Category: Action Reports

Mainshill Solidarity Camp needs you! Clear-felling and drilling ongoing

Want to sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty in it’s fight against cor­rupt coun­cils and coal min­ing com­pa­nies? Want to pro­tect part of Scotland’s beau­ti­ful land­scape and endan­gered wildlife? Want to take land and pow­er away from a wealthy aris­to­crat and live com­mu­nal­ly on lib­er­at­ed land?

Mainshill logging and machineryWant to sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty in it’s fight against cor­rupt coun­cils and coal min­ing com­pa­nies? Want to pro­tect part of Scotland’s beau­ti­ful land­scape and endan­gered wildlife? Want to take land and pow­er away from a wealthy aris­to­crat and live com­mu­nal­ly on lib­er­at­ed land? Want to do some­thing about the vast expan­sion of open­cast coal min­ing and its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate chaos? Then get yer­self down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!

Over the past cou­ple of weeks work has resumed at Main­shill Wood with large areas of plan­ta­tion for­est being felled and bore­hole drilling ongo­ing, in prepa­ra­tion for the open­cast mine. Scot­tish Coal, with the pro­tec­tion of Strath­clyde Police, have moved in anoth­er team of drillers, J B Site Inves­ti­ga­tions, and ‘for­est man­agers’ Scot­tish Wood­lands to car­ry out this work.

Last week drilling work was stopped when a camp res­i­dent scaled a drilling rig and held off attempts by police climbers to remove her for 6 hours. Oth­er actions to stop work and pre­vent felling have been ongo­ing.

But the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp needs sup­port – stop­ping this prepara­to­ry work and impor­tant­ly the felling of more plan­ta­tion for­est is essen­tial to win­ning this cam­paign. Even if just for a day, come along to the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp and help us put a stop to Scot­tish Coal and Lord Home’s plans to rip up the Dou­glas Val­ley and poi­son local com­mu­ni­ties.

Go to http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=415#How%20to%20Get%20There for direc­tions to the camp.

mainshill@riseup.net
http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/

Great Climate Swoop latest info — updated

Rat­cliffe-on-Soar maps

10 days to go…

Rat­cliffe-on-Soar maps

10 days to go…

Each bloc has a sep­a­rate mis­sion, and slight­ly dif­fer­ent plan, to ensure we have the whole pow­er sta­tion cov­ered for a suc­cess­ful take over! The first thing you need to do is choose your bloc and sign up for text alerts here: http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009/text-updates

Below is more info about each blocs plans …

*TAKE BACK THE POWER & FALSE SOLUTIONS BLOCS*
Take Back the Power’s mis­sion: get to the con­trol room and take back the pow­er!
False Solution’s mis­sion: get to the coal pile and expose the false solu­tions!

1) Get into the zone marked on the map here: LINK for 10am
2) Get to the muster point for 11am. The muster point will be sent out on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, before 10am
3) SWOOP on Rat­cliffe for 1pm!

If you don’t get any com­mu­ni­ca­tion about a muster point — just swoop for 1!

The muster point will be a great place to get excit­ed and ener­gise for swoop­ing, get legal info and get the reas­sur­ance that you’re not tak­ing over Rat­cliffe on Soar alone!

On the oth­er hand, if gath­er­ing as a group isn’t your thing, join the decen­tralised Cap­i­tal­ism is Cri­sis bloc and make sure you swoop at 1!

And if you haven’t already got a map, it’s real­ly, real­ly impor­tant that you print one out when sign­ing up for the text. It can be print­ed from here short­ly:
http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009/swoop-information — best print­ed on A3 but any map is bet­ter than none!

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THE GREAT CLIMATE SWOOP — 17 DAYS TO GO!

There are less than three weeks to go until our day of action! Just imag­ine… It’s the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day 17th Octo­ber. You receive a mes­sage telling you to move into posi­tion at the south side of Rat­cliffe-on-Soar pow­er sta­tion. The heli­copter blades cut through the noise of the cars zip­ping up and down the M1. Your mis­sion is clear and you’re ready to swoop.

Pre­sent­ed by Cli­mate Camp, Plane Stu­pid, Ris­ing Tide and Cli­mate Rush, the swoop will see thou­sands of con­cerned indi­vid­u­als con­verg­ing and tak­ing over E.ON’s biggest coal fired pow­er sta­tion.

Read the infor­ma­tion below care­ful­ly, as it con­tains impor­tant plan­ning details that aim to make the swoop the huge suc­cess it needs to be. Peo­ple are being urged to arrive the night before (Fri­day 16th) if at all pos­si­ble, where there will be an info stall at Not­ting­ham sta­tion (6pm-9pm) direct­ing peo­ple to a pre-action meet up point, fol­lowed by places to crash.

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BLOCS & HOW IT’S GOING TO WORK

We can now announce the four blocs! Whether you want to high­light a solu­tion or expose a prob­lem, sign up to receive text alerts and details of your mis­sion on the day.

STEP 1: CHOOSE YOUR SWOOP GROUP

*TAKE BACK THE POWER*

Mis­sion: Get to the con­trol room and take back the pow­er!

While the work­ers receive piti­ful pay ris­es, the boss­es of plants like Rat­cliffe are rak­ing in record prof­its. It’s time to kick start a just tran­si­tion to a clean ener­gy world by build­ing the real solu­tions to cli­mate change. Let’s demon­strate that we can’t rely on gov­ern­ments or cor­po­ra­tions or any­one else to sort out the mess we’re in; it’s up to us to be the change we need. Join the TAKE BACK THE POWER bloc and aim for the con­trol room to hit that big red ‘off’ switch

*FOOTSTEPS TO THE FUTURE*

Mis­sion: Get to the main gate and cre­ate your vision of a bet­ter future!

A bloc for the young, old and all in between to cre­ate a vision for a future beyond fos­sil fuels. Effi­cient and renew­able, this bloc will be a space to show the solu­tions. From bike pow­ered sound sys­tems to solar show­ers, come, con­ceive and cre­ate.

This Bloc will be meet­ing at 10am on Sat­ur­day 17th at Not­ting­ham train sta­tion to trav­el en masse to the pow­er sta­tion. (How­ev­er, fear not, if you are up for one of the oth­er Blocs there will be just as clear ways to get involved on the day dis­trib­uted via the text mes­sag­ing sys­tem)

*FALSE SOLUTIONS*

Mis­sion: Get to the coal pile and expose the false solu­tions!

Coal is not the answer! The only real solu­tion to cli­mate change is to stop burn­ing the fos­sil fuels that are caus­ing it! Let’s expose the green­wash and tech­nofix­es. Come armed with green paint! Or how about a net to cap­ture and store some coal?! What­ev­er your tools and meth­ods, decom­mis­sion that coal!

*CAPITALISM IS CRISIS*

Mis­sion: Get any­where in or around the pow­er sta­tion and choose your own
adven­ture! This is the decen­tralised option.

Through the fences; up the chim­ney; in the water. You’ve got your own ideas about mak­ing this a spec­tac­u­lar action. Do what YOU can and how YOU want. The eco­nom­ic and cli­mate crises are linked. Cap­i­tal­ism is a root cause of cli­mate change and can­not be the solu­tion!

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STEP 2: DECIDE HOW TO GET THERE

You have two options for how to begin your mis­sion:

OPTION 1:

Look­ing for peo­ple to swoop with? Com­ing from fur­ther a field?

Make your way to Not­ting­ham sta­tion between 6 and 11pm on Fri­day 16th Octo­ber. There’ll be some­one there to meet you, intro­duce you to fel­low swoop­ers and direct you to accom­mo­da­tion if you need it. But please email info@thegreatclimateswoop.org if you will need a place to sleep. Make sure you’re ready to go at 10am on Sat­ur­day.

OPTION 2:

In an affin­i­ty group already?

That’s great! Make sure you’re in the Not­ting­ham area at 10am on Sat­ur­day 17th Octo­ber. If you need or want to get there the night before let us know if you’ll need a place to stay, but the more you can sort out for your­self the bet­ter!

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HOW’S THIS GOING TO WORK?

Whether you’ve arrived the night before or on in the morn­ing, you’ll receive a text mes­sage with details of the next part of your mis­sion. Then be pre­pared to swoop on the pow­er sta­tion at 1pm!

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Info about region­al trans­port, region­al pre-Swooop events, what to (not) bring and sign­ing up to the Swoop SMS ser­vice all at http://www.thegreatclimateswoop.org

Fences video for the Great Cli­mate Swoop -
http://www.vimeo.com/6865520

Also, check out this invalu­able resource, with pho­tos & maps of the pow­er sta­tion -
www.brightonclimatechange.org/southcoastblog/?p=76

Details of pre­vi­ous action at Rat­cliffe 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Stop Vedanta mining in India : meeting on how you can help

Sat­ur­day 17th Oct 2–4pm Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics

Sat­ur­day 17th Oct 2–4pm Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics
Cor­po­rate mur­der, envi­ron­men­tal crimes:
Vedan­ta plc, DfID and the Indi­an State
PUBLIC MEETING AND FILM SCREENING

Samaren­dra Das activist, film-mak­er and researcher will dis­cuss these and relat­ed issues at a screen­ing of extracts from his remark­able film Wira Pdi­ka (Earth­worm and Com­pa­ny Man) in which peo­ple from the Adi­vasi Don­gria Kondh and Majhi Kondh com­mu­ni­ties, activists, singers and dancers, for­est dwellers and fish­er peo­ple speak about their lives and their strug­gles against Vedan­ta. If Vedan­ta are not stopped, the mine will destroy the Niyam­giri hills — known as the most beau­ti­ful moun­tains in India — wip­ing out the ancient civ­i­liza­tion of the Don­gria Kondh adi­vasi com­mu­ni­ty who regard the Niyam Don­gar moun­tain and forests of the area as their Gods. It will also lead to unprece­dent­ed envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ters, water pol­lu­tion and mass unem­ploy­ment.

sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
07846873341

The meet­ing will be in Rm 302 Clement House, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics, The Ald­wych, Lon­don WC2
(Map of LSE at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx)

http://www.southasiasolidarity.org

For more info on what’s at stake check out
www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=101732

For lat­est news check out
http://londonminingnetwork.org

Sheffield Social Centre Opens

The loca­tion of the Social Cen­tre can now be announced:

Pis­gah House Road in Broomhill, S10 5BJ

You can take a num­ber 52 bus from the cen­tre of town to just past Broomhill at Hoole Road and it’s a two minute walk from there.

Sheffield squat flyerSheffield social centre intro posterThe loca­tion of the Social Cen­tre can now be announced:

Pis­gah House Road in Broomhill, S10 5BJ

You can take a num­ber 52 bus from the cen­tre of town to just past Broomhill at Hoole Road and it’s a two minute walk from there.

The social cen­tre is a non-hier­ar­chi­cal, anti-cap­i­tal­ist space based on a num­ber of core prin­ci­ples which reflect the world its organ­is­ers want to see: co-oper­a­tion and mutu­al aid, open­ness and inclu­sion, vol­un­tary par­tic­i­pa­tion and shared respon­si­bil­i­ty.

It is a place where dis­crim­i­na­tion of any kind is chal­lenged in order to cre­ate as inclu­sive a place as pos­si­ble. One way of achiev­ing this will be through open meet­ings using con­sen­sus deci­sion-mak­ing, which hap­pen every oth­er day at 10am to decide how the cen­tre oper­ates, with the first one of these hap­pen­ing on Thurs­day Octo­ber the 1st.

A pro­gramme of work­shops, dis­cus­sions, and oth­er events is planned for the first fort­night. The full timetable can be found on the Events page and any­one is wel­come to pro­pose things they’d like to organ­ise in the social cen­tre by email­ing info@sheffieldsocialcentre.org.uk, call­ing 07729575582, or by vis­it­ing the cen­tre.

“We’ve estab­lished this space for peo­ple to open­ly dis­cuss and learn from each oth­er about issues of social and envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, because there’s a chron­ic lack of pub­lic space in which peo­ple can come togeth­er and freely and gen­uine­ly talk about the things they are con­cerned about, and take action togeth­er to change them. The only real way of address­ing the prob­lems of our soci­ety is for us all to realise the pow­er we pos­sess when we act co-oper­a­tive­ly, and help­ing peo­ple to make that real­i­sa­tion is one of our main goals in set­ting up this social cen­tre”.

The build­ing being occu­pied, Pis­gah House, is on the same site as the Tap­ton Exper­i­men­tal Gar­dens, both of which are owned by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Sheffield. In 2007 local res­i­dents defeat­ed a plan­ning appli­ca­tion by prop­er­ty devel­op­ers Miller Homes to demol­ish all of the build­ings on the site.

The last decent social cen­tre we had was Matil­da, but that was evict­ed in sum­mer 2006 by the iron­i­cal­ly named ‘York­shire For­ward.’

Build­ing pho­tos

For events for the first 2 weeks and a map, look at http://sheffieldsocialcentre.org.uk/

Banamex bank branch bombed and two HSBC ATMs burned

Once again we have shown who our ene­mies are; it was in the ear­ly morn­ing around 2:00am today that our cell decid­ed to join the bat­tle for the dis­so­lu­tion of civ­i­liza­tion. An explo­sive device was placed in a Banamex branch, locat­ed in the south­west of Mex­i­co City, in the Mil­pa Alta bor­ough… Eco-anar­chists went out to fight against evil cap­i­tal­ism dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 17, with rage and con­vic­tion. We turned to one of the many banks that are destroy­ing the plan­et and caus­ing famine in the poor­est coun­tries; shak­ing their damn egos, we decid­ed to sab­o­tage two ATMs and set them on fire, leav­ing a clear mes­sage ‘Mur­der­ing Cap­i­tal­ism.’

Eco-anarchists burn two HSBC bank ATMsOnce again we have shown who our ene­mies are; it was in the ear­ly morn­ing around 2:00am today that our cell decid­ed to join the bat­tle for the dis­so­lu­tion of civ­i­liza­tion. An explo­sive device was placed in a Banamex branch, locat­ed in the south­west of Mex­i­co City, in the Mil­pa Alta bor­ough… Eco-anar­chists went out to fight against evil cap­i­tal­ism dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 17, with rage and con­vic­tion. We turned to one of the many banks that are destroy­ing the plan­et and caus­ing famine in the poor­est coun­tries; shak­ing their damn egos, we decid­ed to sab­o­tage two ATMs and set them on fire, leav­ing a clear mes­sage ‘Mur­der­ing Cap­i­tal­ism.’

Sub­ver­sive Alliance For The Lib­er­a­tion Of The Earth, Ani­mal and Humans bombs Banamex bank branch in Mex­i­co City

Com­mu­nique:

“BOMB IN BANAMEX BANK BRANCH. Mex­i­co

Once again we have shown who our ene­mies are; it was in the ear­ly morn­ing around 2:00am today that our cell decid­ed to join the bat­tle for the dis­so­lu­tion of civ­i­liza­tion. An explo­sive device was placed in a Banamex branch, locat­ed in the south­west of Mex­i­co City, in the Mil­pa Alta bor­ough. As every­one knows, Banamex is a com­pa­ny that pro­motes tor­ture, destruc­tion and slav­ery; the pur­pose of the attack was to stop these bas­tards who need to know that we are not play­ing, that we are not mere­ly van­dals. Our ene­mies know per­fect­ly well why we did it, and their media allies have to cov­er the truth; well we also have some­thing pre­pared for them. Stop the con­struc­tion of the prison in Tláhuac. Fire to the pris­ons! Pris­on­ers to the streets! Stop the destruc­tion of the nature reserves for line 12 of the metro. Stop the expan­sion of progress. We have end­less rea­sons why your filthy tech­no-indus­tri­al sys­tem pro­vokes our rage and hatred and we say to you now that we will not stop until we see your ash­es.

The bank was fucked up, the win­dows, signs and ATMs were left unus­able, the dam­age exceed­ed 500,000 Pesos. This town was aston­ished to see the dam­ages, the police nev­er expect­ed this and even less that we would do it right in front of their faces since a patrol car was only one block from the bank and nev­er sus­pect­ed the per­son who passed right in front of them; after a few sec­onds we fled escap­ing a sec­ond patrol car.

Alian­za Sub­ver­si­va Por La Lib­eración De La Tier­ra, Ani­mal Y Humana [Sub­ver­sive Alliance For The Lib­er­a­tion Of The Earth, Ani­mal and Humans]

Greet­ings to the ELF, ALF and eco-arson­ists for the lib­er­a­tion of the earth.”

Eco-anar­chists burn two HSBC bank ATM machines in Mex­i­co

Com­mu­nique:

Eco-anar­chists went out to fight against evil cap­i­tal­ism dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Sep­tem­ber 17, with rage and con­vic­tion. We turned to one of the many banks that are destroy­ing the plan­et and caus­ing famine in the poor­est coun­tries; shak­ing their damn egos, we decid­ed to sab­o­tage two ATMs and set them on fire, leav­ing a clear mes­sage ‘Mur­der­ing Cap­i­tal­ism.’ We are very pleased to be a stone in the shoes of these damned mur­der­ers!

Once again we demon­strat­ed that there are those who will speak for the fall­en, for peo­ple who are not guilty of all this cap­i­tal­ist and con­sumerist crap!

Total lib­er­a­tion!
Health and anar­chy!
Rage and action!
The flame will burn!
A greet­ing to all those who fight!”

ELF Torches Cars at Dealership in Guadalajara, Mexico

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

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

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

Com­mu­nique:

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

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

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SPECIESISM

ANIMAL, HUMAN AND EARTH LIBERATION.

ECO-ANARCHISTS GUADALAJARA MEXICO”

Span­ish:

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

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

CERO TOLERANCIA A LA DESTRUCCION AMBIENTAL

CERO TOLERANCIA AL ESPECISMO

LIBERACION ANIMAL,HUMANA Y DE LA TIERRA.

ECO ANARQUISTAS GUADALAJARA MEXICO”

Source: http://www.elfpressoffice.org

Copenhagen Mass action against Coal Plant today

26th Sep­tem­ber 2009

Shut it Down purple bloc bannerShut it Down cop confrontation26th Sep­tem­ber 2009
Today in Copen­hagen is a large mass action against a Coal Pow­er Sta­tion near to the city. Break­ing news is of one mass ‘pre­ven­ta­tive’ arrest of activists from one of the two blocks (green / pur­ple) and the cops attack­ing anoth­er group with trun­cheons. A hole has been cut in the fence of the plant at the rear. The action is con­tin­u­ing…

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As is now usu­al when the Dan­ish cops make a mass ‘pre­ven­ta­tive’ arrest of loads of pro­test­ers, they ket­tle them, take them indi­vid­u­al­ly, and hand­cuff them with their arms behind their back. Then they put each per­son one by one behind the oth­er with the legs along­side the one in front. Sit­ting in the fash­ion for a while becomes painful as you wait for the wag­ons to even­tu­al­ly arrive and cart you off from the protest site.

They’ve been using this mass arrest thing for a num­ber of years now. It does­n’t mat­ter who you are, if you’re in the place they want to arrest peo­ple then its tough!

It’s like the UK ket­tle with an added twist!

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Today about 1500 peo­ple took direct action to shut down one of Copen­hagen’s coal fire pow­er plants.

The action plan was open­ly announced sev­er­al months ago and Dan­ish police have been gear­ing up for mas­sive use of force and to tri­al new anti-protest laws. Around 100 of the pro­test­ers man­aged to get inside the pow­er plant which should have been shut down due to safe­ty reg­u­la­tions at that point — but was kept run­ning. How­ev­er, as this was the goal for the action pro­test­ers have declared the action a suc­cess. Around 100 peo­ple have been arrest­ed.

One per­son so far has been charged. The action was wide­ly and pos­i­tive­ly cov­ered in Dan­ish news and pro­test­ers regard it as a very pos­i­tive tri­al run for actions around the COP 15.

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Suc­cess crit­era for Shut It Down Sat­ur­day 26th Sep­tem­ber, Copen­hagen

1. enter a pow­er plant and to shut down the pro­duc­tion
2. con­front politi­cians and ener­gy com­pa­nies with direct action, chal­leng­ing the exist­ing sys­tem
3. to evoke inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion of the intent­ness of cli­mate move­ments
4. mobilise peo­ple for cli­mate activism by par­tic­i­pat­ing in an cre­ative, colour­ful and inte­grat­ing action
5. and final­ly to raise aware­ness about the con­flict between coal pow­er and cli­mate change

http://shutitdown.dk/

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

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

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

Dear Police,

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

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

Dear Police,

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you on the streets,

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

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

Target Brimar: against the military-industrial complex

Brimar is a Man­ches­ter-based com­pa­ny which makes com­po­nents which form a vital part of the Apache heli­copters used by the Israeli mil­i­tary in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, by the US Marines in Iraq and by British and US mil­i­taries in Afghanistan.

Brimar is a Man­ches­ter-based com­pa­ny which makes com­po­nents which form a vital part of the Apache heli­copters used by the Israeli mil­i­tary in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, by the US Marines in Iraq and by British and US mil­i­taries in Afghanistan.
The new­ly-formed Tar­get Brimar cam­paign is call­ing a launch demon­stra­tion on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 17th, meet­ing at the Gar­den­ers’ Arms round­about in Moston, Man­ches­ter at noon. All are wel­come, and please bring ban­ners, plac­ards, musi­cal instru­ments… there will be veg­an food and speak­ers from the Pales­tin­ian com­mu­ni­ty and from the Edo Decom­mis­sion­ers, the activists who dur­ing the Israeli inva­sion of Gaza in Jan­u­ary broke into a Brighton arms fac­to­ry and dam­aged equip­ment there. There is trans­port avail­able from Brighton/London, and a Crit­i­cal Mass bike ride from Man­ches­ter city cen­tre at 11am.
In addi­tion to this launch demon­stra­tion, we are call­ing on peo­ple in Man­ches­ter and nation­wide to take autonomous action and to car­ry out reg­u­lar vig­ils, noise demon­stra­tions and oth­er protests in the vicin­i­ty of Brimar’s fac­to­ry off the Green­gate main road in Chad­der­ton.
For more infor­ma­tion, see http://www.targetbrimar.org.uk or http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123955974338&ref=nf or email info@targetbrimar.org.uk

Anti-golf course group Trumps statues

24 Sep­tem­ber 2009
Cam­paign­ers against Don­ald Trump’s £1bn golf resort plans in Aberdeen­shire have dressed up stat­ues around Scot­land as the Amer­i­can tycoon.

The Menie Lib­er­a­tion Front group said the masks and golf clubs had been added to about 20 stat­ues in Aberdeen, Edin­burgh, Glas­gow and Stir­ling.

Trump statue masked24 Sep­tem­ber 2009
Cam­paign­ers against Don­ald Trump’s £1bn golf resort plans in Aberdeen­shire have dressed up stat­ues around Scot­land as the Amer­i­can tycoon.

The Menie Lib­er­a­tion Front group said the masks and golf clubs had been added to about 20 stat­ues in Aberdeen, Edin­burgh, Glas­gow and Stir­ling.

The Trump Organ­i­sa­tion con­demned the “stunt”.

Grampian Police said the force was inves­ti­gat­ing the inci­dents in Aberdeen.

Mr Trump hopes to build what he has described as the “world’s great­est” golf resort at Menie.

A spokesman for the protest group said: “We are dress­ing up famous Scot­tish stat­ues as the Amer­i­can tycoon to sym­bol­ise the way Trump thinks he can walk over Scot­land.

“This devel­op­ment has gone too far. Throw­ing fam­i­lies from their homes for a pri­vate devel­op­ment is out­ra­geous.”

The protest group — which has threat­ened fur­ther action — said no stat­ues were dam­aged.

Sarah Mal­one, exec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent of Trump Inter­na­tion­al Golf Links Scot­land, said: “This pub­lic­i­ty stunt is per­pe­trat­ed by a hand­ful of indi­vid­u­als, and can only serve to tar­nish our region­al and nation­al pro­file.

“Gim­micks such as this illus­trate the lack of cred­i­bil­i­ty of those involved and do a great dis­ser­vice to local peo­ple.

“We are deal­ing with seri­ous issues that need to be han­dled in a respon­si­ble and mature man­ner.”

Refus­ing to sell

Grampian Police are look­ing for a man in his 30s and one in his 50s in con­nec­tion with the inci­dent.

Offi­cials from Aberdeen City Coun­cil have been remov­ing the pic­tures, ban­ners and sets of plas­tic golf clubs which were placed on the stat­ues.

Mar­tin Glegg, of the Trip­ping Up Trump group, said he was not aware of the protest and had nev­er heard of the Menie Lib­er­a­tion Front.

He told BBC Scot­land: “It shows lots of peo­ple are upset by the issue.”

The Trump Organ­i­sa­tion has already won out­line plan­ning per­mis­sion for two golf cours­es, a “res­i­den­tial vil­lage” and a hotel.

Mr Trump has said his vision com­pris­es a world class golf course, a sec­ond 18-hole course, 950 hol­i­day homes and 500 hous­es.

The pro­pos­al was orig­i­nal­ly reject­ed by a com­mit­tee of the coun­cil before being called in by the Scot­tish gov­ern­ment and approved.

The Trump Organ­i­sa­tion has said the own­ers of four homes on land which forms part of the planned resort have reject­ed “incred­i­bly gen­er­ous” offers.

Mr Trump’s son, Don­ald Trump Jnr, told BBC Scot­land they had been offered a 15% pre­mi­um on mar­ket val­ue.

He said they had also been giv­en the chance to buy new homes at cost price, and the life­time use of facil­i­ties.

A page of the Menie Lib­er­a­tion Front: tak­ing action to pro­tect the peo­ple and ecosys­tem of Menie

Trip­ping Up Trump, a fresh ener­gised move­ment stand­ing up for the peo­ple and envi­ron­ment threat­ened by Don­ald Trump’s devel­op­ment in Aberdeen­shire.