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65 Indigenous Communities Declare Victory in Peru

21st August 2008
Indige­nous groups in Peru are claim­ing vic­to­ry after more than a week of protests through­out the state.

Peru indigenous groups' victory21st August 2008
Indige­nous groups in Peru are claim­ing vic­to­ry after more than a week of protests through­out the state.

A day after the gov­ern­ment declared mar­tial law in three of the provinces affect­ed by the protests, on August 19 a con­gres­sion­al com­mis­sion vot­ed to over­turn the con­tro­ver­sial law known as Decree 1015, which the indige­nous groups were chal­leng­ing.

They say the law “makes it eas­i­er for min­ing and ener­gy com­pa­nies to buy com­mu­nal­ly owned land, will lead to a for­eign land grab, espe­cial­ly in the Ama­zon rain for­est,” Reuters explains. “Gar­cia passed the law by decree ear­li­er this year under spe­cial pow­ers Con­gress grant­ed him to bring Peru­vian law into com­pli­ance with a new free-trade deal with the Unit­ed States.”

The Con­gres­sion­al Com­mis­sion said Gar­cia ‘went too far’ with the decree, and “agreed in prin­ci­ple to bring any new land law into com­pli­ance with Con­ven­tion 169 of the Inter­na­tion­al Labor Orga­ni­za­tion. The Com­mis­sion also issued an offi­cial doc­u­ment to the Exec­u­tive call­ing for the over­turn of Supreme Decree 058‑2008-PCM, impos­ing the states of emer­gency,” adds Bill Wein­berg of the WW4Report.

The head of Peru’s leg­is­la­ture fol­lowed the announce­ment by say­ing it may go to a floor vote on Fri­day.

Gar­cia, on the oth­er hand, thinks revok­ing the decree is a “huge mis­take,” and that it will con­demn Peru’s indige­nous and rur­al com­mu­ni­ties to “anoth­er cen­tu­ry of back­ward­ness and mis­ery.”

It’s not all that far off from the truth. How­ev­er, it is in fact Garcia’s decree that would be con­demn­ing them to more “back­ward­ness and mis­ery.”

That’s why Six­ty-five indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties rose up and threat­ened a vio­lent con­fronta­tion with the state. And it’s why those same com­mu­ni­ties are now cel­e­brat­ing.

Shell to Sea: Notice served on Solitaire

20.08.2008
As part of the ongo­ing week of action in Ross­port, a let­ter was today deliv­ered to the Soli­taire demand­ing its with­draw­al from the project.

Yes­ter­day after­noon a team of kayak­ers braved the waters of Done­gal Bay to pad­dle over a kilo­me­tre out to sea to deliv­er a let­ter of protest to Cap­tain Simon Van Der Plicht of the Soli­taire.

20.08.2008
As part of the ongo­ing week of action in Ross­port, a let­ter was today deliv­ered to the Soli­taire demand­ing its with­draw­al from the project.

Yes­ter­day after­noon a team of kayak­ers braved the waters of Done­gal Bay to pad­dle over a kilo­me­tre out to sea to deliv­er a let­ter of protest to Cap­tain Simon Van Der Plicht of the Soli­taire.

A crane low­ered a buck­et from the ship to receive the let­ter after the kayak­ers spoke to the Cap­tain on the radio.

Rep­re­sent­ing the views of many from the com­mu­ni­ties affect­ed by the Cor­rib gas project, the let­ter asks the Cap­tain to recon­sid­er his, and the ship’s, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the devel­op­ment.

The let­ter clear­ly states that if the Cap­tain choos­es to con­tin­ue the ship’s involve­ment he will meet strong resis­tance. Many peo­ple have pledged to take to the water to stop this pipeline con­struc­tion work.

Today’s action is part of a Shell to Sea Week of Action tar­get­ing the Soli­taire.

Actions will take place all this week until the ship is forced to aban­don work.

Rossport Solidarity Camp reborn…

18.08.2008
Today local res­i­dents and peo­ple from Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp erect­ed a mar­quee in Glen­gad over­look­ing Shel­l’s new com­pound.

Glengad camp, Mayo18.08.2008
Today local res­i­dents and peo­ple from Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp erect­ed a mar­quee in Glen­gad over­look­ing Shel­l’s new com­pound.

Just a short dis­tance away from the camps for­mer loca­tion the new mar­quee will pro­vide a base for action against ear­ly pipeline work on land and against the pipe lay­ing ship,the Soli­taire, when she arrives.

Today after the mar­quee had been put up peo­ple invad­ed the com­pound. Activ­i­ty like this and water based actions will be ongo­ing over the next few weeks.

New peo­ple and a wide array of boats and oth­er water equip­ment are appear­ing all the time. The fol­low­ing weeks should be inter­est­ing…

Come to Mayo and join in the fun.…

Sail and Rail from any­where in UK to Bal­li­na (near­est town to Ross­port) only £35 (aprox)

Earth First! gathering — programme and travel directions

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise
27 Aug — 1 Sept 2008, Nor­folk
Join us for 5 days of work­shops and plan­ning actions

Trav­el direc­tions:

Earth First! Gathering 2008 - print sizeEarth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
Eco­log­i­cal Direct Action with­out Com­pro­mise
27 Aug — 1 Sept 2008, Nor­folk
Join us for 5 days of work­shops and plan­ning actions

Trav­el direc­tions:
The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Woolsey­bridge Farm — a love­ly site in Nor­folk with lots of trees and a lit­tle stream. It’s approx­i­mate­ly 1.5 miles NNE of Diss. Diss has reg­u­lar train ser­vices and a whole­food shop. The Grid Ref­er­ence of the site is TM130819. The post code is IP22 5SY.

The site is eas­i­ly acces­si­ble by pub­lic trans­port, you can get the train either to Diss or Nor­wich and then catch the bus route no 1 (Sim­monds) from Diss to Nor­wich or vice ver­sa — this route goes right past the site and we’ll be ask­ing the local bus com­pa­ny if they will stop right out­side the site on request. Or you could walk or cycle — it’s only 1.5miles away from Diss train sta­tion. Please come by pub­lic trans­port if at all pos­si­ble! .
We will run pick-ups from the train sta­tion for any­body who can’t use the bus ser­vice or for larg­er groups of peo­ple. If you need a lift please let us know well in advance (and not in the mid­dle of the night, when you’re at a train sta­tion some­where!). Ring the Gath­er­ing mobile on 07789 331857

For a map and fur­ther details on trav­el includ­ing bus times and direc­tions for dri­vers check out http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2008/where.html

Pro­gramme
This year’s pro­gramme focuss­es on info and plan­ning for actions, direct action skills as well as spaces to dis­cuss how we can respond to and deal with the widen­ing eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic and soci­etal crises. We hope there’s some­thing for every­one.
We rec­om­mend that you arrive Tue evening, as work­shops will start on Wednes­day morn­ing and run until Sun­day evening

For more info about the gath­er­ing check out our web­site or email us (though we won’t be able to answer email after 21 Aug, as we’ll be on site set­ting up)

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk, sum­mer­gath­er­ing _ AT _ earthfirst.org.uk

The work­shops

Wednes­day

12:00
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the gath­er­ing
Deal­ing with the main­stream media — how to get your mes­sage across
Basic electrics — for squats and homes.
Cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change — how to make the links vis­i­ble in actions
Queer net­work­ing ses­sion

2:30
Self-defence — mixed prac­tise ses­sion
Squat­ting FAQ — shar­ing tips and tricks
Action Recon­nais­sance for begin­ners
Intro­duc­tion to the root caus­es of eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion and an explo­ration of alter­na­tives
Advanced Nav­i­ga­tion

4:30
Sav­ing Ice­land — Intro­duc­tion to the cam­paign
Nuclear waste and nuclear weapons
Con­sen­sus Deci­sion-mak­ing
Intro­duc­tion to Ecol­o­gy
Con­fronting Abu­sive Behav­iours with­in our Com­mu­ni­ties — with­out the police/prison.

6:00
Library Space: Nego­ti­at­ing Safer Sex: tips on putting the the­o­ry into prac­tice, and mak­ing your sex life more fun as well as safer!

8:00
Cin­e­ma: Talk with video on resist­ing rain­for­est destruc­tion in Tas­ma­nia

Thurs­day

10:30
Deal­ing with Pub­lic Order sit­u­a­tions — under­stand­ing police tac­tics and how we can deal with to them/turn them to our advan­tage (runs until lunch)
State and cor­po­rate oppres­sion of the Aus­tralian Abo­rig­ines
Action recon­nais­sance — advanced skill­share, share your most clever tips and tricks for get­ting info for actions
Prac­ti­cal plant iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (begin­ners)
Activist trau­ma and recov­ery

12:00
Sav­ing Ice­land — an eval­u­a­tion of the camp this sum­mer
Secu­ri­ty for Activists Part I: Do’s and don’ts of organ­is­ing action, from arrang­ing to meet, plan­ning and what hap­pens after
Arrest sup­port for actions — how to pro­vide sup­port for your affin­i­ty group, medi­um sized actions or mega camps and gath­er­ings.
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the sum­mer gath­er­ing

2:30
Wom­en’s self-defence — intro­duc­to­ry ses­sion
Food and Cli­mate Action: info for action
How to plan an action
Police liai­son for actions — what it is, its uses and lim­i­ta­tions and how to make it work.
Chang­ing light bulbs or smash­ing the sys­tem. Shar­ing +/- expe­ri­ences of work­ing within/outside the sys­tem

4:30
Oppos­ing nuclear expan­sion: plan­ning for action
How to plan and run a suc­cess­ful medi­um to long-term cam­paign
Night time skills Part I: intro­duc­tion (fol­lowed by prac­tise ses­sion at 8.30pm)
Legal and arrest work­shop
Intro­duc­tion to anar­chist history/potted anar­chist his­to­ries

6:00
Library space: open dis­cus­sion ?Direct action or pub­lic­i­ty stunt??
8:00

Cin­e­ma: Seashep­herd film and talk
8:30

Night time skills Part II — prac­tice your skills in the field.

Fri­day

10:30
Blockad­ing tac­tics
Cli­mate Camp debrief: a crit­i­cal look at the cli­mate camp, its achieve­ments and pol­i­tics
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! And the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Com­put­er Secu­ri­ty for the non-tech­ni­cal
Prison Abo­li­tion: what’s wrong with prison? what do we mean by abo­li­tion and how can we make it hap­pen?

12:00
Food and cli­mate change: action and cam­paign plan­ning
Self-defence mixed prac­tise ses­sion
Squat­ting to resist — occu­pa­tions to resist the pow­ers of dark­ness
His­to­ry of Earth First!

2:30
The Earth First! Action Update and web­site: feed­back and get­ting involved
Resist­ing agro­fu­els — update on the sit­u­a­tion and action plan­ning
Sea Shep­herd — an intro to its cam­paigns and how to support/get involved.
Grow your own food — share you skills and expe­ri­ence
Queer Activist Forum: Rad­i­cal queers organ­ise for the future!

4:30
Queer Self-Defence: an intro to basic self-defence skills (ver­bal and phys­i­cal)
Set­ting up new direct action groups
Sav­ing Ice­land ? plan­ning actions for the com­ing year
Tech­no-fix­es and cli­mate change ? report by Cor­po­rate Watch
Urban self-reliance and self-suf­fi­cien­cy

7:30
Library: Pris­on­er Sup­port — An infor­mal get togeth­er to dis­cuss the state of pris­on­er sup­port in our move­ments, find out news and get advice on writ­ing to pris­on­ers, as well as mak­ing and writ­ing cards to send to pris­on­ers.

8:00
Cin­e­ma: A talk and film by a trib­al activist from Oris­sa oppos­ing min­ing

Sat­ur­day

10:30
Cam­paigns and Actions Round-up: UK and inter­na­tion­al news (no oth­er work­shops)

12:00
Wom­en’s self-defence prac­tise ses­sion plus run­ning along­side — intro­duc­tion to wom­en’s self-defence
Stop­ping GM test fields — dis­cus­sion on future campaign/actions
Research and destroy — how to research cor­po­ra­tions
Future mod­els of soci­ety — find­ing a path to sus­tain­able liv­ing
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! and the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Using tripods for blockad­ing

2:30
Leave it in the ground — build­ing resis­tance to new coal min­ing and pow­er sta­tions
Facil­i­ta­tion of meet­ings
Activist Secu­ri­ty Part III: doing actions with­out leav­ing traces
Restora­tion Ecol­o­gy
Cre­at­ing safer spaces
Vis­it to Burston Strike School

4:30
Region­al meet­ings and action plan­ning (no oth­er work­shops)

6:00
Library Space: Work­ing with­out lead­ers — dis­cus­sion about core val­ues of anar­chism

8:00
Cin­e­ma: Smash Edo film and talk

Sun­day
11:00
Self defence mixed prac­tice ses­sion
Sort­ing out ways of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with­in EF!
Using radios on actions
Intro­duc­tion to Earth First! And the sum­mer gath­er­ing
Fences: get­ting over them/taking them down

12:15
The sum­mer gath­er­ing: feed­back on this year’s and get­ting involved in organ­is­ing the next one

2:30
Con­doms, cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change
Smash Edo
Intro­duc­tion to nav­i­ga­tion
What’s new in the world of law?
Fem­i­nist Health
Climb­ing trees, lamp posts and any­thing else

4:30
Rad­i­cal pol­i­tics in the age of col­lapse
The Roy­al Bank of Scot­land and Fos­sil Fuel Financ­ing
Get­ting your elec­tric­i­ty from solar pow­er and wind
Rad­i­cal Par­ent­ing
Look­ing after our men­tal health — shar­ing ideas and expe­ri­ences

8:00
Cin­e­ma: films — cli­mate camp footage, ready steady skip etc

Mon­day
Take-down: please stay for a day or two to help take down the site. If you’ve got access to a vehicle/van, it’d be great if you could help trans­port­ing mar­quees, recy­cling etc to the places they need to go. Cheers!

More info about the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing
EF! is about direct action to halt the destruc­tion of the Earth. It’s about doing it your­self rather than rely­ing on lead­ers, gov­ern­ments or indus­try.
Direct action is at the heart of it, whether you’re stand­ing in front of a bull­doz­er, shut­ting down an open-cast mine or rip­ping up a field of GM crops.
We’re a loose net­work of peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns com­ing togeth­er for eco­log­i­cal direct action.
Join us for 5 days of work­shops, net­work­ing and plan­ning actions, run with­out lead­ers by every­one who comes along. The gath­er­ing is also a prac­ti­cal exam­ple of low-impact eco-liv­ing and non-hier­ar­chi­cal organ­is­ing.

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk, sum­mer­gath­er­ing _ AT _ earthfirst.org.uk

Shell to Sea Pirates begin Week of Action against Shell’s Solitaire

August 17 2008
Today at noon a flotil­la of sea kayaks reclaimed Glen­gad beach, Pol­lath­omas, Co Mayo; the land­fall site for Shell’s off­shore pipeline.

Shell flotilla, MayoAugust 17 2008
Today at noon a flotil­la of sea kayaks reclaimed Glen­gad beach, Pol­lath­omas, Co Mayo; the land­fall site for Shell’s off­shore pipeline.

Mem­bers of the ‘Great Rebel Raft Regat­ta’ recent­ly deployed at the E.ON coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent, Eng­land, have made their way from Cli­mate Camp UK to Erris, in order to assist Shell to Sea cam­paign­ers in their oppo­si­tion to this pipeline con­struc­tion at Glen­gad.

The first wave of the Rebel Regat­ta arrived today fol­low­ing Marine & Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion Notices which announced the arrival of the world’s largest pipe-lay­ing ves­sel, the Soli­taire, in Broad­haven Bay, any time from today onwards.

Cap­tain Ahab of the Rebel Crew states, “It’s unac­cept­able what Shell are being allowed to get away with here in Mayo. We intend to plun­der Shell’s com­pound at Glen­gad and board the Soli­taire when she arrives in the bay. We take no pris­on­ers. It’s the gang-plank for these boys. This envi­ron­ment needs pro­tec­tion from these maraud­ers of Shell’s.”

Today’s action marks the start of a Shell to Sea Week of Action tar­get­ing the Soli­taire. Actions will take place all this week until the ship is forced, like in 2005, to ‘go out the same way she came in’.

Shell moved quick­ly onto the pub­lic beach, a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion, just a few short weeks ago with dig­gers, fences, secu­ri­ty per­son­nel and Gar­daí. Local res­i­dents were forcibly removed from the area and arrest­ed for their oppo­si­tion to this work. Giv­en that no approval or per­mis­sion exists for Shell’s new­ly pro­posed onshore pipeline route, which is cur­rent­ly under con­sid­er­a­tion by An Bord Pleanala, it beg­gars belief that the ‘author­i­ties’ allow this pre­ma­ture pipeline con­struc­tion work to go ahead at Glen­gad at this time. A per­fect exam­ple of ‘project split­ting’, sanc­tioned and encour­aged by gov­ern­ment and State author­i­ties.

Shell to Sea intends to ensure that no pipeline con­struc­tion takes place on or off­shore at Glen­gad. Had the Soli­taire arrived today as planned, we were ready for her. And we are ready for her when­ev­er she decides to come, tomor­row, the next day or any day. We under­stand that weath­er has delayed the Soli­taire but Shell are con­fi­dent that she will arrive by mid­week at the lat­est.

In the mean­time there are some unre­solved issues at the Shell Com­pound and ‘Secu­ri­ty Zone’ on the beach which we intend to resolve in the mean­time. In oth­er words, there is plen­ty for peo­ple to be doing here when they come.

Peo­ple are already trav­el­ling to Erris to sup­port this Week of Action against Shell. All are wel­come at the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty House, to vis­it and to stay, and to join us in our plans ensure that no raw gas ever flows to Bel­lan­aboy. Today was just the start. Let’s con­tin­ue to organ­ise togeth­er through­out the week and always.

Get your ass­es to Erris … and remem­ber … we are nev­er as strong as when we come togeth­er in the fight, on the streets, in the fields, on the beach or on the high seas!

http://www.shelltosea.com

Rath Lugh update, Ireland

August 14th 2008

Rath Lugh bannerRath Lugh tree-sitAugust 14th 2008
Pro­tec­tors were stag­ing a Tree Protest near the Col­lier­stown site high­light­ing the fact that rough­ly 62 bod­ies were removed from their sacred bur­ial grounds to make way for the con­struc­tion of the M3 Motor­way. Col­lier­stown grave­yard dates from pre­his­toric times with buri­als con­tin­u­ing into the ear­ly medieval era.

The Tree Protest was giv­en huge sup­port from pass­ing motorists. Locals also joined in com­ing out of their homes to give encour­age­ment and there were plen­ty of vol­un­teers to take stints to main­tain a pres­ence.

Maine EF! Says No More Games; Bold Protest Urges LURC to Reject Massive Plum Creek Development

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednes­day, August 13 NOON
Land Use Reg­u­la­to­ry Com­mis­sion (LURC) 18 Elkins Lane — Har­low Build­ing 22 State
House Sta­tion Augus­ta, Maine 04333–0022

For More Infor­ma­tion Con­tact: Logan Perkins — 207–615-5158

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednes­day, August 13 NOON
Land Use Reg­u­la­to­ry Com­mis­sion (LURC) 18 Elkins Lane — Har­low Build­ing 22 State
House Sta­tion Augus­ta, Maine 04333–0022

For More Infor­ma­tion Con­tact: Logan Perkins — 207–615-5158

In a bold stunt today, a dozen peo­ple affil­i­at­ed with Maine Earth First!, protest­ed at the LURC office in Augus­ta. One woman sus­pend­ed her­self 35 feet in the air from a giant tri­pod made of wood­en poles, while oth­ers hula-hooped on the ground below her. Under the ban­ner “LURC: Do the right thing! No Devel­op­ment! Plum Creek can’t buy ME” the con­cerned cit­i­zens gath­ered to make it clear that the only respon­si­ble deci­sion is for LURC to reject Plum Creek’s entire plan. Maine Earth First! is an all-vol­un­teer group of Maine cit­i­zens work­ing toward the pro­tec­tion of all remain­ing wild places in Maine as sources of bio­di­ver­si­ty, cli­mate sta­bil­i­ty and cul­tur­al her­itage.

“The pub­lic has spo­ken and clear­ly told LURC to reject this destruc­tive pro­pos­al.” said Meg Gilmartin from the top of the tri­pod. “The future of Maine is in their hands and they will be held respon­si­ble for the deci­sions they make for gen­er­a­tions to come. Today’s protest should put LURC on notice that their com­plic­i­ty in the destruc­tion of the largest unde­vel­oped area east of the Mis­sis­sip­pi will not be tol­er­at­ed.”

Plum Creek’s Con­cept Plan pro­pos­es to rezone 20,000 acres, an area rough­ly the size of Port­land, for devel­op­ment as part of its Moose­head Lake Con­cept Plan. The plan includes 90,000 acres of con­ser­va­tion ease­ments to sat­is­fy the Land Use Reg­u­la­to­ry Commission’s (LURC) require­ment for a con­ser­va­tion bal­ance. An addi­tion­al 266,000 acres worth ofde­vel­op­ment rights on Plum Creek land will be sold to The Nature Con­ser­van­cy and The Appalachi­an Moun­tain Club for $35 mil­lion. This con­ser­va­tion is being hailed by many as an unprece­dent­ed oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­tect a large tract of land in North­ern Maine, how­ev­er, the con­ser­va­tion ease­ments only pre­vent fur­ther devel­op­ment. They do not pre­vent grav­el min­ing, spread­ing of sewage sludge, com­mer­cial water extrac­tion, socalled”sustainable forestry,” or oth­er extrac­tive activ­i­ties.

The debate around Plum Creek’s plan has focused in recent months on the future of Lily Bay, slat­ed for a large resort devel­op­ment in the pro­pos­al. The Nat­ur­al Resources Coun­cil of Maine and oth­er large envi­ron­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions have focused their oppo­si­tion to the plan pri­mar­i­ly on pro­tect­ing the pris­tine land around Lily Bay. Even these lim­it­ed efforts have not been suc­cess­ful despite huge pub­lic oppo­si­tion to the devel­op­ment in Lily Bay. When LURC released its rec­om­men­da­tions in June, down­siz­ing the num­ber of acres slat­ed for devel­op­ment in Lily Bay, but not decreas­ing the total num­ber of res­i­dences, they were flood­ed with pub­lic com­ment urg­ing the Com­mis­sion to recon­sid­er its posi­tion on Lily Bay. The pro­test­ers in front of LURC today, how­ev­er are not­stak­ing their oppo­si­tion on just Lily Bay. “We feel that the scope of the debate has been nar­rowed to soon by those who would bar­gain away the North Woods. LURC has heard ample rea­sons from the peo­ple of this state to reject this plan in its entire­ty. This plan is a bad deal for Main­ers and for the North Woods,” said Jessie Dowl­ing, one of the hula-hoop­ers on the ground below the tri­pod.

“What LURC has before it now, is an appli­ca­tion to extend ram­pant devel­op­ment, habi­tat destruc­tion, cli­mate change and mass extinc­tion into one of the most pris­tine unde­vel­oped areas in the coun­try. The stakes for this type of devel­op­ment are incred­i­bly high. LURC has in its sights a his­toric and incred­i­bly sig­nif­i­cant deci­sion to make, and I hope they do the right thing,” said Dowl­ing.

URGENT CALL OUT: MAYO NEEDS YOU! NOW IS THE TIME

Dur­ing the next 2 weeks, the Soli­taire (the biggest pipe lay­ing ship in the world) is set to begin ille­gal­ly con­struct­ing the off­shore sec­tion of the pipeline. It is believed that the Soli­taire is on a pret­ty tight sched­ule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY dis­rup­tion pro­vides us with a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to delay the project sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

Dur­ing the next 2 weeks, the Soli­taire (the biggest pipe lay­ing ship in the world) is set to begin ille­gal­ly con­struct­ing the off­shore sec­tion of the pipeline. It is believed that the Soli­taire is on a pret­ty tight sched­ule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY dis­rup­tion pro­vides us with a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to delay the project sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

After the suc­cess of Cli­mate Camp, come over to Ire­land and sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty deter­mined to resist Shell…but they need your help!
Although local resis­tance has been ongo­ing, the police and a hired secu­ri­ty force have meant it is incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult. A few weeks ago 13 peo­ple were arrest­ed in Glen­gad (1 man remains in hos­pi­tal). How­ev­er the police are now just escort­ing peo­ple from the site and not arrest­ing peo­ple.

There­fore there is a real need for clever actions to help delay cur­rent con­struc­tion at the land­fall area in Glen­gad and the planned off­shore pipe lay­ing. The local peo­ple are call­ing for your assis­tance at this time.

It is expect­ed that once the off-shore pipe lay­ing is done, there will be anoth­er qui­et peri­od for sev­er­al months before con­struc­tion is due on the onshore sec­tion pos­si­bly next spring or sum­mer, so NOW IS THE TIME TO COME!

If you can­not come over please do what you can from home …organ­ise Ross­port film nights, protest at Shell garages & offices, con­tact the Irish Embassy & media.

Trav­el details on camp web­site www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com
The cheap­est and eas­i­est way to trav­el from Eng­land-Ire­land is to get a coach or train tick­et that includes fer­ry too. www.sailandrail.com — 08705 455 455 www.coachacross.com
Acco­mo­da­tion is avali­able at the camp house
we can win but we need you
e‑mail: rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
Home­page: http://www.shelltosea.com, www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com, www.indymedia.ie/mayo

High tension electrical tower bombed in Chile, claimed by anarchist group

An anar­chist group, in an e‑mail sent to var­i­ous media out­lets, took respon­si­bil­i­ty for a bomb attack on a high ten­sion elec­tri­cal tow­er on the road at Farel­lones, where one of the major ski cen­ters of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Region is locat­ed.

The mes­sage said, “Sab­o­tage the cen­ters of diver­sion of the rich” and “pre­pare a sub­ver­sive Sep­tem­ber”.

An anar­chist group, in an e‑mail sent to var­i­ous media out­lets, took respon­si­bil­i­ty for a bomb attack on a high ten­sion elec­tri­cal tow­er on the road at Farel­lones, where one of the major ski cen­ters of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Region is locat­ed.

The mes­sage said, “Sab­o­tage the cen­ters of diver­sion of the rich” and “pre­pare a sub­ver­sive Sep­tem­ber”.

It also men­tioned John­ny Cariqueo Yañez, a youth who died March 31 from a heart-attack after he was arrest­ed and jailed on the night of the “Day of the Young Com­bat­ant.”

The same anar­chist group claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for the May 18 bomb­ing of the same police sta­tion the youth was jailed at.

The bomb at the elec­tri­cal tow­er caused struc­tur­al dam­age but did­n’t cut off pow­er.

August 11th, 2008
Source: lanacion.cl
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Mien­tras los ricos se divierten gra­cias a tra­ba­jadores explota­dos, una bom­ba en sus cen­tros de diver­sion les recuer­da que la Guer­ra Social esta Declar­a­da

http://www.hommodolars.org/web/spip.php?article610

Kondh Tribes Determined to Fight UK Mining Firm in India

OrissaIndia’s Supreme Court has today dealt a dev­as­tat­ing blow to the Don­gria Kondh tribe by giv­ing British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta per­mis­sion to mine their sacred moun­tain. The tribe say the mine will destroy their way of life for­ev­er. Vedanta’s sub­sidiary Ster­lite plans to mine for baux­ite, the raw mate­r­i­al for alu­mini­um, from Niyam­giri moun­tain in Oris­sa, east­ern India. Vedan­ta is major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based Indi­an bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al. The Don­gria Kondh say the huge open cast mine will destroy a vast swathe of untouched for­est, and will reduce their most sacred site to an indus­tri­al waste­land. Last month, thir­ty Don­gria Kondh men block­ad­ed a road that is being built through their for­est towards the site of the pro­posed mine. The tribe say they will stage mass protests if min­ing goes ahead.

OrissaIndia’s Supreme Court has today dealt a dev­as­tat­ing blow to the Don­gria Kondh tribe by giv­ing British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta per­mis­sion to mine their sacred moun­tain. The tribe say the mine will destroy their way of life for­ev­er. Vedanta’s sub­sidiary Ster­lite plans to mine for baux­ite, the raw mate­r­i­al for alu­mini­um, from Niyam­giri moun­tain in Oris­sa, east­ern India. Vedan­ta is major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based Indi­an bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al. The Don­gria Kondh say the huge open cast mine will destroy a vast swathe of untouched for­est, and will reduce their most sacred site to an indus­tri­al waste­land. Last month, thir­ty Don­gria Kondh men block­ad­ed a road that is being built through their for­est towards the site of the pro­posed mine. The tribe say they will stage mass protests if min­ing goes ahead.

The Don­gria Kondh can­not appeal this deci­sion by the Supreme Court, but they plan to sub­mit anoth­er peti­tion to the Court focus­ing on the ways in which the mine will vio­late their cul­tur­al and reli­gious rights.

Don­gria spokesper­son Jitu Jake­si­ka said, ‘We will become beg­gars if the com­pa­ny destroys our moun­tain and our for­est so that they can make mon­ey. We will give our lives for our moun­tain.’

At this sum­mer’s Earth First! Gath­er­ing Sav­ing Ice­land is organ­is­ing a ses­sion on baux­ite min­ing and heavy indus­try and min­ing in gen­er­al in Oris­sa and around the globe, where there will be the oppor­tu­ni­ty to plan action against Vedan­ta in the UK.

More on devel­op­ments in Oris­sa