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UPDATE: Full Invasion Force Arrives at Mi’kmaq Blockade

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Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 12.44.31 PM17th Octo­ber  700 RCMP are cur­rent­ly report­ed at the scene of the Mi’kmaq block­ade with an armored per­son­nel car­ri­er. Talks have failed. Snipers with the RCMP have been seen point­ing their scopes at groups of young sup­port­ers, draw­ing intense crit­i­cism from observers. In a state­ment, one RCMP offi­cer declared, “the Crown land belongs to the gov­ern­ment, not fuck­ing Natives,” reveal­ing the sys­temic con­tempt for treaty rights with First Nations and inter­na­tion­al agree­ments. RCMP are now lined up with riot shields, as the stand­off con­tin­ues to main­tain the block­ade that is cur­rent­ly keep­ing “thumper trucks” from destroy­ing the land in Mik’maq ter­ri­to­ry. Chief Aaron Sock of the Elsli­pog­tog has been released by the RCMP after being arrest­ed while blockad­ing the com­pound of Texas-based SWN Resources. How­ev­er, over 40 Mi’kmaq war­riors remain in cus­tody, as the RCMP con­tin­ue to use pep­per spray, tear gas, and rub­ber bul­lets in attempts to break up the block­ade. 1379310_242702739212593_1480884763_n Cana­da is clear­ly in vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al treaties with this war-like act against a peace­ful nation engaged in law­ful direct action against the theft and destruc­tion of their land by a multi­na­tion­al ener­gy com­pa­ny. Accord­ing to Sub­me­dia, “Dur­ing my short stay [at the two-week-strong block­ade] I’ve wit­nessed the co-oper­a­tion between natives and set­tlers, a part­ner­ship that has kept this block­ade ful­ly stocked and oper­a­tional. Food, wood, hot cof­fee, tents and oth­er sup­plies keep stream­ing all the while SWN berates the police in the media for not arrest­ing the pro­test­ers.” In retal­i­a­tion against the inva­sion, which comes one day before an inter­na­tion­al day of sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Mi’kmaq Block­ade and two days away from a meet­ing set to con­tin­ue peace talks, unknown per­sons have set six RCMP vehi­cles ablaze, hurled stones at the police line, and con­fis­cat­ed frack­ing equip­ment. In relat­ed news, SWN stock hit a sharp decline today on the New York Stock Exchange. As of this time, the RCMP is not let­ting media in. How­ev­er, rein­force­ments con­tin­ue to swell the num­bers of sup­port­ers at the block­ade. The Mi’kmaq have issued a call for con­tin­ued inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty, and for increased sup­port for the block­ade.

Mi’kmaq Resist! 6 RCMP Cars Torched, Fracking Equipment Confiscated

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Pho­to by Ossie Michel

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Pho­to by Ossie Miche­lin

17th Octo­ber

In retal­i­a­tion against a vio­lent police raid this morn­ing on a peace­ful First Nations block­ade, Mi’kmaq war­riors and sup­port­ers have fought back.

The RCMP appear to have arrest­ed jour­nal­ist Miles Howe, who has been report­ing on the Elsi­pog­tog strug­gle against the ille­gal gas grab on indige­nous lands. More than 200 RCMP are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the raid, includ­ing snipers in fatigues. Ambu­lances have been pre­vent­ed from treat­ing pro­tes­tors wound­ed by pep­per spray, plas­tic bul­lets, and gen­er­al bru­tal­i­ty.

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As of the time of writ­ing this, six RCMP vehi­cles have been torched, and melees of stones have been hurled in response to tear gas, plas­tic bul­lets, and pep­per spray from the RCMP (update: it is being claimed that the fires were start­ed by an agent provo­ca­teur). Mi’kmaq allies have also con­fis­cat­ed frack­ing equip­ment in con­tin­ued efforts to main­tain the block­ade against the gas com­pa­ny.

Block­ades are report­ed­ly spring­ing up else­where through­out Mi’kmaq ter­ri­to­ry, as news has spread of police bru­tal­i­ty and unnec­es­sary use of force against peace­ful pro­tes­tors, includ­ing elders and chil­dren. Idle No More’s twit­ter account has called on all the Sacred Fires of the World, and sol­i­dar­i­ty demos in DC, NYC, Van­cou­ver, BC, and Win­nipeg have already been announced.

The Mi’kmaq Block­ade has cost the gas com­pa­ny an esti­mat­ed $50,000 per day, and has been ongo­ing for two weeks. Today’s crack down is a direct betray­al of a peace process ongo­ing between the Elsi­pog­tog and the New Brunswick pre­mier, and a vio­la­tion of the rights of Indige­nous Peo­ples as accord­ing to the UN. The gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has insti­gat­ed a major diplo­mat­ic inci­dent, and glob­al sol­i­dar­i­ty is com­ing in from coun­tries around the world.

The whole world is watch­ing!

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Tense Standoff at Elsipogtog Blockade, Molotovs Thrown

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Image from Twitter17th Octo­ber from Earth First! Newswire

A tense stand off is ongo­ing between 200 RCMP, Mi’kmaq block­aders, and about 200 sup­port­ers. Accord­ing to the Stim­u­la­tor, the chief and trib­al coun­cil per­son­al­ly block­ad­ed gas com­pa­ny trucks behind bar­ri­cades. Pro­test­ers have hurled rocks and a cor­po­rate news tri­pod at the RCMP. At the moment, RCMP are mak­ing mass arrests, SWN vehi­cles appear to be rolling out of the com­pound, and six RCMP vehi­cles have been set ablaze.

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Molo­tov cock­tails were thrown from the woods ear­li­er this morn­ing in defense of the land and peo­ples. The RCMP, some with long rifles, entered the woods. Shots were fired, and scream­ing was heard. There is an uncon­firmed report that activist Steven Gould has been shot. (UPDATE: We are now receiv­ing reports that less-than-lethal rounds have been fired at sup­port­ers, as well as tear gas. Pep­per spray has been deployed against sup­port­ers attempt­ing to get through police lines. The RCMP is cur­rent­ly unload­ing riot gear.)

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Sup­port­ers broke through police lines to join the Mi’kmaq (video here). The RCMP have erect­ed a bar­ri­er on one side of the block­ade, and appear to have the block­ade sur­round­ed. More peo­ple are com­ing to sup­port with food and water.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty block­ades have sprung up else­where in the Mi’kmaq ter­ri­to­ry. There are sol­i­dar­i­ty actions planned at the Cana­di­an Con­sulate in NYC at 5pm and the Cana­di­an Embassy in DC, as well as Van­cou­ver and Win­nipeg.

As of time of writ­ing, arrests have been made, and there is at least one report of police bru­tal­i­ty against Mi’kmaq war­rior Suzanne Patles, an Ilnu woman and mem­ber of the Mi’kmaq War­rior Soci­ety. (UPDATE: It appears that mass arrests are cur­rent­ly being made.)

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Accord­ing to the New Brunswick, Anglo­phone North School Dis­trict, the RCMP did not noti­fy them of the raid as is legal­ly required. Schools are cur­rent­ly on lock-down.

The Mi’kmaq are blockad­ing High­way 132 near Rex­ton to halt the activ­i­ty on the com­pound belong­ing to a gas com­pa­ny, SWN Resources Cana­da. SWN Resources has been ille­gal­ly try­ing to frack the land of the Elsi­pog­tog for months, and the tribe has been joined by oth­er tribes of the Mi’kmaq and Wabana­ki Con­fed­er­a­cy peo­ples in attempts to take direct action against the gas com­pa­ny.

epsilogtogfirecarAccord­ing to Ellen Gabriel of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, “Forcible removal of Mi’kmaq on their tra­di­tion­al lands, [is] an ille­gal act by Police who should not enforce.”

Last week, a Cana­di­an judge issued an injunc­tion against the block­ade, but the Elsi­pog­tog have sought peace­ful nego­ti­a­tion. Today’s raid must be seen as a pre­emp­tive action to pre­vent the Octo­ber 18 day of action from tak­ing place, which was called by the Mi’kmaq War­riors Soci­ety for phys­i­cal sup­port of the SWN block­ade.

The demands of the War­riors Soci­ety are the fol­low­ing:

  1. Pro­duce all Bills of Sales, Sold, Ced­ed, Grant­ed and Extin­guished Lands for New Brunswick.
  2. Pro­duce doc­u­ments prov­ing Cabot’s Doc­trine of Dis­cov­ery.
  3. Pro­duce the Treaty of Peace and Friend­ship 1686.
  4. Pro­duce Treaty of Fort Howe 1768.
  5. Pro­duce con­sents for Loy­al­ists to land in Nova Scotia/New Brunswick.
  6. Pro­duce records of Town­ships cre­at­ed and con­sents by Chiefs to allow this.
  7. Pro­duce agree­ments or con­sents by all New Brunswick Chiefs who agreed to Con­fer­era­tion of 1867.
  8. Pro­duce evi­dence of con­sents to The Indi­an Act by all Native Tribes.
  9. Pro­duce records of Trust Funds.
  10. Pro­duce agree­ments for 4% of all min­er­al shares of fin­ished prod­ucts in Cana­da, except coal.
  11. Pro­duce all cor­re­spon­dence let­ters per­tain­ing to Num­bered Treaties (Promis­es).
  12. Pro­duce all doc­u­ments cre­at­ing bor­der divi­sions, that divide the Wabana­ki con­fed­er­a­cy.
  13. Pro­duce the Orders from the Lords of Trade to the Gov­er­nor of the Colonies.

Indigenous Pipeline Protesters Harass Oil Tanker

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B.C. First Nation, the Tsleil-Wau­tuth, were joined by envi­ron­men­tal­ists Oct 14, as they crossed Bur­rard Inlet in canoes to protest Kinder Morgan’s pro­posed pipeline expan­sion.

15th Octo­ber The Tsleil-Wau­tuth First Nation and envi­ron­men­tal­ists have crossed Bur­rard Inlet in tra­di­tion­al canoes to protest U.S. oil giant Kinder Morgan’s $5B plans to expand its Trans Moun­tain pipeline.

Pro­test­ers dodged tankers as they sailed close to the Westridge Marine Ter­mi­nal, in a bid to stop Kinder Mor­gan near­ly tripling the capac­i­ty of the pipeline, which car­ries crude oil from the Alber­ta oil­sands to tankers in Van­cou­ver.

When com­plet­ed, the pro­posed expan­sion is expect­ed to increase capac­i­ty in Trans Moun­tain from the exist­ing capac­i­ty of 300,000 bar­rels per day to 850,000 bar­rels per day.

The protest comes as cab­i­net min­is­ters and senior bureau­crats head to British Colum­bia as part of a major gov­ern­ment push to mol­li­fy oppo­nents of build­ing oil pipelines to the West Coast.

The new Harp­er ini­tia­tive fol­lows a report from the prime minister’s spe­cial pipelines rep­re­sen­ta­tive in British Colum­bia, David Eyford, who told Harp­er last month that nego­ti­a­tions with First Nations are a mess.

Sources say Eyford urged the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment take the lead role in deal­ing with Indi­an bands on both the pro­posed expan­sion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Moun­tain pipeline and Enbridge’s North­ern Gate­way project.

The Trans Moun­tain line stretch­es 1,150 kilo­me­tres between Edmon­ton and ter­mi­nals in the Van­cou­ver area and Wash­ing­ton State. It car­ries heavy and light crude oil, as well as refined prod­ucts such as gaso­line and diesel.

It has been involved in sev­er­al recent spills includ­ing more 100,000 litres of light crude oil that was spilled at Kinder Morgan’s Sumas ter­mi­nal in Jan­u­ary.

Mean­while, an Enbridge offi­cial says the com­pa­ny expects a deci­sion from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment on its pro­posed North­ern Gate­way pipeline by mid-2014, mean­ing the pipeline could be mov­ing oil by 2018.

The North­ern Gate­way pipeline pro­posed by Enbridge would deliv­er 525,000 bar­rels of petro­le­um a day to a tanker ter­mi­nal in Kiti­mat, on the north coast of B.C.

 

Two La Parota Resisters Attacked With Machetes

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

UPDATE (10/15/2013): Although the attack hap­pened on Oct 11, the fed­er­al Pub­lic Min­istry (respon­si­ble for inves­ti­gat­ing and pros­e­cut­ing crimes) has yet to vis­it the men in the hos­pi­tal to take any state­ment from them.

Two mem­bers of the Coun­cil of Eji­dos and Com­mu­ni­ties in Oppo­si­tion to La Paro­ta Dam (CECOP) were attacked at their home with machetes on Fri­day, Oct 11, by sup­port­ers of the dam project. Both of the men, Rodri­go León Jac­in­to and Isidro Saligán Guadalupe, are still under med­ical super­vi­sion. Saligán may lose an eye. Both men and all five of their attack­ers (four men and a woman) come from the vil­lage of Hua­mu­chi­tos.

The attack­ers are believed to have fled the area.

Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Across Brazil

Tues­day 1st Octo­ber, Brasil­ia, Brazil – Today hun­dreds of indige­nous peo­ples rep­re­sent­ing Brazil’s native com­mu­ni­ties con­verged on gov­ern­ment build­ings in the nation’s cap­i­tal to decry unprece­dent­ed and growin

Tues­day 1st Octo­ber, Brasil­ia, Brazil – Today hun­dreds of indige­nous peo­ples rep­re­sent­ing Brazil’s native com­mu­ni­ties con­verged on gov­ern­ment build­ings in the nation’s cap­i­tal to decry unprece­dent­ed and grow­ing attacks on their con­sti­tu­tion­al rights and ter­ri­to­ries. The his­toric mobi­liza­tion coin­cides with the 25th anniver­sary of the found­ing of Brazil’s con­sti­tu­tion with its ground­break­ing affir­ma­tion of indige­nous rights and aims to pre­serve these rights in the face of pow­er­ful eco­nom­ic inter­ests behind a spate of pend­ing laws seek­ing access to resources on native ter­ri­to­ries.

Brazil’s Artic­u­la­tion of Indige­nous People’s (APIB) called the mobi­liza­tions – staged simul­ta­ne­ous­ly in var­i­ous cities across the coun­try such as São Paulo, Belém, Rio Bran­co – to protest the attack against ter­ri­to­r­i­al rights of native peo­ples. Ema­nat­ing from the Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment and backed by a pow­er­ful con­gres­sion­al bloc rep­re­sent­ing agribusi­ness known as the ban­ca­da rural­ista as well as large min­ing and ener­gy inter­ests, a series of new pro­posed laws seek to under­mine Arti­cle 231 of the Brazil­ian Con­sti­tu­tion, which assures the indige­nous right to an exclu­sive and per­ma­nent usufruct to resources on their ances­tral ter­ri­to­ries.

“We are here because Con­gress wants to take our rights and extin­guish our peo­ple,” said Chief Raoni Metuk­tire, a leg­endary Kayapó leader from the Ama­zon. “This assem­bly is impor­tant because it aims to unite our peo­ples against this threat.”

 

Hun­dreds of planned laws and con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments tar­get­ing the rights of indige­nous and tra­di­tion­al com­mu­ni­ties are under debate in Brazil’s Con­gress and risk being passed this month before law­mak­ers go into recess, mak­ing this week’s mobi­liza­tions both urgent and time­ly.

Among the pro­posed changes are Pro­posed Com­ple­men­tary Law (PLP) 227 which would mod­i­fy Arti­cle 231, elim­i­nat­ing the indige­nous right to resources in cas­es of “rel­e­vant pub­lic inter­est,” clear­ing the way for indus­tri­al farm­ing, dam-build­ing, min­ing, road build­ing and set­tle­ment con­struc­tion on indige­nous lands. Pro­posed Con­sti­tu­tion­al Amend­ment (PEC) 215 would roll back the demar­ca­tion of new indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries by pass­ing the author­i­ty to demar­cate lands from the Exec­u­tive to a Leg­isla­tive branch that is increas­ing­ly hos­tile to indige­nous rights.

Indigenous protesters gather at the encampment outside the National Congress in Brasilia

Indige­nous pro­test­ers gath­er at the encamp­ment out­side the Nation­al Con­gress in Brasil­ia

“These amend­ments and new laws that the gov­ern­ment wants to pass will destroy indige­nous rights enshrined in the Brazil­ian Con­sti­tu­tion and the inter­na­tion­al treaties of which Brazil is a sig­na­to­ry,” said Maíra Iri­garay Cas­tro of Ama­zon Watch. “If Brazil denies the rights of these tra­di­tion­al pop­u­la­tions they risk extinc­tion, some­thing the world can­not afford. These are the guardians of the rain­forests for the ben­e­fit of all human­i­ty.”

“We’re not going to stand by and watch our ter­ri­to­ries being stolen, our hous­es being invad­ed and our rivers being destroyed,” said Sonia Gua­ja­jara, coor­di­na­tor of APIB. “Rather than call­ing Con­gress the house of the peo­ple it should be called the house of agribusi­ness.”

In addi­tion to pre­sid­ing over this unprece­dent­ed assault on indige­nous rights, the Rouss­eff gov­ern­ment has demon­strat­ed the worst record of indige­nous ter­ri­to­r­i­al demar­ca­tion since the nation’s dic­ta­tor­ship era. Fur­ther under­min­ing the integri­ty of these ter­ri­to­ries, the office of her Attor­ney Gen­er­al pro­pos­es Ordi­nance 303 in order to veto any expan­sion of demar­cat­ed lands while autho­riz­ing the con­struc­tion of roads, ener­gy trans­mis­sion lines, and mil­i­tary instal­la­tions with­in their bor­ders when such projects are deemed rel­e­vant to “nation­al secu­ri­ty.”

These moves coin­cide with increas­ing gov­ern­ment back­ing and finance for projects and indus­tries, exem­pli­fied by Brazil’s dam-build­ing boom in the Ama­zon, that are entire­ly at odds with indige­nous rights.

Chants of ‘No Nukes’ Echo in Streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya and Harajuku Districts

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Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 4.42.55 PMWith an eye to get­ting their mes­sage out to young peo­ple, demon­stra­tors call­ing for a depar­ture from nuclear pow­er on Sept. 29 changed course from their usu­al venue and took to the streets in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya and Hara­juku dis­tricts.

Pro­test­ers shout­ed slo­gans such as “We’ve got enough elec­tric pow­er” and “No nuke reac­tors on earth­quake-prone islands” as they marched past Marui City Shibuya and oth­er fash­ion­able com­mer­cial estab­lish­ments packed with trend-con­scious youths.

The “No Nukes Demo” was the brain­child of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Coali­tion against Nukes, a civ­il advo­ca­cy group that orga­nizes week­ly anti-nuclear protest ral­lies out­side the prime minister’s office on Fri­day evenings in Tokyo’s Nagat­a­cho dis­trict. Orga­niz­ers said they thought that the nation’s youths are not even aware that all 50 exist­ing nuclear pow­er reac­tors in Japan are cur­rent­ly offline, for main­te­nance and safe­ty checks.

The march fol­lowed a ral­ly in Nagat­a­cho on Sept. 27 oppos­ing Tokyo Elec­tric Pow­er Co.’s appli­ca­tion to the Nuclear Reg­u­la­tion Author­i­ty for safe­ty screen­ing of two reac­tors at its Kashi­waza­ki-Kari­wa nuclear plant in Niiga­ta Pre­fec­ture, as a pre­lude to their pos­si­ble restart.

Escalating Anti-Fracking Standoff in New Brunswick

Members of the Mi'gmaw Warriors Society light fires at a road blockade designed to prevent exit of "thumpers" used in pre-fracking seismic testing30th Sep­tem­ber, An ongo­ing stand­off con­tin­ues to esca­late between

Members of the Mi'gmaw Warriors Society light fires at a road blockade designed to prevent exit of "thumpers" used in pre-fracking seismic testing30th Sep­tem­ber, An ongo­ing stand­off con­tin­ues to esca­late between anti-frack­ing activists and police in Kent Coun­ty, New Brunswick, Cana­da.

From Hal­i­fax Media Coop:

CMP have cur­rent­ly closed off auto­mo­bile access to the Irv­ing-owned com­pound that hous­es five of SWN Resource Canada’s seis­mic test­ing trucks, or ‘thumpers’. The police have closed off both north and south exits to high­way 134 off the high­way 11, as well as the 134 itself in both direc­tions. Walk-in access to the com­pound is cur­rent­ly the only way in and out.

Seis­mic test­ing is the pre­cur­sor to hydraulic frac­tur­ing [frack­ing].

Police aggres­sion has already result­ed in friv­o­lous arrests and even injuries to the pro­test­ers who have con­verged on the site. The pro­test­ers have respond­ed by set­ting up their own block­ade:

Mem­bers of the Mi’gmaw War­riors Soci­ety, an inde­pen­dent­ly-run group that self-describe them­selves as a ‘Home­land Secu­ri­ty’ force, have felled sev­er­al pine trees and are in the process of light­ing fires along the high­way. One van and numer­ous pine trees now also block access to the Irv­ing-owned, gat­ed com­pound that cur­rent­ly hous­es five of SWN Resources Canada’s seis­mic test­ing trucks, or ‘thumpers’. The thumpers are per­ceived by the activists to be a key piece of SWN’s equip­ment, with­out which the Texas-based gas giant will be unable to con­tin­ue seis­mic test­ing in New Brunswick.

Read the full articles here:

Break­ing: More Arrests at Ongo­ing New Brunswick Anti-Frack­ing Stand-Off

Cop Block Turns to Road Block

GMO Papaya Trees Cut Down on Big Island

Hawaiian-Papaya29 Sep­tem­ber, About 100 papaya trees were cut down with machetes overnight on Thurs­day in the Big Island’s Puna Dis­trict, accord­ing to the Hawaii Police Depart­ment.

Hawaiian-Papaya29 Sep­tem­ber, About 100 papaya trees were cut down with machetes overnight on Thurs­day in the Big Island’s Puna Dis­trict, accord­ing to the Hawaii Police Depart­ment.

The papaya trees, which were three to four feet tall and val­ued at $3,000, were on the J and L Papaya Farm off of High­way 132, accord­ing to Capt. Samuel Jels­ma.

The inci­dent comes as the Big Island com­mu­ni­ty is con­sid­er­ing the future of biotech on the island. Two bills are cur­rent­ly up for debate by the coun­ty coun­cil that would impose restric­tions on biotech. One bill, intro­duced by Coun­cil­woman Bren­da Ford, would require that the island’s GMO papaya fields be cut down. Farm­ers or landown­ers grow­ing GMO papaya would face jail and fines.

Almost all of the papaya grown on the Big Island is from seeds that were genet­i­cal­ly altered in the 1990s to pro­tect the crop from a dev­as­tat­ing ringspot virus.

Jels­ma has heard the­o­ries that anti-GMO pro­tes­tors cut down the papaya trees, but said he wasn’t going to spec­u­late. “At this point, we have noth­ing to show the motives,” he said.

This isn’t the first time that the Puna district’s lush papaya fields have been attacked with machetes.

In 2011, about 10 acres of trees were cut down on three adjoin­ing papaya farms. The year before, some 8,500 papaya trees were cut down.

Some believed the inci­dents were the work of GMO pro­tes­tors.

The police depart­ment nev­er solved the cas­es, said Jels­ma.

 

Bandung, Indonesia: ELF Torch Police and Military Bulletproof Vest Manufacturing Plant

Screen Shot 2013-09-26 at 11.19.02 PM26th Sep­tem­ber, The police are the ene­my. This is our final state­ment that is not nego­tiable.

Screen Shot 2013-09-26 at 11.19.02 PM26th Sep­tem­ber, The police are the ene­my. This is our final state­ment that is not nego­tiable. Police are not born to be friends, as indi­vid­u­als and as an insti­tu­tion, and can not be exclud­ed from the list of ene­mies that must be addressed by for our attacks. As an insti­tu­tion and as indi­vid­u­als, the police goal is to pro­tect civ­i­liza­tion and the exploita­tion it is doing to the earth.

The objec­tive of the police ‑as well as the oth­er repres­sive instru­ments- is to secure the mon­ey and invest­ment inter­ests for the sake of the anthro­pocen­tric way of life as it is today. The police are not for rep­re­sent­ing our inter­ests. Instead, the police are one of the thou­sands of faces of out­rage alive today. Police must be attacked, as hard as pos­si­ble.

For their loy­al ser­vices as guard dogs for the domes­ti­ca­tion of life, they are equipped with com­bat equip­ment that is used against free will and the aspi­ra­tions of wildlife where the judi­cia­ry and the rule of law are total­ly absent. They are equipped with weapons, armor and bul­let­proof vests. The devices are man­u­fac­tured so that the pigs can act with con­fi­dence in the face of the war that is addressed to their mas­ters.

But they were wrong. The pigs have a total­ly wrong idea if they think that we are not brave enough to send our attack right to their essen­tial sec­tors. As of this moment, when we put two jer­ry cans con­tain­ing 5 liters of petrol and 5 liters of diesel equipped with an auto­mat­ic trig­ger. Trig­gers that we have pre­pared so that we can move away from the scene of the attack and make them not be able to catch any of us. Which is more than enough time for us to let nature pro­tects us by remov­ing all traces of our feets.

We tried a new step to rad­i­cal­ize our attacks and extend the effects of the dam­age from any blows that we direct to the ene­my. Incen­di­ary devices placed at a fac­to­ry dur­ing the ear­ly hours on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 23, locat­ed on Canal Street Suryani, Babakan Vil­lage, Dis­trict Babakan Ciparay, Ban­dung, West Java.

The rea­son? This fac­to­ry man­u­fac­tures bul­let­proof vests for cops and army. This plant is one of the sources for the pro­duc­tion of war equip­ment for these pigs. Bul­let-proof vests to pro­tect police and sol­diers when they open fire on the ene­my, open fire on us and on our broth­ers. That’s why, this place is burn­ing, charred, and this is the pur­pose of this action.

Togeth­er with these actions, we send our respect­ful salute to the com­bat­ants in oth­er parts of the world and oth­er places who with­out hes­i­ta­tion attack as much as pos­si­ble. Salute to the joint actions under­tak­en by CCF Rus­sia and the Russ­ian ELF. Also the relent­less attack from com­bat­ants Ami­go de la Tier­ra – FAI in Argenti­na. Also the mul­ti­ple attacks by the brave ones of CCF and ICR in Project Phoenix.

This action also is our warm greet­ings and hugs to the brave indi­vid­u­als who were abduct­ed by the state but con­tin­ue to wage war whilst their phys­i­cal move­ments are lim­it­ed. To Gabriel Pom­bo da Sil­va, Mar­co Camenisch, Hans Niemey­er, Wal­ter Bond, the com­bat­ants of CCF Impris­oned Mem­bers Cell and the pris­on­ers in Greece, Italy and Chile that we can not men­tion one by one, but they are always in our hearts.

Bring down the civ­i­liza­tion
Wild Life, now!

ELF Indone­sian Frac­tion

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Link of the video of the action from local news:

http://tv.detik.com/readvideo/2013/09/24/182502/130924044/061009681/pabrik-rompi-anti-peluru-terbakar?nd771104fvt