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 4x4 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 4x4 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.1,300 m² 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
• 6500 m² 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