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Mass Action, Barricades and Lock Downs Fail to Halt Development for the Mega-Rich

18.2.12

City offi­cials said on Wednes­day morn­ing they were pleased with how the oper­a­tion in the Schloss­garten park went. They said 2,500 offi­cers had encoun­tered lit­tle vio­lence.

18.2.12

City offi­cials said on Wednes­day morn­ing they were pleased with how the oper­a­tion in the Schloss­garten park went. They said 2,500 offi­cers had encoun­tered lit­tle vio­lence.

But pro­test­ers, who were try­ing to pro­tect 176 trees that author­i­ties say need to be cut down or moved as part of the project, charged that police had been over­ly aggres­sive dur­ing the evic­tion and had even attacked peo­ple with batons.

A spokesman for the pro­test­ers, Matthias Her­rmann, called the oper­a­tion “hec­tic and esca­lat­ing.”

But a Stuttgart police spokesman said that there had been only “occa­sion­al baton use” when pro­test­ers attempt­ed to set up a bar­ri­cade. A 38-year-old man was arrest­ed after he alleged­ly set off fire­works near offi­cials, accord­ing to police.

Oth­er pro­test­ers had to be forcibly cut away after they chained them­selves to trees. Some used pal­lets to erect bar­ri­ers on access roads, police said. Two even encased their arms in con­crete and police were still fig­ur­ing out how to deal with them as of mid-morn­ing.

Stuttgart 21 is a mul­ti-bil­lion-euro project that aims to trans­form the Baden-Würt­tem­berg state cap­i­tal into a major Euro­pean trans­port hub by lay­ing 57 kilo­me­tres of new track and rebuild­ing the city’s main train sta­tion under­ground while turn­ing it around 90 degrees.

But many have baulked at the cost of the plan and what they say will be dam­age to the local envi­ron­ment. Vio­lent protests flared in 2010, but the gov­ern­ment has insist­ed that con­struc­tion must con­tin­ue. On Sun­day, pro­test­ers tried to mount heavy equip­ment to pre­vent the cut­ting down of trees but were removed by police in a pre­lude to Wednesday’s evic­tion.

At the park, pro­test­ers had set up dozens of tents and tree hous­es before the police oper­a­tion began at about 3 am. Offi­cers first asked pro­test­ers to leave on their own – which some did – before they began the evic­tion.

Stuttgart 21 project spokesman Wolf­gang Diet­rich said the police oper­a­tion had gone “very well” because pro­test­ers had, for the most part, abstained from vio­lence. Author­i­ties could begin felling trees as ear­ly as Wednes­day after­noon.

India police arrest dozens of villagers for protesting against new toxic dump

4th Feb 2012

A total of 47 indige­nous peo­ple were arrest­ed and anoth­er 5 need­ed hos­pi­tal treat­ment after hun­dreds of Indi­an police and Vedan­ta secu­ri­ty guards con­front­ed a peace­ful demon­stra­tion two weeks ago in the state of Oris­sa, India.

On Jan­u­ary 21, a group of vil­lagers came togeth­er to protest against a new tox­ic mine waste dump that threat­ens to dis­rupt their way of life.

4th Feb 2012

A total of 47 indige­nous peo­ple were arrest­ed and anoth­er 5 need­ed hos­pi­tal treat­ment after hun­dreds of Indi­an police and Vedan­ta secu­ri­ty guards con­front­ed a peace­ful demon­stra­tion two weeks ago in the state of Oris­sa, India.

On Jan­u­ary 21, a group of vil­lagers came togeth­er to protest against a new tox­ic mine waste dump that threat­ens to dis­rupt their way of life.

Despite the peace­ful nature of the pro­test­ers, as seen in the fol­low­ing video by Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al, the 47 vil­lagers were sub­se­quent­ly charged with “attempt­ed mur­der” and “riot­ing”.

Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al is call­ing for the obvi­ous­ly-false charges to be dropped. They’re also urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to release the pro­test­ers; and to prop­er­ly take their needs and rights into account before let­ting the com­pa­ny pro­ceed with the new waste dump.

Just pri­or to the arrests, Amnesty alleged that the Uk-based min­ing giant has­n’t done any­thing to clean up exist­ing pol­lu­tion at the site of its Lan­ji­garh alu­minum refin­ery beside Niyam­giri moun­tain in Oris­sa.

Sim­i­lar­ly, “The Indi­an author­i­ties have remained silent on the issues of clean­ing up the refin­ery and mon­i­tor­ing the health of local com­mu­ni­ties. They must act on this now,” said Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al’s India researcher Ramesh Gopalakr­ish­nan.

“The red mud pond, which col­lects tox­ic waste by-prod­ucts from the refin­ery, cov­ers an area of approx­i­mate­ly 38 hectares. The pond is full to the brim and suf­fered seri­ous leaks dur­ing last year’s mon­soons,” explains Amnesty.

Two weeks ago, the High Court of Oris­sa reject­ed the com­pa­ny’s plan to expand the Lan­ji­garh refin­ery after find­ing that the project is in vio­la­tion of Indi­a’s envi­ron­men­tal laws.

The wel­comed deci­sion is the lat­est in a long line of legal set­backs for the com­pa­ny.

Earth First! Winter Moot, what to expect

This years Earth First! Win­ter Moot takes place in South Lanark­shire, Scot­land. In a months time envi­ron­men­tal­ists from across the UK and beyond will con­verge to dis­cuss and debate. Below is an update from the organ­is­ing col­lec­tive who are work­ing on the pro­gram.

This years Earth First! Win­ter Moot takes place in South Lanark­shire, Scot­land. In a months time envi­ron­men­tal­ists from across the UK and beyond will con­verge to dis­cuss and debate. Below is an update from the organ­is­ing col­lec­tive who are work­ing on the pro­gram.

The Moot 2012 col­lec­tive has felt that at pre­vi­ous EF! Gath­er­ings groups have pri­mar­i­ly attend­ed to recruit for their respec­tive cam­paigns. Yet those who attend EF! Gath­er­ings are pre­dom­i­nant­ly already active, mak­ing them good places for net­work­ing, but not nec­es­sar­i­ly for out­right recruit­ment. We recog­nise the effort gath­er­ing organ­is­ers put into plan­ning agen­das but often the more dis­cur­sive aspects of the gath­er­ings focus on larg­er, abstract ques­tions and debates have often been framed by self-appoint­ed experts. We feel that these dis­cus­sions inef­fec­tive­ly attempt to find answers or reach con­sen­sus where this is inap­pro­pri­ate.

For exam­ple at the first EF! Gath­er­ing 20 years ago the ques­tion was asked: ‘What is EF!?’ 20 years lat­er in 2011 at the last Moot the same ques­tion was still being asked …

The answer is EF! is what we make it, and this year we are going to make it a space in which we can approach our cam­paigns both crit­i­cal­ly and ana­lyt­i­cal­ly by ask­ing more spe­cif­ic and prac­ti­cal ques­tions. Our activism should be con­stant­ly evolv­ing not stuck in a rut ask­ing the same ques­tions again and again.

The agen­da will be designed to ask ques­tions around four key issues: the tac­tics we use; the strate­gies that we employ in our cam­paigns; com­mu­ni­ty sol­i­dar­i­ty; and sus­tain­able activism. There will be no attempt to reach con­clu­sions or con­sen­sus espe­cial­ly about what EF! is. Instead we want to have dis­cus­sions that lead to new ideas that could evolve ongo­ing cam­paigns or give cre­ative inspi­ra­tion to ones that are just get­ting start­ed.

A free space will be pro­vid­ed in which cam­paigns will be able to hold meet­ings and have fur­ther dis­cus­sions if they wish, and there will also be some space giv­en for cam­paign updates with an empha­sis on hon­est analy­sis rather than pro­mo­tion.

For updates and more info check the web­site or email us.

EF!WM Crew
e-mail: efwintermoot@noflag.org.uk
Home­page: http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Shell’s Peat Haulage Has Begun… And Been Disrupted !

Shell is remov­ing peat bog from the tun­nelling com­pound in Augh­oose, Co. Mayo, Ire­land, and replac­ing it with stone and grav­el from near­by quar­ries. The increased truck move­ments has not gone unchal­lenged.

 

Shell is remov­ing peat bog from the tun­nelling com­pound in Augh­oose, Co. Mayo, Ire­land, and replac­ing it with stone and grav­el from near­by quar­ries. The increased truck move­ments has not gone unchal­lenged.

 

Fol­low­ing the peat truck protest last Wednes­day that result­ed in 4 peo­ple being arrest­ed –  https://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/content/campaigners-block-shells-peat-haulage-morning-after-taisce-faces-local-community – protests have been hap­pen­ing almost every day.

On Sat­ur­day 19th Novem­ber, around 12pm, 4 peo­ple stopped peat and quar­ry trucks along the haulage route. By the time Gar­dai arrived, most of the work­ers in the com­pound had gone home and work had stopped for the day.

On Mon­day the 21st , 8 peo­ple entered into Bar­ret­t’s Quar­ry in Ban­gor and tried to get onto dig­gers to stop work. One cam­paign­er reached one of the dig­gers, but was dragged down by secu­ri­ty before climb­ing on top. The IRMS secu­ri­ty grabbed every­one and held them down until they could drag them out of the quar­ry. This is the first time enter­ing Bar­ret’s Quar­ry that no-one suc­ceed­ed in get­ting on top of machin­ery. If there had been a cou­ple more peo­ple on the action, it may have suc­ceed­ed (i.e. come up to Mayo!)

On Tues­day 22nd Novem­ber around 12:15pm, 2 peo­ple locked their arms into a con­crete bar­rel; block­ing the main haulage route. This hap­pened after the week­ly Tues­day morn­ing protest with locals and sup­port­ers from 8 to 11am. The morn­ing was very effec­tive in its own right as over 20 peo­ple spread out along the Bel­lan­aboy refin­ery road and stopped many of the peat and quar­ry trucks at sev­er­al points. The Gar­dai present were stretched in deal­ing with the sit­u­a­tion at hand.

The lock-on was put in place an hour after the end of the morn­ing protest. At one stage Gar­dai briefly attempt­ed to pull out one per­son­’s arm while they were scream­ing that they were locked into the bar­rel, which required some angry reminders from oth­ers present that cut­ting them out was going to be the only accept­able way. The lock-on was high­ly effec­tive and last­ed from 12:15pm until 5:30pm. There was local sup­port for a while before the Gar­dai pro­ceed­ed to close down the road. Up to 12 trucks were sat wait­ing in the Augh­oose com­pound and dig­gers and oth­er machin­ery there­fore had noth­ing to do. The 2 cam­paign­ers were arrest­ed and released lat­er that evening.

Also worth men­tion­ing were sev­er­al trucks being stopped or slowed down through­out the week for half an hour or so when the oppor­tu­ni­ty arose. No arrests were made on those occa­sions.

If you and/or your friends are inter­est­ed in com­ing down to the ongo­ing cam­paign and being almost cer­tain of halt­ing work for all or most part of the day, then now is the time !

Show your sup­port – the bat­tle goes on !

www.shelltosea.com

www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org

Protests Continue Against Iron Mining in Armenia

9.11.2011

9.11.2011

Oppo­si­tion politi­cians and envi­ron­men­tal activists joined on Wednes­day about two hun­dred res­i­dents of the cen­tral Armen­ian town of Hraz­dan in protest­ing against the open­ing of an iron mine which they believe would have grave eco­log­i­cal con­se­quences.

The crowd ral­lied in Hrazdan’s cen­tral square before head­ing to a near­by hill rich in iron ore in a con­voy of bus­es and cars.

Boun­ty Resources Arme­nia Lim­it­ed (BRAL), a com­pa­ny part­ly owned by a Chi­nese firm, plans to launch open-pit oper­a­tions there and in two oth­er, larg­er iron deposits else­where in the coun­try in the com­ing years. A team of geol­o­gists hired by BRAL is cur­rent­ly work­ing there to ascer­tain iron reserves hid­den under­ground through test drilling.

Envi­ron­ment pro­tec­tion groups are strong­ly opposed to iron min­ing in the area, say­ing that it would pol­lute air, agri­cul­tur­al land and the Hraz­dan riv­er, the main sup­pli­er of irri­ga­tion water to the fer­tile Ararat Val­ley in the country’s south.

Many Hraz­dan res­i­dents share these con­cerns. Some of them already demon­strat­ed against the project late last month.

“There is a ghost town in Chi­na near a sim­i­lar­ly exploit­ed mine,” said one woman tak­ing part in the protest. “We would have the same sit­u­a­tion here.”

Mias­nik Malkhasian, a geol­o­gist coor­di­nat­ing test drilling at the site, dis­missed such con­cerns as he and his work­ers were con­front­ed by the angry crowd. “There is no dan­ger what­so­ev­er,” he said.

The pro­test­ers remained uncon­vinced. Some of them smashed wood­en box­es con­tain­ing drilling sam­ples. Police offi­cers mon­i­tor­ing the demon­stra­tion did not inter­vene.

“Such crim­i­nal deci­sions are not made in Hraz­dan,” Karine Hako­bian, a leader of the oppo­si­tion Zha­rangutyun (Her­itage) par­ty, told the pro­test­ers before the march. “They are made in Yere­van, at the pres­i­den­tial palace and the gov­ern­ment build­ing. They have turned us into slaves in our own coun­try.”

Sasun Mikaelian, a Hraz­dan-based for­mer par­lia­men­tar­i­an affil­i­at­ed with the oppo­si­tion Armen­ian Nation­al Con­gress (HAK), sin­gled out for­mer Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Var­tan Ayvaz­ian for blame.

The Hetq.am news ser­vice report­ed last Jan­u­ary that by Ayvaz­ian and his fam­i­ly at least part­ly con­trol BRAL. The ex-min­is­ter, who now chairs one of the stand­ing com­mit­tees of the Armen­ian par­lia­ment, did not deny that.

The Hetq report fol­lowed the announce­ment by the Chi­nese com­pa­ny For­tune Oil that it has paid $24 mil­lion to acquire a 35 per­cent share in BRAL. For­tune Oil has the option of rais­ing the stake to 50 per­cent for an addi­tion­al $16 mil­lion.

Ayvaz­ian had con­sid­er­able reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ty over the min­ing indus­try when he served as envi­ron­ment min­is­ter from 2001–2007.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24386103.html

Earth First! Winter Moot 2012 — 24–26th February 2012. Updated: location & what to expect

A week­end of dis­cus­sion and net­work­ing for those tak­ing direct action against eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion. 

Please note date & loca­tion change (due to date clash & venue prob­lems):

24–26th Feb­ru­ary 2012, near Glas­gow

Near­est train sta­tion: Lanark.

A week­end of dis­cus­sion and net­work­ing for those tak­ing direct action against eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion. 

Please note date & loca­tion change (due to date clash & venue prob­lems):

24–26th Feb­ru­ary 2012, near Glas­gow

Near­est train sta­tion: Lanark.

See earthfirstgathering.org.uk for fur­ther infor­ma­tion about loca­tion,  pro­gramme and con­tact details

Update:

Where — this years Earth First Win­ter Moot will take place in Gle­spin Vil­lage Hall, South Lanark­shire. Gle­spin is a small vil­lage about 14 miles south of Lanark, and 35 miles south of Glas­gow. South Lanark­shire also has many beau­ti­ful areas with rivers, hills, forests and peat bogs.  Full direc­tions

What to expect — this years Earth First! Win­ter Moot takes place in South Lanark­shire, Scot­land. In a months time envi­ron­men­tal­ists from across the UK and beyond will con­verge to dis­cuss and debate. Below is an update from the organ­is­ing col­lec­tive who are work­ing on the pro­gram.

The Moot 2012 col­lec­tive has felt that at pre­vi­ous EF! Gath­er­ings groups have pri­mar­i­ly attend­ed to recruit for their respec­tive cam­paigns. Yet those who attend EF! Gath­er­ings are pre­dom­i­nant­ly already active, mak­ing them good places for net­work­ing, but not nec­es­sar­i­ly for out­right recruit­ment. We recog­nise the effort gath­er­ing organ­is­ers put into plan­ning agen­das but often the more dis­cur­sive aspects of the gath­er­ings focus on larg­er,  abstract ques­tions and debates have often been framed by self-appoint­ed experts. We feel that these dis­cus­sions inef­fec­tive­ly attempt to find answers or reach con­sen­sus where this is inap­pro­pri­ate.

For exam­ple at the first EF! Gath­er­ing 20 years ago the ques­tion was asked: ‘What is EF!?’ 20 years lat­er in 2011 at the last Moot the same ques­tion was still being asked …

The answer is EF! is what we make it, and this year we are going to make it a space in which we can approach our cam­paigns both crit­i­cal­ly and ana­lyt­i­cal­ly by ask­ing more spe­cif­ic and prac­ti­cal ques­tions. Our activism should be con­stant­ly evolv­ing not stuck in a rut ask­ing the same ques­tions again and again.

The agen­da will be designed to ask ques­tions around four key issues: the tac­tics we use; the strate­gies that we employ in our cam­paigns; com­mu­ni­ty sol­i­dar­i­ty; and sus­tain­able activism. There will be no attempt to reach con­clu­sions or con­sen­sus espe­cial­ly about what EF! is. Instead we want to have dis­cus­sions that lead to new ideas that could evolve ongo­ing cam­paigns or give cre­ative inspi­ra­tion to ones that are just get­ting start­ed.

A free space will be pro­vid­ed in which cam­paigns will be able to hold meet­ings and have fur­ther dis­cus­sions if they wish, and there will also be some space giv­en for cam­paign updates with an empha­sis on hon­est analy­sis rather than pro­mo­tion.

For updates and more info check the web­site or email us.

efwintermoot@noflag.org.uk

Call Out: OpposeThe EDL In Birmingham 29th Oct

The EDL are to hold a demo in Vic­to­ria square, Birm­ing­ham on 29th Octo­ber 12:00 — 18:00. Vic­to­ria Square is also the loca­tion of the Occu­py Birm­ing­ham protest camp which could become a tar­get for the EDL. This is a call out for peo­ple to come to Vic­to­ria Square on the 29th and defend the Occu­py Birm­ing­ham camp and defend the city from the EDL.

The EDL are to hold a demo in Vic­to­ria square, Birm­ing­ham on 29th Octo­ber 12:00 — 18:00. Vic­to­ria Square is also the loca­tion of the Occu­py Birm­ing­ham protest camp which could become a tar­get for the EDL. This is a call out for peo­ple to come to Vic­to­ria Square on the 29th and defend the Occu­py Birm­ing­ham camp and defend the city from the EDL.

The Islam­o­pho­bic & Racist Organ­i­sa­tion The Eng­lish Defence League Are Organ­is­ing An Anti-Islam Demon­stra­tion In Birm­ing­ham On Sat­ur­day 29th Octo­ber 2011, When The EDL Hold Their Demon­stra­tions In Cities & Towns Across The Coun­try It Ends Up In Mosques Being Van­dalised & Inno­cent Mus­lims Includ­ing Women & Chil­dren Being Phys­i­cal­ly & Ver­bal­ly Attacked, This Is Why Its Very Impor­tant For Every­one To Come & Pro­tect The City From The… Islam­o­phobes & Racists.

The EDL have been to Birm­ing­ham 3 times pre­vi­ous­ly & have failed mis­er­ably all 3 times by get­ting run out of the city, it has took the EDL over 2 years to muster up some con­fi­dence to come back to Birm­ing­ham, lets make sure it ends in fail­ure for the EDL again.

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.

…

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

Outdoor skillshare 2011! 26–29th August, South Lanarkshire

Much more infor­ma­tion about the event has been uploaded here: http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk/

Coal Action Scot­land warm­ly invites you to join us in beau­ti­ful rur­al South Lanark­shire for a week­end of skill­shar­ing and work­shops about out­door life and resis­tance tech­niques. From mass cater­ing to for­ag­ing wild foods, from land defence to self defence, from climb­ing trees to dig­ging tun­nels and every­thing between; come and learn new skills, meet new peo­ple and share your expe­ri­ences with oth­ers.

Much more infor­ma­tion about the event has been uploaded here: http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk/

Coal Action Scot­land warm­ly invites you to join us in beau­ti­ful rur­al South Lanark­shire for a week­end of skill­shar­ing and work­shops about out­door life and resis­tance tech­niques. From mass cater­ing to for­ag­ing wild foods, from land defence to self defence, from climb­ing trees to dig­ging tun­nels and every­thing between; come and learn new skills, meet new peo­ple and share your expe­ri­ences with oth­ers.



Since the occu­pa­tion of Main­shill Wood and the recent nine month occu­pa­tion of Hap­pen­don Wood, Coal Action Scot­land has had much col­lec­tive expe­ri­ence of occu­py­ing and defend­ing land along with sus­tain­ing and grow­ing a com­mu­ni­ty of resis­tance. The skill­share was con­ceived of because even though we have lots to share, we still have much more to learn and we hope to col­lec­tive­ly empow­er our­selves and oth­ers to increase our mutu­al capac­i­ty for effec­tive action.

This skill­share will be a safe, inclu­sive and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry envi­ron­ment for learn­ing new, inter­est­ing and trans­fer­able skills and is open to peo­ple of all abil­i­ties and expe­ri­ences. What­ev­er your par­tic­u­lar cam­paign, what­ev­er inter­ests or excites you, the skill­share will be a cre­ative melt­ing pot of ideas and tech­niques to sus­tain life and resist oppres­sion (how­ev­er it man­i­fests itself).

Check the web­site or join our mail­ing list to receive updates as they hap­pen and feel free to con­tact us with any suggestions/requirements/questions you may have at out­doorskill­share [at] riseup.net.

**Sol­i­dar­i­ty with Dale Farm: At the same time as the Out­door Skill­share will be tak­ing place, Camp Con­stant will be hold­ing a skill­share at Dale Farm, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with 90 fam­i­lies fac­ing evic­tion from the UK’s largest trav­el­ing com­mu­ni­ty. The two skill­shares, although at the same time, are sup­port­ing each oth­er — if you can’t come to one, please come to the oth­er! http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/**