Category: Action Reports

Indigenous Pipeline Protesters Harass Oil Tanker

B.C.

B.C. First Nation, the Tsleil-Wau­tuth, were joined by envi­ron­men­tal­ists Oct 14, as they crossed Bur­rard Inlet in canoes to protest Kinder Morgan’s pro­posed pipeline expan­sion.

15th Octo­ber The Tsleil-Wau­tuth First Nation and envi­ron­men­tal­ists have crossed Bur­rard Inlet in tra­di­tion­al canoes to protest U.S. oil giant Kinder Morgan’s $5B plans to expand its Trans Moun­tain pipeline.

Pro­test­ers dodged tankers as they sailed close to the Westridge Marine Ter­mi­nal, in a bid to stop Kinder Mor­gan near­ly tripling the capac­i­ty of the pipeline, which car­ries crude oil from the Alber­ta oil­sands to tankers in Van­cou­ver.

When com­plet­ed, the pro­posed expan­sion is expect­ed to increase capac­i­ty in Trans Moun­tain from the exist­ing capac­i­ty of 300,000 bar­rels per day to 850,000 bar­rels per day.

The protest comes as cab­i­net min­is­ters and senior bureau­crats head to British Colum­bia as part of a major gov­ern­ment push to mol­li­fy oppo­nents of build­ing oil pipelines to the West Coast.

The new Harp­er ini­tia­tive fol­lows a report from the prime minister’s spe­cial pipelines rep­re­sen­ta­tive in British Colum­bia, David Eyford, who told Harp­er last month that nego­ti­a­tions with First Nations are a mess.

Sources say Eyford urged the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment take the lead role in deal­ing with Indi­an bands on both the pro­posed expan­sion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Moun­tain pipeline and Enbridge’s North­ern Gate­way project.

The Trans Moun­tain line stretch­es 1,150 kilo­me­tres between Edmon­ton and ter­mi­nals in the Van­cou­ver area and Wash­ing­ton State. It car­ries heavy and light crude oil, as well as refined prod­ucts such as gaso­line and diesel.

It has been involved in sev­er­al recent spills includ­ing more 100,000 litres of light crude oil that was spilled at Kinder Morgan’s Sumas ter­mi­nal in Jan­u­ary.

Mean­while, an Enbridge offi­cial says the com­pa­ny expects a deci­sion from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment on its pro­posed North­ern Gate­way pipeline by mid-2014, mean­ing the pipeline could be mov­ing oil by 2018.

The North­ern Gate­way pipeline pro­posed by Enbridge would deliv­er 525,000 bar­rels of petro­le­um a day to a tanker ter­mi­nal in Kiti­mat, on the north coast of B.C.

 

Two La Parota Resisters Attacked With Machetes

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

UPDATE (10/15/2013): Although the attack hap­pened on Oct 11, the fed­er­al Pub­lic Min­istry (respon­si­ble for inves­ti­gat­ing and pros­e­cut­ing crimes) has yet to vis­it the men in the hos­pi­tal to take any state­ment from them.

Two mem­bers of the Coun­cil of Eji­dos and Com­mu­ni­ties in Oppo­si­tion to La Paro­ta Dam (CECOP) were attacked at their home with machetes on Fri­day, Oct 11, by sup­port­ers of the dam project. Both of the men, Rodri­go León Jac­in­to and Isidro Saligán Guadalupe, are still under med­ical super­vi­sion. Saligán may lose an eye. Both men and all five of their attack­ers (four men and a woman) come from the vil­lage of Hua­mu­chi­tos.

The attack­ers are believed to have fled the area.

RWE Fuck Off & Die! [Lignite/Brown Coal Protest] (Germany)

Yes­ter­day (Wed, 09.Oct.2013) ener­gy giant RWE (Rheinisch-West­fälis­ches Elek­triz­itätswerk AG) used the bailiffs of the sys­tem to break down the pro­tec­tive appli­ances in the squat­ted HAMBACH FOREST — we sus­pect an evic­tion to be immi­nent!

Yes­ter­day (Wed, 09.Oct.2013) ener­gy giant RWE (Rheinisch-West­fälis­ches Elek­triz­itätswerk AG) used the bailiffs of the sys­tem to break down the pro­tec­tive appli­ances in the squat­ted HAMBACH FOREST — we sus­pect an evic­tion to be immi­nent!
This is a call out to every­one inter­est­ed: Join the resis­tance in the Rhineland — you anar­chists, eco-activists, wrong-doers, rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies and every­one else, join the strug­gle — NOW!

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This is the rough trans­la­tion of a text pub­lished yes­ter­day on www.linksunten.indymedia.org (Ger­many) by a group call­ing them­selves “Black Block For­est Defend­ers” whom we are sup­port­ing here­with…
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“RWE Fuck off & Die!”

The Ham­bach For­est is bound to be clear-cut by RWE to fur­ther extend the biggest human-made hole in Europe (the Ham­bach open cast mine to exca­vate lignite/brown coal).
Since April 2012 there was a for­est occu­pa­tion (until Novem­ber 2012 and again in March 2012, adding there is an ongo­ing and vital protest camp locat­ed on a mead­ow direct­ly at the edge of the for­est since Novem­ber 2012.)
And recent­ly, dur­ing the Climate-/ReclaimTheFields!-Camps, a new for­est occu­pa­tion did arise and is held since one month now.

But this occu­pa­tion of the “doomed” for­est is of course threat­ened by the author­i­ties who already destroyed some plat­forms and also has­sle the mead­ow-protest-camp on a con­stant basis by ran­dom arrests (which always led nowhere) and destruc­tion of infra­struc­ture (show­ers, toi­lets, bar­ri­cades,…).

Yes­ter­day police and RWE-forestry-work­ers have been here again, destroy­ing bar­ri­cades, fill­ing trench­es, cut­ting lanes and rip­ping access roads in the for­est.

- we cer­tain­ly do not call those who want to sup­port the strug­gle but cannot/don’t want to come here to cre­ate their own ideas on how to attack state, cap­i­tal, ener­gy providers, police, repres­sive admin­is­tra­tions & Co. every­where… 😉

- and those who rather would like to squat hous­es instead of trees we do not tell that there are hun­dreds of emp­ty build­ings in the area. Because this might only be hearsay… 😉

Every­day now could be the time of evic­tion. In our view this day would be DAY X.

DAY X could be exact­ly the day to meet SOMEWHERE — here at the Ham­bach For­est or/and in your town and area to protest and do action, to be present against the sys­tem­at­ic crap which is hap­pen­ing here and every­where!
Cap­i­tal­ism, the log­ic of growth, the destruc­tion of our means of liv­ing, dis­place­ment, hunger and death are glob­al — and so are our anger, our hate and our actions of protest!

The ener­gy giant RWE is Europe’s most pro­lif­ic lover of lig­nite, is dig­ging the biggest hole in Europe in a relent­less manor (Tage­bau Ham­bach), is expro­pri­at­ing peo­ple on a law-base which was installed dur­ing the Third Reich (Bergrecht) and destroys whole areas (right now: Morschenich and Man­heim), is respon­si­ble for ten­t­hou­sands of mur­ders (cli­mate refugees, coal exca­va­tion in e.g. Colum­bia,…), the extinc­tion of species (Bech­stein-bat), is a vital part of the Ger­man pol­i­tics of aus­ter­i­ty (EIB-cred­its) and has its head­quar­ters in Essen (?!).

Ham­bach­er Forst stays!
Under­mine, occu­py, for­judge and dis­man­tle RWE — STOP THEM NOW!

www.hambachforest.blogsport.de (Blog in Eng­lish)
www.hambacherforst.blogsport.de (Blog in Ger­man)
http://vimeo.com/74042113 (video of the new for­est occu­pa­tion)

Biased policing of the badger cull

West Mid­lands Hunt Sabs encounter with police 26/9/13

West Mid­lands Hunt Sabs encounter with police 26/9/13

Polic­ing of the bad­ger cull has been overblown and com­plete­ly biased. If you’re out dri­ving in the cull zone past a cer­tain time and are know to be against the cull your guar­an­teed to get pulled by police at least once that night, pos­si­bly your car searched and if your lucky you’ll end up with police fol­low­ing you around every­where you go. West Mid­lands Hunt Sabo­teurs have  filmed some of this behav­iour, the first video shows police telling peo­ple in the car that they will be fol­lowed every­where they go in the cull zone because of “intel­li­gence” they have.

The sec­ond video, the sec­ond day the group are being fol­lowed by police com­plete­ly rips apart the police’s rea­sons for fol­low­ing peo­ple around

Day 2 of police harass­ment 27/9/13

While the third video is a con­ver­sa­tion with police about what their opin­ions are of peo­ple out in the coun­try­side with firearms.

Day 2 of police harass­ment: Peo­ple & Firearms

The fourth video shows the police say­ing they will hand per­son­al details over to the Nation­al Farm­ers Union, com­plete­ly dis­re­gard­ing civ­il lib­er­ties and the Data Pro­tec­tion Act and fur­ther show­ing the biased nature of the polic­ing of the cull.

Police hand details over to NFU

 

Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Across Brazil

Tues­day 1st Octo­ber, Brasil­ia, Brazil – Today hun­dreds of indige­nous peo­ples rep­re­sent­ing Brazil’s native com­mu­ni­ties con­verged on gov­ern­ment build­ings in the nation’s cap­i­tal to decry unprece­dent­ed and growin

Tues­day 1st Octo­ber, Brasil­ia, Brazil – Today hun­dreds of indige­nous peo­ples rep­re­sent­ing Brazil’s native com­mu­ni­ties con­verged on gov­ern­ment build­ings in the nation’s cap­i­tal to decry unprece­dent­ed and grow­ing attacks on their con­sti­tu­tion­al rights and ter­ri­to­ries. The his­toric mobi­liza­tion coin­cides with the 25th anniver­sary of the found­ing of Brazil’s con­sti­tu­tion with its ground­break­ing affir­ma­tion of indige­nous rights and aims to pre­serve these rights in the face of pow­er­ful eco­nom­ic inter­ests behind a spate of pend­ing laws seek­ing access to resources on native ter­ri­to­ries.

Brazil’s Artic­u­la­tion of Indige­nous People’s (APIB) called the mobi­liza­tions – staged simul­ta­ne­ous­ly in var­i­ous cities across the coun­try such as São Paulo, Belém, Rio Bran­co – to protest the attack against ter­ri­to­r­i­al rights of native peo­ples. Ema­nat­ing from the Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment and backed by a pow­er­ful con­gres­sion­al bloc rep­re­sent­ing agribusi­ness known as the ban­ca­da rural­ista as well as large min­ing and ener­gy inter­ests, a series of new pro­posed laws seek to under­mine Arti­cle 231 of the Brazil­ian Con­sti­tu­tion, which assures the indige­nous right to an exclu­sive and per­ma­nent usufruct to resources on their ances­tral ter­ri­to­ries.

“We are here because Con­gress wants to take our rights and extin­guish our peo­ple,” said Chief Raoni Metuk­tire, a leg­endary Kayapó leader from the Ama­zon. “This assem­bly is impor­tant because it aims to unite our peo­ples against this threat.”

 

Hun­dreds of planned laws and con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments tar­get­ing the rights of indige­nous and tra­di­tion­al com­mu­ni­ties are under debate in Brazil’s Con­gress and risk being passed this month before law­mak­ers go into recess, mak­ing this week’s mobi­liza­tions both urgent and time­ly.

Among the pro­posed changes are Pro­posed Com­ple­men­tary Law (PLP) 227 which would mod­i­fy Arti­cle 231, elim­i­nat­ing the indige­nous right to resources in cas­es of “rel­e­vant pub­lic inter­est,” clear­ing the way for indus­tri­al farm­ing, dam-build­ing, min­ing, road build­ing and set­tle­ment con­struc­tion on indige­nous lands. Pro­posed Con­sti­tu­tion­al Amend­ment (PEC) 215 would roll back the demar­ca­tion of new indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries by pass­ing the author­i­ty to demar­cate lands from the Exec­u­tive to a Leg­isla­tive branch that is increas­ing­ly hos­tile to indige­nous rights.

Indigenous protesters gather at the encampment outside the National Congress in Brasilia

Indige­nous pro­test­ers gath­er at the encamp­ment out­side the Nation­al Con­gress in Brasil­ia

“These amend­ments and new laws that the gov­ern­ment wants to pass will destroy indige­nous rights enshrined in the Brazil­ian Con­sti­tu­tion and the inter­na­tion­al treaties of which Brazil is a sig­na­to­ry,” said Maíra Iri­garay Cas­tro of Ama­zon Watch. “If Brazil denies the rights of these tra­di­tion­al pop­u­la­tions they risk extinc­tion, some­thing the world can­not afford. These are the guardians of the rain­forests for the ben­e­fit of all human­i­ty.”

“We’re not going to stand by and watch our ter­ri­to­ries being stolen, our hous­es being invad­ed and our rivers being destroyed,” said Sonia Gua­ja­jara, coor­di­na­tor of APIB. “Rather than call­ing Con­gress the house of the peo­ple it should be called the house of agribusi­ness.”

In addi­tion to pre­sid­ing over this unprece­dent­ed assault on indige­nous rights, the Rouss­eff gov­ern­ment has demon­strat­ed the worst record of indige­nous ter­ri­to­r­i­al demar­ca­tion since the nation’s dic­ta­tor­ship era. Fur­ther under­min­ing the integri­ty of these ter­ri­to­ries, the office of her Attor­ney Gen­er­al pro­pos­es Ordi­nance 303 in order to veto any expan­sion of demar­cat­ed lands while autho­riz­ing the con­struc­tion of roads, ener­gy trans­mis­sion lines, and mil­i­tary instal­la­tions with­in their bor­ders when such projects are deemed rel­e­vant to “nation­al secu­ri­ty.”

These moves coin­cide with increas­ing gov­ern­ment back­ing and finance for projects and indus­tries, exem­pli­fied by Brazil’s dam-build­ing boom in the Ama­zon, that are entire­ly at odds with indige­nous rights.

Chants of ‘No Nukes’ Echo in Streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Harajuku Districts

Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 4.42.55 PMWith an eye to get­ting their mes­sage out to young peo­ple, demon­stra­tors call­ing for a depar­ture from nuclear pow­er on Sept.

Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 4.42.55 PMWith an eye to get­ting their mes­sage out to young peo­ple, demon­stra­tors call­ing for a depar­ture from nuclear pow­er on Sept. 29 changed course from their usu­al venue and took to the streets in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya and Hara­juku dis­tricts.

Pro­test­ers shout­ed slo­gans such as “We’ve got enough elec­tric pow­er” and “No nuke reac­tors on earth­quake-prone islands” as they marched past Marui City Shibuya and oth­er fash­ion­able com­mer­cial estab­lish­ments packed with trend-con­scious youths.

The “No Nukes Demo” was the brain­child of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Coali­tion against Nukes, a civ­il advo­ca­cy group that orga­nizes week­ly anti-nuclear protest ral­lies out­side the prime minister’s office on Fri­day evenings in Tokyo’s Nagat­a­cho dis­trict. Orga­niz­ers said they thought that the nation’s youths are not even aware that all 50 exist­ing nuclear pow­er reac­tors in Japan are cur­rent­ly offline, for main­te­nance and safe­ty checks.

The march fol­lowed a ral­ly in Nagat­a­cho on Sept. 27 oppos­ing Tokyo Elec­tric Pow­er Co.’s appli­ca­tion to the Nuclear Reg­u­la­tion Author­i­ty for safe­ty screen­ing of two reac­tors at its Kashi­waza­ki-Kari­wa nuclear plant in Niiga­ta Pre­fec­ture, as a pre­lude to their pos­si­ble restart.

Escalating Anti-Fracking Standoff in New Brunswick

Members of the Mi'gmaw Warriors Society light fires at a road blockade designed to prevent exit of "thumpers" used in pre-fracking seismic testing30th Sep­tem­ber, An ongo­ing stand­off con­tin­ues to esca­late between

Members of the Mi'gmaw Warriors Society light fires at a road blockade designed to prevent exit of "thumpers" used in pre-fracking seismic testing30th Sep­tem­ber, An ongo­ing stand­off con­tin­ues to esca­late between anti-frack­ing activists and police in Kent Coun­ty, New Brunswick, Cana­da.

From Hal­i­fax Media Coop:

CMP have cur­rent­ly closed off auto­mo­bile access to the Irv­ing-owned com­pound that hous­es five of SWN Resource Canada’s seis­mic test­ing trucks, or ‘thumpers’. The police have closed off both north and south exits to high­way 134 off the high­way 11, as well as the 134 itself in both direc­tions. Walk-in access to the com­pound is cur­rent­ly the only way in and out.

Seis­mic test­ing is the pre­cur­sor to hydraulic frac­tur­ing [frack­ing].

Police aggres­sion has already result­ed in friv­o­lous arrests and even injuries to the pro­test­ers who have con­verged on the site. The pro­test­ers have respond­ed by set­ting up their own block­ade:

Mem­bers of the Mi’gmaw War­riors Soci­ety, an inde­pen­dent­ly-run group that self-describe them­selves as a ‘Home­land Secu­ri­ty’ force, have felled sev­er­al pine trees and are in the process of light­ing fires along the high­way. One van and numer­ous pine trees now also block access to the Irv­ing-owned, gat­ed com­pound that cur­rent­ly hous­es five of SWN Resources Canada’s seis­mic test­ing trucks, or ‘thumpers’. The thumpers are per­ceived by the activists to be a key piece of SWN’s equip­ment, with­out which the Texas-based gas giant will be unable to con­tin­ue seis­mic test­ing in New Brunswick.

Read the full articles here:

Break­ing: More Arrests at Ongo­ing New Brunswick Anti-Frack­ing Stand-Off

Cop Block Turns to Road Block

GMO Papaya Trees Cut Down on Big Island

Hawaiian-Papaya29 Sep­tem­ber, About 100 papaya trees were cut down with machetes overnight on Thurs­day in the Big Island’s Puna Dis­trict, accord­ing to the Hawaii Police Depart­ment.

Hawaiian-Papaya29 Sep­tem­ber, About 100 papaya trees were cut down with machetes overnight on Thurs­day in the Big Island’s Puna Dis­trict, accord­ing to the Hawaii Police Depart­ment.

The papaya trees, which were three to four feet tall and val­ued at $3,000, were on the J and L Papaya Farm off of High­way 132, accord­ing to Capt. Samuel Jels­ma.

The inci­dent comes as the Big Island com­mu­ni­ty is con­sid­er­ing the future of biotech on the island. Two bills are cur­rent­ly up for debate by the coun­ty coun­cil that would impose restric­tions on biotech. One bill, intro­duced by Coun­cil­woman Bren­da Ford, would require that the island’s GMO papaya fields be cut down. Farm­ers or landown­ers grow­ing GMO papaya would face jail and fines.

Almost all of the papaya grown on the Big Island is from seeds that were genet­i­cal­ly altered in the 1990s to pro­tect the crop from a dev­as­tat­ing ringspot virus.

Jels­ma has heard the­o­ries that anti-GMO pro­tes­tors cut down the papaya trees, but said he wasn’t going to spec­u­late. “At this point, we have noth­ing to show the motives,” he said.

This isn’t the first time that the Puna district’s lush papaya fields have been attacked with machetes.

In 2011, about 10 acres of trees were cut down on three adjoin­ing papaya farms. The year before, some 8,500 papaya trees were cut down.

Some believed the inci­dents were the work of GMO pro­tes­tors.

The police depart­ment nev­er solved the cas­es, said Jels­ma.

 

Bandung, Indonesia: ELF Torch Police and Military Bulletproof Vest Manufacturing Plant

Screen Shot 2013-09-26 at 11.19.02 PM26th Sep­tem­ber, The police are the ene­my. This is our final state­ment that is not nego­tiable.

Screen Shot 2013-09-26 at 11.19.02 PM26th Sep­tem­ber, The police are the ene­my. This is our final state­ment that is not nego­tiable. Police are not born to be friends, as indi­vid­u­als and as an insti­tu­tion, and can not be exclud­ed from the list of ene­mies that must be addressed by for our attacks. As an insti­tu­tion and as indi­vid­u­als, the police goal is to pro­tect civ­i­liza­tion and the exploita­tion it is doing to the earth.

The objec­tive of the police ‑as well as the oth­er repres­sive instru­ments- is to secure the mon­ey and invest­ment inter­ests for the sake of the anthro­pocen­tric way of life as it is today. The police are not for rep­re­sent­ing our inter­ests. Instead, the police are one of the thou­sands of faces of out­rage alive today. Police must be attacked, as hard as pos­si­ble.

For their loy­al ser­vices as guard dogs for the domes­ti­ca­tion of life, they are equipped with com­bat equip­ment that is used against free will and the aspi­ra­tions of wildlife where the judi­cia­ry and the rule of law are total­ly absent. They are equipped with weapons, armor and bul­let­proof vests. The devices are man­u­fac­tured so that the pigs can act with con­fi­dence in the face of the war that is addressed to their mas­ters.

But they were wrong. The pigs have a total­ly wrong idea if they think that we are not brave enough to send our attack right to their essen­tial sec­tors. As of this moment, when we put two jer­ry cans con­tain­ing 5 liters of petrol and 5 liters of diesel equipped with an auto­mat­ic trig­ger. Trig­gers that we have pre­pared so that we can move away from the scene of the attack and make them not be able to catch any of us. Which is more than enough time for us to let nature pro­tects us by remov­ing all traces of our feets.

We tried a new step to rad­i­cal­ize our attacks and extend the effects of the dam­age from any blows that we direct to the ene­my. Incen­di­ary devices placed at a fac­to­ry dur­ing the ear­ly hours on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 23, locat­ed on Canal Street Suryani, Babakan Vil­lage, Dis­trict Babakan Ciparay, Ban­dung, West Java.

The rea­son? This fac­to­ry man­u­fac­tures bul­let­proof vests for cops and army. This plant is one of the sources for the pro­duc­tion of war equip­ment for these pigs. Bul­let-proof vests to pro­tect police and sol­diers when they open fire on the ene­my, open fire on us and on our broth­ers. That’s why, this place is burn­ing, charred, and this is the pur­pose of this action.

Togeth­er with these actions, we send our respect­ful salute to the com­bat­ants in oth­er parts of the world and oth­er places who with­out hes­i­ta­tion attack as much as pos­si­ble. Salute to the joint actions under­tak­en by CCF Rus­sia and the Russ­ian ELF. Also the relent­less attack from com­bat­ants Ami­go de la Tier­ra – FAI in Argenti­na. Also the mul­ti­ple attacks by the brave ones of CCF and ICR in Project Phoenix.

This action also is our warm greet­ings and hugs to the brave indi­vid­u­als who were abduct­ed by the state but con­tin­ue to wage war whilst their phys­i­cal move­ments are lim­it­ed. To Gabriel Pom­bo da Sil­va, Mar­co Camenisch, Hans Niemey­er, Wal­ter Bond, the com­bat­ants of CCF Impris­oned Mem­bers Cell and the pris­on­ers in Greece, Italy and Chile that we can not men­tion one by one, but they are always in our hearts.

Bring down the civ­i­liza­tion
Wild Life, now!

ELF Indone­sian Frac­tion

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Link of the video of the action from local news:

http://tv.detik.com/readvideo/2013/09/24/182502/130924044/061009681/pabrik-rompi-anti-peluru-terbakar?nd771104fvt

Badger Cull Update: We’re Winning

24th Sep­tem­ber, Due to high num­bers of pro­tes­tors, patrol­ers and sabs the bad­ger cull is basi­cal­ly f**ked.

24th Sep­tem­ber, Due to high num­bers of pro­tes­tors, patrol­ers and sabs the bad­ger cull is basi­cal­ly f**ked.

To begin with the shoot­ers start­ed by lur­ing bad­gers out to sets buy bury­ing peanuts in ‘good shoot­ing spots’. this result­ed in all the peanuts being replaced with repel­lant thus hav­ing the oppo­site effect they want­ed.

Now they have moved to cage trap­ping, a much slow­er and more expen­sive form of killing bad­gers. Lets just say there are many things that can be done with theese expen­sive cages (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXmcc-skcdY)

Now we’ve learn’t that the shoot­ers are pulling out and stay­ing at home. This is because all the big sets are con­stant­ly pro­tect­ed and all they have left is the ‘slim pick­ing’ (and get­ting paid per bad­ger killed is’n’t pay­ing them enough to jus­ti­fy get­ting out of bed)

Some very good news from one of our spies in the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty:
Dur­ing an NFU din­ner in Chel­tenham a cou­ple of nights ago, many farm­ers from with­in the cull zone were in atten­dance, moan­ing:
“the anti’s are bloody every­where and it makes the cull impos­si­ble”
“We wish we had nev­er heard of the bad­ger cull”
“it just does­n’t work, we haven’t killed any“
Best news of all was that one farmer was over­heard to say:
“Our con­trac­tor was sup­posed to come in this week, but he’s can­celled, he said “there’s no point in com­ing”

Now we have just learn’t that that out of all the hun­dreds of pro­test­ers out there the police have only arrest­ed 7 and all 7 of theese cas­es have been dropped!

We are half way through the cull, get down to the cull zones and lets end this nonsence once and for all

If your going to the Glous zone con­tact Three Coun­ties hunt Sabo­teurs

if your going to the som­er­set zone con­tact Som­er­set Against The Bad­ger Cull

If you cant make it to the zones please con­sid­er donat­ing some equip­ment to make us more effec­tive by click­ing this link http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/1A1V6TQIH6BBB