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Glob­al

As the Occupations go Global, nine are ongoing in the UK

22nd Octo­ber 2011

 

On 15th Octo­ber 2011 the Occu­py Wall Street protests went glob­al with over 1,000 protests around the plan­et. In the UK a num­ber of towns and cities saw occu­py actions which are ongo­ing.

22nd Octo­ber 2011

 

On 15th Octo­ber 2011 the Occu­py Wall Street protests went glob­al with over 1,000 protests around the plan­et. In the UK a num­ber of towns and cities saw occu­py actions which are ongo­ing.

Birm­ing­ham pro­tes­tors met at Vic­to­ria Square, [ 1 | 2 ] and start­ed their on-going occu­pa­tion. A small protest took place in Sheffield and Cardiff. Sev­er­al thou­sand attend­ed a ral­ly in Lon­don, where despite a show of force by the Met, a Gen­er­al Assem­bly was held and tents pitched in front of St. Paul’s Cathe­dral. In Scot­land, tents were pitched in Glas­gow’s George Square and Edin­burgh’s St. Andrew’s Square. Ongo­ing occu­pa­tions also start­ed in, Nor­wich, Not­ting­ham, New­cas­tle and Bris­tol [ 1 | 2 ]. These occu­pa­tions joined Man­ches­ter which had already been in Occu­pa­tion since Octo­ber 3rd, when a camp was start­ed in Albert Square, which lat­er moved to the Peace Gar­dens after nego­ti­a­tions with the coun­cil and police. Future occu­pa­tions are being dis­cussed in many oth­er places.

Tirúa, Chile: Incendiary attack against tourist resort

Octo­ber 13th, 2011

We, organs of Lafkenche Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Resis­tance of the Arau­co Mal­le­co Coor­di­na­tor, declare before the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al pub­lic opin­ion the fol­low­ing:

Octo­ber 13th, 2011

We, organs of Lafkenche Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Resis­tance of the Arau­co Mal­le­co Coor­di­na­tor, declare before the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al pub­lic opin­ion the fol­low­ing:

Kiñe: On Octo­ber 6th, at dawn, we attacked and destroyed the tourist resort of the busi­ness­man Pedro Durán Faun­dez, hus­band of the gov­er­nor of Arau­co Flor Waisse, locat­ed by the shores of Butako Lake.

Epu: We denounce the polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic engage­ment between busi­ness­men and government’s polit­i­cal oper­a­tives in our Wallma­pu.

Küla: We demand the imme­di­ate release of our Mapuche polit­i­cal pris­on­ers and the imme­di­ate end to nation­al and transna­tion­al cap­i­tal­ist invest­ments in our area (forestry, min­ing, ener­gy, etc.).

We reaf­firm our com­mit­ment to our Mapuche peo­ple, con­sis­tent with the resis­tance to our ene­mies.

We call the com­mu­ni­ties to con­tin­ue recov­er­ing the ter­ri­to­ries and keep on resist­ing.

With our heroes Lef­t­raru, Pelan­taru, Lemún, Catrileo, Col­lío and oth­ers we advance towards Mapuche nation­al lib­er­a­tion.

Organs of Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Resis­tance – Arau­co Mapuche Coor­di­na­tor
ORT-CAM

source

Bolivia suspends road project after indigenous protest

29.9.11

Bolivia’s Pres­i­dent Evo Morales has sus­pend­ed plans to build a major high­way through indige­nous peo­ples’ land in the Ama­zon rain­for­est.

29.9.11

Bolivia’s Pres­i­dent Evo Morales has sus­pend­ed plans to build a major high­way through indige­nous peo­ples’ land in the Ama­zon rain­for­est.

His deci­sion fol­lows a 40-day protest march, which was brought to an abrupt halt on Sun­day, when police used tear gas and trun­cheons to dis­pel 1,000 pro­test­ers.

Morales faced pres­sure from with­in his gov­ern­ment to use less force. His Defense Min­is­ter Cecil­ia Cha­con resigned in protest at plans to inter­vene in the march.

There are also reports the tear­gas caused a baby to die of asphyx­i­a­tion.

Morales said on Mon­day his deci­sion to sus­pend the road was made in the ‘midst of this nation­al debate’ and that he would ‘let the peo­ple decide’.

The pro­posed 300-kilo­me­ter high­way would cut across the heart of the Isi­boro Sécure nation­al park. It is home to Chi­man, Yuru­care and Mox­os Indi­ans.

On Sun­day pro­test­ers were near to com­plet­ing their 500km march from the north­ern town of Trinidad to Bolivia’s cap­i­tal, when police used tear­gas to dis­perse them.

Pri­or to this crack­down, a police block­ade detained indige­nous pro­test­ers for sev­er­al days, alleged­ly to pre­vent clash­es between angry colonists and the marchers.

Brazil­ian com­pa­ny OAS has been con­tract­ed to con­struct the road with fund­ing from the Brazil­ian Devel­op­ment Bank.

new EF! Action Update

In an end of the sum­mer com­pact EF!AU, find news about kick­ing shell in the teeth in Ross­port again and then some more, sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­mu­ni­ty at Dale Farm, and anti-GM resis­tance — Spuds you Don’t Like demo in Eng­land, sab­o­tage in Ger­many, France and Scot­land.

In an end of the sum­mer com­pact EF!AU, find news about kick­ing shell in the teeth in Ross­port again and then some more, sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­mu­ni­ty at Dale Farm, and anti-GM resis­tance — Spuds you Don’t Like demo in Eng­land, sab­o­tage in Ger­many, France and Scot­land.

On top of the usu­al con­tacts and dates, read about sol­i­dar­i­ty with jailed Swiss nan­otech activists, resis­tance against steel plants, mobile phone masts, min­ing and ener­gy projects here & across the world — stay angry and don’t car­ry on as usu­al!

The quar­ter­ly EF!AU, August 2011

Chinese villagers riot over pollution

19 Sep­tem­ber 2011
A solar pan­el fac­to­ry in east­ern Chi­na has been shut down after protests by local res­i­dents over pol­lu­tion fears.

Some 500 vil­lagers staged a three-day protest fol­low­ing the death of large num­bers of fish in a local riv­er.

19 Sep­tem­ber 2011
A solar pan­el fac­to­ry in east­ern Chi­na has been shut down after protests by local res­i­dents over pol­lu­tion fears.

Some 500 vil­lagers staged a three-day protest fol­low­ing the death of large num­bers of fish in a local riv­er.

Some demon­stra­tors broke into the plant in Zhe­jiang province, destroy­ing offices and over­turn­ing com­pa­ny cars before being dis­persed by riot police.

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RIOTS have bro­ken out in Chi­na against a fac­to­ry pol­lut­ing local water as resis­tance grows glob­al­ly to the neolib­er­al indus­tri­al night­mare.

Reports Chi­na For­bid­den News: “Vil­lagers in Hain­ing city, Zhe­jiang province in Chi­na have held three days of protest against Jinko Solar Co. dis­charg­ing heavy can­cer-caus­ing pol­lu­tion.

“Vil­lagers and jour­nal­ists were beat­en by com­pa­ny secu­ri­ty. The pro­test­ers beat local offi­cials and over­turned four police cars. The police also fired tear gas.

“Online sources state that over 10 peo­ple are injured or dead.

“A human rights activist said that Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty’ (CCP) sys­tem was caus­ing the strug­gle in peo­ple’s lives.

…

“We feel that it is social­ly respon­si­ble to close the fac­to­ry first and to take cor­rec­tive mea­sures,” com­pa­ny spokesman Thomas Jing told the BBC.

He said there had been acci­den­tal dis­charge into the sur­round­ing area dur­ing a rain­storm at the end of August.

He said chem­i­cals used at the fac­to­ry had been stored in an open area rather than a ware­house, and that the cov­er­ing had been ripped off dur­ing the unex­pect­ed­ly harsh weath­er.

Mr Jing said the firm was inves­ti­gat­ing whether the flu­o­ride was respon­si­ble for the death of the fish. A clean-up was also under way, he said.

…

“The Jinko Solar com­pa­ny is a sub­sidiary of a New York Stock Exchange-list­ed Chi­nese solar com­pa­ny, ful­ly financed by Hong Kong Pak­er Tech­nol­o­gy Co., Ltd.

“They pro­duce solar wafers, cells and oth­er prod­ucts, export­ing to more than twen­ty coun­tries with­in Europe, Asia, and the Unit­ed States.

“The plant is locat­ed in Hain­ing city, Zhe­jiang province and Shangrao city, Jiangxi province.
There are over 10,000 employ­ees and the plant cov­ers more than 165 acres.

“Vil­lagers blame the com­pa­ny for dis­charg­ing pol­lut­ed water and harm­ful gas­es into the envi­ron­ment, caus­ing the mas­sive deaths of fish float­ing in the riv­er.

“Local vil­lagers found that there were over 10 peo­ple who devel­oped can­cer as a result of the pol­lu­tion.”

…

This is the lat­est exam­ple of Chi­nese cit­i­zens being spurred to action over envi­ron­men­tal wor­ries. Last week, Shang­hai halt­ed pro­duc­tion at two fac­to­ries over wor­ries about lead poi­son­ing.

Last month, a chem­i­cal fac­to­ry in the north-east­ern city of Dalian was ordered to move after 12,000 res­i­dents took to the streets over pol­lu­tion fears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14968605
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/09/chinese-villagers-riot-over-pollution.html

Indian fishermen reject nuclear plant

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

In India, IBN reports that 10,000 fish­er­men staged a day-long fast protest­ing against the Koodanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Project (KNPP) being set up in the dis­trict under Indo-Russ­ian col­lab­o­ra­tion.

It says: “Around 10,000 fish­er­men from var­i­ous ham­lets in and around Koodanku­lam joined a core group of more than 100 fel­low fish­er­men of Idinthakarai whose indef­i­nite fast on the issue entered the third day on Mon­day, police said.

“More than 4,000 peo­ple had observed a fast on Sun­day protest­ing against the plant.”

It added in an update: “Express­ing their sol­i­dar­i­ty, hun­dreds of fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari left for Koodanku­lam on Mon­day to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike that is going on for the clo­sure of Kudanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Plant .

“Led by the Kanyaku­mari parish priest Leon Ken­son, fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari, Kovalam, Chin­na Mut­tom and sur­round­ing areas gath­ered in front of Our Lady of Ran­som Church at Kanyaku­mari on Mon­day morn­ing and left for Koodanku­lam in more than 50 vans.

“Ear­li­er, the coun­try boats in Kanyaku­mari and over 300 mech­a­nized boats at Chin­na Mut­tom fish­ing har­bour did not ven­ture into the sea as a form of protest.

“Apart from that, the fishermen’s chil­dren from Kanyaku­mari study­ing at var­i­ous schools and col­leges in the dis­trict did not report to their class­es today (Sep­tem­ber 12) and also accom­pa­nied their par­ents to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike at Koodanku­lam.”

ELF ACTIONS IN RUSSIA APRIL/MAY 2011

received anony­mous­ly:

received anony­mous­ly:

“Dur­ing the night of may 4th we sneaked upon anoth­er tree har­vester and torched it, using the heavy rain as cov­er. 15 min­utes lat­er it explod­ed (we sus­pect fire in hydraulics to be the cause). Police and city offi­cials con­firmed the suc­cess­ful torch­ing and evac of the destroyed vehi­cle (link to the eco-cam­paign site with cita­tions: http://ecmo.ru/news/n‑1778/).

This spring saw works to clearcut a huge Khim­ki for­est con­tin­ue unabat­ed. In spite of numer­ous and mas­sive peo­ple protests, all the legal and lib­er­al stuff (polls, peti­tions, law suits, con­certs, demos, vig­ils, etc.), author­i­ties, law enforce­ment, and their fas­cists and mafia lack­eys (for­ev­er togeth­er in Rus­sia) push for the com­ple­tion of clear-cuts so that they may get on to the actu­al road-build­ing. And in one part of the for­est they’ve already redi­rect­ed a flow of a riv­er (a sin­gle and major body of water and site of sig­nif­i­cant avian pop­u­la­tion in the area) to facil­i­tate con­struc­tion of a road junc­tion link: (in russ­ian, but has pho­tos http://ecmo.ru/news/n‑1772/).

We ask of all whom it may con­cern to con­sid­er actions against Vin­ci, France (the inter­na­tion­al con­sor­tium financ­ing this defor­esta­tion project), as it seems the only viable tar­get out­side Rus­sia. Appre­ci­a­tion for your sol­i­dar­i­ty out there, peo­ple, and our sol­i­dar­i­ty with your local fights of our glob­al resis­tance!

- ELF-Rus­sia, Inter­na­tion­al Net­work of Action and Solidarity/ Infor­mal Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion”

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report­ed by activists in Rus­sia:

“An ELF group claims respon­si­bil­i­ty for torch­ing of a work­ers’ shed (the build­ing was checked to ensure it was unoc­cu­pied pri­or to the attack) at a tree­cut site in south­ern Moscow (Bitcevs­ki for­est) on the night of april the 11th. An 5 litres of gaso­line and incen­di­ary device for time delay were used because of close prox­im­i­ty to guard­house and seri­ous sen­try pres­ence in the region. The for­est has seen numer­ous eco­tage actions (spik­ing, torch­ings of vehi­cles and stor­age sheds, etc), hence intense police atten­tion. No pho­tos or videos were released. The shed and its con­tents explod­ed 5 min­utes lat­er for unknown rea­sons.
— ELF-Rus­sia, Inter­na­tion­al Net­work of Action and Sol­i­dar­i­ty — Infor­mal Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion”

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Bitcevs­ki

“Urban gueril­las” in Moscow have claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for the torch­ing of a large exca­va­tor at a con­do­mini­um con­struc­tion site near the Bitcevs­ki for­est on April 9. The con­do­mini­um is being built in part by the Russ­ian Mil­i­tary Intel­li­gence Ser­vice. Mil­i­tary per­son­nel are sup­posed to be sta­tioned in the build­ing. Video from the action and the Russ­ian com­mu­nique avail­able here: http://blackblocg.info/index.php/protestnye-dejstviya/93-gorodskie-partizany-atakovali-tochechnuyu-zastrojku-v-yasenevo

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anony­mous report:
“On the night of april the 5th, 2011, an exca­va­tor was set aflame and explod­ed 10 min­utes lat­er at the high­way con­struc­tion site that cuts through forests of Moscow region.

- ELF-Rus­sia”

VILLAGERS RESIST POWER PLANT, DRILLING VEHICLE BURNED, TURKEY

report­ed by activists in Turkey:

report­ed by activists in Turkey:

“On 5th of Sep­tem­ber, drilling vehi­cles of Anadolu Group (this group is the biggest part­ner of McDon­alds Turkey, Coca Cola Turkey) which tries to build a ther­mic pow­er plant to Gerze-Sinop tried to enter Yayk­il vil­lage. Local peo­ple and eco-activists bar­ri­cad­ed the roads to vil­lage for defend­ing their land, but police and gen­darme attacked peo­ple with tear gas, pep­per spray, water can­nons and batons. Activists answered this attack with stones and slo­gans. Dur­ing the police attack some build­ings, barns, farms and bush­es caught fire; 25 activists and 4 police­men injured.

Because of their resis­tance, drilling vehi­cles left the vil­lage. At night police took 6 activists in cus­tody from their homes.

At night of Sep­tem­ber 6, a drilling vehi­cle which was wait­ing in a gas sta­tion near the vil­lage was burned by unknown peo­ple. The vehi­cle is total­ly destroyed. Gen­darme and local police is still search­ing for the arson­ists in Gerze.

For pic­tures you can check out: http://www.gerzegundem.com/son-dakika/yaykilda-kan-akti-h545.html

For the video of police attack:
http://webtv.sabah.com.tr/webtv/videoizle/gerzede-polisten-cevrecilere-sert-mudahale

Ani­mal and Earth Lib­er­a­tion Sup­port­ers from Turkey”

Genetically Modified Papaya Farm Sabotaged in Hawaii

8.9.11

Accord­ing to Hawaii Coun­ty police, thou­sands of GE papaya trees were sab­o­taged last month, appar­ent­ly by machete on the Big Island.

8.9.11

Accord­ing to Hawaii Coun­ty police, thou­sands of GE papaya trees were sab­o­taged last month, appar­ent­ly by machete on the Big Island.

“It’s hard to imag­ine any­body putting that much effort into doing some­thing like that,” said Delan Per­ry, vice pres­i­dent of the Hawaii Papaya Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press. “It means some­body has to have pas­sion­ate rea­son.”

Red women on green rampage – Women’s wing of CPI(Maoist) tells Giridih to stop felling trees

Forests of Pir­tand in Giridih dis­trict have new best friends in the form of CPI(Maoist) women’s wing, Nari Muk­ti Sangh.

Forests of Pir­tand in Giridih dis­trict have new best friends in the form of CPI(Maoist) women’s wing, Nari Muk­ti Sangh.

Since one week, around 70 women of the rebel out­fit are tak­ing out hour-long road­shows in the after­noon across the block, exhort­ing peo­ple not to cut trees. If they do, they bet­ter pay up a fine of Rs 1,000 or face some unspec­i­fied pun­ish­ment, which is like­ly to involve beat­ings. It is green activism that takes itself seri­ous­ly.

“Jun­gle bachana hi hoga var­na aane wale vinaash ke liye hum khud hi zim­me­war honge (we have to save forests at any cost now, oth­er­wise we will be respon­si­ble for nat­ur­al calami­ties),” thun­dered Neela Devi, one of the lead­ers of the out­fit.

The women, armed with axes, sticks and spades, move from vil­lage to vil­lage with grim deter­mi­na­tion, spread­ing the mes­sage of afforesta­tion.

Not only are they slo­ga­neer­ing, they are also tak­ing out ral­lies and stag­ing nukkad (neigh­bour­hood) meet­ings in dif­fer­ent vil­lages of the Maoist strong­hold.

Sources said unlike their male coun­ter­parts, the women don’t believe in vio­lence. But if any­one felling trees is caught red-hand­ed, he might be roughed up, as the women mem­bers have “threat­ened dire con­se­quences” if peo­ple dam­age the area’s green cov­er.
When the women rebels are not issu­ing threats, they are also inform­ing peo­ple about the impor­tance of trees.

“Forests are our real assets. Please realise their impor­tance and save trees. They absorb poi­so­nous gas­es and are the best friends of man and wildlife,” said Devi at a ral­ly on Mon­day.

Vil­lagers, slight­ly bemused, are how­ev­er turn­ing up in large num­bers to hear the women speak.

“We have had good response. Vil­lagers have promised not to fell trees indis­crim­i­nate­ly. But the Sangh will keep its eyes open,” said Devi.

On Mon­day, the Sangh’s road­show passed through dif­fer­ent vil­lages includ­ing Mas­no­tand, Pand­natand, Chil­ga and Pal­gunj, with around 70-odd women armed with pick­ax­es, spades and bam­boo sticks chant­i­ng pro-green slo­gans and hold­ing impromp­tu meet­ings.

At every spot, tens of vil­lagers lis­tened in pin-drop silence that would have been the envy of any green NGO.

http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/18848/