Category: Action Reports

News from the anti-MAT struggle in the Girona area of Catalonia

 

 

2nd of Sep­tem­ber, 2013:

News from the anti-MAT strug­gle in the Girona area of Cat­alo­nia

 

 

 

2nd of Sep­tem­ber, 2013:

News from the anti-MAT strug­gle in the Girona area of Cat­alo­nia

 

The active resis­tance camp against the MAT (very high ten­sion elec­tric­i­ty line) tak­ing place near Girona has squat­ted a huge, antique, aban­doned farm­house near the vil­lage of Orriols, in order to give con­ti­nu­ity to the strug­gle against this dead­ly project and the world which needs it. The resis­tance against the MAT has been active for more than a decade and has now reached a cru­cial point see­ing that the con­struc­tion of the line has now start­ed in this area and is going ahead at a furi­ous pace.

 

The police are con­stant­ly harass­ing the squat­ted zone and farm­house. This is the squat’s fifth day and the sec­ond day since the doors were opened to any­one who wish­es to con­tribute to the strug­gle against the MAT and intends to orga­nize col­lec­tive­ly in order to stop it. The lib­er­at­ed space, locat­ed very near to where two pylons are being con­struct­ed, is like sand in the gears and cogs of this machine of death and destruc­tion dri­ven by indus­tri­al­ists and politi­cians and defend­ed by the police and jour­nal­ists.

 

Dur­ing the last week of August the police pres­ence around the camp in Fellines and its activ­i­ties was very strong: peo­ple stopped and iden­ti­fied, provo­ca­tions, num­ber plates writ­ten down, con­stant patrolling along the sur­round­ing roads, protest march­es blocked, a heli­copter fly­ing above the camp and hov­er­ing near it at low alti­tude, pre­sum­ably tak­ing pho­tos, etc. How­ev­er, the harass­ment did not stop the peo­ple who came from all over the sur­round­ing areas, the Span­ish State and oth­er Euro­pean coun­tries, and even spurred them to inten­si­fy the strug­gle, as can be seen with this new squat­ted area which seems to have thrown the police off-bal­ance.

 

On the 1st of Sep­tem­ber it was made pub­lic knowl­edge that the aban­doned Mas Castel­ló farm­house had been squat­ted as a new space of resis­tance and coor­di­na­tion, and soon enough the police arrived in great num­bers, sud­den­ly wak­ing up to the fact that the action had tak­en place right under their noses and despite all their check­points. The bar­ri­cades built along the dirt track lead­ing to the house, the pres­ence of many peo­ple behind them and some oth­er resisters on the roof of the new squat, helped keep the police away, even though they tried to advance show­ing plas­tic bul­let guns, fir­ing a few shots into the air, per­haps bring­ing dogs to the scene, threat­en­ing and shout­ing and throw­ing rocks at the resisters in order to pro­voke them and thus cre­ate the legal sit­u­a­tion nec­es­sary for a speedy evic­tion order. Before night­fall, how­ev­er, the forces of repres­sion with­drew most of their faith­ful sol­diers, only to come back a lit­tle lat­er as a small group accom­pa­ny­ing the own­er of the house, shout­ing threats and try­ing to iden­ti­fy the peo­ple on the roof.

 

The night was qui­et but this morn­ing saw the arrival of many police vans yet again. Some of the bar­ri­cades have been removed by fire­fight­ers and by a trac­tor which was prob­a­bly ordered to do so by the own­er of the house. Some hours lat­er most of the vans filed away and the resisters got back to the tasks nec­es­sary in order to make Mas Castel­ló a meet­ing point for locals and non-locals who will con­tin­ue the strug­gle against this dead­ly megapro­ject.

 

Every­one is invit­ed to come and par­tic­i­pate to help defend the land around Girona. Peo­ple are arriv­ing but greater num­bers are nec­es­sary, so come and show your sup­port!

 

If you are unable to be phys­i­cal­ly present, express your sol­i­dar­i­ty in whichev­er way you see fit, wher­ev­er pos­si­ble and as soon as pos­si­ble.

 

 

Mas Castel­ló resists!

 

 

 

 

Action AWE Disarmament Camp & Blockade

25th August 2013

Direc­tions and details here.

Update — 2nd Sep­tem­ber — big block­ade

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25th August 2013

Direc­tions and details here.

Update — 2nd Sep­tem­ber — big block­ade

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More pho­tos and videos

Twen­ty-one pro­test­ers have been arrest­ed after blockad­ing a road lead­ing to a site which builds war­heads for nuclear sub­marines.

Anti-nuclear weapons pro­test­ers at Atom­ic Weapons Estab­lish­men­t’s (AWE) Burgh­field site oppose the renew­al or replace­ment of Tri­dent.

Burgh­field and AWE Alder­mas­ton pro­vide the war­heads for the sub­ma­rine-launched mis­sile sys­tem.

The activists were held on sus­pi­cion of obstruc­tion of a pub­lic high­way.

The UK’s exist­ing four bal­lis­tic mis­sile sub­marines are to be renewed from the late-2020s.

The gov­ern­men­t’s final deci­sion on whether to renew or replace the mis­sile sys­tem, the UK’s nuclear deter­rent, is due in 2016.

‘Pose a dan­ger’

Some of the pro­test­ers at AWE Burgh­field have come from Fin­land, Spain, Scot­land, Argenti­na and Japan to take part.

Police said there were about 20 tents as part of a camp near the West Berk­shire site.

Action AWE, which is co-ordi­nat­ing the protest with Tri­dent Ploughshares, said in a state­ment they were tak­ing part in “non-vio­lent direct action”.

They said nuclear weapons were “immoral, ille­gal under inter­na­tion­al law, dan­ger­ous to main­tain and pose a dan­ger to peace on Earth”.

Ch Insp Lind­sey Finch, deputy local polic­ing com­man­der for New­bury, said: “We will con­tin­ue to work with pro­test­ers to facil­i­tate peace­ful protest and ensure that any crim­i­nal activ­i­ty is dealt with pro­por­tion­ate­ly.”

A spokes­woman for the weapons site said: “AWE on-site secu­ri­ty, the Min­istry of Defence Police and Thames Val­ley Police are cur­rent­ly in atten­dance and will remain for the dura­tion of any protest action.”

ELF fight against expansion of ski resort, Germany

Sep­tem­ber 2, 2013 — Ger­many

Sep­tem­ber 2, 2013 — Ger­many

The ELF has claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for sab­o­tage at a ski resort on Wurm­berg moun­tain (Harz moun­tain range). Dur­ing the night of August 27, the win­dows of sev­er­al con­struc­tion vehi­cles were smashed, hydradulic hoses and elec­tric­i­ty cables cut on sev­er­al vehi­cles, a snow groomer, snow machines and at elec­tric­i­ty sta­tions, and the cable car infra­struc­ture was dam­aged. Paint­ed slo­gans were left behind, such as: “LASST DEN WALD LEBEN” (“LET THE FOREST LIVE”), “SKIANLAGEN SABOTIEREN” (“SABOTAGE SKI RESORTS”), “LET THE FOREST PROSPER”, “THERE’S NO TIME TO WAIT FOR CHANGE” and “SHOW YOUR DEDICATION THROUGH YOUR ACTION.” Dam­ages are esti­mat­ed at €100,000. The expan­sion of the ski area has been strong­ly crit­i­cized by envi­ron­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions. (pho­tos: goslarsche.de)

Anony­mous claim of respon­si­bil­i­ty (Ger­man), from linksunten.indymedia.org:

“In der Nacht vom 27. August auf den 28. August haben wir die Mit­tel­sta­tion der Lif­tan­lage des Skige­bi­etes am Wurm­berg sabotiert. Mit Farbe sprüht­en wir mehrere Botschaften an die Mauern der von der Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft betriebe­nen Anlage.

- ‘LASST DEN WALD LEBEN’
- ‘SKIANLAGEN SABOTIEREN’
- ‘LET THE FOREST PROSPER’
- ‘THERE’S NO TIME TO WAIT FOR CHANGE’
- ‘SHOW YOUR DEDICATION THROUGH YOUR ACTION’.

Wir haben zahlre­iche Scheiben des Gebäudes sowie von dort ste­hen­den Bau­fahrzeu­gen und von zwei Pis­ten­rau­pen eingeschla­gen. Wir durchtren­nten Kabel an Bau­fahrzeu­gen, Pis­ten­rau­pen und an eini­gen Stromkästen der Lift- und Beschneiungsan­la­gen.

Dies war ein notwendi­ger Akt des Wider­standes gegen die von der Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft fort­laufend vor­angetriebene Zer­störung der Natur am Wurm­berg. Eine Skian­lage, wie sie die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft betreibt, ist in ihrer Entste­hung wie in ihrem Betrieb abzulehnen.
Dort, wo die natür­liche Umwelt aus­ge­beutet wird — also den Prof­it­in­ter­essen einzel­ner Akteure unter­wor­fen wird -, dort ist direk­ter Wider­stand gegen diese Aus­beu­tung unumgänglich! Deswe­gen ist die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft zum Ziel unser­er Aktion gewor­den.

Der bere­its weit vor­angeschrit­tene Aus­bau des Skige­bi­etes am Wurm­berg macht ein­mal mehr das destruk­tive Ver­hält­nis der Men­schen zur Natur im Kap­i­tal­is­mus deut­lich. Über 16 Hek­tar Wald wur­den gerodet, um eine neue Lif­tan­lage, einen Groß­park­platz sowie neue Pis­ten­ab­fahrten an den Berghän­gen zu schaf­fen. Die Bäume, die übrig sind, im Rodungs­ge­bi­et jet­zt plöt­zlich am Rand der Baum­grup­pen ste­hen, wer­den durch Wind­bruch zusät­zlich gefährdet sein. Auch sollen mehrere Beschneiungsan­la­gen neu gebaut wer­den, die kün­stlich erzeugten Schnee auf den Pis­ten verteilen. Dafür wird aus dem Wasser­schutzge­bi­et der War­men Bode Wass­er ent­nom­men und ein riesiger Spe­ich­ersee auf dem Gipfel angelegt. Diese Kun­stschneep­is­ten wer­den bei Nacht dann weiträu­mig mit Flut­lichtschein­wer­fern aus­geleuchtet. Den Tieren, die noch nicht aus ihrem Leben­sraum ver­trieben wur­den, wird das Leben in ihrer ursprünglichen Umge­bung zur Unerträglichkeit gemacht. Der Lärm und das Licht der Win­ter­sportan­lage wird den Wald stetig belas­ten. Da hil­ft es auch nichts, dass die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft — zur Vortäuschung der eige­nen Umwelt­fre­undlichkeit — von kün­fti­gen Berg­wiesen an den gerode­teten Hän­gen und von Auf­forstun­gen an einem anderen Ort spricht.

Der Wald am Wurm­berg ist zer­stört. Er wird nie wieder so wer­den wie er ein­mal war. Die Kon­se­quenz daraus muss sein, die Zer­störung jet­zt auf das destruk­tive Skige­bi­et zu ver­lagern, um dem Wald Stück für Stück seinen Raum zurück­zugeben, damit er, sich selb­st über­lassen, frei von Aus­beu­tung existieren kann.

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front

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Balcombe anti-fracking protests update days 25–39

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (5:00pm): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed today as police con­tin­ue to force frack­ing trucks through the block­ade for Cuadrilla.

Update (10:30am): First frack­ing truck of the day.

 

Day 28 (Wed 21st) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3pm): All Pro­tec­tors who were in Craw­ley Mag­is­trates Court today have been giv­en bail con­di­tions that allow them to return to the camp.

Update (1pm): For­est camp evict­ed by police.

Update (12pm): Police are try­ing to ille­gal­ly evict (with­out a court order) the for­est camp (small­er camp in wood­land next to the Cuadrilla rig site, not main camp on grass verge) at Bal­combe. Come sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty!

 

Day 27 (Tue 20th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:40am): Anoth­er frack­ing truck being blocked.

Update (9:30am): Frack­ing truck forced through com­mu­ni­ty block­ade by police. One Pro­tec­tor arrest­ed.

 

Days 25/26 — the Reclaim the Pow­er block­ade and more updates/photos here

 

200 activists blocking coal train in the Rheinland

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31/08/2013 Man­heim. Sec­ond Day of the Actions Days in the Rhineland Coal­field. Around 300 activists are occu­py­ing the coal train tracks which is the main way to trans­port coal between the open-cast coal mine “Ham­bach” to the big pow­er plants which emit 100 mil­lions tons of CO2 per year. The action is hap­pen­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Cli­mate and Reclaim the Fields Camp that is tak­ing place from August 23 to Sep­tem­ber 6, 2013 in the Rhineland coal­field.

„Already in the last two years, there have been actions like this. But this year, there are much more peo­ple who express their legit­i­mate protest in this way. It is peo­ple from the most var­ied back­grounds and regions of the world. This clear­ly shows: Cli­mate change affects us all. And: A change of the exist­ing con­di­tions of exploita­tion and destruc­tion is only pos­si­ble with deter­mined and joined grass-root actions”, says one of the activists.

„The impacts of lig­nite burn­ing is not a local issue – first, because of the con­se­quences of glob­al warm­ing but also because of the far-reach­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion of par­ti­cle mat­ter. Depend­ing on the weath­er con­di­tions, the par­ti­cle mat­ter of RWEs pow­er sta­tions can go down any­where in Europe and can cause grave health prob­lems.”

„Some peo­ple crit­i­cize the resis­tance actions against lig­nite min­ing because they are in con­flict with the law. How­ev­er, if the exist­ing law pro­tects indus­tries which destroy the future of this plan­et, then the law is the prob­lem. Not the peo­ple who vio­late it“. This is how one of the activists explains why she is there and why she thinks this action is legit­i­mate..

Manual for Sabotaging Wolf Hunts Released

“And in that case, we choose to be sabo­teurs for the wild.”

The fol­low­ing text is from a press release of the Earth First! Media office, which pro­vides cor­re­spon­dence to news out­lets around the world.

“And in that case, we choose to be sabo­teurs for the wild.”

The fol­low­ing text is from a press release of the Earth First! Media office, which pro­vides cor­re­spon­dence to news out­lets around the world.

Download the Earth First! Wolf Hunt Sabotage Manual Here

Down­load the Earth First! Wolf Hunt Sab­o­tage Man­u­al Here

by Earth First! News

Earth First! Media has released a man­u­al which pro­vides detailed infor­ma­tion for dis­rupt­ing wolf hunt­ing in those states that allow it. Titled The Earth First! Wolf Hunt­ing Sab­o­tage Man­u­al, the text, com­plete with step-by-step graph­ics, explains how to find and destroy wolf traps, han­dle live trapped wolves in order to release them, and var­i­ous meth­ods, includ­ing the use of air-com­pressed horns and smoke-bombs, for stop­ping wolf hunts.

The authors of the man­u­al describe them­selves as,  “hunters and proud of it,” adding, “But we aren’t proud of what pass­es for hunt­ing these days and espe­cial­ly for what pass­es as ‘sports­man’ hunt­ing. Some­how, the Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion, yup­pie tro­phy hunters, cat­tle barons, and the Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion are in cahoots in an effort that promis­es to wipe wolves clean off the plan­et. And in that case, we choose to be sabo­teurs for the wild.”   

The man­u­al, which was sent to Earth First! Media by unknown per­sons call­ing them­selves “the Red­neck Wolf Lovin’ Brigade,” is being pub­lished elec­tron­i­cal­ly at Earth First! News and is being offered for oth­ers to print and dis­trib­ute.

Pana­gi­oti Tsolkas, a cor­re­spon­dent with Earth First! Media, says the man­u­al is being pub­lished in light of region­al delist­ings of wolves in the Great Lakes region and the North­ern Rock­ies since 2011 where sub­se­quent wolf hunts have account­ed for over 1,500 wolves hunt­ed or trapped. “Accord­ing to sev­er­al wildlife agen­cies’ reports, there are few­er than 6,000 wolves left in the low­er 48 states where wolves once num­bered in the hun­dreds of thou­sands,” Tsolkas added.

In June of this year, the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion announced that it plans to push for near­ly all wolves, except­ing those in the U.S. South­west, to be stripped of Endan­gered Species Act pro­tec­tions despite com­pelling evi­dence from numer­ous sci­en­tists that wolves have not recov­ered as a species. “We are com­ing into a new era of wolf geno­cide,” said Tsolkas, adding, “It will be impor­tant for indi­vid­u­als and groups with a pas­sion to pro­tect wolves to take this man­u­al into con­sid­er­a­tion. It will sure­ly save lives, but it is also a very dan­ger­ous under­tak­ing. Wolf hunters have guns and obvi­ous­ly lit­tle morals when it comes to what they shoot.”

Over its 33-year his­to­ry, Earth First! activists have used hunt sab­o­tage to dis­rupt hunts across the coun­try. “This wolf hunt­ing man­u­al could very well spark a new ver­sion of Whale Wars. It’ll be called Wolf Wars.”

Earth First! is an inter­na­tion­al rad­i­cal envi­ron­men­tal move­ment which began in 1979. The move­ment also pub­lish­es a quar­ter­ly mag­a­zine and online newswire.

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28 Days Later: Please spread far and wide

Cuadzilla Balcome Rolling Blockade Red Version

Cuadzilla Balcome Rolling Blockade Red Version

A Rolling Block­ade of the Bal­combe frack­ing site, 1st Sep­tem­ber – 28th Sep­tem­ber

Frack­ing com­pa­ny Cuadrilla’s gov­ern­men­tal licence to drill in Bal­combe ends on Sep­tem­ber 28th. The gov­ern­ment may be allow­ing them to drill but they have no social licence from the peo­ple of Bal­combe to frack their land and threat­en their water sup­ply.  Nei­ther do they have any man­date to begin an entire wave of frack­ing across the coun­try. The vast major­i­ty of peo­ple in the UK want clean­er, green­er ener­gy.
After the upsurge of cli­mate activism at Reclaim the Pow­er in August, let’s make these last 28 days count. Let’s halt their work at Bal­combe, and also send a strong mes­sage to those want­i­ng to frack else­where.

A block­ade has been on-going at the drilling site, but trucks have still been get­ting through. Now it’s time to up the ante.

We invite groups from around the coun­try to come and play a part in a 28 day rolling block­ade.

Think cre­ative­ly and act respon­si­bly. Pick a week­day before Sep­tem­ber 28, gath­er friends and use­ful kit get your­selves to Bal­combe.

Frack­ing is stop­pable, anoth­er world is pos­si­ble.

* Peo­ple are remind­ed that this is a peace­ful block­ade and that the Bal­combe camp is alco­hol-free.

* For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact 28dayslater.balcombe@gmail.com

* Fol­low us on Twit­ter (@28_dayslater) and like us on Face­book (https://www.facebook.com/28dayslaterrollingblockade)

Arson against police training building and attack of security services vehicles

The (under con­struc­tion) Police Firearms Train­ing Cen­tre in Black Rock Quar­ry, Por­tishead, sit­u­at­ed direct­ly beneath the Avon and Som­er­set Police region­al head­quar­ters was our tar­get on the night of 26th August, and we left it with flames lick­ing high. The facil­i­ty is intend­ed to serve forces across the South West.

The (under con­struc­tion) Police Firearms Train­ing Cen­tre in Black Rock Quar­ry, Por­tishead, sit­u­at­ed direct­ly beneath the Avon and Som­er­set Police region­al head­quar­ters was our tar­get on the night of 26th August, and we left it with flames lick­ing high. The facil­i­ty is intend­ed to serve forces across the South West.

After climb­ing into the quar­ry we used accel­er­ant to burn the major elec­tri­cal cables at five junc­tion points through­out the com­plex, and doused and light­ed a pal­let of elec­tri­cal fit­tings and wires. More than twelve hours lat­er the fire is still burn­ing. It put smiles on our faces to realise how easy it was to enter their gun club and leave a fuck you sig­na­ture right in the bel­ly of the beast, with a curi­ous fox as our only wit­ness.

On the same night oth­ers of us attacked two vehi­cles near St George, Bris­tol with paint strip­per and by slash­ing the tyres — one G4S and one Amey. In the UK and glob­al­ly G4S pro­vide prison and secu­ri­ty ser­vices and prof­it from many aspects of prison soci­ety. Amey, in a joint ven­ture with GEO trans­port pris­on­ers in Eng­land and Wales and run cour­t­hous­es in Bris­tol and North Som­er­set.

In the City around us the lock down increas­es; there is a gen­er­al atmos­phere of ris­ing fear and pow­er­less­ness; there is more and more sur­veil­lance, and secu­ri­ty guards with hand­cuffs appear on more and more doors. Ten­sions across the world are sim­mer­ing as peo­ple lose faith in the sys­tem. As a response to this inse­cu­ri­ty the state is mil­i­taris­ing it’s police with firearms, remote con­trol drones and ‘non-lethal’ weapons that reg­u­lar­ly kill. At the same time they devel­op the pre­ven­ta­tive ‘soft cop’ buffer of com­mu­ni­ty sup­port offi­cers, liai­son teams and so on, that are more fit­ting with the demo­c­ra­t­ic image. They even get some help from left­ists such as John Drury from Aufheben with his con­tri­bu­tions on crowd con­trol, who is as ter­ri­fied of the unman­age­able as the rul­ing class­es are. The British state is a world leader in counter-insur­gency tech­niques. Their exper­tise is the result of gen­er­a­tions long bru­tal coloni­sa­tion, like in India, Kenya and to this day in Ire­land.

Two years after the major UK riots we think an impor­tant door was opened for rad­i­cal and com­bat­ive refusal of our dai­ly exis­tence on a wide scale. For those of us who took to the streets it was a breath of clean air in the dun­geons, a reminder that the encroach­ment and con­trol is not com­plete. Even when the apa­thy and iso­la­tion seems to have tak­en hold again we con­tin­ue our attacks. The police and secu­ri­ty indus­try spe­cialise in mak­ing us feel pow­er­less in our own lives, and mak­ing these attacks goes a long way to over­com­ing this feel­ing.

This is also our way of mark­ing two years that Bris­tol anar­chist Bad­ger has evad­ed cap­ture after the riots. Stay free, keep fight­ing!

Speak­ing of which, the night of our action coin­cides with the announced start of the planned cull of wild bad­gers in the South West of Eng­land. Through attempt­ing to facil­i­tate the cull and stop resis­tance the police shore up the inter­ests of agri­cul­tur­al indus­try and the land own­ing class­es. We hope this will be one of many rebel­lions against this slaugh­ter. Because the state and cor­po­rate secu­ri­ty forces are inte­gral to this world of exploita­tion and author­i­ty.

Our best wish­es to the Greek anar­chist Kostas Sakkas in recov­ery from a suc­cess­ful hunger strike for pre-tri­al release after 30 months on remand.

The strug­gle will con­tin­ue until all are wild and free.

-Angry Fox­es Cell in col­lab­o­ra­tion with ACAB

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From the BBC:

An anar­chist group has claimed it start­ed a fire which ripped through a police firearms train­ing cen­tre being built in Som­er­set.

A pass­ing offi­cer spot­ted the blaze at the Black Rock cen­tre in Por­tishead in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day.

In a post on the Bris­tol Indy­media web­site, the group, called “Angry Fox­es Cell”, says it “used accel­er­ant to burn the major elec­tri­cal cables”.

Police said it is too ear­ly to decide “cause or respon­si­bil­i­ty”.

The cen­tre, which is being built at Black Rock Quar­ry, is to be used by the Avon and Som­er­set, Glouces­ter­shire and Wilt­shire forces.

The facil­i­ty, which will con­tain two indoor fir­ing ranges and class­rooms, is due to open in Jan­u­ary.

It is part of a Pri­vate Finance Ini­tia­tive (PFI) deal, worth more than £100m, which will also see police sta­tions and oth­er oper­a­tional facil­i­ties built in Patch­way, Keyn­sham and Bridg­wa­ter.

Photos & videos from Canton police station eviction resistance in Cardiff

Evic­tion of Can­ton Police Sta­tion in Cardiff on August 23rd.

Evic­tion of Can­ton Police Sta­tion in Cardiff on August 23rd.

Antagonistic Collective Against BoredomClick here for more pho­tos:
http://cardiff.squat.net/canton-police-station-eviction-resistanc

Bailiffs smash­ing in the door:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HbkdTmNXU

Last squat­ter leav­ing the prop­er­ty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m‑1KYVfuzYk

Antag­nois­tic Col­lec­tive Against Bore­dom (ACAB)
cardiffsquatters@riseup.net
cardiff.squat.net

Memorial at Greenham Common bulldozed

27.8.13

I have just heard via a local woman that the memo­r­i­al to the sis­ters who protest­ed out­side the Green­ham Com­mon Nuclear site from 1982 until the gov­ern­ment was forced to remove the nuclear cruise mis­siles locat­ed there has today been removed by the own­ers of the Green­ham Com­mon Enter­prise Cen­tre that owns the site. 

 

27.8.13

I have just heard via a local woman that the memo­r­i­al to the sis­ters who protest­ed out­side the Green­ham Com­mon Nuclear site from 1982 until the gov­ern­ment was forced to remove the nuclear cruise mis­siles locat­ed there has today been removed by the own­ers of the Green­ham Com­mon Enter­prise Cen­tre that owns the site. 

 

Bull­doz­ers arrived at around 8am and began to rip up all the flow­ers and stones includ­ing even the memo­r­i­al to Helen Thomas who was killed while protest­ing there.   The memo­r­i­al was a gar­den of sev­en stand­ing stones encir­cling the ‘Flame’ sculp­ture which rep­re­sent­ed a camp fire.  I have called the Green­ham Com­mon Trust who run the site and they said the memo­r­i­al had “been there long enough” and was “a prob­lem for local traf­fic”.  I under­stand the entire gar­den is now gone and the land is sim­ply earth with all traces removed.

 

Peo­ple may wish to con­tact the Green­ham Com­mon trust and let them know what they think of this dis­gust­ing action