Category: Action Reports

Peru: Amazon Indians Direct Action Against Government

Thou­sands of Ama­zon Indi­ans are protest­ing against the Peru­vian gov­ern­ment. Protests have been going on for more than a week and involve an esti­mat­ed 14,000 Indi­ans from all over the Peru­vian Ama­zon. A road and a riv­er have been block­ad­ed, boats belong­ing to a gas com­pa­ny have been inter­cept­ed, an oil pipeline has been closed, and a hydro­elec­tric plant has been tak­en over.
The protests are in response to new laws passed by the gov­ern­ment. The Indi­ans say the laws under­mine their rights and make it eas­i­er for com­pa­nies to take con­trol of their ter­ri­to­ries.

Thou­sands of Ama­zon Indi­ans are protest­ing against the Peru­vian gov­ern­ment. Protests have been going on for more than a week and involve an esti­mat­ed 14,000 Indi­ans from all over the Peru­vian Ama­zon. A road and a riv­er have been block­ad­ed, boats belong­ing to a gas com­pa­ny have been inter­cept­ed, an oil pipeline has been closed, and a hydro­elec­tric plant has been tak­en over.
The protests are in response to new laws passed by the gov­ern­ment. The Indi­ans say the laws under­mine their rights and make it eas­i­er for com­pa­nies to take con­trol of their ter­ri­to­ries.

‘(We) are the vic­tims of a sys­tem­at­ic vio­la­tion by the Peru­vian state of the fun­da­men­tal rights we have over our ter­ri­to­ries,’ a state­ment from Peru’s nation­al Ama­zon Indi­an organ­i­sa­tion, AIDESEP, said. ‘The per­son respon­si­ble for this is the pres­i­dent, Alan Gar­cia, who has vio­lat­ed Peru’s con­sti­tu­tion and inter­na­tion­al agree­ments pro­tect­ing indige­nous peo­ples’ rights.’

AIDESEP and oth­er indige­nous lead­ers have been in talks with mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment, but these have since bro­ken down. Peru’s prime min­is­ter has said that talks can resume if the protests are called off.

The protests start­ed on August 9, the UN Day for Indige­nous Peo­ples. One of the Indi­ans’ main com­plaints is that the gov­ern­ment has failed to con­sult them about the new leg­is­la­tion, con­tra­ven­ing inter­na­tion­al law and the recent­ly approved UN Dec­la­ra­tion on Indige­nous Peo­ples’ rights.

AIDESEP has called for the protest to go on ‘indef­i­nite­ly’ until their demands are met. These include the repeal of thir­ty-nine laws.

Protests by thou­sands of Ama­zon Indi­ans across the Peru­vian jun­gle have had major impacts on the Peru­vian gov­ern­ment.

The protests have been in response to new laws passed by the gov­ern­ment that the Indi­ans say under­mine their rights and make it eas­i­er for out­siders to seize con­trol of their ter­ri­to­ries.

Fol­low­ing the protests, Peru’s Con­gres­sion­al Com­mis­sion on Andean, Ama­zon­ian and Afro-Peru­vian peo­ples, the Envi­ron­ment and Ecol­o­gy has pro­posed a bill to repeal the two most con­tro­ver­sial laws — Leg­isla­tive Decrees 1015 and 1073. Con­gress is due to vote today on whether to do so.

Peru’s prime min­is­ter has described the Com­mis­sion’s deci­sion as estab­lish­ing ‘a bad prece­dent’ because it was made in response to the protests. Mean­while, Peru’s pres­i­dent appealed to Con­gress not to repeal the two laws, say­ing it would be a ‘his­tor­i­cal­ly seri­ous mis­take’ and would con­demn Indi­an com­mu­ni­ties to ‘anoth­er cen­tu­ry of back­ward­ness and mis­ery.’

The gov­ern­ment has declared a state of emer­gency in some parts of the Peru­vian Ama­zon. There are reports of police fir­ing bul­lets and spray­ing tear gas to dis­perse crowds, leav­ing some Indi­ans wound­ed.

Reports say that Peru’s nation­al Ama­zon Indi­an organ­i­sa­tion, AIDESEP, has called for a sus­pen­sion of the protests.

65 Indigenous Communities Declare Victory in Peru

21st August 2008
Indige­nous groups in Peru are claim­ing vic­to­ry after more than a week of protests through­out the state.

Peru indigenous groups' victory21st August 2008
Indige­nous groups in Peru are claim­ing vic­to­ry after more than a week of protests through­out the state.

A day after the gov­ern­ment declared mar­tial law in three of the provinces affect­ed by the protests, on August 19 a con­gres­sion­al com­mis­sion vot­ed to over­turn the con­tro­ver­sial law known as Decree 1015, which the indige­nous groups were chal­leng­ing.

They say the law “makes it eas­i­er for min­ing and ener­gy com­pa­nies to buy com­mu­nal­ly owned land, will lead to a for­eign land grab, espe­cial­ly in the Ama­zon rain for­est,” Reuters explains. “Gar­cia passed the law by decree ear­li­er this year under spe­cial pow­ers Con­gress grant­ed him to bring Peru­vian law into com­pli­ance with a new free-trade deal with the Unit­ed States.”

The Con­gres­sion­al Com­mis­sion said Gar­cia ‘went too far’ with the decree, and “agreed in prin­ci­ple to bring any new land law into com­pli­ance with Con­ven­tion 169 of the Inter­na­tion­al Labor Orga­ni­za­tion. The Com­mis­sion also issued an offi­cial doc­u­ment to the Exec­u­tive call­ing for the over­turn of Supreme Decree 058‑2008-PCM, impos­ing the states of emer­gency,” adds Bill Wein­berg of the WW4Report.

The head of Peru’s leg­is­la­ture fol­lowed the announce­ment by say­ing it may go to a floor vote on Fri­day.

Gar­cia, on the oth­er hand, thinks revok­ing the decree is a “huge mis­take,” and that it will con­demn Peru’s indige­nous and rur­al com­mu­ni­ties to “anoth­er cen­tu­ry of back­ward­ness and mis­ery.”

It’s not all that far off from the truth. How­ev­er, it is in fact Garcia’s decree that would be con­demn­ing them to more “back­ward­ness and mis­ery.”

That’s why Six­ty-five indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties rose up and threat­ened a vio­lent con­fronta­tion with the state. And it’s why those same com­mu­ni­ties are now cel­e­brat­ing.

7 banks attacked ‘not to UK coal’ in Germany

“On the night of Thurs­day 14th August, in Berlin, we made 7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Com­merz Bank, Allianz AG and Dres­den­er Bank. The locks to the banks and the card-read­ers were glued and ‘no to UK Coal’ was spray­paint­ed.

No to UK Coal at Bodge House“On the night of Thurs­day 14th August, in Berlin, we made 7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Com­merz Bank, Allianz AG and Dres­den­er Bank. The locks to the banks and the card-read­ers were glued and ‘no to UK Coal’ was spray­paint­ed. Deutsche Bank is the sin­gle biggest Euro­pean investor in agro­fu­els in Latin Amer­i­ca — fund­ing projects by Agren­co, ADM, Brasil Ecodiesel, Bunge, Clean Ener­gy Brasil, Cosan and Sao Mar­ti­no. Agro­fu­els, far from being an envi­ron­men­tal­ly prefer­able alter­na­tive to fos­sil fuels, are respon­si­ble for defor­esta­tion, indus­tri­al agri­cul­ture, increased car­bon emis­sions and soar­ing food prices/starvation. Along with Allianz, Deustche Bank is also one of the biggest share­hold­ers in UK Coal who cur­rent­ly plan to build 7 new coal fired pow­er sta­tions across the UK. Com­merz Bank finances at least 3 agro­fu­el com­pa­nies: Agren­co, Bunge and Tere­os. Dres­den­er Bank is a sub­sidiary of Allianz AG. The tar­gets cho­sen are both cli­mate change and cap­i­tal relat­ed. Exploita­tion of the envi­ron­ment and peo­ple by State and indus­try go hand in hand. They can­not be sep­a­rat­ed and both must be attacked. This attack coin­cides with the end of the UK Camp for Cli­mate Action and the begin­ning of the Kli­ma Camp and Anti-Raciss­mus Camp near Ham­burg.
Social war not cli­mate chaos!”

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Shell to Sea: Notice served on Solitaire

20.08.2008
As part of the ongo­ing week of action in Ross­port, a let­ter was today deliv­ered to the Soli­taire demand­ing its with­draw­al from the project.

Yes­ter­day after­noon a team of kayak­ers braved the waters of Done­gal Bay to pad­dle over a kilo­me­tre out to sea to deliv­er a let­ter of protest to Cap­tain Simon Van Der Plicht of the Soli­taire.

20.08.2008
As part of the ongo­ing week of action in Ross­port, a let­ter was today deliv­ered to the Soli­taire demand­ing its with­draw­al from the project.

Yes­ter­day after­noon a team of kayak­ers braved the waters of Done­gal Bay to pad­dle over a kilo­me­tre out to sea to deliv­er a let­ter of protest to Cap­tain Simon Van Der Plicht of the Soli­taire.

A crane low­ered a buck­et from the ship to receive the let­ter after the kayak­ers spoke to the Cap­tain on the radio.

Rep­re­sent­ing the views of many from the com­mu­ni­ties affect­ed by the Cor­rib gas project, the let­ter asks the Cap­tain to recon­sid­er his, and the ship’s, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the devel­op­ment.

The let­ter clear­ly states that if the Cap­tain choos­es to con­tin­ue the ship’s involve­ment he will meet strong resis­tance. Many peo­ple have pledged to take to the water to stop this pipeline con­struc­tion work.

Today’s action is part of a Shell to Sea Week of Action tar­get­ing the Soli­taire.

Actions will take place all this week until the ship is forced to aban­don work.

Rossport Solidarity Camp reborn…

18.08.2008
Today local res­i­dents and peo­ple from Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp erect­ed a mar­quee in Glen­gad over­look­ing Shel­l’s new com­pound.

Glengad camp, Mayo18.08.2008
Today local res­i­dents and peo­ple from Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp erect­ed a mar­quee in Glen­gad over­look­ing Shel­l’s new com­pound.

Just a short dis­tance away from the camps for­mer loca­tion the new mar­quee will pro­vide a base for action against ear­ly pipeline work on land and against the pipe lay­ing ship,the Soli­taire, when she arrives.

Today after the mar­quee had been put up peo­ple invad­ed the com­pound. Activ­i­ty like this and water based actions will be ongo­ing over the next few weeks.

New peo­ple and a wide array of boats and oth­er water equip­ment are appear­ing all the time. The fol­low­ing weeks should be inter­est­ing…

Come to Mayo and join in the fun.…

Sail and Rail from any­where in UK to Bal­li­na (near­est town to Ross­port) only £35 (aprox)

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

Evictions and violence used against indigenous communities in Northern Argentina

Call for sup­port from the CAPOMA col­lec­tive- Jujuy, Argenti­na, August 17 th 2008.
link to call for sup­port and back­ground his­to­ry

Tallar evictionCall for sup­port from the CAPOMA col­lec­tive- Jujuy, Argenti­na, August 17 th 2008.
link to call for sup­port and back­ground his­to­ry

Oscar, a col­league from Salta and mem­ber of the Olga Are­des Cen­tre, CAPOMA, informs us on the severe situ­ta­tion tak­ing place in North­ern Argenti­na. There are con­ti­neous evic­tions tak­ing place and vio­lence being com­mit­ted to the inhab­i­tants which resist to leave there lands for soy. Soy pro­duc­ers are act­ing with impuni­ty against the inhab­i­tants of the guaraní com­mu­ni­ties, attack­ing them vio­lent­ly, while the gov­ern­ment and police jus­ti­fy their actions with the argu­ment that the soy pro­duc­ers are the “right­full” land own­ers.

update 18th of August, 2008

Good news from Jujuy: Act of land recu­per­a­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty JASY ENDY GUASU Lunes,
by Oscar, el Hijo de los Montes, CAPOMA, Jujuy

After more than 20 days of pre­car­i­ous occu­pa­tion with chil­dren, sick peo­ple and elders, yes­ter­day the evict­ed fam­i­lies of El TALAR received san­i­tary help brought by a truck of the local gov­ern­ment of Jujuy. With a lot of courage and indig­na­tion they turned the ofi­cial aid down, send­ing a mes­sage to the provin­cial gov­ern­ment that the lat­ter are in the first place respon­si­ble for so much injus­tice. Their mes­sage was direct — they were going to re-enter in their land what­ev­er it takes, as they have already suf­fered enough and it no longer mat­ters to them if they again start fir­ing at them.

Also, on August 17th, a group of Guaraní indi­ans went to the evict­ed site and noticed that soy pro­duc­er Strisich began defor­est­ing the site. Defor­esta­tion machin­ery and elec­tri­fied fences were present and noth­ing was left of the place.

On August 18th, from mid-day on var­i­ous social organ­i­sa­tion from Jujuy and Guaraní com­mu­ni­ties of the yun­gas of Jujuy, joint­ly went to the com­mu­ni­ty JASY ENDY GUASU, to retake their ances­tral lands. Between 1000 and 1500 peo­ple realised a sym­bol­ic act. All kinds of actions and fur­ther legal steps will con­tin­ue to demand from the gov­ern­ment that they respect and com­ply with the laws and the rights that have been thor­ough­ly been vio­lat­ed, insult­ing the his­to­ry and lifes of the native peo­ple.

Guaraní com­mu­ni­ties and social organ­i­sa­tion of Jujuy ask inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty and atten­tion for this case. They ask to con­tin­ue send­ing let­ters in order to pres­sure the provin­cial gov­ern­ment. Comu­niquees of sol­i­dar­i­ty are also appre­ci­at­ed.

Please send protest let­ters against the evic­tion:

Send in copy to: capoma_ddhh()yahoo.com.ar, Jasy-endy-guasu()hotmail.com, grupoaccionddhh()yahoo.com.ar

For more infor­ma­tion:
+54 (0)388–154036819 (Este­ban Coro­nel de la Comu­nidad El Talar)
+54 (0)388–415517754 (Diego Comu­nidad El Talar)
+54 (0)3877–15668410 (Oscar Del­e­ga­do CAPOMA)

On August 17th 2008, we were trav­el­ling to Embar­cación and from there on 50 km towards the inte­ri­or of the cha­co (the dry region with Cha­co woods, not the Cha­co Province) untill we reached Mis­ión Chaque­ña. There, var­i­ous Wichis com­mu­ni­ties are resist­ing the advanc­ing defor­esta­tion com­mit­ted by soy pro­duc­ers. The Wichi com­mu­ni­ties and oth­ers in the neigh­bour­hood of Mis­ión Chaque­ña are being sur­round­ed by a region­al soy pro­duc­er called Peñalver. The Wichis have lots of con­vic­tion to defend their lands and no longer accept attacks. The com­mu­ni­ty invit­ed us to par­tic­i­pate in a meet­ing to com­mon­ly try to save their ter­ri­to­ry.

Leav­ing from Embar­cación you face kilo­me­ters of areas that have been defor­est­ed over the past 10 years. Now there is only lone­li­ness and indi­ge­neous com­mu­ni­ties that migrat­ed and fled deaper into the Cha­co. But now soy is also reach­ing these places.

We also vis­it­ed to the Guaraní com­mu­ni­ty Jase Endí Gua­su in El TALAR, Depart­ment San Martín (Ledes­ma) Jujuy. This com­mu­ni­ty suf­fered an evic­tion on mon­day July 28th. They are furi­ous with the gov­ern­ment of Jujuy as they told them that they would take mea­sures con­cern­ing their prob­lems with water sup­ply and hous­ing; they would install water tanks and con­struct hous­es. Nev­er­the­less they don’t see them as the right­ful land own­ers, declar­ing that “they dont find any doc­u­ments of the peri­od between 1996 and 2000 — the peri­od in which the same gov­ern­ment gave them the lands — and there­for the legal papers that soy pro­duc­er Strisich was obtain­ing are valid”.

On the 14th of August, close to the zone where the evic­tion took place, a guaraní women in com­pan­ion of her chil­dren, was gath­er­ing the ani­mals that got saved from the evic­tion. She was attacked by Strisich and two gun­men at his ser­vice. Strisich, dressed in com­bat cloth­ing and wear­ing two guns in his belt, chased her with a knife.

When the com­mu­ni­ty want­ed to denounce this act in the local police office, they did not accept it, argu­ing that Strisich is the land own­er. Pablo Pelas­so, lawyer known for the cas­es he brings for­ward against vio­laters of Jujuys, in the end made a denounce of homo­cide intent and threaths to the woman.

Shell to Sea Pirates begin Week of Action against Shell’s Solitaire

August 17 2008
Today at noon a flotil­la of sea kayaks reclaimed Glen­gad beach, Pol­lath­omas, Co Mayo; the land­fall site for Shell’s off­shore pipeline.

Shell flotilla, MayoAugust 17 2008
Today at noon a flotil­la of sea kayaks reclaimed Glen­gad beach, Pol­lath­omas, Co Mayo; the land­fall site for Shell’s off­shore pipeline.

Mem­bers of the ‘Great Rebel Raft Regat­ta’ recent­ly deployed at the E.ON coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent, Eng­land, have made their way from Cli­mate Camp UK to Erris, in order to assist Shell to Sea cam­paign­ers in their oppo­si­tion to this pipeline con­struc­tion at Glen­gad.

The first wave of the Rebel Regat­ta arrived today fol­low­ing Marine & Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion Notices which announced the arrival of the world’s largest pipe-lay­ing ves­sel, the Soli­taire, in Broad­haven Bay, any time from today onwards.

Cap­tain Ahab of the Rebel Crew states, “It’s unac­cept­able what Shell are being allowed to get away with here in Mayo. We intend to plun­der Shell’s com­pound at Glen­gad and board the Soli­taire when she arrives in the bay. We take no pris­on­ers. It’s the gang-plank for these boys. This envi­ron­ment needs pro­tec­tion from these maraud­ers of Shell’s.”

Today’s action marks the start of a Shell to Sea Week of Action tar­get­ing the Soli­taire. Actions will take place all this week until the ship is forced, like in 2005, to ‘go out the same way she came in’.

Shell moved quick­ly onto the pub­lic beach, a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion, just a few short weeks ago with dig­gers, fences, secu­ri­ty per­son­nel and Gar­daí. Local res­i­dents were forcibly removed from the area and arrest­ed for their oppo­si­tion to this work. Giv­en that no approval or per­mis­sion exists for Shell’s new­ly pro­posed onshore pipeline route, which is cur­rent­ly under con­sid­er­a­tion by An Bord Pleanala, it beg­gars belief that the ‘author­i­ties’ allow this pre­ma­ture pipeline con­struc­tion work to go ahead at Glen­gad at this time. A per­fect exam­ple of ‘project split­ting’, sanc­tioned and encour­aged by gov­ern­ment and State author­i­ties.

Shell to Sea intends to ensure that no pipeline con­struc­tion takes place on or off­shore at Glen­gad. Had the Soli­taire arrived today as planned, we were ready for her. And we are ready for her when­ev­er she decides to come, tomor­row, the next day or any day. We under­stand that weath­er has delayed the Soli­taire but Shell are con­fi­dent that she will arrive by mid­week at the lat­est.

In the mean­time there are some unre­solved issues at the Shell Com­pound and ‘Secu­ri­ty Zone’ on the beach which we intend to resolve in the mean­time. In oth­er words, there is plen­ty for peo­ple to be doing here when they come.

Peo­ple are already trav­el­ling to Erris to sup­port this Week of Action against Shell. All are wel­come at the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty House, to vis­it and to stay, and to join us in our plans ensure that no raw gas ever flows to Bel­lan­aboy. Today was just the start. Let’s con­tin­ue to organ­ise togeth­er through­out the week and always.

Get your ass­es to Erris … and remem­ber … we are nev­er as strong as when we come togeth­er in the fight, on the streets, in the fields, on the beach or on the high seas!

http://www.shelltosea.com

Foie Gras Restaurant Attacked in Solidarity with Climate Camp & Pheasant Shoot Sabotaged

“The Devon­shire Arms in Bolton Abbey is noto­ri­ous for its per­sis­tent use of foie gras and oth­er ‘del­i­ca­cies’ that require ani­mals to suf­fer acute­ly. This time the posh Devon­shire lan­drover had its four tyres slashed and was treat­ed to some paint strip­per.

Climate camp penknife“The Devon­shire Arms in Bolton Abbey is noto­ri­ous for its per­sis­tent use of foie gras and oth­er ‘del­i­ca­cies’ that require ani­mals to suf­fer acute­ly. This time the posh Devon­shire lan­drover had its four tyres slashed and was treat­ed to some paint strip­per.

This action is ded­i­cat­ed to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Kingsnorth.

North York­shire ALF”

report­ed anony­mous­ly by Bite Back

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“Deep in rur­al Sur­rey we came across pheas­ant shoot­ing equip­ment so decid­ed to take some action.

Equip­ment was trashed, pens had holes cut in and hun­dreds of pounds worth of grain was left all over the floor to get wrecked.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Ilk­ley Moor attacks*.

ALF”

anony­mous report from Bite Back
*Ilk­ley moor shoot post­poned

Rath Lugh update, Ireland

August 14th 2008

Rath Lugh bannerRath Lugh tree-sitAugust 14th 2008
Pro­tec­tors were stag­ing a Tree Protest near the Col­lier­stown site high­light­ing the fact that rough­ly 62 bod­ies were removed from their sacred bur­ial grounds to make way for the con­struc­tion of the M3 Motor­way. Col­lier­stown grave­yard dates from pre­his­toric times with buri­als con­tin­u­ing into the ear­ly medieval era.

The Tree Protest was giv­en huge sup­port from pass­ing motorists. Locals also joined in com­ing out of their homes to give encour­age­ment and there were plen­ty of vol­un­teers to take stints to main­tain a pres­ence.