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Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL]: A Video

This video shows it is a nation­al issue, affect­ing many peo­ple and their com­mu­ni­ties.

There has been a large cam­paign, with much sup­port over recent times. A plan­ning appli­ca­tion to extend the oper­a­tion of the East­croft Incin­er­a­tor in Not­ting­ham was denied. WRG, the oper­a­tors of the plant, appealed. This process has now been stopped and a new appli­ca­tion has been lodged.

NAIL demoThis video shows it is a nation­al issue, affect­ing many peo­ple and their com­mu­ni­ties.

There has been a large cam­paign, with much sup­port over recent times. A plan­ning appli­ca­tion to extend the oper­a­tion of the East­croft Incin­er­a­tor in Not­ting­ham was denied. WRG, the oper­a­tors of the plant, appealed. This process has now been stopped and a new appli­ca­tion has been lodged.

Now, folks have to go round again.

The film explains the back­ground and dan­gers.

Video”>https://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/06//373597.mpg”>Video Video by George’s Broth­er — video/mpeg 90M

Cardiff- Brecon anti- pipeline camp court hearing

7.06.2007
A num­ber of the activists who have been liv­ing in a tree camp near Brea­con, Wales, attend­ed a court hear­ing in Cardiff today to fight the pos­ses­sion order threat­en­ing to close the camp.

LNG court hearing7.06.2007
A num­ber of the activists who have been liv­ing in a tree camp near Brea­con, Wales, attend­ed a court hear­ing in Cardiff today to fight the pos­ses­sion order threat­en­ing to close the camp.
Activists from Cardiff Ris­ing Tide and Cardiff Anar­chists attend­ed to show sup­port and give out infor­ma­tion about the mas­sive pipeline mak­ing its way through the south wales coun­try­side and how wider polit­i­cal agen­das pushed by the G8 are destroy­ing the envi­ron­ment.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, after about an hour and a half in the court, the pos­ses­sion order was grant­ed with imme­di­ate effect. An injunc­tion was also put in place against any inter­fer­ance with equip­ment used in the con­struc­tion of the pipe and against any protest with­in a cer­tain dis­tance of the pipe (any­one got more spe­cif­ic details than that?).

A num­ber of police offi­cers were also in atten­dance, film­ing and pho­tograph­ing any­one in the vicin­i­ty of the court “to ensure that an unbi­ased record” of the event is obtained, said PC Good­Cop. Obvi­ous­ly, its very impor­tant to get hours of footage of activists sit­ting on a wall, smok­ing fags and wait­ing qui­et­ly out­side the court. Ridic!

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with anti-pipeline pro­tes­tors. Fight the pipe!

Sheffield NVDA Training and Plane Stupid Benefit

Plane Stu­pid NVDA Train­ing and Ben­e­fit Gig
Join us for some Plane Stu­pid fun!
Plane Stu­pid Sheffield is host­ing two fab­u­lous events this Sun­day the 10th of June.

First, at 11am in the Octa­gon bar, we’re hav­ing a bit of morn­ing and an after­noon of insight into the intri­ca­cies and prac­ti­cal­i­ties of non-vio­lent direct action (NVDA) and quick con­sen­sus deci­sion-mak­ing. If you’ve ever won­dered what peo­ple do when they want to take mean­ing­ful action against things that they oppose, and the ins and outs of get­ting arrest­ed for doing so, or how it is pos­si­ble to quick­ly make groups deci­sions that every­body is in agree­ment on, then come along and be part of some col­lec­tive and inter­ac­tive edu­ca­tion!

Plane Stu­pid NVDA Train­ing and Ben­e­fit Gig
Join us for some Plane Stu­pid fun!
Plane Stu­pid Sheffield is host­ing two fab­u­lous events this Sun­day the 10th of June.

First, at 11am in the Octa­gon bar, we’re hav­ing a bit of morn­ing and an after­noon of insight into the intri­ca­cies and prac­ti­cal­i­ties of non-vio­lent direct action (NVDA) and quick con­sen­sus deci­sion-mak­ing. If you’ve ever won­dered what peo­ple do when they want to take mean­ing­ful action against things that they oppose, and the ins and outs of get­ting arrest­ed for doing so, or how it is pos­si­ble to quick­ly make groups deci­sions that every­body is in agree­ment on, then come along and be part of some col­lec­tive and inter­ac­tive edu­ca­tion!

Then, from 8pm that evening is a Plane Stu­pid ben­e­fit gig at the love­ly Red House ( http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=53.38447,-1.47792|17|4&loc=GB:53.38447:-1.47792:17|168%20Solly%20Street|168%20Solly%20Street,%20FULWOOD%20(SHEFFIELD),%20S3).
Music will be brought to your ears by Just Pota­toes, Aclous­tic Dom­i­na­tion, Sarah Bark­er with fur­ther com­ple­men­tary Djs.

Admis­sion to the work­shop is free/donation. Food will be pro­vid­ed col­lec­tive­ly, so if you want to come then bring some food to share and we can all enjoy a plen­ti­ful and var­ied lunch. To get into the gig in the evening will cost you just £1.50 sug­gest­ed dona­tion!

sheffield@planestupid.com
http://www.planestupid.com

Brecon Tree Camp Open Day 9th June

Pro­tes­tors against Nation­al Grid’s mon­ster pipeline, need your sup­port, come and vis­it us in Bre­con.

To oppose Nation­al Grid’s 197 Mile long, 48 inch­es wide, 94 bar pres­sure gas pipe that is run­ning through the Bre­con Bea­con Nation­al Park there has been a protest site set up along the route, this is cur­rent­ly pre­vent­ing Nation­al Grid caus­ing more destruc­tion in this area. Hav­ing the camp is delay­ing work which will cost them mil­lions of pounds and gives us time to work on stop­ping them indef­i­nite­ly. It’s also fun, edu­ca­tion­al and free. Unfor­tu­nate­ly the time has come and evic­tion is due any day now, so…

Pro­tes­tors against Nation­al Grid’s mon­ster pipeline, need your sup­port, come and vis­it us in Bre­con.

To oppose Nation­al Grid’s 197 Mile long, 48 inch­es wide, 94 bar pres­sure gas pipe that is run­ning through the Bre­con Bea­con Nation­al Park there has been a protest site set up along the route, this is cur­rent­ly pre­vent­ing Nation­al Grid caus­ing more destruc­tion in this area. Hav­ing the camp is delay­ing work which will cost them mil­lions of pounds and gives us time to work on stop­ping them indef­i­nite­ly. It’s also fun, edu­ca­tion­al and free. Unfor­tu­nate­ly the time has come and evic­tion is due any day now, so…

We invite you to join us on site for our open day on Sat­ur­day 9th June:

There will be:
Free Work­shops (includ­ing Climb­ing Instruc­tion by our qual­i­fied instruc­tor)
Free Food (suit­able for Veg­ans)
Infor­ma­tion and dis­play board about this pipeline
Free Accom­mo­da­tion (if you want to stay)
Advise and guid­ance in protest­ing
Fun, frol­ics and friend­ship!

This is the per­fect way to learn more about why we are protest­ing this pipeline, what can be done about it and to expe­ri­ence life on a protest site.

The Bre­con Camp is locat­ed about 5 miles from Bre­con Town Cen­tre, in the Nation­al Park on the A40 (West of Bre­con). It is oppo­site Pen­point Church and is obvi­ous­ly marked with ban­ners. Park­ing is avail­able in front of the camp, or a bus goes along the road every two hours and will stop out­side, or hitch­ing is usu­al­ly pos­si­ble. If you want to come down but have dif­fi­cult­ly with trans­port, email us, we might be able to help you.

For more infor­ma­tion check: www.fightthepipe.co.uk or email us at fightthepipe@hotmail.co.uk
Bre­con Tree Camp Site phone num­ber is 07903152822

Camping campaigners in byelaws battle (and a 9th June Aldermaston party invite!)

1.06.2007
New byelaws for Britain”s nuclear weapons fac­to­ry — AWE Alder­mas­ton — came into force yes­ter­day. This brief arti­cle reflects on the impli­ca­tions for cam­paign­ers and chal­lenges being mount­ed to yet anoth­er crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of protest … and invites women to join the peace camp for a fab­u­lous camp birth­day cock­tail par­ty on 9 June.

Aldermaston SOCPA sign1.06.2007
New byelaws for Britain”s nuclear weapons fac­to­ry — AWE Alder­mas­ton — came into force yes­ter­day. This brief arti­cle reflects on the impli­ca­tions for cam­paign­ers and chal­lenges being mount­ed to yet anoth­er crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of protest … and invites women to join the peace camp for a fab­u­lous camp birth­day cock­tail par­ty on 9 June.

As with many mil­i­tary sites across Britain, land at AWE Alder­mas­ton has been sub­ject to spe­cif­ic mil­i­tary byelaws for many years. While these the­o­ret­i­cal­ly crim­i­nalise a range of oth­er­wise non-crim­i­nal activ­i­ties, they have not been enforced. At bases around the coun­try where byelaws have been used against pro­test­ers they have almost uni­ver­sal­ly fall­en fol­low­ing legal chal­lenges (most famous­ly at Green­ham Com­mon where thou­sands of cas­es were thrown out after the byelaws fell).

How­ev­er, as of 31 May 2007, spank­ing new byelaws for AWE Alder­mas­ton came into force. Undoubt­ed­ly the MoD will be hop­ing that they have learnt from pre­vi­ous byelaws dis­as­ters and now removed all tech­ni­cal, human rights, and oth­er inher­ent flaws. [1]

Human rights
The new Alder­mas­ton byelaws were qui­et­ly put out to con­sul­ta­tion in April 2006, and in their orig­i­nal form, would have pro­hib­it­ed all forms of protest at AWE Alder­mas­ton. The pro­posed byelaws would have denied the right to free­dom of peace­ful assem­bly and asso­ci­a­tion as they crim­i­nalised meet­ings, assem­blies and pro­ces­sions (sec­tions 7 (f) and (h)). They would also have pro­hib­it­ed hand­ing out leaflets and hold­ing plac­ards, thus deny­ing free­dom of expres­sion.

Alder­mas­ton Women’s Peace Camp(aign), and sup­port­ers, made sub­mis­sions to the MoD­’s Byelaws Review Com­mit­tee under the Human Rights Act, and suc­ceed­ed in gain­ing the removal or amend­ment of sev­er­al of the orig­i­nal­ly pro­posed “crim­i­nal” activ­i­ties.

Pro­tect­ing the MoD from peace­women
The con­sul­ta­tion on the Alder­mas­ton byelaws took place as the Ter­ror­ism Act 2006 enabled the pro­vi­sions of the Seri­ous Organ­ised Crime and Police Act (SOCRAP) to apply to Alder­mas­ton and a num­ber of oth­er mil­i­tary sites in the UK. To date, SOCRAP has been used once against a pro­test­er at Alder­mas­ton. It remains unclear as to whether the Attor­ney Gen­er­al will give assent for the pros­e­cu­tion to pro­ceed. [2]

Defence Estates com­ment­ed at the time that “The Mil­i­tary Lands Byelaws and the SOCAP pow­ers, although capa­ble of being used inde­pen­dent­ly, are mutu­al­ly sup­port­ive and togeth­er pro­vide a lay­ered form of legal pro­tec­tion for the Min­istry of Defence.” [3]

Impli­ca­tions for protest
The amend­ed byelaws, although the­o­ret­i­cal­ly allow­ing protest at Alder­mas­ton, now threat­en the very exis­tence of the wom­en’s peace camp — which has been protest­ing out­side the nuclear weapons fac­to­ry every month for the past 22 years. The new byelaws crim­i­nalise camp­ing and light­ing “bon­fires” (the women use a camp fire to keep warm and cook). The byelaws also crim­i­nalise things as sim­ple as attach­ing ban­ners to the fence at Alder­mas­ton, which women have tra­di­tion­al­ly done to alert passers by to the nuclear weapons fac­to­ry, or are as vague as “caus­ing annoy­ance to any oth­er per­son” [4]

It is impos­si­ble to pre­dict whether the new byelaws will be strict­ly enforced, how­ev­er, pre­sum­ably the MoD didn’t go to all the both­er of cre­at­ing new ones in order for them to sit on a shelf gath­er­ing as much dust as the pre­vi­ous ver­sion!

Chal­lenges
Women from Alder­mas­ton Women’s Peace Camp(aign) have called for a cel­e­bra­to­ry camp birth­day cock­tail par­ty on Sat­ur­day 9 June. This will be the first camp week­end after the byelaws come into force and we would like to invite as many women as pos­si­ble to join us. Of course this will be a fan­tas­tic par­ty in its own right, but we would also like to send a clear mes­sage to the MoD that women will con­tin­ue to occu­py space out­side AWE Alder­mas­ton, con­tin­ue resist­ing Britain’s nuclear weapons pro­gramme, and con­tin­ue claim­ing the right to protest. [5]

On anoth­er front, a legal chal­lenge to the byelaws has been mount­ed and there has been pos­i­tive legal advice on the prospects of its suc­cess. Trea­sury Solic­i­tors have been informed that despite the wel­come changes to the byelaws, they remain dis­pro­por­tion­ate and are incom­pat­i­ble with the Human Rights Act. The next step will be to bring a Judi­cial Review.

We don’t know whether the police will enforce the bylaws at the time of the par­ty. If they do, women should be able to attend the par­ty and not risk arrest pro­vid­ed they heed police state­ments at the time and move to safe pitch­es. That said, the more women that are pre­pared to risk arrest the greater the effec­tive­ness of the gath­er­ing.

Do come any­way: it is the wom­en’s cock­tail par­ty of the year!
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NOTES:
1 Read the full byelaws at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20071066.htm
2 See http://www.aldermaston.net/news/169
3 See http://www.aldermaston.net/news/107
4 See AWE Byelaws, Sec­tion 7 (2)
(f) camp in tents, car­a­vans, trees or oth­er­wise;
(g) attach any thing to, or place any thing over any wall, fence, struc­ture or oth­er sur­face;
(j) act in any way like­ly to cause annoy­ance, nui­sance or injury to oth­er per­sons;
(k) light bon­fires or do any­thing like­ly to cause an out­break of fire;
5 See http://www.aldermaston.net for par­ty invi­ta­tion
info@aldermaston.net

Spies exposed in local activist groups in New Zealand

27 May 2007

27 May 2007
The Christchurch Save Hap­py Val­ley (SHV) group, the Welling­ton Ani­mal Rights Net­work (WARN) and Peace Action Welling­ton (PAW) have exposed cor­po­rate spies oper­at­ing with­in their groups. In Christchurch, Ryan [pho­to] had been involved in the group for 7 months, while in Welling­ton Soma­li [pho­to] had been spy­ing for around 2 years.

The pair were employed by Thomp­son & Clark Pri­vate Inves­ti­ga­tions Lim­it­ed, an Auck­land firm that spe­cialis­es in “covert phys­i­cal and elec­tron­ic sur­veil­lance” and “polit­i­cal activism”. In Ryan’s case, the mon­ey came from Sol­id Ener­gy, while in Soma­l­i’s, it was like­ly to be the NZ Biotech Indus­try for WARN and the NZ Defence Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion for PAW.

Frances Moun­tier, spokesper­son for SHV Christchurch, said “It is shock­ing that a state owned enter­prise would use such insid­i­ous and under­hand tac­tics to under­mine the pub­lic debate on cli­mate change”.

“Thomp­son & Clark are a leech-like com­pa­ny, feed­ing off polit­i­cal groups while mak­ing sure not to kill their main source of income” stat­ed WARN spokesper­son Mark Eden. “Com­pa­nies that abuse ani­mals like to keep their prac­tices their dirty lit­tle secret, and it seems they will sink to any low to keep it that way.”

Peace Action Welling­ton has expressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with the oth­er groups. “This cor­po­rate infil­tra­tion and spy­ing com­bined with the spy­ing and vio­lence of the police is part and par­cel of speak­ing out in this so called “demo­c­ra­t­ic” State. We wish to extend our sol­i­dar­i­ty towards those oth­er groups infil­trat­ed seek­ing to do the same”.

The Save Hap­py Val­ley Coali­tion has pre­vi­ous­ly exposed Thomp­son & Clark on two occas­sions — in Feb­ru­ary 2006, peo­ple at the Hap­py Val­ley occu­pa­tion came accross two T&C spies on a ridge­line over­look­ing the camp­site, while in Sep­tem­ber 2006 a cam­era with a pow­er­ful zoom lens was dis­cov­ered at the start of the track into the Val­ley.

Media Releas­es: Peace Action Welling­ton | Save Hap­py Val­ley Coali­tion | Welling­ton Ani­mal Rights Net­work | Alliance

Oth­er Media: Sun­day Star Times

Brighton Radical Book and Zine Fair

Brighton Rad­i­cal Book and Zine Fair

This Sat­ur­day 26th May 10am — 5pm @ Cow­ley Club 12, Lon­don Rd. Brighton.

Books you won’t find in Bor­ders!

Allot­ments to Anar­chy, Pirates to Punk, Recipes to Riots and every­thing in between!

Brighton Rad­i­cal Book and Zine Fair

This Sat­ur­day 26th May 10am — 5pm @ Cow­ley Club 12, Lon­don Rd. Brighton.

Books you won’t find in Bor­ders!

Allot­ments to Anar­chy, Pirates to Punk, Recipes to Riots and every­thing in between!

cowleybooks@postmaster.co.uk
www.cowleyclub.org.uk

Activist Mediation Network — open for business

The Activist Medi­a­tion Net­work is now up and run­ning. If you know of any activist group or activist indi­vid­ual who has a con­flict which is affect­ing their abil­i­ty to change our world for the bet­ter, then get in touch and we may be able to help sort it out.

The Activist Medi­a­tion Net­work is now up and run­ning. If you know of any activist group or activist indi­vid­ual who has a con­flict which is affect­ing their abil­i­ty to change our world for the bet­ter, then get in touch and we may be able to help sort it out.

activistmediation@aktivix.org
www.activistmediation.org.uk

We are con­tin­u­ing to run train­ing days for peo­ple want­i­ng to learn con­flict res­o­lu­tion and medi­a­tion skills.

Upcom­ing dates
Mon­day June 18th in Nor­wich. Day 1 — How we deal with con­flict, Con­flict res­o­lu­tion tools, Basic medi­a­tion prac­tice. Lim­it­ed places avail­able.
Book asap by email­ing us.

We are prob­a­bly going to do a 2 day course at the Earth First gath­er­ing in Nor­folk, 18–22nd July. This is espe­cial­ly for those going to Cli­mate Camp. It will go like this:

Fri­day July 20th — Day 1 — How we deal with con­flict, Con­flict res­o­lu­tion tools, Basic medi­a­tion prac­tice.

Sat­ur­day July 21st — Day 2 — Prac­tis­ing medi­a­tion skills. Only avail­able to peo­ple who have com­plet­ed a Day 1 with us.

These days will only run if there is enough demand. There will be lim­ites places and we may decide peo­ple need to com­mit in advance. Get in touch if you are inter­est­ed.

Apolo­gies that all these dates are in Nor­folk. If you think there is a demand for a train­ing day in your area, do get in touch.

International Day of Direct Action Against Climate Change and the G8 — UK events: Haringey… (& Jeff Luers solidarity callout)

Fri­day 8th June 2007
Direct Action for Cli­mate Jus­tice – Resis­tance is Self Defense!

We all know the ter­ri­fy­ing sta­tis­tics: a mil­lion species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Green­land and Antarc­ti­ca melt­ing, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address cli­mate change and only suc­ceed­ed in pro­vid­ing tril­lions in sub­si­dies to the very indus­tries that are destroy­ing our plan­et and our future. And while the G8 con­tin­ues to line their pock­ets, island states dis­ap­pear and hun­dreds of thou­sands die as a result of the freak weath­er con­di­tions caused by their irra­tional and uncon­trol­lable obses­sion with nev­er end­ing eco­nom­ic growth.

G8 2007 climate day flierFri­day 8th June 2007
Direct Action for Cli­mate Jus­tice – Resis­tance is Self Defense!

We all know the ter­ri­fy­ing sta­tis­tics: a mil­lion species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Green­land and Antarc­ti­ca melt­ing, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address cli­mate change and only suc­ceed­ed in pro­vid­ing tril­lions in sub­si­dies to the very indus­tries that are destroy­ing our plan­et and our future. And while the G8 con­tin­ues to line their pock­ets, island states dis­ap­pear and hun­dreds of thou­sands die as a result of the freak weath­er con­di­tions caused by their irra­tional and uncon­trol­lable obses­sion with nev­er end­ing eco­nom­ic growth.

We have a ten-year win­dow to act. As the mega­lo­ma­ni­ac G8 lead­ers meet in Ger­many, masked behind a bar­ri­er of fences and sol­diers, intent on lead­ing us fur­ther towards cat­a­stroph­ic and irre­versible cli­mate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the time to take direct action and shut them down, them and their cli­mate crim­i­nal indus­try friends!

The 8th of June Inter­na­tion­al Day of Action Against Cli­mate Change and the G8 has been called by the Inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide Net­work. This is a call for autonomous, decen­tral­ized actions appro­pri­ate for your town, city, or local area. Use this inter­na­tion­al day of action to sup­port local strug­gles against oil refiner­ies, gas pipelines, strip mines and coal-fired pow­er plants. Dis­rupt the finan­cial back­ers of the fos­sil fuel indus­try. Organ­ise work­shops to spread sus­tain­able post-petro­le­um liv­ing skills. Find a weak point in the infra­struc­ture of resource exploita­tion and throw a lit­er­al or sym­bol­ic wrench in the works. It’s time to vis­it your local pol­luters and give ’em hell!

We already know of actions planned across the UK, North Amer­i­ca, Ger­many, Cana­da and Aus­tralia and that’s just the start! By 8th June actions will be planned around the world. Pass this call out on to all envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, cli­mate action, rad­i­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and relat­ed move­ments in all the G8 coun­tries and the Glob­al South.

Ris­ing Tide will cre­ate a col­lec­tion of out­reach and agit-prop mate­ri­als (includ­ing this call out in five dif­fer­ent lan­guages) that can be used by groups around the world to organ­ise local­ly. These mate­ri­als will be down­load­able from www.risingtide.org.uk and http://risingtidenorthamerica.org.
Direct action and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence are the ratio­nal response in this time of cri­sis. Sup­port the 8th of June Inter­na­tion­al Day of Direct Action against Cli­mate Change and the G8! Tell us about planned actions for cli­mate jus­tice being planned in your com­mu­ni­ty. Con­tact us — info@risingtide.org.uk and contact@risingtidenorthamerica.org

In June 2007 the G8 will under­stand the mean­ing of rebel­lion, revolt and rev­o­lu­tion. Their recipe for cat­a­stro­phe will be met with our world­wide resis­tance!

*G8 Day of Action Resources — Down­load­able G8 day of Action fly­ers and posters.
*Organ­ise a Crit­i­cal Mass Bike Ride on the 8th of June — here are some leaflet ideas to help you.

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You could link your event in with Day of Sol­i­dar­i­ty with Jef­frey Free Luers, June 9, 2007:

June marks the sev­enth year that our friend and com­rade, Jef­frey “Free” Luers has been impris­oned and held cap­tive by the state. Sen­tenced to an out­ra­geous 22 years and 8 months for burn­ing three Sport Util­i­ty Vehi­cles (SUVs) at Roma­nia Chevro­let in Eugene, Jeff has con­tin­ued to be active in prison and fight back with his words and inspi­ra­tion. Although Jeff recent­ly won his appeal and is expect­ing a reduced sen­tence, this case is not over:

“I have spo­ken with my attor­ney and there are still many bat­tles ahead. Hard choic­es will have to be made. I am by no means close to walk­ing out of prison, just one step clos­er. This is a vic­to­ry, and while my own per­son­al strug­gle is mak­ing head­way oth­ers are just begin­ning.”

We encour­age peo­ple to orga­nize events for Jeff and oth­er polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, unit­ing strug­gles for human, earth, and ani­mal lib­er­a­tion. In Jef­f’s own words:

“This June, show your sol­i­dar­i­ty with me, and all those who have strug­gled, past and present, to make this world a bet­ter place. Strug­gle with us. Hold demon­stra­tions or gath­er­ings at fed­er­al build­ings or US embassies and demand change. It doesn’t mat­ter what cause or issue you fight for — we are all con­nect­ed. What does mat­ter is that we stand unit­ed and make our voic­es heard.”

More at http://freefreenow.org/june2007.html

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HARINGEY CRITICAL MASS BIKE RIDE 2007

Can’t make it to Ger­many? Sick of the all those cars get­ting in your way on the auto­bahn! Don’t despair…join us on Sat­ur­day 9th of June for the 2007 Haringey Crit­i­cal Mass. A leisure­ly ride down the Green Lanes to reclaim our streets and send a breath of fresh air to those meet­ing in Ger­many.

Sat­ur­day 9th June • Assem­ble 12 Noon @ Manor House
• Fin­ish­ing at Chest­nuts Park for a pic­nic •

All Wel­come: espe­cial­ly cycles, scoot­ers, wheel­chairs, skate­boards, rollerblades, pedes­tri­ans…
Sup­port­ed by Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group www.haringey.org.uk

FOR CLEAN AIR AND A GREEN G8

WHY HAVE A CRITICAL MASS BIKE RIDE IN HARINGEY?
We are join­ing togeth­er on a Crit­i­cal Mass Bike Ride through Haringey as a colour­ful and fun way of high­light­ing envi­ron­men­tal and trans­port issues in the bor­ough. In the week when the G8 are gath­er­ing in Ger­many and the day
after the Inter­na­tion­al Day of Direct Action Against Cli­mate Change we should also be focus­ing on the glob­al cri­sis of cli­mate change and the envi­ron­men­tal impacts of oil depen­den­cy.

• It’s time we reclaimed our streets from the traf­fic and con­ges­tion that caus­es tox­ic lev­els of pol­lu­tion and injury and death.
• We want cycle lanes on Green Lanes and all over Haringey to make cycling a safer, more viable form of trans­port.
• We want mea­sures in place to reduce traf­fic speeds on all roads in Haringey, where dan­ger­ous dri­ving reg­u­lar­ly puts cyclists, chil­dren and pedes­tri­ans at risk.

WHAT’S THE G8 GOT TO DO WITH THIS?

• The G8 (Group of eight, most indus­tri­al­ized nations) Sum­mits are host­ed, on rota­tion, by the group’s mem­ber states. In 2007 the sum­mit is to be held on 6–8 June in Ros­tock, Ger­many.
• While it seems to be in the news a lot, Cli­mate Change is per­haps the issue that has received least atten­tion com­pared to the scale of destruc­tion that life on earth is fac­ing. It is the most seri­ous prob­lem fac­ing the world, more seri­ous than inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ism, accord­ing to the UK Government’s chief sci­en­tif­ic advi­sor.
• Cli­mate change needs to be high­er on the G8 agen­da. How­ev­er, we can­not leave it just to the sci­en­tists and politi­cians to dis­man­tle the car­bon machine.
• This bike ride aims to high­light this issue through action and the pro­mo­tion of cycling.

Let’s cel­e­brate the free­dom and plea­sure of trav­el­ling by bike – it’s much more fun and much health­i­er than being stuck in a car in a traf­fic jam. This will be a fun day out for every­one in a safe, sup­port­ive, pos­i­tive atmos­phere, show­ing how much safer and more pleas­ant our streets can be.

COME AND JOIN US!

If you feel it’s time to pro­mote cycling and encour­age a more sus­tain­able Haringey, or if you would like to get involved, vis­it the Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group web­site: www.haringey.org.uk

Earth First! summer gathering — Wednesday 18th July until Sunday 22nd July 2007 — location & programme announced

What is the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing?

* Are you fed up with bare-faced lies from politi­cians, big busi­ness and the media?
* Have you had enough of a world where cor­po­rate prof­it comes before life and dig­ni­ty?
* Do you want to see an end to mind­less con­sump­tion>
* Then this Gath­er­ing is for you! Read on…

EF! gathering '07 logo (rabbit/fence)What is the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing?

* Are you fed up with bare-faced lies from politi­cians, big busi­ness and the media?
* Have you had enough of a world where cor­po­rate prof­it comes before life and dig­ni­ty?
* Do you want to see an end to mind­less con­sump­tion>
* Then this Gath­er­ing is for you! Read on…

Explor­ing alter­na­tives to the cor­po­rate world of greed, lies & exploita­tion -

The Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing is the place where peo­ple involved in rad­i­cal eco­log­i­cal direct action — or those who want to be involved — get togeth­er for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what’s going on, find out what’s next, live out­side, strate­gise, hang out, incite, laugh and con­spire.

The gath­er­ing is also a prac­ti­cal exam­ple of non-hier­ar­chi­cal low-impact liv­ing in action.

We are a diverse com­mu­ni­ty with a wide range of approach­es to our action, so there should be plen­ty to inter­est and inspire every­one whether you have been active for years or are com­plete­ly new to it all.

More info at earthfirstgathering.org.uk