Category: Unnecessary Developments

ELF Mexico Torch More Earth Destroying Machine

“Urban expan­sion is one of the biggest eco­log­i­cal prob­lems, with roads being built over fer­tile land comes loads of con­se­quences such as pol­lu­tion, warm­ing of the ground with exces­sive heat, mas­sive felling of trees, etc. The expan­sion of civ­i­liza­tion and its unnec­es­sary tech­nol­o­gy leaves the world in the hands of the pow­er­ful who con­trol the repres­sive state appa­ra­tus ready to stop any kind of resis­tance that is put in front of them to halt their run of destruc­tion.

“Urban expan­sion is one of the biggest eco­log­i­cal prob­lems, with roads being built over fer­tile land comes loads of con­se­quences such as pol­lu­tion, warm­ing of the ground with exces­sive heat, mas­sive felling of trees, etc. The expan­sion of civ­i­liza­tion and its unnec­es­sary tech­nol­o­gy leaves the world in the hands of the pow­er­ful who con­trol the repres­sive state appa­ra­tus ready to stop any kind of resis­tance that is put in front of them to halt their run of destruc­tion.

It is for this rea­son that on the night of Feb­ru­ary 22 we of the ELF decid­ed to go out at night in Mex­i­co State and set fire to a machine that destroys the earth and a truck owned by the dom­i­na­tors.

We say it once again, there will be no mer­cy until the abo­li­tion of all that oppress­es us.

F.L.T/E.L.F”

received anony­mous­ly from Bite Back: http://www.directaction.info

Work Stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site

26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Shipley soul bannerShipley soul security26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Work was stopped for one hour and a half. The pro­tes­tors left when the police turned up.

The police entered into dis­cus­sion with UK Coal about cre­at­ing a more per­me­nant space for peo­ple to protest at, the police sug­gest­ed some kind of shel­ter. UK Coal declined, stat­ing that they were wor­ried the pro­tes­tors would turn the shel­ter into a “con­crete lock-on”.

No arrests were made.

Same ban­ner; dif­fer­ent protest.

Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Mine Site

23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

Rosewell coal mine action23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

They climbed onto dig­ging machin­ery to pre­vent works and climbed onto trucks to pre­vent coal from leav­ing the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morn­ing. Then police arrived but no-one were arrest­ed.

One activist said “the burn­ing of coal to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty is one of the most pol­lut­ing and destruc­tive of all human activ­i­ties. We can­not deal with cli­mate change while com­pa­nies like Scot­tish coal con­tin­ue to prof­it from coal exploita­tion.”

A local res­i­dent said “With a gov­ern­ment com­mit­ted to expand­ing open­cast, deep mine and new coal pow­er gen­er­a­tion across Scot­land, ask­ing politi­cians will achieve noth­ing. Peace­ful direct action is the only way peo­ple are going to stop coal expan­sion.”

Anoth­er said. “We are opposed to this cli­mate dis­as­ter of an ener­gy pol­i­cy and to the scar­ring of scot­land’s coun­try­side with these hor­ri­ble open-cast coal mines, Rosewell and Scot­tish Coal’s oth­er oper­a­tions have and will con­tin­ue to be met by resis­tance from local peo­ple tak­ing direct action.”

This action was done by indi­vid­u­als who are not affil­i­at­ed to any par­tic­u­lar group.

This is anoth­er exam­ple of the grow­ing resis­tance to new coal in scot­land. For more gen­er­al info on how peo­ple are stop­ping new coal in Scot­land, check out www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk

Germany: Upper class car torched, armament company & luxurious condo-project attacked

02/02/09: Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched
02/02/09: Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or
09/02/09: Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched

Berlin, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Direct Action Germany: 2nd-12th February02/02/09: Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched
02/02/09: Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or
09/02/09: Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched

Berlin, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

A claim which reached us:
„On mon­day the 2 of Feb­ru­ary we payed a vis­it to the offices of Rohr, dis­trict Marien­dorf, and we torched his car.

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Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or

Hamburg/Kiel, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Claim of the attack:

„On the night from the 1 to the 2 of Feb­ru­ary, we ren­dered nicer the arma­ment com­pa­ny Northtrop Grum­man, sit­ed in the Woltmanstr.19 in Ham­burg and the Marine Logis­tic (Mar­log) sit­ed in the Werlt­str. 179, Kiel, by using stones and col­or.
Through this action, we want to adress us against the gath­er­ing of inter­na­tion­al politi­cians of the NATO State mem­bers, their accom­plices, arma­ment indus­tri­al­ists such like Northtrop Grum­man and Mar­log and to the Army, who will all meet at the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary 2009 at the 45 con­fer­ence for the secu­ri­ty politic, tak­ing place in Munich.
They want to meet there, in order to improve the civil­ian-mil­i­tary coop­er­a­tion.
This means war and oppres­sion for mil­lions of peo­ple.
We also see this action as a con­tri­bu­tion to the begin­ning of the protests against the 60 years fes­tiv­i­ties of the NATO hap­pen­ing in Baden Baden and Stras­bourg at the begin­ning of April 2009.

Against cap­i­tal­ist glob­al­iza­tion and world­wide war politic of NATO States which leads to a fur­ther mil­i­ta­riza­tion of soci­eties to their inside and to the out­side!

Action Group against mil­i­tarism and cap­i­tal­ism

Source: Inter­im

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Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Berlin, 9 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Unknown per­sons threw stones and bot­tles full of col­or against the facade of a house sit­ed in the Dres­d­ner­str., Mitte.
Since this house is con­sid­ered being of the upper­class, one can not exclude a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion behind it, so the police.
State secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Berlin­er Zeitung

note for eng­lish-speak­ing read­ers: this lux­u­ri­ous house built on the bor­der between Kreuzberg and Mitte has been already vic­tim of attacks dur­ing the past.

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direct action news from ger­many
http://directactionde.blogspot.com

Demonstrators target Graff Diamonds in Solidarity with Kahlahari Bushmen (11.2.09)

Survival’s cam­paign tar­get­ing Graff Dia­monds over its involve­ment in a dia­mond mine planned on the land of Kala­hari Bush­men in Botswana has stepped up a gear.

Bushmen Demo- London 11.2.09Survival’s cam­paign tar­get­ing Graff Dia­monds over its involve­ment in a dia­mond mine planned on the land of Kala­hari Bush­men in Botswana has stepped up a gear. Thir­ty pro­test­ers gath­ered on the 11.2.09 out­side Graff’s flag­ship Lon­don store hold­ing plac­ards say­ing ‘Boy­cott Graff’ and ‘Botswana dia­monds: Bush­men despair’.

The store is based in the fash­ion epi­cen­tre of Lon­don sur­round­ed by shops from Yves San Lau­ren, Chanel etc. The dia­mond indus­tries main prod­uct is high image and thus has shown itself to be some­times more sus­cep­ti­ble to pres­sure than oth­er resource sec­tors such as min­ing and oil. Pre­vi­ous pick­ets by Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al and pub­lic sham­ing of fash­ion hous­es and top mod­els result­ed in De Beers pulling out of the planned dia­mond min­ing in the Kala­hari.

There are 100,000 Bush­men in Botswana, Namib­ia, South Africa and Ango­la. They are the indige­nous peo­ple of south­ern Africa, and have lived there for tens of thou­sands of years.

In the mid­dle of Botswana lies the Cen­tral Kala­hari Game Reserve, a reserve cre­at­ed both to pro­tect the tra­di­tion­al ter­ri­to­ry of the 5,000 Gana, Gwi and Tsi­la Bush­men (and their neigh­bours the Bak­gala­ga­di), and the wildlife and ecosys­tem of which are a part.

In the ear­ly 1980s, dia­monds were dis­cov­ered in the reserve. Soon after, gov­ern­ment min­is­ters went into the reserve to tell the Bush­men liv­ing there that they would have to leave because of the dia­mond finds.

In three big clear­ances, in 1997, 2002 and 2005, vir­tu­al­ly all the Bush­men were forced out. Their homes were dis­man­tled, their school and health post were closed, their water sup­ply was destroyed and the peo­ple were threat­ened and trucked away.

They now live in reset­tle­ment camps out­side the reserve. Rarely able to hunt, and arrest­ed and beat­en when they do, they are depen­dent on gov­ern­ment hand­outs. They are now gripped by alco­holism, bore­dom, depres­sion, and ill­ness­es such as TB and HIV/AIDS.

Unless they can return to their ances­tral lands, their unique soci­eties and way of life will be destroyed, and many of them will die.

Although the Bush­men won the right in court to go back to their lands in 2006, the gov­ern­ment has done every­thing it can to make their return impos­si­ble. It has:

Banned them from using their water bore­hole,
Refused to issue a sin­gle per­mit to hunt on their land (despite Botswana’s High Court rul­ing in Decem­ber that its refusal to issue per­mits was unlaw­ful),
Arrest­ed more than 50 Bush­men for hunt­ing to feed their fam­i­lies,
Banned them from tak­ing their small herds of goats back to the reserve.

Its pol­i­cy is clear­ly to intim­i­date and fright­en the Bush­men into stay­ing in the reset­tle­ment camps, and mak­ing the lives of those who have gone back to their ances­tral land impos­si­ble.

More infor­ma­tion on the Kala­hari Bush­men can be found on their own web­site : www.iwant2gohome.org or the web­site of Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al (which is updat­ed more often): www.survival-international.org/tribes/bushmen

“Car-lofts” attacked, porsche, bmw & upperclass cars torched, Germany

07/02/09: Attempt­ed arson on cars
01/02/09: „Car-Lofts“ attacked with stones and col­or
31/01/09: Again two arsons against upper­class cars
30/01/09: Porsche torched
28/01/09: BMW burned

Direct Action: 27th Jan-7th FebDirect Action: 27th Jan-7th Feb07/02/09: Attempt­ed arson on cars
01/02/09: „Car-Lofts“ attacked with stones and col­or
31/01/09: Again two arsons against upper­class cars
30/01/09: Porsche torched
28/01/09: BMW burned
27/01/09: Again a car burned in Berlin: state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates

Attempt­ed arson on cars

Berlin, 7 of Feb­ru­ary 2009
Unknown per­sons tried again to burn sev­er­al cars in Kreuzberg.
The fire device, placed under a car in the Sebas­tianstraße, could be stopped by pass­er-byers, declared the police.
One found three device more under three oth­er cars which did not burn.

Source: Mor­gen­post

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„Car-Lofts“ attacked with stones and col­or

Berlin, 1 of Feb­ru­ary 2009
Unknown authors demol­ished the win­dows of a build­ing in Kreuzberg.
After the first inves­ti­ga­tions, one attack must have hap­pened already in the night to Sat­ur­day, with bot­tles full of col­or.
Since a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion can not be exclud­ed, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Polizei Tick­er

note for eng­lish-speak­ing read­er: the build­ing is the noto­ri­ous „car-lofts“, a yup­pie project build­ed in Kreuzberg, vic­tim of sev­er­al mil­i­tant attacks since its begin­ning.

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Again two arsons against upper­class cars

Berlin, 31 of Jan­u­ary 2009

Arson­ists under­took again two arsons on upper­class cars in Friedrichshain and Pren­zlauer­berg.
Police­men could pre­vent high­er dam­ages on a BMW, by extin­guish­ing the fire with antifire pow­der they had with them.
A Mer­cedes CLK got instead com­plete­ly dam­aged.
Already 26 cars have been burned fol­low­ing 18 arsons attacks under­tak­en by unknown per­sons.

Source: Mor­gen­post

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Porsche torched

Berlin, 30 of Jan­u­ary 2009

On fri­day morn­ing peo­ple torched anoth­er cars, prob­a­bly out of polit­i­cal rea­sons.
This was a Porsche Cayenne parked in the Choriner­straße cor­ner Zehdenick­er­straße, Mitte.
Pass­er-byers noticed the flames and alarmed the fire brigade.
The car got com­plet­ly dam­aged, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Mor­gen­post

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BMW burned

Berlin, 28 of Jan­u­ary 2009

A car got burned today ear­ly in the morn­ing in Mitte.
Inhab­i­tants noticed a „BMW“ going on fire in the Fehrber­lin­er­straße around 3.30am and called the fire brigade.
A car parked next to it got also dam­aged.
Since a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion is not exclud­ed, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Polizei Pressemel­dung

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Again a car burned in Berlin: state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates

Berlin, 27 of Jan­u­ary 2009

In Berlin anoth­er car got set on fire, prob­a­bly out of polit­i­cal rea­sons.
An inhab­i­tant dis­cov­ered the fire in the Net­zes­traße, Neukölln, in the ear­ly hours of tues­day and called the fire brigade, as the police reports.
It is already the num­ber 22 car burned in Berlin this year.

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direct action news from greece
http://directactionde.blogspot.com

Communique released from ELF action at university

“Com­plete com­mu­nique of the action of Jan­u­ary 29:

Full communique released from ELF action at university“Com­plete com­mu­nique of the action of Jan­u­ary 29:

In the ear­ly morn­ing of Jan­u­ary 29, the sub­mis­sive fire­fight­ers in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) quelled a fire with­in the premis­es of the Col­lege of Sci­ences and Human­i­ties south cam­pus (CCH Sur) of the Uni­ver­si­dad Nacional Autóno­ma de Méx­i­co (UNAM). There a machine which destroys the Earth was left for­ev­er unus­able, and the admin­is­tra­tion offices of the cam­pus were burned.

The Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra (ELF) claimed this attack through a con­tact; we were informed that the uni­ver­si­ty had been destroy­ing a large part of the eco­log­i­cal reserve where a so-called ‘edu­ca­tion’ cen­ter is being built, sev­er­al vari­eties of trees and diverse plants were cut down, con­sid­ered to be in the way of their abil­i­ty to expand their facil­i­ties, and their mas­tery over nature; the progress and edu­ca­tion that they extol in their class­rooms is always based on dom­i­na­tion and anthro­pocen­trism. In this act by the UNAM, it is more than clear that not only do they wish to dom­i­nate and mold the minds of stu­dents, they also seek to expand the same con­trol over the land and the ani­mals that inhab­it her. That’s why the destruc­tive machine was burned, and why we also decid­ed to set a fire on cam­pus, now an indis­putable part of the eco­cide that edu­ca­tion imple­ments, which only wants to pro­duce peo­ple who are sub­mis­sive to author­i­ty and pow­er; they cre­ate beings who are unable to think and act for them­selves and are only edu­cat­ed to pro­duce and con­sume.

The mass media of mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, which hid the machine which had been burned, only now announced that part of the admin­is­tra­tive offices had been burned, and that this had been caused by Por­ro (shock groups) [groups orga­nized to dis­cred­it stu­dent move­ments]; we want to make clear that the ELF/FLT is not com­posed of such peo­ple, who are sent by their boss­es to do absurd and mean­ing­less things; our rea­sons are clear, as we strug­gle for total lib­er­a­tion (ani­mal, land and human), and if any­thing blocks us we will face it until its com­plete destruc­tion and elim­i­na­tion.

We know that the esti­mat­ed dam­age of this action was thou­sands of pesos, but still we are not sat­is­fied with that, and we will con­tin­ue mak­ing war on all that oppress­es us and will not allow us all to be hap­py– us, ani­mals and the land.

This was just a lit­tle mes­sage, for those who prof­it at the expense of the destruc­tion and dom­i­na­tion of the ecosys­tem.

ELF/FLT Méx­i­co”

anony­mous com­mu­nique (trans­la­tion) from http://directaction.info

ELF Mexico Torch Earth Destroying Machine

“An impor­tant eco­log­i­cal reserve locat­ed in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) is being destroyed by peo­ple who con­sid­er the land their prop­er­ty; plants and many trees have been ripped up from the roots for the expan­sion of Civ­i­liza­tion; because of this the ELF co

ELF Torch Earth Destroying MachineELF Torch Earth Destroying Machines“An impor­tant eco­log­i­cal reserve locat­ed in Mex­i­co City (D.F.) is being destroyed by peo­ple who con­sid­er the land their prop­er­ty; plants and many trees have been ripped up from the roots for the expan­sion of Civ­i­liza­tion; because of this the ELF could not remain still.

On the night of Jan­u­ary 29 we destroyed the win­dow of one of their machines and we sprayed enough gaso­line to leave the machine that destroys the earth com­plete­ly unus­able.

Dam­ages are esti­mat­ed to be sev­er­al thou­sand pesos for those bas­tard dom­i­na­tors of the earth.

The response will be like this, hard and to the point, if they con­tin­ue the mas­sacre!

FLT/ELF Méx­i­co”

received anony­mous­ly by http://directaction.info

Stop Incineration Now! SchNEWS Film and Roast Fundraiser !

Stop Incin­er­a­tion Now Film and Roast Fundrais­er -
Just released:SchNEWS Film:Wasters:The quirky & inspir­ing sto­ry of a group of cli­mate activists from Stop Incin­er­a­tion Now! & Cli­mate Camp, who occu­pied the site of pro­posed Newhaven Incin­er­a­tor last year, July 2008.
Also featured:The Sto­ry of Stuff.
Announce­ment of Inter­na­tion­al Day of Action against Incin­er­a­tion: 11 July 2009

Stop Incin­er­a­tion Now Film and Roast Fundrais­er -
Just released:SchNEWS Film:Wasters:The quirky & inspir­ing sto­ry of a group of cli­mate activists from Stop Incin­er­a­tion Now! & Cli­mate Camp, who occu­pied the site of pro­posed Newhaven Incin­er­a­tor last year, July 2008.
Also featured:The Sto­ry of Stuff.
Announce­ment of Inter­na­tion­al Day of Action against Incin­er­a­tion: 11 July 2009
and 2 day Car­a­van against Incineration:September 26 & 27 2009

Address: The Cow­ley Club, 12 Lon­don Road, Brighton BN1 4JA
Direc­tions: From frnt of Brighton Sta­tion, turn left down Trafal­gar St to end, then left ont o Lon­don Road, keep walk­ing till u come to Somer­fields, the Club is just a few steps fur­ther down the same road.
Near­est Pub­lic Trans­port: Bus­es on Lon­don Road, Brighton train Sta­tion
Post­code: BN1 4JA | View Map
Time: 2pm onwards
Price: Noth­ing to enter, £3.50 dona­tion for roast
Phone: 07505016362
Email: mkechnge7@wildmail.com
Web: http://stopincinerationnownetwork.wordpress.com

15 years on — Solsbury Hill anti-road resistance photo exhibition, book launch and on-line archive

Sols­bury Hill near Bath was the set­ting for an ear­ly ’90s bat­tle against road build­ing (and by exten­sion depend­ing who you talked to from the cam­paign — unsus­tain­able development/romans/global warming/industrial infra­struc­tur­al growth/spectacular society/babylon/illogical trans­port policy/the tories/civilisation.)

Sols­bury Hill near Bath was the set­ting for an ear­ly ’90s bat­tle against road build­ing (and by exten­sion depend­ing who you talked to from the cam­paign — unsus­tain­able development/romans/global warming/industrial infra­struc­tur­al growth/spectacular society/babylon/illogical trans­port policy/the tories/civilisation.)

Adri­an Arbib a pho­tog­ra­ph­er who was also active in the cam­paign (and who has worked with indige­nous groups world­wide) is pub­lish­ing a book of his pho­tos from the cam­paign and has set up a linked on-line video/document archive.

The book is being launched at a view­ing and par­ty of the Sols­bury Hill Pho­to exhib­it on Fri­day 20th Feb­ru­ary 6 — 8:30pm In the Wal­cot Chapel Gallery, Bath and over the road after to the Bell Pub.

The Exhi­bi­tion is run­ning until March 8th and the book of pho­to’s is com­ing out to coin­cide with the open­ing.
(Bring old photo’s/ news paper cuttings/ posters etc to up-load on the web page to make a big­ger archive.)

For more details and to check out the archive see: www.solsburyhill.org.uk

ps please for­ward to any con­tacts from the hill.