Author: earthfirst

Massive protests have delayed the start of work on a 33-mile tunnel under the Alps between France and Italy planned as a key link in a trans-Europe rail line.

The demonstration mixed environmental activists with residents of the Val di Susa on the border between the two countries, the Times of London reported. In Venaus, the tunnel’s Italian end, the newspaper said that almost every house sports a “No TAV” sign, using the project’s Italian acronym.

On Wednesday night the Venaus post was cleared by the police. Between 3 and 4 a.m. the cops violently rushed against the demonstrators who were blocking the opening of the TAV yard. Several people have been injured, some of them have been bloodily hit.

The minister of the Interior, Pisanu, has warned everybody that in the Valley of Susa there were ‘subversive groups’: probably he was referring to the thousand cops who attacked and clubbed two-hundred sleeping people. Media and politics have started at once to blather on ‘clashes and brawls’, but this was a premeditated aggression against harmless people who could not run away. This provocation has had the opposite effect, though, and protests are spreading all over.

The inhabitants of the valley are receiving support from Turin and from every part of Italy, not only through demonstrations in several cities, but also with the stream of tens of thousands of people giving rise on Thursday morning to a massive, extraordinary demonstration in Venaus. The demonstrators, determined to win back the post cleared by the State violence forces, have surrounded the yard, dismantled its structures and erected barricades in order to face the police properly.

On the 30th November, CMC, the former left-wing cooperative having specialized in environmental distruction in the Tuscan region of Mugello, started occupying the fields of Venaus, in the Piedmontese Alps, in order to open the yard for a 10 km tunnel, the first step in the contruction of the high-velocity railway called TAV.

On the 29th June and on the 6th-7th October blocks by the people of the valley prevented the CMC technicians, escorted by police forces of alla sorts, from carrying out the seizure. In the face of the umpteenth challenge by the great infrastructure lobby (among its members there is also the Italian minister for infrastructures, Lunardi), the Valsusa population has got ready to resist.

The people in the Val di Susa Region fight against the planned 54-km-long TAV-high-speed-train-tunnel because the work at the tunnel will set free uranium and asbest from inside the mountain.

The proposed rail line would connect Lisbon with Kiev.

Opponents of the tunnel say 300 high-speed trains a day would destroy a peaceful mountain area and damage the environment. They are especiallly opposed to a shorter secondary tunnel under Mount Musine, a place said to be where the Emperor Constantine saw a cross in the sky and also associated with Celtic rituals.”

Now all people who care for environment and for the defense against capitalist greed, all people determined to win back their lives seized by the EU, and by the Italian state and regions, express solidarity and follow attentively the Valsusa battle.

videos.
http://www.onedrop.it/Cortometraggi/Tav/No_tav_1.mpg
http://www.onedrop.it/Cortometraggi/Tav/No_tav_2.mpg
http://www.onedrop.it/Cortometraggi/Tav/No_tav_3.mpg

more pics:
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/940542.php
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/940292_comment.php
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2005/12/32877.shtml
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2005/12/32891.shtml

http://italy.indymedia.org/archives/display_by_id.php?feature_id=2619
http://www.notav.it

At around 3.30 yesterday morning near the village of Venaus in Piedmont’s Susa Valley, police attacked and forcibly evicted locals and activists who had been peacefully occupying the valley for the past week in protest against plans to construct a High Velocity Train line and tunnel linking Turin with Lyon.

According to reports, more than ten people were injured and three arrested as police moved in with bulldozers, kicking and beating sleeping protesters and destroying barricades and hospitality structures erected during the occupation of a site where work is due to begin on the new High Velocity train link between Turin and Lyon. One elderly inhabitant of the valley who suffered a coronary after being truncheoned in the stomach was admitted to hospital where his condition is said to be stable. Others injured included several news photographers.

There was widespread condemnation of the violence later in the day from leading left-wing and some centre-left politicians, along with calls for the resignation of the police commander who led the assault – inciting his men to “kill them all” according to several witnesses – and the Minister of the Interior, Giuseppe Pisanu who defended the police action, claiming that the valley-dwellers’ protest had been manipulated by ‘extremists,’ a claim hotly denied by the mayors of the communities involved.
Indeed the entire population of the Susa Valley have continued to reaffirm their opposition to the controversial project, which they say is unnecessary and environmentally dangerous. The mountains where the tunnel is to be excavated are known to contain significant deposits of asbestos and uranium and there has been mounting criticism from several quarters regarding the project’s economic usefulness. Also not without significance is the fact that the company awarded the contract for the project is part-owned by the wife of Italy’s Minister of Transport, Pietro Lunardi. Yesterday morning’s violent action has shown that local and national government and their supporting financial lobbies are determined to go ahead with the rail-link, which they claim is vital to Italy’s economic future, even if it means ignoring the collective will of the local population and resorting to anti-democratic and authoritarian measures.

Meanwhile, there were numerous strikes and demonstrations across Italy during the day in solidarity with the valley’s inhabitants, while several railway stations and motorways in the Susa area were occupied, blocking traffic for several hours, to which police responded with further violence. More demonstrations and disruptions are planned over the next few days.

For more information go to:

http://italy.indymedia.org/features/piemunt/#2603
http://ww2.carta.org/notizieinmovimento/
http://www.carta.org/campagne/ambiente/notav/index.htm

TODAY (5th Dec) is Jeff Luers’s birthday, he will be 27, and he will be spending it in an American maximum security prison  serving a sentence of 22 years and eight months.

Jeff Luers has been in prison now for 5 years. He needs and deserves the support of every man woman and child on Earth.

If something is not done about it, he can expect to spend another 17 birthdays, locked up for a ‘crazy’ act of passion; trying to save humanity and the planet that sustains us, which we are systematically destroying.

Act of Passion

Five years ago, Jeff Luers and a friend went to a car dealers parking lot in Oregon, USA, and set a light to three SUV cars. Most people will agree this was a very miss guided act of ‘eco rage’ against the existence of these gasoline guzzeling beasts. Apart from anything else burning cars is extreamly harmful to the enviornment; SUV’s should be either recycled into bicycles, or given to the UN to use in climate change disaster zones.

However, it does not deserve 22 years, 8 months in prison.

A comparison of sentences given in the same state shows rapists, child molestors, other far more destructive arsonists, and a man who attempted murder with an axe getting far less severe sentences.

In the same year that Jeff was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three cars, a man who raped a girl under the age of fourteen, and raped three girls under the age of 16, and contributed to the delinquency of a girl under the age of 18, and delivered drugs to a minor, was sentenced to just 13 years.

Jeff Luers is very much a political prisoner; his sentence proves it.

He first came to the attention of the authorities and the powerful logging companies, when he started trying to save the giant red wood trees, part of the American national heratige, which they wanted to chop down for profit.

He built tree houses at the top of the trees and chained himself to them, blocking the interests of one of the most powerfull vested interest groups in America.

Thats why he got 22 years and 8 months.

What Jeff Luers did was wrong, but so was his sentence, and two wrongs don’t make for justice: he should be released now.

Even if you do not agree with what he did, Jeff Luers deserves your support, and the support of every man, woman, and child on this planet, because it was the planet he was trying to save.

His crime of passion involved no danger to life or limb and the three cars he burnt were insured.

A worldwide campaign for his release is underway, which will not stop until he is free, and you can help.

1. Raise this issue where ever you can. If you belong to an environmental action group, raise the issue at a meeting, and discuss what support you can give as a group.

2. A legal appeal about the length of his sentence is under way, but it needs financial support. Send a donation however small, it’s the thought that counts. The more different groups and individuals that give a donation, the more pressure there is on the US authorities to do something. Try to get a local group to make a donation.

3. Write to Jeff and to the Governor of Oregon (details below).

4. Organise an event for the International Day of Solidarity.

5. Get information up on a website, blog or news group.

6. Think of something yourself, and do it. Also let us know.

Write to the Governor of Oregon:

MAIL

Governor Kulongoski
160 State Capitol
900 Court Street
Salem, Oregon 97301-4047

PHONE

Governor’s Citizens Representative Message Line:
503.378.4582

FAX: 503.378.6827

http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/contact_us.shtml
Free Jeff Leurs Campaign

More information + uk campaign athttp://www.schmoo.co.uk

Free Jeff Luers Campaign: http://www.freefreenow.org

Dalkieth Country Park – only seven miles from Edinburgh city centre – is threatened by a road. Three tree protest camps have been set up in the park and eviction notices have been served by the Scottish Executive and local council. People are URGENTLY needed to stay at the site. See Indymedia Scotland for up-dates, more info’ and pictures – http://scotland.indymedia.org/

On Monday 21st November a number of trees were felled to make way for the Scottish Executive’s A68 Dalkeith Bypass. The trees that were cut down have been identified as potential bat roost and include ancient oaks over 200 years old.

The trees appear not to have been cut in accordance with Scottish Natural Heritage and the Executive’s own guidelines. SNH have been reluctant to tell their paymasters to follow the law. We believe that due to low temperatures the bats have already started hibernating.

In response to the destruction and SNH’s inaction, trees under immediate threat have been occupied. The occupation is part of a wide ranging campaign involving different groups and individual from Dalkeith and around the world.

A community roadshow has visited local areas to promote a model of development which values sustainability, public transport and community involvement. The roadshow exposed the Scottish Executive’s Midlothian Council’s failure to enhance public transport or reduce dependence on the private car, preferring to create dormitory communities and a new road. This type of development, in the absence of the promised multi-modal approach will certainly lead to more traffic in Dalkeith on the A68 and on the city bypass, making it impossible to achieve air quality improvements and co2 emission targets.

Occupations have occurred at three points on the road where habitats are under threat. All three sites have been served with eviction notices.

Eviction is imminent as is the loss of our natural habitat. Defences are being erected to resist eviction while the few remaining legal options are being investigated. We urgently need support in many different forms. Come stand in the way of the bulldozers, get up a tree and help defend it, support us in the legal campaign, donate us money, chocolate, blankets, rope, tarpaulins, hot food, tinned food for eviction, nuts, love, mobile phones and credit, visits, tools, vehicle use, climbing equipment, water and your energy.

The trees need YOU! Come to the woods.

BACKGROUND INFO AND CONTACTS

Dalkeith Country Park is a historic 850 acre park that serves as a valuable wildlife habitat and is visited by 50,000 people annually. The proposed bypass would cut the wildlife habitat in two, and while the 1999 Strategic Road Review noted it would offer journey savings, it also noted the bypass would cause “generally negative ratings in the other environmental factors, including global air quality, water, ecology, visual impacts, heritage, and landscape character.”

Although construction is not supposed to begin officially until the summer of 2006, because of the early spring nesting season of birds and bats, tree-felling is to begin immediately. In response to this emergency, anti-roads protesters have set-up a tree-sit and walkways in the pines that are in the path of the extension.

Protesters will remain in the trees until the bypass is defeated.

CONTACT

Dalkeith Protest Site Phone: 077839043697

For more information on the campaign to Save Dalkeith Country Park, visit the website of the legal campaign:www.save-dalkeith-park.org.uk/

EVICTION ALERT

It is crucial that when the police arrive to evict the tree-sit (likely early in the morning) that people be there to provide support, witness any possible brutality by the police, and take note of any possible neglect of environmental regulations by tree-cutters. Since the eviction can happen anytime, it would be useful if you could e-mail your phone number and/or e-mail address to:

dalkeithtreesit@cyber-rights.net

In the case of an eviction, we will call you, e-mail you, and SMS(text) you the word Eviction. Then you should e-mail and call all your friends to come on down to Dalkeith! A bus will be available to leave within an hour to leave for Dalkeith Park from outside the Automous Centre and outside the Forest Cafe. This bus will then go straight to the Dalkeith Park tree-sit, and will provide a lift back into town. If you are media please write ‘MEDIA’ in the subject of your reply e-mail.

The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh is at 17 West Montgomery Place, junction with Brunswick Road, near the huge Post Office, off Leith Walk.

The Forest Cafe is at 3 Bristo Place, near Bristo Square and the Student Union of Edinburgh University.

To contact the protesters directly, call
07783904369

DIRECTIONS to the Protest Site

The site is in a stand of pines on the north side of the River Esk after the two branches have joined and near the cut for the overhead electric lines.

Enter Dalkeith Country Park at the north end- entrance off of the A6094 at Smeaton Lodge (between Dalkeith and Whitecraig). Go past Home Farm towards the River Esk, after crossing the bridge the protest site can be accessed by the first farm track on the left (note the site is not accessible for vehicles).

Alternatively, enter Dalkeith Country Park from the main entrance off of the High Street in Dalkeith. Stay on the road leading to the right past the adventure playground, shop and cafeteria; after passing the grazing fields and the power line cut the road will split. Take the left fork towards the River Esk. After crossing the bridge, the protest site can be accessed by the first farm track on the left.

From Edinburgh, Lothian Buses 3 and 3a go to Dalkeith.

Dalkieth Country Park protestors

There is now an eviction notice hotline that will notify you if there is an eviction if you get in touch, and buses ready to go to Dalkeith as soon as the eviction happens!

The eviction notice still stands, but protesters are still determined to brave the cold to save the trees of Dalkeith Park from being cut. It is crucial that when the police arrive to evict the tree-sit (likely early in the morning) that people be there to provide support, witness any possible brutality by the police, and take note of any possible neglect of environmental regulations by tree-cutters. Since the eviction can happen anytime, it would be useful if you could e-mail your phone number and/or e-mail address to: dalkeithtreesit@cyber-rights.net

In the case of an eviction, we will call you, e-mail you, and SMS(text) you the word Eviction. Then you should e-mail and call all your friends to come on down to Dalkeith! A bus will be available to leave within an hour to leave for Dalkeith Park from outside the Automous Centre and outside the Forest Cafe. This bus will then go straight to the Dalkeith Park tree-sit, and will provide a lift back into town. If you are media please write ‘MEDIA’ in the subject of your reply e-mail.

Recently the camp has been monitored with a helicoptor, so the eviction is coming. More than anything, people are needed to stay in Dalkeith Park full-time. While it cold, there is free warm food, and with a warm sleeping bag and winter gear you’ll be fine.

The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh is at 17 West Montgomery Place, near the huge Post Office off Leith St.

The Forest Cafe is at 3 Bristo Place, near Bristo Square and the Student Union of Edinburgh University.

To contact the protesters directly, call
07783904369
This includes getting lost on the way to Dalkeith if you try to make it yourself out there and also for media interviews. Sometimes protesters are in the trees and can’t answer the phone, be patient.

Updates available daily on the Web: http://scotland.indymedia.org

Urgent: Indian Government threatens to raise the dam

Call for International Solidarity Actions: 27th Nov. 05
Damage so far: Over 25,000 tribal people displaced, 10,000 people still waiting for resettlement, over 9,000 hectares of forest already destroyed.

Rally for the Valley : 20 years of resistance to the Narmada dam

Please do everything you can to stop the dam being raised even higher:

Protest at Indian Embassies-actions planned across the world

Write to the Indian Government demanding that before anymore work proceeds, the project must comply with the Namarda Award (1979) and the Supreme Court rulings (00,05) conduct an immediate review of the benefits and efficiency of the dam and for the huge backlog of 10, 000 people to receive adequate resettlement. Stop the dam!

Show the campaign film in your community-this is a vital stage for the campaign and more support is needed.

Addresses of nearest embassy, model letters and copies of the film all available from www.narmada.org

Apologies for short notice!
Internationals Welcome to Join Us in India! Rally for the Valley 23rd – 27th November 2005 Please contact us for travel info. asp.

Huge thanks for all the support and actions over the last 20 years!
Please do all you can to protest against the Indian Government’s threat.

In solidarity,
Narmada Bachao Andolan
Save Narmada Movement

New issue of Wildfire – European Anti-Civilisation Bulletin Wildfire is a european green anarchist bulletin about revolt against destroying the wild, insurrection against capitalism, the state and industrial society. Against the horrors of civilised society. Wildfire is not here to tell you how to live. It is not there to tell you how to do anything. It is a quarterly bulletin reporting on resistance to civilisation, to report fighting back against the destruction of the natural world, by indiginous people fighting the poisoning of their ecoystems and ‘civilised’ activists fighting for wildness. Every issue is done by different individuals around Europe.

Issue nr. 2 has just been released. Print, copy and distribute!

http://www.direkte-aktie.net/wildfire

TREES BEING FELLED IN DALKEITH NOW – People needed now, and people and food and tat needed over the next few days, especially climbers and midnight site builders
Tree felling started yesterday. Already about 12 big old oak and birch trees have been chainsawed down. The pixies and the little folk appeared about 5am today. By the time the chainsaw wage slaves turned up for work this morning there were walkways, banners, and lots of hippies in the trees, So the chainsaw wage slaves are enjoying a paid day of hanging around waiting for bailifs.

There are people in trees in langside, along salters road, and in a small but beautiful site that had already been set up at castle steads next to the river esk. PEOPLE NEEDED NOW, and people and food and tat needed over the next few days, especially climbers and midnight site builders.

The planning permission for this road dates from way back in 1992. Since then, the Scottish Executive has recommended that a multimodal trasport sudy is done for this entire transport corridor before any road building goes ahead.The council’s public consultation about the road is still sneaking quietly around the area, and the opportunity to respond is open until 9th December, but that hasn’t stopped the senseless destruction of the area.

A guy in a suit, claimimg to be a representative of the Executive, but refusing to give his name, angrily told everyone that they were tresspassing and would get into trouble. the hippies responded with monkey noises, and the unidentified suit stumbled off with his top lip quivering.

Come and bring us chocolate, come and join the fun!
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This afternoon, the 48-hour notice from the Sheriffs Court was delivered to the protest site at Dalkeith Country Park.

Earlier this morning, tree felling was started. Five trees were lost including a beautiful old oak before protesters successfully blocked any further cutting and halted work.

In response, the liaison officer delivered the 48-hour notice stating all occupiers needed to leave during that period or face prosecution.

More People are urgently needed to protect this woodland!

Background

On Monday 31st October, protesters set-up a tree-sit to stop the destruction that will be caused by the Dalkeith Northern Bypass of the current A68. The tree-sit is in Dalkeith Country Park, a historic 850 acre park that serves as a valuable wildlife habitat and is visited by 50,000 people annually. The proposed bypass would cut the wildlife habitat in two, and while the 1999 Strategic Road Review noted it would offer journey savings, it also noted the bypass would cause “generally negative ratings in the other environmental factors, including global air quality, water, ecology, visual impacts, heritage, and landscape character.” Although construction is not supposed to begin officially until the summer of 2006, because of the early spring nesting season of birds and bats, tree-felling is to begin immediately. In response to this emergency, anti-roads protesters have set-up a tree-sit and walkways in the pines that are in the path of the extension. Protesters will also be present at Midlothian Council’s upcoming public review to help present the case against the bypasses through Dalkeith Park and through Bilston Glen.

Protesters will remain in the trees until the bypass is defeated.

Contact

Dalkeith Protest Site Phone: 077839043697

For more information on the campaign to Save Dalkeith Country Park, visit the

website of the legal campaign: www.save-dalkeith-park.org.uk/

There is a petition on the Scottish Executive’s site running until the end of November: epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/list_petitions.asp

Or you can email Midlothian Council directly at: local.planreview (at) midlothian.gov.uk or phone at Tel: 0131 270 7500

Directions to the Protest Site

The site is in a stand of pines on the north side of the River Esk after the two branches have joined and near the cut for the overhead electric lines.

Enter Dalkeith Country Park at the north end- entrance off of the A6094 at Smeaton Lodge (between Dalkeith and Whitecraig). Go past Home Farm towards the River Esk, after crossing the bridge the protest site can be accessed by the first farm track on the left (note the site is not accessible for vehicles).

Alternatively, enter Dalkeith Country Park from the main entrance off of the High Street in Dalkeith. Stay on the road leading to the right past the adventure playground, shop and cafeteria; after passing the grazing fields and the power line cut the road will split. Take the left fork towards the River Esk. After crossing the bridge, the protest site can be accessed by the first farm track on the left.

From Edinburgh, Lothian Buses 3 and 3a go to Dalkeith.

*please help spread this message and get in touch if you can assist in translating it to any other languages*
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Hey! y’all out there in the EF! network:
[for those already inhabiting a low-land, near-equatorial bioregion, please don’t mind the short PR rant below]

Is winter in your bioregion a time of rest; a lull of activity in acceptance of nature’s cycles? Maybe February is the peak of a long and frigid season that has you curious about what your bare-skin looks like or what it was like to have full sensation in your fingers and toes.

Down here in the swamps and beaches of the tropics/sub-tropics of south Florida things are a little different: The ocean is perfect swimming temperature; the community gardens are in their full glory; with the mosquitoes at bay, it’s perfect weather for hikes through the pine flatwoods, cypress swamps and dwindling scrub lands; what’s left of local citrus trees offer a fresh-squeezed daily immune-system boost; and our season of kicking ass against developers and venture capitalists who are trying to turn this amazing bioregion into a sprawling concrete playground for the global elite is just about to reach climax.

We’re inviting you out of hibernation and back out onto the frontlines! It’s that time of the year again, when the EF! network gathers up to hash out crucial movement decisions & direction, party their brains into mush and then invigorate the hosting bioregion with some badass action(s). So, start making your travel plans & affinity group schemes, it’s time for another.

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Earth First! Organizers’ Conference/Winter Rendezvous
Feb. 15th – 20th 2006 Palm Beach County, South Florida
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Location- The swamps of the Everglades’ northwestern border, along the Hungryland Slough. The OC meetings will be the 15th -17th held at the Everglades Youth Camp inside the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area, which has full facilities (including cabin options, a swimming hole and, uh alligators). Friday night will be the annual ‘Night To Howl!’ gathering of the Warrior Poets Society, so bring poems, songs and stories to share. The weekend will continue on a primitive campsite as the winter rendezvous and fiesta. Bring your workshops, music, and hiking gear and plan on sticking around, potentially, for a following week of actions.

OC Content- The usual subject matter will be on the table: reports from the Journal; evaluating strategy, tools & tactics; examining our visions & aspirations; where we’ve been, where we’re going; state repression review; anti-oppression check-in; and bioregional round-ups. We also hope to offer some extra attention this year to the question of solidarity beyond borders (national and cultural), and perhaps strategize a bit on an international level. We will also be seeking translation assistence for this effort.

International Invite- South Florida is an accessible location for international travel, and is a social hotspot of current global commerce and politics. For several years, the globalization movement has influenced (and been influenced by) EF! But rarely has it been possible to dialogue with eco-radicals in other parts of the world, especially the majority world movements who have been inspiring direct action efforts within the U.S. empire. For these reasons, the invitation is being put out to help bring folks from other countries’ radical environmental movements and indigenous struggles here for the OC and Winter Rendezvous (this means visa assistance and some extra fundraising, so if you can be of any help in those areas, please contact us ASAP!)

Local Campaign- In the wake of a monumental court victory against the Army Corps of Engineers, the battle against Scripps Florida Biotech Research Park is heating up to be one of the largest, broadest and most successful campaigns in this region’s eco-activist history. Massive land scandals, corporate biotech nightmare, bio-hazardous waste issues, bio-prospecting in the majority world, brutal animal research… and an active construction site (still in operation as of this email, despite illegal permitting and more pending lawsuits) all within a mile of our lovely camp in the swamp.

The Details- We are requesting a $25-50 donation to cover costs of gathering, and potential extra travel compensation (for folks from our international tribe). If you’re bioregion knows it will need assistance, please get in touch ASAP. Also, we want to encourage people to bust out that old stack of journals and review the past years’ OC write-ups before coming down. If you don’t have access to some EF!er’s archives in your area, get in touch and we’ll send the last copies of the past several years of post-OC articles so all are a bit closer to the same page. Bring basic camping gear, including your own kitchen utensils. Please notify the planning committee if you will be needing childcare or have any other special needs.

EF!OC 2006 comite: p.o. box 961, lake worth, fl 33460 (561) 547-6686

p.s. it’s still early. this info is subject to change.

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Here is a list of the dates and venues for the Rossport solidarity speaking tour

Manchester:

Thursday November 3rd 7.30pm the Basement, 24 Lever
Street, hosted by the Anarchist Federation.

Lancaster:

Friday November 4th to Sunday November 6th participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp will be delivering a paper to the conference ‘Making Global Civil Society: Grassroots Practise and Academic Theory of Globalisation from Below’ which is happening at Lancaster University.

London:

Tuesday November 8th 7.30 pm Autonomy Club, Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High street, London E1 (nearest tube Aldgate East), hosted by the Anarchist Federation.

Oxford:

November 9th 7:30pm, Oxford Action Resource Centre.

Nottingham:

November 10th 7pm, International Community Centre, 61b Mansfield Rd.

London:

Saturday 12th November, 7pm to 3am, RampArts social center (www.ramparts.co.nr) There will also be benefit gig for the campaign with food & drink + music.

Newcastle:

Monday 14th November, 7.30pm, Tyneside Irish Centre, hosted by Why Don’t You?

London:

Thursday Nov 17th 7.30pm, London Action Resource Centre (www.londonarc.org) hosted by London Rising Tide.