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Earth First! Summer Gathering 2016 dates & location

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing! — 17th-22nd Aug — The address is: The Limes, Mil­ton Rd, Gayton,Northampton NN7 3HE.

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing! — 17th-22nd Aug — The address is: The Limes, Mil­ton Rd, Gayton,Northampton NN7 3HE.

For work­shop pro­gramme and direc­tions etc. see: http://earthfirstgathering.org/

sign up for The Big Burn anti-incineration carnival, near Stroud

THE BIG BURN!

24 hours after sig­nif­i­cant con­struc­tion activ­i­ty begins at Javelin Park we will be con­verg­ing for The Big Burn! Come along and shield Hares­field at a com­mu­ni­ty-led car­ni­val of anti-incin­er­a­tion rev­el­ry. All are warm­ly invit­ed to join Glouces­ter­shire in a show of front-line pro­tec­tion against those that threat­en us and our envi­ron­ment. Sign up here to ensure you receive an invi­ta­tion to this most poignant of par­ties!

All those signed-up will, when the time beck­ons, receive a text mes­sage with a start time. You’ll be want­i­ng to pack a par­ty-bag in advance so you’ll be ready when the time comes. Imag­ine being the only one at the par­ty with­out a cos­tume. Only jok­ing, you won’t be allowed in if you’re not in fan­cy dress. No that’s not true either. This is a com­mu­ni­ty-led event and is open to all. Chil­dren most-def­i­nite­ly includ­ed!

Javelin Park is eas­i­ly acces­si­ble from Stroud and Glouces­ter by car.

There will most like­ly be free trans­port run­ning to the Big Burn. Please con­tact honeybuzzard@riseup.net to request or offer a lift!

Take Note!:

The Big Burn! will be a show of com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tion against the threat of harm to our health and envi­ron­ment posed by the Hares­field Incin­er­a­tor. This indus­try is sup­port­ed by the state and there­fore there will almost cer­tain­ly be a police-pres­ence. Know your rights, read this pam­phlet (opens in new tab) and don’t be intim­i­dat­ed. The Big Burn! will be a inclu­sive, friend­ly space and we won’t be bul­lied.

See you at the par­ty, it’ll be cookin’…!

Direc­tions, more details includ­ing what to bring and not to bring and TO SIGN UP, here

protest against British Columbia Hydro Dawson Creek dam — unconnected person wearing anonymous mask gets shot dead

Sept 23, 2015

Sept 23, 2015

Ter­ry Had­land, a Peace Riv­er farmer, says he should have got the police bul­let that killed a man wear­ing a Guy Fawkes mask out­side a Site C open house this sum­mer.

“He cre­at­ed a diver­sion so I could get away,” Mr. Had­land told The Globe and Mail in an inter­view. “He stepped up and took that shot for me, that’s for sure.”

RCMP were called to the open house in Daw­son Creek on July 16 after get­ting calls about a man caus­ing a dis­tur­bance at the British Colum­bia Hydro pub­lic infor­ma­tion ses­sion.

One day after the hack­er group Anony­mous vowed to “avenge one of our own” fol­low­ing the shoot­ing, the group is claim­ing to have crashed parts of the RCMP web­site on Sun­day morn­ing.

A Twit­ter account asso­ci­at­ed with the glob­al activist group has post­ed pho­tos show­ing the Daw­son Creek RCMP web­site serv­er sta­tus list­ed as “down.”

- See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group‑1.2005056#sthash.SbEOrEJA.dpuf

Mr. Had­land said he was the man caus­ing trou­ble, but he left before police arrived, and offi­cers con­front­ed anoth­er man, who was report­ed­ly car­ry­ing a knife and wear­ing the trade­mark mask of the hack­tivist group Anony­mous. Moments lat­er, shots were fired, and James McIn­tyre, a dish­wash­er at Le’s Fam­i­ly Restau­rant, was dead out­side the Stone­bridge Hotel’s Fixx Urban Grill.

In response to the shoot­ing, Anony­mous promised ret­ri­bu­tion, sub­se­quent­ly post­ing a 2014 Trea­sury Board memo about Cana­di­an Secu­ri­ty Intel­li­gence Ser­vice fund­ing, and threat­en­ing to leak more mate­r­i­al.

One day after the hack­er group Anony­mous vowed to “avenge one of our own” fol­low­ing the shoot­ing, the group is claim­ing to have crashed parts of the RCMP web­site on Sun­day morn­ing.

A Twit­ter account asso­ci­at­ed with the glob­al activist group has post­ed pho­tos show­ing the Daw­son Creek RCMP web­site serv­er sta­tus list­ed as “down.”

- See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group‑1.2005056#sthash.SbEOrEJA.dpuf

One day after the hack­er group Anony­mous vowed to “avenge one of our own” fol­low­ing the shoot­ing, the group is claim­ing to have crashed parts of the RCMP web­site on Sun­day morn­ing.

A Twit­ter account asso­ci­at­ed with the glob­al activist group has post­ed pho­tos show­ing the Daw­son Creek RCMP web­site serv­er sta­tus list­ed as “down.”

- See more at: http://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/dawson-creek/police-mum-on-link-between-police-shooting-anonymous-group‑1.2005056#sthash.hTyGNWmh.dpuf

Anony­mous has already begun its retal­i­a­tion cam­paign, knock­ing the main RCMP web­sites offline for sev­er­al hours on Sun­day (19 July).

This is part of the group’s cam­paign to “remove the RCMP cyber infra­struc­ture from the Inter­net” as it calls on mem­bers to “march, cre­ate and sign peti­tions, hack, dox [until] all demand and jus­tice is met”.

The hack­i­tivst col­lec­tive has also offered to raise funds for the vic­tim’s bur­ial.

Doxxing

The group lead­ing the cam­paign — Oper­a­tion Anon Down — also tweet­ed on Mon­day (20 July) that it had accessed doc­u­ments marked “secret” inside the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment, warn­ing: “It’s not just a DDoS op any­more kid­dos.”

#Anon­Down has accessed docs marked “secret” inside Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment. It’s not just a DDoS op any­more kid­dos. More tomor­row. Night all.
— Oper­a­tion Anon Down (@OpAnonDown) July 20, 2015

In an emailed state­ment released over the week­end, Anony­mous vowed to “iden­ti­fy the RCMP offi­cer involved, thor­ough­ly dox him — and release that dox on the Inter­net. Because the world has a right to know every detail about killer cops.”

Anony­mous has a patchy his­to­ry with “doxxing” police offi­cers accused of shoot­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic how­ev­er, with one mem­ber of Anony­mous hav­ing incor­rect­ly iden­ti­fied the offi­cer accused of shoot­ing Michael Brown in Fer­gu­son last year.

Mr. Had­land, 66, said he did not know Mr. McIn­tyre, 48, and regrets that his actions inad­ver­tent­ly brought police into con­flict with him. “It’s trag­ic, that’s for damn sure,” he said. “They were try­ing to get me.”

Mr. Had­land said if police had found him instead of Mr. McIn­tyre, the inci­dent would have end­ed peace­ful­ly. “I would have obeyed them,” he said.

Mr. Had­land, who lives off the grid on a farm in the Peace Riv­er dis­trict, said he went to the open house to protest against the con­tro­ver­sial Site C dam.

“I’d been plan­ning it for a cou­ple of weeks,” he said. “I walked into the room … I thought, ‘I’m just going to push them a bit.’”

Anonymous

Mr. Had­land said BC Hydro offi­cials were talk­ing to mem­bers of the pub­lic at infor­ma­tion tables cov­ered with pam­phlets, maps and posters.

“I flipped a cou­ple [of tables],” he said. “I ripped up the rest of the maps …. They had plac­ards. … I start­ed break­ing up those.”

Mr. Had­land said he was quick­ly sur­round­ed by BC Hydro staff, but the con­fronta­tion did not become vio­lent.

“They didn’t try to push me,” he said. “I made my state­ment and I walked out.”

Mr. Had­land said he assumes 911 calls were made dur­ing his protest, but added that if any­one report­ed a vio­lent inci­dent, then the police were mis­in­formed and may have arrived expect­ing seri­ous trou­ble.

“It was all very peace­ful,” he said. “The police could have showed up and been ami­ca­ble.”

When it was sug­gest­ed that tip­ping over tables and tear­ing up posters might seem threat­en­ing to some, Mr. Had­land agreed.

“Oh, it could have been,” he acknowl­edged.

Mr. Had­land said he passed with­in metres of Mr. McIn­tyre in the park­ing lot but did not see a knife or a mask.

“I thought he was a BC Hydro per­son [because] he kept turn­ing away and try­ing to hide his face,” he said.

Mr. Had­land was wor­ried police were com­ing, so he jumped in his vehi­cle and drove away with­out look­ing back. He said he went to the RCMP the next day, iden­ti­fied him­self as the man who dis­rupt­ed the meet­ing, and told police he was con­cerned some­one had made a 911 call “that wasn’t valid” because his protest was not vio­lent.

Arthur Had­land, a for­mer direc­tor of Peace Riv­er Region­al Dis­trict, con­firmed his cousin was the man who dis­rupt­ed the Site C open house.

The Inde­pen­dent Inves­ti­ga­tions Office (IIO) of B.C. is inves­ti­gat­ing the police shoot­ing of Mr. McIn­tyre.

“It is not our prac­tice to pro­vide spe­cif­ic details about an inves­ti­ga­tion while it is still active – what I can say is that while we obtain all acces­si­ble and avail­able infor­ma­tion we believe is rel­e­vant to the IIO inves­ti­ga­tion, our focus is on the actions of the police offi­cers,” Kel­lie Kil­patrick, an IIO spokesper­son said in an e‑mail.

“Since our inves­ti­ga­tion of the ini­tial dis­tur­bance is a par­al­lel inves­ti­ga­tion to that of the IIO’s inves­ti­ga­tion which is still ongo­ing, it would be inap­pro­pri­ate for me to com­ment at this time,” Cor­po­ral Dave Tyre­man of the RCMP’s North Dis­trict said in a sep­a­rate e‑mail.

BC Hydro spokesman Dave Con­way declined to com­ment on Mr. Hadland’s ver­sion of events.

—

July 2015:

B.C. Hydro Site C protest in Van­cou­ver can­celled due to con­cerns about vio­lence

Ral­ly orga­niz­ers say they’re con­cerned about reac­tion to the recent death of a man in Daw­son Creek

—

Fur­ther info

Tarnac 9 Cleared of Terrorism Charges Over Rail Sabotage

An alleged “anar­chist cell” at the cen­tre of one of France’s most polit­i­cal­ly-charged legal sagas is final­ly to be tried for sab­o­tag­ing high-speed train lines.

August 9th, 2015


An alleged “anar­chist cell” at the cen­tre of one of France’s most polit­i­cal­ly-charged legal sagas is final­ly to be tried for sab­o­tag­ing high-speed train lines.

But in a major blow to police, who con­duct­ed a sev­en-year inves­ti­ga­tion into the group, the four will not face ter­ror charges, judi­cial sources told AFP on Sat­ur­day.

The so-called Tarnac group was round­ed up in high-pub­li­cised raids in Novem­ber 2008 accused of sab­o­tag­ing the TGV net­work around Paris, a pow­er­ful sym­bol of French nation­al pride and tech­ni­cal know-how.

Thou­sands of pas­sen­gers and more than 160 train ser­vices were delayed after steel rods were put across over­head pow­er cables on three high-speed lines between Paris and Lon­don, Brus­sels and the French regions.

Then inte­ri­or min­is­ter Michele Alliot-Marie brand­ed the group a dan­ger­ous “ultra-left anar­chist move­ment”, but the group — who lived in a rur­al com­mune in cen­tral France — and many on the French left, accused Pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy’s right-wing gov­ern­ment of try­ing to frame them.

But in a major blow to the author­i­ties, anti-ter­ror­ist judge Jeanne Duye came down against their demands in her long-await­ed judge­ment Fri­day to try them for ter­ror offences.

Yil­dune Levy, sus­pect­ed of belong­ing to a ‘ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion’ with her then-boyfriend

– ‘The Com­ing Insur­rec­tion’ –

She did, how­ev­er, send the group’s reclu­sive leader Julien Coupat, his wife Yil­dune Levy and two oth­ers for tri­al on con­spir­a­cy charges, sources said.

The group’s lawyers called the deci­sion a “total repu­di­a­tion” of the alle­ga­tions against the four.

“After near­ly sev­en years of try­ing to pin the blame on them, we final­ly have a coura­geous judi­cial deci­sion. It is a total repu­di­a­tion of the pros­e­cu­tion case,” Marie Dose and William Bour­don said.

“From the begin­ning, our clients were con­sid­ered and treat­ed like ter­ror­ists. Final­ly they have realised that it doesn’t stick,” they added.

“Our arrest was pure­ly polit­i­cal and was based on false tes­ti­mo­ny from the police,” said anoth­er of the accused, Math­ieu Bur­nel. “All this will fall apart at our tri­al.”

The case cen­tred on the charis­mat­ic fig­ure of Coupat, 40, a far-left intel­lec­tu­al from a wealthy fam­i­ly who had gath­ered a group of 20 fol­low­ers around him in a remote vil­lage in the Cor­reze region of cen­tral France.

Rely­ing heav­i­ly on pas­sages from a 2007 book attrib­uted to Coupat, “The Com­ing Insur­rec­tion”, inves­ti­ga­tors claimed the group — the “invis­i­ble com­mit­tee of the imag­i­nary par­ty” — had tipped over from rad­i­cal anar­chist pol­i­tics into ter­ror­ism.

The book dis­cussed sab­o­tage and oth­er ways to “finalise the fall of the state”, and men­tioned the high-speed TGV net­work as an “easy” tar­get.

But Coupat, who refused to con­firm he was its author, said it was “ris­i­ble that ter­ror­ism charges could be brought on the basis on a book on pub­lic sale.”

Coupat and Levy, 31, admit­ted being close to TGV lines east of Paris when an iron bar was placed on the track on the night of Novem­ber 7, 2008, but denied putting it there.

Coupet spent more than six months in jail as police tried to build a case against him, with Levy also locked up for more than two months.

The pros­e­cu­tion has five days to appeal the judge’s deci­sion.

from AFP

Addi­tion: their arrest was in part down to Mark Kennedy, the British under­cov­er cop embed­ded in Earth First! and the wider eco­log­i­cal direct action move­ment for over 7 years.  More info

BUILD GARDENS, NOT PRISONS: International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 2015

Inter­na­tion­al Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 2015

Inter­na­tion­al Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 2015

When: Fri­day 28th August (From 6pm) – Wednes­day 2nd Sep­tem­ber 2015

Where: Dudle­ston Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp, Shrop­shire (near the Wales/England Bor­der).

About:

Reclaim the Fields UK (RTF) was born in 2011, as a star in a wider con­stel­la­tion of food and land strug­gles that reach­es around the globe. Since 2011, camps and oth­er RTF gath­er­ings have helped sup­port local com­mu­ni­ties in strug­gle, share skills, devel­op net­works, and strength­en the resis­tance to exploita­tion, in Bris­tol, west Lon­don, Glouces­ter­shire, Not­ting­ham and Fife, among oth­er loca­tions.

Every two years there is also an inter­na­tion­al camp, where peo­ple from around Europe and beyond meet togeth­er to sup­port a local strug­gle (stand­ing against exploita­tive gold min­ing in Roma­nia, and open cast coal min­ing in Ger­many, are some exam­ples). Peo­ple at these camps have shared their local sto­ries and grown their ideas about resis­tance and reclaim­ing our food sys­tem, beyond nation­al bor­ders. This year, an inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ing will be held in the UK, in Dudle­ston, Shrop­shire, on the Welsh/English bor­der.

The aims of the camp are:
• To sup­port local com­mu­ni­ties in the west and north west of Eng­land, and the north of Wales with their strug­gles against frack­ing
• To increase par­tic­i­pa­tion in Reclaim the Fields
• To demon­strate vis­i­ble, active oppo­si­tion to prison con­struc­tion
• To sup­port Dudle­ston Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp build a gar­den and infra­struc­ture to become more self-reliant
• To demon­strate the inter­con­nec­tion between these strug­gles
• To inspire and rad­i­calise every­one involved

What is hap­pen­ing:

• Two days of Action – Tues­day 1st & Wednes­day 2nd Sep­tem­ber – demon­stra­tions & actions against com­pa­nies involved in the con­struc­tion of the North Wales prison, as well as local frack­ing-relat­ed tar­gets.
• Work­shops & Skill­shares – Over the bank hol­i­day week­end there will be abun­dant oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn, share, dis­cuss and con­nect with oth­er peo­ple.
• Build­ing & Grow­ing on the site – Be part of installing gar­dens & low impact infra­struc­ture at the com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tion camp. Learn about per­ma­cul­ture, agroe­col­o­gy, for­est gar­den­ing, mush­room grow­ing, pal­let con­struc­tion, com­post toi­let mak­ing, off-grid electrics and more.

Why:

• This camp has been organ­ised to sup­port the local com­mu­ni­ty in Dudle­ston to resist frack­ing in their area (as well as work­ing with oth­er local anti-frack­ing groups & pro­tec­tion camps in the North West who have been resist­ing extreme ener­gy devel­op­ments for a num­ber of years). To find out more about their strug­gle vis­it: http://frack-off.org.uk/blockade/dudleston-community-protection-camp/
• It has also been organ­ised to give atten­tion to the North Wales Prison Project that is being con­struct­ed. This will be Europe’s sec­ond largest prison hold­ing 2100 pris­on­ers and the first of a num­ber of ‘mega pris­ons’ that the UK Gov­ern­ment wish to build. Click here for more infor­ma­tion about the prison, why we are against it & links to arti­cles about the prison indus­tri­al com­plex in the UK

How to get involved:

Click on the links below to find more prac­ti­cal infor­ma­tion about the camp and how to get involved:

This is a DIY/DIT(ogether)* camp and every­one is need­ed to get stuck in to make it hap­pen. Peo­ple are need­ed to:
• Sup­port with pub­lic­i­ty before the event – shar­ing the gath­er­ing online, putting posters up, encour­ag­ing your local group to get involved. Peo­ple are also need­ed to help design the pro­gramme, respond to emails & plan facil­i­ta­tion.
• Help­ing with site set up & build­ing infra­struc­ture (plan­ning this in advance & being on site a few days before the gath­er­ing)
• Sign­ing up to a shift over the week­end to help with cook­ing, site set up & safe­ty, being on the wel­come tent & so forth
• Sup­port­ing local groups to organ­ise actions

If you can help with any of these tasks please email info@reclaimthefields.noflag.org.uk

Spread the word:

• Poster design here: reclaimthefields.noflag.org.uk/wp-conte…

• Face­book event: https://www.facebook.com/events/560637597407933/

Earth First! Summer Gathering, August 2015 — programme & practicalities announced

Five days of skill-shar­ing for grass­roots eco­log­i­cal direct action — make links, share ideas, and get involved in the run up to the Paris cli­mate sum­mit, and strug­gles against frack­ing, new roads and more.

19th-24th August 2015, the Peak District

Over 130 work­shops and oth­er excit­ing spaces and things to do in our packed pro­gramme — come the whole time if you can! Inspir­ing work­shops giv­en by peo­ple from eco­log­i­cal strug­gles across Europe, plus almost every eco-cam­paign in the UK you could shake a stick at. 

Full details includ­ing prac­ti­cal­i­ties at

http://earthfirstgathering.org/

Earth First! Direct Action Manual & Ecodefense available online

Dam Front Cover

Dam Front Cover

The Earth First! Direct Action Man­u­al and Ecode­fense: a Field Guide to Mon­key­wrench­ing, are both avail­able to read online.

You may want to con­sid­er your secu­ri­ty when view­ing these, as with many good reads. 

The release of the 3rd edi­tion of the DAM has been a huge suc­cess. In under a year we sold out of our first print run, and have now gone back to the press­es to print 2,000 addi­tion­al copies so that this valu­able tool remains avail­able for the uncom­pro­mis­ing direct action move­ments defend­ing the Earth and its inhab­i­tants.

You can down­load or buy them from here where there’s also oth­er use­ful resources such as How to Sink Whalers, Drift­net­ters and Oth­er Envi­ron­men­tal­ly Destruc­tive Ships’, ‘Black Cat Sab­o­tage Man­u­al’, the British-pro­duced ‘Ozy­man­dias Sab­o­tage Hand­book’ and EF! Climbers Guild pub­li­ca­tions.

Mexico: Explosive Attack Against Ministry of Agrarian Territorial and Urban Development

from Insur­rec­tion News / Con­tra Info

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…

Black June. On June 6 at about 3AM we suc­cess­ful­ly det­o­nat­ed  an explo­sive device made of dyna­mite that was placed inside the offices of SEDATU (Min­istry of Agrar­i­an Ter­ri­to­r­i­al and Urban Devel­op­ment) locat­ed on Rev­o­lu­tion Avenue near the cor­ner of Rio Mix­coac in Mex­i­co City, Mex­i­co. The det­o­na­tion destroyed the glass front of the build­ing.

In Mex­i­co, this sec­re­tari­at – using dif­fer­ent names – has been respon­si­ble for putting an offi­cial stamp on the turn­ing of nature and the earth into com­modi­ties and of nor­mal­iz­ing the dis­pos­ses­sion and vio­lence that the state uses in it’s accu­mu­la­tion of cap­i­tal.

We are a group of insur­rec­tionary anar­chist fem­i­nist witch­es who have gath­ered in a cell of affin­i­ty. Our group was born on August 25 2014 when we det­o­nat­ed an explo­sive device in a PAN (Nation­al Action Par­ty) office in the Mex­i­co City and placed anoth­er device in the Lore­to church in the his­toric cen­ter of the same city.

June is a month of thir­ty days…

We also denounce the vile way in which the mass media hides the news of the attacks and the resis­tance.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the impris­oned com­rades in Chile, Italy, Greece and Spain. We are with you com­rades.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­rades Mario López and Car­los López. We are with you com­rades.

NO VOTES. KILL THEM ALL

Mex­i­co City, June 7, 2015

Lupe la cameli­na
Por la célu­la de difusión del
Coman­do fem­i­nista infor­mal de acción anti­au­tori­taria (Infor­mal Fem­i­nist Com­man­do Of Anti-author­i­tar­i­an Action) 
(COFIAA)

(via con­tra info, trans­lat­ed by Insur­rec­tion News)

BarnCamp in June — subverting tech, computers & media activism


Barn­Camp is a low-cost rur­al DIY skill-shar­ing event open to every­one, includ­ing UK activists, cam­paign­ers, peo­ple involved in social and com­mu­ni­ty groups, and any­body else with an inter­est in tech­nol­o­gy and how to sub­vert it to put it to good use. This year it’s run­ning from 19th to 21st June.

Brought to you by Hack­tion­Lab, Bris­tol Wire­less and FLOSS Man­u­als, Barn­Camp 2015 will be the sixth edi­tion of our sum­mer camp at High­bury Farm in the beau­ti­ful Wye val­ley. Barn­Camp is three days of work­shops, dis­cus­sions, demos and prac­ti­cal how-to ses­sions look­ing at how tech­nol­o­gy can be use­ful (and dan­ger­ous) for cam­paign­ers, com­mu­ni­ty activists and gen­er­al trou­ble mak­ers.

The week­end includes:

* Three days of work­shops and open space ses­sions.
* Four nights camp­ing in the beau­ti­ful Wye Val­ley.
* Food from Fri­day through to Sun­day (9 meals).
* Indoor and camp­fire­side enter­tain­ment.

We have lim­it­ed places so please book your place on-line today at  https://barncamp.org.uk
 barncamp2015@hacktionlab.org