HIGHWAY PROJECT SABOTAGED

received anony­mous­ly:

“10 kms of inter­state high­way staked out for exten­sion were sab­o­taged last week in North­ern Ukraine.

Although some could argue that activism like this is not even worth men­tion­ing (that’s our own atti­tude on the mat­ter, for exam­ple, like shoplift­ing or sten­sils), we do find it nec­es­sary to men­tion the act.

First rea­son is an impor­tant notice that usu­al­ly fails to make its way into minds of some of our com­rades. While it is impor­tant to respond to Sys­tem offen­sive actions (like reac­tive attacks that took place in Kharkov and Saint-Peters­burgh and Moscow and basi­cal­ly every­where, where eco-anar­chists RESPOND to rap­ing of Nature), we find it more impor­tant to con­tin­ue our attacks on tech­nol­o­gy and its means of destruc­tion of nature even when no con­crete offense is tak­ing place.
In our case we just hap­pened upon some old high­way exten­sion project, which, like many cost­ly projects in Ukraine, was sus­pend­ed because of awful econ­o­my of the coun­try. Moth­er-Nature has already start­ed reclaim­ing the area, with grass and dirt cov­er­ing plates of con­crete and some sur­vey stakes.

But its obvi­ous for every­one liv­ing in here that projects like this (inter­state high­way between Moscow and Kiev) will be put to life, for exam­ple as soon as next bil­lion of dol­lars gets send by IMF or some­thing.
So our small vagabond group of earth lib­er­a­tionists went to van­dal­ism as soon as sur­vey stakes were noticed. Just to help the Wild and has­ten the process. We do believe the task was worth it.

And the rea­son for this is the thing that’s often lost in com­mu­niques of our com­rades world-wide. Its the most won­der­ful and mag­i­cal feel­ing of com­mu­nion with nature. When one does not only feels invig­o­rat­ed and excit­ed because of his deeds, but some­thing extra­or­di­nary hap­pens, that gives hope and pro­vides the momen­tum nec­es­sary for con­tin­u­a­tion of our project.

Dur­ing the process of (tire­some and dan­ger­ous ’cause of police inter­ven­tion) joy­ful destruc­tion, our hun­gry and thirsty band (rea­sons for our thirst and hunger being banal trav­el from point A to point B) kept stum­bling upon boun­ti­ful bush­es of wild sweet­bri­ar, so that we man­aged to fill our­selves and eat/suck the juices to our delight.
It is in moments like this that one gets to real­ly appre­ci­ate the con­nec­tion that comes into being when one turns away from civ­i­liza­tion and towards untamed Wild.

- Inter­na­tion­al ELF/FAI”