Category: Global

Spir­it 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”