Category: Action Reports

new EF! Action Update

In an end of the sum­mer com­pact EF!AU, find news about kick­ing shell in the teeth in Ross­port again and then some more, sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­mu­ni­ty at Dale Farm, and anti-GM resis­tance — Spuds you Don’t Like demo in Eng­land, sab­o­tage in Ger­many, France and Scot­land.

In an end of the sum­mer com­pact EF!AU, find news about kick­ing shell in the teeth in Ross­port again and then some more, sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­mu­ni­ty at Dale Farm, and anti-GM resis­tance — Spuds you Don’t Like demo in Eng­land, sab­o­tage in Ger­many, France and Scot­land.

On top of the usu­al con­tacts and dates, read about sol­i­dar­i­ty with jailed Swiss nan­otech activists, resis­tance against steel plants, mobile phone masts, min­ing and ener­gy projects here & across the world — stay angry and don’t car­ry on as usu­al!

The quar­ter­ly EF!AU, August 2011

ESB powerline work stopped at Clonmore

“I’ll nev­er purge my con­tempt, and I want the ESB stopped. I most cer­tain­ly do!” — mes­sage from Tere­sa Trea­cy, 65 years old, in Moun­tjoy Wom­ens’ Prison.

“I’ll nev­er purge my con­tempt, and I want the ESB stopped. I most cer­tain­ly do!” — mes­sage from Tere­sa Trea­cy, 65 years old, in Moun­tjoy Wom­ens’ Prison.

On Wednes­day the 14th of Sep­tem­ber, con­cerned indi­vid­u­als wish­ing to sup­port Tere­sa Trea­cy arrived at Clon­more, Tul­lam­ore. The fol­low­ing morn­ing the sup­port­ers learned that no tree felling would be car­ried out that week and ESB work­ers had been instruct­ed to leave the site.

On the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day the 17th of Sep­tem­ber, Tere­sa rang from the prison to say that her spir­its had been lift­ed by the news. She has her own cell in the prison thanks to the good graces of the prison staff. After her ini­tial shock she is set­tling in. She said she has no inten­tion of ‘purg­ing her con­tempt’ and is call­ing out for sup­port.

It is the ESB’s intent to fell trees cov­er­ing a total 12 acres of land and amount­ing to 12,000 trees in all, many of which are native species and were hand plant­ed and main­tained by Tere­sa over the years. The end result being a 50m wide cor­ri­dor per­ma­nent­ly sev­er­ing her wood­lands in two for well over one kilo­me­ter. It is the inten­tion of the ESB to fill the felling zone with one 20 metre high met­al tow­er, five dou­ble wood­en poles, a 110Kv sin­gle trans­mis­sion line, and five con­tin­u­ous wires.

Tere­sa has been attempt­ing to nego­ti­ate with the ESB since 2006. She has reluc­tant­ly offered a com­pro­mise of sit­ing the line under­ground to no avail. Hav­ing spent her entire life as a law-abid­ing cit­i­zen, she has tak­en the path of peace­ful direct resis­tance as a course of last resort.

In a call from the prison, Tere­sa has asked for sup­port­ers to become active­ly involved in her strug­gle to pro­tect her land and trees. Tere­sa is com­mit­ted and remains defi­ant. She has no inten­tion of ‘purg­ing her con­tempt’.

Let­ters of sup­port can be sent to: Tere­sa Treacy/ Dochas/ Mon­thjoy Wom­ens’ Prison/ North Cir­cu­lar RD/ Dublin 7/ Eire

To become involved, call Niall on 086 8444966.

For MEDIA, email Sean Ryan at: 2seanryan2@gmail.com
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Notes to Edi­tors

1. Both mag­net­ic fields and elec­tri­cal fields are sep­a­rate enti­ties with regard to the health ques­tion, even though they often may well work togeth­er to cause the risks.

2. A lot of argu­ments asso­ci­at­ed with mag­net­ic field expo­sure are
con­tra­dict­ed by the fact that peo­ple who work in this par­tic­u­lar area don’t seem to suf­fer from many of the ill­ness­es asso­ci­at­ed with these fields. The counter argu­ment advances that this is because the brain secretes par­tic­u­lar secre­tions when a per­son is asleep that are not secret­ed when one is awake. Most folks who work in this area are assumed not to be asleep on the job!

3. Mag­net­ic fields can strip radioac­tive par­ti­cles from the atmos­phere and con­cen­trate them in the areas around over­head lines.

4. Elec­tri­cal fields asso­ci­at­ed with high volt­age cre­ate a coro­na that can ionise a very large area (mea­sured in kilo­me­tres) around the con­duc­tors. The body is a con­duc­tor and radioac­tive par­ti­cles can actu­al­ly stick to the body due to this effect.

The fol­low­ing are asso­ci­at­ed with high volt­age over­head lines:
Depression/suicide, child­hood leukaemia, skin can­cer, lung can­cer,
mis­car­riages and many more.

More infor­ma­tion here
http://www.feb.se/emfguru/Elf/calif-power.html
http://www.feb.se/emfguru/Elf/elf-contents.html

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Tere­sa Trea­cy Ordered to Jail over ESB Pow­er­lines

“You picked the wrong place here” — Tere­sa Trea­cy to ESB con­sul­tant Shane McLough­ney, April 2007.

ere­sa Trea­cy, a 65 year old woman from Tul­lam­ore, Co Offaly has been ordered to jail by High Court Judge Daniel Her­bert at the request of the ESB.

Ms Trea­cy, who shares the fam­i­ly farm with her sis­ter Mary at Wood­field House, Clon­more, Tul­lam­ore, Co Offaly has refused the ESB access to her lands in order to pro­tect the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment and the native trees that she has man­aged there for many years.

In Feb­ru­ary 2006 the ESB began plans to con­struct a 110kV trans­mis­sion pow­er­line from Cushal­ing to Thorns­bury. The plans spec­i­fy that dou­ble wood­pole struc­tures and steel tow­ers accom­mo­dat­ing over­head pow­er­lines be built at 200 metre inter­vals over a total dis­tance of 32 kilo­me­tres through the lands of local landown­ers.

Ms Trea­cy out­lined her objec­tions in a num­ber of let­ters to the ESB and arranged a num­ber of meet­ings with them to request that the pow­er­lines be con­struct­ed under­ground for the fol­low­ing rea­sons.

1) The Health & Safe­ty risks, includ­ing can­cer risks which are increas­ing­ly asso­ci­at­ed with over­head pow­er­lines as a result of Elec­tro Mag­net­ic Fields (EMF).

2) The fact that she has always main­tained and improved her land as a nat­ur­al habi­tat which includes native trees, old and new, cared for and/or plant­ed by her­self for future gen­er­a­tions as a sus­tain­able nat­ur­al resource, through which the ESB want to smash.

3) The fact that the under­ground­ing of pow­er­lines is now con­sid­ered to be best prac­tice across Europe. Ire­land and the ESB are at the bot­tom of the league in terms of catch­ing up with inter­na­tion­al stan­dards and the progress which has been made to ensure that under­ground pow­er­lines are the pro­gres­sive way for­ward.

The ESB were also point­ed to a recent deci­sion in 2006 to under­ground the Bantry (Colo­mane — Bal­lylick­ey) 38kV pow­er­line, which arose out of intense local protest oppos­ing the over­ground­ing of that line. The ESB were con­tract­ed to that project by a pri­vate wind­farm devel­op­er who suc­ceed­ed in get­ting injunc­tions against local farm­ers but decid­ed not to enforce them. He aban­doned over­ground­ing in favour of under­ground­ing the pow­er­line. See here: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77007

When the Cushal­ing – Thorns­bury project was pro­posed for Tul­lam­ore in ear­ly 2006 it appeared that there was stiff oppo­si­tion to the project among the affect­ed 90 landown­ers in Offaly. Under­ground­ing options were dis­cussed as tech­ni­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties and Euro­pean best prac­tice had come to the atten­tion of the pub­lic.

It’s one thing to have a pri­vate devel­op­er opt for under­ground­ing but the ESB, fear­ing that a prece­dent may be set, were clever enough to use the Irish Farm­ers Asso­ci­a­tion (IFA) to nego­ti­ate a com­pen­sa­tion pack­age with the landown­ers, most of them farm­ers.

Tere­sa Trea­cy stood to gain up to approx­i­mate­ly 150,000 euro in 3 staged pay­ments if she agreed to the project and on con­di­tion that no legal costs were incurred by the ESB if they had to go to court, in which case the last 2 pay­ments would be ‘for­feit­ed’.

This deal, nego­ti­at­ed by the IFA over the course of 2 years, seemed to appease most of the landown­ers so by the time a pub­lic meet­ing was called to organ­ise the landown­ers, by Ms Trea­cy in March 2009, less than a dozen peo­ple showed up.

By the sum­mer of 2011 Tere­sa Trea­cy was the only one refus­ing access to the ESB.

The ESB has made a num­ber of appli­ca­tions to the High Court over the sum­mer, includ­ing orders for Ms Trea­cy to unlock her gates and let them in and sub­se­quent­ly an order empow­er­ing the ESB to break the locks after Ms Trea­cy refused to obey the first order. The ESB told the court that Ms Trea­cy “has an emo­tion­al attach­ment to her trees”. When Ms Trea­cy obstruct­ed them from break­ing the locks the ESB decid­ed to go back to court to issue con­tempt pro­ceed­ings against Ms Trea­cy.

Today, Mon­day 12th Sep­tem­ber 2011, Judge Daniel Her­bert told Ms Trea­cy that he had no choice but to uphold the law and ordered that she be jailed for con­tempt of the court orders.

“I’m beg­ging them for years” said Ms Trea­cy today. “5½ years, what a waste of time it was try­ing to talk to them”. Fac­ing jail she said “I feel good, I real­ly do. I just could­n’t let them in to do that. It’s just not right”.

“The route is cut­ting through our for­est and the old Whitethorn hedgerows. For over 25 years I have used all my time and ener­gy get­ting our lands into a place of nat­ur­al beau­ty and overnight it can be destroyed with high pow­ered lines going through forests beside the old bridge, the old laneway and through the new Oak and Ash woods I plant­ed over 20 years ago. I have spent many years replac­ing dead trees and cut­ting gorse with my hands. I filled con­tain­ers with water from the riv­er so that my for­est is a mod­el. All my trees have been pruned indi­vid­u­al­ly by me to pro­mote their growth”

“My heart is bro­ken by the thought that they may be uproot­ed and thrown away. I know I will nev­er see them in their full glo­ry but was sat­is­fied know­ing that oth­ers would enjoy them long into the future”

“We already have 10 ESB poles on our land and feel that we have already done enough for the com­mon good. Our farm is our life’s blood, its scenic beau­ty from the untouched fields to the riv­er and through the bog, all of it nat­ur­al flo­ra and fau­na”.

Ear­li­er court pro­ceed­ings were heard by Judge Mary Laf­foy who grant­ed orders to the ESB. I’m won­der­ing did Judge Laf­foy decide not to be avail­able to the ESB to hear con­tempt pro­ceed­ings. Who would want to send an elder­ly woman to jail in these cir­cum­stances? When judge­ments are made in the High Court they are usu­al­ly pre­sent­ed as ’ … the High Court has ruled such a way …’, and the name of the judge is under­stood to be irrel­e­vant for the pur­pos­es of law. A judge is sim­ply an instru­ment of the law and the law must be applied regard­less of the per­son­al­i­ty or opin­ion of the judge. It is legal­ly cor­rect for a judge to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for ‘dif­fi­cult cas­es’ because that’s their job, and regard­less of good rea­son, and the 3 rea­sons out­lined above, the law must be applied, must­n’t it?!

Ms Trea­cy will remain in jail until she ‘purges her con­tempt’ by agree­ing to com­ply with the court orders. The ESB, how­ev­er, are in a posi­tion to make an appli­ca­tion to the court for her release, but this is unlike­ly, at least until they’ve smashed the trees and con­struct­ed their out­dat­ed pow­er­lines. Her incar­cer­a­tion is in their hands.

Bury the pow­er­lines, not the peo­ple!

Rossport roundup

Gar­daí look on as Shell secu­ri­ty con­tin­ue to use unlaw­ful force on peace­ful pro­tes­tors

Gar­daí look on as Shell secu­ri­ty con­tin­ue to use unlaw­ful force on peace­ful pro­tes­tors

On Thurs­day last, the 15th Sep­tem­ber, Shel­l’s pri­vate secu­ri­ty force, IRMS con­tin­ued their prac­tice of using force on the pub­lic road as they see fit. Once again the Gar­daí sat close by and wit­nessed this unlaw­ful use of force by IRMS and allowed it to con­tin­ue unim­ped­ed.

At approx­i­mate­ly 2:30pm last Thurs­day, a small num­ber of cam­paign­ers from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp went down to the entrance of the Shell com­pound in Augh­oose to peace­ful­ly protest. Work­ers at the com­pound were attempt­ing to lay tar­mac at the entrace to the com­pound, so the cam­paign­ers attempt­ed to sit down on the edge of the road. How­ev­er the cam­paign­ers were pre­vent­ed from sit­ting down at the edge of the road by IRMS and were pushed, kicked, punched, pulled and car­ried away from sit­ting down at the edge of the road. This con­tin­ued for over 45 min­utes dur­ing which Gar­daí watched the whole sit­u­a­tion from Gar­da vans parked no more than 50 metres away.

Com­ment­ing on the lat­est inci­dent Shell to Sea spokesper­son Ter­ence Con­way stat­ed “Let’s be clear about this: Shel­l’s pri­vate secu­ri­ty — IRMS — have absolute­ly no right to use any force on cam­paign­ers who are peace­ful­ly protest­ing on a pub­lic road. The fact that Gar­daí would watch IRMS assault cam­paign­ers for near­ly an hour on a pub­lic road is anoth­er clear exam­ple of the total sus­pen­sion of the rule of law in rela­tion to protest­ing against Shell.”

“In Octo­ber in Gene­va, the UN Uni­ver­sal Peri­od­ic Review will review Ire­land’s human rights record, and while the Irish Gov­ern­ment give great lip-ser­vice to human rights abus­es in far-away places, they are let­ting Shell and the Gar­daí here in Mayo do what­ev­er they wish to peace­ful pro­tes­tors”. [1][2]

NOTES

[1] UN urged to exam­ine Irish human rights laps­es – Irish Times — 13th August 2011
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0813/1224302379794.html

[2] Shell to Sea high­lights human rights abus­es to UN
http://www.shelltosea.com/content/shell-sea-highlights-human-rights-abuses-un

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Fence climb­ing, tres­pass­ing, trac­tor climb­ing and more dis­rup­tion of work in Augh­oose, Co. Mayo

Tues­day 13th Sep­tem­ber six peo­ple from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp went down to Shel­l’s tun­nelling com­pound in Augh­oose, Co. Mayo to dis­rupt work. Work was slowed from three sep­a­rate actions spread over 2 hours as peo­ple inter­fered with fenc­ing work and then two peo­ple got up on a trac­tor mak­ing a deliv­ery to the com­pound.

Over the past cou­ple days Shel­l’s com­pound in Augh­oose has seen some major dam­age to the perime­ter fenc­ing. The heavy duty pal­isade fenc­ing (the green spiky one) is still in place, but a lot of the flim­sy sil­ver har­ris fenc­ing is down, con­crete bol­lards hold­ing oth­er fenc­ing was smashed, and the green fenc­ing pan­els (which is in piles along the road in the pho­tos) came down. As a result of this destruc­tion, Shell has all but stopped mak­ing deliv­er­ies to the com­pound.

On Tues­day after­noon as Shell work­ers were try­ing to repair some of the dam­age done, six peo­ple went down to dis­rupt them. Green fenc­ing pan­els were in piles along the road­side of the com­pound, and peo­ple sat on the piles to pre­vent the work­ers from putting them back up. A dig­ger on the inside of the com­pound was wait­ing to re-erect the pan­els, but the pro­test­ers made this dif­fi­cult and the dig­ger dri­ver gave up.

Shel­l’s secu­ri­ty (IRMS) even­tu­al­ly came over and dragged peo­ple off of the pan­els. This was not on Shel­l’s prop­er­ty but the road verge, so the pri­vate secu­ri­ty had no right to use force on the pub­lic road. Gar­dai were present but did­n’t seem to mind pri­vate secu­ri­ty assault­ing peo­ple on the pub­lic road and at one point even did some labour for Shell, mov­ing fenc­ing pan­els back into place.

After awhile peo­ple went around the side of the com­pound and tres­passed onto Shel­l’s land where work­ers were try­ing to fin­ish the last bit of the heavy duty pal­isade fenc­ing. As soon as peo­ple showed up the work­ers gave up and packed away their tools, the dri­vers got out of the dig­gers and walked away. This last­ed for about an hour until Shell secu­ri­ty dragged and car­ried peo­ple off the land.

One pro­test­er was sex­u­al­ly assault­ed as they were being car­ried by IRMS. Their pants were falling down and they asked secu­ri­ty to put them down so they could pull their clothes back on, but IRMS refused. The secu­ri­ty mem­ber (pic­tured below) who was car­ry­ing the per­son­’s legs shoved both of his hands up into the per­son­’s crotch. He refused to show his iden­ti­fi­ca­tion badge fol­low­ing the assault.

After this a trac­tor car­ry­ing some sort of bog-drainage equip­ment was com­ing down the road towards the com­pound. Peo­ple ran towards it and despite attempts by Gar­dai to keep them off the trac­tor two peo­ple climbed up on top of it. One per­son was dragged down from a con­sid­er­able height, and the oth­er came down after being giv­en a warn­ing under the Pub­lic Order Act. Nei­ther per­son was arrest­ed.

Actions against Shell are pret­ty much con­stant at the moment, with some­times 3 or 4 sep­a­rate actions in a day. Morale is high, and any­time is a good time to vis­it if you’d like to see the area and find out more about what is hap­pen­ing. There is a week­ly protest out­side Shel­l’s Bel­lan­aboy refin­ery, with lots of locals and peo­ple from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp. And there’s plen­ty to do aside from protest­ing, includ­ing cook­ing, tend­ing to the three gar­dens, meet­ing locals and loads of building/site main­te­nance!

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp is locat­ed in a field in Augh­oose, between Bal­linaboy and Pul­lath­omas. To con­tact the camp, rossportsolidaritycamp[at]gmail[dot]com or 085 114 1170

More pho­tos — http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100512

Chinese villagers riot over pollution

19 Sep­tem­ber 2011
A solar pan­el fac­to­ry in east­ern Chi­na has been shut down after protests by local res­i­dents over pol­lu­tion fears.

Some 500 vil­lagers staged a three-day protest fol­low­ing the death of large num­bers of fish in a local riv­er.

19 Sep­tem­ber 2011
A solar pan­el fac­to­ry in east­ern Chi­na has been shut down after protests by local res­i­dents over pol­lu­tion fears.

Some 500 vil­lagers staged a three-day protest fol­low­ing the death of large num­bers of fish in a local riv­er.

Some demon­stra­tors broke into the plant in Zhe­jiang province, destroy­ing offices and over­turn­ing com­pa­ny cars before being dis­persed by riot police.

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RIOTS have bro­ken out in Chi­na against a fac­to­ry pol­lut­ing local water as resis­tance grows glob­al­ly to the neolib­er­al indus­tri­al night­mare.

Reports Chi­na For­bid­den News: “Vil­lagers in Hain­ing city, Zhe­jiang province in Chi­na have held three days of protest against Jinko Solar Co. dis­charg­ing heavy can­cer-caus­ing pol­lu­tion.

“Vil­lagers and jour­nal­ists were beat­en by com­pa­ny secu­ri­ty. The pro­test­ers beat local offi­cials and over­turned four police cars. The police also fired tear gas.

“Online sources state that over 10 peo­ple are injured or dead.

“A human rights activist said that Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty’ (CCP) sys­tem was caus­ing the strug­gle in peo­ple’s lives.

…

“We feel that it is social­ly respon­si­ble to close the fac­to­ry first and to take cor­rec­tive mea­sures,” com­pa­ny spokesman Thomas Jing told the BBC.

He said there had been acci­den­tal dis­charge into the sur­round­ing area dur­ing a rain­storm at the end of August.

He said chem­i­cals used at the fac­to­ry had been stored in an open area rather than a ware­house, and that the cov­er­ing had been ripped off dur­ing the unex­pect­ed­ly harsh weath­er.

Mr Jing said the firm was inves­ti­gat­ing whether the flu­o­ride was respon­si­ble for the death of the fish. A clean-up was also under way, he said.

…

“The Jinko Solar com­pa­ny is a sub­sidiary of a New York Stock Exchange-list­ed Chi­nese solar com­pa­ny, ful­ly financed by Hong Kong Pak­er Tech­nol­o­gy Co., Ltd.

“They pro­duce solar wafers, cells and oth­er prod­ucts, export­ing to more than twen­ty coun­tries with­in Europe, Asia, and the Unit­ed States.

“The plant is locat­ed in Hain­ing city, Zhe­jiang province and Shangrao city, Jiangxi province.
There are over 10,000 employ­ees and the plant cov­ers more than 165 acres.

“Vil­lagers blame the com­pa­ny for dis­charg­ing pol­lut­ed water and harm­ful gas­es into the envi­ron­ment, caus­ing the mas­sive deaths of fish float­ing in the riv­er.

“Local vil­lagers found that there were over 10 peo­ple who devel­oped can­cer as a result of the pol­lu­tion.”

…

This is the lat­est exam­ple of Chi­nese cit­i­zens being spurred to action over envi­ron­men­tal wor­ries. Last week, Shang­hai halt­ed pro­duc­tion at two fac­to­ries over wor­ries about lead poi­son­ing.

Last month, a chem­i­cal fac­to­ry in the north-east­ern city of Dalian was ordered to move after 12,000 res­i­dents took to the streets over pol­lu­tion fears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14968605
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/09/chinese-villagers-riot-over-pollution.html

Get ready for Hinkley blockade — 5th Stop New Nuclear newsletter

Wel­come to our fifth Stop New Nuclear newslet­ter. With lit­tle more than two weeks to go, we need to make a last effort to mobilise even more peo­ple to the block­ade of Hink­ley Point on 3 Octo­ber.

Wel­come to our fifth Stop New Nuclear newslet­ter. With lit­tle more than two weeks to go, we need to make a last effort to mobilise even more peo­ple to the block­ade of Hink­ley Point on 3 Octo­ber. More than 100 peo­ple have pledged to block­ade, and 150 to sup­port — can we reach the total of 300 pledgers with­in the next two weeks? Or even 400? Please help us to spread the infor­ma­tion, and ask your friends, fam­i­ly, col­leagues, … to pledge.

Since our last newslet­ter, we were able to wel­come CND Cym­ru as a new mem­ber of the Stop New Nuclear alliance, and we also received more organ­i­sa­tion­al pledges, among them Cum­bria and Lan­cashire CND, No Need for Nuclear, Stop Old­bury, and the French Sor­tir du Nucle­aire. This broad sup­port is impor­tant, as it shows the strength of our resis­tance against new nuclear pow­er sta­tions in Britain.

News about Hink­ley Point

We have been told that West Som­er­set Coun­cil and Elec­tricite de France (EDF) have now reached an agree­ment about the mon­ey to be paid by EDF (sec­tion 106 agreement),and this agree­ment will prob­a­bly go through the Coun­cil’s plan­ning com­mit­tee on 29 Sep­tem­ber. Once that hap­pened, EDF will have a green light to start with the pre­lim­i­nary works for Hink­ley Point C, even though it has not even applied to the Infra­struc­ture Plan­ning Com­mis­sion for the reac­tors them­selves.

How­ev­er, EDF is already late with the removal of asbestos from the site, which has been left over from the con­struc­tion of Hink­ley Point A. Accord­ing to the plan­ning con­di­tions, work should have been com­plet­ed by 31 August, but it is still con­tin­u­ing, and EDF is now apply­ing for an exten­sion until Feb­ru­ary 2012. Although EDF is in breach of the con­di­tions attached to its plan­ning per­mis­sion, Coun­ty Coun­cil plan­ners have decid­ed not to take any action. The Coun­cil is concerned,however, that if the work con­tin­ues into the win­ter months it could dis­turb migra­to­ry birds which fly along the coast past Hink­ley Point (see Stop Hink­ley press release, 14 Sep­tem­ber 2011).

The Envi­ron­ment Agency is present­ly con­sult­ing on two envi­ron­men­tal per­mit appli­ca­tions in rela­tion to Hink­ley Point C: make dis­pos­als and dis­charges of radioac­tive wastes oper­ate com­bus­tion process­es (stand­by gen­er­a­tors).

Objec­tions to both appli­ca­tions need to be in by 6 Octo­ber 2011.

More infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the web­site of the Envi­ron­ment Agency at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/132474.aspx.

The Mar­coule nuclear plant in the south of France on Mon­day 12 Sep­tem­ber which killed one work­er and injured four oth­ers, high­light­ed again the dan­gers of nuclear pow­er. The plant, which is part­ly run by a sub­sidiary of EDF, stores large quan­ti­ties of radioac­tive waste and pro­duces mixed oxide (MOX) reac­tor fuel con­tain­ing plu­to­ni­um. There are also a num­ber of decom­mis­sioned reac­tors from the ear­ly years of the French nuclear pro­gramme.

Stop Hink­ley respond­ed with the fol­low­ing state­ment:

“The acci­dent in France is a sober­ing reminder of what can go wrong when a coun­try com­mits itself so heav­i­ly to nuclear pow­er, includ­ing all the prob­lems asso­ci­at­ed with han­dling radioac­tive waste. Yet we are now propos­ing to import French tech­nol­o­gy to Hink­ley Point and store waste there for 100 years or more. After Fukushi­ma in Japan this acci­dent serves as yet anoth­er trag­ic reminder of the dan­gers of nuclear pow­er and the urgent need for the UK gov­ern­ment to fol­low the lead tak­en by Ger­many in phas­ing it out.” (see http://stophinkley.org/Health/ExplosionSept2011.htm)

Train­ing

Sev­er­al Stop New Nuclear train­ings for the block­ade of Hink­ley Point took place in recent weeks — in Bris­tol, Swansea, Glas­ton­bury, Bridg­wa­ter, Comp­ton Dun­don, and today in Lon­don. Two more train­ings will take place:

Exeter, Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber
A non-vio­lence train­ing for peo­ple from Exeter inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Stop New Nuclear block­ade of Hink­ley Point on 3 Octo­ber will take place on Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber 2011 from 1pm to 5.00pm.
Place: Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter, Streatham Cam­pus, Amory Build­ing, Room 105
Con­tact: exeter [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk

Leeds, Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber
A non-vio­lence train­ing for peo­ple from York­shire inter­est­ed in
par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Stop New Nuclear block­ade of Hink­ley Point on 3 Octo­ber will take place on Sun­day, 25 Sep­tem­ber 2011 from 2.00pm to 6.00pm.
Place: Leeds Met­ro­pol­i­tan Uni­ver­si­ty — City Cam­pus, LS1 3HE, Calev­er­ley Build­ing, Room CL 309
Con­tact: York­shire CND, phone 01274 730 795, Email dominic [at] yorkshirecnd.org.uk

We will not able to organ­ise more train­ings in the two weeks before the block­ade, but for every­one who still wants to par­tic­i­pate in a train­ing, there will be sev­er­al train­ing ses­sions in the camp on the week­end before the block­ade:

Sat­ur­day, 1 Octo­ber, 7.30–10.30pm
Sun­day, 2 Octo­ber, 8.00–11.00am and 2.00–5.00pm

Legal observer/legal sup­port work­shop Sun­day 3.00–5.00pm

Please reg­is­ter if you want to take part in any of these work­shops at train­ing [at]stopnewnuclear.org.uk, espe­cial­ly if you do not want to stay in the camp. You can also reg­is­ter by call­ing our info num­ber 0845–2872381.

Reg­is­ter for the Stop New Nuclear camp!

We already have more than 45 peo­ple reg­is­tered for the Stop New Nuclear camp, which is about 4 miles from Hink­ley Point. The camp will be a space to pre­pare for the action (non-vio­lence train­ing and legal observ­er train­ing work­shops will take place in the camp on Sat­ur­day evening and Sun­day dur­ing the day), but also a place to meet oth­er activists, to share expe­ri­ence, and to make plans for the future.

Please note that the camp will be alco­hol and drug free, and that dogs are not allowed, as there are sheep near­by.

It is impor­tant that you reg­is­ter for the camp, so that we can plan food, but also so that we can send you the exact loca­tion and direc­tions how to get to the camp. Your can reg­is­ter on our web­site at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/register.

Demon­stra­tion in Bridg­wa­ter, 1 Octo­ber

Our week­end of actions will kick off with a demon­stra­tion in Bridg­wa­ter on 1 Octo­ber. We will have sev­er­al speak­ers, music, and pos­si­bly oth­er per­for­mances.

Assem­bly is from 1pm on at Kings Square in Bridg­wa­ter, next to the EDF offices. From there we will walk about 20–30 min­utes through Bridg­wa­ter and end the demon­stra­tion with a ral­ly at Corn­hill.

After the demon­stra­tion, a shut­tle ser­vice will be organ­ised to the Stop New Nuclear camp. There is also a local bus, and we will end in time for peo­ple to catch the local bus.

A map mark­ing the assem­bly point and the loca­tion of the ral­ly is
avail­able at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/node/48.

Trans­port and park­ing

On 3 Octo­ber, we will organ­ise trans­port from the camp to the block­ade, and back to the camp. But we will need your help! Let us know if you have spare seats in your car, or if you are will­ing to dri­ve a car/minibus. We still need dri­vers! Please con­tact us urgent­ly on cam­paign [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk.

Trans­port is also being organ­ised from Glas­ton­bury (a coach will be leav­ing at 9am,to arrive at 10am), Bris­tol, and pos­si­bly from oth­er places. Please check out our trans­port sec­tion at http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/transport, and use our trav­el forum to ask for and offer trans­port.

Park­ing will be avail­able about 200–300m from the main gate on Wicks Moor Drove, the main and only access road to Hink­ley Point. How­ev­er, this park­ing is not suit­able for coach­es. Coach­es will need to drop off their pas­sen­gers and park else­where.

We need your help

We need a lot of help to make the cam­paign a suc­cess. We need:
Dri­vers (30 Sep­tem­ber — 4 Octo­ber, trans­port to and from the camp, to and from the block­ade, and from police sta­tions).
1st aiders (for the camp and the block­ade)
mar­quees of any size — from 10–100 per­sons

Please con­tact us at cam­paign [at] stopnewnuclear.org.uk if you can help, or have any ques­tions.

Mobilise!

Two weeks to go. Two weeks to make this cam­paign and the block­ade a suc­cess. Please help us mobilise for the cam­paign. If you need fliers (see http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/node/10), please let us know, and we will send you some as long as stock lasts. And talk to your friends, neigh­bours, col­leagues and any­one you can think of to join you at the block­ade. We need to send a strong mes­sage to EDF and gov­ern­ment that we will resist nuclear new built in Britain, not only at Hink­ley, but every­where.

Donate

Stop New Nuclear is being organ­ised on a shoe string bud­get, and we need your dona­tions to make the block­ade a suc­cess. We need to hire minibus­es and oth­er trans­port for the block­ade, we need to set up infra­struc­ture for train­ings and work­shops in the camp, we need to print more fliers, and and and. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, all this costs mon­ey.

Accord­ing to our present cal­cu­la­tions, we will be about £1,300 short! Please help us to close this fund­ing short­fall urgent­ly.

Please give gen­er­ous­ly. You can donate online at
http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/donate, or you can send a cheque made payable to Stop­New Nuclear to:
Stop New Nuclear
c/o 5 Cale­don­ian Road
Lon­don N1 9DX
Thank you!

Stop New Nuclear
Stop New Nuclear is a cam­paign to stop new nuclear pow­er sta­tions and is an alliance of Cam­paign for Nuclear Dis­ar­ma­ment, Stop Nuclear Pow­er Net­work UK, Kick Nuclear, South West Against Nuclear, Shut­down Sizewell, Sizewell Block­aders, Tri­dent Ploughshares, and Stop Hink­ley

Email: campaign@stopnewnuclear.org.uk
Web: http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk

Dale Farm locks on against eviction

Hun­dreds of peo­ple are gath­ered to resist the evic­tion of part of the Dale Farm trav­eller site which is due to begin today.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple are gath­ered to resist the evic­tion of part of the Dale Farm trav­eller site which is due to begin today.

Defences that have been built over months have been strength­ened with sev­er­al sup­port­ers are now locked on to con­crete bar­rels and to dif­fer­ent parts of the gate bar­ri­cades with d‑locks around their necks. Vehi­cles and even a wash­ing machine are being used to block the main gate and a huge amount of press and tv are at the site.

Actions against this year’s 6th biennial DSEi Arms Fair

Actions against this year’s 6th bien­ni­al DSEi Arms Fair at the ExCel Cen­tre in Lon­don’s Dock­lands kicked off last week in the run up to the event. This week’s resis­tance began with a can­dlelit vig­il on Mon­day night fol­lowed by a day of action of Tues­day, dawn­ing to reveal a sub­ver­tised bill­board as well as a huge ‘Destroy DSEi’ ban­ner hung between cranes.

Actions against this year’s 6th bien­ni­al DSEi Arms Fair at the ExCel Cen­tre in Lon­don’s Dock­lands kicked off last week in the run up to the event. This week’s resis­tance began with a can­dlelit vig­il on Mon­day night fol­lowed by a day of action of Tues­day, dawn­ing to reveal a sub­ver­tised bill­board as well as a huge ‘Destroy DSEi’ ban­ner hung between cranes.

A crit­i­cal mass of cyclists was out and about all day with explo­sive sounds and var­i­ous groups block­ad­ed entrances to the arms fair and death deal­ing com­pa­nies such as Aero­space Defence & Secu­ri­ty Group. There were die-ins all over the place, includ­ing out­side the BAe Sys­tems build­ing and at the Nation­al Gallery, where the offi­cial arms fair recep­tion was held on Tues­day evening, guests being greet­ed with chants of “Scum!”

Actions in West­min­ster dur­ing the day includ­ed a CAAT ‘super­mar­ket shop­ping’ event and a Chris­t­ian demon­stra­tion against drones with street the­atre. This lat­er moved on to Gen­er­al Atom­ics, which makes the British Reaper drone. A priest from Brad­ford was allowed to reach the main DSEi entrance after announc­ing that he’d come to per­form the offi­cial exor­cism. Many oth­er actions and visu­al events took place in and around Dock­lands. FIT were all over the place, some thin­ly dis­guised as ordi­nary cops, with FIT­watch­ers keep­ing a close eye on them. Two arrests were report­ed dur­ing the day, one for spray paint­ing anti- arms fair slo­gans and one for fence climb­ing. Sev­er­al more arrests were report­ed out­side the Nation­al Gallery in the evening. [More]

On Wednes­day, around 15 peo­ple marched from cen­tral Lon­don to the Excel cen­tre. Despite a blan­ket 30-day ban on march­es still in place in the City of Lon­don and the bor­ough of Tow­er Ham­lets, there was no police harass­ment.

Indian fishermen reject nuclear plant

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

In India, IBN reports that 10,000 fish­er­men staged a day-long fast protest­ing against the Koodanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Project (KNPP) being set up in the dis­trict under Indo-Russ­ian col­lab­o­ra­tion.

It says: “Around 10,000 fish­er­men from var­i­ous ham­lets in and around Koodanku­lam joined a core group of more than 100 fel­low fish­er­men of Idinthakarai whose indef­i­nite fast on the issue entered the third day on Mon­day, police said.

“More than 4,000 peo­ple had observed a fast on Sun­day protest­ing against the plant.”

It added in an update: “Express­ing their sol­i­dar­i­ty, hun­dreds of fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari left for Koodanku­lam on Mon­day to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike that is going on for the clo­sure of Kudanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Plant .

“Led by the Kanyaku­mari parish priest Leon Ken­son, fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari, Kovalam, Chin­na Mut­tom and sur­round­ing areas gath­ered in front of Our Lady of Ran­som Church at Kanyaku­mari on Mon­day morn­ing and left for Koodanku­lam in more than 50 vans.

“Ear­li­er, the coun­try boats in Kanyaku­mari and over 300 mech­a­nized boats at Chin­na Mut­tom fish­ing har­bour did not ven­ture into the sea as a form of protest.

“Apart from that, the fishermen’s chil­dren from Kanyaku­mari study­ing at var­i­ous schools and col­leges in the dis­trict did not report to their class­es today (Sep­tem­ber 12) and also accom­pa­nied their par­ents to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike at Koodanku­lam.”

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY VAN TORCHED, SPAIN

13.9.11

anony­mous com­mu­nique, trans­la­tion from This Is Our Job:

13.9.11

anony­mous com­mu­nique, trans­la­tion from This Is Our Job:

“This morn­ing, a van belong­ing to the multi­na­tion­al ‘con­struc­tion com­pa­ny’ PERI was torched. PERI is one of the most pow­er­ful com­pa­nies in the con­struc­tion indus­try, which is ded­i­cat­ed to destroy­ing the Earth through the build­ing of high­ways, pow­er sta­tions, etc.

We no longer rec­og­nize life, col­o­nized as it is by sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy. Nor can we talk about life skills, as the dead have replaced the liv­ing. In this tomb of cement and sug­ar, we are sur­round­ed by mil­lions of dead objects. The nan­otech­nol­o­gy and biotech­nol­o­gy indus­tries are the new dic­ta­tor­ships to be top­pled. They are the new mas­ters of the world, patent­ing life and impos­ing a form of non­life devoid of any kind of auton­o­my. In the war against them, we must arm our­selves with every pos­si­ble method and attack inces­sant­ly. We rec­og­nize a part of nature in our­selves, and we fight against whomev­er would take away and destroy that nature. There is no time to lose. Our desire and pas­sion will put an end to every­thing that dom­i­nates us.

Civ­i­liza­tion (not anar­chy!!!!) is the high­est expres­sion of order. There­fore, instead of the order and con­trol that dri­ve us to mad­ness, we embrace chaos, indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, and the unique­ness of every liv­ing thing.

Who­ev­er talks about rev­o­lu­tion and class strug­gle with­out cri­tiquing sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy has a corpse in their mouth.

For Bil­ly, Sil­via, Cos­ta, Mar­co, and our insur­gent broth­ers and sis­ters in Chile, Greece, Mex­i­co, etc.

‘And if your heart isn’t bro­ken by the knowl­edge of what they are doing to the world we love, then I feel sor­ry for you. Maybe you’re no longer alive. But if the death of the plan­et we love makes you cry, then take those tears and turn them into action.’
—Rod Coro­n­a­do”

Span­ish:
“Esta madru­ga­da fue incen­di­a­da una fur­gone­ta de la multi­na­cional ‘con­struc­to­ra’ PERI, una de la empre­sas más fuertes en el sec­tor de la con­struc­ción, que se ded­i­ca a destru­ir la tier­ra medi­ante obras de autopis­tas, cen­trales elelctri­c­as…..

Ya no recono­ce­mos la vida, col­o­niza­da por la cien­cia y la tec­nolo­gia, más bien podri­amos hablar de la tec­ni­ca de la vida, donde lo muer­to ha susti­tu­i­do a lo vivo, rodea­d­os de mil­lones de obje­tos muer­tos, en esta tum­ba de cemen­to y azu­car. Las empre­sas de nano y biotec­nolo­gia son las nuevas dic­taduras a las que der­rib­ar, son ellas las nuevas amas del mun­do, quienes paten­tan la vida y quienes nos impo­nen una for­ma de no-vida en la que desa­parece cualquier for­ma de autonomía, es en la guer­ra con­tra ellas en la que debe­mos armarnos de todos los medios posi­bles y atacar sin cesar, recono­cer­nos una parte de la nat­u­raleza y luchar con­tra quién nos ale­ja de ella y la destruye. No hay tiem­po que esper­ar es nue­stro deseo y pasión acabar con­tra todo lo que nos dom­i­na.

La civ­i­lización (y no la anar­quia!!!!) es la máx­i­ma expre­sión del orden, por eso abrazamos el caos, la indi­vid­u­al­i­dad y la pecu­liari­dad de cada ser vivo, con­tra el orden y el con­trol que nos lle­van a la locu­ra.

Quien habla de rev­olu­ción y de lucha de clases sin criticar la cien­cia y la tec­nolo­gia tiene un cadav­er en la boca.
A Bil­ly, Sil­via, Cos­ta, Mar­co, a nues­tras her­manxs insur­rec­txs en Chile, Gre­cia, Mex­i­co……

‘Y si no se te parte el corazón al saber lo que le están hacien­do al mun­do que amamos, sien­to lás­ti­ma por ti, quizás ya no estés vivx. Pero si la muerte del plan­e­ta que amamos te hace llo­rar, entonces toma esas lágri­mas y con­viérte­las en acción.‘
Rod Coro­n­a­do.”

Land & Freedom camp, London

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Free­dom

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Free­dom

Greet­ings,

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to high­light the issue of the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship and the pol­i­tics and laws regard­ing the use of the land local­ly and glob­al­ly.  We want to com­mu­ni­cate the myr­i­ad of effects that the cur­rent sys­tem has includ­ing:

  •  the almost com­plete restric­tion of access to land to live (and grow) autonomous­ly and sus­tain­ably by com­mon peo­ple in the UK and around the world due to laws gov­ern­ing use of the land and/or eco­nom­ic dom­i­na­tion of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensu­ing effect of arti­fi­cial scarci­ty of avail­able land that the restric­tion of access cre­ates: dri­ving up the cost of hous­ing and reduc­ing it’s avail­abil­i­ty in both cities and the rur­al areas.  This cre­ates a slave cul­ture where peo­ple strug­gle to make end’s meet in crammed urban envi­ron­ments or as for the most of the world’s pop­u­la­tion even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the mod­ern lega­cy of polit­i­cal struc­tures that serve the inter­ests of the land own­ing estab­lish­ment which have been pre­vi­ous­ly con­struct­ed through his­to­ry by the same priv­eleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these struc­tures con­tin­ue to push for­ward  dis­pos­sess­ing peo­ple local­ly and glob­al­ly: whether it be the UK Gov­’s agen­da to ban squat­ting, evict­ing peo­ple from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dis­pos­ses­sion of peo­ple from the land they depend on for their sur­vival.
  • the com­plete­ly unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, unsus­tain­able and dan­ger­ous con­trol of the nat­ur­al resources by pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions for prof­it, monop­o­lis­ing pro­duc­tion of human­i­ties bare neces­si­ties: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarci­ty, destruc­tion of eco-sys­tems, cli­mate change, peak oil etc…

We go peace­ful­ly to Clapham Com­mon call­ing for a rad­i­cal change in the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship: a redis­tri­b­u­tion of land local­ly and glob­al­ly and a reform of the laws which cur­rent­ly pre­vent rea­son­able access to the land by the com­mon peo­ple. 
We are com­mon peo­ple!

Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny

On Sat­ur­day 17th Sep­tem­ber, we will be meet­ing at the Band­stand on Clapham Com­mon from 12 o’clock onwards for the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Land & Free­dom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, pre­sen­ta­tions, a peo­ple’s assem­bly, games and a pic­nic.  If you want to, bring an instru­ment, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Loca­tion: Band­stand, Clapham Com­mon.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Trans­port: Clapham Com­mon tube or Clapham South. Bus­es from Clapham Junc­tion.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195 for any ques­tions.

Ban­ner Mak­ing Ses­sion @ Pass­ing Clouds in Dal­ston this Mon­day

If you fan­cy mak­ing some beau­ti­ful ban­ners, this Mon­day (12th Sept), there will be an oppur­tu­ni­ty to paint ban­ners for the Land & Free­dom Camp at Pass­ing Clouds from 6–8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or ban­ner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F ban­ner mak­ing ses­sion
Time: 6–8 p.m
Loca­tion: Pass­ing Clouds, Dal­ston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Trans­port: Haggerston/ Dal­ston Kings­land.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195.

Final plan­ning meet­ing @ the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall on Wednes­day.

The final open plan­ning meet­ing for the Land & Free­dom Camp will be this Wednes­day (14th Sept) in the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don from 6 p.m onwards. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be logis­ti­cal prepa­ra­tion for Sat­ur­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and the rest of the camp, PR strat­e­gy organ­i­sa­tion and net­work­ing the event. 

Event: final L&F plan­ning meet­ing.
Time: 6 p.m
Loca­tion: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Trans­port: near­est tube: Water­loo
Con­tact: 07963475195

Call out for pre­sen­ta­tions, music and per­for­mance for Land & Free­dom Camp

Have you got some­thing you would like to present relat­ing to the core issues of the Land & Free­dom Camp?  Per­haps you’d like to express your­self through music, poet­ry, the­atre or anoth­er art form? Have you got an activ­i­ty or work­shop that will empow­er peo­ple?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organ­ise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Com­mon between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d pre­fer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the loca­tion to be post­ed on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are cur­rent­ly short of: tarps, tents, ban­ner mate­r­i­al, cook­ing pots, food & water con­tain­ers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videog­ra­phy, real jour­nal­ism, pho­tog­ra­phy, art, cook­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, facil­i­tat­ing, skip­ping, tat­ting & fun­ning 8)

Join the Net­works and spread the word:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845#

fol­low us on Twit­ter : @freetheland

www.landandfreedom.squat.net

Fliers and posters for shar­ing and print­ing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land and­free­dom/­land-free­dom-ca mp-poster+105652

Fli­er———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Con­tact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Pro­pri­ety and sin­gle inter­est divides the peo­ple of a land and the whole world into par­ties and is the cause of all wars and blood­shed and con­tention every­where”

 

Ger­rard Win­stan­ley & 14 oth­ers TheTrue Lev­ellers Stan­dard Advanced — April, 1649

Email Con­tact email: Land_and_freedom-medium
Lan & Free­dom

Greet­ings,

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept til Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to high­light the issue of the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship and the pol­i­tics and laws regard­ing the use of the land local­ly and glob­al­ly.  We want to com­mu­ni­cate the myr­i­ad of effects that the cur­rent sys­tem has includ­ing:

  •  the almost com­plete restric­tion of access to land to live (and grow) autonomous­ly and sus­tain­ably by com­mon peo­ple in the UK and around the world due to laws gov­ern­ing use of the land and/or eco­nom­ic dom­i­na­tion of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensu­ing effect of arti­fi­cial scarci­ty of avail­able land that the restric­tion of access cre­ates: dri­ving up the cost of hous­ing and reduc­ing it’s avail­abil­i­ty in both cities and the rur­al areas.  This cre­ates a slave cul­ture where peo­ple strug­gle to make end’s meet in crammed urban envi­ron­ments or as for the most of the world’s pop­u­la­tion even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the mod­ern lega­cy of polit­i­cal struc­tures that serve the inter­ests of the land own­ing estab­lish­ment which have been pre­vi­ous­ly con­struct­ed through his­to­ry by the same priv­eleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these struc­tures con­tin­ue to push for­ward  dis­pos­sess­ing peo­ple local­ly and glob­al­ly: whether it be the UK Gov­’s agen­da to ban squat­ting, evict­ing peo­ple from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dis­pos­ses­sion of peo­ple from the land they depend on for their sur­vival.
  • the com­plete­ly unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, unsus­tain­able and dan­ger­ous con­trol of the nat­ur­al resources by pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions for prof­it, monop­o­lis­ing pro­duc­tion of human­i­ties bare neces­si­ties: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarci­ty, destruc­tion of eco-sys­tems, cli­mate change, peak oil etc…

We go peace­ful­ly to Clapham Com­mon call­ing for a rad­i­cal change in the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship: a redis­tri­b­u­tion of land local­ly and glob­al­ly and a reform of the laws which cur­rent­ly pre­vent rea­son­able access to the land by the com­mon peo­ple. 
We are com­mon peo­ple!

Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny

On Sat­ur­day 17th Sep­tem­ber, we will be meet­ing at the Band­stand on Clapham Com­mon from 12 O’Clock onwards for the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Land & Free­dom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, pre­sen­ta­tions, a peo­ple’s assem­bly, games and a pic­nic.  If you want to, bring an instru­ment, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Loca­tion: Band­stand, Clapham Com­mon.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Trans­port: Clapham Com­mon tube or Clapham South. Bus­es from Clapham Junc­tion.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195 for any ques­tions.

Ban­ner Mak­ing Ses­sion @ Pass­ing Clouds in Dal­ston this Mon­day

If you fan­cy mak­ing some beau­ti­ful ban­ners, this Mon­day (12th Sept), there will be an oppur­tu­ni­ty to paint ban­ners for the Land & Free­dom Camp at Pass­ing Clouds from 6–8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or ban­ner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F ban­ner mak­ing ses­sion
Time: 6–8 p.m
Loca­tion: Pass­ing Clouds, Dal­ston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Trans­port: Haggerston/ Dal­ston Kings­land.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195.

Final plan­ning meet­ing @ the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall on Wednes­day.

The final open plan­ning meet­ing for the Land & Free­dom Camp will be this Wednes­day (14th Sept) in the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don from 6 p.m onwards. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be logis­ti­cal prepa­ra­tion for Sat­ur­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and the rest of the camp, PR strat­e­gy organ­i­sa­tion and net­work­ing the event. 

Event: final L&F plan­ning meet­ing.
Time: 6 p.m
Loca­tion: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Trans­port: near­est tube: Water­loo
Con­tact: 07963475195

Call out for pre­sen­ta­tions, music and per­for­mance for Land & Free­dom Camp

Have you got some­thing you would like to present relat­ing to the core issues of the Land & Free­dom Camp?  Per­haps you’d like to express your­self through music, poet­ry, the­atre or anoth­er art form? Have you got an activ­i­ty or work­shop that will empow­er peo­ple?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organ­ise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Com­mon between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d pre­fer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the loca­tion to be post­ed on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are cur­rent­ly short of: tarps, tents, ban­ner mate­r­i­al, cook­ing pots, food & water con­tain­ers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videog­ra­phy, real jour­nal­ism, pho­tog­ra­phy, art, cook­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, facil­i­tat­ing, skip­ping, tat­ting & fun­ning 8)

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Fliers and posters for shar­ing and print­ing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land and­free­dom/­land-free­dom-ca mp-poster+105652

Fli­er———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Con­tact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Pro­pri­ety and sin­gle inter­est divides the peo­ple of a land and the whole world into par­ties and is the cause of all wars and blood­shed and con­tention every­where”

 

Ger­rard Win­stan­ley & 14 oth­ers TheTrue Lev­ellers Stan­dard Advanced — April, 1649

Email Con­tact email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org

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