Excavator set on fire in the Basque Country

yesterday 12th Oct someone phoned the basque paper Gara to claim the burning of an excavator of a company which takes part in the building of the High Speed Train. The company is UTE Benta Aundi.

Reivindican la quema de una excavadora en denuncia de las obras del TAV

http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20091013/161223/es/Reivindican/la/quema/de/una/excavadora/en/denuncia/de/las/obras/del/TAV/

yesterday 12th Oct someone phoned the basque paper Gara to claim the burning of an excavator of a company which takes part in the building of the High Speed Train. The company is UTE Benta Aundi.

Reivindican la quema de una excavadora en denuncia de las obras del TAV

http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20091013/161223/es/Reivindican/la/quema/de/una/excavadora/en/denuncia/de/las/obras/del/TAV/
GARA |
Un comunicante anónimo informó ayer a GARA de que el pasado 30 de setiembre llevaron a cabo un sabotaje contra una máquina excavadora en Ibarra. Según detalló, prendieron fuego a la máquina, que resultó calcinada, por lo que los trabajos que llevan a cabo cerca del río se paralizaron durante una semana.
El comunicante anónimo señaló que el ataque se realizó contra una máquina excavadora de la empresa UTE Benta Aundi. Denunció que detrás de esa empresa se esconden varias empresas que construyen el Tren de Alta Velocidad en Euskal Herria. Y ésa ha sido la razón que esgrimió para llevar a cabo el ataque.

Silencio y ocultación
«A quienes están destruyendo nuestras tierras, a quienes se están enriqueciendo a costa del futuro de este pueblo y a todos aquellos que colaborar con estos hemos querido transmitir un mensaje sencillo. Con los que promueven la destrucción, es decir, con Amenabar, Fonorte, Adif, Uria… ¡no se puede colaborar!».
Asimismo, el comunicante también denunció el silencio que se ha impuesto sobre todo lo relacionado con el TAV, «como este ataque», con objeto, a su entender, de dar una imagen de que «no hay movimiento, no hay oposición, no hay respuesta. Ocultan todo y así dibujan la sociedad que ellos emiten desde los (des)informativos. Por desgracia para ellos, nosotros no estamos de acuerdo».

Activists keep on against the High Speed Train & video

The campaign against the High Speed Train doesn’t rest over here in the Basque Country. Funny enough: in both sides of it (if you can consider there are such), in the French administrated as ell as in the Spanish one. Next Saturday 17th October a demo has been called in Baiona, where people from ‘both sides’ will attend .

up the treesThe campaign against the High Speed Train doesn’t rest over here in the Basque Country. Funny enough: in both sides of it (if you can consider there are such), in the French administrated as ell as in the Spanish one. Next Saturday 17th October a demo has been called in Baiona, where people from ‘both sides’ will attend . Meanwhile the latest attempt to climb trees and defend the woods has failed today when activists were taken down by the Basque police (yes, there is one – brutal,fascist and feared as much as the Spanish and French ones!!). This new attempt aimed to continue the success of the last weeks when activists remained for two weeks up in centenary birch trees in woods facing removal. This action, in some way the first one of its kind after camps, sit-ins, etc, triggered a series of actions all over the Basque Country. Activists climb centric trees of their own cities and towns to show solidarity and to take the message. Without any doubts, the most mediatic of such actions was the climbing of the Gernika tree. This is the historic oak tree which ancient Basque chieftains gathered around. The one targeted by the nazis, the Condor Legion, when the well known bombing of this city. However this seems to be the only tree that really matters to basque politicians.

(i will try to post something else with more time – please distribute this item as widely as you can)

mantxo@yahoo.com

Video of activists climbing the Basque sacred oaktree of Gernika, the only tree these bunch of technocrats care for. You can notice the police’s (Ertzantza) failure to remove the activist and the subsequent action of the fire brigade. The action had great media coverage. Enjoy it!

http://www.sindominio.net/ahtez/?q=es/node/325

ELF Torches Telmex Cell Tower in Mexico State

The night of October 4th we headed into the brush surrounding the Atizapan viaduct above the Mexico-Toluca highway in Mexico State to sabotage one of the many properties that belong to the earth-destroying Telmex company. It was a huge cell phone tower protected by a metal fence. The environmental impact of placing a tower like this on the land is unquestionably harmful, since to place it in this natural area they had to cut many trees where different species of animals lived; in addition to the many waves that these towers emit they leave the land barren and dry.

The night of October 4th we headed into the brush surrounding the Atizapan viaduct above the Mexico-Toluca highway in Mexico State to sabotage one of the many properties that belong to the earth-destroying Telmex company. It was a huge cell phone tower protected by a metal fence. The environmental impact of placing a tower like this on the land is unquestionably harmful, since to place it in this natural area they had to cut many trees where different species of animals lived; in addition to the many waves that these towers emit they leave the land barren and dry.

In analyzing these effects as well as other things, we arrived at the conclusion that a sabotage must happen right now against this machine that destroys the ecosystem and expands civilization! We will not allow companies like Telmex to continue indulging in the luxury of going around turning the earth into a commodity for a few to profit from without having their properties receive a crushing response from eco-radicals.

That’s why we assembled an incendiary device with six liters of gasoline, we penetrated this private property, destroying their fences, and put the device high above the cables which conducted telephone signals. As expected our gift worked perfectly and the fire completely destroyed the cables in addition to power boxes that they connected to below. They exploded leaving this tower of the filthy Carlos Slim unusable, causing thousands of pesos in losses.
This action is dedicated to all the cells that in September carried out acts that appeared up in mass media outlets. The war against everything that seeks to dominate us continues. Let’s continue on!

Also through this communique we wish to express our most sincere and direct solidarity with those imprisoned on the second of October during the State repression against student groups, alternative media reporters and anarchists in the national capital and in Oaxaca. We know that businesses (including Telmex) demand that the state act as their servant so unequivocally that the state will seize innocent people; we have all witnessed the ineptitude and sham it carried out
against college activist Ramsés Villarreal.

Solidarity with individuals now in prison, by fighting directly against the riot police, should happen by any means. We do not know these people in prison and we are not in the least interested in prosecuting them as surely the soft-anarchists, the Stalinist-anarchists, the red-unionists and other shitty reformist groups would be, neither are we interested in saying whether they are innocent or guilty; that is a measure that the state and its judges decide. Our part is to change tactics to fight and return to the state all the blows that it has given us. Today is the time, the insurgency is day by day and we will no longer wait to arm our revolution.

Frente de Liberación de la Tierra

Spanish:

La noche del 4 de Octubre nos dirigimos dentro de la maleza en el viaducto Atizapan, sobre la autopista Mexico-Toluca
en el Estado de Mexico; para sabotear una de las tantas propiedades de la empresa destructora de la tierra Telmex, se
trataba de una gran torre de telefonía celular la que estaba protegida por una valla metálica. El impacto ambiental de
implantar una torre como ésta en la tierra es indiscutiblemente dañina, pues para imponerla en la naturaleza se tuvieron
que talar diferentes arboles en donde vivían distintas especies animales, contribuyendo así a que muchas de las ondas
que emiten tales torres dejen a la tierra estéril y seca.

Al analizar estas repercusiones y demás cosas, llegamos a la conclusión de que un sabotaje contra tal estado de
maquinarias destructoras de los ecosistemas y que expanden la civilización se debe de dar ahora! No vamos a permitir que
las empresas como Telmex sigan con su tradicional lujo de andar convirtiendo a la tierra en una mercancía para lucro de
unxs cuantxs sin que sus propiedades reciban una respuesta contundente de lxs eco-radicales.

Es por eso que hemos armado un dispositivo incendiario con seis litros de gasolina, hemos penetrado tal propiedad ?
privada? destruyendo sus rejas y hemos puesto tal artefacto arriba de los cables que conducían señales telefónicas. Como
se esperaba nuestro regalo funciono a la perfección y el fuego destruyo por completo los cables además de que las cajas
de poder que se encontraban debajo de éstos explotaron dejando la torre propiedad del asqueroso Carlos Slim inutilizada,
causando perdidas de miles de pesos.

Esta acción esta dedicada a todas las células que en septiembre hicieron acto de presencia en todos los medios de in
comunicación masiva, la guerra contra todo lo que nos quiere dominar continua, sigamos adelante!

También por medio de este reporte queremos expresar nuestra mas sincera solidaridad directa con las personas presas el
pasado dos de octubre durante la represión implementada por el estado contra grupos de estudiantes, reporterxs de medios
alternativos y anarquistas en la capital del país y en Oaxaca, sabemos también que las empresas (en las que también se
encuentra Telmex) exigió a su sirviente el estado de manera tajante que se apresaran personas después de la por todxs
vista, ineptitud y montaje que armaron contra el activista universitario Ramsés Villarreal.

La solidaridad con los individuos ahora presos, por pelear de manera directa contra los anti disturbios debe de
manifestarse de todas maneras. Nosotrxs no conocemos a estas personas no nos interesa en lo mas mínimo criminalizarlos
como seguramente lo harán las agrupaciones de anarco-blandxs, anarco-estalinistas, sindicalistas rojos y demás cagada
reformista, tampoco estamos interesados en decir si son inocentes o si son culpables esa es una medida que el estado y
sus jueces dictan, pero lo que si nos corresponde, es cambiar de estrategia para luchar y regresar todos los golpes al
estado que nos ha dado, hoy es el tiempo, la insurrección es día a día y no vamos a esperar mas para armar nuestra
revolución.

Frente de Liberación de la Tierra

http://www.elfpressoffice.org

Chile: Luxury cars, meat markets, bank branch vandalized

reported anonymously (translation):

“Santiago, between October 3 and 4, $hile. There are many reasons why we went out to disrupt the order of those who we consider our enemies. During an impromptu tour of the disgusting city, we found bourgeois property, butchers, doctors and bankers, those who protect and maintain their lives through this nauseating system of domination, those who love the monotony of work-consumption, aiming to get just a little power, that’s what gives them the tranquility they need to sleep at night.

reported anonymously (translation):

“Santiago, between October 3 and 4, $hile. There are many reasons why we went out to disrupt the order of those who we consider our enemies. During an impromptu tour of the disgusting city, we found bourgeois property, butchers, doctors and bankers, those who protect and maintain their lives through this nauseating system of domination, those who love the monotony of work-consumption, aiming to get just a little power, that’s what gives them the tranquility they need to sleep at night.

We sabotaged:
– 4 luxury cars (3 4×4 trucks and 1 car) had their tires split.
– 4 luxury cars were scratched with a sharp, metal tool, leaving chaotic designs ruining the expensive paint jobs.
– 6 meat markets ended-up with the locks on the doors and the padlocks on their shutters sealed with metal pieces and superglue.
– A psychiatric clinic was left with its doors glued.
– A BancoEstado bank branch was attacked with stones, resulting in two windows and the entry door shattered.

Symbols of progress and power, leading promoters of environmental destruction, from toxic substances and the use of fuel to the disgusting smoke they spew as they drive, they build the roads deforesting and killing thousands of natural hectares and following their progress lie the cold bleeding bodies of so many animals. Because of this we decided to attack these machines.
Mutilated and piled up bodies as mere objects of consumption, this is the image that doesn’t bother anyone, with a blindfold over their eyes; anthropocentrism is responsible for making humans believe they are masters of the Earth, exploiting for their own well-being everything that exists on the planet. It’s because of this that we glued the meat markets, where the butchers had to replace and repair the locks and padlocks.
Centers of conditioning, repressors of inherent impulses that pigeonhole people according to their conduct; institutions that seek to change and mold us so we are adapted to their instruments of control, committed to exterminating all dissenting ideas of normalcy and order; that’s why we sealed the doors of a psychiatric clinic, while officials were still inside. In this place they don’t lock up the people who write diagnoses.
Institutions that promote exploitation and progress at the expense of crushing and enslaving people, animals and the earth.

For capitalism everything is a source of power and profit; introducing the ideology of power throughout the world, disguised in multiple forms; it is because of the power that the banks represent that we attacked a bank branch; with a large stone we hit the metal structure, breaking two windows and the door.

We know that these acts of sabotage were not an impediment to the targets and they will continue their work; it was only a momentary break and an inconvenience to those who saw the extent of our exploits.

This is a minimal gesture of solidarity and a greeting for all those who have felt the enemy’s blows on their skin, who have been encaged and separated from their loved ones. We salute our comrade Axel Osorio, who has demonstrated that the cages did not stop him and that his struggle continues from the dungeons, and to Cristian Cancino, accused of being a supplier of gunpowder, to comrades Pablo Carbajal and Matías Castro accused of the attack on the PDI. To comrades Daniel and Francisco, recently on trial in Italy for robbery and subversive association. To our comrades in Greece accused of belonging to a cell responsible for bombings, a cell which continues attacking, showing the futility of the powerful who accuse people who are unrelated to the attacks. To comrades in Mexico, where the powerful also kidnapped a comrade, holding him responsible for the September bombings, comrades stronger than the powerful who try to stop the attacks on authority.

The war has also cost the deaths of many comrades throughout the world, recently it took away our friend Mauri from us, the product of an accident that could have been avoided. Mauri will be remembered as the warrior that he was, loving comrades and desiring the death of enemies, a savage in the war against society, Mauri this is for you and as well as all the actions that are still to come!
For the companion Diego Rios, who 4 months ago made his escape and went underground refusing to fall into the hands of the authority. To him we say, flee, Diego, run and continue to expose the vulnerability of the powerful, from here we embrace every word of your communiques and with these actions we salute you.

We invite all the comrades who read this message to continue attacking the powerful on all fronts. We salute in the spirit of war, and we send our strength through action.

This is just the beginning!

Banda Salvaje e Insurrecta en Guerra Contra la Dominación [Wild Insurgent Group in the War Against Domination]”

Spanish:

“Santiago entre el 3 y 4 de octubre, $hile. Muchas son las razones que nos animan a salir a sabotear el orden de quienes consideramos nuestros enemigos. En el transcurso de un improvisado recorrido por la asquerosa ciudad, nos encontramos con propiedades de burgueses, matarifes, doctores y banqueros, quienes defienden y mantienen con sus vidas estenauseabundo sistema de dominación, amantes de la monotonía del trabajo-consumo encaminados por lograr conseguir un poco de poder, lo que les da la tranquilidad que necesitan para poder dormir.

Saboteamos:
– 4 vehículos de lujo (3 camionetas 4×4 y 1 auto) terminaron con sus ruedas rajadas.
– 4 autos de lujo rayados con un elemento metálico y filoso, dejando marcas de caóticos diseños arruinando sus costosas capas de pintura.
– 6 Carnicerías, las cuales amanecieron con las cerraduras de las puertas y los candados de las cortinas metálicas selladas con pedazos de metal y pegamentoextrafuerte.
– Un clínica de diagnóstico psiquiátrico quedo con sus puertas selladas con pedazos de metal y pegamento extrafuerte.
– Una sucursal del BancoEstado fue apedreada, resultando dos cristales y la puerta de acceso destrozadas.

Símbolos de progreso y poder, principales promotores de la destrucción ambiental con sustancias tóxicas, desde el uso de combustible hasta el asqueroso humo que expelen al moverse, construyen sus caminos deforestando y asesinando miles de hectáreas naturales y tras su avance yacen los cuerposfríos y desangrados de muchos animales. Por eso decidimos atacar
estas máquinas.
Cuerpos mutilados y amontonados como simples objetos de consumo, es este el panorama que no asombra a nadie, con una venda en los ojos el antropocentrismo se encarga de hacer creer que los humanos son amos de la Tierra, explotando para su bien todo lo que en el planeta existe, es por eso que sellamos estascarnicerías, donde los matarifes tuvieron que
cambiar y reparar las cerraduras y los candados.
Centros de condicionamiento, represores de impulsos inherentes que encasillan a las personas de acuerdo a sus conductas, instituciones que buscan transformarnos en moldes adaptados a instrumentos de control, empeñados en exterminar todo idea desidente de la normalidad y el orden, es por eso que sellamos las puertas de una clínica de diagnóstico
psiaquiátrico, cuando los funcionarios aún se encontraban dentro, en este lugar no encierran a personas solo se emiten evaluaciones.
Instituciones promotoras de explotación y progreso, a costa de aplastar y esclavizar a personas, animales y la tierra. Para el capitalismo todo es fuente de poder y ganancias, implantando la ideología del poder por todo el mundo, disfrazada demúltiples formas, es por el poder que representan los bancos que atacamos una sucursal y con una gran piedra golpeamos su estructura metálica, rompiendo dos cristales y la puerta de acceso.

Sabemos que estos sabotajes no fueron un impedimento para que los objetivos atacados continuaran con sus labores, solo fue un frenomomentáneo y una incomodidad para quienes apreciaron nuestras hazañas.

Éste es un mínimo gesto de solidaridad y un saludo de ánimo para todxs aquellxs que han sentido en su piel los golpes del enemigo, que han sido enjauladxs y separadxs de sus seres queridxs. Saludamos al compañero Axel Osorio, que ha demostrando que las jaulas no lo apagan y que su lucha continua desde las mazmorras, a Cristian Cancino acusado de ser proveedor de pólvora, a los compañeros Pablo Carbajal y Matías Castro acusados del ataque a la PDI. A los compañeros Daniel y Francisco recientemente juzgados en Italia por robo y asociación subversiva. A lxs compañerxs en Grecia acusadxs pertenecer a una célula responsable de explosiones, célula que a seguido atacando, mostrando la inutilidad del poder que acusa a personas que no están relacionadas con los ataques. A lxs compañerxs en México, que también el poder les había secuestrado a un compañero responsabilizándolo de los bombazos de septiembre, compañerxs a ser fuertes que el poder intentara por todas las formas detener los ataques contra la autoridad.

La guerra también a costado la muerte de muchxs compañerxs en todo el mundo, recientemente nos arrebato al compa Mauri, producto de un accidente que podría haber sido evitado. Mauri serás recordado como el guerrero que fuiste, amando a tus compañerxs y deseando la muerte a tus enemigos, un salvaje en guerra contra la sociedad, Mauri para ti estas y todas las
acciones que realizaremos!
Para el compañero Diego Ríos, quién ya hace 4 meses emprendió su fuga y asumió la clandestinidad negándose a caer en las manos del la autoridad.
Le decimos huye, Diego, huye y sigue exponiendo la vulnerabilidad del poder, desde aquí abrazamos cada palabra de tus comunicados y con estas acciones te saludamos.

Invitamos a todxs lxs compañerxs que lean este mensaje a continuar atacando el poder desde todos los frentes, ánimo compañerxs que en la guerra nos saludamos y damos fuerza mediante la acción.

Esto es solo el comienzo!

Banda Salvaje e Insurrecta en Guerra Contra la Dominación”

http://www.directaction.info

Reclaim the Earth Centre at Doncaster – People needed for planned occupation

The Earth Centre in Doncaster has been left to ruin for 5 years. We intend to take it back. This site now owned by the council was developed to be a sustainable living education centre and community farm. It is currently being used as a firing range by weapon enthusiasts Cerberus Airsoft.

reclaim the earth centreThe Earth Centre in Doncaster has been left to ruin for 5 years. We intend to take it back. This site now owned by the council was developed to be a sustainable living education centre and community farm. It is currently being used as a firing range by weapon enthusiasts Cerberus Airsoft. Its time to bring this valuable resource back to the people before it is sold off for development.

The Earth Centre was developed on derelict land left over from former coal pits, it was intended to be the museum for the millenium. Initial plans were for a gradual development of the site, incorporating community-led projects and with much construction work being undertaken by Mowlem, who used the site to train apprentices. The first stage of that project opened in 1994, including a sustainable aquaculture centre and a community farm.

In 1995 the Millennium Commission made an award to Earth Centre, which became one of its Landmark Millennium projects. The site was completely redesigned and virtually all existing landscaping and projects were destroyed, which lost the goodwill of the local community who felt excluded from the project. From 1996 work progressed on the remediation of the remaining polluted land and the design and construction of the many buildings and exhibitions.

In September 2004 the attraction closed to the public, and only pre-booked school parties were allowed. By the end of October, the Earth Centre, monument to Sustainability, was to the money men un-sustainable and was put in the hands of administrators. It is now in the hands of the Council who surprise surprise have made no effort to return it to its original intent. Instead the council chooses to allow access to Cerberus Airsoft a company specialising in providing war games and shooting outings to a select membership group. General public will be thrown off by the police!!

We think that this is an amazing site and the original concept behind the Earth Centre is a fantastically intelligent way of educating communities about sustainable living. It is now the time to return the Earth Centre to the people.

We need support in many forms to make this happen. To begin with we need people to come and help occupy the site, we will need tools and volunteers. This is a great opportunity for anyone that has been wanting to live in a community, in an eco village setting and a real chance to put South Yorkshire on the map for environmental education and lifestyle.

We’re planning a swoop on the site and then aim to transform it so that everyone can use it and benefit from its resources.

Please help contact – thereismore2lfefolks@yahoo.co.uk

This is a very urgent matter!
The following story was published in local paper ‘Peterborough Today’ 15 February 2007

DONCASTER Council is poised to sell off the ill-fated Earth Centre to developers after admitting running costs mean it would be “extremely unlikely” it could be used by community groups.
The probable fate of the 200 remaining acres of the former £38 million green visitor attraction was revealed in the council’s Corporate Asset Management Plan, presented to councillors last week.
The Earth Centre has been mothballed with 24-hour security patrols since it was wound up in 2004.
The Asset Management Plan presented to a meeting of the Economy and Enterprise Scrutiny Panel describes the Earth Centre as “extremely unlikely to find sustainable use from community or other not for profit groups because of the very high cost of running and maintaining both the buildings and the grounds.” The report goes on to say that a “disposal solution” would be the “only viable option” for the site.
Ripon-based Pearson Developments Limited have submitted a planning application to build 300 houses, flats and offices on 17.5 acres of the 30 acres the company bought from the Millennium Commission. This land includes the former car park area and the lodge facilities.
Doncaster Council owns the remainder of the 200-plus acre site, including greenbelt land and the showpiece conference centre and galleries.
Their report adds: “Adjacent land owned by the Millennium Commission was sold in spring 2006 to a developer and discussions are in hand regarding a possible sale of the council’s landholding potentially to the same developer.”
Former Earth Centre member Bernard Pearson said: “All the money spent there was spent by the Millennium Commission from lottery money – I think the people who have paid into this should be taken into consideration. I don’t think the Council has tried very hard to get rid of it.”
Mr Pearson, who claims the maintenance bill for the site is in the region of £30,000 per month, added of the likely sell-off: “I think it is sad but it was what one would expect after two and a half years. I would look forward to seeing what proposals are put forward for the site. A lot of public money was invested in the site and I would hope the public will get something out of the arrangements.”
Opened in March 1999 as one of the Government’s flagship millennium projects, the Earth Centre was originally billed as an ‘environmental theme park’.
But the projected visitor numbers failed to appear. A relaunch in 2001 saw the centre rebranded to appeal to business and education users, but its fortunes did not revive enough for the attraction to break even. It went into liquidation in 2004 and has been mothballed ever since.
Nobody at Doncaster Council was available for comment this week.

We will not allow this to happen action must be taken!

The Earth Centre is key in educating the world about the effects of climate change and sustainable living solutions

Check out what it’s got to offer!

• 80% of building materials were either reclaimed or recycled
• Europe’s largest flat-foot photovoltaic installation.1,300m2 canopy containing 250 photovoltaic panels – generating 80,000 KW of electricity per year and would run the systems and the galleries.
• Conference centre constructed largely from reclaimed materials including telegraph poles, crushed concrete, glass and radiators.
• A shop and café area
• 6500m2 black box gallery space conditioned through an underground thermal store called the Labyrinth
• “Living Machine” sewage treatment plant. A local water treatment system processing all waste water coming from Earth Centre toilets, basins and kitchens, operating entirely through biological reactions, using both bacteria and nutrient-demanding tropical plants in the warmth of a greenhouse.
• Fully integrated network of water management that incorporates rainwater harvesting and the treatment, storage and recycling of water for use in irrigation and water features and as a wildlife habitat.
• 100,000 new trees including 15 acres of willow as well as some ancient woodlands, two rivers and a variety of ecological grasslands and wetlands
• Demonstrations of organic gardening methods, fruit orchards, willow sculptures, forest and bog gardens, and other flower and sculptural gardens

All this and a pirate ship!

……Attention……
We need support for the takeover of the Earth Centre, we intend to transform it into a camp for sustainable living and community activism contact us now! A swoop date will be announced soon.

Scottish Power, Hatfield Moor Gas Storage Facility, URGENT HELP REQUIRED!!! Protest, Sunday 11th October

HATFIELD MOOR GAS STORAGE FACILITY, LINDHOLME, DONCASTER, SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

HATFIELD MOOR GAS STORAGE FACILITY, LINDHOLME, DONCASTER, SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

Scottish Power, the current owners of the site, have just submitted a planning application to DONCASTER METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL seeking permission to both extend, and reinstate a naturally occurring gas field situated under the area. The site stands adjacent to a small residential estate, a couple of prisons, and a NATURE RESERVE which already is designated as an area of Special Scientific Interest.

During the construction phase of the project, Scottish Power themselves admit that they will be running drilling operations 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, for at least 10 months.What effect will this have on local residents, wildlife and environment.Also, the original geological survey of the area to which Scottish Power base their planning application is some 30 yrs old now and has been shown to have been riddled with flawed data in any case.
In addition, our local MP, who initially seemed happy to support us, appears to have changed sides, hmm, interesting but not surprising!

We have arranged the first of many peaceful protests, which is to be held on Sunday 11th October, starting at 2pm, meeting up point: Lindholme ‘Green Gym’ Playing Field, Lindholme, Doncaster, South Yorks (adjacent to Lindholme Immigration removal centre. DN7 postcode. Support desperately needed!!!).

As I mentioned earlier, we are a small community, with little chance of successfully holding any real form of protest on our own, so any support would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks

Stop Vedanta mining in India : meeting on how you can help

Saturday 17th Oct 2-4pm London School of Economics

Saturday 17th Oct 2-4pm London School of Economics
Corporate murder, environmental crimes:
Vedanta plc, DfID and the Indian State
PUBLIC MEETING AND FILM SCREENING

Samarendra Das activist, film-maker and researcher will discuss these and related issues at a screening of extracts from his remarkable film Wira Pdika (Earthworm and Company Man) in which people from the Adivasi Dongria Kondh and Majhi Kondh communities, activists, singers and dancers, forest dwellers and fisher people speak about their lives and their struggles against Vedanta. If Vedanta are not stopped, the mine will destroy the Niyamgiri hills – known as the most beautiful mountains in India – wiping out the ancient civilization of the Dongria Kondh adivasi community who regard the Niyam Dongar mountain and forests of the area as their Gods. It will also lead to unprecedented environmental disasters, water pollution and mass unemployment.

sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
07846873341

The meeting will be in Rm 302 Clement House, London School of Economics, The Aldwych, London WC2
(Map of LSE at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx)

http://www.southasiasolidarity.org

For more info on what’s at stake check out
www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=101732

For latest news check out
http://londonminingnetwork.org

report from titnore woods picnic

The family picnic was a very sociable day, blessed by amazing weather. Here’s a report from the action bit…

Titnore picnic blockadeThe family picnic was a very sociable day, blessed by amazing weather. Here’s a report from the action bit…

Work has now begun on the Tesco Extra in Durrington, near Brighton. Protestors who have been treesitting for over three years to stop ancient woodland being cut down were joined today by local supporters for a picnic. The first spot chosen for the picnic just happened to be the gates of the construction site.

One lucky protestor got inside the gates and just happened to get locked to a digger. Workers were sent home, at least two construction trucks turned around and left, and the site was completely disrupted for a few hours. We then left peacefully, with no arrests, and continued the picnic back at the camp.

The new Tesco is being built in a field next to the old Tesco which will then be demolished and made into a car park. The woods are under threat because phase two of the plan is to build 800 houses on fields and woodland. Already work has started on a supply road which will bring unwanted noise and pollution to the area.

If you want to go down and check it out, feel free, all support is welcome.

Links –

Local info – http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/

Blog – http://titnore.wordpress.com/

Facewank – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53387159177

Press from today –
http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/worthing/BREAKING-NEWS-Sitdown-protest-at.5669531.jp

Work stopped at Mainshill Wood – Crucial time at Mainshill Solidarity Camp

23rd September 2009

23rd September 2009
Yesterday people from Mainshill Solidarity Camp took action to stop work on the proposed site for Scottish Coal’s opencast mine. One person climbed up to the top of the drilling rig and stopped their work for five hours. The police arrived and the protester was told that she would be arrested…if only they could get her to come down. Eventually, after much head-scratching, specialist police climbers managed to remove her and she was arrested, appearing in Lanark Sheriff Court this morning.

Over the past week, drilling equipment has been moved onto the site as well as harvesting machines to log plantation trees to make way for the coal excavation. This work has been delayed by people from the camp and members of the local community approaching machinery and explaining the devastating effects that the coal mine will bring – ranging from impacts on local community health, to climate and ecological damage. The work that is being done now is all in preparation for the opencast and needs to be stopped.

This is a crucial time for this campaign to show Lord Home, the wealthy land owner and Scottish Coal that we will not allow this project to go ahead.

This morning, police escorted felling machines and Scottish Woodland workers onto the site, removing a barricade and cutting down a tree defence that had blocked the track. The police’s involvement in protecting the interests of aristocrat Lord Home and private company Scottish Coal over the interests of the local community is very disappointing.

Now is a great time for people to come and join us at the camp and to take action to continue our resistance.

For more information on the ongoing campaign and news from the Public Meeting on Community Health, which is taking place tonight in Douglas, see http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk.

Construction site sabotaged

To kick start Bristol co-mutiny three vehicles were sabotaged at a Somerset site constructing unaffordable housing (urban sprawl for the middle class).

In anticipation of the Autonomous Days of Action electronic cables were cut and the piercing sound of split hydraulics was endured rendering the earth destroying machines unusable.

Social change not climate change!

ALF/ELF

To kick start Bristol co-mutiny three vehicles were sabotaged at a Somerset site constructing unaffordable housing (urban sprawl for the middle class).

In anticipation of the Autonomous Days of Action electronic cables were cut and the piercing sound of split hydraulics was endured rendering the earth destroying machines unusable.

Social change not climate change!

ALF/ELF