to, dis­turb­ing the wildlife all
through the night dur­ing their reg­u­lar pass­es and being intim­i­dat­ing to
peo­ple who were vis­it­ing the area.

A young man called Ant decid­ed on evic­tion to do a vig­il out­side the house.
First of all for two days he sat on a chair. Then some­one gave him a tent
and brought him some pro­vi­sions. It seemed an act of kind­ness for some­one
who felt that a protest had to be made. How­ev­er, the con­tin­ued stream of
peo­ple who sup­port­ed Ant seemed to aggra­vate the NPOWER GOONS and soon
NPow­er obtained some sort of Court Order to stop any­one camp­ing near their
prop­er­ty, car­ry­ing a rope or spike with­in a mile of the site, pho­tograph­ing
their work­men and secu­ri­ty guards, and demand­ing that the peo­ple against who
the injunc­tion was served should send a copy of the injunc­tion which they
had received to every­one who sup­port­ed the Cam­paign to Save the Lakes.

One of the peo­ple named on the injunc­tion is a retired sci­en­tist who is
extreme­ly law abid­ing and is at a loss to under­stand why his name should
appear on this paper­work. He did have an alter­ca­tion with a Secu­ri­ty Guard
who refused to let him pass down Thrupp Lane BOAT (Byway open to all
Traf­fic) say­ing it was a ByWay and he could­n’t dri­ve his vehi­cle down it.

Any­one who vis­its the lakes is like­ly to be fol­lowed round by a pair of
burly secu­ri­ty guards who are look­ing for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to have a
con­fronta­tion. Some­one vis­it­ed this morn­ing and report­ed his path barred by
three secu­ri­ty men from NPow­er, threat­en­ing that if he tried to go past
them, he was in breach of the “injunc­tion” and they would have him arrest­ed
because no one is allowed with­in 5 feet of a Secu­ri­ty Guard or NPow­er’s
prop­er­ty.

Edinburgh CRITICAL MASS Fri 23/02

Fol­low­ing on from last mon­th’s suc­cess­ful ride, Fri­day (23/02) sees Feb­ru­ary’s Crit­i­cal Mass bike ride in Edin­burgh. Meet 5.30pm foot of the Mound (by the Nation­al Gal­leries). Ride off 6pm.

We enjoy cycling. We enjoy cycling togeth­er. Cycling togeth­er makes Edinburgh’s some­time haz­ardous streets a more plea­sur­able expe­ri­ence. Let’s ride and cel­e­brate the won­der­ful inven­tion that is the cycle (bi/tri/uni — all vari­eties wel­come)! Pos­i­tive atti­tudes essen­tial!

Fol­low­ing on from last mon­th’s suc­cess­ful ride, Fri­day (23/02) sees Feb­ru­ary’s Crit­i­cal Mass bike ride in Edin­burgh. Meet 5.30pm foot of the Mound (by the Nation­al Gal­leries). Ride off 6pm.

We enjoy cycling. We enjoy cycling togeth­er. Cycling togeth­er makes Edinburgh’s some­time haz­ardous streets a more plea­sur­able expe­ri­ence. Let’s ride and cel­e­brate the won­der­ful inven­tion that is the cycle (bi/tri/uni — all vari­eties wel­come)! Pos­i­tive atti­tudes essen­tial!

Edin­burgh is dom­i­nat­ed, clogged and pol­lut­ed by the inter­nal com­bus­tion engine. Peo­ple sit for hours in their met­al box­es — typ­i­cal­ly trav­el­ling a few miles – detached from but destroy­ing the envi­ron­ment around them. Let’s demon­strate the free­dom, joy and sim­ple prac­ti­cal­i­ty that cycling could bring to every­ones’ lives!

Invitation to the Biovision 2007 counter-summit

This mes­sage is adressed to all peo­ple in Europe who want to resist active­ly GMO’s, cloning, nano-tech­nolo­gies, bio­met­rics, DNA reg­is­tra­tion, indus­tri­al exper­i­ments upon ani­mals, BioPatent and more gen­er­al­ly agro­chem­i­cal multi­na­tion­al pol­i­cy.

This mes­sage is adressed to all peo­ple in Europe who want to resist active­ly GMO’s, cloning, nano-tech­nolo­gies, bio­met­rics, DNA reg­is­tra­tion, indus­tri­al exper­i­ments upon ani­mals, BioPatent and more gen­er­al­ly agro­chem­i­cal multi­na­tion­al pol­i­cy.

If it is pos­si­ble for you to take a few days off between the 9th and the 14th of March, 2007 and if you have the means to come to Lyon (France), we invite you to take part in our Sum­mit against Biovision/Biosquare.

The Biovision/Biosquare Forum is the biggest Euro­pean Forum and one of the three biggest world­wide on Biotech­nolo­gies. This Forum takes place every odd year in Lyon. On the one hand it is an instru­ment of pro­pa­gan­da (Bio­vi­sion) in favour of biotech­nolo­gies and on the oth­er a mar­ket (Biosquare) where sci­en­tists pro­pose to sell indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions to com­pa­nies of the sec­tor.

The oth­er years Biosquare is held in a Swiss city (Gene­va in 2006, Basle in 2004, Zurich in 2002) while Bio­vi­sion is held from now on in a large town of a coun­try of the south (in 2006 in Alexan­dria, Egypt).

By the time, this Forum has become a full-time lob­by­ing machin­ery in favour of biotech­nolo­gies. It aims to the cre­ation of jobs with high incomes in the area and to decide our future.

If you choose to oppose to biotech­nolo­gies as we do, we invite you to con­tact ( nonabiovision@no-log.org) and to join us.

We will be able to accom­mo­date a cer­tain num­ber of peo­ple, but it can be more pleas­ant for you to pay hotel rooms if you can or to stay at a friend’s house.

It will be pos­si­ble to park car­a­vans or bus­es. Also we would appre­ci­ate all kind of help, for instance if you could come one week in advance.

If you can­not come, watch out : a cyber-action is already being planned.

See more…
www.rebellyon.info/spikini/biopognon/PagePrincipale

nonabiovision@no-log.org