Action Reports – Page 309

Radford Mill organic farm squatted

Hi folks,latest update from radford mill farm is that despite repeated attempts at negotiation with Richard Fox, the landlord, we have been forced by his behaviour to occupy the farm on a squatting basis. We were trying to negotiate a new wave of help for the place and save it as an organic farm and eco project.

We were taken to court on 16th Nov. In Bath, at the county court. Where the case has been adjourned and referred to Bristol county court. We are now waiting for a date this may come in a few weeks or hopefully will not be dealt with until the new year.

There are a good number of legal arguments and we are confident that this process may take many months. Now is the time for action! We are going to talk to the Climate change camp group (meeting at ythe Albany Centre, Montpelier, Bristol Sat 18th Nov 11am -7pm.) and are discussing the possibility of taking direct action and setting up a camp at the farm to raise the issues of sustainable land use,climate change and land distribution as well as many more environmental issues.

At this critical time for the environment we must take action and call on all who care for the future to come to the farm and take part in change. We have a talking circle every weds 7/8pm to share feelings,thoughts and discuss actions.

We must carry on as if we will be at the farm for a long time to come and anticipate a long drawn out campaign across many parts of the land.

We would like to hear from anyone who would like to run a workshop or event and help with farm work. The farm is under new co-ordination and we need help to network it. Please forward this email to your lists. Hopefully we will be having a winter solstice celebration make a diary note. For further info for action contact Phoenix 07769 791387 (http://www.circlecommunity.org)

If not now then when, if not us then who. is it you? One Love Many hands
make light work.

U cant Kill the spirit.

Buy Nothing Day this Saturday 25th November in Birmingham

Saturday November 25th 2006 is Buy Nothing Day (UK), It’s a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. Anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!

This year our message is simple, shop less – live more! The challenge is to try simple living for a day, spend time with family and friends, rather than spend money on them.

Buy Nothing Day also exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism. The developed countries – only 20% of the world population are consuming over 80% of the earth’s natural resources, causing a disproportionate level of environmental damage and unfair distribution of wealth.

This year, Buy Nothing Day will be biggest 24-hour stand-off from the need to shop. People in around the UK will make a pact with themselves to take a break from shopping as a personal experiment or public statement and the best thing is – IT’S FREE!

Events are planned in Birmingham city centre inbetween Starbucks and Tesco on New Street.

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

Edinburgh Buy Nothing Day

World Buy Nothing Day is on saturday the 25th of November, we will be celebrating it on the east end of Princes street in Edinburgh.
To challenge the rampant consumerism that overshadows the festive season we will be celebrating WORLD BUY NOTHING DAY in Edinburgh. On saturday the 25th of November at the east end of Prince’s street we will be having a FOOD NOT BOMBS stall, along with festive musicians, and carnival. We will also have a Green Santa’s grotto with face painting and a space for kids to make their own presents and cristmas cards.

This event hopes to promote a reduction in the amount of things we buy and more ethical consideration about the impacts upon our planet and its people of our consumption. We also want to help people discover a more fun way to celebrate the festive season than simply buying stuff. So bring along your kids for a fun day out from 11 until 4.

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
http://www.consumermonster.com/

Bilston Glen Sunday free cafe, November 26th

Come down to Bilston Glen anti-road protest camp on the 26th of November for the Sunday free cafe.

This month we will be opening the “Bilston cinema in the woods” with an evening of political films. There will be folk music and drumming througout the day, there will be Reiki and massage and of course the famous free cafe. It is also a great chance to find out about our campaigns in defence of nature, meet loads of free minds and enjoy an evening in the woods around the campfire. Bring booze and whatever else, wrap up warm and celebrate the beautiful little woodland that is Bilston Glen.

Come down to Bilston Glen anti-road protest camp on the 26th of November for the Sunday free cafe.

To get there simply take the number 37 or 47 bus from North Bridge or Nicolson st in Edinburgh and ask the driver to let you off at Bilston Glen, go down the gate next to the bus stop and you’re there. If you have any problems call the site phone on 07753280009. If you miss this months free cafe, dont worry they happen on the last sunday of every month but you come down whenever you like. We have plenty space in the the trees if you want to stay. Everyones welcome, so see you there.

http://www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk/

Digger attacked in Protest by Concerned Citizens in Cornwall

20.11.2006

Housing project in Cornwall targeted by protesters against urban sprawl

Last night a site of housing development in Helston was targeted by a group of concerned citizens.

Locks on a digger were glued and slogans sprayed over the windows.

20.11.2006

Housing project in Cornwall targeted by protesters against urban sprawl

Last night a site of housing development in Helston was targeted by a group of concerned citizens.

Locks on a digger were glued and slogans sprayed over the windows.

This action was taken to highlight the increasing urban sprawl that is attacking our countryside.
Cornwall does not need more homes. There are enough homes in Cornwall, but we have to abolish the second homes that lie empty for eleven months of the year.

We need our wild spaces. We do not need urban sprawl.

Birmingham activists close Shell petrol station in Rossport Solidarity action

20.11.2006 Over 20 Birmingham activists today shutdown the Shell petrol station on Bath Row nr. Five Ways, Birmingham for over three hours (no arrests !!!) Over 20 activists initiated the daylight blockade of the central Birmingham Shell station. Three protestors ‘locked on’ in the entrance to prevent access to the station whilst others strung banners … Continue reading “Birmingham activists close Shell petrol station in Rossport Solidarity action”

20.11.2006
Over 20 Birmingham activists today shutdown the Shell petrol station on Bath Row nr. Five Ways, Birmingham for over three hours (no arrests !!!)

Over 20 activists initiated the daylight blockade of the central Birmingham Shell station. Three protestors ‘locked on’ in the entrance to prevent access to the station whilst others strung banners across the exits and a ledge looking over the forecourt (pictures to come). There were no serious encounters with motorists and passers by were generally supportive of the demo, the aims of which were to disrupt Shell’s operations and to raise awareness of the struggle of the community of County Mayo, Ireland against Shell’s construction of a dangerous and experimental pipeline which poses not only a danger to the environment of this idyllic part of Ireland but also the people of County Mayo. Protestors also tried to obtain a statement from the company but were unsuccessful.

Police took over 20 minutes to respond to the action but on arrival failed to convince the protestors to move on, with half-hearted vague threats of arrest for obstruction of the highway, breach of the peace, and even witholding identity (which isnt a crime duh). In the end there was little the small group of ill prepared local pigs could do except stand by, wave bemused motorists on and take some late photos on a knocked up digital camera.

The protest ended peacefully at a time determined by the protestors after a meeting to which the franchisee was invited to give a formal response to the protest. The blockade lasted a total of three hours.

Police followed some of the protestors to a nearby restaurant after the action, going as far as entering the premises to conduct surveillance before the owner of the business asked them to leave on the grounds they were harrassing his customers for no reason.

http://www.corribsos.com/ (Shell to Sea – Campaign against Shell in Ireland)

Aldermaston 26/27th Nov – national demo against new nuclear weapon facility

28 miles from Oxford, the biggest and most powerful lasar system in the world is being built at the nuclear weapons factory, Aldermaston, at a cost of Â£183 million (on the scale of Heathrow’s terminal 5). Greenpeace’s report on 20th. Oct. exxposed the sham of the government’s stance this year (May 22nd. ) when Dan Browne, Defence Secretary insisted “The Atomic Weapons Establishment is not engaged in the development of any new warheads”. The Green peace report revealed testimony by US nuclear weapons scientists that the new facilities are in fact for designing and building new nuclear weapons. So much for parliamentary debate!

GREENPEACE iIS JOINING WITH THE BLOCK THE BUILDERS CAMPAIGN TO HOLD THE BIGGEST PROTEST WALK AND INSPECTION of this site on MONDAY 27th November. People will be coming from all over the UK to raise the issue of what is happening at Aldermaston.
To build new nuclear weapons would not only be to commit ourselves to the waste of Â£75 billion over the next 30 years it also totally undermines the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

If you can come to the Greenpeace/Block the Builders event, contact Malcolm on malcolm.carroll@uk.greenpeace.org. His phone number is 07717802892. He will advise you where to meet with others for the pre-meeting on the Sunday 26th. November. You can ask him about overnight sleeping facilities.

PIPELINE SQUAT?PROTEST public transport, maps info & video

http://www.pontardawe.org.uk/
gives you all you need
so no excuses
very low police prescence,
enormous local support

http://www.pontardawe.org.uk/
gives you all you need
so no excuses
very low police prescence,
enormous local support
they love us, and we love them
we can win this one
more bodies needed though!
especially during mon-fri as many of us have jobs to keep up…. unfortunately.
get down there, its great!

4 min video report from the occupied LNG pipeline at Trebanos in South Wales.
Trebanos report – video/x-ms-wmv 9.0M

Rossport Solidarity Picket, Salford Quays

18.11.2006

Saturday 18th November, around 20 activists, including the Rhythms of Resistance samba band went to picket the Shell garage at Salford Quays. Whilst the band played, the rest of us leafletted drivers as they arrived and where possible spoke to them. The site of the band made it all the easier to do so and most were prepared to talk too.

18.11.2006

The response was generally good. We spoke to them as they arrived and whilst on the forecourt. The message as simple – please don’t buy petrol here, better still think whether your car journey is necessary. At least ten cars simply drove away from the garage in the hour and a half we were there, which must have cost them a few hundred pounds.

The leaflet is available at: http://af-north.org/shell/rossport.htm (text below).

For more local information, please contact us at: shelltosea@af-north.org

More information about the campaign can be got from: www.indymedia.ie/mayo
Information about Shell to Sea: http://www.shelltosea.com/
Rossport Solidarity Camp: http://www.struggle.ws/rsc/ or www.rossportsolidaritycamp.com

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Buy your petrol somewhere else today.

Shell has a terrible record of destroying the environment and the communities unlucky enough to live near their exploration sites.
On the west coast of Ireland, in an area called Erris, in County Mayo, they have found gas. They want to bring it ashore and refine it in an area which is unspoilt and undeveloped. The result will be the total destruction of the local area and the lives of the people who live there.
Already five men have spent three months in prison for protesting about Shellâ€™s plans. The local people have fought long and hard to stop work at the refin ery. Now Shell and the Irish police are attacking these same people daily to allow construction to go ahead.

Help show you are opposed to their destruction of Erris and the way they vandalise our planet. Buy your petrol somewhere else. Better
still, think whether you need all those car journeys. Hurt them in their pockets. Itâ€™s the only way to make Shell see sense.
Manchester Shell to Sea: shelltosea@ af- north. org

Safe Haven Pipeline Demo update & contact details

18.11.2006

since thursday a group protesting about lack of safety regulations and public consultation have been blocking the laying of the pipeline right next to the LNG constryction site – they are digging in for the long haul!

18.11.2006

Thanks to Schnews newsletter I got down to the demo yesterday afternoon to find 3 OAPS huddled in a tent on the public footpath which runs right through the middle of the massive construction site of the new Milford Haven LNG terminal.

The weather was appalling and they have already roughed it for one night. As soon as they had pitched camp on thursday hordes of cops and officials surrounded them with every manner of arc lights, generators, fenceposts, barbed wire and then packed up and went off to leave the site deserted for the weekend.

The owerwhelming presence of machinery and earthworks seems to blot out the existence of the Safe Haven protest group who are campaigning to have the official Risk Assessment report released for public consultation – apart from the actual pipeline there are grave concerns over the safety of the re-gassification plant. Previous accidents with this kind of technology have been known to produce fireballs of 27 square Km.

They have been trying to raise awareness of the issues ever since the virtaully non-existent public consultation for the Planning of this vast and unnecessary white elephant – which just turns out to be another pet project for the money-spinning Carlyle group [Bush and Saudi Patronage].

They are currently on a public footpath so there may be a struggle to evict them – basically they want to get the Safety report into the public arena and believe that if the facts are known they stand to gain considerable concessions even if the whole thing doesn’t get stopped completely.

Any support gratefully appreciated phone 07752 698489 for details

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Anyone wishing to contact the camp at Tyn y Pant Farm in the Swansea Valley where protestors are occupying a length of pipe and have done since Sunday 12th November 2006 please telephone 07805 038725. The protest goes into it’s second week amidst amazing support from the people of the area who have had enough of being walked over by corporate business for the installation of a fossil fuel industrial sized pipeline to create a market for raped gas from foreign countries. Remember every time you turn on a gas flame or an electric light that it is not so that you can see or be warm but to enable someone, somewhere, probably not in your country, to make a profit.
We ask all those who come into contact with the fencing surrounding this pipeline to please tie a piece of green cloth or ribbon to the fence. One piece for every tree that has been destroyed in the wake of the pipeline, one ribbon for every person that will live in fear of this massive pipeline under their feet for the next 30 years if it is not stopped and one ribbon for every unnecessary death from terrorism and its causes
Thank you for your support all those who have already shown it.