Author: earthfirst

PIPELINE SQUAT?PROTEST public transport, maps info & video

http://www.pontardawe.org.uk/
gives you all you need
so no excus­es
very low police pres­cence,
enor­mous local sup­port

Trebanos demohttp://www.pontardawe.org.uk/
gives you all you need
so no excus­es
very low police pres­cence,
enor­mous local sup­port
they love us, and we love them
we can win this one
more bod­ies need­ed though!
espe­cial­ly dur­ing mon-fri as many of us have jobs to keep up.… unfor­tu­nate­ly.
get down there, its great!

4 min video report from the occu­pied LNG pipeline at Tre­banos in South Wales.
Tre­banos report — video/x‑ms-wmv 9.0M

Rossport Solidarity Picket, Salford Quays

18.11.2006

Sat­ur­day 18th Novem­ber, around 20 activists, includ­ing the Rhythms of Resis­tance sam­ba band went to pick­et the Shell garage at Sal­ford Quays. Whilst the band played, the rest of us leaflet­ted dri­vers as they arrived and where pos­si­ble spoke to them. The site of the band made it all the eas­i­er to do so and most were pre­pared to talk too.

Rossport Shell picket Salford18.11.2006

Sat­ur­day 18th Novem­ber, around 20 activists, includ­ing the Rhythms of Resis­tance sam­ba band went to pick­et the Shell garage at Sal­ford Quays. Whilst the band played, the rest of us leaflet­ted dri­vers as they arrived and where pos­si­ble spoke to them. The site of the band made it all the eas­i­er to do so and most were pre­pared to talk too.

The response was gen­er­al­ly good. We spoke to them as they arrived and whilst on the fore­court. The mes­sage as sim­ple — please don’t buy petrol here, bet­ter still think whether your car jour­ney is nec­es­sary. At least ten cars sim­ply drove away from the garage in the hour and a half we were there, which must have cost them a few hun­dred pounds.

The leaflet is avail­able at: http://af-north.org/shell/rossport.htm (text below).

For more local infor­ma­tion, please con­tact us at: shelltosea@af-north.org

More infor­ma­tion about the cam­paign can be got from: www.indymedia.ie/mayo
Infor­ma­tion about Shell to Sea: http://www.shelltosea.com/
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp: http://www.struggle.ws/rsc/ or www.rossportsolidaritycamp.com

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Buy your petrol some­where else today.

Shell has a ter­ri­ble record of destroy­ing the envi­ron­ment and the com­mu­ni­ties unlucky enough to live near their explo­ration sites.
On the west coast of Ire­land, in an area called Erris, in Coun­ty Mayo, they have found gas. They want to bring it ashore and refine it in an area which is unspoilt and unde­vel­oped. The result will be the total destruc­tion of the local area and the lives of the peo­ple who live there.
Already five men have spent three months in prison for protest­ing about Shell’s plans. The local peo­ple have fought long and hard to stop work at the refin ery. Now Shell and the Irish police are attack­ing these same peo­ple dai­ly to allow con­struc­tion to go ahead.

Help show you are opposed to their destruc­tion of Erris and the way they van­dalise our plan­et. Buy your petrol some­where else. Bet­ter
still, think whether you need all those car jour­neys. Hurt them in their pock­ets. It’s the only way to make Shell see sense.
Man­ches­ter Shell to Sea: shelltosea@ af- north. org

Safe Haven Pipeline Demo update & contact details

18.11.2006

since thurs­day a group protest­ing about lack of safe­ty reg­u­la­tions and pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion have been block­ing the lay­ing of the pipeline right next to the LNG constryc­tion site — they are dig­ging in for the long haul!

18.11.2006

since thurs­day a group protest­ing about lack of safe­ty reg­u­la­tions and pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion have been block­ing the lay­ing of the pipeline right next to the LNG constryc­tion site — they are dig­ging in for the long haul!

Thanks to Schnews newslet­ter I got down to the demo yes­ter­day after­noon to find 3 OAPS hud­dled in a tent on the pub­lic foot­path which runs right through the mid­dle of the mas­sive con­struc­tion site of the new Mil­ford Haven LNG ter­mi­nal.

The weath­er was appalling and they have already roughed it for one night. As soon as they had pitched camp on thurs­day hordes of cops and offi­cials sur­round­ed them with every man­ner of arc lights, gen­er­a­tors, fen­ce­posts, barbed wire and then packed up and went off to leave the site desert­ed for the week­end.

The ower­whelm­ing pres­ence of machin­ery and earth­works seems to blot out the exis­tence of the Safe Haven protest group who are cam­paign­ing to have the offi­cial Risk Assess­ment report released for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion — apart from the actu­al pipeline there are grave con­cerns over the safe­ty of the re-gas­si­fi­ca­tion plant. Pre­vi­ous acci­dents with this kind of tech­nol­o­gy have been known to pro­duce fire­balls of 27 square Km.

They have been try­ing to raise aware­ness of the issues ever since the vir­taully non-exis­tent pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion for the Plan­ning of this vast and unnec­es­sary white ele­phant — which just turns out to be anoth­er pet project for the mon­ey-spin­ning Car­lyle group [Bush and Sau­di Patron­age].

They are cur­rent­ly on a pub­lic foot­path so there may be a strug­gle to evict them — basi­cal­ly they want to get the Safe­ty report into the pub­lic are­na and believe that if the facts are known they stand to gain con­sid­er­able con­ces­sions even if the whole thing does­n’t get stopped com­plete­ly.

Any sup­port grate­ful­ly appre­ci­at­ed phone 07752 698489 for details

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Any­one wish­ing to con­tact the camp at Tyn y Pant Farm in the Swansea Val­ley where pro­tes­tors are occu­py­ing a length of pipe and have done since Sun­day 12th Novem­ber 2006 please tele­phone 07805 038725. The protest goes into it’s sec­ond week amidst amaz­ing sup­port from the peo­ple of the area who have had enough of being walked over by cor­po­rate busi­ness for the instal­la­tion of a fos­sil fuel indus­tri­al sized pipeline to cre­ate a mar­ket for raped gas from for­eign coun­tries. Remem­ber every time you turn on a gas flame or an elec­tric light that it is not so that you can see or be warm but to enable some­one, some­where, prob­a­bly not in your coun­try, to make a prof­it.
We ask all those who come into con­tact with the fenc­ing sur­round­ing this pipeline to please tie a piece of green cloth or rib­bon to the fence. One piece for every tree that has been destroyed in the wake of the pipeline, one rib­bon for every per­son that will live in fear of this mas­sive pipeline under their feet for the next 30 years if it is not stopped and one rib­bon for every unnec­es­sary death from ter­ror­ism and its caus­es
Thank you for your sup­port all those who have already shown it.

Kebele’s 11th anniversary & benefit party

Rais­ing the roof — 11th birth­day & ben­e­fit par­ty

It’s Kebele’s 11th anniver­sary, we now own the place out­right, we’re revamp­ing every­thing, and we’re even fix­ing the roof. So in true Kebele style, we are hav­ing a par­ty — and you are all invit­ed.

Kebele 11th birthday flier
Rais­ing the roof — 11th birth­day & ben­e­fit par­ty

It’s Kebele’s 11th anniver­sary, we now own the place out­right, we’re revamp­ing every­thing, and we’re even fix­ing the roof. So in true Kebele style, we are hav­ing a par­ty — and you are all invit­ed.

Fri­day 8 Decem­ber, 10pm to very late.
The Black Swan, 438 Sta­ple­ton Rd, Bris­tol, BS5 6NR
5 quid on the door

Bands (from hilar­i­ous chap rock to stomp­ing ska via east Euro­pean folk and demon grunge):
Don Brad­mans, The Great Escape, Malarchy, Span­ner, Jesus Bruis­er

DJs & sound sys­tems across the tribes:
Tossers, Pos­i­tive Vibra­tion, Idren, Akim­bo, Inspi­ra­tion Vibra­tion, Enjoy­ment Ser­vice

Plus Cabaret, Café n snacks, Bon­fire, Info.

Full details and poster/flyer down­loads go to http://www.kebelecoop.org/events_11thParty.html

Back­ground info:

For 11 years Kebele has pro­vid­ed a self organ­ised space for rad­i­cal pol­i­tics in Eas­t­on, Bris­tol. From squat­ted begin­nings and resist­ed evic­tion to ful­ly fledged hous­ing co-op and vol­un­teer-run anar­chist social cen­tre, it’s a long sto­ry with plen­ty of ups and downs, gigs, meet­ings, par­ties and cafes along the way. Some­times it’s real­ly hard work, but there’s so much to learn from organ­is­ing col­lec­tive­ly with­out lead­ers and sus­tain­ing a street lev­el com­mu­ni­ty project.

It’s inspir­ing to see our prin­ci­ples still intact and at the heart of all Kebele does: equal­i­ty, inclu­sion, shared respon­si­bil­i­ty, co-oper­a­tion, sol­i­dar­i­ty, not for prof­it, direct action. These are more than emp­ty, life­less buzz­words. Kebele aims to be a reflec­tion of the world we want to see in our every­day actions and organ­is­ing; a liv­ing, work­ing exam­ple of what we’re told is not pos­si­ble…

See http://www.kebelecoop.org for Kebele’s his­to­ry and what’s on now. See also http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25553 for recent news.

Kebele, 14 Robert­son Rd, Bris­tol, BS5 6JY
kebelesocialcentre@riseup.net
http://www.kebelecoop.org

Stop the pipeline! info flyer + events this week (& second camp started)

Stop the Pipeline!!
Land and homes across Wales are cur­rent­ly being destroyed for a huge, unsafe gas pipeline. Is this the best way to tack­le cli­mate change?

Trebanos pipeline 1Stop the Pipeline!!
Land and homes across Wales are cur­rent­ly being destroyed for a huge, unsafe gas pipeline. Is this the best way to tack­le cli­mate change?

What’s wrong with the pipeline?

The pipeline will be 150 miles long from Mil­ford Haven through the Bre­con Bea­cons into Glouces­ter, mak­ing it the biggest pipeline of its kind in Europe, cut­ting a chunk the width of a motor­way. Despite con­cerns about on going cli­mate chaos the gov­ern­ment is putting their ener­gy and resources into dig­ging up beau­ti­ful coun­try­side and people’s homes for more non-renew­able ener­gy, rather than build­ing for alter­na­tives like solar, wind and hydro pow­er.

Locals groups have formed in resis­tance to the pipeline. Many feel they have not been prop­er­ly con­sult­ed, some feel bul­lied and deceived, on an issue that affects them direct­ly, with some peo­ple hav­ing their homes com­pul­so­ri­ly pur­chased. There have also been many safe­ty con­cerns as peo­ple feel the gov­ern­ment have rushed plans through with­out prop­er health and safe­ty checks. For exam­ple, it’s being built on the only earth­quake zone in Britain, parts of it is on land that’s deemed too unsta­ble for hous­es and the gas is odour­less so locals wouldn’t know if there was a leak. In Tre­banos, near Swansea, it was decid­ed the land was too unsta­ble for mains gas pipelines to the vil­lage and now they’re build­ing Europe’s biggest gas pipeline!

What’s been hap­pen­ing this week?

Due to the absur­di­ty of these plans, and the fact that no amount of cam­paign­ing has had an effect, peo­ple have recent­ly tak­en direct action to stop work along the pipeline. At 5.30am last Mon­day (12th Novem­ber) activists entered the work­site with some peo­ple climb­ing on to machin­ery and oth­ers occu­py­ing parts of the pipeline. The pro­tes­tors have claimed squatter’s rights on a sec­tion of pipeline and have suc­cess­ful­ly stopped work since Mon­day. On Thurs­day 16th anoth­er protest site was start­ed by con­cerned fam­i­lies in Mil­ford Haven in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the pro­tes­tors in Tra­banos. There is also a green rib­bon cam­paign for locals to show sup­port for the protest.

What next?

A mass bike ride has been orga­nized for Fri­day 24th Novem­ber to raise aware­ness and show oppo­si­tion to the gas pipe line. Meet out­side Y Mochyn Du pub in Sophia gar­dens at 3.30pm.

More peo­ple are join­ing the camps as we speak but help and sup­port are always need­ed, any­one with spare time is wel­come to join in.
For reg­u­lar updates and infor­ma­tion see www.indymedia.org.uk

Daughters of Rebecca at Faslane

Approx­i­mate­ly 100 peo­ple from across Wales took part in the rolling 1‑year Faslane 365 cam­paign over three days this week (Mon 13th — Wed 15th Novem­ber). 19 pro­test­ers includ­ing eight teenagers, some of whom were as young as 14, were arrest­ed for blockad­ing the nuclear base. Those under 16 were almost imme­di­ate­ly de-arrest­ed by the police, but those aged 16 and over are treat­ed as adults in Scot­tish law and were detained overnight in police cells along with every­one else. Warn­ing let­ters from the procu­ra­tor fis­cal were issued to arrestees on their release. Since the cam­paign began on Octo­ber 1st, only one Faslane 365 case has been referred to court.

Faslane Wales 1
Faslane Wales 2Approx­i­mate­ly 100 peo­ple from across Wales took part in the rolling 1‑year Faslane 365 cam­paign over three days this week (Mon 13th — Wed 15th Novem­ber). 19 pro­test­ers includ­ing eight teenagers, some of whom were as young as 14, were arrest­ed for blockad­ing the nuclear base. Those under 16 were almost imme­di­ate­ly de-arrest­ed by the police, but those aged 16 and over are treat­ed as adults in Scot­tish law and were detained overnight in police cells along with every­one else. Warn­ing let­ters from the procu­ra­tor fis­cal were issued to arrestees on their release. Since the cam­paign began on Octo­ber 1st, only one Faslane 365 case has been referred to court.

The South Wales group brought with them a con­tin­gent of the Rebel Clown Army, a giant red drag­on and assort­ed politi­cians, while the North Wales group includ­ed a size­able group of “Merched Beca” (Daugh­ters of Rebec­ca) with volu­mi­nous skirts, bon­nets and black­ened faces. The actions of Merched Beca in 1839–44, where pro­test­ers dressed up in women’s clothes and destroyed much-hat­ed toll gates in Wales, led direct­ly to a Roy­al Com­mis­sion to exam­ine the issue, and by 1844 most of the remain­ing toll gates had been legal­ly removed, allow­ing ordi­nary peo­ple to move freely along the roads. The 21st Cen­tu­ry Daugh­ters of Rebec­ca hope that their non­vi­o­lent direct action as part of Faslane 365 will bring about the decom­mis­sion­ing and dis­man­tling of Britain’s nuclear weapons, allow­ing tax­es to be divert­ed to more use­ful pur­pos­es.

wrexhamsaw@yahoo.com
http://www.wpjf.org.uk

London neighbourhood Climate Camp Meeting 2 December

Lon­don neigh­bour­hood meet­ing to plan for the next cli­mate camp, lets get this thing rolling!

The Camp for Cli­mate Action was packed with work­shops and debates, the camp was a space to pool knowl­edge, ideas and inspi­ra­tion to tack­le the great­est threat to life on Earth. Under the shad­ow of 12 huge cool­ing tow­ers we con­verged to take action on the biggest CO2 emit­ter in north­ern Europe: Drax pow­er sta­tion.

Lon­don neigh­bour­hood meet­ing to plan for the next cli­mate camp, lets get this thing rolling!

The Camp for Cli­mate Action was packed with work­shops and debates, the camp was a space to pool knowl­edge, ideas and inspi­ra­tion to tack­le the great­est threat to life on Earth. Under the shad­ow of 12 huge cool­ing tow­ers we con­verged to take action on the biggest CO2 emit­ter in north­ern Europe: Drax pow­er sta­tion.

At the fol­low up meet­ing held in Man­ches­ter it was decieded that anoth­er camp would be held and that there would be region­al meet­ings before the nation­al gath­er­ing in Leeds on Jan­u­ary 13 and 14. The Lon­don neigh­bour­hood meet­ing will be held at the Lon­don Action Resource Cen­tre, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, on Decem­ber 2 at 1 o’clock. see you there!

for more info see
www.climatecamp.org.uk
www.lonodnarc.org

Please Email, Phone or Write Today In Support Of Tortured Filipino Anarchists

Please take a minute to email, phone, fax, or write in sup­port of The Saga­da 11, young anar­chists false­ly accused of a Maoist gueril­la attack and tor­tured in The Philip­pines. Today, Novem­ber 17th is an inter­na­tion­al action day for them! A sam­ple let­ter and con­tact details for offi­cials fol­low this short descrip­tion of the back­ground to the case…

Please take a minute to email, phone, fax, or write in sup­port of The Saga­da 11, young anar­chists false­ly accused of a Maoist gueril­la attack and tor­tured in The Philip­pines. Today, Novem­ber 17th is an inter­na­tion­al action day for them! A sam­ple let­ter and con­tact details for offi­cials fol­low this short descrip­tion of the back­ground to the case…

BACKGROUND
On Feb­ru­ary 14th this year, a group of anar­cho-punks from across the Philip­pines aged 15–25 were on a trip to Saga­da, a well known hik­ing spot, to go walk­ing. Police stopped the vehi­cle they were hitch­hik­ing with and bru­tal­ly arrest­ed them with­out a war­rant. Lat­er, they were told of an attack by Maoist gueril­las on a mil­i­tary out­post a few days before. When they denied involve­ment, they were sub­ject­ed to fur­ther tor­ture includ­ing suf­fo­ca­tion, elec­tro­cu­tion, sim­u­lat­ed exe­cu­tions and drown­ing. The two youngest had to be released, but the 9 oth­ers have been charged with arson and mur­der.

The youths were all active in eco­log­i­cal cam­paigns and groups such as Food not Bombs, but there is no evi­dence of any con­nec­tion with any Maoist organ­i­sa­tions, or gueril­la groups, or any evi­dence for the crime. Their arrest was ille­gal. They are being held under ter­ri­ble con­di­tions with­out even basic neces­si­ties or enough food in over­crowd­ed cells.

Inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty could make a huge dif­fer­ence to this case. You can say you are phoning/writing about the Saga­da 11, men­tion their names, and that you would like to enquire about their welfare/you think the arrests were illegal/demand their imme­di­ate release, etc. Please remem­ber that they are being accused of being part of Maoist gueril­la actions so be care­ful what you asso­ciate them with any­thing polit­i­cal­ly.

QUICK CONTACT DETAILS
Fil­ipino police: Gen. Arturo Lumibao: 0063 27264361
Jail:see address below, phone num­ber: 0063 744222304
Fil­ipino Embassy: 0207 9371600, Fax: 020 79372925, Email: embassy@philemb.co.uk

Oth­er impor­tant email address­es to send to: rvpuno@dilg.gov.ph, chiefacosta@edsamail.com.ph, sechbp@infocom.com.ph, drpvq@yahoo.com, omb1@ombudsman.gov.ph, ssyed@ohchr.org, tb-petitions@ohchr.org, scronin@ohchr.org . The full con­tact details are giv­en after the sam­ple let­ter but you can copy this email list to make mail­ing eas­i­er…

SAMPLE LETTER

I recent­ly heard about a case involv­ing eleven young peo­ple arrest­ed, tor­tured and false­ly accused of a ter­ror­ist attack in The Phillip­ines…

Names of those still in jail:

1. Run­dren Berloize Lao (24) of Gerona, Tar­lac.
2. Ander­son Alon­zo (18) of Cali­nan, Davao City
3. Aldoz Chris­t­ian Manoza (18) of Sam­paloc St.,
San­tolan, Pasig City
4. Ron Pandi­no (20) of Barangay May­at­ba, Siniloan,
Lagu­na
5. Jethro Vil­la­gra­cia (21) of Cali­nan, Davao City
6. Neil Rus­sel Bal­a­ja­dia (25) of No. 026 Tawiran St.,
San­tolan, Pasig City
7. Dar­win Ala­gar (21) of Barangay Tipu­so, Urdane­ta
City, Pan­gasi­nan
8. Arvie Nunez (21) of Barangay Silan­gang Mayao,
Luce­na City
9. Jef­fer­son dela Rosa (20) of No. 211 A.M. De Leon
St., San­tolan, Pasig City
All of them are present­ly detained in a jail in La
Trinidad, Benguet.

Name of minor vic­tims released to their parent’s
cus­tody:

1. Frencess Ann Bernal (15) of Calumpang, Marik­i­na
City
2. Ray Lester Men­doza (16) of Blk. 157 Lot 32 San
Fran­cis­co St., Barangay Rizal, Makati City

Name of per­sons charged with tor­ture: Gen­er­al Vil­lam­or Bumanglag, provin­cial direc­tor of the Benguet Provin­cial Police Office (BPPO); Police Super­in­ten­dent Brent Mad­ja­co, head of the 1604th Police Provin­cial Mobile Group (PPMG) and his men; and uniden­ti­fied mil­i­tary agents and Cafgu mem­bers

It has come to my atten­tion that the 11 per­sons, who were arrest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly tor­tured by the police and mil­i­tary men on 14 Feb­ru­ary 2006, have filed anoth­er crim­i­nal charges before the Benguet Prosecutor’s Office on June 28. In the new com­plaint, the vic­tims charged the police and mil­i­tary offi­cials for arbi­trary arrest and deten­tion. As you are aware, the Region­al Tri­al Court (RTC) in La Trinidad, Benguet had already ruled on May 19 that the arrest of the 11 vic­tims was ille­gal.

I am deeply con­cerned that the prosecutor’s office may fur­ther delay in resolv­ing this new com­plaint of arbi­trary arrest and deten­tion. I am aware that pri­or to the fil­ing of this com­plaint, on March 31 the vic­tims had also filed for vio­la­tion of Repub­lic Act 7438 against the same respon­dents. No for­mal charges have yet been filed against them in court. It is report­ed that the Office of the Deputy Ombuds­man for the Mil­i­tary and Oth­er Law Enforce­ment Office have yet to act on the rec­om­men­da­tion made by the prosecutor’s office. Only until the Ombuds­man takes action to the rec­om­men­da­tion of the pros­e­cu­tors the case will make progress in court.

Also, the admin­is­tra­tive case filed with the region­al office of the Nation­al Police Com­mis­sion (Napol­com) is also drag­ging at their office. The Com­mis­sion has yet to com­mence its sum­ma­ry hear­ing of the admin­is­tra­tive com­plaint that the vic­tims also filed on July 20 and 21, despite a long hia­tus between its orig­i­nal com­plaint filed to them. The delay to resolve the case on part of the Com­mis­sion and Ombuds­man is seri­ous­ly
affect­ing this case. I am deeply con­cerned this sit­u­a­tion may pro­long unless act­ed upon while the vic­tims remained in jail.

I am deeply con­cerned that charges of rob­bery with homi­cide, which was re-filed by the police­men against the 11 vic­tims, after the court’s rul­ing that the 14 Feb­ru­ary 2006 arrest and deten­tion of the vic­tims was ille­gal could be a mere rehash. I am extreme­ly dis­ap­point­ed that the vic­tim­s’ alle­ga­tions that the con­fes­sion and evi­dence tak­en from them by way of tor­ture, which the police used pros­e­cut­ing them, have not been act­ed upon. To my under­stand­ing, the suc­ceed­ing proceeding–filing of the case–should have been sub­se­quent­ly declared as null and void as the arrest have already been declared ille­gal. I there­fore urged the court, to con­sid­er these cir­cum­stances in their future delib­er­a­tion.

I urged your appro­pri­ate inter­ven­tion to ensure that the com­plaints the vic­tims filed to the pros­e­cu­tors’ office, ombuds­man and the police com­mis­sion are act­ed upon prompt­ly. I believed that you would com­plete­ly agree that prompt­ness to resolve these cas­es is very essen­tial. Please also request the prosecutor’s office in Benguet to con­sid­er drop­ping the charges of rob­bery with homi­cide against the vic­tims re-filed by the police con­sid­er­ing giv­en the court’s rul­ing. If this can­not be done, please request the court to con­sid­er approv­ing the victim’s peti­tion for rein­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Rein­ves­ti­ga­tion is nec­es­sary in order that the alle­ga­tions of tor­ture are dealt with accord­ing­ly.

Addi­tion­al­ly, please request the con­cerned gov­ern­ment agen­cies, in par­tic­u­lar the Philip­pine Nation­al Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philip­pines (AFP) to con­sid­er­ing dis­man­tling the armed mili­tias they are utilizing–Civilian Aux­il­iary Force Geo­graph­i­cal Unit (CAFGU). The uti­liza­tion of Cafgu had already result­ed to abus­es. In this case, CAFGU mem­bers had been accused of tak­ing part in the ille­gal arrest and deten­tion. The gov­ern­ment must send a strong mes­sage against the use of this force.

I trust that you will take action on this case.

Yours sin­cere­ly,

FULL CONTACT DETAILS

1. Mr. Ronal­do V. Puno
Chair­man
Nation­al Police Com­mis­sion (Napol­com)
A. Fran­cis­co Gold Con­do­mini­um II
EDSA cor. Mapagma­hal St., Dil­i­man
Que­zon City
PHILIPPINES
Voice: +63 2 925 0330 / 31
Fax: +63 2 925 0332
Email: rvpuno@dilg.gov.ph

2. Mrs. Per­si­da V. Rue­da-Acos­ta
Chief, Pub­lic Attor­ney Office (PAO)
DOJ Agen­cies Build­ing,
NIA Road East Avenue
1104 Que­zon City
PHILIPPINES
Tel. No. +63 2 929 9010 / 9436
Fax No. +63 2 927 6810 / 926 2878
Email: chiefacosta@edsamail.com.ph

3. Direc­tor Gen­er­al Oscar Calderon
Chief, Philip­pine Nation­al Police
Camp Gen­er­al Rafael Crame
Que­zon City
PHILIPPINES
Tel: +63 2726 4361/4366/8763
Fax: +63 2724 8763

4. Atty. Joce­lyn Castil­lo
Region­al Direc­tor, Com­mis­sion on Human Rights
Cordillera Admin­is­tra­tive Region
3rd floor SSS Baguio Branch Bldg., Har­ri­son Road
2600 Baguio City
PHILIPPINES
Tel: +63 074 619 9088/ 074 619 9089

5. Mr. Raul Gon­za­lez
Sec­re­tary
Depart­ment of Jus­tice
DOJ Bldg., Padre Fau­ra
1004 Mani­la
PHILIPPINES
Fax: +63 2 521 1614
Email: sechbp@infocom.com.ph

6. Ms. Purifi­ca­cion Quisumb­ing
Com­mis­sion­er
Com­mis­sion on Human Rights
SAAC Bldg., Com­mon­wealth Avenue
U.P. Com­plex, Dil­i­man
Que­zon City
PHILIPPINES
Tel: +63 2 928 5655 / 926 6188
Fax: +63 2 929 0102
Email: drpvq@yahoo.com

7. Mr. Orlan­do Casimiro
Deputy Ombuds­man for the Mil­i­tary and
Oth­er Law Enforce­ment Offices
3rd Floor, Ombuds­man Bldg., Agham Road
Dil­i­man (1104) Que­zon City
PHILIPPINES
Tel: +63 2 926 9032
Fax: +63 2 926 7572
Email: omb1@ombudsman.gov.ph

8. Pro­fes­sor Man­fred Nowak
Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on the Ques­tion of Tor­ture
Attn: Mr.Safir Syed
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Gene­va 10
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 22 917 9230
Fax: +41 22 9179016 (ATTN: SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE QUESTION OF TORTURE)
E‑mail: ssyed@ohchr.org, tb-petitions@ohchr.org
9. Mr. Lean­dro Despouy
Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on the inde­pen­dence of judges and lawyers
Attn: Sonia Cronin
Room: 3–060
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Gene­va 10
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 22 917 9160
Fax: +41 22 917 9006 (ATTN: SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR INDEPENDENCE JUDGES & LAWYERS)
E‑mail: scronin@ohchr.org

For more info, http://www.brightonabc.org.uk

next mcr critical mass is on friday 24th november

thats not this fri­day but the one after..

we added a poster and flyer/sticker to our blog to print and dis­tibute if you wan­na..

Manc Critical Mass flier Nov 06thats not this fri­day but the one after..

we added a poster and flyer/sticker to our blog to print and dis­tibute if you wan­na..
http://ilovebicycles.blogspot.com/

we are gonna get some stick­ers print­ed this week hope­ful­ly ready for next crit­i­cal mass which is on 24th novem­ber.. stick­ers should fit on top tubes
and on oth­er sur­faces!

After the rides we have all sorts of events like meals, beers, par­ties, film screen­ings etc. If you’d like to organ­ise some­thing for after a crit­i­cal mass please email the sug­ges­tion to the list

join the crit­i­cal mass email list here:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/manccriticalmass

After this one the next dates are:
dec 29, jan 26 (’07), feb 23, mar 30, apr 27, may 25

http://www.velorution.x21.org.uk

Bradford Priest Arrested at Nuclear Blockade

16.11.2006

Over 50 Anti Nuclear pro­tes­tors from Leeds and Brad­ford took part in a mass block­ade of the Faslane Nuclear Naval Base in Scot­land this morn­ing. Twen­ty sev­en of the pro­tes­tors, includ­ing the Revd Chris How­son from Brad­ford were arrest­ed for their role in the block­ade, which includ­ed ‘lock­ing on’ to a giant CND sym­bol out­side the main gates of the base.

Faslane 365 Leeds & Bradford16.11.2006

Over 50 Anti Nuclear pro­tes­tors from Leeds and Brad­ford took part in a mass block­ade of the Faslane Nuclear Naval Base in Scot­land this morn­ing. Twen­ty sev­en of the pro­tes­tors, includ­ing the Revd Chris How­son from Brad­ford were arrest­ed for their role in the block­ade, which includ­ed ‘lock­ing on’ to a giant CND sym­bol out­side the main gates of the base.

A group of women were also arrest­ed after suc­ces­ful­ly block­ing the sec­ond gate of the base. They were dressed as lol­lipop ladies and car­ried ‘Stop Tri­dent’ signs.

Pro­tes­tors man­aged to cause dis­rup­tion to traf­fic try­ing to enter the base for almost an hour whilst police removed pro­tes­tors lying in the road and used cut­ting equip­ment to remove the ‘lock ons’.

The block­ade was part of ‘Faslane 365’, a year-long cam­paign set up to oppose the exis­tence of Tri­dent, the British nuclear sub­ma­rine pro­gramme and to oppose the intro­duc­tion of any replace­ment to Tri­dent.

The Rev Chris How­son said, “I came to Faslane to show sup­port to those who had planned to take part in the block­ade. I was arrest­ed by the police whilst stand­ing on the pave­ment out­side the base for rea­sons they would not explain to me, despite my repeat­ed requests. “It is clear to me that the Gov­ern­men­t’s inter­ests are not with the major­i­ty who are opposed to Tri­dent replace­ment and would rather see the bil­lions wast­ed on the nuclear weapons pro­gramme spent on health, edu­ca­tion or cli­mate change, but with George Bush and his col­leagues who want us to live in a world of threat, fear and nuclear hypocrisy.”

Pro­fes­sor Dave Webb from Leeds and Con­venor of York­shire CND said, “Today’s turnout has been fan­tas­tic. We have had a great mix of peo­ple blockad­ing today, young and old. It just goes to show that peo­ple are pre­pared to take action for the world we live in. The Gov­ern­ment must lis­ten to us all and allow a full pub­lic and Par­lia­men­tay debate on Tri­dent replace­ment, and dis­ar­ma­ment must be an option.”

http://www.faslane365.org/leeds_and_bradford