Category: Animal Rights/Liberation

250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley

“With one more com­rade behind bars, we decid­ed to turn to a more direct form of action.

250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley“With one more com­rade behind bars, we decid­ed to turn to a more direct form of action. Sean Kirt­ley got over 4 years for edit­ing a web­site. So why both­er doing any­thing legal?

Tak­ing the mes­sage from the gov­ern­ment loud and clear, we took up the tools of lib­er­a­tion dur­ing the night and made our way to an egg bat­tery farm south of York. We ‘broke in’ by open­ing the door to the low­er sec­tion of the farm and climb­ing up to the cages. Over-night we freed 250 hens and took them all to new homes across the coun­try.

This action is ded­i­cat­ed to Sean whose spir­it will still be out­side those bars help­ing ani­mals in the face of gov­ern­ment stitch-ups and a cor­rupt legal sys­tem.

The change is in our hands, the bat­tle has just begun…
The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front”

anony­mous com­mu­nique — addi­tion­al pho­tos

Sup­port Sean Kirt­ley

Support Sarah Whitehead

Sarah White­head is a com­mit­ted veg­an activist who has ded­i­cat­ed her life to sav­ing ani­mals and help­ing peo­ple. She worked tire­less­ly as a nurse whilst res­cu­ing and rehom­ing abused and neglect­ed ani­mals, as well as cam­paign­ing against the noto­ri­ous Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences.

Sarah WhiteheadSarah White­head is a com­mit­ted veg­an activist who has ded­i­cat­ed her life to sav­ing ani­mals and help­ing peo­ple. She worked tire­less­ly as a nurse whilst res­cu­ing and rehom­ing abused and neglect­ed ani­mals, as well as cam­paign­ing against the noto­ri­ous Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. She is not some­one to sit back and let ani­mals be tor­tured and abused, she stands up and fights wher­ev­er she sees injus­tice and nev­er puts her­self first.

Sarah had been informed about an abused bea­gle. It was liv­ing out­side in a wood­en cage, and was muz­zled at all times except for when it got to eat. The dog was made to wear an elec­tric shock col­lar and the neigh­bours informed Sarah that they had wit­nessed beat­ings from its own­ers. The neigh­bours had also heard the dog scream­ing on many occa­sions.

The RSPCA had been called numer­ous times, but they failed to help this dog and left it with own­ers who had on occa­sions tied it to a radi­a­tor.

All avenues had been explored in try­ing to lift this ani­mal from hell. The RSPCA, despite numer­ous com­plaints and vis­its to the own­ers, did noth­ing; even the police had been called by neigh­bours, but they just told them to call the RSPCA.

What else was Sarah to do, but res­cue the bea­gle her­self? How else could this bea­gle be saved? Know­ing how much it was suf­fer­ing, could any­one just leave this bea­gle to live in pain?

Sarah was already on a sus­pend­ed sen­tence for res­cu­ing ani­mals from a noto­ri­ous pup­py farmer in West Sus­sex, which meant that if she re-offend­ed with­in two years she would be sent to prison for that “crime”. Even know­ing this risk to her free­dom, Sarah put the dog’s life and well-being first and lift­ed him to free­dom.

Unknown to Sarah she was under police sur­veil­lance dur­ing the res­cue as part of Oper­a­tion Achilles and the cam­paign against Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. Police fol­lowed her and watched her res­cue the bea­gle, and then watched her take the dog to its sec­ond stage of its jour­ney to it’s new home.

How­ev­er, once the bea­gle was hand­ed over, instead of fol­low­ing the bea­gle in order to return it to its own­er, they car­ried on fol­low­ing Sarah. Luck­i­ly this means that the bea­gle is still safe and liv­ing in a lov­ing home.

Some time lat­er once the police had fin­ished fol­low­ing Sarah around she was arrest­ed, the police weird­ly tried to accuse her of steal­ing the dog so that she could sell it for £500 to raise mon­ey for SHAC (Stop Hunt­ing­don Ani­mal Cru­el­ty) Where this sum of £500 came from is any­one’s guess and it shows how lit­tle the police under­stand the con­cept of ani­mal rights!

Sarah went on tri­al for bur­glary in June 2008. She plead­ed not guilty to the offence as she believed she had not com­mit­ted a crime in res­cu­ing this bea­gle. She told the court she believed she had act­ed rea­son­ably and hon­est and that it was the right thing to do because the police and RSPCA had failed to save this dog. State­ments from the neigh­bours were read in court which described the cru­el­ty to the dog, the beat­ings, and the screams but bizarrely the jury took the view that Sarah should have left the dog where it was and she was found guilty.

The judge sen­tenced Sarah to two years in prison, nine months of this is from the sus­pend­ed sen­tence she was on, and the extra 1 1/3 years is for res­cu­ing the bea­gle.

You can write to Sarah at:

Sarah White­head VM7684
HMP Bronze­field,
Woodthor­pe Road,
Ash­ford,
Mid­dx
TW15 3JZ.
Unit­ed King­dom

Click here for Sarah’s sup­port page

Before going to prison, Sarah cam­paigned for the fol­low­ing groups, so please check out their web­sites:

Stop Hunt­ing­don Ani­mal Cru­el­ty
South­ern Ani­mal Rights Coali­tion
Grey­hound Action
Uncaged
BUAV
Veg­an Pris­on­ers Sup­port Group
Dr Had­wen Trust

ELF target Coca-Cola twice and wild boar freed

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Aus­tri­an activists, impris­oned ille­gal­ly by the state, the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) twice this month tar­get­ed Coca-Cola in Mex­i­co for their crimes against the earth and its inhab­i­tants, whilst in Spain, ELF and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front activists report­ed that they freed a boar that was await­ing death.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Aus­tri­an activists, impris­oned ille­gal­ly by the state, the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) twice this month tar­get­ed Coca-Cola in Mex­i­co for their crimes against the earth and its inhab­i­tants, whilst in Spain, ELF and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front activists report­ed that they freed a boar that was await­ing death.

Report­ed: 28th June

received anony­mous­ly:

“On June 1 the bot­tler and dis­trib­u­tor of the multi­na­tion­al coca cola was attacked in Mex­i­co state; its walls were cov­ered in paint and a large paint­ing at the entrance read, ‘Multi­na­tion­al mur­der­ers;’ the attacks do not stop and will go on increas­ing.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with pris­on­ers of Aus­tria!
For ani­mal lib­er­a­tion!
For the lib­er­a­tion of the land!
For human lib­er­a­tion!
Sab­o­tage and direct action!

FLT/ELF”

Report­ed: 24th June

trans­la­tion from www.accionvegana.org:

“On thurs­day 12 of june we freed a wild boar in Cac­eres. We opened the fence that kept him encaged. This easy action has giv­en back free­dom to an ani­mal that was wait­ing to be mur­dered by hunters.

We want to show our sol­i­dar­i­ty with our Aus­tri­an com­rades repressed and to every ani­mal lib­er­a­tion activist in jail.

ALF/ELF”

Report­ed: 7th June

anony­mous com­mu­nique (trans­la­tion):

“Coca-Cola, one of the Amer­i­can multi­na­tion­als respon­si­ble for the destruc­tion of our plan­et, com­plic­it in the exploita­tion and theft of water from indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties (Chi­a­pas), gen­er­at­ing human exploita­tion by forc­ing chil­dren to work more than 10 hours a day in their sug­ar­cane crops (El Sal­vador), mas­sive pol­lu­tion of rivers with tox­ic prod­ucts (India), con­trac­tor of para­mil­i­tary groups that killed union work­ers (Colom­bia), financer of death by vol­un­tar­i­ly giv­ing a por­tion of their prof­its to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, racist since the days of Nazi Ger­many, part­ner­ing with large mag­nates and multi­na­tion­als such as Nes­tle, McDon­alds, Chrysler, Tex­a­co, (like­wise) respon­si­ble for glob­al warm­ing, the bru­tal exploita­tion of the land and the food cri­sis afflict­ing the world today, should be a pri­ma­ry objec­tive for all those com­bat­ants who are fight­ing against the many aber­ra­tions and for the lib­er­a­tion of the land, ani­mals and humans, because this glob­al com­pa­ny alone is an exam­ple of the influ­ence of the cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem on its own­ers, the extreme abuse of pow­er and the advanc­ing of its glob­al con­trol over many inno­cents.
Hence the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra has tak­en firm action against this scourge; in the evening of June 5 the walls of the com­pa­ny were splashed with paint with a spe­cial stench, the vehi­cles of the admin­is­tra­tors were like­wise vic­tims of our first but not last attack.
We will return but with even more force.

Ded­i­cat­ed to the fight­ers of Aus­tria = recent­ly impris­oned by the fas­cist state of that coun­try.
For­ward!

..:FLT:.. – Esta­do de Méx­i­co”

See also the pre­vi­ous Mex­i­can ALF/ELF action, click here

Arrests As International Whaling Commission Fails To Protect Whales

Fif­teen peo­ple were arrest­ed by police at a meet­ing of the Inter­na­tion­al Whal­ing Com­mis­sion (IWC), held this year in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

IWC protest

Fif­teen peo­ple were arrest­ed by police at a meet­ing of the Inter­na­tion­al Whal­ing Com­mis­sion (IWC), held this year in San­ti­a­go, Chile. The pro­test­ers were sup­pos­ed­ly try­ing to ‘storm’ the meet­ing but oth­er reports state that the mere pres­ence of peo­ple in front of the meet­ing’s venue was seen as a ‘secu­ri­ty threat’.

The IWC meets annu­al­ly to reg­u­late the whal­ing indus­try and make deci­sions on con­ser­va­tion of whale pop­u­la­tions. So far the meet­ing has­n’t reached any agree­ments and the com­mis­sion con­tin­ues to be strong­ly dev­id­ed between the pro- and anti-whal­ing nations. Skye Bor­toli, an activist from Teens Against Whal­ing described the meet­ing this year as ‘pathet­ic’, say­ing “this body will be known in the future as a small group of eco­log­i­cal­ly arro­gant peo­ple who are con­demn­ing the world’s whales to agony and obliv­ion for pet­ty pol­i­tics and a few lousy bucks.”

Relat­ed Audio: Sea Shep­herd Cap­tain Paul Wat­son Talks in Lon­don | Inter­view With Not­ting­ham Activist On Return From Whale Sav­ing Mis­sion

Relat­ed Newswire: Ice­land Defies Mora­to­ri­um On Com­mer­cial Whal­ing — Whale Hunt Start­ed | Nor­way Starts Whale Hunt­ing Sea­son

Pre­vi­ous Fea­tures: Armed Cana­di­an Coast Guard Storms Con­ser­va­tion Ves­sel | Not­ting­ham Activist Returns From Whale Sav­ing Mis­sion In Antar­ti­ca | Injured Among Sea Shep­herd Crew As Japan­ese Mil­i­tary Open Fire | Activists Held Hostage By Japan­ese Whalers In South­ern Ocean

Links: IWC offi­cial web­site | Wikipedia on IWC | Teens Against Whal­ing | Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety | Green­peace | San­ti­a­go Indy­media | Indy­media Ocean Defence

This year, like many a year before, the IWC fails to make progress in their pro­tec­tion of whales. Japan and oth­er pro-whal­ing nations push for a par­tial lift­ing of the ban on com­mer­cial whal­ing. Also, the US (which has been involved with Japan’s whal­ing indus­try) has been push­ing for the reg­u­la­tion of ‘sci­en­tif­ic whal­ing’, some­thing which con­ser­va­tions argue would only legit­imize an already ille­gal activ­i­ty. Japan uses the ‘sci­en­tif­ic research’ as a smoke­screen for their ille­gal com­mer­cial whal­ing prac­tices.

There has been a debate about whether Green­land should be allowed a big­ger quo­ta of whales for their hunt and dis­cus­sions are ongo­ing about Japan’s hunt in the South­ern Ocean. It has been report­ed that the ear­li­est the IWC might come to some kind of agree­ment is by next year’s meet­ing, which is to be held in Madeira, Por­tu­gal. The com­mis­sion con­tin­ues to be strong­ly divid­ed between pro-whal­ing (Japan, Den­mark, Nor­way, Ice­land) and anti-whal­ing (Aus­tralia, Unit­ed King­dom, New Zealand, South Africa) nations.

Cap­tain Paul Wat­son, from the Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety, did man­age to get into the hotel this year. He nor­mal­ly nev­er makes it inside as the Sea Shep­herd is the only organ­i­sa­tion offi­cial­ly banned from attend­ing IWC meet­ings. Paul, like Skye Bor­toli, isn’t impressed with the state of affairs at this year’s meet­ing: “There were many things that could come out of this meet­ing. Japan could with­draw from the IWC and become a rene­gade whal­ing nation along with their part­ners in con­ser­va­tion crime Nor­way and Ice­land. Or a com­pro­mise may be bro­kered that will allow the Japan­ese to with­draw from the South­ern Ocean with­out los­ing face or third­ly, and most like­ly, noth­ing will come out of this meet­ing at all. From the way things are going so far it looks like Sea Shep­herd will be return­ing to the South­ern Ocean to once again enforce the reg­u­la­tions that the IWC and the nations of the world refuse to uphold. Oh well, I come to these meet­ings with no expec­ta­tions hop­ing to be pleas­ant­ly sur­prised. After more than three decades I am still wait­ing.”

Green­peace was also present in Chile, with a dom­i­nant pres­ence among the var­i­ous anti-whal­ing NGO’s and con­ser­va­tion­ists. Dave writes on the Green­peace blog: “We hope some­thing good comes out of these meet­ings, and that the com­mis­sion trans­forms itself into a body that pro­tects the whales and not the whalers. While com­mis­sion­ers sit in rooms talk­ing, whales are still dying in the South­ern Ocean and around the world from com­mer­cial whal­ing, ship strikes, sonar-relat­ed deaths, net­ting and pol­lu­tion, amongst oth­er human-induced haz­ards.”

On a pos­i­tive note, Chile, the host of this year’s meet­ing has declared a per­ma­nent ban on whal­ing in its waters. Speak­ing at a for­mer whale pro­cess­ing plant that Chile closed in 1967, Pres­i­dent Michelle Bachelet said she sent a bill to Con­gress propos­ing a whale sanc­tu­ary along Chile’s coast­line and declared the whale a nation­al mon­u­ment.

imc-uk-fea­tures

Solidarity actions for imprisoned liberationists

Italy, Mex­i­co, Spain & UK
Sol­i­dar­i­ty actions for; Pao­la Gori, Jeff Luers & Sean Kirt­ley

Com­mu­niques report­ed to Bite Back Mag­a­zine: 15th — 19th June:

Italy, Mex­i­co, Spain & UK
Sol­i­dar­i­ty actions for; Pao­la Gori, Jeff Luers & Sean Kirt­ley

Com­mu­niques report­ed to Bite Back Mag­a­zine: 15th — 19th June:

anony­mous reports:

30th May — h 21.00 — Moun­tains of Emil­ia Region, Italy.
We set on fire a hunt­ing tow­er placed in a wood pop­u­lat­ed by boars.
We have destroyed it with two liters of gaso­line ignit­ed by a retar­dant primer.
— A.L.F. -

Night of 5th June — Emil­ia Region, Italy.
A small chick­en farm was vis­it­ed again (see the com­mu­nique of last month).
We have lib­er­at­ed one cock (the only male present) and slashed the tires of the car of the farmer.
— A.L.F. -

These actions are ded­i­cat­ed to Pao­la. She is a veg­an, ani­mal rights activist, pris­on­er in ‘Le Sug­here’ Ital­ian jail.
Please write* and sup­port her.
Also, please sup­port the vic­tims of state repres­sion in Italy and Aus­tria.
Free­dom for all!
Lib­er­ta ‘per tut­ti!”

received anony­mous­ly (trans­la­tion):

“On the night of June 14 (Inter­na­tion­al day in sup­port of the earth lib­er­a­tion war­rior Jef­frey Luers and all rad­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal pris­on­ers), the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front got togeth­er and went to the doors of one of the many com­pa­nies guilty in the dom­i­na­tion, destruc­tion and exter­mi­na­tion of the earth and its liv­ing beings.

Var­i­ous slo­gans were paint­ed such as ‘No More Vivi­sec­tion,’ ‘ALF,’ ‘No HLS,’ ‘Sup­port Jef­frey,’ ‘Mur­der­ers’ and oth­ers which attacked the com­pa­ny Unilever which shares prop­er­ty with DHL (an HLS sup­port­er). Now as one passed through these mod­ern-day exter­mi­na­tion camps, one can read the slo­gans of the FLA and FLT on most of its walls.

Com­pañero Jef­frey we know about your sit­u­a­tion and it gives us great plea­sure to know that soon you’ll be out here on the front line fight­ing again like you’ve done before. We hope that those bars and life in prison leave you with even more strength to con­tin­ue.

To all those rad­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal­ist pris­on­ers, an embrace from Mex­i­co.

For Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion!
For Earth Lib­er­a­tion!
For Human Lib­er­a­tion!
Direct Action!

FLA & FLT”

excerpt from anony­mous report:

“In sup­port of Jef­frey Luers and the strug­gle for ani­mal lib­er­a­tion
Dur­ing the ear­ly hours of June 14, the locks of every fur shop in the Bil­bao city cen­ter were glued, in sup­port of this pris­on­er and many oth­ers, and in gen­er­al of the strug­gle for ani­mal lib­er­a­tion.”

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Activists in the North West decid­ed to ‘pimp’ a hunt scums ride.

The car was easy to find as it had both the pro-hunt ‘Felix Says’ stick­er and a BASC (Shoot­ing) stick­er in the rear win­dow. The BASC stick­er sealed the car’s fate, the Judge in the Sean Kirt­ley case was into shoot­ing and a mem­ber of BASC. The car had paint strip­per applied, spray paint over the win­dows, wind­screen wipers wrecked and one wing mir­ror smashed. Looked real­ly pret­ty once we’d fin­si­hed.

If the own­er wants com­pen­sa­tion then they should write to Judge Ross and NETCU. It’s the crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of legal protest that has caused this.

ALF”

ARRESTED & CHARGED McLibel Protester!

On the 21st June 08, as part of the anniver­sary of the now famous 1997 McLi­bel court case in which two cam­paign­ers were sued by the McDon­alds Cor­po­ra­tion for dis­trib­ut­ing a leaflet crit­i­cal of the com­pa­ny, camp

Cambridge McDonaldsEarth hamburgurizedOn the 21st June 08, as part of the anniver­sary of the now famous 1997 McLi­bel court case in which two cam­paign­ers were sued by the McDon­alds Cor­po­ra­tion for dis­trib­ut­ing a leaflet crit­i­cal of the com­pa­ny, cam­paign­ers entered the McDon­alds in Rose Cres­cent, Cam­bridge.

After being removed from the restau­rant by police a cam­paign­er was approached and his details request­ed. He gave his name and address but was told if he did not give his date of birth he would be arrest­ed under Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act. He refused, as he believes that a per­son is only required to give their name and address for the pur­pose of a sum­mons and no addi­tion­al details. He was sub­se­quent­ly arrest­ed under Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act. The arrest got pub­lic atten­tion with peo­ple mak­ing use of their cam­eras and com­ing up to take leaflets.

He has been charged and bailed to attend Cam­bridge Mag­is­trates – Narey – Court 613 – Mag­is­trates Court at 43 Haux­ton Road, Cam­bridge on the 3rd July at 9.30 a.m. – ANY SUPPORT APPRECIATED.

The pro­test­ers hoped to high­light the issues that orig­i­nal­ly com­prised the leaflet that led to the court case rang­ing from ani­mal farm­ing to envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion. Accord­ing to a cam­paign­er, “McDon­alds hasn’t real­ly changed. Whether it be the envi­ron­men­tal impact of ani­mal agri­cul­ture or the fact they con­tin­ue to mar­ket junk food to chil­dren in the mid­dle of an obe­si­ty prob­lem, McDon­alds still makes a lot of peo­ple very Mcan­gry.”

Many of the orig­i­nal leaflet’s crit­i­cisms of McDon­alds were vin­di­cat­ed in court. Accord­ing to the rul­ing of the High Court, Mcdon­alds had ‘exploit­ed chil­dren’, was ‘cul­pa­bly respon­si­ble for ani­mal cru­el­ty’ and used mar­ket­ing that had ‘pre­tend­ed to a pos­i­tive nutri­tion­al ben­e­fit which their food did not match’.

The cam­paign­ers are call­ing on the peo­ple of Cam­bridge to boy­cott the restau­rant chain. We can all make a state­ment about our val­ues by the way we spend our cash. We call on every­one to say no to this busi­ness in our city.

- You can learn more about the McLi­bel case at http://www.mcspotlight.org/

- An addi­tion­al video of the protest was tak­en by an inde­pen­dent cam­era man see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401610.html (thanks!)

- Protester’s video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3I4zVxc2A

COURT DATE:

Cam­bridge Mag­is­trates – Narey – Court 613 – Mag­is­trates Court at 43 Haux­ton Road, Cam­bridge on the 3rd July at 9.30 a.m.

FIGHT SPECIESISM! #2 — Out Now

The sec­ond issue has expand­ed from 6 to 10 pages because of the quan­ti­ty of news and analy­sis that has been pub­lished since the first edi­tion.

FIGHT SPECIESISM! #2 The sec­ond issue has expand­ed from 6 to 10 pages because of the quan­ti­ty of news and analy­sis that has been pub­lished since the first edi­tion.

Click HERE to read or HERE to print.

ISSUE 2, July 2008
Arti­cles:

- Sol­i­dar­i­ty actions for Sean Kirt­ley
— ALF tar­get NFU — “no bad­ger cull”
— Fur Indus­try — Oslo under attack
— Falling tow­ers — 43 in 92 days, Swe­den
— Judge Ross & NETCU — cru­ci­fy civ­il lib­er­ties
— NETCU and SOCPA — a nasty dic­ta­tor­ship?
— Earth news — Leave it in the ground & burn­ing man­sions*
— Anar­chy in Brighton — Smash EDO Car­ni­val*

Please dis­trib­ute far and wide!

NOTES

Fight Speciesism! is the newslet­ter from Anti­spe Britain. Issues are pub­lished spo­rad­i­cal­ly, depen­dent on when there is enough to news to fill the pages.

**Due to pop­u­lar demand, FS! now fea­tures a small por­tion of Earth news and a col­umn for the lat­est anar­chist action.

We would also like to apol­o­gise for not includ­ing the recent repres­sion in Aus­tria against anti-fur activists. It was decid­ed that because the issue is devel­op­ing swift­ly, the news print­ed would unfor­tu­nate­ly be out of date when pub­lished.

How­ev­er, please see the Indy­media UK fea­ture that has been cre­at­ed to keep you up to date with the lat­est.

ALF target farming union offices over badger cull

The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front (ALF) have sab­o­taged farm­ing union offices in protest against the Welsh assem­bly’s deci­sion to cull bad­gers, who are accused of spread­ing bovine TB, despite dairy cat­tle raised on inten­sive farms being the cul­prits.

The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front (ALF) have sab­o­taged farm­ing union offices in protest against the Welsh assem­bly’s deci­sion to cull bad­gers, who are accused of spread­ing bovine TB, despite dairy cat­tle raised on inten­sive farms being the cul­prits.

The Car­marthen offices of both Nation­al Farm­ers Union (NFU) Cym­ru and the Farm­ers Union of Wales (FUW) were daubed with slo­gans includ­ing “no cull”, “cull farm­ers not bad­gers” and “ALF”.

The locks at the FUW’s office in the town were also glued shut, with slo­gans also paint­ed on four oth­er NFU Cym­ru build­ings, includ­ing those at Haver­ford­west and Swansea.

Source: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401046.html

–
Stop the Cull!: Viva! Nation­al Ral­ly for the Bad­gers
Cardiff, Sat­ur­day, June 28 2008
1pm out­side the Welsh Assem­bly Build­ing (Debat­ing Rooms)

Info + poster: https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400088.html

More info: http://viva.org.uk/badgers

Redecorated: McDonalds for Sean Kirtley & SUVs for Jeff Luers

“McDon­alds in South York­shire had their toi­lets redec­o­rat­ed with ‘Free Sean Kirt­ley’ posters and ‘McDonalds=McMurder’ (Sheffield & Barns­ley restau­rants)

Till all are free..

PS: Some SUVs at a garage on Eccle­sall Rd, Sheffield, need­ed their paint­work redo­ing after a lit­tle redec­o­ra­tion in red…free Jeff Luers!”

“McDon­alds in South York­shire had their toi­lets redec­o­rat­ed with ‘Free Sean Kirt­ley’ posters and ‘McDonalds=McMurder’ (Sheffield & Barns­ley restau­rants)

Till all are free..

PS: Some SUVs at a garage on Eccle­sall Rd, Sheffield, need­ed their paint­work redo­ing after a lit­tle redec­o­ra­tion in red…free Jeff Luers!”

Sean Kirt­ley: http://supportsean.wordpress.com
Jeff Luers: http://freefreenow.org

Source: http://directaction.info

Whaling protester scales embassy — court update

4 June 2008 update (main sto­ry below):
Con­di­tion­al dis­charge of four months and ordered to pay £100 costs after being con­vict­ed of tres­pass.

Wyness told the court staff at the embassy had giv­en him per­mis­sion to protest out­side the build­ing.

4 June 2008 update (main sto­ry below):
Con­di­tion­al dis­charge of four months and ordered to pay £100 costs after being con­vict­ed of tres­pass.

Wyness told the court staff at the embassy had giv­en him per­mis­sion to protest out­side the build­ing.

He said they had giv­en him the invi­ta­tion when he had tied him­self to ban­is­ters inside the build­ing on a pre­vi­ous occa­sion on 25 Jan­u­ary.

The court was also shown footage which had been secret­ly filmed which showed a mem­ber of embassy staff sug­gest­ing it would be bet­ter to protest out­side the build­ing.

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6 March 2008
A cam­paign­er protest­ing against whal­ing by the Japan­ese has been arrest­ed after chain­ing him­self to the front of the coun­try’s embassy in Lon­don.

Mar­tin Wyness, 50, of Here­ford, climbed the build­ing at about 0730 GMT and low­ered the Japan­ese flag to half-mast about 40ft (12m) from the ground.

He then unfurled a ban­ner say­ing “Japan stop your ille­gal whal­ing” before chain­ing him­self to the build­ing.

Police said Mr Wyness came down from the build­ing at 1047 GMT.

He was arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion of crim­i­nal tres­pass.

His protest was believed to be timed to coin­cide with a meet­ing of the Inter­na­tion­al Whal­ing Com­mis­sion which began on Thurs­day.

The three-day sum­mit, which is being held in Heathrow, will dis­cuss the future of whal­ing in Japan, Nor­way and Ice­land.

In Jan­u­ary, Mr Wyness and his 14-year-old daugh­ter Sophie were arrest­ed after tying them­selves to a stair­case with cable ties inside the embassy, in Pic­cadil­ly.

The charges against them were lat­er dropped.

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