Category: Nuclear

EDF Exposed — LRT action

20 Octo­ber 2008
Lon­don Ris­ing Tide’s Green­wash Gueril­las Brigade, Detec­tion Pla­toon #1, moved into action this morn­ing at 08:00 hours – tar­get­ing dirty great ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion Élec­tric­ité de France (EDF) at the cen­tral Lon­don head­quar­ters (HQ) of their UK sub­sidiary EDF Ener­gy.

EDF greenwash guerillas20 Octo­ber 2008
Lon­don Ris­ing Tide’s Green­wash Gueril­las Brigade, Detec­tion Pla­toon #1, moved into action this morn­ing at 08:00 hours – tar­get­ing dirty great ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion Élec­tric­ité de France (EDF) at the cen­tral Lon­don head­quar­ters (HQ) of their UK sub­sidiary EDF Ener­gy.

Lon­don Ris­ing Tide used to meet fort­night­ly, but the wild suc­cess of the mas­sive Cli­mate Camp 08 out­side the Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion [1] has boost­ed the vet­er­an cli­mate change cam­paign to even high­er lev­els of par­tic­i­pa­tion and direct action. I attend­ed a ‘Film Night for New­com­ers’ on Thu 18 Sep 08, as did a whole bunch of folks new to Ris­ing Tide, and such was the upswing of enthu­si­asm, ener­gy and cre­ativ­i­ty, we’ve been meet­ing week­ly ever since.

Inspired by our sis­ters and broth­ers in France demon­strat­ing against new nuclear pow­er, we chose to tar­get EDF’s attempts to mus­cle in their FALSE nuclear solu­tion to the loom­ing dis­as­ter of cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate chaos. Test­ing the met­tle of sea­soned cam­paign­ers, we new­bies chose 08:00–09:00 on a Mon­day morn­ing to kick up a stink about the dan­gers to the bios­phere, human­i­ty, and REAL renew­able ener­gy solu­tions posed by the nuclear fis­sion indus­try rear­ing its ugly head.

And inspired by the response of our Argen­tinean sis­ters and broth­ers to hav­ing their life sav­ings stolen by the banks, we made ours a Noize Demo [2] – pots and pans, whis­tles and sam­ba bells echoed off the blank face of the bland cor­po­rate archi­tec­ture at No.40 Grosvenor Place, draw­ing the atten­tion of EDF boss­es inside and thou­sands of pedes­tri­ans, cyclists, bus+coach pas­sen­gers, van+truck dri­vers, and motorists out­side to the green­wash bull­shit leak­ing out of their stone-n-glass bas­tion. And in return, scores of vehi­cle horns salut­ed our protest, sound­ing a gen­er­al pub­lic approval for protest against Nuclear Cap­i­tal’s dirty machi­na­tions for new nukes.

If you feel inspired to take action for a future free from the threat of cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate chaos, you’ll be wel­comed with open arms and a cup of some­thing hot and refresh­ing at Lon­don Ris­ing Tide’s next meet­ing: Thu 23 Oct 08, 19:30 to 21:00, at the Lon­don Action Resource Cen­tre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, Lon­don E1 1ES – and down t’pub after (option­al ;-).

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For imme­di­ate release
Cli­mate activists to tar­get EDF

Pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ty: 20 Octo­ber 2008 8.30am, 40 Grosvenor Place, Lon­don

On Mon­day 20 Octo­ber cli­mate activists call­ing them­selves the Green­wash Guer­ril­las will be on hand to detect “dan­ger­ous lev­els of radioac­tive­g­reen hypocrisy”[1] emi­nat­ing from the lon­don offices of pro-nuclear lob­bi­ests EDF.

Equipped with green­wash detec­tors and kit­ted out in tox­ic-waste suits, activists will be test­ing office work­ers for pro-nuclear PR con­t­a­m­i­na­tion, and high­light­ing the unsus­tain­abil­i­ty of the gov­ern­ments cur­rent ener­gy pol­i­cy.

The activists are out­raged that giv­en the recent­ly announced tar­get of an 80% reduc­tion in Car­bon diox­ide emis­sions, Gor­don Brown, and of course his broth­er Andrew (head of cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions for EDF), are argu­ing that new nuclear pow­er should be cen­tral to our ener­gy secu­ri­ty.

Nuclear pow­er is far from car­bon neutral[2]

Nuclear pow­er is unsafe[3]

Nuclear pow­er is huge­ly expensive[4]

Real sus­tain­able solu­tions exist[5]

The real solu­tions to the ener­gy gap and cli­mate change are avail­able now!

1 — The Green­wash Guer­ril­las reveal PR tac­tics employed by cor­po­ra­tions to deflect atten­tion from their poor envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards for the green­wash it tru­ly is.
www.greenwashguerrillas.org http://www.greenwashguerrillas.org>

2 — Gen­er­at­ing a unit of elec­tric­i­ty from nuclear pow­er cre­ates at least 33% of the CO2 emis­sions of a unit pro­duced from gas when min­ing, dis­pos­al & decom­mis­sion­ing are also con­sid­ered.
www.stormsmith.nl/report20050803/Chap_1.pdf
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/2587.jsp#one

3 — Over 100 staff at the EDF oper­at­ed Tri­c­as­tin plant were irra­di­at­ed on 24 Jul 2008, the fourth such scare in a fort­night.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/26/britishenergygroupbusiness.utilities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2454654/French-nuclear-leak-prompts-urgent-security-review.html

France’s inde­pen­dent radi­a­tion watch­dog sound­ed the alarm Thurs­day after a nuclear leak – the fourth such scare in a fort­night.

French nuclear oper­a­tor EDF comes in for a past­ing, for say­ing that the lat­est nuclear blun­ders had no impact on “peo­ples health” or “the envi­ron­ment” because the dos­es emit­ted fell short of the max­i­mum lim­its set by inter­na­tion­al stan­dards.

Elec­tric­ité de France work­ers were exposed to radioac­tive par­ti­cles on Wednes­day 23rd July, that escaped from a pipe at a nuclear reac­tor at the Tri­c­as­tin com­plex. Experts said that the lat­est inci­dent involved the high­est num­ber of work­ers to be col­lec­tive­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed in French nuclear his­to­ry.

4 — Nuclear pow­er sta­tions require huge ini­tial invest­ments, ongo­ing main­te­nance and the decom­mis­sion­ing costs*
* (at least £63 bil­lion).

www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/news_release_national.pdf

Last week it emerged the cost esti­mate for clean­ing up nuclear waste in the UK had risen by £10bn in one year. That increase is the same as the cur­rent cost of the 2012 Olympics — the finances of which have gen­er­at­ed so much polit­i­cal heat.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/26/britishenergygroupbusiness.utilities

5 — New nuclear pow­er sta­tions are a dis­trac­tion from the real solu­tions to cli­mate change: decen­tralised ener­gy as seen in Scan­di­navia, renew­able tech­nolo­gies and ener­gy effi­cien­cy.

Renew­ables would come online more quick­ly, require no fuel and won’t have the dan­ger or cost of the nuclear pow­er. The gen­er­at­ing cost of onshore wind pow­er is already cheap­er than nuclear pow­er, with nowhere near the lev­el of invest­ment and no emis­sions.

Lon­don Ris­ing Tide,
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, Lon­don E1 1ES; Tel: 07708 794665
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
www.artnotoil.org.uk — (send us your art!)
Shel­l’s now spon­sor­ing ‘Oedi­pus’ at the Nation­al The­atre. Look out for the
gallery of images made in response, which we’ll add to the ‘Shel­l’s Wild
Lie’ counter-exhi­bi­tion: www.artnotoil.org.uk/gallery/v/Shell
See also the Camp for Cli­mate Action site: climatecamp.org.uk
as well as Cli­mate Indy­media: climateimc.org

The latest EF! Action Update is out, bringing you reports of eco-resistance for the darkening days…

Bring­ing light & inspi­ra­tion to the dark­er evenings are the action sto­ries in the lat­est Earth First! Action Update.

Block­ades of nuclear pow­er, roads & rivers around the world were joined “with this Shell-blockad­ing D‑lock I thee wed”.

Adjustable spanner photoBring­ing light & inspi­ra­tion to the dark­er evenings are the action sto­ries in the lat­est Earth First! Action Update.

Block­ades of nuclear pow­er, roads & rivers around the world were joined “with this Shell-blockad­ing D‑lock I thee wed”.

And if anti-fas­cist action, quar­ry sab­o­tage, squats, tree plat­forms, wrekin’ open­casts, scal­ing lux­u­ry hotels & the lat­est protest camp news was­n’t enough for you, chuck in some glue, arm tubes, a pool of oil, stink bombs, air­borne rape alarms and a Lego-sized occu­pa­tion, then there’s full reports from this sum­mer’s antics at the Camp for Cli­mate Action, Ross­port sol­i­dar­i­ty camp, EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing and Sav­ing Ice­land camp, plus a crop of glob­al cli­mate camps & news of protest & resis­tance from all 5 con­ti­nents.

“No nukes, no coal, no kid­ding” — with peo­ple dying (both lit­er­al­ly & sym­bol­i­cal­ly) from the activ­i­ties of the Earth-destroy­ers, peo­ple have been shout­ing to just “Leave it in the Ground”, drag­on boats have clashed with navy gun­boats in Ire­land, an oil war was declared in Nige­ria, and ‘moles’ spent a week under­ground dig­ging fur­ther and fur­ther away from the forces of dark­ness at an open-cast coal site.

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Sub­scribe and get it sent direct to a let­ter­box near you — you’d also be sup­port­ing the EF!AU to get print­ed and sent out to pris­on­ers & protest camps. If you want some to dis­trib­ute, con­tact us at: actionup­date (AT) earthfirst.org.uk

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The EF!AU is there to inspire peo­ple to take eco­log­i­cal direct action, to pro­vide info to help you just get out and do it. Don’t feel shy, put your best foot for­ward.

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Spirit of Freedom (October 2008) — support the eco-prisoners

Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Wel­come to the Octo­ber 2008 edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom. The last month has been a month of mixed emo­tions for ELP. On the one hand we heard the bril­liant news that the Dutch ani­mal rights activist, Ger­ben Jan, was found not guilty of assault­ing a police offi­cer, caus­ing the offi­cer to break his leg, dur­ing an ani­mal rights demo in Swe­den. Instead Ger­ban was found guilty of resist­ing arrest for which he was fined and deport­ed. Also in an unex­pect­ed move, all the Aus­tri­an Ani­mal Rights pris­on­ers were released from prison pend­ing their tri­al! Plus, the Amer­i­can veg­an, Nathan Kno­erl, was grant­ed bail in his case where he is accused of involve­ment in an anti-vivi­sec­tion protest. Fol­low­ing Nathans release a sup­port cam­paign has been set up to try and help raise mon­ey for Nathan’s forth­com­ing legal case. For more info please e‑mail supportnathan@gmail.com. How­ev­er, just as ELP start­ed to think our pris­on­er lists might start to go down, we received news of fur­ther police raids in Aus­tria. ELP also learnt that, due to Frank Ambrose, grass­ing every­one up, the Amer­i­can’s Marie Mason, Stephanie Lynne Fultz, and Aren Burth­wick, have all had to enter Plea Bar­gains and admit some of the charges set against them. In Marie’s case she has admit­ted her direct role in an ELF arson on a Uni­ver­si­ty build­ing involved with GM crop tests, whilst Stephanie and Aren have admit­ted not report­ing a fire (Stephanie has admit­ted cut­ting Marie’s hair which was burnt fol­low­ing the arson). We don’t know what sen­tences Stephanie and Aren are like­ly to receive, but Marie is look­ing at 15 to 20 years and has been remand­ed into cus­tody. This is real­ly bad news, espe­cial­ly as it was hoped Marie might remain free until her sen­tenc­ing ear­ly next year. Around the world, peo­ple are being impris­oned for stand­ing up for what they believe in and try­ing to
help the ani­mals and the earth. So please, no mat­ter where you are in the world, sup­port the eco-pris­on­ers. And no com­pro­mise in defence of Moth­er Earth.

ECO-DEFENCE PRISONERS

Tre Arrow, #70936–065, (in tran­sit), USA. Serv­ing 78 months for his involve­ment in two ELF arsons. 1) an arson on log­ging trucks 2) an arson on vehi­cles owned by a sand & grav­el com­pa­ny. (Tre is a raw ener­gy veg­an — He has asked that his let­ters of sup­port are writ­ten on scrap paper or tree-free paper).

Grant Barnes #137563, San Car­los Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002, USA. Serv­ing 12 years for set­ting fire to a num­ber of SUV vehi­cles. The let­ters ELF were spray paint­ed onto all of the vehi­cles. (Grant is a veg­an).

Nathan Block, #36359–086, FCI Lom­poc, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 3600 Guard Road, Lom­poc, CA 93436, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land. Serv­ing 18 years. 1) Ten years for using explo­sives to destroy elec­tric­i­ty pylons lead­ing from nuclear pow­er sta­tions. 2) Eight years for the mur­der of a Swiss Bor­der Guard whilst on the run. In ’02 Mar­co com­plet­ed a 12-year sen­tence in Italy for destroy­ing elec­tric­i­ty pylons in Italy. (Mar­co is a meat eater who encour­ages organ­ic liv­ing).

Daniele Casali­ni, Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale, Via Burla 59, 43100 Par­ma, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Daniele is a veg­an).

Rod­ney Coro­n­a­do #03895–000, FCI El Reno, PO Box 1500, El Reno, OK 73036, USA. Serv­ing one-year impris­on­ment after he informed peo­ple how to make an incen­di­ary device dur­ing a speech at an ani­mal rights gath­er­ing. (Meat eater).

Francesco Gioia, C.C. Sol­lic­ciano, Via Giro­lamo Min­ervi­ni 2/R, 50142 Firen­ze Sol­lic­ciano (FI), Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Francesco is a veg­e­tar­i­an and Straight Edge).

Pao­la Gori, Via delle Mac­chie 9, 57124 Livorno, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of allow­ing her house to be used to plan ille­gal activ­i­ty. (Pao­la is a veg­an).

Bryan Lefey #38664–086, FDC SeaT­ac, Fed­er­al Deten­tion Cen­ter, P.O. Box 13900, Seat­tle, WA 98198, USA. On remand accused of an ELF action that saw the dam­ag­ing of GM trees and the dam­ag­ing of US Forestry Ser­vice vehi­cles. (Diet unknown).

Jef­frey Luers, # 13797671, CRCI, 9111 NE Sun­der­land Ave, Port­land, OR 97211–1708, USA. Serv­ing 10 years for arson on a SUV deal­er­ship & the attempt­ed arson of an oil truck. The orig­i­nal sen­tence was 22 years & 8 months, but was reduced on appeal. (Diet unknown).

Marie Jeanette Mason, Neway­go Coun­ty Jail, PO Box 845, White Cloud, MI 49349, USA. Await­ing sen­tenc­ing hav­ing plead­ed guilty to involve­ment in ELF arson against a Uni­ver­si­ty build­ing car­ry­ing out Genet­i­cal­ly Mod­i­fied crop tests. Marie also plead­ed guilty to con­spir­ing to car­ry out ELF actions and also admit­ted involve­ment in 12 oth­er ELF actions. Marie is expect­ed to receive a sen­tence of between 15–20 years. (Marie is a veg­an).

Eric McDavid, 16209–097. FCI Vic­torville Medi­um II, PO BOX 5700, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing 19 years & 7 months for plan­ning to destroy the prop­er­ty of the U.S. Forestry Ser­vice, mobile phone masts and pow­er plants. At the point of his arrest no crim­i­nal dam­age has actu­al­ly occurred. (Eric is a veg­an).

Daniel McGowan, #63794–053, USP Mar­i­on, US Pen­i­ten­tiary, PO Box 1000, Mar­i­on, IL 62959, USA. Serv­ing 7 years for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an old growth log­ging cor­po­ra­tion. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Daniel is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Jonathan Paul — See details in Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers List.

Bri­ana Waters 36432–086, FCI Dan­bury, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, Route 37, Dan­bury, CT 06811, USA. Serv­ing six years for involve­ment in an ELF arson on a Uni­ver­si­ty. (Diet unknown).

Joy­an­na Zach­er, #36360–086, FCI Dublin, 5700 8th St.- Camp Parks- Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted her role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

ANIMAL LIBERATION PRISONERS
(All Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers fol­low a min­i­mum veg­e­tar­i­an diet and most are veg­an).

Jon Able­white TB4885, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion. (Jon is a veg­an).

Dan Amos VN7818, HMP Win­ches­ter, Rom­sey Road, Win­ches­ter SO22 5DF, Eng­land.
On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Dan is a veg­an)

Gregg Avery TA7450, HMP Win­ches­ter, Rom­sey Road, Win­ches­ter, SO22 5DF, Eng­land. On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Gregg is a veg­an).

Natasha Avery NR8987, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Nat is a veg­an).

Mel Broughton TN9138, HMP Wood­hill, Tat­ten­hoe Street, Mil­ton Keynes, Bucks MK4 4DA, Eng­land. On remand accused of involve­ment with an arson and black­mail cam­paign against an Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty vivi­sec­tion estab­lish­ment.
(Mel is a veg­an).

Jacob Con­roy #93501–011, FCI Vic­torville Medi­um I Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5300, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing 48 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Jake is a veg­an).

Don­ald Cur­rie A3660AA, HMP Parkhurst, New­port, Isle of Wight, PO30 5NX, Eng­land. Serv­ing an Inde­ter­mi­nate Sen­tence, of not less than six actu­al years, for car­ry­ing out arsons against tar­gets asso­ci­at­ed the vivi­sec­tion indus­try includ­ing HLS. (Don is a veg­an).

Lau­ren Gaz­zo­la #93497–011, FCI Dan­bury, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, Route #37Danbury, CT 06811, USA. Serv­ing 54 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Lau­ren is a veg­an).

Joshua Harp­er #29429–086, FCI Sheri­dan Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5000, Sheri­dan, OR 97378 USA. Serv­ing 36 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Josh is a veg­an).

Sean Kirt­ley WC 6977, HMP Stafford, 54 Gaol Road, Stafford, ST16 3AW, Eng­land. Serv­ing four and a half years for run­ning an anti-vivi­sec­tion cam­paign web­site. (Sean is a veg­an).

Kevin Kjon­aas #93502–011, FCI Sand­stone, PO Box 1000, Sand­stone, MN 55072 USA. Serv­ing 72 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Kevin is a veg­an).

Daniel McGowan — See details in Eco Defence Pris­on­ers List.

Heather Nichol­son VM4859, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. On remand accused of con­spir­a­cy to black­mail, in rela­tion to her involve­ment with the SHAC cam­paign. (Heather is a veg­an).

Jonathan Paul, #07167–085, FCI Phoenix, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA. Sen­tenced to 51 months for an ALF arson on a horse meat plant. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Jonathan is a veg­an).

John Smith, TB4887, HMP Lind­holme, Bawtry Road, Hat­field Wood­house, Don­cast­er, DN7 6EE, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion. (John is a veg­an).

Andrew Stepan­ian #26399–050, USP Mar­i­on, P.O. Box 1000 Mar­i­on, IL 62959, USA. Serv­ing 36 months for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Andrew is a veg­an).

Ker­ry Whit­burn TB4886, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion. (Ker­ry is a veg­an).

Sarah White­head, VM7684, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx, TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. Serv­ing two years for: 1) res­cu­ing a pup­py from hor­rif­ic con­di­tions. 2) res­cu­ing over 100 ani­mals from a pet breed­er who was lat­er pros­e­cut­ed for ani­mal abuse. Also await­ing tri­al for SHAC activ­i­ty. (Sarah is a veg­an)

PLOUGHSHARES PRISONERS

Helen Wood­son, 03231–045, FMC Car­swell — Admin. Max. Unit, POB 27137, Ft. Worth, TX 76127, USA. Serv­ing 8 years 10 months for actions that focused on the inter­re­la­tion­ship of war & the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al world. The actions includ­ed pour­ing red paint over the secu­ri­ty desk of a fed­er­al court and mak­ing threat­en­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Pre­vi­ous­ly Helen had served 20½ years for: 1) Using a ham­mer to dis­arm a nuclear mis­sile silo. 2) Burn­ing $25,000 on the floor of a bank whilst denounc­ing war, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion & eco­nom­ic injus­tice. 3) Mail­ing warn­ing let­ters with bul­lets attached to Gov­ern­ment & cor­po­rate offi­cials. (Diet unknown).

THE LECCE DEFENDANTS
The Lec­ce Defen­dants have been charged with “sub­ver­sive asso­ci­a­tion” accused of dam­ag­ing Esso petrol pumps to oppose the War on Iraq; sab­o­tag­ing the cash machines of a bank which funds an immi­gra­tion cen­tre; and tar­get­ing the multi­na­tion­al com­pa­ny Benet­ton in sup­port of Mapuche land rights activists in Chile. All of the defen­dants are cur­rent­ly either under house arrest or released on bail.

ANTIFA PRISONERS

Vah­tang Devitlidze, ul. Libbedo­va 42, UO 68/2, otryad 14, briga­da 142, g. Hagyshen­sk, Krasnodarskiy Kray, 352680 Rus­sia. Serv­ing 2½ years for stab­bing a neo-nazi in the leg whilst defend­ing him­self from attack. (Diet unknown).

Fabio Milan, C.C. via Pianez­za 300, 10151 Tori­no, Italy. On remand accused of fight­ing with the police after an anti-fas­cist protest. (Diet unknown).

Andrea Neff, Bnr: 746/07/2, Jus­tizvol­lzugsanstalt fur Frauen in Berlin, Arkonas­trasse 56, 13189 Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 14 months for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ty. (Diet unknown).

Chris­t­ian Süm­mer­mann, Bnr: 441/08/5, JVA Plötzensee, Lehrter­str. 61, 10557
Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 40 months for breach­ing the peace whilst serv­ing a sus­pend­ed sen­tence issued for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ties. (Diet unknown).

Tomasz Wiloszews­ki, Zak­lad Karny, Orze­chowa 5, 98–200 Sier­adz, Poland.
Serv­ing 15 years for acci­den­tal­ly killing a neo-nazi whilst defend­ing him­self. (Tomasz is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Yuri Yure­vich Milevskiy, SIZO #7 kam­era 38, g. Brest, ul. Kar­la Mark­sa 86, 224000 Belarus. On remand for fight­ing with neo-nazis. (Diet unknown).

OTHER PRISONERS

Olga Alek­san­drov­na Nevskaya, UU163/5, 7 Otryad, pos. Dzerzhin­skiy, Mozhaysk 140090 Moskovskaya oblast, Rus­sia. Eco-activist serv­ing 6 years for arson, crim­i­nal dam­age and caus­ing explo­sions in protest at the war in Chech­nya. Due for release in 2009. (Diet unknown).

Vagge­lis Botzatzis, Komo­ti­ni Juridi­cal Prison (“Dikastikes Fylakes Komo­ti­nis”), T.K. 69100, Greece. On remand accused of set­ting fire to two com­pa­ny cars owned by a energy/power com­pa­ny. It is believed that the per­son or per­sons unknown who car­ried out the arson did so in protest at the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment and in sup­port of two work­ers who died at the pow­er plant. Vagge­lis is also accused of set­ting fire to a bank and start­ing a fire inside a car yard. (Meat Eater).

Richard Sills (Address Unknown, USA). Serv­ing 15 months for bomb hoax­ing a Uni­ver­si­ty say­ing they would be tar­get­ed by the ALF if they didn’t stop their ani­mal exper­i­ments. (Diet unknown).

Michael W. Sykes, 696693, 3855 Coop­er St, Jack­son, MI 49201, USA. Youth held on remand accused of anti-sprawl arsons, crim­i­nal dam­age, spray-paint­ing an anar­chist sign and burn­ing the Amer­i­can flag. (Diet unknown)

Fran Thomp­son, #1090915 HU 1C, WERDCC, PO Box 300, Van­dalia, MO 63382, USA. Serv­ing Life for killing, in self-defence, a stalk­er who had bro­ken into her home. Before her impris­on­ment Fran was an eco, ani­mal & anti-nuke cam­paign­er. (Fran is a veg­an).

MOVE

MOVE is an eco-rev­o­lu­tion­ary group who car­ried out protests in defence of all life. All move pris­on­ers describe them­selves as veg­e­tar­i­ans. There are cur­rent­ly eight MOVE activists in prison each serv­ing 100 years after been framed for the mur­der of a cop in 1979. 9th defen­dant, Mer­le Africa, died in prison in 1998.

Deb­bie Simms Africa (006307), Janet Hol­loway Africa (006308) and Janine Philips Africa (006309) all at: SCI Cam­bridge Springs, 451 Fuller­ton Ave, Cam­bridge Springs, PA 16403–1238, USA.

Michael Davis Africa (AM4973) and Charles Simms Africa (AM4975) both at SCI Grater­ford, PO Box 244, Grater­ford, PA 19426–0244, USA.

Edward Good­man Africa (AM4974), SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Rd, Frackville, PA 17932, USA.

William Philips Africa (AM4984) and Del­bert Orr Africa (AM4985) both at SCI Dal­las Draw­er K, Dal­las, PA 18612, USA.

Mumia Abu Jamal, (AM8335), SCI Greene, 175 Progress Dri­ve, Way­nes­burg PA 15370, USA. In 1981 Mumia, for­mer Black Pan­ther and vocal sup­port­er of MOVE, was framed for the mur­der of a cop. He was orig­i­nal­ly sen­tenced to death but is cur­rent­ly await­ing re-sen­tenc­ing fol­low­ing a court hear­ing in 2001.

STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE
Some peo­ple list­ed in this newslet­ter have car­ried out vio­lent actions. ‘Spir­it of Free­dom’ does not con­done vio­lence. But we are also against cen­sor­ship & believe peo­ple can decide for them­selves who they wish to sup­port.

ABOUT E.L.P. SUPPORT NETWORK
ELP is an inter­na­tion­al eco-pris­on­er sup­port net­work found­ed, in Britain, in 1993 to sup­port jailed eco-activists. We sup­port the pris­on­ers by pro­duc­ing var­i­ous reg­u­lar pris­on­er lists:

Spir­it of Free­dom is ELP’s inter­na­tion­al month­ly pris­on­er list­ing which is cir­cu­lat­ed by e‑mail.

Urgent ELP! Bul­letin is an e‑mail ser­vice that dis­trib­utes the names of any new eco-pris­on­er as soon as ELP gets their details. For more info e‑mail ELP4321@hotmail.com

On-Line Newslet­ters — ELP has a num­ber of web­sites that pro­vide news, pris­on­er lists and addi­tion­al info about ELP & the pris­on­ers.

Eng­lish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Greek lan­guage ELP Web­site
http://greekelp.blogspot.com

North Amer­i­can ELP Web­site
www.ecoprisoners.org

Turk­ish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.geocities.com/yesilanarsi/elp.htm

ELP Extra is an e‑mail group that cir­cu­lates the details of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, ELP learns about, who do not fall with­in the remit for sup­port by ELP. To sub­scribe to the list e‑mail ELP4321@Hotmail.com

Aus­tralian ELP.SN is our Aus­tralian con­tact. For more info e‑mail elp4321@hotmail.com

Bel­gium ELP.SN is our Bel­gium con­tact. For more info e‑mail elp_bel@hotmail.com

Ger­man ELP.SN is a pris­on­er led ini­tia­tive run by eco-pris­on­er Mar­co Camenisch. For more info con­tact Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land.

Greek ELP.SN is our Greek con­tact. For more info e‑mail greekelp@yahoo.gr

North Amer­i­can ELP is our North Amer­i­can con­tact. For more infor­ma­tion e‑mail naelpsn@mutualaid.org

Turkey ELP.SN is our Turk­ish con­tact. For more info e‑mail
yesilanarsi@yahoo.com

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers Sup­port Net­work
elp4321@hotmail.com
http://spiritoffreedom.org.uk

nuclear protester in court .so early protest to support comrades rolls royce trident anti nuclear protest

mon­day 20/10/08
our com­rades are in court .they used lock­ins /outside rolls royce nuclear plant rayesway der­by .due in court 20/10/08 sup­port them and come to ear­ly morn­ing prottest

Derby Trident red linemon­day 20/10/08
our com­rades are in court .they used lock­ins /outside rolls royce nuclear plant rayesway der­by .due in court 20/10/08 sup­port them and come to ear­ly morn­ing prottest

our com­rades are in court /for cross­ing the so called gov­er­ment red lines .they were locked in con­crete blocks .it took police 4 hours to free them ./.on the tar­mac out­side ro;;s royce are red lines .the tar­mac is pro­vid­ed out of ratepay­ers mon­ey .not r,r .if you cross it it is ile­gal .when tak­ing a dri­ving test .does the high­way code men­tion red lines .how many peo­ple in the street know what they are for./ /the ille­gal tri­dent weapons banned by the un .but as usu­al not america.are stored ura­ni­am .as more close by is b.o.c thet store gas­es in bot­tles calor oxy­gen aceya­line propane all lethal to bomb mak­ers .1000 yards away is celanese chem­i­cal and acatate plant /so many dan­ger­ous chem­i­cals on premis­es there is a ben­zene tank .acatate acids stuff ive not heard off .there have been many fires and expol­sions ‚the last one /the ben­zene tank .,22 fire engines and specail units .a 7 hour bat­tle they claimed was a over­heat­ed valve /yet they sealed spon­don off /this fac­to­ry was on the i.r.a list /.and oth­er ter­ror groups .all 3 premis­es can be got in with ease .secu­ri­ty is poor .all are in flood plains and get­ting worse as new build­ings go up so come alng and sup­port .the prottest on the 20/10/08 /. pick­up points der­by sta­toin ./spondon sta­tion .safe park­ing pri­vat land .trans­port each way /pete 07727226032 /email tigger1946@fsmail.net

Aldermaston Big Blockade October 27 & Oct. 4th: “No Missile Defence at Menwith Hill & Derby Trident 22nd September

Help dis­rupt ille­gal work on WMD at Britain’s nuclear bomb fac­to­ry

Help dis­rupt ille­gal work on WMD at Britain’s nuclear bomb fac­to­ry

In 2006/7, Faslane 365 saw well over 1000 arrests dur­ing a year-long block­ade of the Tri­dent sub­ma­rine base in Scot­land . Last East­er, AWE Alder­mas­ton saw its biggest demon­stra­tion in two decades as 5000 peo­ple sur­round­ed the base to mark the 50th anniver­sary of the first Alder­mas­ton march. Tri­dent Ploughshares now invite you to a major block­ade of the Berk­shire nuke fac­to­ry, where bil­lions of pounds are cur­rent­ly being spent devel­op­ing new war­head facil­i­ties that will scup­per nuclear dis­ar­ma­ment for anoth­er 50 years. Help us uphold inter­na­tion­al law by blockad­ing this fac­to­ry of death in what promis­es to be a colour­ful cel­e­bra­tion of life and peo­ple pow­er. There is a role for every­one. This event is sup­port­ed by CND.

For fur­ther details, see:
http://blockawe.blogspot.com
and
http://www.tridentploughshares.org

Tri­dent Ploughshares is a cam­paign to dis­arm the UK Tri­dent nuclear weapons sys­tem in a non-vio­lent, open, peace­ful and ful­ly account­able man­ner.

“Non-vio­lence is stronger than any weapon. If human­i­ty does not end the atom bomb I do not think the human species can last.” — Gand­hi, speak­ing on the day of his assas­si­na­tion

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There will be a week­end work­shop of Tri­dent Ploughshares non­vi­o­lence train­ing, focussing on prepa­ra­tion for the Octo­ber 27 Alder­mas­ton Big Block­ade at Waltham­stow Friend’s Meet­ing House, 1a Jew­el Road, off Hoe Street, Waltham­stow, Lon­don E17 4QU on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day 20th and 21st Sep­tem­ber.

The full week­end is pri­mar­i­ly for peo­ple think­ing of becom­ing mem­bers of Tri­dent Ploughshares and mak­ing an ongo­ing com­mit­ment. Peo­ple just wish­ing to pre­pare for the block­ade are wel­come to attend for the full week­end, but may also choose to attend on the SATURDAY ONLY.
There is no charge for the work­shop, but par­tic­i­pants are asked to con­tribute towards expens­es if they are able to.

Con­tact Ali­son to reg­is­ter and for more details:
E‑mail: alison.crane [at] ntlworld.com
Tel: 01785 611 768 or 0845 4588 362 or 07886 972 319

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Show your strength of feel­ing against Amer­i­can Mis­sile Defense by com­ing to Men­with Hill near Har­ro­gate. This US sys­tem, which Brown qui­et­ly said yes to in 2007, is mak­ing huge waves in East­ern Europe: Poland has agreed to mis­siles and the Czech Repub­lic, despite a major­i­ty of its peo­ple against, has agreed to the US radar com­po­nent for MD. Rus­sia is already com­par­ing these plans to the Cuban Mis­sile Cri­sis…

CAAB holds an annu­al July 4th protest: Inde­pen­dence FROM Amer­i­ca, and an autumn protest: Keep Space for Peace week. We also have week­ly protests on Tues­day nights and have clocked up hun­dreds of arrests over the years!

START = This time we start in Ket­tlesing Lay­by HG3 2LP (oppo­site the Black Bull on the A59). TIME = 12 noon til 5‑ish.

*** SO WHOSE COMING TO THIS IMPORTANT DEMONSTRATION ? (APART FROM LOTS OF PEOPLE !!!)

Musi­cians = * Lion Sound * Local group * Karl Dal­las * Ylem www.myspace.com/ylemfolk * Mon­key Wrenchers * Peace Artistes www.peaceartistes.org.uk

Speak­ers = Col­in Challen (Labour MP Mor­ley and Roth­well)

Rebec­ca John­son (Acronym Insti­tute for Dis­ar­ma­ment Diplo­ma­cy)

Food = Lunch O’Lils

.……and much more

Have fun! Bring your friends!

http://www.caab.org.uk/

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tri­dent nuclear protest rolls royce raynesway der­by 10.am 22/9/08

hope you’ll join us bring musi­cal instru­ments or cir­cus acts wel­come a611 der­by ring road nuclear plant demo

month­ly anti nuclear .demo 10.am mon­day 22/9/18 hope you’ll all come rolls royce make parts for tri­dent nuclear weapons 4 mass destruc­tion used in wars this is ille­gal ..any per­son wish­ing to come to this worth­while cause are more than wel­come .we need musi­cians cir­cus acts .anti nuclear ban­ners, rolls royce keep ura­ni­um tita­ni­un and many more sub­stances con­nect­ed with the man­u­fac­ture of weapons off mass destruc­tion .we believe also the swans on the riv­er at rear are car­ry­ing radio active traces from cool­ing process from reac­tors i live a mile away .my fish­ponds loose oxy­gen through acid rain either from celanese chem­i­cal plant or rolls royce .the area sur­round­ing these to plants have the high­est leukemia deaths in the uk .why ..its not uncom­mon for me to find wildlife dying in this ares why i myself feed all wildlife .i boast the most birds in my gar­den in area .then next minute they die ..defra claim it is legal for these indus­tries to poi­son ani­mals / to stop them get­ting in to what they pro­duce .celanese make cig­a­rette tips .which help kill man any way .so why kill wildlife ..when the things they go in destroy life any­way .mon­ey mon­ey mon­ey and wealth .any per­son trav­el­ling .can get off the train at spon­don sta­tion .1 mile away and get picked up /or even der­by sta­tion . i’ve a 7 seater .or if trav­el­ling by car .park in my pri­vate lane out of police view ill run you down post­code de21 7bs .email tigger1946@fsmail.net .or 07727226032

Devonport submarine base blockaded by Trident Ploughshares, one arrest

Around thir­teen activists from anti-nuclear direct action group Tri­dent Ploughshares took the police by sur­prise when they block­ad­ed Devon­port naval dock­yard, near the cen­tre of Ply­mouth, in the ear­ly hours of Fri­day, 22 August, 2008. One man was arrest­ed. The Roy­al Navy base is used to refit nuclear sub­marines, includ­ing the Tri­dent nuclear mis­sile-car­ry­ing Van­guard fleet based at Faslane, Scot­land.

Devonport anti-nuke lock-onDevonport anti-nuke ladder blockadeAround thir­teen activists from anti-nuclear direct action group Tri­dent Ploughshares took the police by sur­prise when they block­ad­ed Devon­port naval dock­yard, near the cen­tre of Ply­mouth, in the ear­ly hours of Fri­day, 22 August, 2008. One man was arrest­ed. The Roy­al Navy base is used to refit nuclear sub­marines, includ­ing the Tri­dent nuclear mis­sile-car­ry­ing Van­guard fleet based at Faslane, Scot­land.

The block­aders, main­ly from the local Tamar­i­an affin­i­ty group and the Lon­don-based Muriel Lesters, obstruct­ed the main access road into the site at Camel’s Head. Dock­yard work­ers arriv­ing in vehi­cles were pre­vent­ed from enter­ing for half an hour, from around 7.30am on the last work­ing day before the Bank Hol­i­day week­end. The activists used two long met­al lad­ders, a lock-on tube with a chain attached, bicy­cle chains, a wheel­chair and their bod­ies to com­plete­ly block the incom­ing car­riage­way.

Police even­tu­al­ly arrived and had to divert traf­fic for a fur­ther hour, until the police cut­ting team final­ly arrived. At this point, the block­aders and their sup­port­ers agreed to leave, giv­en that most work­ers had already entered the base. They were able to keep all their ban­ners, lad­ders and oth­er blockad­ing equip­ment.

After releas­ing him­self from an arm lock-on tube (which had been passed through one lad­der and also chained to the cen­tral crash bar­ri­er), Daniel Vies­nik, 33, from Lon­don got up and then lay down again on the red line mark­ing the lim­it of the Min­istry of Defence prop­er­ty. He was sub­se­quent­ly joined by Irene Willis. After ignor­ing police requests to move, Mr Vies­nik was arrest­ed and car­ried away to a van. He was tak­en to Charles Cross police sta­tion and held for around three hours before being charged with obstruc­tion of the high­way and released. He was bailed to appear before Ply­mouth Mag­is­trates’ on 5th Sep­tem­ber.

Devonport anti-nuke die-inOn Sat­ur­day morn­ing, the group tied anti-Tri­dent ban­ners to promi­nent bridges and round­abouts on roads going into Ply­mouth. Lat­er, in the city cen­tre, they dressed them­selves in white ‘radi­a­tion suits’ and some of them attract­ed the atten­tion of passers-by with a ‘die-in’, their ‘corpses’ sprin­kled with ‘nuclear fall­out’ ash. Oth­ers leaflet­ed shop­pers and engaged inter­est­ed locals and sol­diers from the near­by Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Army cen­tre in dia­logue about the nuclear men­ace on their doorstep and pro­pos­als to turn the site into a nuclear sub­ma­rine grave­yard.

One of the block­aders said, “Plans to replace or upgrade the Tri­dent sys­tem con­tra­vene our inter­na­tion­al treaty oblig­a­tions, which is hyp­o­crit­i­cal and ille­gal. We would like to see the British gov­ern­ment lead by exam­ple in push­ing for glob­al abo­li­tion of nuclear weapons and stop wast­ing bil­lions of pounds of pub­lic mon­ey on these instru­ments of mass mur­der. Local work­ers should be retrained to use their skills for more peace­ful pur­pos­es.”

Fri­day’s block­ade was the top sto­ry report­ed on local BBC TV news and was also cov­ered by local ITV news, local radio and the Ply­mouth Her­ald news­pa­per.

Tri­dent Ploughshares is com­mit­ted to dis­arm­ing the UK Tri­dent nuclear weapons sys­tem in a non-vio­lent, open, peace­ful and ful­ly account­able man­ner.
The group is organ­is­ing a Big Block­ade at Alder­mas­ton, Berk­shire – Britain’s nuclear bomb fac­to­ry – sup­port­ed by the Cam­paign for Nuclear Dis­ar­ma­ment (CND), on Mon­day, 27 Octo­ber, meet­ing on 26 Octo­ber. Check the Tri­dent Ploughshares web­site for fur­ther details and to request a brief­ing pack. Arrestable block­aders and non-arrestable sup­port­ers are need­ed. There will be a week­end of non-vio­lent direct action train­ing in prepa­ra­tion for this action on 20–21 Sep­tem­ber in Lon­don. New­com­ers are warm­ly invit­ed to attend (it is also pos­si­ble to attend the train­ing just for one day).

Main­stream media cov­er­age of Devon­port block­ade:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7576964.stm (video)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7576219.stm
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Nuclear-protest-dockyard/article-283835-detail/article.html

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Non-vio­lence train­ing work­shop 20–21 Sep­tem­ber

There will be a week­end work­shop of Tri­dent Ploughshares non­vi­o­lence
train­ing, focussing on prepa­ra­tion for the Octo­ber 27 Alder­mas­ton Big Block­ade at Waltham­stow Friend’s Meet­ing House, 1a Jew­el Road, off Hoe Street, Waltham­stow, Lon­don E17 4QU on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day 20th and 21st Sep­tem­ber.

The full week­end is pri­mar­i­ly for peo­ple think­ing of becom­ing mem­bers of Tri­dent Ploughshares and mak­ing an ongo­ing com­mit­ment. Peo­ple just wish­ing to pre­pare for the block­ade are wel­come to attend for the full week­end, but may also choose to attend on the Sat­ur­day only.

There is no charge for the work­shop, but par­tic­i­pants are asked to con­tribute towards expens­es if they are able to.

Con­tact Ali­son to reg­is­ter and for more details:
E‑mail: alison.crane [at] ntlworld.com
Tel: 01785 611 768 or 0845 4588 362 or 07886 972 319

Repression of Ecotopia camp & 30 arrested at die-in in Turkey

Urgent call for sol­i­dar­i­ty, please for­ward wýde­ly

Shock­ing repres­sion in Turkey!

Don't nuke the climate bannerUrgent call for sol­i­dar­i­ty, please for­ward wýde­ly

Shock­ing repres­sion in Turkey!

Greens, envi­ron­men­tal­ists, peace and nature sup­port­ers, and NGO’s from all over the World gath­ered on the 9th of August to join the 20th inter­na­tion­al Eco­topia gath­er­ing being held at Sarikum nature reserve in Sinop, Turkey. Eco­topia gath­er­ings pro­mote sus­tain­able ways of liv­ing, har­mo­ny with nature, and dis­cuss social jus­tice issues. This year, Eco­topia has sup­port­ed local anti-nuclear groups, raised con­scious­ness of nuclear issues and pro­mot­ed alter­na­tive ener­gy sources. How­ev­er, for the last week, local police have been exert­ing supres­sion on the camp by mak­ing reg­u­lar vis­its, and fol­low­ing and intim­i­dat­ing par­tic­i­pants out­side of the camp.

On Wednes­day 20th August, 6 inter­na­tion­als and 5 Turk­ish peo­ple were placed under cus­tody while stag­ing a peace­ful vig­il out­side the Atom­ic Ener­gy Agency (TAEK) in Sinop. Police have also shown supres­sion towards locals of Gerze town who approached the Eco­topia camp to request sol­i­dar­i­ty against the Ther­mal Coal Plant planned for con­struc­tion in their town. Today, the 22nd August, approx­i­mate­ly 10 armed offi­cers, ordered by the gov­er­nor of Sinop, raid­ed the Eco­topia camp to threat­en force­ful evic­tion if the sýte was not emp­tied with­in 3 hours. In sum­ma­ry, 2 days before our legal per­mit for he site ends, it has been force­ful­ly demand­ed that we shut down activ­i­ties imme­di­ate­ly.

In Turkey, where democ­ra­cy is regress­ing, the author­i­ties do not tol­er­ate the advo­ca­cy of their peo­ple to lýve a safe, sus­tain­able and healthy life. In addi­tion, author­i­ties in the Turk­ish state and Sinop (where it it planned to build one nuclear tech­nol­o­gy cen­tre and 3 Ther­mal Coal plants) are dýs­turbed by the increas­ing local atten­tion on these projects, and are reluc­tant to allow peo­ple’s aware­ness and knowl­edge to grow inde­pen­dent­ly. As par­tic­i­pants rep­re­sent­ing more than 30 coun­tries, we are ask­ing for your sol­i­dar­i­ty, and request you to send the fol­low­ing text to the Turk­ish author­i­ties using the con­tact infor­ma­tion giv­en below.

For a nuclear-free world and a more demo­c­ra­t­ic Turkey, let’s block the phones and fax­es of the Turk­ish author­i­ties!

Eco­topia 2008 par­tic­i­pants

EYFA (Euro­pean Youth For Action)

SINYAD (Sinop Nük­leer­siz Kent ve Yaþam Derneði)

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To whom it may con­cern,

We have been informed that the Eco­topia meet­ing being held at Sarikum nature reserve in Sinop, which was announced and received approval of its per­mit many months ago, is now under­go­ing a peri­od of intense police sup­pres­sion. This event is legit­i­mate and legal, and we are demand­ing that the pres­sure is released. We will keep our­selves informed on how this sit­u­a­tion devel­ops and will fol­low up on this request if nec­es­sary.

Name/organization:

Coun­try:

Sig­na­ture:

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CONTACTS:

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ýçiþ­leri Bakan­lýðý (Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs)
Tele­fon: +90 (312 )425 72 14
Fax: + 90 (312) 418 12 60
e‑mail: basin@icisleri.gov.tr

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Sinop Valil­iði ( Gov­ern­er­ship of Sinop)
Tel : 0(368) 261 15 00 -
Fax: 0368 261 15 02 — 261 55 05 -
e‑mail: valilik@sinop.gov.tr, webmaster@sinop.gov.tr

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LÜTFEN ÇEVRENÝZE DAÐITINIZ…

Acil Dayanýþ­ma Çaðrýsý – 22 Aðus­tos 2008, Sinop

Dünyanýn dört bir yanýn­dan yeþiller, çevre­cil­er, doða ve barýþ yan­lýlarý ve çeþitli örgütler olarak bu yýl 20.‘si yapýlan “Ulus­lararasý Eko­topya Buluþma“mýzý gerçek­leþtirmek üzere 9 Aðus­tos’­ta Sinop Sarýkum’­da top­landýk. Bu yýl Eko­topy­a’nýn amacý yer­el anti-nük­leer guru­plar­la dayanýþ­ma saðla­mak, yenilenebilir ener­ji kay­naklarý ve sosyal adalet konu­larý üzerinde bil­inç art­týr­mak­tý. Bu etkin­lik doðay­la uyum­lu ve sürdüre­bilir bir yaþam hay­al­im­izi kýsacasý ‘eko­topy­amýzý’ kamp deney­im­imizde somut­laþtýrdýðýmýz, ekolo­jik bir yaþamýn mümkün olduðunu gördüðümüz, gös­ter­diðimiz, her katýlanýn evine bam­baþ­ka biri olarak döndüðü, her sene tekrar­lanan 15 gün­lük ortak düþümüz, ütopy­amýzdý. Ancak özel­lik­le son bir haf­tadýr aralýk­sýz devam eden polis ve jan­dar­ma baskýsý bu düþü bir kabusa çevir­di.

Önce, Sinop’­ta­ki Türkiye Atom Ener­jisi Kuru­mu (TAEK) önünde 20 Agus­tos Çarþam­ba günü nük­leer ener­jiyle ilgili olarak hak­lý bil­gilendirmek amacýy­la yap­týðýmýz barýþçýl bir eylem sýrasýn­da 6 yabancý uyruk­lu, 5 TC vatan­daþý, 11 arkadaþýmýz gözaltý­na alýndý. Ardýn­dan bizlere destek olmak için gelen ve yaþadýk­larý bölgede kurul­masý düþünülen ter­mik santrale karþý ses­leri­ni daha fazla duyura­bilmek için bizler­den destek bekleyen Gerze halký sadece biz­im­le görüþtüðü için jan­dar­manýn baskýlarý­na maruz kaldý. Son olarak da bugün bölge jan­dar­masýn­dan gelen yak­laþýk on kiþi­lik grup, hemen kamp alanýný terk etmem­iz gerek­tiði­ni, aksi halde zor kul­la­narak kam­pý daðý­ta­cak­larýný söyledil­er. Öze­tle izn­i­mizin bitme­sine iki gün kala etkin­liðimiz tehditler­le engel­len­m­eye çalýþýl­mak­tadýr.

Demokrasinin giderek ger­ilediði Türkiye’de, bugün otoritelerin artýk yaþamýn savunul­masý­na dahi taham­mülü kalmamýþtýr. Yine görülmek­te­dir ki üç ter­mik ve bir nük­leer teknolo­ji merkezi kurul­masý plan­lanan Sinop’­ta etk­ili güçler ve TC devleti Sinop halkýnýn uyanýþýn­dan ve fes­ti­val­im­ize giderek artan ilgisin­den rahat­sýz olmak­tadýr. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti hiçbir biçimde örgütlü ve bil­inçli bir toplum iste­memek­te, giderek bir polis devle­tine dönüþmek­te­dir. Yak­laþýk 30 ülke­den Eko­topy­a’nýn katýlým­cýsý bireyler olarak bizler, bu baskýlarýn giderek art­masýn­dan endiþe duyuy­oruz.

Siz­leri de aþaðý­da­ki hazýr met­ni kuru­munuz ya da ken­di­niz adý­na, iletiþim bil­gi­leri­ni verdiðimiz Türk kurum­larý­na gön­der­erek biz­im­le dayanýþ­maya çaðýrýy­oruz.

Dünyamýzýn gele­ceði ve daha özgür bir Türkiye için bakan­lýðýn ve Sinop valil­iðinin fak­slarýný kil­itleye­lim!

Eko­topya 2008 Katýlým­cýlarý

EYFA (Euro­pean Youth For Action)

SÝNYAD (Sinop Nük­leer­siz Kent ve Yaþam Derneði)

Sayýn Yetk­ili;

Aylar öncesin­den Türk otoriteler­ine ve Sinop Halký­na duyu­ru­lan “Eko­topya Buluþ­masýnýn” Jan­dar­ma baskýsýy­la engel­len­mek istendiði­ni haber almýþ bulun­mak­tayýz. Bütünüyle yasal ve meþru olan etkin­lik üzerinde­ki baskýlarýn ortadan kalk­masýný talep ediy­oruz. Aksi halde ulusal ve ulus­lararasý kamuoyu olarak olayýn takipçisi ola­caðýmýzý bildirmek ister­iz.

Ýsim / Kurum :

Ülke:

Ýmza:

ÝLETÝÞÝM BÝLGÝLERÝ:

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ýçiþ­leri Bakan­lýðý:
Tele­fon: +90 (312 )425 72 14
Faks: + 90 (312) 418 12 60
E‑posta: basin@icisleri.gov.tr

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Sinop Valil­iði
Tel : 0(368) 261 15 00 -
Faks: 0368 261 15 02 — 261 55 05 -
e‑posta: valilik@sinop.gov.tr , webmaster@sinop.gov.tr

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30 arrest­ed at die-in dur­ing envi­ron­men­tal gath­er­ing Eco­topia in Turkey

Sinop (Turkey), 23rd of August. This after­noon, Turk­ish police arrest­ed 30 for­eign­ers from at least 18 coun­tries and 3 Turk­ish cit­i­zens who took part in a peace­ful “die-in” action in front of the Sinop province Governor‘s res­i­dence in Sinop.

On request of the Ger­man Embassy the Sinop Police Head­quar­ters claimed that nobody was tak­en under cus­tody.

The protests are direct­ed against the plans to build a Nuclear Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre in the Sinop region. Par­tic­i­pants are mem­bers of envi­ron­men­tal­ist move­ments world­wide. They want to draw atten­tion to the fact that nuclear ener­gy is dan­ger­ous, pol­lut­ing and expen­sive. Instead of invest­ing in nuclear tech­nol­o­gy, Turkey should use its great poten­tial for solar and wind pow­er, as well as increas­ing ener­gy effi­cien­cy.

“The Turk­ish state seems to be very afraid of their cit­i­zens learn­ing how dan­ger­ous nuclear pow­er is. That is why author­i­ties do not tol­er­ate any protest, espe­cial­ly when for­eign­ers are involved. We are seri­ous­ly con­cerned about the denial of free­dom of speech in Turkey.”, says Niklas Hart­mann from Ger­many.

The action took place while the camp is under threat of evic­tion.

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24.8.2008
22:54h.
The 32 arrest­ed peo­ple are sit­ting at the police sta­tion still. There is no offi­cial state­ment of arrest or cus­tody. When embassies asked for infor­ma­tion on arrestants police actu­al­ly denied to have tak­en peo­ple into cus­tody(…).
The group has been split into small­er groups and tak­en to hos­pi­tal for the com­pul­so­ry check on tor­ture and is now back at the sta­tion. They have been refused access to their lawyer, a cer­ti­fied trans­la­tor and to con­tact their embassy and even access to food and water.
Rumours have it that our lawyer was told by the police that peo­ple did­n’t want to see him.

Peo­ple have been asked to sign papers in Turk­ish with­out trans­la­tion. Before the promised release they will have to see a pros­e­cu­tor, even though they are not for­mal­ly arrest­ed.

23.20h: first group of 6 peo­ple got released, prob­a­bly because they signed the papers. We’ll deal with it now.

To be con­tin­ued…

01:25h.
Every­body fol­lowed by under­cov­er police all the time. Sev­er­al peo­ple picked from the street that had noth­ing to do with the action! Final­ly, nobody has seen the pros­e­cuter, but every­body out now. Police want­ed to deport us from town back to camp site before every­body was released. Sit­u­a­tion was real­ly threat­en­ing. Peo­ple now stay­ing with trade unions. More tomor­row.

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[press release] Police threat­ens Eco­topia camp in Turkey with evic­tion

23.8.2008
In the moment, the par­tic­i­pants of the 20th Eco­topia inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal­ist gath­er­ing at Sarikum nature reserve, Sinop, on the Turk­ish Black Sea coast, are await­ing and prepar­ing for force­ful evic­tion of their camp site by the Jan­dar­ma (Turk­ish Police), which are already present with under­cov­er agents and sev­er­al cars. The 70 par­tic­i­pants from over 30 coun­tries will peace­ful­ly resist this unjus­ti­fied raid. The off­i­cal rea­son for the announced evic­tion was the announce­ment of the inten­tion to take part in the week­ly per­mit­ted press con­fer­ence of the local anti-nuclear ini­tia­tive SÝNYAD (Sinop Nük­leer­siz Kent ve Yaþam Derneði).

Approx­i­mate­ly 10 armed offi­cers, ordered by the gov­er­nor of Sinop, had already raid­ed the camp on Fri­day to threat­en force­ful evic­tion if the site was not emp­tied with­in 3 hours. Lat­er, this dead­line was post­poned to the next morn­ing. Two days before, six par­tic­i­pants of the camp togeth­er with local activists were arrest­ed dur­ing an action in front of the office of the Turk­ish Nuclear Ener­gy Agency (TAEK) in Sinop. After only ten min­utes of spread­ing fly­ers and hold­ing a ban­ner, they were phys­i­cal­ly aggressed by under­cov­er police with­out any pri­or warn­ing. They were held in a police sta­tion for sev­er­al hours and fined for not obey­ing police orders. Police have also shown supres­sion towards locals of Gerze town who approached the Eco­topia gath­er­ing to request sol­i­dar­i­ty against the Ther­mal Coal Plant planned for con­struc­tion in their town.

“We are shocked by the behav­iour of the police and local author­i­ties who did not allow any peace­ful protest to hap­pen. They have also been con­stant­ly threat­en­ing par­tic­i­pants of the camp and deny­ing them, as well as locals, the right to pub­li­cal­ly express their opin­ion. Now they have can­celled the camp just because we announced that we would like to take part in an offi­cial­ly per­mit­ted anti-nuclear protest. This is not what we con­sid­er to be free­dom of speech! ”, says Lenka Kukuro­va, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Euro­pean Youth for Action (EYFA), the net­work that sup­ports the Eco­topia gath­er­ings.

The protests are direct­ed against the plans to build a Nuclear Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre in the Sinop region. The 20th inter­na­tion­al Eco­topia gath­er­ing is tak­ing place in Turkey this year, to sup­port local move­ments to keep Turkey free of nuclear pow­er. Par­tic­i­pants of the camp are mem­bers of envi­ron­men­tal­ist move­ments world­wide. They want to draw atten­tion to the fact that nuclear ener­gy is dan­ger­ous, pol­lut­ing and expen­sive. Instead of invest­ing in nuclear tech­nol­o­gy, Turkey should use its great poten­tial for solar and wind pow­er, as well as increas­ing ener­gy effi­cien­cy.

For back­ground info:
http://ecotopiagathering.org
http://www.eyfa.org

Earth First! gathering — programme and travel directions

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise
27 Aug — 1 Sept 2008, Nor­folk
Join us for 5 days of work­shops and plan­ning actions

Trav­el direc­tions:

Earth First! Gathering 2008 - print sizeEarth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise
27 Aug — 1 Sept 2008, Nor­folk
Join us for 5 days of work­shops and plan­ning actions

Trav­el direc­tions:
The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Woolsey­bridge Farm — a love­ly site in Nor­folk with lots of trees and a lit­tle stream. It’s approx­i­mate­ly 1.5 miles NNE of Diss. Diss has reg­u­lar train ser­vices and a whole­food shop. The Grid Ref­er­ence of the site is TM130819. The post code is IP22 5SY.

The site is eas­i­ly acces­si­ble by pub­lic trans­port, you can get the train either to Diss or Nor­wich and then catch the bus route no 1 (Sim­monds) from Diss to Nor­wich or vice ver­sa — this route goes right past the site and we’ll be ask­ing the local bus com­pa­ny if they will stop right out­side the site on request. Or you could walk or cycle — it’s only 1.5miles away from Diss train sta­tion. Please come by pub­lic trans­port if at all pos­si­ble! .
We will run pick-ups from the train sta­tion for any­body who can’t use the bus ser­vice or for larg­er groups of peo­ple. If you need a lift please let us know well in advance (and not in the mid­dle of the night, when you’re at a train sta­tion some­where!). Ring the Gath­er­ing mobile on 07789 331857

For a map and fur­ther details on trav­el includ­ing bus times and direc­tions for dri­vers check out http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2008/where.html

Pro­gramme
This year’s pro­gramme focuss­es on info and plan­ning for actions, direct action skills as well as spaces to dis­cuss how we can respond to and deal with the widen­ing eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic and soci­etal crises. We hope there’s some­thing for every­one.
We rec­om­mend that you arrive Tue evening, as work­shops will start on Wednes­day morn­ing and run until Sun­day evening

For more info about the gath­er­ing check out our web­site or email us (though we won’t be able to answer email after 21 Aug, as we’ll be on site set­ting up)

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk, sum­mer­gath­er­ing _ AT _ earthfirst.org.uk

The work­shops

Wednes­day

12:00
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the gath­er­ing
Deal­ing with the main­stream media — how to get your mes­sage across
Basic electrics — for squats and homes.
Cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change — how to make the links vis­i­ble in actions
Queer net­work­ing ses­sion

2:30
Self-defence — mixed prac­tise ses­sion
Squat­ting FAQ — shar­ing tips and tricks
Action Recon­nais­sance for begin­ners
Intro­duc­tion to the root caus­es of eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion and an explo­ration of alter­na­tives
Advanced Nav­i­ga­tion

4:30
Sav­ing Ice­land — Intro­duc­tion to the cam­paign
Nuclear waste and nuclear weapons
Con­sen­sus Deci­sion-mak­ing
Intro­duc­tion to Ecol­o­gy
Con­fronting Abu­sive Behav­iours with­in our Com­mu­ni­ties — with­out the police/prison.

6:00
Library Space: Nego­ti­at­ing Safer Sex: tips on putting the the­o­ry into prac­tice, and mak­ing your sex life more fun as well as safer!

8:00
Cin­e­ma: Talk with video on resist­ing rain­for­est destruc­tion in Tas­ma­nia

Thurs­day

10:30
Deal­ing with Pub­lic Order sit­u­a­tions — under­stand­ing police tac­tics and how we can deal with to them/turn them to our advan­tage (runs until lunch)
State and cor­po­rate oppres­sion of the Aus­tralian Abo­rig­ines
Action recon­nais­sance — advanced skill­share, share your most clever tips and tricks for get­ting info for actions
Prac­ti­cal plant iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (begin­ners)
Activist trau­ma and recov­ery

12:00
Sav­ing Ice­land — an eval­u­a­tion of the camp this sum­mer
Secu­ri­ty for Activists Part I: Do’s and don’ts of organ­is­ing action, from arrang­ing to meet, plan­ning and what hap­pens after
Arrest sup­port for actions — how to pro­vide sup­port for your affin­i­ty group, medi­um sized actions or mega camps and gath­er­ings.
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the sum­mer gath­er­ing

2:30
Wom­en’s self-defence — intro­duc­to­ry ses­sion
Food and Cli­mate Action: info for action
How to plan an action
Police liai­son for actions — what it is, its uses and lim­i­ta­tions and how to make it work.
Chang­ing light bulbs or smash­ing the sys­tem. Shar­ing +/- expe­ri­ences of work­ing within/outside the sys­tem

4:30
Oppos­ing nuclear expan­sion: plan­ning for action
How to plan and run a suc­cess­ful medi­um to long-term cam­paign
Night time skills Part I: intro­duc­tion (fol­lowed by prac­tise ses­sion at 8.30pm)
Legal and arrest work­shop
Intro­duc­tion to anar­chist history/potted anar­chist his­to­ries

6:00
Library space: open dis­cus­sion ?Direct action or pub­lic­i­ty stunt??
8:00

Cin­e­ma: Seashep­herd film and talk
8:30

Night time skills Part II — prac­tice your skills in the field.

Fri­day

10:30
Blockad­ing tac­tics
Cli­mate Camp debrief: a crit­i­cal look at the cli­mate camp, its achieve­ments and pol­i­tics
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! And the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Com­put­er Secu­ri­ty for the non-tech­ni­cal
Prison Abo­li­tion: what’s wrong with prison? what do we mean by abo­li­tion and how can we make it hap­pen?

12:00
Food and cli­mate change: action and cam­paign plan­ning
Self-defence mixed prac­tise ses­sion
Squat­ting to resist — occu­pa­tions to resist the pow­ers of dark­ness
His­to­ry of Earth First!

2:30
The Earth First! Action Update and web­site: feed­back and get­ting involved
Resist­ing agro­fu­els — update on the sit­u­a­tion and action plan­ning
Sea Shep­herd — an intro to its cam­paigns and how to support/get involved.
Grow your own food — share you skills and expe­ri­ence
Queer Activist Forum: Rad­i­cal queers organ­ise for the future!

4:30
Queer Self-Defence: an intro to basic self-defence skills (ver­bal and phys­i­cal)
Set­ting up new direct action groups
Sav­ing Ice­land ? plan­ning actions for the com­ing year
Tech­no-fix­es and cli­mate change ? report by Cor­po­rate Watch
Urban self-reliance and self-suf­fi­cien­cy

7:30
Library: Pris­on­er Sup­port — An infor­mal get togeth­er to dis­cuss the state of pris­on­er sup­port in our move­ments, find out news and get advice on writ­ing to pris­on­ers, as well as mak­ing and writ­ing cards to send to pris­on­ers.

8:00
Cin­e­ma: A talk and film by a trib­al activist from Oris­sa oppos­ing min­ing

Sat­ur­day

10:30
Cam­paigns and Actions Round-up: UK and inter­na­tion­al news (no oth­er work­shops)

12:00
Wom­en’s self-defence prac­tise ses­sion plus run­ning along­side — intro­duc­tion to wom­en’s self-defence
Stop­ping GM test fields — dis­cus­sion on future campaign/actions
Research and destroy — how to research cor­po­ra­tions
Future mod­els of soci­ety — find­ing a path to sus­tain­able liv­ing
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Using tripods for blockad­ing

2:30
Leave it in the ground — build­ing resis­tance to new coal min­ing and pow­er sta­tions
Facil­i­ta­tion of meet­ings
Activist Secu­ri­ty Part III: doing actions with­out leav­ing traces
Restora­tion Ecol­o­gy
Cre­at­ing safer spaces
Vis­it to Burston Strike School

4:30
Region­al meet­ings and action plan­ning (no oth­er work­shops)

6:00
Library Space: Work­ing with­out lead­ers — dis­cus­sion about core val­ues of anar­chism

8:00
Cin­e­ma: Smash Edo film and talk

Sun­day
11:00
Self defence mixed prac­tice ses­sion
Sort­ing out ways of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with­in EF!
Using radios on actions
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! And the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Fences: get­ting over them/taking them down

12:15
The sum­mer gath­er­ing: feed­back on this year’s and get­ting involved in organ­is­ing the next one

2:30
Con­doms, cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change
Smash Edo
Intro­duc­tion to nav­i­ga­tion
What’s new in the world of law?
Fem­i­nist Health
Climb­ing trees, lamp posts and any­thing else

4:30
Rad­i­cal pol­i­tics in the age of col­lapse
The Roy­al Bank of Scot­land and Fos­sil Fuel Financ­ing
Get­ting your elec­tric­i­ty from solar pow­er and wind
Rad­i­cal Par­ent­ing
Look­ing after our men­tal health — shar­ing ideas and expe­ri­ences

8:00
Cin­e­ma: films — cli­mate camp footage, ready steady skip etc

Mon­day
Take-down: please stay for a day or two to help take down the site. If you’ve got access to a vehicle/van, it’d be great if you could help trans­port­ing mar­quees, recy­cling etc to the places they need to go. Cheers!

More info about the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
EF! is about direct action to halt the destruc­tion of the Earth. It’s about doing it your­self rather than rely­ing on lead­ers, gov­ern­ments or indus­try.
Direct action is at the heart of it, whether you’re stand­ing in front of a bull­doz­er, shut­ting down an open-cast mine or rip­ping up a field of GM crops.
We’re a loose net­work of peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns com­ing togeth­er for eco­log­i­cal direct action.
Join us for 5 days of work­shops, net­work­ing and plan­ning actions, run with­out lead­ers by every­one who comes along. The gath­er­ing is also a prac­ti­cal exam­ple of low-impact eco-liv­ing and non-hier­ar­chi­cal organ­is­ing.

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk, sum­mer­gath­er­ing _ AT _ earthfirst.org.uk

US: Southeast Climate Convergence occupies nuclear facility

South­east Cli­mate Con­ver­gence occu­pies nuclear facil­i­ty. Police set up check­points around con­ver­gence site.

South­east Cli­mate Con­ver­gence occu­pies nuclear facil­i­ty. Police set up check­points around con­ver­gence site.

August 7 Louisa, VA Activists from the South­east Con­ver­gence for Cli­mate Action occu­pied the wel­come cen­ter for Dominion’s North Anna nuclear pow­er plant today. The action was tak­en to protest Dominion’s plans to build two new nuclear reac­tors and to call out nuclear pow­er for the false solu­tion that it is to the cli­mate cri­sis. “We are here to serve notice on the so-called ‘nuclear renais­sance’ that the anti-nuclear move­ment is alive and well,” said Glenn Car­roll, coor­di­na­tor of Nuclear Watch South.

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South­east Cli­mate Con­ver­gence occu­pies nuclear facil­i­ty. Police set up check­points around con­ver­gence site.

August 7 Louisa, VA Activists from the South­east Con­ver­gence for Cli­mate Action occu­pied the wel­come cen­ter for Dominion’s North Anna nuclear pow­er plant today. The action was tak­en to protest Dominion’s plans to build two new nuclear reac­tors and to call out nuclear pow­er for the false solu­tion that it is to the cli­mate cri­sis. “We are here to serve notice on the so-called ‘nuclear renais­sance’ that the anti-nuclear move­ment is alive and well,” said Glenn Car­roll, coor­di­na­tor of Nuclear Watch South.

In all 25 peo­ple occu­pied the vis­i­tors cen­ter for 2 hours until police came in to remove them. The pro­test­ers wore shirts that read “Nukes not Wel­come” and chant­ed and sang. “We chose to take non-vio­lent direct action because Domin­ion and the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment have com­plete­ly failed to address the cli­mate cri­sis,” said Paxus Cal­ta who lives twen­ty miles from the plant. The pro­test­ers also gave their own ver­sion of a tour for vis­i­tors reveal­ing the true nature of the nuclear indus­try. In all 6 peo­ple were arrest­ed for refus­ing to leave the build­ing and were escort­ed out in hand­cuffs to the cheers of their friends.

The nuclear pow­er indus­try is attempt­ing to pose itself as our sav­ior for the cli­mate cri­sis. This is sim­ply not pos­si­ble. The only thing that the nuclear indus­try can promise us is a life of radioac­tive waste, poi­soned water, and can­cer. Nuclear ener­gy has no place in our tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fuels. Since the action, police have set up check points around the con­ver­gence, fol­low­ing cars leav­ing the area, and pulling peo­ple over and run­ning ID’s.

We send our sol­i­dar­i­ty to the UK Cli­mate Camp!
We will con­tin­ue to fight for cli­mate jus­tice in the south­east. More action to come! The con­ver­gence runs through August 11th so come on out! Todays action was planned by Nuclear Watch South, Blue Ridge Earth First!, and Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca. www.climateconvergence.org/southeast

Spirit of Freedom (August 2008)

Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words
and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words
and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Wel­come to the August 2008 edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom. As peo­ple will soon see, ELP’s pris­on­er lists have grown yet again. If we exclude the Geek anar­chist, Vagge­lis Botzatzis, and the two Amer­i­cans Richard Sills and Michael Sykes (all of whom are list­ed by ELP as ‘Oth­er Pris­on­ers’), there are now 40 list­ed ani­mal & earth lib­er­a­tion pris­on­ers in Europe & Amer­i­ca.
There are also a num­ber of non-list­ed pris­on­ers, who are not list­ed either by their own choice, or because they betrayed their fel­low activists and became infor­mants. And remem­ber these num­bers do not include those peo­ple who are either under House Arrest or on Bail pend­ing Tri­al. Nor do they include the activists whose loca­tions are cur­rent­ly unknown and who are described by the police as “on the run”. See­ing so many good peo­ple removed from their fam­i­lies & loved ones for mere­ly act­ing out of com­pas­sion and a desire to stop envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and ani­mal abuse is heart­break­ing.
Some of the pris­on­ers ELP lists are very well known, oth­ers are less well known. How­ev­er ALL of them deserve our love and sup­port. ALL of the list­ed pris­on­ers wel­come let­ters of sup­port. Even if it’s just a card say­ing “Hi. I’m think­ing of you”. So please, no mat­ter where you are in the world, sup­port the eco-pris­on­ers. And no com­pro­mise in defence of Moth­er Earth.

ECO-DEFENCE PRISONERS

Tre Arrow, SWIS #640393, Mult­nom­ah Coun­ty Deten­tion Cen­ter, 1120 S.W. 3rd Avenue, Port­land, Ore­gon 97206, USA. Await­ing sen­tenc­ing of six and a half years impris­on­ment hav­ing reached a non-coop­er­a­tion plea-bar­gain with the author­i­ties who accuse him of involve­ment in two arsons. 1) an arson on log­ging trucks 2) an arson on vehi­cles owned by a sand & grav­el com­pa­ny. (Tre is a raw ener­gy veg­an — He has asked that his let­ters of sup­port are writ­ten on scrap paper or tree-free paper).

Grant Barnes #137563, San Car­los Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002, USA. Serv­ing 12 years for set­ting fire to a num­ber of SUV vehi­cles. The let­ters ELF were spray paint­ed onto all of the vehi­cles. (Grant is a veg­an).

Nathan Block, #36359–086, FCI Lom­poc, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 3600 Guard Road, Lom­poc, CA 93436, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land. Serv­ing 18 years. 1) Ten years for using explo­sives to destroy elec­tric­i­ty pylons lead­ing from nuclear pow­er sta­tions. 2) Eight years for the mur­der of a Swiss Board­er Guard whilst on the run. In ’02 Mar­co com­plet­ed a 12-year sen­tence in Italy for destroy­ing elec­tric­i­ty pylons in Italy. (Mar­co is a meat eater who encour­ages organ­ic liv­ing).

Daniele Casali­ni, Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale, Via Burla 59, 43100 Par­ma, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Daniele is a veg­an).

Rod Coro­n­a­do — See details in Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers List.

Francesco Gioia, C.C. Sol­lic­ciano, Via Giro­lamo Min­ervi­ni 2/R, 50142 Firen­ze Sol­lic­ciano (FI), Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Francesco is a veg­e­tar­i­an and Straight Edge).

Pao­la Gori, Via delle Mac­chie 9, 57124 Livorno, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of allow­ing her house to be used to plan ille­gal activ­i­ty. (Pao­la is a veg­an).

Bryan Lefey #38664–086, FDC SeaT­ac, Fed­er­al Deten­tion Cen­ter, P.O. Box 13900, Seat­tle, WA 98198, USA. On remand accused of an ELF action that saw the dam­ag­ing of GM trees and the dam­ag­ing of US Forestry Ser­vice vehi­cles. (Diet unknown).

Jef­frey Luers, # 13797671, CRCI, 9111 NE Sun­der­land Ave, Port­land, OR 97211–1708, USA. Serv­ing 10 years for arson on a SUV deal­er­ship & the attempt­ed arson of an oil truck. The orig­i­nal sen­tence was 22 years & 8 months, but was reduced on appeal. (Diet unknown).

Eric McDavid, 16209–097. FCI Vic­torville Medi­um II, PO BOX 5700, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing 19 years & 7 months for plan­ning to destroy the prop­er­ty of the U.S. Forestry Ser­vice, mobile phone masts and pow­er plants. At the point of his arrest no crim­i­nal dam­age has actu­al­ly occurred. (Eric is a veg­an).

Daniel McGowan, #63794–053, FCI Terre Haute, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808, USA. Serv­ing 7 years for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an old growth log­ging cor­po­ra­tion. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. At the moment Daniel is in tran­sit as he has been ordered to appear before some Grand Juries. Daniel is refus­ing to answer the Grand Jury ques­tions and is gain­ing addi­tion­al prison time because of this (Daniel is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Jonathan Paul — See details in Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers List.

Bri­ana Waters, 36432–086, FDC — Seat­ac, Fed­er­al Deten­tion Cen­ter, P.O. Box 13900, Seat­tle, WA 98198, USA. Serv­ing six years for involve­ment in an ELF arson on a Uni­ver­si­ty. (Diet unknown).

Joy­an­na Zach­er, #36360–086, FCI Dublin, 5700 8th St.- Camp Parks- Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted her role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

ANIMAL LIBERATION PRISONERS
(All Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers fol­low a min­i­mum veg­e­tar­i­an diet and most are veg­an).

Jon Able­white TB4885, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion. (Jon is a veg­an).

Dan Amos VN7818, HMP Exeter, 30 New North Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4EX, Eng­land. On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Dan is a veg­an)

Gregg Avery TA7450, HMP Win­ches­ter, Rom­sey Road, Win­ches­ter, SO22 5DF, Eng­land. On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Gregg is a veg­an).

Natasha Avery NR8987, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. On remand hav­ing plead­ed guilty to con­spir­a­cy to black­mail Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. (Nat is a veg­an).

Mel Broughton TN9138, HMP Wood­hill, Tat­ten­hoe Street, Mil­ton Keynes, Bucks MK4 4DA, Eng­land. On remand accused of involve­ment with an arson and black­mail cam­paign against an Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty vivi­sec­tion estab­lish­ment.
(Mel is a veg­an).

Mar­tin Bal­luch, (JA Josef­s­tadt), Jus­ti­zanstalt Wr. Neustadt, Max­i­m­il­iang. 3, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Mar­tin is a veg­an)

Christoph, Anti­rep 2008, Post­fach 101, 1070, Vien­na, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. At the moment Christo­pher does not wish to have his full name pub­lished. (Christoph is a veg­an).

Jacob Con­roy #93501–011, FCI Vic­torville Medi­um I Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5300, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing 48 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Jake is a veg­an).

Rod­ney Coro­n­a­do #03895–000, FCI El Reno, PO Box 1500, El Reno, OK 73036, USA. Serv­ing one-year impris­on­ment after he informed peo­ple how to make an incen­di­ary device dur­ing a speech at an ani­mal rights gath­er­ing. (Rod is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Don­ald Cur­rie A3660AA, HMP Parkhurst, New­port, Isle of Wight, PO30 5NX, Eng­land. Serv­ing an Inde­ter­mi­nate Sen­tence, of not less than six actu­al years, for car­ry­ing out arsons against tar­gets asso­ci­at­ed the vivi­sec­tion indus­try includ­ing HLS. (Don is a veg­an).

Jür­gen Faul­mann, Jus­ti­zanstalt Wr. Neustadt, Max­i­m­il­iang. 3, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Jur­gen is a veg­an).

Lau­ren Gaz­zo­la #93497–011, FCI Dan­bury, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, Route #37Danbury, CT 06811, USA. Serv­ing 54 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Lau­ren is a veg­an).

Joshua Harp­er #29429–086, FCI Sheri­dan Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5000, Sheri­dan, OR 97378 USA. Serv­ing 36 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Josh is a veg­an).

Felix Hnat (JA Eisen­stadt), Jus­ti­zanstalt Wr. Neustadt, Max­i­m­il­iang. 3, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Felix is a veg­an).

Jan, Anti­rep 2008, Post­fach 101, 1070, Vien­na, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. At the moment Jan does not wish to have his full name pub­lished. (Jan is a veg­an).

Kevin Kroem­mer, Anti­rep 2008, Post­fach 101, 1070, Vien­na, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Kevin is a veg­an)

Sean Kirt­ley WC 6977, HM Prison Blak­en­hurst, Hewell Lane, Red­ditch, B97 6QS, Eng­land. Serv­ing four and a half years for run­ning an anti-vivi­sec­tion cam­paign web­site. (Sean is a veg­an).

Kevin Kjon­aas #93502–011, FCI Sand­stone, PO Box 1000, Sand­stone, MN 55072 USA. Serv­ing 72 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Kevin is a veg­an).

Leo, Anti­rep 2008, Post­fach 101, 1070, Vien­na, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. At the moment Leo does not wish to have his full name pub­lished. (Leo is a veg­an).

Daniel McGowan — See details in Eco Defence Pris­on­ers List.

Chris­t­ian Moser, Jus­ti­zanstalt Wr. Neustadt, Max­i­m­il­iang. 3, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Chris­t­ian is a veg­an).

Heather Nichol­son VM4859, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. On remand accused of con­spir­a­cy to black­mail, in rela­tion to her involve­ment with the SHAC cam­paign. (Heather is a veg­an).

Jonathan Paul, #07167–085, FCI Phoenix, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA. Sen­tenced to 51 months for an ALF arson on a horse meat plant. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Jonathan is a veg­an).

Sabine, Anti­rep 2008, Post­fach 101, 1070, Vien­na, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. At the moment Sabine does not wish to have their full name pub­lished. (Sabine is a veg­an).

Andrew Stepan­ian #26399–050, USP Mar­i­on, P.O. Box 1000 Mar­i­on, IL 62959, USA. Serv­ing 36 months for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Andrew is a veg­an).

Elmar Völkl (JA Eisen­stadt), Jus­ti­zanstalt Wr. Neustadt, Max­i­m­il­iang. 3, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Aus­tria. One of ten Aus­tri­an’s held on remand accused of var­i­ous ani­mal rights actions. (Elmar is a veg­an).

Ker­ry Whit­burn TB4886, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion. (Ker­ry is a veg­an).

Sarah White­head, VM7684, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx, TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. Serv­ing two years for: 1) res­cu­ing a pup­py from hor­rif­ic con­di­tions. 2) res­cu­ing over 100 ani­mals from a pet breed­er who was lat­er pros­e­cut­ed for ani­mal abuse. Also await­ing tri­al for SHAC activ­i­ty. (Sarah is a veg­an)

PLOUGHSHARES PRISONERS

Helen Wood­son, 03231–045, FMC Car­swell — Admin. Max. Unit, POB 27137, Ft. Worth, TX 76127, USA. Serv­ing 8 years 10 months for actions that focused on the inter­re­la­tion­ship of war & the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al world. The actions includ­ed pour­ing red paint over the secu­ri­ty desk of a fed­er­al court and mak­ing threat­en­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Pre­vi­ous­ly Helen had served 20½ years for: 1) Using a ham­mer to dis­arm a nuclear mis­sile silo. 2) Burn­ing $25,000 on the floor of a bank whilst denounc­ing war, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion & eco­nom­ic injus­tice. 3) Mail­ing warn­ing let­ters with bul­lets attached to Gov­ern­ment & cor­po­rate offi­cials. (Diet unknown).

THE LECCE FIVE
The Lec­ce Five have been charged with “sub­ver­sive asso­ci­a­tion” accused of dam­ag­ing Esso petrol pumps to oppose the War on Iraq; sab­o­tag­ing the cash machines of a bank which funds an immi­gra­tion cen­tre; and tar­get­ing the multi­na­tion­al com­pa­ny Benet­ton in sup­port of Mapuche land rights activists in Chile. All of the defen­dants are cur­rent­ly either under house arrest or released on bail.

ANTIFA PRISONERS

Vah­tang Devitlidze, ul. Libbedo­va 42, UO 68/2, otryad 14, briga­da 142, g. Hagyshen­sk, Krasnodarskiy Kray, 352680 Rus­sia. Serv­ing 2½ years for stab­bing a neo-nazi in the leg whilst defend­ing him­self from attack. (Diet unknown).

Augustin Kraus, Vazeb­ni veznice, PP‑1, Lit­o­merice, 41 201, Czech Repub­lic.
Serv­ing 14 months for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in attacks against local neo-nazis. His charge was “bod­i­ly harm”. He speaks Czech, Slo­vak and Pol­ish. You can also write him short post­cards in Eng­lish. (Diet unknown).

Fabio Milan, C.C. via Pianez­za 300, 10151 Tori­no, Italy. On remand accused of fight­ing with the police after an anti-fas­cist protest. (Diet unknown).

Andrea Neff, Bnr: 746/07/2, Jus­tizvol­lzugsanstalt fur Frauen in Berlin, Arkonas­trasse 56, 13189 Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 14 months for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ty. (Diet unknown).

Chris­t­ian Süm­mer­mann, Bnr: 441/08/5, JVA Plötzensee, Lehrter­str. 61, 10557 Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 40 months for breach­ing the peace whilst serv­ing a sus­pend­ed sen­tence issued for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ties. (Diet unknown).

Tomasz Wiloszews­ki, Zak­lad Karny, Orze­chowa 5, 98–200 Sier­adz, Poland.
Serv­ing 15 years for acci­den­tal­ly killing a neo-nazi whilst defend­ing him­self. (Tomasz is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Yuri Yure­vich Milevskiy, SIZO #7 kam­era 38, g. Brest, ul. Kar­la Mark­sa 86, 224000 Belarus. On remand for fight­ing with neo-nazis. (Diet unknown).

OTHER PRISONERS

Olga Alek­san­drov­na Nevskaya, UU163/5, 7 Otryad, pos. Dzerzhin­skiy, Mozhaysk 140090 Moskovskaya oblast, Rus­sia. Eco-activist serv­ing 6 years for arson, crim­i­nal dam­age and caus­ing explo­sions in protest at the war in Chech­nya. Due for release in 2009. (Diet unknown).

Vagge­lis Botzatzis, Komo­ti­ni Juridi­cal Prison (“Dikastikes Fylakes Komo­ti­nis”), T.K. 69100, Greece. On remand accused of set­ting fire to two com­pa­ny cars owned by a energy/power com­pa­ny. It is believed that the per­son or per­sons unknown who car­ried out the arson did so in protest at the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment and in sup­port of two work­ers who died at the pow­er plant. Vagge­lis is also accused of set­ting fire to a bank and start­ing a fire inside a car yard. (Meat Eater).

Richard Sills (Address Unknown, USA). Serv­ing 15 months for bomb hoax­ing a Uni­ver­si­ty say­ing they would be tar­get­ed by the ALF if they did­n’t stop their ani­mal exper­i­ments. (Diet unknown).

Michael W. Sykes, 100 East 2nd St, Mon­roe, Michi­gan 48161, USA. Youth held on remand accused of anti-sprawl arsons, crim­i­nal dam­age, spray-paint­ing an anar­chist sign and burn­ing the Amer­i­can flag. (Diet unknown)

Fran Thomp­son, #1090915 HU 1C, WERDCC, PO Box 300, Van­dalia, MO 63382, USA.
Serv­ing Life for killing, in self-defence, a stalk­er who had bro­ken into her home. Before her impris­on­ment Fran was an eco, ani­mal & anti-nuke cam­paign­er. (Fran is a veg­an).

MOVE
MOVE is an eco-rev­o­lu­tion­ary group who car­ried out protests in defence of all life. All move pris­on­ers describe them­selves as veg­e­tar­i­ans. There are cur­rent­ly eight MOVE activists in prison each serv­ing 100 years after been framed for the mur­der of a cop in 1979. 9th defen­dant, Mer­le Africa, died in prison in 1998.

Deb­bie Simms Africa (006307), Janet Hol­loway Africa (006308) and Janine Philips Africa (006309) all at: SCI Cam­bridge Springs, 451 Fuller­ton Ave, Cam­bridge Springs, PA 16403–1238, USA.

Michael Davis Africa (AM4973) and Charles Simms Africa (AM4975) both at SCI Grater­ford, PO Box 244, Grater­ford, PA 19426–0244, USA.

Edward Good­man Africa (AM4974), SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Rd, Frackville, PA 17932, USA.

William Philips Africa (AM4984) and Del­bert Orr Africa (AM4985) both at SCI Dal­las Draw­er K, Dal­las, PA 18612, USA.

Mumia Abu Jamal, (AM8335), SCI Greene, 175 Progress Dri­ve, Way­nes­burg PA 15370, USA. In 1981 Mumia, for­mer Black Pan­ther and vocal sup­port­er of MOVE, was framed for the mur­der of a cop. He was orig­i­nal­ly sen­tenced to death but is cur­rent­ly await­ing re-sen­tenc­ing fol­low­ing a court hear­ing in 2001.

STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE
Some peo­ple list­ed in this newslet­ter have car­ried out vio­lent actions. ‘Spir­it of Free­dom’ does not con­done vio­lence. But we are also against cen­sor­ship & believe peo­ple can decide for them­selves who they wish to sup­port.

ABOUT E.L.P. SUPPORT NETWORK
ELP is an inter­na­tion­al eco-pris­on­er sup­port net­work found­ed, in Britain, in 1993 to sup­port jailed eco-activists. We sup­port the pris­on­ers by pro­duc­ing var­i­ous reg­u­lar pris­on­er lists:

Spir­it of Free­dom is ELP’s inter­na­tion­al month­ly pris­on­er list­ing which is cir­cu­lat­ed by e‑mail.

Urgent ELP! Bul­letin is an e‑mail ser­vice that dis­trib­utes the names of any new eco-pris­on­er as soon as ELP gets their details. For more info e‑mail ELP4321@hotmail.com

On-Line Newslet­ters — ELP has a num­ber of web­sites that pro­vide news, pris­on­er lists and addi­tion­al info about ELP & the pris­on­ers.

Eng­lish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Greek lan­guage ELP Web­site
http://greekelp.blogspot.com

North Amer­i­can ELP Web­site
www.ecoprisoners.org

Turk­ish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.geocities.com/yesilanarsi/elp.htm

ELP Extra is an e‑mail group that cir­cu­lates the details of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, ELP learns about, who do not fall with­in the remit for sup­port by ELP. To sub­scribe to the list e‑mail ELP4321@Hotmail.com

Aus­tralian ELP.SN is our Aus­tralian con­tact. For more info e‑mail elp4321@hotmail.com

Bel­gium ELP.SN is our Bel­gium con­tact. For more info e‑mail elp_bel@hotmail.com

Ger­man ELP.SN is a pris­on­er led ini­tia­tive run by eco-pris­on­er Mar­co Camenisch. For more info con­tact Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land.

Greek ELP.SN is our Greek con­tact. For more info e‑mail greekelp@yahoo.gr

North Amer­i­can ELP is our North Amer­i­can con­tact. For more infor­ma­tion e‑mail naelpsn@mutualaid.org

Turkey ELP.SN is our Turk­ish con­tact. For more info e‑mail yesilanarsi@yahoo.com