Category: Squatting / Free Spaces / Protest Sites

documentary: Reclaim Power — voices from the camp for climate action 2006

In the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

Climate camp view from gateIn the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

How­ev­er, in a world dri­ven by prof­it and com­mit­ted to unlim­it­ed eco­nom­ic growth, human­i­ty seems very unwill­ing to change the course of the fos­sil fuel econ­o­my.

In the sum­mer of 2006, the 5th hottest year ever record­ed in recent his­to­ry, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK.

With over one hun­dred work­shops on a wide range of top­ics, the 10 day camp was a space of col­lec­tive learn­ing, sus­tain­able liv­ing and tak­ing direct action on the root caus­es of cli­mate change. The gath­er­ing that showed prac­ti­cal low ener­gy solu­tions in action, cul­mi­nat­ed in a day of protest and mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax.

DVD 62min + extras
Eng­lish with sub­ti­tles in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man and Span­ish
reports on indy­media UK: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Trail­er down­load: 2:58 min
http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_article=356〈=en

a cine rebelde pro­duc­tion in coop­er­a­tion with http://risingtide.org.uk and http://climatecamp.org.uk

indy­media reports of the Camp 2006:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Pic­tures, infor­ma­tion and film orders:
orders@cinerebelde.org
http://www.cinerebelde.org

DVDs will also soon be avail­able from ris­ing tide, cli­mate camp groups and at the meet­ing in Bris­tol.

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Prepa­ra­tions for the Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 are in full swing. The upcom­ing meet­ing will be in Bris­tol on March 17th /18th.

Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca is cur­rent­ly doing a Road Show. Check out:
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org

Rospuda camp of road protesters temporarily suspended

Due to agree­ment with road builders and the law not allow­ing to dis­turb the birds in lying eggs the Rospu­da camp at the Rospu­da Riv­er in Poland is tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed. Ecol­o­gists are locat­ed in near­by vil­lages or await in oth­er cities ready for imme­di­ate action. If You need to con­tact them and await with them ready for action, then here are the data of Pol­ish Green­peace:

Due to agree­ment with road builders and the law not allow­ing to dis­turb the birds in lying eggs the Rospu­da camp at the Rospu­da Riv­er in Poland is tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed. Ecol­o­gists are locat­ed in near­by vil­lages or await in oth­er cities ready for imme­di­ate action. If You need to con­tact them and await with them ready for action, then here are the data of Pol­ish Green­peace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/poland/o‑nas/kontakt

Police evicts social centre ‘Ungdomshuset’ in Copenhagen (& solidarity demo in London)

1.03.2007

After a long polit­i­cal and legal bat­tle the basis-demo­c­ra­t­ic, alter­na­tive polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al cen­tre ‘Ung­domshuset’ was force­ful­ly evict­ed by riot police and air­borne anti-ter­ror squads this morn­ing. Ensu­ing demon­stra­tions have seen large-scale con­fronta­tions between pro­tes­tors and heavy-hand­ed police, here is the full sto­ry from Copen­hagen.

Ungdomshuset eviction 1
Ungdomshuset eviction 21.03.2007

After a long polit­i­cal and legal bat­tle the basis-demo­c­ra­t­ic, alter­na­tive polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al cen­tre ‘Ung­domshuset’ was force­ful­ly evict­ed by riot police and air­borne anti-ter­ror squads this morn­ing. Ensu­ing demon­stra­tions have seen large-scale con­fronta­tions between pro­tes­tors and heavy-hand­ed police, here is the full sto­ry from Copen­hagen.

After seri­ous social con­flicts and upris­ings by the auton­o­mist and squat­ting move­ments in the late 1970s and ear­ly 1980s, the sub­se­quent ‘Ung­domshuset’ was offered as part of a polit­i­cal com­pro­mise to the activists. The main­ly young activists dubbed it ‘Ung­domshuset’ (‘The Youth House’), and start­ed run­ning var­i­ous cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal activ­i­ties out of there. It has for many years served as one of the only mul­ti­cul­tur­al, basis-demo­c­ra­t­ic collectives/community cen­tres in Copen­hagen, with the excep­tion of the Free­town Chris­tia­nia. Prop­er­ty rights remained in the hands of the local coun­cil, which in 1999 decid­ed to dis­re­gard the pre­vi­ous polit­i­cal com­pro­mise and sell the house to the high­est bid­der.

In 2003 the fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian sect ‘Fader­huset’, which had bought the prop­er­ty in 2001 prompt­ed the author­i­ties to evict the ‘Ung­domshuset’ and its users. Despite many demon­stra­tions in sup­port of ‘Ung­domshuset’ Fader­huset won the ensu­ing court­case and the politi­cians avoid­ed seri­ous involve­ment in the con­flict, despite the polit­i­cal nature of the case. Many domes­tic demon­stra­tions saw alleged police bru­tal­i­ty and in Decem­ber an ‘Ung­domshuset’ demon­stra­tion turned into a major con­fronta­tion between activists from all over Europe and the police. Sub­se­quent­ly the ‘Ung­domshuset’ was for­ti­fied in order to avoid an evic­tion and return the issue to the polit­i­cal are­na.

This morn­ing at 7:00 AM the anti-ter­ror squad land­ed on the roof of the ‘Ung­domshuset’ via heli­copters, while riot-police sealed off the street and attacked using tear­gas from below. As the whole area is closed off no doc­u­men­ta­tion of the action and police-behav­iour can take place. Some wit­ness­es say that tear­gas and police vio­lence was plen­ti­ful, although the evic­tion hap­pened swift­ly and accord­ing to police in a ‘rel­a­tive­ly calm man­ner’.

Lat­er in the day activists from all over Copen­hagen rushed to protest the evic­tion of ‘Ung­domshuset’, they were met by aggres­sive police­men in riot gear block­ing the street arrest­ing sus­pect­ed trou­ble­mak­ers with many result­ing injuries. The demon­stra­tors fought back and tried to reclaim the ‘Ung­domshuset’, but were repelled and activists took to the near­by streets and start­ed build­ing bar­ri­cades, while engag­ing police in skir­mish­es.

The neigh­bour­hoods has been entire­ly shut down by local res­i­dents and activists: actions and demon­stra­tions have tak­en place all over Copen­hagen with more planned for the fol­low­ing days and weeks. While sym­pa­this­ers from all over Europe have been rush­ing in, although police are attempt­ing to detain sus­pect­ed activists at the bor­ders. Fur­ther­more sol­i­dar­i­ty demon­stra­tions are under way in Ger­many, Nor­way and Swe­den.

The house has func­tioned as a polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al cen­tre, home to polit­i­cal demon­stra­tions, polit­i­cal debates, con­certs and many more cul­tur­al events since 1982. It has served as a basis-demo­c­ra­t­ic remain­der that ‘anoth­er world is pos­si­ble’ until this morn­ing… The actions of sol­i­dar­i­ty tak­ing place all over Europe, as well as Rus­sia and Aus­tralia are great­ly appre­ci­at­ed. Please join in and sup­port the strug­gle for autonomous com­mons and the resis­tance against the neolib­er­al repres­sion. The home­page of ‘Ung­domshuset’ has been shot down but a mir­ror has been set up (in Eng­lish) at: http://www.ungeren.dk/en.php3?id_rubrique=4
Fur­ther­more updates can be found on http://indymedia.dk/article/885 and http://indymedia.dk/article/878
Also here is a short video-intro­duc­tion pro­duced before the evic­tion http://www.ungeren.dk/spip.php?article79

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Fri­day DEMO Dan­ish Embassy LONDON

01.03.2007 19:36
Meet 2pm HYDE PARK CORNER, inside on park FRIDAY 2nd MARCH
Bring ban­ners, flags…

Please cir­cu­late on www and email lists

See you there
Sup­port the squatters…show sol­i­dar­i­ty!!!

Roy­al Dan­ish Embassy in Lon­don, Great Britain
55 Sloane Street
Lon­don SW1X 9SR
Great Britain

Phone: 00 44 (0)20 7333 0200
Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7333 0270
Email: lonamb@um.dk

Save Rospuda Valley Demonstration, London, 9 March 2007

A ‘Save the Rospu­da Val­ley’ demon­stra­tion will take place on Fri­day, 9th March 2007 at 16.30, out­side the Pol­ish Embassy, 47 Port­land Place, Lon­don.

Rospuda valleyA ‘Save the Rospu­da Val­ley’ demon­stra­tion will take place on Fri­day, 9th March 2007 at 16.30, out­side the Pol­ish Embassy, 47 Port­land Place, Lon­don.

Res­i­dents in 16 Pol­ish towns are protest­ing in oppo­si­tion to the build­ing of the ‘Via Baltic Express­way’ through the Rospu­da Riv­er Val­ley — the last such nat­ur­al trea­sure of its kind in Europe.

The protest camp set up on 13 Feb­ru­ary aims to delay the work. Pro­tes­tors are sleep­ing in and amongst the trees, in tem­per­a­tures as low as ‑20 degrees Centi­grade (use the links below to view recent footage of the con­di­tions at the camp):

The camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZiKfyRLdM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_fWfQ2mjo&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IySFbtmGc&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW41XY4eofQ&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS41nBvZcM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVlnNVb6jM&mode=related&search=

Olecko town feeds the pro­test­ers — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQJeoAdtJo&mode=related&search=

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the sit­u­a­tion, along with updates from the camp are also avail­able at (these sites fea­ture arti­cles in Eng­lish lan­guage):

www.viabalticainfo.org
www.dolina-rospudy.pl
http://www.zieloni.org.pl/

Dona­tions can be made to:
Descrip­tion: “Rospu­da”
Account Num­ber (IBAN): 44 16801206 0000 3000 1447 1454
Fun­dac­ja Insty­tut Spraw Oby­wa­tel­s­kich
ul. Wieck­owiskiego 33/127 90–734 Lódz
Nazwa banku / odd­zi­ał: Invest Bank
Swift­code (BIC): * *IVSEPL PP

SAVE PRIOY PARK : Mass Rally (photos)

26.02.2007

As promised by local cam­paign­ers, and expect­ed by the wider pub­lic, hun­dreds of local peo­ple con­verged upon Southend Civic Cen­tre last Thurs­day for the ‘Parkral­ly’, to oppose con­tro­ver­sial plans to widen the A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent, or ‘scheme F5’ as it has come to be known.

Cops read Bling leaflet
Save Priory Park banner
26.02.2007

As promised by local cam­paign­ers, and expect­ed by the wider pub­lic, hun­dreds of local peo­ple con­verged upon Southend Civic Cen­tre last Thurs­day for the ‘Parkral­ly’, to oppose con­tro­ver­sial plans to widen the A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent, or ‘scheme F5’ as it has come to be known.

The event fol­lows the recent ‘storm­ing’ of the British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards cel­e­bra­tion at Prit­tlewell Pri­o­ry in Jan­u­ary, when dozens of local res­i­dents dis­rupt­ed an invite only ‘wine and cheese’ event held for local dig­ni­taries, in cel­e­bra­tion of the dis­cov­ery of the East Sax­on king’s bur­ial, which would be destroyed, should the £25m road scheme get the go ahead.

Feel­ings con­tin­ue to run high, with major­i­ty pub­lic oppo­si­tion to the scheme repeat­ed­ly being shown by local groups, and press, six years into the cam­paign to stop the road.

Speak­ing from the steps of the Civic Cen­tre, where a meet­ing of the full Coun­cil was tak­ing place inside, cam­paign­er and local res­i­dent Shaun Qureshi said, ‘Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil are either some­how still igno­rant of the fact that so many peo­ple con­tin­ue to demon­strate, or they are arro­gant enough to feel that they can sim­ply push us aside.

‘They have only time and silence on their side, and the com­mon­ly held mis­con­cep­tion that the scheme has already been canned by the Depart­ment for Trans­port, who would be required to pro­vide the fund­ing. The feel­ing that the scheme will not now go ahead is due to the delay in any­one in author­i­ty either tak­ing any respon­si­bil­i­ty, or com­ing to a deci­sion on the issue.

‘How­ev­er, recent events have proven that despite this, sig­nif­i­cant num­bers of the local pub­lic can still be mobilised to take action, that we do have major­i­ty sup­port, and should the go-ahead be giv­en, that there will be out­rage across the town if attempts are made to evict Camp Bling, con­crete over the bur­ial or to destroy yet anoth­er green space.’

A deci­sion to fund the road widen­ing has been await­ed from the DfT since a local Pub­lic Inquiry took place in March 2004. Infor­ma­tion from the East of Eng­land Region­al Part­ner­ship Group shows that costs have now risen to an esti­mat­ed £25m for the 870 metre length of car­riage­way , mak­ing it poten­tial­ly, ‘The most expen­sive stretch of road in the world.’

http://www.savepriorypark.org

Dozens of Swampys desperately needed to save Rospuda Valley, Poland

Peo­ple who will defend the val­ley are need­ed. Do not leave Pol­ish eco-war­riors alone. Pol­ish ultra­catholic gov­ern­ment is build­ing a road through primeval for­est. An inquiry into the prepa­ra­tion of this invest­ment shows that the deci­son process was unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, a vari­ant called Chodor­ki vari­ant of the pro­posed bypass that was avoid­ing the val­ley alto­geth­er was exclud­ed from the appraisal pro­ce­dure, as well as the East­ern vari­ant, which was the cheap­est.

Rospuda 1Rospuda 2Rospuda 3Peo­ple who will defend the val­ley are need­ed. Do not leave Pol­ish eco-war­riors alone. Pol­ish ultra­catholic gov­ern­ment is build­ing a road through primeval for­est. An inquiry into the prepa­ra­tion of this invest­ment shows that the deci­son process was unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, a vari­ant called Chodor­ki vari­ant of the pro­posed bypass that was avoid­ing the val­ley alto­geth­er was exclud­ed from the appraisal pro­ce­dure, as well as the East­ern vari­ant, which was the cheap­est.

Swampys in all qual­i­ties and quan­ti­ties are need­ed in Poland to stop, or slow down the inwest­ment, and to cre­ate the much need­ed media cov­er­age of this prob­lem. As by now, no one of the nation­al media report­ing on the prob­lem have not arrived to the core of the prob­lem, that is the manip­u­la­tions of the author­i­ties with the choice of the vari­ants and manip­u­lat­ed trans­port invest­ment appraisal process. The gov­ern­ment-owned TVP (kind of Pol­ish BBC, alas ultra­catholic and neona­tion­al­is­tic) is so biased when report­ing on the issue, that it des­pereat­ed­ly tries to show ecol­o­gists as men­tal­ly ill peo­ple that pos­sess even no capa­bil­i­ty to speak in their own name.

Here are the direc­tions to Rospu­da Val­ley.

The Val­ley is here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=53.896045,22.934303&spn=0.146468,0.3162&om=1

The camp is over the riv­er. Easy to find if arrived to Augustów no lat­er than in the mid-day as it might be 4 hours walk from the town.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rospuda

From Kau­nas to Augustów you might take a bus or a train. There is one train con­nec­tion dai­ly from Kau­nas to Augustów, the train departs at 13:01 with change in Ses­tokai and arrives at 15:56. The sched­ules (also con­nec­tions from oth­er Euro­pean cities to Augustów) are here:

http://rozklad.pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en?

Nights are cold. Please check the weath­er fore­cast before depart­ing. Get ready for more than minus 10 degree in the night.

plea for inter­na­tion­al sup­port and pub­lic­i­ty, let every­one you know, know. peo­ple need­ed to sup­port camp with peo­ple pow­er. if you plan to go to rospu­da from u.k in mid march, con­tact piotr-dziedzice@gmail.com.

Rospu­da Protest Camp — Films for view­ing

Use the links below to watch the most recent films from the Rospu­da Protest Camp. This will give you an idea of the con­di­tions and tem­per­a­tures being endured by the activists. Dia­logue is in Pol­ish lan­guage, but the images speak for them­selves:

The camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZiKfyRLdM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_fWfQ2mjo&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IySFbtmGc&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW41XY4eofQ&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS41nBvZcM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVlnNVb6jM&mode=related&search=

Olecko town feeds the pro­test­ers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQJeoAdtJo&mode=related&search=

Southend: Hundreds gather to oppose controversial F5 road widening

As promised by local cam­paign­ers, and expect­ed by the wider pub­lic, hun­dreds of local peo­ple con­verged upon Southend Civic Cen­tre this evening for the ‘Parkral­ly’, to oppose con­tro­ver­sial plans to widen the A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent, or ‘scheme F5’ as it has come to be known.
The event fol­lows the recent ‘storm­ing’ of the British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards cel­e­bra­tion at Prit­tlewell Pri­o­ry in January(1), when dozens of local res­i­dents dis­rupt­ed an invite only ‘wine and cheese’ event held for local dig­ni­taries, in cel­e­bra­tion of the dis­cov­ery of the East Sax­on king’s bur­ial, which would be destroyed, should the £25m road scheme get the go ahead.

As promised by local cam­paign­ers, and expect­ed by the wider pub­lic, hun­dreds of local peo­ple con­verged upon Southend Civic Cen­tre this evening for the ‘Parkral­ly’, to oppose con­tro­ver­sial plans to widen the A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent, or ‘scheme F5’ as it has come to be known.
The event fol­lows the recent ‘storm­ing’ of the British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards cel­e­bra­tion at Prit­tlewell Pri­o­ry in January(1), when dozens of local res­i­dents dis­rupt­ed an invite only ‘wine and cheese’ event held for local dig­ni­taries, in cel­e­bra­tion of the dis­cov­ery of the East Sax­on king’s bur­ial, which would be destroyed, should the £25m road scheme get the go ahead.

Feel­ings con­tin­ue to run high, with major­i­ty pub­lic oppo­si­tion to the scheme repeat­ed­ly being shown by local groups, and press, six years into the cam­paign to stop the road.
Speak­ing from the steps of the Civic Cen­tre, where a meet­ing of the full Coun­cil was tak­ing place inside, cam­paign­er and local res­i­dent Shaun Qureshi said, ‘Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil are either some­how still igno­rant of the fact that so many peo­ple con­tin­ue to demon­strate, or they are arro­gant enough to feel that they can sim­ply push us aside.
‘They have only time and silence on their side, and the com­mon­ly held mis­con­cep­tion that the scheme has already been canned by the Depart­ment for Trans­port, who would be required to pro­vide the fund­ing. The feel­ing that the scheme will not now go ahead is due to the delay in any­one in author­i­ty either tak­ing any respon­si­bil­i­ty, or com­ing to a deci­sion on the issue.
‘How­ev­er, recent events have proven that despite this, sig­nif­i­cant num­bers of the local pub­lic can still be mobilised to take action, that we do have major­i­ty sup­port, and should the go-ahead be giv­en, that there will be out­rage across the town if attempts are made to evict Camp Bling, con­crete over the bur­ial or to destroy yet anoth­er green space.’(2)
A deci­sion to fund the road widen­ing has been await­ed from the DfT since a local Pub­lic Inquiry took place in March 2004. Infor­ma­tion from the East of Eng­land Region­al Part­ner­ship Group shows that costs have now risen to an esti­mat­ed £25m for the 870 metre length of car­riage­way (3), mak­ing it poten­tial­ly, ‘The most expen­sive stretch of road in the world.’(4)
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ENDS.

NOTES TO EDITORS:
1 British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards 2006:
www.britarch.ac.uk/awards/winners2006.html
2 Camp Bling web­site: www.savepriorypark.org
3 East of Eng­land Region­al Part­ner­ship Group region­al fund­ing allo­ca­tions advice to Gov­ern­ment report Jan­u­ary 2006, page 25:
http://www.eera.gov.uk/Documents/About%20EERA/Policy/Regional%20Governance/Regional%20Funding%20Allocations/Final%20EoE%20RFA%20300106.pdf
4 Southend Evening Echo Mon­day 13th Feb­ru­ary 2006

new squatcafe/social centre coming soon in Somerset

13th Feb

Hi,
the cider squir­rel syn­di­cate, occu­pants of the stu­dio­Qau­ton­a­mous vil­lage are embark­ing on a new project for which we are call­ing for sup­port. the inten­tion is to occu­py a space in cen­tral Bridg­wa­ter to use as a veg­an cafe cum social cen­tre. We Want to include a library, computer/publishing work­shops, jug­gling club, radikal cin­e­ma and a space for art and fundrais­ers and par­ties. We are call­ing out for any help indy­medi­ans can offer-from dona­tions of food, equip­ment, lit­er­a­ture, movies, labour, paint, elec­tri­cal equip­ment, plates cups teabags, allot­ment space, smiles, advice, tim­ber ANYTHING. We project is to be self sus­tain­ing through dona­tions, fundrais­ers and sheer barefaced deter­mi­na­tion. At present we have 0 pounds for the project so any­thing you can help pro­vide will enable us to cre­ate the space our dying town is cry­ing out for. Any­one who can help or would like more info get in touch on mookdetat@hotmail.com

13th Feb

Hi,
the cider squir­rel syn­di­cate, occu­pants of the stu­dio­Qau­ton­a­mous vil­lage are embark­ing on a new project for which we are call­ing for sup­port. the inten­tion is to occu­py a space in cen­tral Bridg­wa­ter to use as a veg­an cafe cum social cen­tre. We Want to include a library, computer/publishing work­shops, jug­gling club, radikal cin­e­ma and a space for art and fundrais­ers and par­ties. We are call­ing out for any help indy­medi­ans can offer-from dona­tions of food, equip­ment, lit­er­a­ture, movies, labour, paint, elec­tri­cal equip­ment, plates cups teabags, allot­ment space, smiles, advice, tim­ber ANYTHING. We project is to be self sus­tain­ing through dona­tions, fundrais­ers and sheer barefaced deter­mi­na­tion. At present we have 0 pounds for the project so any­thing you can help pro­vide will enable us to cre­ate the space our dying town is cry­ing out for. Any­one who can help or would like more info get in touch on mookdetat@hotmail.com

Thanks all

hap­py resist­ing x

Demo in Edinburgh in the defence of Rospuda

20 Feb 2007
On Fri­day at 2 pm, in front of Pol­ish con­sulate there will be a dome in sup­port of Pol­ish protest site
against the destruc­tion of the largest in Europe wild wet­lands in Rospu­da Val­ley (google the area to find more about the case)

20 Feb 2007
On Fri­day at 2 pm, in front of Pol­ish con­sulate there will be a dome in sup­port of Pol­ish protest site
against the destruc­tion of the largest in Europe wild wet­lands in Rospu­da Val­ley (google the area to find more about the case)

Take a look at the fuckin’ pic­tures:
www.greenpeace.org/poland/multimedia/slajdy/dolina-rospudy-z-lotu-ptaka‑2

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On the Ground Ireland: Day four, the Monday picket, video and report

Fears on ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Rats. Big ones. Per­haps Bertie Ahern and his cor­po­rate bud­dies had stormed the camp, attempt­ed to make a prof­it nest under the com­mu­nal ben­der and, as usu­al, couldn’t agree on any­thing and began squab­bling, squawk­ing and squeak­ing, claw­ing out each oth­ers eye­balls.

Fears on ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Rats. Big ones. Per­haps Bertie Ahern and his cor­po­rate bud­dies had stormed the camp, attempt­ed to make a prof­it nest under the com­mu­nal ben­der and, as usu­al, couldn’t agree on any­thing and began squab­bling, squawk­ing and squeak­ing, claw­ing out each oth­ers eye­balls.

Video 190207_Corrib_picket — video/x‑ms-wmv 5.6M

The ear­ly morn­ing pick­et saw peo­ple gath­er­ing again out­side the main gates of the con­struc­tion site again, this time at 7.30am.

The Gar­da were out in ear­ly, two vans, sev­er­al patrol cars and an unmarked blue car full of grin­ning senior offi­cers, who drove up and down the road all morn­ing.

30 to 40 pro­tes­tors pick­et­ed the trucks, cars and bus­es bring­ing in the work­ers. But the Shell con­tract­ed work­force was now minus five, accord­ing to local peo­ple. Five more work­ers quit after the Fri­day morn­ing protest.

The pick­et last­ed sev­er­al hours, includ­ing a tea-break at the Shell-to-Sea infor­ma­tion hut. Then the “musi­cians” decid­ed to give the work­ers a lit­tle scare, and send the mes­sage the protest to this pipeline and gas ter­mi­nal was not going away. They ran to the front gate and fence and used sticks to ham­mer out as much noise as they could muster until the only remain­ing police van drove up out front. The musi­cal pro­tes­tors retreat­ed back to the infor­ma­tion cen­tre and then took up perch oppo­site the main entrance again and ham­mered out beats on drums and bar­rels.

For now, there seems no real retal­i­a­tion from the Gar­da. There was a lit­tle point­less shov­ing of sev­er­al of the known local mem­bers, but it amount­ed to noth­ing.