Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action — the new Earth First! Action Update is out!

Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?

EF! gathering '07 logo (rabbit/fence)Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?
Old King Coal meets his Match, but the Nuclear Empire Strikes Back! Read tales of flotil­las, bish­op-bash­ing, block­ades and occu­pa­tions as the Rebel Alliance takes on the Empire. The rebels have also been hang­ing around in nets and on plat­forms, occu­py­ing and lock­ing-on at coal ter­mi­nals, and pas­sion­ate­ly attack­ing pow­er sta­tion fences around the world, try­ing to shut ’em down. Main­shill protest camp con­tin­ues to pro-active­ly resist open-cast min­ing — they climb, occu­py, and by night, anony­mous pix­ies sab­o­tage. Who knows when they sleep — with a strong alliance with local vil­lagers, they wel­come YOU to come and play any­time, with a gath­er­ing at the end of Octo­ber.

Want more? Radio-tow­ers top­pled, dams and trucks seized, naked oil streaks and green smears in defence of the wild, a shit dumped with shit…resistance to peat min­ing, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, log­ging and Shell in Ire­land, and for Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry and work­ers on the Isle of Wight.

Still not enough? Stop­ping Tesco, cli­mate cam­paign­ing suc­cess­es, run­way inva­sions, more eco­tage, and the EF! Win­ter Moot, plus con­tacts and upcom­ing dates.

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Chile: Luxury cars, meat markets, bank branch vandalized

report­ed anony­mous­ly (trans­la­tion):

“San­ti­a­go, between Octo­ber 3 and 4, $hile. There are many rea­sons why we went out to dis­rupt the order of those who we con­sid­er our ene­mies. Dur­ing an impromp­tu tour of the dis­gust­ing city, we found bour­geois prop­er­ty, butch­ers, doc­tors and bankers, those who pro­tect and main­tain their lives through this nau­se­at­ing sys­tem of dom­i­na­tion, those who love the monot­o­ny of work-con­sump­tion, aim­ing to get just a lit­tle pow­er, that’s what gives them the tran­quil­i­ty they need to sleep at night.

report­ed anony­mous­ly (trans­la­tion):

“San­ti­a­go, between Octo­ber 3 and 4, $hile. There are many rea­sons why we went out to dis­rupt the order of those who we con­sid­er our ene­mies. Dur­ing an impromp­tu tour of the dis­gust­ing city, we found bour­geois prop­er­ty, butch­ers, doc­tors and bankers, those who pro­tect and main­tain their lives through this nau­se­at­ing sys­tem of dom­i­na­tion, those who love the monot­o­ny of work-con­sump­tion, aim­ing to get just a lit­tle pow­er, that’s what gives them the tran­quil­i­ty they need to sleep at night.

We sab­o­taged:
— 4 lux­u­ry cars (3 4x4 trucks and 1 car) had their tires split.
— 4 lux­u­ry cars were scratched with a sharp, met­al tool, leav­ing chaot­ic designs ruin­ing the expen­sive paint jobs.
— 6 meat mar­kets end­ed-up with the locks on the doors and the pad­locks on their shut­ters sealed with met­al pieces and super­glue.
— A psy­chi­atric clin­ic was left with its doors glued.
— A Ban­coEs­ta­do bank branch was attacked with stones, result­ing in two win­dows and the entry door shat­tered.

Sym­bols of progress and pow­er, lead­ing pro­mot­ers of envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion, from tox­ic sub­stances and the use of fuel to the dis­gust­ing smoke they spew as they dri­ve, they build the roads defor­est­ing and killing thou­sands of nat­ur­al hectares and fol­low­ing their progress lie the cold bleed­ing bod­ies of so many ani­mals. Because of this we decid­ed to attack these machines.
Muti­lat­ed and piled up bod­ies as mere objects of con­sump­tion, this is the image that does­n’t both­er any­one, with a blind­fold over their eyes; anthro­pocen­trism is respon­si­ble for mak­ing humans believe they are mas­ters of the Earth, exploit­ing for their own well-being every­thing that exists on the plan­et. It’s because of this that we glued the meat mar­kets, where the butch­ers had to replace and repair the locks and pad­locks.
Cen­ters of con­di­tion­ing, repres­sors of inher­ent impuls­es that pigeon­hole peo­ple accord­ing to their con­duct; insti­tu­tions that seek to change and mold us so we are adapt­ed to their instru­ments of con­trol, com­mit­ted to exter­mi­nat­ing all dis­sent­ing ideas of nor­mal­cy and order; that’s why we sealed the doors of a psy­chi­atric clin­ic, while offi­cials were still inside. In this place they don’t lock up the peo­ple who write diag­noses.
Insti­tu­tions that pro­mote exploita­tion and progress at the expense of crush­ing and enslav­ing peo­ple, ani­mals and the earth.

For cap­i­tal­ism every­thing is a source of pow­er and prof­it; intro­duc­ing the ide­ol­o­gy of pow­er through­out the world, dis­guised in mul­ti­ple forms; it is because of the pow­er that the banks rep­re­sent that we attacked a bank branch; with a large stone we hit the met­al struc­ture, break­ing two win­dows and the door.

We know that these acts of sab­o­tage were not an imped­i­ment to the tar­gets and they will con­tin­ue their work; it was only a momen­tary break and an incon­ve­nience to those who saw the extent of our exploits.

This is a min­i­mal ges­ture of sol­i­dar­i­ty and a greet­ing for all those who have felt the ene­my’s blows on their skin, who have been encaged and sep­a­rat­ed from their loved ones. We salute our com­rade Axel Oso­rio, who has demon­strat­ed that the cages did not stop him and that his strug­gle con­tin­ues from the dun­geons, and to Cris­t­ian Can­ci­no, accused of being a sup­pli­er of gun­pow­der, to com­rades Pablo Car­ba­jal and Matías Cas­tro accused of the attack on the PDI. To com­rades Daniel and Fran­cis­co, recent­ly on tri­al in Italy for rob­bery and sub­ver­sive asso­ci­a­tion. To our com­rades in Greece accused of belong­ing to a cell respon­si­ble for bomb­ings, a cell which con­tin­ues attack­ing, show­ing the futil­i­ty of the pow­er­ful who accuse peo­ple who are unre­lat­ed to the attacks. To com­rades in Mex­i­co, where the pow­er­ful also kid­napped a com­rade, hold­ing him respon­si­ble for the Sep­tem­ber bomb­ings, com­rades stronger than the pow­er­ful who try to stop the attacks on author­i­ty.

The war has also cost the deaths of many com­rades through­out the world, recent­ly it took away our friend Mau­ri from us, the prod­uct of an acci­dent that could have been avoid­ed. Mau­ri will be remem­bered as the war­rior that he was, lov­ing com­rades and desir­ing the death of ene­mies, a sav­age in the war against soci­ety, Mau­ri this is for you and as well as all the actions that are still to come!
For the com­pan­ion Diego Rios, who 4 months ago made his escape and went under­ground refus­ing to fall into the hands of the author­i­ty. To him we say, flee, Diego, run and con­tin­ue to expose the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of the pow­er­ful, from here we embrace every word of your com­mu­niques and with these actions we salute you.

We invite all the com­rades who read this mes­sage to con­tin­ue attack­ing the pow­er­ful on all fronts. We salute in the spir­it of war, and we send our strength through action.

This is just the begin­ning!

Ban­da Sal­va­je e Insur­rec­ta en Guer­ra Con­tra la Dom­i­nación [Wild Insur­gent Group in the War Against Dom­i­na­tion]”

Span­ish:

“San­ti­a­go entre el 3 y 4 de octubre, $hile. Muchas son las razones que nos ani­man a salir a sabotear el orden de quienes con­sid­er­amos nue­stros ene­mi­gos. En el tran­scur­so de un impro­visa­do recor­ri­do por la asquerosa ciu­dad, nos encon­tramos con propiedades de bur­gue­ses, matar­ifes, doc­tores y ban­queros, quienes defien­den y mantienen con sus vidas este­nau­se­abun­do sis­tema de dom­i­nación, amantes de la monot­o­nía del tra­ba­jo-con­sumo encam­i­na­dos por lograr con­seguir un poco de poder, lo que les da la tran­quil­i­dad que nece­si­tan para poder dormir.

Saboteamos:
— 4 vehícu­los de lujo (3 camione­tas 4x4 y 1 auto) ter­mi­naron con sus ruedas rajadas.
— 4 autos de lujo raya­dos con un ele­men­to metáli­co y filoso, dejan­do mar­cas de caóti­cos dis­eños arru­inan­do sus cos­tosas capas de pin­tu­ra.
— 6 Car­nicerías, las cuales amanecieron con las cer­raduras de las puer­tas y los can­da­dos de las corti­nas metáli­cas sel­l­adas con peda­zos de met­al y pega­men­toex­tra­fuerte.
— Un clíni­ca de diag­nós­ti­co psiquiátri­co que­do con sus puer­tas sel­l­adas con peda­zos de met­al y pega­men­to extra­fuerte.
— Una sucur­sal del Ban­coEs­ta­do fue ape­drea­da, resul­tan­do dos cristales y la puer­ta de acce­so destrozadas.

Sím­bo­los de pro­gre­so y poder, prin­ci­pales pro­mo­tores de la destruc­ción ambi­en­tal con sus­tan­cias tóx­i­cas, des­de el uso de com­bustible has­ta el asqueroso humo que expe­len al moverse, con­struyen sus caminos defor­e­stando y asesinan­do miles de hec­táreas nat­u­rales y tras su avance yacen los cuer­pos­fríos y desan­gra­dos de muchos ani­males. Por eso decidi­mos atacar
estas máquinas.
Cuer­pos muti­la­dos y amon­ton­a­dos como sim­ples obje­tos de con­sumo, es este el panora­ma que no asom­bra a nadie, con una ven­da en los ojos el antropocen­tris­mo se encar­ga de hac­er creer que los humanos son amos de la Tier­ra, explotan­do para su bien todo lo que en el plan­e­ta existe, es por eso que sel­l­am­os estas­car­nicerías, donde los matar­ifes tuvieron que
cam­biar y reparar las cer­raduras y los can­da­dos.
Cen­tros de condi­cionamien­to, repre­sores de impul­sos inher­entes que encasil­lan a las per­sonas de acuer­do a sus con­duc­tas, insti­tu­ciones que bus­can trans­for­marnos en moldes adap­ta­dos a instru­men­tos de con­trol, empeña­dos en exter­mi­nar todo idea des­i­dente de la nor­mal­i­dad y el orden, es por eso que sel­l­am­os las puer­tas de una clíni­ca de diag­nós­ti­co
psi­aquiátri­co, cuan­do los fun­cionar­ios aún se encon­tra­ban den­tro, en este lugar no encier­ran a per­sonas solo se emiten eval­u­a­ciones.
Insti­tu­ciones pro­mo­toras de explotación y pro­gre­so, a cos­ta de aplas­tar y esclavizar a per­sonas, ani­males y la tier­ra. Para el cap­i­tal­is­mo todo es fuente de poder y ganan­cias, implan­tan­do la ide­ología del poder por todo el mun­do, dis­fraza­da demúlti­ples for­mas, es por el poder que rep­re­sen­tan los ban­cos que ata­camos una sucur­sal y con una gran piedra gol­peamos su estruc­tura metáli­ca, rompi­en­do dos cristales y la puer­ta de acce­so.

Sabe­mos que estos sab­o­ta­jes no fueron un imped­i­men­to para que los obje­tivos ata­ca­dos con­tin­uaran con sus labores, solo fue un frenomo­men­tá­neo y una inco­mo­di­dad para quienes apre­cia­ron nues­tras haz­a­ñas.

Éste es un mín­i­mo gesto de sol­i­dari­dad y un salu­do de áni­mo para todxs aque­l­lxs que han sen­ti­do en su piel los golpes del ene­mi­go, que han sido enjauladxs y sep­a­radxs de sus seres queridxs. Salu­damos al com­pañero Axel Oso­rio, que ha demostran­do que las jaulas no lo apa­gan y que su lucha con­tin­ua des­de las maz­mor­ras, a Cris­t­ian Can­ci­no acu­sa­do de ser provee­dor de pólvo­ra, a los com­pañeros Pablo Car­ba­jal y Matías Cas­tro acu­sa­dos del ataque a la PDI. A los com­pañeros Daniel y Fran­cis­co recien­te­mente juz­ga­dos en Italia por robo y aso­ciación sub­ver­si­va. A lxs com­pañerxs en Gre­cia acu­sadxs pertenecer a una célu­la respon­s­able de explo­siones, célu­la que a segui­do ata­can­do, mostran­do la inutil­i­dad del poder que acusa a per­sonas que no están rela­cionadas con los ataques. A lxs com­pañerxs en Méx­i­co, que tam­bién el poder les había secuestra­do a un com­pañero respon­s­abi­lizán­do­lo de los bom­bazos de sep­tiem­bre, com­pañerxs a ser fuertes que el poder inten­tara por todas las for­mas deten­er los ataques con­tra la autori­dad.

La guer­ra tam­bién a costa­do la muerte de muchxs com­pañerxs en todo el mun­do, recien­te­mente nos arreba­to al com­pa Mau­ri, pro­duc­to de un acci­dente que podría haber sido evi­ta­do. Mau­ri serás recor­da­do como el guer­rero que fuiste, aman­do a tus com­pañerxs y dese­an­do la muerte a tus ene­mi­gos, un sal­va­je en guer­ra con­tra la sociedad, Mau­ri para ti estas y todas las
acciones que realizare­mos!
Para el com­pañero Diego Ríos, quién ya hace 4 meses emprendió su fuga y asum­ió la clan­des­tinidad negán­dose a caer en las manos del la autori­dad.
Le dec­i­mos huye, Diego, huye y sigue exponien­do la vul­ner­a­bil­i­dad del poder, des­de aquí abrazamos cada pal­abra de tus comu­ni­ca­dos y con estas acciones te salu­damos.

Invi­ta­mos a todxs lxs com­pañerxs que lean este men­saje a con­tin­uar ata­can­do el poder des­de todos los frentes, áni­mo com­pañerxs que en la guer­ra nos salu­damos y damos fuerza medi­ante la acción.

Esto es solo el comien­zo!

Ban­da Sal­va­je e Insur­rec­ta en Guer­ra Con­tra la Dom­i­nación”

http://www.directaction.info

12,000 mink freed from fur farms, one farm to close

Media in Den­mark have report­ed that more than 10,000 mink were released from cages at Dan­ish fur farms this week. Media in Swe­den has report­ed that approx­i­mate­ly 1,000 mink were released from cages at a farm in Eksjo, Swe­den ear­ly on Octo­ber 5.

TWO FUR FARM RAIDS IN THREE DAYS, 10,000 MINK FREEDMedia in Den­mark have report­ed that more than 10,000 mink were released from cages at Dan­ish fur farms this week. Media in Swe­den has report­ed that approx­i­mate­ly 1,000 mink were released from cages at a farm in Eksjo, Swe­den ear­ly on Octo­ber 5.

TWO FUR FARM RAIDS IN THREE DAYS, 11,000 MINK FREED (Den­mark)

Media in Den­mark have report­ed that more than 11,000 mink were released from cages at Dan­ish fur farms this week. Dur­ing the night of Octo­ber 6, 6000 mink escaped from a farm near Søn­dervig after cages were opened and fences sur­round­ing the prop­er­ty were destroyed. Then, ear­ly on Octo­ber 9, 5000 mink were freed from cages at a farm in Fous­ing.
(pho­to: Morten Mel­hede / dagbladetringskjern.dk)

1000 MINK RELEASED FROM CAGES, FARM WILL CLOSE! (Swe­den)

Media has report­ed that approx­i­mate­ly 1,000 mink were released from cages at a farm in Eksjo, Swe­den ear­ly on Octo­ber 5.
Water pipes and equip­ment at the farm were also dam­aged. It was the fourth time that the farm had been tar­get­ed, most recent­ly in April.

The farmer has announced that the farm will close.

Source: Bite Back Mag­a­zine

Reclaim the Earth Centre at Doncaster — People needed for planned occupation

The Earth Cen­tre in Don­cast­er has been left to ruin for 5 years. We intend to take it back. This site now owned by the coun­cil was devel­oped to be a sus­tain­able liv­ing edu­ca­tion cen­tre and com­mu­ni­ty farm. It is cur­rent­ly being used as a fir­ing range by weapon enthu­si­asts Cer­berus Air­soft.

reclaim the earth centreThe Earth Cen­tre in Don­cast­er has been left to ruin for 5 years. We intend to take it back. This site now owned by the coun­cil was devel­oped to be a sus­tain­able liv­ing edu­ca­tion cen­tre and com­mu­ni­ty farm. It is cur­rent­ly being used as a fir­ing range by weapon enthu­si­asts Cer­berus Air­soft. Its time to bring this valu­able resource back to the peo­ple before it is sold off for devel­op­ment.

The Earth Cen­tre was devel­oped on derelict land left over from for­mer coal pits, it was intend­ed to be the muse­um for the mil­le­ni­um. Ini­tial plans were for a grad­ual devel­op­ment of the site, incor­po­rat­ing com­mu­ni­ty-led projects and with much con­struc­tion work being under­tak­en by Mowlem, who used the site to train appren­tices. The first stage of that project opened in 1994, includ­ing a sus­tain­able aqua­cul­ture cen­tre and a com­mu­ni­ty farm.

In 1995 the Mil­len­ni­um Com­mis­sion made an award to Earth Cen­tre, which became one of its Land­mark Mil­len­ni­um projects. The site was com­plete­ly redesigned and vir­tu­al­ly all exist­ing land­scap­ing and projects were destroyed, which lost the good­will of the local com­mu­ni­ty who felt exclud­ed from the project. From 1996 work pro­gressed on the reme­di­a­tion of the remain­ing pol­lut­ed land and the design and con­struc­tion of the many build­ings and exhi­bi­tions.

In Sep­tem­ber 2004 the attrac­tion closed to the pub­lic, and only pre-booked school par­ties were allowed. By the end of Octo­ber, the Earth Cen­tre, mon­u­ment to Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, was to the mon­ey men un-sus­tain­able and was put in the hands of admin­is­tra­tors. It is now in the hands of the Coun­cil who sur­prise sur­prise have made no effort to return it to its orig­i­nal intent. Instead the coun­cil choos­es to allow access to Cer­berus Air­soft a com­pa­ny spe­cial­is­ing in pro­vid­ing war games and shoot­ing out­ings to a select mem­ber­ship group. Gen­er­al pub­lic will be thrown off by the police!!

We think that this is an amaz­ing site and the orig­i­nal con­cept behind the Earth Cen­tre is a fan­tas­ti­cal­ly intel­li­gent way of edu­cat­ing com­mu­ni­ties about sus­tain­able liv­ing. It is now the time to return the Earth Cen­tre to the peo­ple.

We need sup­port in many forms to make this hap­pen. To begin with we need peo­ple to come and help occu­py the site, we will need tools and vol­un­teers. This is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for any­one that has been want­i­ng to live in a com­mu­ni­ty, in an eco vil­lage set­ting and a real chance to put South York­shire on the map for envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion and lifestyle.

We’re plan­ning a swoop on the site and then aim to trans­form it so that every­one can use it and ben­e­fit from its resources.

Please help con­tact — thereismore2lfefolks@yahoo.co.uk

This is a very urgent mat­ter!
The fol­low­ing sto­ry was pub­lished in local paper ‘Peter­bor­ough Today’ 15 Feb­ru­ary 2007

DONCASTER Coun­cil is poised to sell off the ill-fat­ed Earth Cen­tre to devel­op­ers after admit­ting run­ning costs mean it would be “extreme­ly unlike­ly” it could be used by com­mu­ni­ty groups.
The prob­a­ble fate of the 200 remain­ing acres of the for­mer £38 mil­lion green vis­i­tor attrac­tion was revealed in the coun­cil’s Cor­po­rate Asset Man­age­ment Plan, pre­sent­ed to coun­cil­lors last week.
The Earth Cen­tre has been moth­balled with 24-hour secu­ri­ty patrols since it was wound up in 2004.
The Asset Man­age­ment Plan pre­sent­ed to a meet­ing of the Econ­o­my and Enter­prise Scruti­ny Pan­el describes the Earth Cen­tre as “extreme­ly unlike­ly to find sus­tain­able use from com­mu­ni­ty or oth­er not for prof­it groups because of the very high cost of run­ning and main­tain­ing both the build­ings and the grounds.” The report goes on to say that a “dis­pos­al solu­tion” would be the “only viable option” for the site.
Ripon-based Pear­son Devel­op­ments Lim­it­ed have sub­mit­ted a plan­ning appli­ca­tion to build 300 hous­es, flats and offices on 17.5 acres of the 30 acres the com­pa­ny bought from the Mil­len­ni­um Com­mis­sion. This land includes the for­mer car park area and the lodge facil­i­ties.
Don­cast­er Coun­cil owns the remain­der of the 200-plus acre site, includ­ing green­belt land and the show­piece con­fer­ence cen­tre and gal­leries.
Their report adds: “Adja­cent land owned by the Mil­len­ni­um Com­mis­sion was sold in spring 2006 to a devel­op­er and dis­cus­sions are in hand regard­ing a pos­si­ble sale of the coun­cil’s land­hold­ing poten­tial­ly to the same devel­op­er.”
For­mer Earth Cen­tre mem­ber Bernard Pear­son said: “All the mon­ey spent there was spent by the Mil­len­ni­um Com­mis­sion from lot­tery mon­ey — I think the peo­ple who have paid into this should be tak­en into con­sid­er­a­tion. I don’t think the Coun­cil has tried very hard to get rid of it.”
Mr Pear­son, who claims the main­te­nance bill for the site is in the region of £30,000 per month, added of the like­ly sell-off: “I think it is sad but it was what one would expect after two and a half years. I would look for­ward to see­ing what pro­pos­als are put for­ward for the site. A lot of pub­lic mon­ey was invest­ed in the site and I would hope the pub­lic will get some­thing out of the arrange­ments.”
Opened in March 1999 as one of the Gov­ern­men­t’s flag­ship mil­len­ni­um projects, the Earth Cen­tre was orig­i­nal­ly billed as an ‘envi­ron­men­tal theme park’.
But the pro­ject­ed vis­i­tor num­bers failed to appear. A relaunch in 2001 saw the cen­tre rebrand­ed to appeal to busi­ness and edu­ca­tion users, but its for­tunes did not revive enough for the attrac­tion to break even. It went into liq­ui­da­tion in 2004 and has been moth­balled ever since.
Nobody at Don­cast­er Coun­cil was avail­able for com­ment this week.

We will not allow this to hap­pen action must be tak­en!

The Earth Cen­tre is key in edu­cat­ing the world about the effects of cli­mate change and sus­tain­able liv­ing solu­tions

Check out what it’s got to offer!

• 80% of build­ing mate­ri­als were either reclaimed or recy­cled
• Europe’s largest flat-foot pho­to­volta­ic installation.1,300 m² canopy con­tain­ing 250 pho­to­volta­ic pan­els – gen­er­at­ing 80,000 KW of elec­tric­i­ty per year and would run the sys­tems and the gal­leries.
• Con­fer­ence cen­tre con­struct­ed large­ly from reclaimed mate­ri­als includ­ing tele­graph poles, crushed con­crete, glass and radi­a­tors.
• A shop and café area
• 6500 m² black box gallery space con­di­tioned through an under­ground ther­mal store called the Labyrinth
• “Liv­ing Machine” sewage treat­ment plant. A local water treat­ment sys­tem pro­cess­ing all waste water com­ing from Earth Cen­tre toi­lets, basins and kitchens, oper­at­ing entire­ly through bio­log­i­cal reac­tions, using both bac­te­ria and nutri­ent-demand­ing trop­i­cal plants in the warmth of a green­house.
• Ful­ly inte­grat­ed net­work of water man­age­ment that incor­po­rates rain­wa­ter har­vest­ing and the treat­ment, stor­age and recy­cling of water for use in irri­ga­tion and water fea­tures and as a wildlife habi­tat.
• 100,000 new trees includ­ing 15 acres of wil­low as well as some ancient wood­lands, two rivers and a vari­ety of eco­log­i­cal grass­lands and wet­lands
• Demon­stra­tions of organ­ic gar­den­ing meth­ods, fruit orchards, wil­low sculp­tures, for­est and bog gar­dens, and oth­er flower and sculp­tur­al gar­dens

All this and a pirate ship!

……Atten­tion……
We need sup­port for the takeover of the Earth Cen­tre, we intend to trans­form it into a camp for sus­tain­able liv­ing and com­mu­ni­ty activism con­tact us now! A swoop date will be announced soon.

ELF Torches Cars at Dealership in Guadalajara, Mexico

In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 26 our cell, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the attacks
of our com­rades of the F.L.A., decid­ed to sab­o­tage and to destroy tech­nol­o­gy which
is designed to destroy the envi­ron­ment. We vis­it­ed a sports car deal­er­ship and among
the cars there was a Hum­mer as well as oth­ers; the mes­sage was clear, EARTH-
DESTROYING MACHINE ELF.

ELF Torches Cars at Dealership in Guadalajara, MexicoELF Torches Cars at Dealership in Guadalajara, MexicoIn the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 26 our cell, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the attacks
of our com­rades of the F.L.A., decid­ed to sab­o­tage and to destroy tech­nol­o­gy which
is designed to destroy the envi­ron­ment. We vis­it­ed a sports car deal­er­ship and among
the cars there was a Hum­mer as well as oth­ers; the mes­sage was clear, EARTH-
DESTROYING MACHINE ELF.

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Torch­es Sev­en New Cars at Deal­er­ship in Guadala­jara, Mex­i­co

Com­mu­nique:

“Sab­o­tage against car deal­er­ship by eco-anar­chists in Guadala­jara, Mex­i­co

In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 26 our cell, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the attacks of our com­rades of the F.L.A., decid­ed to sab­o­tage and to destroy tech­nol­o­gy which is designed to destroy the envi­ron­ment. We vis­it­ed a sports car deal­er­ship and among the cars there was a Hum­mer as well as oth­ers; the mes­sage was clear, EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINE ELF. We set approx­i­mate­ly 7 cars on fire, leav­ing them unus­able. These attacks are not by eco-ter­ror­ists but are by peo­ple who have turned their tears into action and their frus­tra­tion into rage. Our groups are being sought and inves­ti­gat­ed by police in addi­tion to the trashy press which is harsh­ly crit­i­cal of us. It is clear that our attacks are not to hurt peo­ple; they are aimed at the econ­o­my of a sys­tem that destroys the envi­ron­ment and exploits ani­mals. We will not stop these acts because the ALF and ELF are decen­tral­ized groups so that if they catch one group oth­er peo­ple will con­tin­ue with attacks.

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SPECIESISM

ANIMAL, HUMAN AND EARTH LIBERATION.

ECO-ANARCHISTS GUADALAJARA MEXICO”

Span­ish:

“Sab­o­ta­je con­tra dis­tribuido­ra de autos por eco anar­quis­tas en Guadala­jara Mex­i­co

En la madru­ga­da del 26 de sep­tiem­bre nues­tra celu­la sol­i­darizan­dose con los ataques de com­pañeros del F.L.A. decidio sabotear y destru­ir tec­nolo­gia dis­eña­da para destru­ir el medio ambi­ente, visi­ta­mos una dis­tribuido­ra de coches deportivos de entre esos coches habia una HUMMER y demas maquinas, el men­saje fue claro MAQUINA DESTRUCTORAS DE LA TIERRA ELF aprox­i­mada­mente incen­di­amos 7 coches que quedaron inuti­liza­dos, estos ataques no son de eco ter­ror­is­tas son de per­sonas que con­vierten sus lagri­mas en accion y su frus­tra­cion en rabia, nue­stros gru­pos estan sien­do bus­ca­dos e inves­ti­ga­dos por la poli­cia ade­mas de que la pren­sa amar­il­lista da duras crit­i­cas hacia nue­stros gru­pos, que­da aclarar que nue­stros ataques no son para las­ti­mar per­sonas van des­ti­na­dos a atacar a la econo­mia de un sis­tema que destruye el medio ambi­ente y explota a los ani­males, no pararemos estos actos porque el ALF y el ELF son gru­pos descen­tral­iza­dos en el cual si atra­pan un grupo otras per­sonas seguiran con los ataques.

CERO TOLERANCIA A LA DESTRUCCION AMBIENTAL

CERO TOLERANCIA AL ESPECISMO

LIBERACION ANIMAL,HUMANA Y DE LA TIERRA.

ECO ANARQUISTAS GUADALAJARA MEXICO”

Source: http://www.elfpressoffice.org

SHAC’s Operation Liberation — Open Letter to the Cops!

- VIDEO OF POLICE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgV8p1KavSk

An open let­ter to all police offi­cers involved in the polic­ing of SHAC’s Oper­a­tion Lib­er­a­tion protest on 26th Sep­tem­ber 2009.

Dear Police,

- VIDEO OF POLICE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgV8p1KavSk

An open let­ter to all police offi­cers involved in the polic­ing of SHAC’s Oper­a­tion Lib­er­a­tion protest on 26th Sep­tem­ber 2009.

Dear Police,

Yes­ter­day pro­test­ers from around the coun­try came togeth­er to take part in Oper­a­tion Lib­er­a­tion a protest orga­nized by SHAC as part of a cam­paign to close down High­gate Farm who breed rab­bits and fer­rets for ani­mal test­ing.

The police on the day did not let the pro­test­ers go down to the farm and the protest was a sta­t­ic demo away from both the farm and the vil­lage. You used an unmanned drone to observe the demo as well as lines of cops and police vans all around us. While it has been argued in the past that drones would be used to lim­it police num­bers the num­ber of police was huge. You drew a line on the path and would­n’t let any­one past it. One offi­cer even move peo­ple back who’s shoes were slight­ly over the line anoth­er push some­one back with­out even ask­ing the pro­test­er to move!

The police seem intent on pro­vok­ing anoth­er New­church by pre­vent­ing effec­tive peace­ful protest and build­ing up anger by antag­o­nis­ing the nation­al ani­mal rights move­ment. If you want to show peo­ple that keep­ing to coop­er­a­tive protest is a good idea, putting them at the end of a lane away from their tar­get and being total­ly inflex­i­ble isn’t a great way of going about it!

I know there are some police try­ing to avoid anoth­er New­church. How­ev­er it seems you have been manip­u­lat­ed by a par­tic­u­lar­ly extreme ele­ment in your ranks that needs to pro­voke the move­ment to keep its fund­ing. NETCU and sim­i­lar units seem to be in a very bad way in terms of resources and in this reces­sion they need to manip­u­late you to keep the funds flow­ing away from your local polic­ing pri­or­i­ties and to line the pock­ets of there cosy lit­tle num­ber. They don’t want to see the move­ment coop­er­at­ing with you because that will make them unnec­es­sary.

Many of you may already be angry that mon­ey has in the past been wast­ed on such units. Do you real­ly want funds to be tak­en from you and used to sent a car of two or more spe­cial­ist offi­cers from far­away to a small peace­ful protest that could eas­i­ly be dealt with by your beat bob­by (or PCSO) in two min­utes flat?

You have prob­a­bly been told that the ani­mal rights move­ment has been frozen by the SHAC tri­als, this is not the case. The move­ment is get­ting up, shak­ing itself down and decid­ing it’s direc­tion. Where are you going to push it towards?

See you on the streets,

An activist.
—————-
This does not nec­es­sar­i­ly rep­re­sent the views of every­one at Ani­mal Rights Cam­bridge. Ani­mal Rights Cam­bridge has no lead­ers.

Ani­mal Rights Cam­bridge
http://animalrightscambridge.webs.com/

Five fur farms closed down after ALF actions

report­ed by activists in Italy:

“August 2009

The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Inves­ti­ga­tion Unit (ALIU) announced the final clo­sure of 2 mink farms in Italy.

Two fur farms found abandoned in ItalyTwo fur farms found abandoned in Italyreport­ed by activists in Italy:

“August 2009

The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Inves­ti­ga­tion Unit (ALIU) announced the final clo­sure of 2 mink farms in Italy.

- The De Nar­di farm in Vit­to­rio Vene­to (TV) was found locked and long aban­doned. Instead of mink in the sheds, some sheep roam.
We entered the farm at night­fall and we found some cages with birds inside.
Although our aim was only to doc­u­ment the clo­sure of the farm, we could not leave these beau­ti­ful ani­mals locked in tiny cages, so we smashed the cages and watched the birds fly away.
De Nar­di until a few years ago was pres­i­dent of the Ital­ian Mink Farm­ers Asso­ci­a­tion.

(click here for addi­tion­al pho­tos from the De Nar­di farm)

- The Anipel mink farm in San Mar­ti­no Buon Alber­go (VR) is final­ly closed. All cages and sheds are emp­ty. Some sheds were being dis­man­tled and cages were stacked out­side along with a truck for sale.
The walls of the sheds still have mes­sages paint­ed by activists who pre­vi­ous­ly vis­it­ed this farm, and the build­ing that hous­es cold stor­age and ware­hous­es has no roof, which was prob­a­bly destroyed in the fire of 2006.
A dozen dogs are still con­fined on the grounds of the farm.”

(click here for addi­tion­al pho­tos from the Anipel farm)

The anti-fur net­work Offen­sive gegen die Pelzin­dus­trie has announced that three fur farms in Ger­many have closed down, farms that until recent­ly impris­oned thou­sands of mink.

Among the farms was one near the city of Melle that was vis­it­ed by the A.L.F. in Jan­u­ary 2007 when hun­dreds of emp­ty cages were destroyed. The farm nev­er rebuilt fol­low­ing the action.

Source: http://directaction.info

Construction site sabotaged

To kick start Bris­tol co-mutiny three vehi­cles were sab­o­taged at a Som­er­set site con­struct­ing unaf­ford­able hous­ing (urban sprawl for the mid­dle class).

In antic­i­pa­tion of the Autonomous Days of Action elec­tron­ic cables were cut and the pierc­ing sound of split hydraulics was endured ren­der­ing the earth destroy­ing machines unus­able.

Social change not cli­mate change!

ALF/ELF

To kick start Bris­tol co-mutiny three vehi­cles were sab­o­taged at a Som­er­set site con­struct­ing unaf­ford­able hous­ing (urban sprawl for the mid­dle class).

In antic­i­pa­tion of the Autonomous Days of Action elec­tron­ic cables were cut and the pierc­ing sound of split hydraulics was endured ren­der­ing the earth destroy­ing machines unus­able.

Social change not cli­mate change!

ALF/ELF

DSEi Arms Fair Exhibitor and SHAC Protests in Cambridge

On the 8th of Sep­tem­ber 2009 pro­test­ers head­ed to two Cam­bridge tar­gets named in the map of DSEi arms fair exhibitors and the Cam­bridge office of BDO who have giv­en a mas­sive loan to the most exposed ani­mal test­ing lab in the world Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences (HLS).

On the 8th of Sep­tem­ber 2009 pro­test­ers head­ed to two Cam­bridge tar­gets named in the map of DSEi arms fair exhibitors and the Cam­bridge office of BDO who have giv­en a mas­sive loan to the most exposed ani­mal test­ing lab in the world Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences (HLS).

The arms trade leads to the death of humans and non-human ani­mals alike and the pro­test­ers want to show there cross move­ment sol­i­dar­i­ty with all move­ments fight­ing for a just and kind world. HLS test sweet­en­er, GMOs and pes­ti­cides on ani­mals and has a his­to­ry of ani­mal wel­fare vio­la­tions and fal­si­fy­ing data.

Watch the protests here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPeHU8TBKNo

The small group of pro­test­ers head­ed to…

DESi Exhibitor: Mott Mac­Don­ald
Deme­ter House, Sta­tion Road Cam­bridge CB1 2RS

Arriv­ing at recep­tion pro­test­ers told the lady at the desk why they where there and asked to speak to the man­ag­er. But the man­ag­er did­n’t want to talk.

Pro­test­ers decid­ed to hold a protest in the recep­tion area and unfurled a ban­ner which the recep­tion­ist prompt­ly fold­ed over with pro­test­ers prompt­ly re-open­ing it again! After a bit a staff mem­ber decid­ed to drag the pro­test­ers out. He began drag­ging a pro­test­er across the floor rip­ping the pro­test­ers t‑shirt. The staff mem­ber then stop to grabbed a female pro­test­er push­ing her out the door. The remain­ing cam­paign­ers held on to each oth­er stay­ing in the office as the staff mem­ber tried to pull them across the floor.

The man­ag­er of the Cam­bridge office came down because of all the com­mo­tion and told the staff mem­ber to stop. The pro­test­ers sat down with him and have a long dis­cus­sion with him about the arms trade. He apol­o­gised to us for the staff mem­ber who attacked us and admit­ted he would­n’t have spoke to us apart from because of what hap­pened. He said he would be fill­ing in paper­work to inform the com­pa­ny about the protest.

HLS (ani­mal lab) Finance: BDO Stoy Hay­ward — Cam­bridge
Claren­don House Claren­don Road Cam­bridge CB2 8FH

Pro­test­ers went to the doors of the office block BDO is locat­ed in and pushed the buzzer and told the com­pa­ny who they were. An assis­tant popped down and spoke to them and said he did­n’t know any­thing about it and said he did­n’t agree with the cru­el­ty they described to him. He went back up to his office, but the pro­test­ers did­n’t real­ly feel there issue had been addressed so they went up as well.

A secu­ri­ty guard stopped them and pro­test­ers explained they just want­ed to speak to the peo­ple in the office. He did­n’t let them go up but did let them wait in the recep­tion area while the com­pa­ny phoned head office. One cop turned up and the secu­ri­ty guard said the pro­test­ers had been peace­ful and went to check about BDO who now said it was noth­ing to do with the Cam­bridge office but they did­n’t know about the rest of the com­pa­ny! Pro­test­ers explained that was­n’t good enough and went out­side to voice our oppo­si­tion on the mega­phone.

BDO’s Cam­bridge office now know about the issue and now have a chance to act and tell their boss­es to with­draw the mas­sive loan that is help­ing keep HLS afloat.

DESi Exhibitor: Atkins
5 Well­brook Court Gir­ton Road Cam­bridge CB3 0NA

Cam­paign­ers head­ed to the office of Akins to let them know they object to their com­pa­ny’s involve­ment in the arms trade. The site man­ag­er came and spoke to them and the pro­test­ers told him why they were there. His atti­tude did­n’t seem great, but he lis­tened. Pro­test­ers unfurled their ban­ner and staff rang the police.

They explained to the man­ag­er that they want­ed him to con­tact Head Office to let them know about their objec­tions he refused at first, even refer­ring to the pro­test­ers as ter­ror­ists at one point when they said tres­pass was a civ­il mat­ter, but even­tu­al­ly phoned his head office.

The police arrived and told the man­ag­er to tell pro­test­ers to leave so they left. The police asked for pro­test­ers details but were denied them.

Ani­mal Rights Cam­bridge
— Home­page: http://animalrightscambridge.webs.com/

RBS glued shut by the ELF

The Roy­al Bank of Scot­land is one of the largest investors and prof­i­teers of envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and the inter­na­tion­al arms trade. They destroy nat­ur­al habi­tats, there­fore unbal­anc­ing the ecos­phere, by using geno­ci­dal meth­ods against the species pop­u­lat­ing the Earth.

The Roy­al Bank of Scot­land is one of the largest investors and prof­i­teers of envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and the inter­na­tion­al arms trade. They destroy nat­ur­al habi­tats, there­fore unbal­anc­ing the ecos­phere, by using geno­ci­dal meth­ods against the species pop­u­lat­ing the Earth.

Whilst hold­ing shares in arms deal­er ITT, who sup­port­ed the Nazis and now make wars pos­si­ble in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pales­tine, RBS are also the largest financier of the arms indus­try, hav­ing loaned £44.6 bil­lion in the last ten years and hold­ing £36.4 mil­lion shares.

In response to the call for action against the arms trade, in the run up to the DESi arms fair, their locks were glued shut in Som­er­set.

ELF