Category: Unnecessary Developments

New camp set up on route of National Grid’s monster gas pipeline in Wales

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

call 07743495582 and find out how you can get involved.
local group web­site with infor­ma­tion on the pipe: www.safehavenforum.co.uk

PRESS RELEASE — 8TH JANUARY 2007

NO EMBARGO
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A coali­tion of local peo­ple and cli­mate action groups, includ­ing Safe­haven and Ris­ing Tide have returned to the route of Nation­al Grid’s mon­ster gas pipeline. They have set up camp on pub­lic foot­paths lead­ing into the con­struc­tion site off Glyn Meirch road, Tre­banos, and are block­ing vehi­cles from gain­ing access. They are back to halt work to stop the destruc­tion of coun­try­side, com­mu­ni­ties and cli­mate.

Mil­ford Haven is today under armed guard due to the threat of ter­ror­ism. Yet this pipeline will com­mit us to anoth­er thir­ty years of fuelling a cause of ter­ror­ism: West­ern cor­po­ra­tions tak­ing coun­tries gas to expand con­sump­tion and their prof­its.

This pipeline will also con­tribute to anoth­er form of ter­ror­ism: cli­mate change. The effects of cli­mate chance on peo­ple are going to be cat­a­stroph­ic yet the gov­ern­ment is con­tin­u­ing to live in the “Carbon Dinosaurâ€? era by refus­ing to move on from fos­sil fuels.

The Stern Report said that we need to reduce green­house gas emis­sions dras­ti­cal­ly and soon or face run­away cli­mate change. A spokesper­son for Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide said “Building the pipe is a step in exact­ly the wrong direc­tion. The £700 mil­lion it will cost could be spent on renew­ables and ener­gy effi­cien­cy. We will take sus­tained direct action to stop it, tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for our lives and our future. â€?

Here in South Wales, Nation­al Quid have been bull­doz­ing their way through com­mu­ni­ties and land­scapes, show­ing con­tempt for both. Safe­ty issues have been ignored and con­sul­ta­tion has been a farce.

As a result of the pre­vi­ous protest, a vic­to­ry was won and the Nation­al Grid were forced to stop blast­ing. How­ev­er locals are still very con­cerned about the risk of an avalanche, sim­i­lar to those of Aber­fan and Pan­teg, as the pipe is being built on old mine work­ings.

Fur­ther­more, the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive have said it is guar­an­teed that a hole will appear with­in the next thir­ty years in the pipeline.

It has been proven that this pipeline is not required for UK gas needs by DrRichard Fur­ness, an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised gas pipeline expert.

We are here to revent the wan­ton destruc­tion of our coun­try­side and our basic human rights, as well as to safe­guard those of future gen­er­a­tions. We are demand­ing that this pipeline project is scrapped.

For fur­ther details

Rachel Evans 07790450747
Site Phone 07733 190958

activists lock down Alcoas’ London offices

Late on New Years Day activists tar­get­ed 2 Alcoa front com­pa­nies, (Kawneer in cen­tral Lon­don and ASA in North Lon­don.) Both com­pa­nies had their front access doors locked shut with D‑locks and chains, and were left grafit­ti mes­sages that they should leave Ice­land straight away.

Alcoa graffiti
Alcoa London lockedLate on New Years Day activists tar­get­ed 2 Alcoa front com­pa­nies, (Kawneer in cen­tral Lon­don and ASA in North Lon­don.) Both com­pa­nies had their front access doors locked shut with D‑locks and chains, and were left grafit­ti mes­sages that they should leave Ice­land straight away.
They are destroy­ing the last pris­tine wilder­ness in Europe right now, as well as trash­ing oth­er com­mu­ni­ties and ecosys­tems all over the world.
See www.savingiceland.org for a mas­sive amount of resources and infor­ma­tion.

This is a clear mes­sage to all heavy indus­tries — this year, 2007 will be a year of dis­sent and rev­o­lu­tion­ary change. We will no longer hold back, the future of our world and our peo­ples is at enor­mous risk and the time to act is now!
No longer will we allow these multi­na­tion­als to destroy with impuni­ty, hid­ing behind the anonymi­ty of glob­al cap­i­tal­ism.
These are the first drops of a storm that you have reaped and which will inten­si­fy! We will tar­get you every­where and at any time. You will pay for your dirty dol­lars with inse­cu­ri­ty. We are com­mit­ted to shut you down!

It is also a mes­sage to our move­ments. We have been warn­ing of hav­ing lit­tle time left to make change, for too long. That time has run out and the time to act is NOW
We see noth­ing to cel­e­brate in the pass­ing and start­ing of anoth­er year unless it is to her­ald a year of mon­u­men­tal, rev­o­lu­tion­ary change; where a sys­tem based on sense­less, self­ish, greed is destroyed and sys­tems based on respect, respon­si­bil­i­ty and coop­er­a­tion are sup­port­ed to flour­ish.

we are all ‘the peo­ple’
where is every­where
and
now is the time

LOVE+RAGE

New Year London Stunt Action by Saving Iceland

On new years day 2007 a group of activists climbed ST PAULS cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern simul­tan­ious­ly to hang ban­ners, as well as on the mil­le­ni­um bridge to kick start a year of decent against heavy indus­try in Ice­land and Trinidad.

On new years day 2007 a group of activists climbed ST PAULS cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern simul­tan­ious­ly to hang ban­ners, as well as on the mil­le­ni­um bridge to kick start a year of decent against heavy indus­try in Ice­land and Trinidad.
Heavy Industry banner hang

PRESS RELEASE
1 Jan­u­ary 2007

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTORS ARE TO HOST A STUNT ACTION IN LONDON

On new years day, cam­paign­ers from the group SavingIceland.org climbed St.Pauls Cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern as part of the SavingIceland.org cam­paign, a group ded­i­cat­ing to chal­leng­ing the destruc­tion of Europe’s last remain­ing great wilder­ness­es, in Ice­land. This is to be a protest against the destruc­tion of rur­al com­mu­ni­ties in Trinidad and the Ice­landic wilder­ness­es, the last of their kind in Europe, both at the hands of the alu­mini­um indus­try.

The Ice­landic gov­ern­ment is sac­ri­fic­ing its glacial rivers and geot­her­mal resources in order to pow­er alu­mini­um smelt­ing facil­i­ties. It is to destroy some of Iceland’s great­est nat­ur­al trea­sures and pol­lute its waters. This will cause con­sid­er­able dam­age to its tourism and fish­ing indus­tries. The Trinida­di­an gov­ern­ment is sell­ing its vast reserves of nat­ur­al gas to cre­ate an off-shore alu­mini­um smelter that many fear will under­mine the liveli­hoods of entire com­mu­ni­ties who are depen­dant upon fish­ing.

Tomorrow’s action is part of an ongo­ing inter­na­tion­al cam­paign in sup­port of local resis­tance against heavy indus­try in both Ice­land and Trinidad.

SavingIceland.org has been involved in the organ­i­sa­tion of two protest camps held in Ice­land and numer­ous sol­i­dar­i­ty actions staged across the globe. It is cur­rent­ly coor­di­nat­ing its third protest camp on the island, com­menc­ing on 6th July 2007.

More infor­ma­tion:
http://www.savingiceland.org

critical mass 29 december Mcr — a story from the ride

crit­i­cal mass fri 29 decem­ber

We met at the usu­al time and place of 6pm at cen­tral library in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre. There were about ten of us, num­bers being a bit low beca­sue many peo­ple had gone to oth­er towns and cities for christ­mas and new year, but mak­ing up the num­bers we had peo­ple from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!

crit­i­cal mass fri 29 decem­ber

We met at the usu­al time and place of 6pm at cen­tral library in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre. There were about ten of us, num­bers being a bit low beca­sue many peo­ple had gone to oth­er towns and cities for christ­mas and new year, but mak­ing up the num­bers we had peo­ple from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!

We rode around the roads for an hour and a half with the bicy­cle
soundsys­tem play­ing a mix­ture of Slay­er and Country/ folk. Some peo­ple cheered us and some dri­vers tried to kill us by dan­ger­ous­ly over­tak­ing us and dri­ving on the wrong side of the road near­ly into on-com­ing cars.

One woman said that we were being mean to her chil­dren beca­sue we were slow­ing her down and so I explained that we were cel­e­brat­ing bikes over car cul­ture because amongst oth­er things (and in addi­tion to oth­er groups of soci­ety) cars give chil­dren asth­ma and run them over and so maybe she’d like to recon­sid­er and sup­port us, but she lat­er over­took us slow­ing down an ambu­lance that we were mak­ing space for to get through, she did­nt get very far, about 200 yards to the next lights! She would have been quick­er on a bike (of course!) Oh well. but that was real­ly the only ran­dom­ly vague­ly neg­a­tive inci­dent most peo­ple seemed pleased to see us or inqui­sis­tive about why we were rid­ing.

It was a fun ride and nice that some new peo­ple came on it. Hope­ful­ly
we’ll see them again. After the ride some of us went for a beer in the bar. nice.

We were going to have a ben­e­fit night on the jan­u­ary mass but as its
pangea (a big stu­dent night) where lots of peo­ple seem to be going and lots of our friends bands seem to be play­ing at we thought that feb­ru­ary mass would be bet­ter (its also my birth­day!). But at the next one some­one will hope­ful­ly come down and film and inter­view some peo­ple on the mass for a film about cycling in Man­ches­ter I’m try­ing to make. On that note can any­one that knows film stuff that might be up for help­ing get in touch.

thought you might like to see this too post­ed by some­one in the GMCC
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/postbag/template/2006/12/28.html?1

critical mass 29 dec 06

coal-fired plants

URGENT Sup­port is request­ed from Dine Elders and Youth!

Sithe Glob­al & DPA are propos­ing to build the Desert Rock pow­er plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Cor­ners area on the Nava­jo Reser­va­tion. This is an area already pol­lut­ed by 2 oth­er major coal pow­er plants. Local Nava­jo res­i­dence and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers oppose this project for many harm­ful rea­sons!! This Desert Rock pow­er plant is still in the envi­ron­men­tal review process and has NOT yet been per­mit­ted.

URGENT Sup­port is request­ed from Dine Elders and Youth!

Sithe Glob­al & DPA are propos­ing to build the Desert Rock pow­er plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Cor­ners area on the Nava­jo Reser­va­tion. This is an area already pol­lut­ed by 2 oth­er major coal pow­er plants. Local Nava­jo res­i­dence and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers oppose this project for many harm­ful rea­sons!! This Desert Rock pow­er plant is still in the envi­ron­men­tal review process and has NOT yet been per­mit­ted.

How­ev­er, Desert Rock com­pa­ny trucks have began mov­ing onto the back­yard of Alice Gilmore, an elder­ly nava­jo woman, and her fam­i­ly on wednes­day to begin drilling efforts. Desert Rock offi­cials and police have not shown any doc­u­ments or per­mits to the local res­i­dents stat­ing their pur­pose or per­mis­sion to be there. Dine sup­port­ers and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers have joined Alice and her fam­i­ly to block­ade the road. They are elder­ly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since Tues­day! Desert Rock trucks have repeat­ed­ly rushed them and have almost run-over peo­ple a num­ber of times as they attempt to get by. Desert Rock pow­er com­pa­ny is vio­lat­ing the lease rights of the local Nava­jo res­i­dences and is harass­ing elder­ly Nava­jo women and youth! This is an urgent time and sup­port is need­ed!!!

Please read on to find out how you can help! and Please pass this onto oth­ers! (press release and addi­tion­al arti­cle)

Lucy A. Willie, right, stands at the pro­posed Desert Rock Pow­er Plant site out­side of Burn­ham on Wednes­day where she and
sev­er­al friends and fam­i­ly stayed overnight to stop a con­trac­tor for Desert Rock Ener­gy Com­pa­ny from doing pre­lim­i­nary work.

What they need:
— More Peo­ple Sup­port
— Fire wood
— $$
— Atten­tion!

how You can Help!

- More Peo­ple! More peo­ple are need­ed to sit in sup­port! All are wel­come!
direc­tions to the area are below:
The site is between Gallup, NM and Shiprock, NM (north­east­ern, NM). Take the road between Gallup and Shiprock, the 491. at the Mus­tang Ser­vice Sta­tion (one of the only ser­vice sta­tions between the two), turn East on road #5 towards Burn­ham Chap­ter. From Burn­ham Chap­ter turn North onto grav­el road #5082. About 10–12 miles up the road turn West until you see the encamp­ment. There will be mark­ers (bal­loons) out on the roads. (if you begin to see a dragline, you’ve gone too far)

— Fire wood! it is cold out­side and many of the resisters are elder­ly women. if you can get fire­wood to the site it is very very much need­ed! the direc­tions to the site are above.

- $ Mon­ey! Resisters are in need of mon­ey for gas and food, and also for bail mon­ey if nec­es­sary. Please send dona­tions to local res­i­dent and sup­port­er:
Elouise Brown
1015 Glade Lane 34
Farm­ing­ton, NM 87401
Elouise can also be reached at: thebrownmachine@hotmail.com

- ATTENTION! the more media and observers are present the least like­ly Desert Rock is like­ly to run peo­ple over or harass them. con­tact the media, tell them what is going on. Con­tact Nava­jo Author­i­ties, tell them you are extreme­ly con­cerned. Be a legal observ­er. Spread this Alert!

Media Con­tact: Lori Good­man, cell #: (970) 759‑1908, e‑mail address: kiyaani@frontier.net

Con­tact the Fol­low­ing Author­i­ties! Tell them you have heard about Desert Rock­’s harass­ment of Nava­jo elders and youth. Tell them you are extreme­ly con­cerned! If enough peo­ple con­tact these offices they will know that the world is watch­ing.

Shiprock Police Depart­ment
phone: (505) 368‑1350
fax: (505) 368‑1293

Nava­jo Nation Pres­i­dent Joe Shirley’s Office
P.O. Box 9000 Win­dow Rock, Ari­zona, 86515
phone #: (928) 871- 6352

also: George Hard­een, Nava­jo Nation Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor Office of the Pres­i­dent
Office #: 928–871-7000
Cell #: 928–380-7688
e‑mail: georgehardeen@opvp.org

Bureau of Indi­an Affairs (Gallup Office) they are con­duct­ing the Envi­ron­men­tal Impact State­ment.
Har­ri­lene Yazzi, NEPA Coor­di­na­tor Bureau of Indi­an Affairs, Nava­jo Region­al Office
P.0. Box 1060 Gallup, New Mex­i­co 87305
Phone: 505–863-8314
Fax: 505–863-8324

Be a Legal Observ­er — get to the site and help record/witness what is hap­pen­ing

Send this Action Alert Far and Wide!

Thank you for your sup­port!!!

Enei Begaye
Exec­u­tive Direc­tor
Black Mesa Water Coali­tion
408 E. Route 66, Suite #1
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Office #: (928) 213‑9760

Jihan Gearon, Native Ener­gy Cam­paign
Indige­nous Envi­ron­men­tal Net­work
(877) 436‑2121

PRESS RELEASE
Wednes­day, Decem­ber 13, 2006

Con­tacts:
Sarah Jane White, Doo­dá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee (505) 860‑6166
Dailan J. Long , Diné CARE, Doo­dá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee (505) 801‑0713
Elouise Brown, Doo­dá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee (505) 974‑6159
Lori Good­man, Diné CARE (970) 759‑1908

BURNHAM, SANOSTEE & NENANEZAH RESIDENTS BLOCKADE DESERT ROCK PROJECT

Burn­ham, NM –Burn­ham, Sanos­tee & Nenanezah Elders and cit­i­zens are brav­ing the cold to pro­tect the land from the encroach­ing Diné Pow­er Author­i­ty (DPA) and Sithe Glob­al LLC at the pro­posed Desert Rock site. Nava­jo res­i­dents con­front­ed the Diné Pow­er Authority/Sithe Glob­al on Tues­day after­noon after learn­ing of water drilling that had been occur­ring with­out the knowl­edge and noti­fi­ca­tion of local res­i­dents.

“I have said ‘No’ over and over again and you keep com­ing over!â€? Nenanezah elder Alice Gilmore exclaimed to Sithe/DPA employ­ees at the con­fronta­tion. For Gilmore, the issue is despi­ca­ble and uncalled for since she gave no con­sent to allow DPA/Sithe into her graz­ing area. Mem­bers of the Doo­dá Desert Rock com­mit­tee gath­ered to sup­port her oppo­si­tion and asked Sithe/DPA to dis­close Drilling per­mits that allowed drilling activ­i­ty to occur, to no avail. The res­i­dents refused to leave after the Nava­jo Nation Police attempt­ed to give access to DPA/Sithe Glob­al, claim­ing that per­mits for the Desert Rock project are not for pub­lic dis­clo­sure. The Burn­ham res­i­dents bar­ri­cad­ed the roads to dis­al­low traf­fic into the Desert Rock site and have remained in place since the Tues­day inci­dent occurred.

Mem­bers of Diné CARE/Doodá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee met this morn­ing at the Shiprock Cour­t­house to get answers about drilling per­mits yet the Lieu­tenant Dempsey denied access to Gilmore and oth­er con­cerned res­i­dents to view the per­mits. Res­i­dents are ask­ing for: 1.) A copy of the cat­e­gor­i­cal exclu­sion that is allow­ing the drilling activ­i­ties to com­mence. 2.) Copies of the Clean Water Act Sec­tions 401, 402 and 404, that would prove com­pli­ance with reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments have been met. There are major dis­tur­bance tak­ing place and accord­ing to the Clean Air Act, these per­mits are a pre-req­ui­site for drilling activ­i­ty.

The pro­posed area is home to extend­ed fam­i­lies, but arbi­trar­i­ly drawn polit­i­cal bound­aries by the Nava­jo Nation and com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives have the fam­i­lies sep­a­rat­ed into the three chap­ters: Burn­ham, Sanos­tee, and Nenah­nezad. The bound­ary defin­ing Burn­ham and Nenah­nezad has been moved south for ben­e­fit of DPA/Sithe as recent­ly as two years ago.

“The local res­i­dents are not pro­test­ers but are resisters. Who would be hap­py if a well is being dug in their back­yard espe­cial­ly when it is done in secre­cy? So, how can those res­i­dents be con­sid­ered pro­test­ers when they are sim­ply stand­ing up for their rights to have clean air, water, and environment.â€? Stat­ed, Elouise Brown of Sanos­tee.

Burn­ham, Sanos­tee and Nenanezah res­i­dents are not wait­ing for rem­e­dy; many have set up camp at the pro­posed site and are refus­ing to move until they get the need­ed doc­u­ments. “We’re fed up with them,â€? states Sarah J. White, Pres­i­dent of the Doo­dá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee, “the grand­mas and the grand­pas are being walked over by these mon­sters and they’re being denied infor­ma­tion. We’re stand­ing our ground now.â€? This inci­dent fol­lows accu­sa­tions made against Sithe/DPA about envi­ron­men­tal injus­tices, EPA’s pro­posed issuance of pre­ven­tion of sig­nif­i­cant dete­ri­o­ra­tion (PSD) per­mit Air Qual­i­ty Per­mit for Desert Rock Ener­gy Facil­i­ty and the cre­ation of Nava­jo Nation Ener­gy Poli­cies with­out pub­lic input.
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Lori Good­man
Dine’ CARE
10 A Town Plaza, PMB 138
Duran­go, CO 81301
PH: (970) 259‑0199
FAX: (970) 259‑2300
Cell: (970) 759‑1908
kiyaani@frontier.net
dinecare.org

Nava­jo tra­di­tion­al elders block­ade pow­er plant site

By Bren­da Nor­rell
U.N. OBSERVER & Inter­na­tion­al Report

BURNHAM, NEW MEXICO, USA – Elder­ly Nava­jo women and their chil­dren formed a block­ade, built a fire and camped at the site of a pro­posed pow­er plant on trib­al land in north­west New Mex­i­co. The block­ade of
tra­di­tion­al Nava­jos halt­ed site work in a region that is already tox­ic with air and water pol­lu­tion from pow­er plants, oil and gas wells and scat­tered radioac­tive tail­ings from the Cold War.

Fac­ing the threat of arrest by trib­al police at the block­ade, Nava­jo elder­ly, includ­ing one med­i­cine man, said they are will­ing to go to jail to pro­tect their land and way of life.

Most of the elder­ly are already ill from liv­ing in an area where pow­er plants have released 100 tons of coal com­bus­tion waste that is blow­ing in the wind. One of the Nava­jo elder­ly resisters is in a wheel­chair and
anoth­er has severe asth­ma.

For the sec­ond night on Wednes­day night, Dec. 13, Nava­jo resisters camped in the cold at the site.
“I have said ‘No’ over and over again and you keep com­ing over!â€? said Nenanezah elder Alice Gilmore, who holds the graz­ing per­mit for the area of the pro­posed Desert Rock Pow­er Plant. The Nava­jo Nation and
Sithe Glob­al LLC plan to build the pow­er plant, which would be the third pow­er plant in the Farmington/Bloomfield area.

Con­fronting Sithe and Nava­jo DPA employ­ees, Gilmore was adamant that she has not giv­en per­mis­sion for the pow­er plant on her land. Nava­jo elders from Burn­ham, Sanos­tee and Nenanezah chap­ter, all tak­ing a bold
action to fight the trib­al gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate aggres­sion, joined Gilmore at the block­ade.
“We’re fed up with them,â€? said Sarah J. White, pres­i­dent of the Doo­dá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee. “The grand­mas and the grand­pas are being walked over by these mon­sters and they’re being denied infor­ma­tion. We’re stand­ing our ground now.â€?

White said Nava­jos at the bar­ri­cade need every­thing in the way of food, fire­wood and sup­plies. “We need every­thing from A to Z,â€? White said.

The block­ade was formed just 10 days after Nava­jo Nation elect­ed lead­ers gath­ered with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from 14 coun­tries and for­mu­lat­ed a glob­al ban on ura­ni­um min­ing on Native lands. The pow­er plant
block­ade also comes as Nava­jo Nation lead­ers are fight­ing in the fed­er­al Ninth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals to pro­tect San Fran­cis­co Peaks near Flagstaff, Ariz., from the des­e­cra­tion of snow­mak­ing from recy­cled
waste­water for tourism. The moun­tain is sacred to 13 area Indi­an tribes.

How­ev­er, both Nava­jo Pres­i­dent Joe Shirley, Jr., and the Nava­jo Nation Coun­cil sup­port the con­struc­tion of the Desert Rock Pow­er Plant and accom­pa­ny­ing coalmine, which Nava­jos say would add more pol­lu­tion to
the air, land and water, already sat­u­rat­ed with dis­ease-caus­ing tox­ins.

The Nava­jo Nation trib­al gov­ern­ment has attempt­ed to cen­sor the voic­es of Nava­jos speak­ing out against the Desert Rock pow­er plant in New Mex­i­co and the use of aquifer water for coal min­ing by Peabody Coal on
the west­ern side of the Nava­jo Nation in Ari­zona.

The pro­posed site of the new Desert Rock pow­er plant is in the Four Cor­ners Region, tar­get­ed since the 1970s as a nation­al sac­ri­fice area for ener­gy pro­duc­tion.

It is also the sacred region of Dine­tah, the place of ori­gin of Nava­jos. How­ev­er, the air is so pol­lut­ed in the region of Dine­tah near Bloom­field that per­sons with asth­ma and res­pi­ra­to­ry dis­eases find it dif­fi­cult to breathe.

Fur­ther, Nava­jos say while they strug­gle with res­pi­ra­to­ry dis­eases, can­cer and the death of their loved ones in this region, many Nava­jos must also haul water and live with­out elec­tric­i­ty, since the pow­er plants on Nava­jo land pri­mar­i­ly pro­vide elec­tric­i­ty for non-Indi­ans.

The Nava­jo block­ade comes as O’odham in Sono­ra, Mex­i­co, chal­lenge a secret plan by the gov­ern­ment of Mex­i­co, with the knowl­edge of the US EPA, to cre­ate a haz­ardous waste dump near the sacred site of Quito­vac where O’odham hold cer­e­monies. The Nava­jo block­ade coin­cides with an action by Pima on Gila Riv­er trib­al land in Ari­zona to halt expan­sion of a haz­ardous dump­site.

At the same time, Yaqui in Sono­ra, Mex­i­co, gath­ered to pro­hib­it the use of banned pes­ti­cides in agri­cul­tur­al fields, now result­ing in can­cer and deaths.

At the pro­posed new Desert Rock pow­er plant site in New Mex­i­co, Nava­jo res­i­dents con­front­ed the Diné Pow­er Authority/Sithe Glob­al on Dec. 12, after dis­cov­er­ing that water drilling was car­ried out with­out the
knowl­edge and noti­fi­ca­tion of local Nava­jo res­i­dents.

Mem­bers of the Doo­dá Desert Rock com­mit­tee gath­ered to sup­port Gilmore’s oppo­si­tion and asked Sithe/DPA to dis­close drilling per­mits that allowed drilling activ­i­ty to occur. How­ev­er, no per­mits were pro­vid­ed.

The res­i­dents refused to leave after the Nava­jo Nation Police attempt­ed to give access to DPA/Sithe Glob­al, claim­ing that per­mits for the Desert Rock project are not for pub­lic dis­clo­sure. The Burn­ham res­i­dents bar­ri­cad­ed the roads to dis­al­low traf­fic into the Desert Rock site and Nava­jos remained at the block­ade.
Mem­bers of Diné CARE/Doodá Desert Rock Com­mit­tee met Dec. 13, at the Shiprock trib­al cour­t­house to get answers about drilling per­mits.

Nava­jo res­i­dents said a trib­al police lieu­tenant denied Gilmore and oth­er res­i­dents access to view the per­mits.

Nava­jo res­i­dents are ask­ing for a copy of the cat­e­gor­i­cal exclu­sion, which would allow the drilling activ­i­ties to com­mence, and copies of the Clean Water Act Sec­tions 401, 402 and 404, that would prove com­pli­ance with reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments have been met.

“There are major dis­tur­bance tak­ing place and accord­ing to the Clean Air Act, these per­mits are a pre-req­ui­site for drilling activity,â€? Nava­jo res­i­dents said in a pub­lic state­ment.

Fur­ther, Nava­jos say trib­al bound­ary lines were redrawn to accom­mo­date the pow­er plant cor­po­ra­tion.

The pro­posed area is home to extend­ed fam­i­lies, but arbi­trar­i­ly drawn polit­i­cal bound­aries by the Nava­jo Nation and com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives have the fam­i­lies sep­a­rat­ed into the three chap­ters: Burn­ham, Sanos­tee, and Nenah­nezad.

Nava­jo res­i­dents said the bound­ary defin­ing Burn­ham and Nenah­nezad was moved to the south for the ben­e­fit of DPA/Sithe with­in the past two years.

Elouise Brown of Sanos­tee said, “The local res­i­dents are not pro­test­ers but are resisters. Who would be hap­py if a well is being dug in their back­yard espe­cial­ly when it is done in secre­cy? So, how can those res­i­dents be con­sid­ered pro­test­ers when they are sim­ply stand­ing up for their rights to have clean air, water, and environment.â€?

Burn­ham, Sanos­tee and Nenanezah res­i­dents are not wait­ing for rem­e­dy; many have set up camp at the pro­posed site and are refus­ing to move until they get the need­ed doc­u­ments.

Nava­jos said this inci­dent fol­lows accu­sa­tions made against Sithe/DPA about envi­ron­men­tal injus­tices, EPA’s pro­posed issuance of pre­ven­tion of sig­nif­i­cant dete­ri­o­ra­tion (PSD) per­mit Air Qual­i­ty Per­mit for Desert
Rock Ener­gy Facil­i­ty and the cre­ation of Nava­jo Nation Ener­gy Poli­cies with­out pub­lic input.

Iceland Camp Against Heavy Industry Starts July 6th

The cam­paign to defend Europe’s vastest remain­ing wilder­ness con­tin­ues. After the direct action camps in Ice­land in the sum­mers of 2005 and 2006 against the Karah­n­jukar dam and ALCOA’s alu­mini­um smelter, the Sav­ing Ice­land cam­paign moves on to bring indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion of Ice­land to a halt. A new camp in Ice­land will com­mence on July 6th 2007 (loca­tion to be announced lat­er). New plans for dams, pow­er plants, smelters and oth­er heavy indus­try need to be stopped. Tar­gets include cor­po­rates such as ALCOA, ALCAN, Cen­tu­ry Alu­mini­um, Bar­clays, Mott McDon­ald, Bech­tel, Rio Tin­to and BH Bil­li­ton. Ice­land, with it’s vast geot­her­mal and megahy­dro pos­si­bil­i­ties, is a new fron­tier for ener­gy crav­ing indus­tri­al moguls, in times of increas­ing ener­gy scarci­ty and inse­cu­ri­ty. Stop­ping indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion of the last unspoilt coun­try in the west would be a major strate­gic vic­to­ry for the green and anar­chist move­ment and a new incen­tive for a glob­al move­ment against indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and eco­cide. This includes the cam­paign against ALCOA and AluTrin­t’s plans for a smelter in Trinidad and oth­er direct action against dams and heavy indus­try.

The cam­paign to defend Europe’s vastest remain­ing wilder­ness con­tin­ues. After the direct action camps in Ice­land in the sum­mers of 2005 and 2006 against the Karah­n­jukar dam and ALCOA’s alu­mini­um smelter, the Sav­ing Ice­land cam­paign moves on to bring indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion of Ice­land to a halt. A new camp in Ice­land will com­mence on July 6th 2007 (loca­tion to be announced lat­er). New plans for dams, pow­er plants, smelters and oth­er heavy indus­try need to be stopped. Tar­gets include cor­po­rates such as ALCOA, ALCAN, Cen­tu­ry Alu­mini­um, Bar­clays, Mott McDon­ald, Bech­tel, Rio Tin­to and BH Bil­li­ton. Ice­land, with it’s vast geot­her­mal and megahy­dro pos­si­bil­i­ties, is a new fron­tier for ener­gy crav­ing indus­tri­al moguls, in times of increas­ing ener­gy scarci­ty and inse­cu­ri­ty. Stop­ping indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion of the last unspoilt coun­try in the west would be a major strate­gic vic­to­ry for the green and anar­chist move­ment and a new incen­tive for a glob­al move­ment against indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and eco­cide. This includes the cam­paign against ALCOA and AluTrin­t’s plans for a smelter in Trinidad and oth­er direct action against dams and heavy indus­try.

EF! gathering advance notice: date & contact to get involved

The Earth First Gath­er­ing 2007 is well into the plan­ning stage.

Make space in your diary now: 18th — 22nd July 2007, some­where in Nor­folk. Please cir­cu­late this infor­ma­tion wide­ly.

If you want to get involved con­tact nexter@riseup.net.

The Earth First Gath­er­ing 2007 is well into the plan­ning stage.

Make space in your diary now: 18th — 22nd July 2007, some­where in Nor­folk. Please cir­cu­late this infor­ma­tion wide­ly.

If you want to get involved con­tact nexter@riseup.net.

Thanx
The Col­lec­tive.

Trees Felled on Middle Meadow Walk, Edinburgh

28 Nov 2006 Ful­ly grown trees are being felled on Mid­dle Mead­ow Walk right now for Quar­ter Mile devel­op­ments — urgent action need­ed As if the injus­tice in clos­ing down a city-cen­tre hos­pi­tal to rede­vel­op into offices, shops and lux­u­ry flats was­n’t bad enough, now trees are being felled in the name of pri­vate pros­per­i­ty. … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Trees Felled on Mid­dle Mead­ow Walk, Edin­burgh”

Edinburgh tree protest 1
Edinburgh tree protest 2
28 Nov 2006

Ful­ly grown trees are being felled on Mid­dle Mead­ow Walk right now for Quar­ter Mile devel­op­ments — urgent action need­ed

As if the injus­tice in clos­ing down a city-cen­tre hos­pi­tal to rede­vel­op into offices, shops and lux­u­ry flats was­n’t bad enough, now trees are being felled in the name of pri­vate pros­per­i­ty. Edin­burgh City Coun­cil have giv­en per­mis­sion for the Quar­ter Mile devel­op­ers to fell 10 trees (7 ful­ly mature — one lime, and the rest Scotch Elm & Sycamore and 3 sap­plings which will be replant­ed) along the Quar­ter Mile side of North Mid­dle Mead­ow Walk. The felled trees, 6 so far and count­ing, will make way for pipelines to the devel­op­ment, shop fronts and a plaza.

Alarm bells were raised yes­ter­day when it was noticed that Mid­dle Mead­ow Walk had been closed for tree felling — 4 mature trees were cut down with one stump being at least a metre in diam­e­ter. This morn­ing action was tak­en by a group of around 13 con­cerned res­i­dents who dis­rupt­ed the felling by refus­ing to leave the area and link­ing arms around the trees to be felled. The felling was held up for an hour before the pro­tes­tors were moved on by police. The last-minute nature of the protest and low turn-out meant that firmer action could not be tak­en.

Remov­ing ful­ly mature, healthy trees on pub­lic land to fur­ther cor­po­rate inter­ests is wrong and adds insult to injury regard­ing the Quar­ter Mile dis­grace. It was appar­ent how­ev­er, that nei­ther the tree fellers, build­ing con­trac­tors nor police were hap­py about the trees being felled — but with their jobs and income at stake they felt oblig­ed to con­tin­ue.

It was unclear if all of the remain­ing trees would be felled today — if felling is con­tin­u­ing tomor­row take action, before all of our remain­ing green spaces are replaced by shop fronts and non-aford­able hous­ing.

eco-prisoners — Spirit of Freedom November 2006

Spir­it of Free­dom
(Novem­ber 2006)
Pro­duced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“I thank you all dear­ly for writ­ing”

Prisoner Solidarity 12Spir­it of Free­dom
(Novem­ber 2006)
Pro­duced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“I thank you all dear­ly for writ­ing”
(Jon Able­white, Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Wel­come to the Novem­ber 2006 edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom. First off I’d like to appol­o­gise for this edi­tion of the newslet­ter being late. As peo­ple may be aware the USA-SHAC 7 where all due to start their prison sen­tences this month and we were await­ing to hear where they were before we went to print. Sad­ly all of the USA-SHAC 7 defen­dants are now in jail so we urge every­one to please write to them. They have been jailed for mere­ly report­ing the news, so please do sup­port them. How­ev­er, whilst sup­port­ing the USA-SHAC 7, please don’t for­get the oth­er pris­on­ers. They also need our sup­port. So please, no mat­ter where you are in the world, please sup­port the eco-pris­on­ers and no com­pro­mise in defence of Moth­er Earth!

COURT REPORTS & LEGAL UPDATES

OREGON UPDATE
In ear­ly Novem­ber 2006, it was announced that four Amer­i­cans, Jonathan Paul, Daniel McGowan, Nathan Fraz­er Block and Joy­an­na Zach­er, who are all defen­dants in the Ore­gon Case, had entered Guilty pleas to var­i­ous charges against them.

When enter­ing their Guilty Pleas these four remained true to their prin­ci­ples and although admit­ting their own guilt refused to name any
oth­ers. It is unclear what length of sen­tences the four will receive but it is clear they no longer face the pos­si­ble ‘Life impris­on­ment with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole’, which they were fac­ing if they’d gone to tri­al. All four are due to be sen­tenced in mid-Decem­ber 06.

Also in ear­ly Novem­ber, Grand Jury pris­on­er, Jeff Hogg, was released from prison. Jeff had always refused to tes­ti­fy against any­one in the Ore­gon case and was serv­ing an indef­i­nite prison sen­tence as a result. ELP cel­e­brates Jef­f’s release and praise him for his moral stance.

With oth­er news in this inves­ti­ga­tion, in ear­ly Octo­ber 2006, two of the police infor­mants in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton arson case, Lacey Phill­abaum and Jen­nifer Lynn Kolar (also known as Jen), plead­ed guilty to their roles in the arson which occured in 2001. Kolar also admit­ted to an arson against a gun club. Fol­low­ing their guilty pleas Kolar is expect­ed to receive a sen­tence of between 5–7years impris­on­ment, whilst Phul­labaum is expect­ed to received 3–5 years impris­on­ment.

As soon as any of the sen­tences, of any of the defen­dants in this case, are known ELP will bring you the news. How­ev­er we would like to remind every­one that we do not sup­port police infor­mants and there­fore, although report­ing their sen­tences, we will not be list­ing the prison details of any of the police infor­mants in this case. We do offer our total sup­port to those who have plead­ed guilty to their per­son­al charges but not coop­er­at­ed with the author­i­ties whilst doing so.

Also, despite the var­i­ous guilty pleas ELP would like to remind every­one that this case is not over. There are still at least three defen­dants in this case who loca­tions are unknown to the FBI. And also, Bri­ana Waters has for­mal­ly plead­ed not guilty to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton fire and is sched­uled for tri­al in May 2007. ELP will keep you informed as to all the devel­op­ments in Bri­ana’s tri­al.

NADIA WINSTEAD
In mid-Octo­ber 2006, Amer­i­can ani­mal rights activist, Nadia Win­stead, was found Guilty of con­tempt of court after she refused to tes­ti­fy before a Grand Jury which is inves­ti­gat­ing a series of Ani­mal and Earth Lib­er­a­tion actions. Nadia was grant­ed leave to appeal her con­vic­tion and that appeal hear­ing is due lat­er on this month. ELP will bring you more news just as soon as we have it.

IL SILVESTRE UPDATE
In ear­ly Novem­ber 2006, Giuseppe Bonam­i­ci, was released from prison under house arrest. Giuseppe is one of ten Il Sil­vestre mem­bers, arrest­ed in May 2006, who has been charged with using explo­sives to destroy an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest against nuclear pow­er. Fol­low­ing Giuseppe’s release this means that six of the ten defen­dants are now under house arrest, but four remain impris­oned.

The remain­ing four are all said to be doing well and remain­ing strong. One of the four Benedet­ta Galante, ini­tial­ly after her impris­on­ment found her­self sub­ject to strict mail cen­sor­ship and only received a few let­ters with­in the first four months of her impris­on­ment. How­ev­er, her mail now does appear to be reach­ing her and is described as “flood­ing in”, so much so that the prison does­n’t have enough mail cen­sors to keep up with her post!!!

Besides the four Il Sil­vestre pris­on­ers await­ing tri­al fol­low­ing the May 06 arrests, ELP would like to remind every­one that a fifth Il Sil­vestre activist is also cur­rent­ly impris­oned. Francesco Gioia is serv­ing 5 years and 2 months for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action. He is also await­ing tri­al for escap­ing from house arrest.

JOE HARRIS
On 20/09/06 British Ani­mal Rights activist, Joe Har­ris, was sen­tenced to 3 years impris­on­ment for tak­ing direct action against Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences tar­gets. His tac­tics includ­ed glu­ing locks and slash­ing car tyres.

MADELINE BUCKLER
On 22/09/06 British Ani­mal Rights activist, Made­line Buck­ler, was sen­tenced to 2 years impris­on­ment for send­ing hate mail to the Hall fam­i­ly, who use to sup­ply guinea pigs to the vivi­sec­tion indus­try.

ECO-DEFENCE PRISONERS

Fadal­la Idris Ala­jaimy (address unknown). Sudan anti-dam pro­test­er on remand accused of Wag­ing War against the State for protest­ing against the con­struc­tion of a dam. The sen­tence for this crime is Death.

Mohamed Ahmed Ala­jaimy (address unknown). Sudan anti-dam pro­test­er on remand accused of Wag­ing War against the State for protest­ing against the con­struc­tion of a dam. The sen­tence for this crime is Death.

Tre Arrow, CS# 05850722, Van­cou­ver Island Region­al Cor­rec­tion Cen­ter, 4216 Wilkin­son Rd., Vic­to­ria, BC, V8Z 5B2, Cana­da. On remand accused of involve­ment with an arson on log­ging trucks and an arson on vehi­cles owned by a sand & grav­el com­pa­ny. Both arsons occurred in the USA. Tre is fight­ing his extra­di­tion to the USA.

Nathan Block, #1663667, Lane Coun­ty Jail, 101 W 5th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401, USA. On remand accused of involve­ment in an arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also charged with involve­ment in a con­spir­a­cy to car­ry out direct action in Ore­gon.

Fed­eri­co Bonam­i­ci, Casa di Reclu­sione, ia Nuo­va Pog­gio­re­ale 177, 80143 Napo­lo Pog­gio­re­ale (NA), Italy. Il Sil­vestre mem­ber on remand accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon. Also accused of plan­ning to over­throw the State.

Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land. Serv­ing 27 years. 1) Ten years for using explo­sives to destroy elec­tric­i­ty pylons lead­ing from nuclear pow­er sta­tions. 2) Sev­en­teen years for the mur­der of a Swiss Board­er Guard whilst on the run. In ’02 Mar­co com­plet­ed a 12-year sen­tence in Italy for destroy­ing elec­tric­i­ty pylons in Italy.

Ibai Eder­ra, Car­cel de Pam­plona, C/San Roque. Apdo. 250, 31080 — Iruñez — Pam­plona, Navar­ra (España), Spain. Serv­ing just under 5 years for sab­o­tag­ing machin­ery at the con­tro­ver­sial Itoiz dam con­struc­tion site.

Rod­ney Coro­n­a­do #03895–000, FCI Tuc­son, 8901 South Wilmot Rd, Tuc­son, AZ 85705, USA. Serv­ing 8 months for his role in an Earth First! hunt sab­o­tage against a moun­tain lion hunt. Rod is also fac­ing addi­tion­al charges relat­ing to a speech he made at an ani­mal rights gath­er­ing in 2003.

William Fre­di­ani (cur­rent­ly under house arrest). Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 6 years impris­on­ment for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action.

Benedet­ta Galante, Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale, Con­tra­da Capo di Monte, 82100 — Ben­even­to (BN), Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 3 years 6 months for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action. Also await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy.

Francesco Gioia, Via Maiano, 10, 06049 Spo­le­to, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 5 years 2 months for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action. Also await­ing tri­al for escap­ing from house arrest.

Sil­via Gueri­ni, Carcere “La Doz­za”, Via Del Gomi­to 2, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Il Sil­vestre mem­ber on remand accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon.

Leonar­do Lan­di (cur­rent­ly under house arrest). Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 3 years 6 months impris­on­ment for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action.

Jef­frey Luers, #13797671, OSP, 2605 State St. Salem, OR 97310, USA. Serv­ing 22 years & 8 months for arson on a SUV deal­er­ship & the attempt­ed arson of an oil truck.

Ali Mohamed Alhas­sen Mas­sad (address unknown). Sudan anti-dam pro­test­er on remand accused of Wag­ing War against the State for protest­ing against the con­struc­tion of a dam. The sen­tence for this crime is Death.

Eric McDavid X‑2972521 4E 231A, Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail, 651 “I” Street, Sacra­men­to, CA 95814, USA. On Remand accused of plan­ning to destroy the prop­er­ty of the U.S. Forestry Ser­vice, mobile phone masts and pow­er plants.

Christo­pher McIn­tosh 30512–013, USP Hazel­ton, US Pen­i­ten­tiary, PO Box 2000, Bruce­ton Mills, WV 26525, USA. Serv­ing 8 years for a joint ELF/ALF arson attack on a McDon­alds restau­rant.

Alessio Per­on­di (cur­rent­ly under house arrest). Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 3 years 8 months impris­on­ment for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action.

Costan­ti­no Ragusa, Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale, Via Prati Nuovi 7, 27058 Voghera (PV), Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist sen­tenced to 5 years for pro­mot­ing & par­tic­i­pat­ing in COR direct action. Also await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy.

John Wade #38548–083, FCI Peters­burg Low, Satel­lite Camp, PO Box 90027, Peters­burg, VA 23804, USA. Serv­ing 37 months for a series of ELF actions against a num­ber of tar­gets includ­ing McDon­alds & Burg­er King; urban sprawl; the con­struc­tion indus­try; and an SUV deal­er­ship.

Joy­an­na Zach­er #1662550, Lane Coun­ty Jail, 101 W 5th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401, USA. On remand accused of involve­ment in an arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an SUV deal­er­ship. Also charged with involve­ment in a con­spir­a­cy to car­ry out direct action in Ore­gon.

ANIMAL LIBERATION PRISONERS

Jon Able­white TB4885, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion.

Natasha Avery NR8987, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dle­sex, TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. Serv­ing 16 months for a pub­lic order offence after telling a fox hunt­ing mur­der what she thought of them.

Dave Blenk­in­sop EM7899, HMP Rye Hill, Onley, War­wick­shire, CV23 8AN, Eng­land. Serv­ing 10 years. 1) Three years for a stave attack on the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of HLS. 2) 18 months for res­cu­ing 600 guinea pigs from a lab sup­pli­er. 3) 51â?„2 years for plant­i­ng incen­di­ary devices under an abat­toirs vehi­cles.

Made­line Buck­ler PR7492, HMP Mor­ton Hall, Swinder­by, Lin­coln, LN6 9PT, Eng­land. Serv­ing 2 years for send­ing hate mail to a fam­i­ly who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion.

Jacob Con­roy #93501–011, FCI Vic­torville Medi­um I Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5300, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing 48 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Rod­ney Coro­n­a­do. Serv­ing 8 months for his role in an Earth First! hunt sab­o­tage against a moun­tain lion hunt. See his details in the Eco-Defence Pris­on­ers list.

Don­ald Cur­rie TN 4593, HMP Wood­hill, Tat­ten­hoe Street, Mil­ton Keynes, MK4 4DA, Eng­land. On remand accused of arson against a couri­er com­pa­ny with links to the vivi­sec­tion indus­try includ­ing HLS.

Josh Dem­mitt 12314–081, FCI Saf­ford, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 9000, Saf­ford, AZ 85548, USA. Serv­ing 30 months for an ALF arson on a Uni­ver­si­ty ani­mal test­ing facil­i­ty.

Dar­ius Fullmer #26397–050, FCI Fort Dix Satel­lite Camp, P.O. Box 1000, Fort Dix, NJ 08640 USA. Serv­ing 12 months for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Garfield Mar­cus Gab­bard TB 4271, HMP Moor­land (Closed), Bawtry Road, Hat­field Wood­house, Don­cast­er, South York­shire, DN7 6BW, Eng­land. Serv­ing 36 months for Affray dur­ing an ani­mal rights demo where he jumped onto a car and kicked a secu­ri­ty guard who pulled him off the car.

Lau­ren Gaz­zo­la #93497–011, FCI Dan­bury Route #37, 33 1/2 Pem­broke Road, Dan­bury, CT 06811 USA. Serv­ing 54 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Sarah Gis­borne, LT5393, HMP Cookham Wood, Rochester, Kent, ME1 3LU, Eng­land.
Serv­ing 51â?„2 years for con­spir­a­cy to cause crim­i­nal dam­age fol­low­ing the dam­ag­ing of 8 vehi­cles owned by peo­ple linked to Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ence.

Joshua Harp­er #29429–086, FCI Sheri­dan Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, P.O. Box 5000, Sheri­dan, OR 97378 USA. Serv­ing 36 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Joseph Har­ris, TN5728, HMP Lewes, Brighton Road, East Sus­sex, BN7 1EA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 3 years for dam­ag­ing the prop­er­ty of peo­ple asso­ci­at­ed with Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences.

Kevin Kjon­aas #93502–011, FCI Sand­stone, PO Box 1000, Sand­stone, MN 55072 USA. Serv­ing 72 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Chris McIn­tosh. Serv­ing 8 years for a joint ALF/ELF arson on a McDon­alds.
See his details in the Eco-Defence Pris­on­ers list.

Josephine Mayo PR6508, HMP Drake Hall, Eccle­shall, Stafford­shire, ST21 6LQ, Eng­land. Serv­ing 4 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion.

John Smith TB4887, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion.

Andrew Stepan­ian #26399–050, FCI But­ner Medi­um II Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, PO Box 1500, But­ner, NC 27509 USA. Serv­ing 36 months for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign.

Daniel Wad­ham TF5524, HMP Rochester, Kent. ME1 3QS, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 months for a pub­lic order offence after telling a fox hunt­ing mur­der what he thought of them.

Ker­ry Whit­burn TB4886, HMP Lowd­ham Grange, Lowd­ham, Not­ting­ham, NG14 7DA, Eng­land. Serv­ing 12 years for attempt­ing to black­mail a farmer who sup­plied guinea pigs for vivi­sec­tion.

Peter Daniel Young, #10269–111, FCI Vitorvill Medi­um II, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, PO Box 5700, Ade­lan­to, CA 92301, USA. Serv­ing two years for releas­ing mink and fox­es from six dif­fer­ent fur farms. Also await­ing tri­al for his alleged involve­ment in a raid on a fur farm in South Dako­ta.

PLOUGHSHARES PRISONERS

Helen Wood­son, 03231–045, FMC Car­swell — Admin. Max. Unit, POB 27137, Ft. Worth, TX 76127, USA. Serv­ing 8 years 10 months for actions that focused on the inter­re­la­tion­ship of war & the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al world. The actions includ­ed pour­ing red paint over the secu­ri­ty desk of a fed­er­al court and mak­ing threat­en­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Pre­vi­ous­ly Helen had served 201â?„2 years for: 1) Using a ham­mer to dis­arm a nuclear mis­sile silo. 2) Burn­ing $25,000 on the floor of a bank whilst denounc­ing war, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion & eco­nom­ic injus­tice. 3) Mail­ing warn­ing let­ters with bul­lets attached to Gov­ern­ment & cor­po­rate offi­cials.

OTHER ANTI-WAR PRISONERS

Bren­dan Walsh, 12473–052, FCI Allen­wood Low, PO Box 1000, White Deer, PA 17887, USA. Serv­ing 5 years for an arson on an army recruit­ment office in protest at the War on Iraq.

THE LECCE FIVE
The Lec­ce Five have been charged with “sub­ver­sive asso­ci­a­tion” accused of dam­ag­ing Esso petrol pumps to oppose the War on Iraq; sab­o­tag­ing the cash machines of a bank which funds an immi­gra­tion cen­tre; and tar­get­ing the multi­na­tion­al com­pa­ny Benet­ton in sup­port of Mapuche land rights activists in Chile. All of the defen­dants are cur­rent­ly under house arrest.

ANTIFA PRISONERS

Lasan­dra Bur­well W063658, Ohio Refor­ma­to­ry for Women, 1479 Collins Ave. Marysville, OH 43040, USA. Serv­ing 5 years for tak­ing part in an
anti-fas­cist demon­stra­tion which turned into a riot.

Igor Kisielewicz, syn Alek­san­dra, A.S. Bia­lystok, Koperni­ka 21, 15–377 Bia­lystok, Poland. Serv­ing 3 months for fail­ing to do his com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice imposed for antifa activ­i­ty.

Tomasz Wiloszews­ki, Zak­lad Karny, Orze­chowa 5, 98–200 Sier­adz, Poland.
Serv­ing 15 years for acci­den­tal­ly killing a neo-nazi whilst defend­ing him­self.

PARTY & PROTEST
Around the world there have been sev­er­al mas­sive protests against glob­al cap­i­tal­ism and its envi­ron­men­tal impact. The fol­low­ing have all been jailed in con­nec­tion with the protests.

Jonathan Philip Robert, Crisp Coun­ty Deten­tion Cen­ter, 197 Ga. Hwy. 300 South, Cordele, GA 31015, USA (12 months)

OTHER PRISONERS

Ted Kaczyn­s­ki (04475–046), US Pen — admin Max Facil­i­ty, PO Box 8500, Flo­rence Col­orado 81226, USA. Serv­ing mul­ti­ple life sen­tences for the infa­mous ‘Unabomber’ anti-tech­nol­o­gy bomb­ing & mur­der cam­paign.

Olga Alek­san­drov­na Nevskaya, UU163/5, 7 Otryad, pos. Dzerzhin­skiy, Mozhaysk 140090 Moskovskaya oblast, Rus­sia. Eco-activist serv­ing 6 years for arson, crim­i­nal dam­age and caus­ing explo­sions in protest at the war in Chech­nya. Due for release in 2009.

Fran Thomp­son, #1090915 HU 1C, WERDCC, PO Box 300, Van­dalia, MO 63382, USA.
Serv­ing Life for killing, in self-defence, a stalk­er who had bro­ken into her home. Before her impris­on­ment Fran was an eco, ani­mal & anti-nuke cam­paign­er.

MOVE
MOVE is an eco-rev­o­lu­tion­ary group who car­ried out protests in defence of all life. There are cur­rent­ly eight MOVE activists in prison each serv­ing 100 years after been framed for the mur­der of a cop in 1979. 9th defen­dant, Mer­le Africa, died in prison in 1998.

Deb­bie Simms Africa (006307), Janet Hol­loway Africa (006308) and Janine Philips Africa (006309) all at: SCI Cam­bridge Springs, 451 Fuller­ton Ave, Cam­bridge Springs, PA 16403–1238, USA.

Michael Davis Africa (AM4973) and Charles Simms Africa (AM4975) both at SCI Grate­ford, PO Box 244, Grate­ford, PA 19426–0244, USA.

Edward Good­man Africa (AM4974), 301 Morea Rd, Frackville, PA 17932, USA.

William Philips Africa (AM4984) and Del­bert Orr Africa (AM4985) both at SCI Dal­las Draw­er K, Dal­las, PA 18612, USA.

Mumia Abu Jamal, (AM8335), SCI Greene, 175 Progress Dri­ve, Way­nes­burg PA 15370, USA. In 1981 Mumia, for­mer Black Pan­ther and vocal sup­port­er of MOVE, was framed for the mur­der of a cop. He was orig­i­nal­ly sen­tenced to death but is cur­rent­ly await­ing re-sen­tenc­ing fol­low­ing a court hear­ing in 2001.

MAPUCHE PRISONERS & OTHER LAND RIGHTS PRISONERS
Due to space lim­i­ta­tion we can­not pub­lish the names & address­es of the Mapuche & Land Rights pris­on­ers in this edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom, how­ev­er if you would like a list please con­tact Spir­it of Free­dom.

STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE
Some peo­ple list­ed in this newslet­ter have car­ried out vio­lent actions.
‘Spir­it of Free­dom’ does not con­done vio­lence. But we are also against cen­sor­ship & believe peo­ple can decide for them­selves who they wish to sup­port.

ABOUT E.L.P. SUPPORT NETWORK
ELP is an inter­na­tion­al eco-pris­on­er sup­port net­work found­ed, in Britain, in 1993 to sup­port jailed eco-activists. We sup­port the pris­on­ers by pro­duc­ing var­i­ous reg­u­lar pris­on­er lists:

Spir­it of Free­dom is ELP’s inter­na­tion­al bimonth­ly pub­li­ca­tion (avail­able via e‑mail or in a paper ver­sion). If you would like to receive a copy con­tact Spir­it of Free­dom, BM Box 2407, Lon­don, WC1N 3XX, Eng­land. Or e‑mail ELP4321@hotmail.com

Urgent ELP! Bul­letin is an e‑mail ser­vice that dis­trib­utes the names of any new eco-pris­on­er as soon as ELP gets their details. For more info e‑mail ELP4321@hotmail.com

On-Line Newslet­ters — ELP has a num­ber of web­sites that pro­vide news, pris­on­er lists and addi­tion­al info about ELP & the pris­on­ers.

Eng­lish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

North Amer­i­can ELP Web­site
www.ecoprisoners.org

Turk­ish lan­guage ELP Web­site
www.geocities.com/yesilanarsi/elp.htm

ELP Extra is an e‑mail group that cir­cu­lates the details of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, ELP learns about, who do not fall with­in the remit for sup­port by ELP. To sub­scribe to the list e‑mail ELP4321@Hotmail.com

Bel­gium ELP.SN is our Bel­gium con­tact. For more info e‑mail elp_bel@hotmail.com

Ger­man ELP.SN is a pris­on­er led ini­tia­tive run by eco-pris­on­er Mar­co Camenisch. For more info con­tact Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land.

North Amer­i­can ELP is our North Amer­i­can con­tact. For more infor­ma­tion e‑mail naelpsn@mutualaid.org

Turkey ELP.SN is our Turk­ish con­tact. For more info e‑mail yesilanarsi@yahoo.com

North Amer­i­can ELP Pris­on­er Fund. The North Amer­i­can ELP group has set up a fund where peo­ple can pay mon­ey, for North Amer­i­can Eco-Defence and Ani­mal Rights pris­on­ers, which will then be dis­trib­uted to the North Amer­i­can pris­on­ers. For infor­ma­tion about the Fund and how to make a dona­tion please con­tact naelpsn@mutualaid.org

DEDICATION
ELP feels it its impor­tant to remem­ber those who have died defend­ing Moth­er Earth. We use Samhain (a tra­di­tion­al time to remem­ber the dead) as our oppor­tu­ni­ty to hon­our all our fall­en friends who have died over the years.

Due to space lim­i­ta­tion we can only list EF! & ELF style fall­en friends.
But for a full list of all Ani­mal & Earth Lib­er­a­tion activists who’ve died in defence of the plan­et check out our full memo­r­i­al list on our web­site
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

This edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom is joint­ly ded­i­cat­ed to Amer­i­can David “Gyp­sy” Chain, who was crushed to death in Sep­tem­ber 1998 when a tree was felled on top of him whilst he defend­ed the forests; Ital­ian activists Maria Rosas & Edoar­do Mas­sari who died in cus­tody, in 1999, whilst await­ing tri­al for their alleged involve­ment in the sab­o­tag­ing of a high speed rail line con­struc­tion site in the North­ern Ital­ian Alps; Brazil­ian Jose Mar­lu­cio da Sil­va who was shot dead by police in July 2000 whilst attempt­ing to storm & occu­py a bank dur­ing an anti-GM protest; British activist ‘Jo’ whose body was found in her burnt out hut at the Nine Ladies anti-quar­ry protest camp
in March 2002; Amer­i­can Beth O’Brien, who died in April 2002 after falling from a tree she was sit­ting in whilst try­ing to defend the forests; Brazil­ian Bar­tolomeu Morais da Sil­va (aka “Brasil­ia”) who led the strug­gle against ille­gal log­ging, land fraud and destruc­tive large-scale infra­struc­ture projects was found mur­dered in July 2002 from shot gun wounds and his legs bro­ken; Amer­i­can Robert “Naya” Bryan, died Octo­ber 2002 after falling from a tree he was sit­ting in whilst try­ing to defend the forests; French activist Sébastian B., who, in Novem­ber 2004, was run by a train car­ry­ing nuclear waste after Sébastian had tied him­self to the tracks; Amer­i­can William “Bill” Rodgers who end­ed his own life in Decem­ber 2005 fol­low­ing his arrest for a series of ELF & ALF actions.

If you know of some­one who should be on this list, but isn’t, please let ELP know.
“ELP Sup­port Net­work”

Digger attacked in Protest by Concerned Citizens in Cornwall

20.11.2006

Hous­ing project in Corn­wall tar­get­ed by pro­test­ers against urban sprawl

Last night a site of hous­ing devel­op­ment in Hel­ston was tar­get­ed by a group of con­cerned cit­i­zens.

Locks on a dig­ger were glued and slo­gans sprayed over the win­dows.

20.11.2006

Hous­ing project in Corn­wall tar­get­ed by pro­test­ers against urban sprawl

Last night a site of hous­ing devel­op­ment in Hel­ston was tar­get­ed by a group of con­cerned cit­i­zens.

Locks on a dig­ger were glued and slo­gans sprayed over the win­dows.

This action was tak­en to high­light the increas­ing urban sprawl that is attack­ing our coun­try­side.
Corn­wall does not need more homes. There are enough homes in Corn­wall, but we have to abol­ish the sec­ond homes that lie emp­ty for eleven months of the year.

We need our wild spaces. We do not need urban sprawl.