Category: Global

Glob­al

Camps for Climate Action round the world…

2008 will see camps spring up around the world, inspired by the Camps for Cli­mate Action that have tak­en place in the UK, first near Drax, then Heathrow.

UK: near Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion and pro­posed site for new gen­er­a­tion — Cli­mate Car­a­van to the camp from Heathrow, 26th July-3rd August, Camp for Cli­mate Action 3rd-11th August 2008 — www.climatecamp.org.uk

2008 will see camps spring up around the world, inspired by the Camps for Cli­mate Action that have tak­en place in the UK, first near Drax, then Heathrow.

UK: near Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion and pro­posed site for new gen­er­a­tion — Cli­mate Car­a­van to the camp from Heathrow, 26th July-3rd August, Camp for Cli­mate Action 3rd-11th August 2008 — www.climatecamp.org.uk

Ger­many: Kli­macamp, Ham­burg, near a vari­ety of cli­mate crim­i­nals — 15th-28th August -
www.klimacamp08.net

Aus­tralia: Camp for Cli­mate Action, New­cas­tle coal port, north of Syd­ney — 10th-15th July — www.climatecamp.org.au

USA: West Coast Con­ver­gence for Cli­mate Action, near Eugene, Ore­gon (28th July-4th August); South East Con­ver­gence for Cli­mate Action, Louisa Coun­ty, Vir­ginia (5th-11th August); North­east Cli­mate Con­flu­ence, Epworth (27th July-3rd August) — www.climateconvergence.org

New Zealand: www.climatecamp.org.nz

Forest defender arrested as activists halt work on road to climate chaos in the Styx Valley, Tasmania

2008-05-20

South Styx action2008-05-20
This morn­ing, for­est activists halt­ed work on the con­struc­tion of a new ‘road to cli­mate chaos’ in the Styx Val­ley to high­light com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns with the con­tin­ued destruc­tion of Tasmania’s ancient forests. Activists are halt­ing road­ing oper­a­tions which, if com­plet­ed, will access sig­nif­i­cant tracts of giant euca­lypt for­est in close prox­im­i­ty to the Tas­man­ian Wilder­ness World Her­itage Area bound­ary. A female activist, who had been attached to road­ing machin­ery for over 9 hours was arrest­ed this after­noon. Police arrived at the site, locat­ed near Jubilee Road in the South Styx, around 9am. The activist was cut off the machine at approx­i­mate­ly 2pm and was arrest­ed and charged by local police offi­cers.

“Once again, Forestry Tas­ma­nia is using tax­pay­ers mon­ey to smash new roads through some of our most unique and irre­place­able ecosys­tems. This road to cli­mate chaos in the South Styx will enable wood­chip­ping barons Gunns Ltd. to dev­as­tate some of the island’s most car­bon rich old growth forests” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokesper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“The Rudd Gov­ern­ment must take deci­sive action and put an imme­di­ate stop to these envi­ron­men­tal­ly crim­i­nal acts, rather than stand­ing back and endors­ing the large scale wood­chip­ping and torch­ing of some of our most pre­cious nat­ur­al her­itage. In this era of increas­ing­ly dan­ger­ous cli­mate change, the destruc­tion of Tasmania’s ancient forests is a glob­al issue” said Miss Majew­s­ki.

For­est defend­ers will con­tin­ue to take peace­ful action against the con­tin­ued dec­i­ma­tion of Tasmania’s glob­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant old growth forests.

http://www.myspace.com/stillwildstillthreatened
http://campflorentine@gmail.com

Collection of Latest Radical Newsletters & Magazines available to download

All of the fol­low­ing are avail­able from here:

http://www.natterjackpress.co.uk/menu/downloads.php

All of the fol­low­ing are avail­able from here:

http://www.natterjackpress.co.uk/menu/downloads.php

Get down to your local rad­i­cal social cen­tre or book­shop for these newslet­ters — if they aren’t there then print them out / pho­to­copy and take down there. If your near­est social cen­tre isn’t that local, then you now know where you can get all the lat­est pub­li­ca­tions with­out hav­ing to trawl the net for them.

We are always look­ing for newsletters/ zines/ pamphlets/ magazines/ arti­cles to host on our down­load page (prefer­ably as ‘imposed’ ready to be print­ed PDF) email us if you are involved in a pub­li­ca­tion.

* SchNews Week­ly — from their web site

* Rough Music — Issue 18 — May/June 2008 — Local Brighton ‘trou­ble mak­ing, dirt dig­ging’ newslet­ter

* Work­ers Sol­i­dar­i­ty — Issue 103 — May/June 2008 — Irish Anar­chist News

* No Pasaran — Issue 1 — May 2008 — New Antifa UK Anti Fas­cist newslet­ter

* Infos­hop News — Issue 1 — May 2008 — New 40 page roundup of news from the Infos­hop anar­chist news site

* Earth First! Action Update — May 2008 — anoth­er great new issue — a quar­ter­ly roundup of eco­log­i­cal and oth­er direct action from Britain and beyond

* Mesho — April 2008 — spoof news­pa­per made for the inter­na­tion­al days of action for squats and autonomous spaces

* Cor­po­rate Watch — Issue 40 — April/May 2008 — Iraq Inc., Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank, Arab-British cham­ber of Com­merce, West Papua, Review of Klein’s ‘Shock Doc­trine’, Diary + More

* Gagged — Issue 23 — April/May 2008 — South Wales Anar­chist Newslet­ter

* Resis­tance — Issue 102 — April/May 2008 — month­ly newslet­ter of the Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion UK

* No Bor­ders — Issue 3 — Feb­ru­ary / March 2008 — No Bor­ders UK net­work newslet­ter

* Rup­ture — Feb­ru­ary 2008 — a great zine for and about free par­ties, squats and social cen­tres

* 325 — Issue 5 — Feb­ru­ary 2008 — an insur­gent mag­a­zine of social war and anar­chy

* Class War — Issue 93 — Win­ter 2007 — “Save the Plan­et — Get Rid of the Rich” get­ting straight to the point as always

* Organ­ise! — Issue 69 — Wnter 2007 — mag­a­zine of the Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion

* Fire to the Pris­ons — Issue 2 — Decem­ber 2007 — Excel­lent new newsletter/magazine 30 pages of insur­rec­tionary anti-pris­on/­dom­i­na­tion news and analy­sis and pris­on­er sup­port infor­ma­tion

* Cross­ing Bor­ders — Issue 4 — Novem­ber 2007 — a newslet­ter on move­ments and strug­gles of migra­tion (this issue focus­ing on the No Bor­ders camp in the Ukraine)

* Front­line — Issue 6 — June/August 2007 — Colom­bia Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign quar­ter­ly mag­a­zine

* Direct Action — Issue 39 — Sum­mer 2007 — mag of UK anar­cho-syn­da­cal­ist Sol­i­dar­i­ty Fed­er­a­tion

* War­rior Wind — Issue 3 — May 2007 — a newslet­ter in sup­port of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers

* Incen­dio — Issue 1 — Spring 2006 — a bilin­gual (english/spanish) mag­a­zine on Latin Amer­i­can strug­gles and sol­i­dar­i­ty

* Rolling Thun­der — Issue 1 — Sum­mer 2005 — ‘an anar­chist jour­nal of dan­ger­ous liv­ing’

mail@natterjackpress.co.uk
http://www.natterjackpress.co.uk

Spirit of Freedom (May 2008)

Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Prisoner Solidarity 11Pro­duced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

“The whole expe­ri­ence has been tough, but all the kind and strength­en­ing words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much eas­i­er!” (For­mer Swedish Ani­mal Rights Pris­on­er)

Wel­come to the May 2008 edi­tion of Spir­it of Free­dom. As we go to print we await the sen­tenc­ing of Amer­i­can veg­an eco-activist, Eric McDavid, who has been con­vict­ed of thought crimes (he has been con­vict­ed of con­spir­ing to car­ry out ELF actions, although at the time of his arrest no crimes had actu­al­ly been com­mit­ted). Eric’s sen­tenc­ing has been put back on numer­ous occa­sions, so we would­n’t like to say when the sen­tenc­ing might actu­al­ly take place. But as soon as Eric has been sen­tenced we will be cir­cu­lat­ing his details and encour­ag­ing every­one to sup­port him. [for update on his sen­tence, see very bot­tom of post]

ELP is also watch­ing, with con­cern, the devel­op­ments in the case of Amer­i­can veg­an eco-activist Marie Mason. Her co-defen­dant, Frank Ambrose, is a police infor­mant and it is believed that Ambrose has giv­en the FBI the names of fif­teen oth­er peo­ple who Ambrose claims have been involved with both ALF and ELF activ­i­ty over a num­ber of years. ELP will of course bring you all the news as we receive it. In the mean time we ask that every­one sup­port Marie and the oth­er tar­gets to Ambrose’s lies.

But as well as these high pro­file activists, we ask you not to for­get all the oth­er pris­on­ers, some of whom are less well known. Regard­less of how long a pris­on­er serves, or how well known they are, its impor­tant we sup­port all the eco-pris­on­ers equal­ly. So please, no mat­ter where you are in the world, sup­port the eco-pris­on­ers and no com­pro­mise in defence of Moth­er Earth!

ECO-DEFENCE PRISONERS

Tre Arrow, SWIS #640393, Mult­nom­ah Coun­ty Deten­tion Cen­ter, 1120 S.W. 3rd Avenue, Port­land, Ore­gon 97206, USA. On remand accused of involve­ment with an arson on log­ging trucks and an arson on vehi­cles owned by a sand & grav­el com­pa­ny. (Tre is a raw ener­gy veg­an — He has asked that his let­ters of sup­port are writ­ten on scrap paper or tree-free paper).

Grant Barnes #137563, San Car­los Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002, USA. Serv­ing 12 years for set­ting fire to a num­ber of SUV vehi­cles. The let­ters ELF were spray paint­ed onto all of the vehi­cles. (Grant is a veg­an).

Nathan Block, #36359–086, FCI Lom­poc, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 3600 Guard Road, Lom­poc, CA 93436, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

Mar­co Camenisch, Post­fach 3143, CH-8105 Regens­dorf, Switzer­land. Serv­ing 18 years. 1) Ten years for using explo­sives to destroy elec­tric­i­ty pylons lead­ing from nuclear pow­er sta­tions. 2) Eight 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. (Mar­co is a meat eater who encour­ages organ­ic liv­ing).

Daniele Casali­ni, Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale, Via Burla 59, 43100 Par­ma, Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Daniele is a veg­an).

Rod Coro­n­a­do — See details in Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers List.

Francesco Gioia, C.C. Sol­lic­ciano, Via Giro­lamo Min­ervi­ni 2/R, 50142 Firen­ze Sol­lic­ciano (FI), Italy. Il Sil­vestre activist await­ing tri­al accused of using explo­sives to dam­age an elec­tric­i­ty pylon in protest at nuclear ener­gy. (Francesco is a veg­e­tar­i­an and Straight Edge).

Jef­frey Luers, # 13797671, CRCI, 9111 NE Sun­der­land Ave, Port­land, OR 97211–1708, USA. Serv­ing 10 years for arson on a SUV deal­er­ship & the attempt­ed arson of an oil truck. The orig­i­nal sen­tence was 22 years & 8 months, but was reduced on appeal. (Diet unknown).

Eric McDavid X‑2972521 7E128, Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail, 651 “I” Street, Sacra­men­to, CA 95814, USA. Await­ing sen­tenc­ing hav­ing been found guilty of plan­ning to destroy the prop­er­ty of the U.S. Forestry Ser­vice, mobile phone masts and pow­er plants. (Eric is a veg­an).

Daniel McGowan #63794–053, Unit I, FCI Sand­stone, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, PO Box 1000, Sand­stone, MN 55072, USA. Serv­ing 7 years for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an old growth log­ging cor­po­ra­tion. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Daniel is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Jonathan Paul — See details in Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers List.

Bri­ana Waters, 36432–086, FDC — Seat­ac, Fed­er­al Deten­tion Cen­ter, P.O. Box 13900, Seat­tle, WA 98198, USA. Await­ing sen­tenc­ing hav­ing been found guilty of involve­ment in an ELF arson on a Uni­ver­si­ty. (Diet unknown).

Joy­an­na Zach­er, #36360–086, FCI Dublin, 5700 8th St.- Camp Parks- Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568, USA. Serv­ing 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV deal­er­ship. Also admit­ted her role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Diet unknown).

ANIMAL LIBERATION PRISONERS
(All Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Pris­on­ers fol­low a min­i­mum veg­e­tar­i­an diet and most are veg­an).

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. (Jon is a veg­an).

Gregg Avery TA7450, HMP Win­ches­ter, Rom­sey Road, Win­ches­ter, SO22 5DF, Eng­land. On remand accused of con­spir­a­cy to black­mail, in rela­tion to his involve­ment with the SHAC cam­paign. (Gregg is a veg­an).

Natasha Avery NR8987, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. Jailed for breach­ing her parole con­di­tions imposed on her for telling a fox hunt­ing mur­der­ing scum what she thought of them. Also await­ing tri­al accused of con­spir­a­cy to black­mail, in rela­tion to her involve­ment with the SHAC cam­paign. (Nat is a veg­an).

Mel Broughton TN9138, HMP Wood­hill, Tat­ten­hoe Street, Mil­ton Keynes, Bucks MK4 4DA, Eng­land. On remand accused of involve­ment with an arson and black­mail cam­paign against an Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty vivi­sec­tion estab­lish­ment. (Mel is a veg­an).

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. (Jake is a veg­an).

Rod Coro­n­a­do, Voice of the Earth, PO Box 732, Tuc­son, AZ 85702, USA. Due to be sen­tenced to one-year impris­on­ment after Rod informed peo­ple how to make an incen­di­ary device dur­ing a speech at an ani­mal rights gath­er­ing. (Rod is a veg­e­tar­i­an).

Don­ald Cur­rie A3660AA, HMP Parkhurst, New­port, Isle of Wight, PO30 5NX, Eng­land. Serv­ing an Inde­ter­mi­nate Sen­tence, of not less than six actu­al years, for car­ry­ing out arsons against tar­gets asso­ci­at­ed the vivi­sec­tion indus­try includ­ing HLS. (Don is a veg­an).

Lau­ren Gaz­zo­la #93497–011, FCI Dan­bury, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, Route #37Danbury, CT 06811, USA. Serv­ing 54 months impris­on­ment for help­ing organ­ise the SHAC-USA cam­paign. (Lau­ren is a veg­an).

Sarah Gis­borne, LT5393, HMP Down­view, Sut­ton Lane, Sut­ton, Sur­rey, SM2 5PD, Eng­land. Serv­ing 5½ years for con­spir­a­cy to cause crim­i­nal dam­age fol­low­ing the dam­ag­ing of 8 vehi­cles owned by peo­ple linked to Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ence. (Sarah is a veg­an).

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. (Josh is a veg­an).

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

Daniel McGowan — See details in Eco Defence Pris­on­ers List.

Heather Nichol­son VM4859, HMP Bronze­field, Woodthor­pe Road, Ash­ford, Mid­dx. TW15 3JZ, Eng­land. On remand accused of con­spir­a­cy to black­mail, in rela­tion to her involve­ment with the SHAC cam­paign. (Heather is a veg­an).

Jonathan Paul, #07167–085, FCI Phoenix, Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA. Sen­tenced to 51 months for an ALF arson on a horse meat plant. Also admit­ted his role in an ELF/ALF con­spir­a­cy. (Jonathan is a veg­an).

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. (Andrew is a veg­an).

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. (Ker­ry is a veg­an).

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 20½ 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. (Diet unknown).

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 either under house arrest or released on bail.

ANTIFA PRISONERS

Vah­tang Devitlidze, ul. Libbedo­va 42, UO 68/2, otryad 14, briga­da 142, g.
Hagyshen­sk, Krasnodarskiy Kray, 352680 Rus­sia. Serv­ing 2½ years for stab­bing a neo-nazi in the leg whilst defend­ing him­self from attack. (Diet unknown).

Augustin Kraus, Vazeb­ni veznice, PP‑1, Lit­o­merice, 41 201, Czech Repub­lic.
Serv­ing 14 months for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in attacks against local neo-nazis. His charge was “bod­i­ly harm”. He speaks Czech, Slo­vak and Pol­ish. You can also write him short post­cards in Eng­lish. (Diet unknown).

Fabio Milan, C.C. via Pianez­za 300, 10151 Tori­no, Italy. On remand accused of fight­ing with the police after an anti-fas­cist protest. (Diet unknown).

Andrea Neff, Bnr: 746/07/2, Jus­tizvol­lzugsanstalt fur Frauen in Berlin, Arkonas­trasse 56, 13189 Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 14 months for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ty. (Diet unknown).

Chris­t­ian Süm­mer­mann, Bnr: 441/08/5, JVA Plötzensee, Lehrter­str. 61, 10557 Berlin, Ger­many. Serv­ing 40 months for breach­ing the peace whilst serv­ing a
sus­pend­ed sen­tence issued for anti-fas­cist activ­i­ties. (Diet unknown).

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

OTHER PRISONERS

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. (Diet unknown).

Vagge­lis Botzatzis, Komo­ti­ni Juridi­cal Prison (“Dikastikes Fylakes Komo­ti­nis”), T.K. 69100, Greece. On remand accused of set­ting fire to two com­pa­ny cars owned by a energy/power com­pa­ny. It is believed that the per­son or per­sons unknown who car­ried out the arson did so in protest at the destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment and in sup­port of two work­ers who died at the pow­er plant. Vagge­lis is also accused of set­ting fire to a bank and start­ing a fire inside a car yard. (Meat Eater).

Michael W. Sykes, 100 East 2nd St, Mon­roe, Michi­gan 48161, USA. Youth held on remand accused of anti-sprawl arsons, crim­i­nal dam­age, spray-paint­ing an anar­chist sign and burn­ing the Amer­i­can flag. (Diet unknown)

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. (Fran is a veg­an).

MOVE
MOVE is an eco-rev­o­lu­tion­ary group who car­ried out protests in defence of all life. All move pris­on­ers describe them­selves as veg­e­tar­i­ans. 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 Grater­ford, PO Box 244, Grater­ford, PA 19426–0244, USA.

Edward Good­man Africa (AM4974), SCI Mahanoy, 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.

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 month­ly pris­on­er list­ing which is cir­cu­lat­ed by e‑mail.

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

Greek lan­guage ELP Web­site
http://greekelp.blogspot.com

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

Aus­tralian ELP.SN is our Aus­tralian con­tact. For more info 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.

Greek ELP.SN is our Greek con­tact. For more info e‑mail greekelp@yahoo.gr

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

——-

Urgent ELP! Bul­letin (9th of May 2008)

Dear friends

Today the Amer­i­can veg­an eco-defence activist, Eric McDavid, was sen­tenced to an out­ra­geous 19 years and 7 months impris­on­ment hav­ing been found guilty of con­spir­ing to destroy the prop­er­ty of the forestry ser­vice, mobile phone masts and pow­er plants. At the point of his arrest he had­n’t actu­al­ly dam­aged any­thing and was mere­ly, alleged­ly, think­ing about car­ry­ing out these actions.

Sen­tenc­ing a man to just under 20 years impris­on­ment for a thought crime is a total out­rage and we encour­age every­one to sup­port Eric by send­ing him urgent let­ters of sup­port.

McDavid, Eric x‑2972521 7E128
Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail
651 “I” St.
Sacra­men­to, CA 95814
USA

For more infor­ma­tion on Eric check out his web­site http://www.supporteric.org/

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

Stuck for something to do!? Uninspired & lacklustre..? The all new singing dancing EF!AU is here to lift your spirits

As if putting the boot into the genet­ics indus­try, fill­ing emp­ty spaces with joy & cre­ativ­i­ty, and fool­ing the fos­sil-heads was­n’t enough, peo­ple have been busy wash­ing lumps of coal and cov­er­ing them­selves with paint…we kid you not…all in aid of halt­ing the trash­ing of the plan­et!

Par­lia­ments have been climbed, air­port ter­mi­nals flash(mobb)ed, fields & var­i­ous oth­er sites occu­pied, build­ing stormed & block­ad­ed, pipelines block­ad­ed & destroyed…

EF! crossed tools 1As if putting the boot into the genet­ics indus­try, fill­ing emp­ty spaces with joy & cre­ativ­i­ty, and fool­ing the fos­sil-heads was­n’t enough, peo­ple have been busy wash­ing lumps of coal and cov­er­ing them­selves with paint…we kid you not…all in aid of halt­ing the trash­ing of the plan­et!

Par­lia­ments have been climbed, air­port ter­mi­nals flash(mobb)ed, fields & var­i­ous oth­er sites occu­pied, build­ing stormed & block­ad­ed, pipelines block­ad­ed & destroyed…

Throw into the mix ye oldie Reclaim the Streets, the tried and test­ed eeeeevil Mr/Ms Sab­o­tage, the launch of a new cam­paign ‘Leave it in the Ground’, plus a sum­mer-full of dates, new con­tacts list, it’s a won­der we’ve fit­ted in a brand new sexy EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing poster (front & back). Down­load the lat­est EF!AU to share with oth­ers, sub­scribe or check out some past issues. The next issue will come out at the begin­ning of August.

And of course, this year’s EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing (or fol­low the link to the left) is from Wednes­day 27th August to Mon­day 1st Sep­tem­ber 2008, if you want to plot & plan, and laugh & chat with old friends & new.

Phew, what a scorcher!

Forest activists take their protest to the headwaters of the Styx River, Tasmania

2008-05-08

TN47C logging protest (2)TN47C logging protest (1)2008-05-08

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, com­mu­ni­ty activists halt­ed the log­ging of old growth forests near the head­wa­ters of the Styx Riv­er. Ten activists have peace­ful­ly occu­pied coupe TN47C, locat­ed 100 metres from the TWWHA bound­ary near the base of Mount Mueller to high­light the con­tin­ued destruc­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s unique old growth forests.

“Tas­ma­nia is in a state of envi­ron­men­tal emer­gency. Every sin­gle day, our island’s unique old growth forests are felled, bull­dozed and trucked off to the wood­chip­per. Gunns Ltd.‘s stran­gle­hold on the Lennon gov­ern­ment has been high­light­ed again this week and once again it will be our pre­cious car­bon rich forests, the tax­pay­er and the com­mu­ni­ty that will suf­fer as a result of yet anoth­er matey deal between cli­mate crim­i­nals John Gay, Bob Gor­don and Paul Lennon” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokesper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“We are call­ing on the Rudd gov­ern­ment to take seri­ous action on cli­mate change and put a stop to this out­ra­geous sit­u­a­tion by ensur­ing the imme­di­ate pro­tec­tion of ancient forests in the Styx, Weld and Upper Flo­ren­tine val­leys. The con­tin­ued dev­as­ta­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s old growth forests has glob­al ram­i­fi­ca­tions and must be halt­ed imme­di­ate­ly” said Miss Majew­s­ki.

http://www.myspace.com/stillwildstillthreatened
campflorentine@gmail.com

For­est activists will con­tin­ue to take peace­ful action against the con­tin­ued log­ging of Tas­ma­ni­a’s south­ern forests.

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 79, MAY 2008

CONTENTS:

———————————————-
UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-
1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY ‘08
3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER & ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08

CONTENTS:

———————————————-
UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-
1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY ‘08
3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER & ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08
5) CLIMATE CAMP SPEAKERS’ TRAINING — MANCHESTER, 17.5.08
6) MAKE A NOISE! — LONDON, 31.5.08
7) CLIMATE ACTION WITH A BITE! — NATIONAL, 3.6.08

———————————————-
RECENT HAPPENINGS:
———————————————-
1) ‘MAYDAY! MAYDAY! INVASION OF THE CLIMATE SNATCHERS’ — INTERNATIONAL, 1.5.08
2) M1 PUBLIC NUISANCE CASE DISMISSED — SHEFFIELD, 1.5.08
3) BANK OF AMERICA, DIRTY COAL PROTEST – CHARLOTTE (USA), 23.4.08
4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS PIE FRIEDMAN — NEW YORK, 21.4.08
5) ECO-RELATED ARSON IN GREECE — 21.4.08
6) KOORAGANG COMMUNITY WALK-IN — AUSTRALIA, 19.4.08
7) BELGIAN AGRO-GIANT BLOCKADE — 17.4.08
8) TARA UPDATES — IRELAND, APRIL 08
9) BIOFOOLS DAY — NATIONWIDE, 15.4.08
10) PLANE STUPID TAKE TO THE ROOF — EDINBURGH, 14.4.08
11) BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL! — TASMANIA, 14.4.08
12) COLLEGE GROVE UPDATES — AUSTRALIA, APRIL ‘08
13) CHEVRON TOXICO GOLDMAN AWARD — SAN FRANCISCO, 13.4.08
14) SUBVERTISING — NEW GROUP, APRIL ‘08
15) CARBON DETOX — NEW BOOK, APRIL ‘08
16) BRING CLIMATE CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
17) PROTEST WATCH — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
18) AIRPORTWATCH BULLETIN — APRIL ‘08
19) THE BATH BOMB — APRIL ‘08
20) LONDON CRITICAL MASS, 14TH ANNIVERSARY — APRIL 08

———————————————-
UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
———————————————-
1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
Green­peace HQ, Canon­bury Vil­las, Lon­don, N1 2PN. 10am-6pm.
This sum­mer the Camp for Cli­mate Action will pitch its tents out­side Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent for a week of edu­ca­tion, sus­tain­able liv­ing and direct action. Every­one is invit­ed to the camp, which is now part of an inter­na­tion­al move­ment, with eight cli­mate camps on four con­ti­nents planned for this sum­mer. Togeth­er, we will show that the blind pur­suit of eco­nom­ic growth at any cost is sim­ply insane, and is
to blame for the CO2 emis­sions and ecosys­tem destruc­tion that are caus­ing cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change. Come to the gath­er­ing and get involved!
www.climatecamp.org.uk

2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY 08
Alu­mini­um smelt­ing, even when pow­ered by geot­her­mal ener­gy, emits so much green­house gas emis­sions that Ice­land now pro­duces 18 tons of CO2 equiv­a­lent per capi­ta, com­pared to the Euro­pean aver­age of 11. May 7th at 8pm — Sav­ing Ice­land will give a pre­sen­ta­tion of these issues at The Tree­house, Bak­er St. Aberys­t­wyth, and will describe the inter­na­tion­al direct action cam­paign and plans for this sum­mer’s camp in July. (There will be a num­ber of vehi­cles going from the UK to the camp.) Come and see some of the most stun­ning places of beau­ty on earth, and help pro­tect them with direct action!
May 9th — Veg­an ban­quet with live music, bar and raf­fle! The Ban­quet starts at 7pm at Old St Pauls Hall, Edin­burgh. £5 (unwaged / low income) and £7 (waged). All prof­it will go to fund­ing the Scot­tish Sav­ing Ice­land Col­lec­tive.
Email; savingicelandscotland@riseup.net to reserve your tick­ets!
More info; http://www.savingiceland.org.

3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER and ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
Can big busi­ness save the plan­et? A series of inter­ac­tive debates on cli­mate change and cor­po­rate pow­er. Attend the live events or watch online!
Thurs­day 8 May — Can the free mar­ket stop cli­mate change? 7:30–9:30pm at Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al Human Rights Action Cen­tre 17–25 New Inn Yard Lon­don EC2A 3EA.
10.5.08 – ‘Will bio­fu­els help com­bat cli­mate change?’ 2:30–4:30pm Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty, Main Build­ing, Shan­don The­atre, Park Place CF10 3AT.
13.5.08 – ‘Does cli­mate change mean we should restrict avi­a­tion & tourism?’ 7:30–9:30pm, Man­ches­ter Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, Cock­croft The­atre, Sackville Street M1 3BB.
To book your free place and to reg­is­ter to watch online please go to http://www.wdm.org.uk/heat or call 020 7820 4900 for more infor­ma­tion.

4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08
Talamh Life Cen­tre, Near Glas­gow.
BB is a meet­ing place for activists to bring and share ideas, infor­ma­tion and enthu­si­asm and to cre­ate action out of inspi­ra­tion. Every­one is wel­come to par­tic­i­pate and con­tribute — big or small. There will be work­shops on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, includ­ing every­thing from cli­mate change issues, cre­ative cam­paign­ing and tran­si­tion towns to nuclear resis­tance, yoga and wood­land crafts. BB is a non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion and entrance will be by dona­tion. www.bigblether.org.uk

5) CLIMATE CAMP SPEAKERS’ TRAINING — MANCHESTER, 17.5.08
If you would like to talk to peo­ple about the Cli­mate Camp and help inspire hun­dreds of peo­ple to come this year, then this train­ing is for you. The net­work­ing team in con­junc­tion with COIN (http://coinet.org.uk/) and TRAPESE (http://trapese.clearerchannel.org/) have designed a short presentation/ work­shop that any­one can give to groups inter­est­ed in com­ing to the camp.
10:30 till 5:30pm.
Con­tact; speakers@climatecamp.org.uk to book your place.

6) MAKE A NOISE! — LONDON, 31.5.08
An agen­da for colos­sal air­port expan­sion and colos­sal cli­mate change demands a colos­sal response. You’re invit­ed to a car­ni­val on Sat­ur­day 31st May, which will make its way from Hat­ton Cross Tube Sta­tion (Pic­cadil­ly Line, 12pm) to Sip­son, the vil­lage that will be wiped out if Heathrow expan­sion goes ahead. At the end, you’ll have the chance to help form a great big NO! spelt out by human bod­ies. Organ­is­ers hope to set a new world record for the biggest and loud­est NO! in the world.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/make-a-noise-20080408

7) CLIMATE ACTION WITH A BITE! — NATIONAL, 3.6.08
The food we eat con­tributes up to a third of the emis­sions poi­son­ing the plan­et. It’s time for a detox! Cli­mate action starts on your din­ner plate, at the super­mar­ket, on your allot­ment and in your back yard, at the food dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres, down on the farm, in your high street, at the air­port and the lor­ry park. What­ev­er your tastes, there’s some­thing for every­one on this action menu! Local food mar­kets, free food stalls, work­shops and film show­ings, street the­atre, info stalls, protests and direct action, cook­ing demon­stra­tions, allot­ment shows. Get cre­ative and get involved!
This Day of Action on Cli­mate Change has been called by the Net­work for Cli­mate Action in co-oper­a­tion with the Ris­ing Tide Net­work and the Camp for Cli­mate Action. It has been planned to coin­cide with The UN Con­fer­ence on World Food Secu­ri­ty and Cli­mate Change, which runs from 3rd to 5th June.
Please email; foodNO@SPAMdaysofclimateaction.org.uk for fur­ther info.

———————————————-
RECENT HAPPENINGS:
———————————————-
1) ‘MAYDAY! MAYDAY! INVASION OF THE CLIMATE SNATCHERS’ — INTERNATIONAL,
1.5.08
This day of action tar­get­ed false cap­i­tal­ist solu­tions to cli­mate chaos.
There were actions in Europe and Cana­da:
Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide vis­it­ed the E.on head­quar­ters in Coven­try to expose the truth behind its green­wash and show that car­bon cap­ture is a false solu­tion to the prob­lem of cli­mate change. Peo­ple arrived at 8am to hand fliers to the work­ers, while one pro­test­er occu­pied the roof of the build­ing. The day was a great suc­cess with a fes­tive vibe and no arrests. Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide got togeth­er with Earth First for a Crit­i­cal Mass to Sizewell nuclear pow­er sta­tion to high­light that nuclear is not a solu­tion to cli­mate change. In Lon­don, The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny launched their enter­prise with E.on; accord­ing to the chat­ty clean­ers, “There’s no mess too big! We make coal Fos­sil Fuel Fresh!” In York peo­ple from groups across the city and both Uni­ver­si­ties took part in a ban­ner protest out­side Roy­al Bank of Scot­land’s cen­tral branch in the city. Leaflets were hand­ed out sum­maris­ing RBS’s cli­mate crimes. Mean­while, mem­bers of the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front joined forces to car­ry out an action against unnec­es­sary urban devel­op­ment in the south-west. A JCB and oth­er vehi­cles were dam­aged on a road con­struc­tion site.
Green­wash fly­ers were hand­ed out at the Green Liv­ing Show in Toron­to Cana­da, while in Paris “Biofuel=Danger” was chalked on the side of the French Agri­cul­tur­al Research insti­tute.
http://www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk/
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/276

2) M1 PUBLIC NUISANCE CASE DISMISSED — SHEFFIELD, 1.5.08
Sev­en cli­mate camp activists opposed to the widen­ing of the M1 had the case against them dis­missed from Sheffield Crown Court. The Judge resound­ing­ly reject­ed the pros­e­cu­tion’s argu­ment that the hang­ing of ban­ners over the motor­way could con­sti­tute a pub­lic nui­sance.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20611

3) BANK OF AMERICA, DIRTY COAL PROTEST – CHARLOTTE (USA), 23.4.08
Activists with Asheville Ris­ing Tide, Rain­for­est Action Net­work, and Croatan Earth First! hit the streets of Char­lotte to protest at Bank of America’s annu­al share­hold­ers meet­ing. Bank of Amer­i­ca has seen an esca­lat­ing lev­el of protest in the past year for its fund­ing of the coal indus­try.
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/04/23/asheville-rising-tide-confronts-bank-of-america-shareholders/

4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS PIE FRIEDMAN — NEW YORK, 21.4.08
Thomas Fried­man, the author and NY Times colum­nist, was invit­ed to Brown Uni­ver­si­ty to give a keynote speech on Earth Day, before a packed audi­to­ri­um. His talk about how cor­po­rate envi­ron­men­tal­ism can restore Amer­i­ca to its “nat­ur­al place in the glob­al order” was inter­rupt­ed with a sur­prise vis­it from the Green­wash Guer­ril­las. After splat­ter­ing him with two green cream pies they threw leaflets to the crowd explain­ing their action.
http://greenwashguerrillas.wordpress.com/
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/04/22/greenwash-guerrillas-pie-thomas-friedman-on-earth-day/

5) ECO-RELATED ARSON IN GREECE — 21.4.08
Eco-relat­ed arson against the min­istry of devel­op­ment offices in Athens was car­ried out in protest against the plans to build new pow­er plants using coal. “When cap­i­tal­ism is self-declared envi­ron­ment friend­ly, it is only to mea­sure and man­age the symp­toms of the cri­sis it pro­duced itself.”
http://directactiongr.blogspot.com/

6) KOORAGANG COMMUNITY WALK-IN — AUSTRALIA, 19.4.08
A crowd of around 50 pro­test­ers walked onto the con­struc­tion site for a new coal ter­mi­nal on Koor­a­gang Island in New­cas­tle. They stopped work at the site in protest against the expan­sion of the coal indus­try and its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate change. Georgina Woods, spokesper­son for Ris­ing Tide New­cas­tle said, “His­tor­i­cal­ly, ordi­nary peo­ple have achieved extra­or­di­nary things by tak­ing direct action to pre­vent immoral or
unsup­port­able actions…Many of us here today have nev­er done any­thing like this before, but we are doing it now, because we may not get anoth­er chance.” 16 of the pro­test­ers were arrest­ed and charged with tres­pass. More com­mu­ni­ty direct action against coal exports will take place in July this year.
http://www.risingtide.org.au/communitywalkin

7) BELGIAN AGRO-GIANT BLOCKADE — 17.4.08
In Bel­guim thir­ty activists blocked the gates of the Cargill fac­to­ry in Ghent.
This action was tak­en to high­light the agro-giant’s involve­ment in every­thing from bio­fu­els to soy mono­cul­ture, GMO to pesticides…The action began at around 6h30 in the morn­ing and last­ed until after 5 p.m. Dur­ing all that time, not one truck with soy could enter or leave the firm.
http://www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=552&Itemid=211

8) TARA UPDATES — IRELAND, APRIL 08
On Thurs­day 17th April there was a peace­ful evic­tion of the Rath Lugh Camp. Four Pro­tec­tors who were on site were told by Gar­dai that they had to gath­er up their belong­ings and leave. This was not done in an aggres­sive man­ner and was com­plied with by the Pro­tec­tors.
http://www.tarapixie.net/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20557
Tara trip report — A group from Brighton went over to Ire­land recent­ly to sup­port the Irish pro­test­ers attempts to halt the work on the M3 Motor­way.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20502

9) BIOFOOLS DAY — NATIONWIDE, 15.4.08
From April 15th, all petrol fore­courts will be required by law to sell only fuel which is blend­ed with 2.5% agro­fu­el. Cor­po­ra­tions like Tesco are already jump­ing on the new “green” band­wag­on, speak­ing lit­tle of the greater emis­sions, dis­place­ment, pover­ty and hunger that will be left in its path. The only answer to the ener­gy cri­sis is a big shift in the way in which we live, trav­el and eat.
Nation­wide protest includ­ed; Aberdeen, Bolton, Chel­tenham, Leeds, Man­ches­ter, Not­ting­ham, Nor­wich and hun­dreds out­side Down­ing Street in Lon­don.
Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide and Espa­cio Bris­tol-Colom­bia were joined by oth­ers to inform the pub­lic about this issue at Tesco in East­ville, Bris­tol. A group of bio­fu­el activists made a colour­ful ban­ner and fly­er tour of Brighton city cen­tre and Sus­sex Uni­ver­si­ty. Agro-fuels pro­test­ers dis­abled the fuel pumps of two BP fill­ing sta­tions in Edin­burgh. Also in Scot­land, five mem­bers of the Edin­burgh Clown Army were detained for ques­tion­ing at a peace­ful and enter­tain­ing bio­fu­els protest in Brunts­field, and in Glas­gow a bio­fool ban­ner was hung.
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20546

10) PLANE STUPID TAKES TO THE ROOF — EDINBURGH, 14.4.08
Two envi­ron­men­tal activists from the cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid Scot­land, climbed onto the roof of the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment in Edin­burgh to protest against plans for expan­sion of Scot­tish air­ports. They unfurled a large ban­ner which car­ried a par­o­dy of the Trainspot­ting design, “Choose Life.” The ban­ner read, “Plane Stop­ping: Choose the future. Say no to air­port expan­sion.”
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-scotland-occupy-roof-scottish-parliament

11) BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL! — TASMANIA, 14.4.08
Activists from Still Wild Still Threat­ened have wel­comed a 6 metre tall Peter Gar­rett (MP and singer from Mid­night Oil) to the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley. Activists took the ‘giant Gar­rett’ on a tour of coupe FO42F which is due to be burnt in the imme­di­ate future to high­light their con­cerns about the con­tin­ued log­ging and burn­ing of some of Tasmania’s most car­bon dense forests.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20536

12) COLLEGE GROVE UPDATES — AUSTRALIA, APRIL 08
29 April 2008 — Activists have set up a new camp in the Col­lege Grove for­est area that is due to be destroyed in the next stage of devel­op­ment.
http://www.globalwarmingfg.com/
14 April 2008 — Col­lege Grove pro­test­ers stop machines for the day:
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20535
10 April — Police Vio­lence at treesit action in Col­lege Grove, Bun­bury, Aus­tralia. Two activists were arrest­ed with one tak­en to hos­pi­tal after a force­ful and vio­lent push by WA Police. A spokes for the Com­mu­ni­ty Inde­pen­dent Activists (CIA) group says it was the “most vio­lent dis­play by police in 15 years of for­est activism.”
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20531

13) CHEVRON TOXICO GOLDMAN AWARD — SAN FRANCISCO, 13.4.08
Two cam­paign­ers who have spear­head­ed a land­mark class-action law­suit against Chevron in Ecuador have been award­ed the Gold­man Prize, the world’s most pres­ti­gious envi­ron­men­tal hon­or, for their efforts to make the com­pa­ny clean up what experts believe is the world’s worst oil-relat­ed dis­as­ter. The Gold­man Prize Comes two weeks after these dam­ages were esti­mat­ed at up to $16 Bil­lion. Chevron Tox­i­co is the inter­na­tion­al cam­paign to hold Chevron­Tex­a­co account­able for its tox­ic con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the Ecuado­ri­an Ama­zon.
http://www.amazonwatch.org/

14) SUBVERTISING — NEW GROUP, APRIL ‘08
A new group want to set up a cli­mate-focused nation­al sub­ver­tis­ing net­work where every­one has a role and where peo­ple are well sup­port­ed. If you would like to get involved, see http://www.myspace.com/subvertising

15) CARBON DETOX — NEW BOOK, APRIL ‘08
A new book by George Mar­shall of COIN. Mark Lynas,author of Six Degrees, says:
“Buy this book and thrust it into the hands of some­one who still does­n’t believe in the cli­mate cri­sis. No oth­er book goes fur­ther in address­ing peo­ple’s denial and their resis­tance to change.”
http://www.carbondetox.org/

16) BRING CLIMATE CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
A cam­paign to estab­lish a legal process in the UK and abroad to facil­i­tate the crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion of Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters and key busi­ness lead­ers whose poli­cies and activ­i­ties con­tribute to the mass loss of life which cli­mate change is cer­tain to now cause.
www.climatecriminals.co.uk

17) PROTEST WATCH — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
A new site which aims to become a com­pre­hen­sive resource for any­body inter­est­ed in active­ly protest­ing in the UK.
http://www.protestwatch.org.uk/

18) AIRPORTWATCH BULLETIN — APRIL ‘08
Air­port­Watch updates for April. See;
http://www.aef.org.uk/downloads//AirportWatch_bulletin_April2008.pdf

19) ‘THE BATH BOMB’ — APRIL 08
Anti-copy­right: copy and dis­trib­ute! Issue #9 free/donation. See;
http://www.myspace.com/bathbomb

20) LONDON CRITICAL MASS, 14TH ANNIVERSARY — APRIL ‘08
For ride reports/info. see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20584
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/main.html

———-

Please send any­thing you’d like includ­ed in this news sheet to:
newssheet@risingtide.org.uk

To view pre­vi­ous edi­tions of the Ris­ing Tide News Sheet, vis­it the News Sheet Archive at http://risingtide.org.uk/newssheet

This News Sheet was brought to you by Ris­ing Tide, a grass­roots net­work of groups and indi­vid­u­als com­mit­ted to tak­ing action and build­ing a move­ment against cli­mate change.

For more infor­ma­tion…
email: info@risingtide.org.uk
Phone: +44 (0)845 458 8923 / +44 (0)7708 794665
Address: 62 Fieldgate St, Lon­don, E1 1ES
Web site: http://risingtide.org.uk

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO A FRIEND AND INVITE THEM TO JOIN THE LIST

Com­piled and sent out by Ris­ing Tide UK: info at risingtide.org.uk
To receive this News Sheet month­ly, email news-sub­scribe at risingtide.org.uk
with the sub­ject line ‘sub­scribe’ (with­out the quotes).

To sub­scribe or unsub­scribe vis­it:
http://risingtide.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rt-news

Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the climate snatchers…: day of climate action [updated again; video added]

1.5.2008
Lon­don: at 07.45 this morn­ing E.ON offices on Pall Mall were tar­get­ed by the new upstart Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny as part of a nation­al­ly co-ordi­nat­ed Day of Cli­mate Action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions.

Eon coal cleaning protest1.5.2008
Lon­don: at 07.45 this morn­ing E.ON offices on Pall Mall were tar­get­ed by the new upstart Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny as part of a nation­al­ly co-ordi­nat­ed Day of Cli­mate Action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

FOR ONSITE INTERVIEWS AND UPDATES CONTACT : 07790 430 620

The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny launched their enter­prise with E.ON as their first cus­tomer. Accord­ing to the chat­ty clean­ers, “There’s no mess too big! We make coal Fos­sil Fuel Fresh ™”.

The cli­mate activists tar­get­ed E.ON for their pro­mo­tion of ‘false cap­i­tal­ist solu­tions’ to cli­mate change. E.ON is exploit­ing the idea of a future Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age sys­tem to jus­ti­fy build­ing a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth — where the utopia of low-impact liv­ing // edu­ca­tion // high-impact direct action that is the Cli­mate Camp will spring up this August.

CCS requires up to 40% more coal per unit of elec­tric­i­ty than coal gen­er­a­tion with­out CCS. So more coal needs to be burnt; increas­ing the over­all pol­lu­tion caused. It also neglects to address the wider prob­lems of over con­sump­tion or deal with coal’s oth­er social and envi­ron­men­tal impacts.

The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny can be con­tact­ed on 07790 430 620 for onsite inter­views and updates.

www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk 07880 937511 for nation­al updates

www.climatecamp.org.uk

Video: Coal Clean­ers at E.ON — video/mp4 29M
=========

RBS Ban­ner Protest in York

Peo­ple from groups across the city and both Uni­ver­si­ties took part in a ban­ner protest out­side Roy­al Bank of Scot­land’s cen­tral branch in the city. Leaflets were hand­ed out sumaris­ing RBS’s cli­mate crimes.

If the action was unim­pres­sive in and of itself, then the fact we’ve final­ly bro­ken the iner­tia around actions in York was prob­a­bly a suc­cess in itself. The rain man­aged to hold off (only just) and even the pass­ing cops had noth­ing what­so­ev­er to say on the mat­ter.

The action was held today because, well, its May­day and its the day of action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions, of which invest­ment in new oil is per­haps the dimmest idea of the lot!

=========
Canada greenwash flier
Green Liv­ing show Inspect­ed in Cana­da

Green Liv­ing show inspect­ed and green­wash fly­ers hand­ed out yes­ter­day in Toron­to Cana­da.

For pic­tures of the stalls on dis­play with green­wash stick­ers, vis­it here

=========

Urban devel­op­ment sab­o­taged

The Earth and its inhab­i­tants are being raped of their nat­ur­al resources by the Cor­po­rate-State Com­plex. This is why for the Day of Cli­mate Action we sab­o­taged this smooth oper­a­tion in the ear­ly hours of April XX

Mem­bers of the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front joined forces to car­ry out an action against unnec­es­sary urban devel­op­ment in the south-west. Eco­teurs broke into the con­struc­tion site that is build­ing yet anoth­er bridge for the trans­port of motor­ized vehi­cles. A 4x4 was found, paintstripped, all sides com­plete­ly scarred, tyres dam­aged, whilst a truck and JCB had logos removed and sides stripped. The flawed con­cept of “build­ing our way out of con­ges­tion” will no longer be tol­er­at­ed at the expense of the rivers wildlife and £8 mil­lion of tax pay­ers mon­ey spent on this project.

No Com­pro­mise in Defence of Moth­er Earth.

=========

INRA — French agri­cul­tur­al research — chalked about bio­fu­els

The words AGRO-CARBURANTS = DANGER were chalked on the side of the French Agri­cul­tur­al Research insti­tute, as were var­i­ous cars through­out Paris.

=========

Sizewell May­day Crit­i­cal Mass

In sup­port of the May­day Cli­mate Action Day, some peo­ple from Ris­ing Tide and Earth First got togeth­er this Sat­ur­day for a Crit­i­cal Mass to Sizewell nuclear pow­er sta­tion to high­light that nuclear is not a solu­tion to cli­mate change.

We turned up at the meet­ing point – a train sta­tion in the tiny Suf­folk vil­lage of Sax­mund­ham – to be greet­ed by 15 police offi­cers includ­ing some FIT from Lon­don. As we set out on a love­ly sun­ny ride through the coun­try­side, the extent of the over-the-top police oper­a­tion became clear as we passed sev­er­al unmarked cars full of FIT pho­tog­ra­phers, the entrance to Sizewell guard­ed by anoth­er twen­ty cops, and a fur­ther ten con­gre­gat­ed at our end-point on Sizewell beach. All told we reck­on there were fifty cops on hand to police our fun fam­i­ly day out to Sizewell. It was a great crit­i­cal mass, a good time was had by all, and the local press seemed as bemused as we were by the ridicu­lous­ness of the police oper­a­tion. Won­der if there are any red faces in police intel­li­gence this week­end?

Why Sizewell on May­day week­end?
This demo was part of a nation­al week­end of action against false solu­tions to cli­mate change. As cli­mate change ris­es up the polit­i­cal agen­da, a huge num­ber of tech­no-fix­es are form­ing a new eco­nom­ic sec­tor: from bio­fu­els to nuclear pow­er, car­bon-trad­ing to hydro­gen fuel cells, dump­ing urine in the ocean to car­bon cap­ture and stor­age. Every­where cor­po­ra­tions are seek­ing the elu­sive elixir which allows us to con­tin­ue busi­ness as usu­al. All of these tech­nolo­gies are a dis­trac­tion from the real solu­tions: a mas­sive reduc­tion in our con­sump­tion and the end to eco­nom­ic growth.

Let’s chal­lenge these false solu­tions to cli­mate chaos and show the real solu­tion: far-reach­ing social change.

http://www.networkforclimateaction.org.uk

=========
E-on Coventry protest
On May 1st, Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide vis­it­ed the E.on head­quar­ters at West­wood Busi­ness Park in Coven­try to expose the truth behind E.on’s green­wash and show that car­bon cap­ture is a false solu­tion to the prob­lem of cli­mate change.

E.on are plan­ning to build a £1.5 bn exten­sion to their coal fired plant in Kingsnorth. They jus­ti­fy this on the grounds that it will be ‘car­bon cap­ture ready’ even though the tech­nol­o­gy for car­bon cap­ture has yet to be invent­ed and even when it does exist it will emit more pol­lu­tants try­ing to cap­ture and store the car­bon than if they just left the emis­sions unchecked. To protest against this, Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide arrived at 8am to hand fliers to the work­ers.

Ban­ners were erect­ed read­ing “POLLUTE.ON NO MORE GREEN WASH”. There was jug­gling and a pic­nic out­side the doors of the build­ing as the pro­tes­tors wait­ed for a march of stu­dents from War­wick Uni­ver­si­ty Peo­ple and Plan­et to arrive at 1.30. The marchers came with a repli­ca mod­el of the coal pow­er sta­tion and a game of ‘catch the car­bon’ with bal­loons and nets. The pro­test­ers gath­ered out­side the build­ing and then the sign out­side was paint­ed green to sym­bol­ise the e.ons green­wash and one pro­test­er occu­pied the roof of the build­ing. The day was a great suc­cess with a pos­i­tive, fes­tive vibe and no arrests.

New protest camp for College Grove — Bunbury, Australia

New protest camp for Col­lege Grove — 29 April 2008

New protest camp for College Grove 2New protest camp for College Grove 1New protest camp for Col­lege Grove — 29 April 2008

Activists have set up a new camp in the Col­lege Grove for­est area that is due to be destroyed in the next stage of devel­op­ment.

Whilst the the first protest failed to stop Land­corp from clear­ing the area, activists and the com­mu­ni­ty of Bun­bury in gen­er­al are deter­mined to stop any fur­ther destruc­tion.
SOURCE:
http://www.globalwarmingfg.com/

BACKGROUND:
Police Vio­lence at treesit action in Col­lege Grove, Bun­bury
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20531

Col­lege Grove Tuart action esca­lates in Bun­bury
http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=default&featureview=618

and oth­er posts on this web­site, see under http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/international or
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/wildernessdefence

9 UK Actions: ALF/ARM/Countrside Resistance

ALF Outreach 3ALF Outreach 2ALF Outreach 19 UK Actions: ALF/ARM/Countrside Resistance9 UK Actions: ALF/ARM/Countrside Resistance

19th-29th April »

anony­mous report (pho­to above):

“Spring­time is here, and images of lambs frol­ick­ing in the sun­shine leap to mind. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, for most lambs the real­i­ty is much harsh­er – con­fined to met­al pens, with the slaugh­ter man’s noose per­ma­nent­ly weigh­ing around their necks. Well not if the ALF have any­thing to do with it..

Ten lambs have been lib­er­at­ed from this death sen­tence and giv­en lov­ing new homes. They are now free to live out their nat­ur­al lives away from abuse and repres­sion.

ALF – respect life..”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr29_08.htm

»

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“Dur­ing the night, activists broke into an inten­sive breed­ing unit in Hamp­shire. Inside this win­dow­less prison they found hun­dreds of young birds liv­ing in squalor with no access to fresh air or sun­light.

The hens were des­tined for a life­time of suf­fer­ing in mis­er­able egg farms where they would have been exploit­ed until no longer prof­itable and slaugh­tered. How­ev­er, in just over 2 hours vol­un­teers had loaded 530 of the birds and took them to safe­ty. As the morn­ing light rose, for the first time in their lives they saw day­break, sun­shine and felt the earth beneath their feet.

Ded­i­cat­ed to all those who act­ed to free ani­mals from their cages but end­ed up incar­cer­at­ed them­selves…

A.L.F.”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr28b_08.htm

»

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the World Day demon­stra­tion out­side of Novar­tis’ tor­ture labs the fol­low­ing day, and to remind them that not all activists car­ry plac­ards and bull­horns, two Novar­tis vivi­sec­tors were vis­it­ed at home in Hor­sham on Fri­day night.

Steve Charl­ton of 7 Saint Christo­pher Close had glue put in his front door lock, and ‘Ani­mal Abuser at No. 7’ was paint­ed on a row of garages next to his house. We can’t be sure they were his, but we’ll leave it to him to explain that one to his neigh­bours.

At 5 Rye­croft Dri­ve, Ger­ald Dubois had left a car out under an open win­dow. Hard­ly a deter­rent. Silent as the night that hid us, we stripped the paint, slashed all the tires and left our call­ing card in our own paint.

You nev­er see us, and you can’t stop us.

Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr27_08.htm

»

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Yet anoth­er hunt scum has received the ALF treat­ment in Hum­ber­side,
this time the tar­get was a dark blue Vol­vo estate dis­play­ing one of
those ridicu­lous coun­try­side alliance stick­ers.

The car was a piece of trash before we even got start­ed, miss­ing
lights and the front reg plate, cov­ered in dents etc. It’s a won­der
it’s even safe to dri­ve.

Thought we’d add to the dam­age already incurred by adding a few extra
dents and scratch­es, also let the tires down and super­glued the
valves shut.

Have a nice day, cour­tesy of the ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr26c_08.htm

»

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“To give World Week For Lab ani­mals a good start, the ALF were out spread­ing the good news.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Novar­tis direc­tor Kevin White at 3 Pip­son Close, Yate­ley, Hamp­shire, GU46 6JL for­got to leave us much to work with, so after the stan­dard pack­age — slo­ga­neer­ing of win­dows, doors and walls; glue­ing of locks — we had to impro­vise. For­tu­nate­ly we green-fin­gered types noticed that his daf­fodil bor­der looks a lot nicer when redis­trib­uted around his whole gar­den. We hope Kev likes our flower arrang­ing.

Novar­tis employ­ee Christo­pher Gol­un­s­ki of Carthena Dri­ve, Fleet, Hamp­shire, GU52 7SF was far more sport­ing, dis­play­ing his car under a very handy flood­light. An ‘ALF clas­sic’ was duly admin­is­tered.

Until next time…
ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr24_08.htm

»

received anony­mous­ly:

“There are some that would have domin­ion over England’s pas­ture­land, claim­ing to be its guardian but enslav­ing some ani­mals for food, and hunt­ing oth­ers for leisure. They must be resist­ed!

shoot­ing signs have been ripped from their posts

2 pheas­ant were pens were destroyed :- water hop­pers cut, elec­tric­i­ty lines chopped, fenc­ing torn and poles ripped from the ground and bro­ken, main water sup­ply and tub­ing sab­o­taged, locks glued on entrance gates, feed­ers removed and dis­man­tled

tyres were slashed on a land rover that vis­i­bly dis­played sup­port for the shoot­ing lob­by

Don’t let these scum get away with mur­der in the name of coun­try­side ‘con­ser­va­tion’.

The Coun­try­side Resis­tance”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr24b_08.htm

»

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“That dis­gust­ing piece of scum Tris­t­ian Roberts might get a lit­tle
sur­prise when he opens his post, paint and bricks through the win­dows
are going to be the least of his wor­ries.

He seems to think that it’s ok to tor­ture and kill inno­cent ani­mals,
and that muti­lat­ing a preg­nant sheep with pitch­forks and fence posts
before dump­ing the body in a wheel­ie bin is just a bit of Sat­ur­day
night fun. You may get off light­ly in the courts because of your age,
but we’ll make sure jus­tice is done.

We don’t just tar­get vivi­sec­tion all forms of ani­mal abuse are
equal­ly wrong.

Ani­mal Rights Mili­tia”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr23_08.htm

»

anony­mous report:

“Oops we acci­den­tal­ly squirt­ed super glue into the locks at a butch­ers
store in Hull, how clum­sy of us.

Have fun open­ing the locks on your shut­ters, might need a drill
rather than a key though.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the actions against butch­ers at Nor­wich mar­ket
ear­li­er in the month.

York­shire ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr23b_08.htm

»

report­ed by activists in the UK (see pho­tos in link below):

“So we recog­nised a lit­tle prob­lem (if you can real­ly call it that) with­in the ani­mal rights move­ment as activists con­tin­ue to argue and dis­agree over what forms of activism are most or more effec­tive.

This is called the Direct Action vs. Out­reach debate, which is known through­out the broad­er rev­o­lu­tion by com­pas­sion­ate indi­vid­u­als look­ing for real change. A solu­tion to this is ALF Out­reach, tak­ing direct action pri­mar­i­ly to edu­cate oth­ers about the atroc­i­ties and crimes towards the non-human ani­mals on this earth.

Since under­stand­ing that an unde­clared war against inno­cent indi­vid­u­als is cur­rent­ly tak­ing place, we knew we had to take action. Our cell demon­strat­ed our com­mit­ment in the last few months by sten­cil­ing ‘ani­mal lib­er­a­tion’ over 40 times on walls, bol­lards, pil­lars, elec­tric­i­ty pylons, water meters & carparks. Iden­ti­cal tag­ging years ago inspired our activ­i­ty.

This is ded­i­cat­ed to 90% of the pub­lic who con­tin­ue to con­sume grave­yard food and to the bad­ger who caught us off guard recent­ly, the only indi­vid­ual who has.

Here is a tip for those who have spent a lot of effort to remove our work. It takes far less time for us to tag than it does for you to clean up after us. The bot­tom line is we will be back to replace our work time and time again and that this is a much larg­er bat­tle that you are not pre­pared for. Just remem­ber that you own the paths and streets just as much as we do, we claim the right to dec­o­rate because nobody else has. Whether its ani­mals in bat­tery farms or those starv­ing in pover­ty, veg­an­ism is the solu­tion for the forth­com­ing rev­o­lu­tion. Until all are free!

Want to join in? Get your sten­cils from http://www.animalrightsmerchandise.com, they are only £1.50 and can be shipped world­wide. A mes­sage for the police: you can raid their offices, but we’ll just dou­ble our actions to sup­port them.

Tag­ging the state and reclaim­ing the streets,
ALF Out­reach-South West”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr19_08.htm