Author: earthfirst

PHONE AND EMAIL BLOCKADE – AGAINST GM & BAYER

Phone 01223 252514 – direct line of Paul Rylott, head of Bayer Bioscience.
Email ukinfo@bayercropscience.com

Paul Rylott may have been sacked by Bayer but he’s not gone yet! And he is still one of the key players in the attempt to bring GM crops into Britain.
Please take the time to phone in and let them know what you think of their plans to grow GM crops in Britain. It doesnt take very many people doing this to affect their communications and disrupt the working of their offices. (And it only takes 20p!)
If you can’t get through on these then try
01223 252557 or tech@bayercropscience.com

NB – it’s best to use a phonebox and dial 141 before the number….just to keep yourself safer!

Or try me directly on paul.rylott@bayercropscience.com

However, please dont keep hanging up after one ring, and saving your 20 pences, you cheapskates. I really upsets me when people do that repeatedly. Some nasty people keep doing that for hours on end so we end up having to disconnect our phones. So dont do it, cos it’s really not nice.

And if I’m not around contact my colleague Julian
Tel: 01223 252426
Fax: 01223 252427
Email: julian.little@bayercropscience.com
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THE GM PHONE BLOCKADE – CHANGE OF NUMBER: 01223 252557

Paul Rylott’s landline has been disconnected: reception claims he is no longer employed there.
So keep ringing and emailing, but use the reception phone: 01223 252557
or ukinfo@bayercropscience.com

More sabotage of Bayer

Locks jammed at Bayer Crop Science in North Yorkshire

On the 30th of January the Bayer Crop Science facility in North Newbalds, North Yorkshire had all its locks jammed with metal and superglue.

This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened at this building.

The jamming of locks is a quick and simple action which can be carried out very safely at pretty much any Bayer location in the country. It can also have an effect disproportional to the effort put into it – when workers are unable to get to work productivity will surely suffer.

Activist’s Guide to the Peat Industry published, Corporate Watch’s ‘Turning Dirt into Dollars’

Published in November 2003
Turning Dirt into Dollars, an Activist’s Guide to the Peat Industry, includes addresses, maps & detailed background.

http://archive.corporatewatch.org/publications/peat/peat2.htm

Hulme Developer gets a Roasting (Manchester)

Digger trashed in action relating to 25 mature trees being felled in Manchester

A property developer, who plans to build on the Loretto College Playing Fields, got a visit from upset local people early on Tuesday 29th July. Around 25 mature trees on the playing fields have recently been destroyed and a large JCB digger has started ground works.

Local people despair at the useless politicians who get voted in for 3-5 years, then enclose green spaces, close swimming baths and sell off schools and playing fields. These are all sold to private developers, who are only there to make money for their shareholders, not our local community.

People broke into the large digger using cutters and doused the cab, electronics and computer in paraffin. Then standing back, threw in the spark. Damage has been estimated at up to £100,000.

Hopefully insurance companies and contractors get the message. Developers who destroy our community green spaces, close footpaths and kill our trees, are not welcome.

It is sad that new diggers only take around a month to build, mature trees take a life time.

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There has been a group set up by local residents in response to this unexpected felling of mature trees.

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We are a collective mainly based in Hulme but with a network of organisations supporting our cause from all over the city. Our aim is to halt to further expansion of the construction in Birley Fields as well as to activley protect our green spaces that we are sadly loosing by the day.
Through non-violent, peaceful but direct action we will prevail.
Rally interested people to this egroup and we can start the resistance to the destruction of our area, stand up for the environment which we so desperatley need and prove that people power is all we need to make a difference.

Local residents directly oppose development in Hulme, Manchester

How local residents begin campaign against – diversecity – (a not-so-local development company)

Around 10am ish today (and i say 10am ish cos i dont have a watch) Diversecity a development company began survey work on a lovely tree scattered site in Hulme . By 11am ish local residents were waking up to the reality of the Leaf St. development and decided something had to be done! And fast! So a few folk went and spoke to the surveyors giving them fair warning that people didn’t want them to continue their work . One of the surveyors even agreed with local residents, saying “I wouldn’t want it if I lived round here.”
Anyway lets cut to the chase…around 1pm ish the surveyors head of for luncheon… and there it is…

A golden opportunity of spontaneous energetic bliss…….. a free-form-freena-na-gig-group is formed and the butter knife* of justice is called upon and before a surveyor can say “chips peas and gravy, luv!” the bore drill cable is cut through like warm soya margarine…and that’s all the surveying work done for one day at least!!!!!

BIG WHOOPS OF JOY!!!!!!! round one….. local residents – 1 diversecity – 0

* for (butter knife) insert (bolt crimpers)* 🙂

Cumbria peat protest

As part of the need to refocus our actions on other companies like these and not just Scotts, Bolton Fell peat stripping site was visited on Sunday 14 December 2002. The works was very busy but the fields were wet and empty. Drainpipes were blocked with bags of peat, a footbridge was pushed into a drainage ditch and a small railway bridge was dismantled.

– from longer background article at http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/peat.htm

More peat sabotage in Cumbria

In November more vehicles, were sabotaged at Solway Moss, this time about 15 peat cutters, owned by L&P Peat, while 3 more were trashed at Bolton Fell, owned by William Sinclair. L&P Peat’s stock of peat was also visited that night with about a quarter of their stock slashed. Both targets are expanding their role in the peat industry as other players back out, and both companies are fighting efforts to protect their sites on environmental grounds.

Both of these sites are candidate SAC* sites, but the companies are both threatening to take the government to judicial review if they are submitted. These actions were carried out because of the companies’ refusal to allow SAC status to proceed and because both companies are expanding in the peat industry.

*SAC glossary & further info – see http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/peat.htm