Indian fishermen reject nuclear plant

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

13 Sep­tem­ber 2011
RESISTANCE to nuclear pow­er is grow­ing across the world, fuelled by the Japan­ese dis­as­ter and now this week’s explo­sion in France.

In India, IBN reports that 10,000 fish­er­men staged a day-long fast protest­ing against the Koodanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Project (KNPP) being set up in the dis­trict under Indo-Russ­ian col­lab­o­ra­tion.

It says: “Around 10,000 fish­er­men from var­i­ous ham­lets in and around Koodanku­lam joined a core group of more than 100 fel­low fish­er­men of Idinthakarai whose indef­i­nite fast on the issue entered the third day on Mon­day, police said.

“More than 4,000 peo­ple had observed a fast on Sun­day protest­ing against the plant.”

It added in an update: “Express­ing their sol­i­dar­i­ty, hun­dreds of fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari left for Koodanku­lam on Mon­day to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike that is going on for the clo­sure of Kudanku­lam Nuclear Pow­er Plant .

“Led by the Kanyaku­mari parish priest Leon Ken­son, fish­er­men from Kanyaku­mari, Kovalam, Chin­na Mut­tom and sur­round­ing areas gath­ered in front of Our Lady of Ran­som Church at Kanyaku­mari on Mon­day morn­ing and left for Koodanku­lam in more than 50 vans.

“Ear­li­er, the coun­try boats in Kanyaku­mari and over 300 mech­a­nized boats at Chin­na Mut­tom fish­ing har­bour did not ven­ture into the sea as a form of protest.

“Apart from that, the fishermen’s chil­dren from Kanyaku­mari study­ing at var­i­ous schools and col­leges in the dis­trict did not report to their class­es today (Sep­tem­ber 12) and also accom­pa­nied their par­ents to par­tic­i­pate in the hunger strike at Koodanku­lam.”

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY VAN TORCHED, SPAIN

13.9.11

anony­mous com­mu­nique, trans­la­tion from This Is Our Job:

13.9.11

anony­mous com­mu­nique, trans­la­tion from This Is Our Job:

“This morn­ing, a van belong­ing to the multi­na­tion­al ‘con­struc­tion com­pa­ny’ PERI was torched. PERI is one of the most pow­er­ful com­pa­nies in the con­struc­tion indus­try, which is ded­i­cat­ed to destroy­ing the Earth through the build­ing of high­ways, pow­er sta­tions, etc.

We no longer rec­og­nize life, col­o­nized as it is by sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy. Nor can we talk about life skills, as the dead have replaced the liv­ing. In this tomb of cement and sug­ar, we are sur­round­ed by mil­lions of dead objects. The nan­otech­nol­o­gy and biotech­nol­o­gy indus­tries are the new dic­ta­tor­ships to be top­pled. They are the new mas­ters of the world, patent­ing life and impos­ing a form of non­life devoid of any kind of auton­o­my. In the war against them, we must arm our­selves with every pos­si­ble method and attack inces­sant­ly. We rec­og­nize a part of nature in our­selves, and we fight against whomev­er would take away and destroy that nature. There is no time to lose. Our desire and pas­sion will put an end to every­thing that dom­i­nates us.

Civ­i­liza­tion (not anar­chy!!!!) is the high­est expres­sion of order. There­fore, instead of the order and con­trol that dri­ve us to mad­ness, we embrace chaos, indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, and the unique­ness of every liv­ing thing.

Who­ev­er talks about rev­o­lu­tion and class strug­gle with­out cri­tiquing sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy has a corpse in their mouth.

For Bil­ly, Sil­via, Cos­ta, Mar­co, and our insur­gent broth­ers and sis­ters in Chile, Greece, Mex­i­co, etc.

‘And if your heart isn’t bro­ken by the knowl­edge of what they are doing to the world we love, then I feel sor­ry for you. Maybe you’re no longer alive. But if the death of the plan­et we love makes you cry, then take those tears and turn them into action.’
—Rod Coro­n­a­do”

Span­ish:
“Esta madru­ga­da fue incen­di­a­da una fur­gone­ta de la multi­na­cional ‘con­struc­to­ra’ PERI, una de la empre­sas más fuertes en el sec­tor de la con­struc­ción, que se ded­i­ca a destru­ir la tier­ra medi­ante obras de autopis­tas, cen­trales elelctri­c­as…..

Ya no recono­ce­mos la vida, col­o­niza­da por la cien­cia y la tec­nolo­gia, más bien podri­amos hablar de la tec­ni­ca de la vida, donde lo muer­to ha susti­tu­i­do a lo vivo, rodea­d­os de mil­lones de obje­tos muer­tos, en esta tum­ba de cemen­to y azu­car. Las empre­sas de nano y biotec­nolo­gia son las nuevas dic­taduras a las que der­rib­ar, son ellas las nuevas amas del mun­do, quienes paten­tan la vida y quienes nos impo­nen una for­ma de no-vida en la que desa­parece cualquier for­ma de autonomía, es en la guer­ra con­tra ellas en la que debe­mos armarnos de todos los medios posi­bles y atacar sin cesar, recono­cer­nos una parte de la nat­u­raleza y luchar con­tra quién nos ale­ja de ella y la destruye. No hay tiem­po que esper­ar es nue­stro deseo y pasión acabar con­tra todo lo que nos dom­i­na.

La civ­i­lización (y no la anar­quia!!!!) es la máx­i­ma expre­sión del orden, por eso abrazamos el caos, la indi­vid­u­al­i­dad y la pecu­liari­dad de cada ser vivo, con­tra el orden y el con­trol que nos lle­van a la locu­ra.

Quien habla de rev­olu­ción y de lucha de clases sin criticar la cien­cia y la tec­nolo­gia tiene un cadav­er en la boca.
A Bil­ly, Sil­via, Cos­ta, Mar­co, a nues­tras her­manxs insur­rec­txs en Chile, Gre­cia, Mex­i­co……

‘Y si no se te parte el corazón al saber lo que le están hacien­do al mun­do que amamos, sien­to lás­ti­ma por ti, quizás ya no estés vivx. Pero si la muerte del plan­e­ta que amamos te hace llo­rar, entonces toma esas lágri­mas y con­viérte­las en acción.‘
Rod Coro­n­a­do.”

Land & Freedom camp, London

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Free­dom

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

Land & Free­dom

Greet­ings,

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept till Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to high­light the issue of the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship and the pol­i­tics and laws regard­ing the use of the land local­ly and glob­al­ly.  We want to com­mu­ni­cate the myr­i­ad of effects that the cur­rent sys­tem has includ­ing:

  •  the almost com­plete restric­tion of access to land to live (and grow) autonomous­ly and sus­tain­ably by com­mon peo­ple in the UK and around the world due to laws gov­ern­ing use of the land and/or eco­nom­ic dom­i­na­tion of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensu­ing effect of arti­fi­cial scarci­ty of avail­able land that the restric­tion of access cre­ates: dri­ving up the cost of hous­ing and reduc­ing it’s avail­abil­i­ty in both cities and the rur­al areas.  This cre­ates a slave cul­ture where peo­ple strug­gle to make end’s meet in crammed urban envi­ron­ments or as for the most of the world’s pop­u­la­tion even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the mod­ern lega­cy of polit­i­cal struc­tures that serve the inter­ests of the land own­ing estab­lish­ment which have been pre­vi­ous­ly con­struct­ed through his­to­ry by the same priv­eleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these struc­tures con­tin­ue to push for­ward  dis­pos­sess­ing peo­ple local­ly and glob­al­ly: whether it be the UK Gov­’s agen­da to ban squat­ting, evict­ing peo­ple from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dis­pos­ses­sion of peo­ple from the land they depend on for their sur­vival.
  • the com­plete­ly unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, unsus­tain­able and dan­ger­ous con­trol of the nat­ur­al resources by pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions for prof­it, monop­o­lis­ing pro­duc­tion of human­i­ties bare neces­si­ties: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarci­ty, destruc­tion of eco-sys­tems, cli­mate change, peak oil etc…

We go peace­ful­ly to Clapham Com­mon call­ing for a rad­i­cal change in the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship: a redis­tri­b­u­tion of land local­ly and glob­al­ly and a reform of the laws which cur­rent­ly pre­vent rea­son­able access to the land by the com­mon peo­ple. 
We are com­mon peo­ple!

Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny

On Sat­ur­day 17th Sep­tem­ber, we will be meet­ing at the Band­stand on Clapham Com­mon from 12 o’clock onwards for the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Land & Free­dom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, pre­sen­ta­tions, a peo­ple’s assem­bly, games and a pic­nic.  If you want to, bring an instru­ment, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Loca­tion: Band­stand, Clapham Com­mon.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Trans­port: Clapham Com­mon tube or Clapham South. Bus­es from Clapham Junc­tion.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195 for any ques­tions.

Ban­ner Mak­ing Ses­sion @ Pass­ing Clouds in Dal­ston this Mon­day

If you fan­cy mak­ing some beau­ti­ful ban­ners, this Mon­day (12th Sept), there will be an oppur­tu­ni­ty to paint ban­ners for the Land & Free­dom Camp at Pass­ing Clouds from 6–8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or ban­ner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F ban­ner mak­ing ses­sion
Time: 6–8 p.m
Loca­tion: Pass­ing Clouds, Dal­ston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Trans­port: Haggerston/ Dal­ston Kings­land.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195.

Final plan­ning meet­ing @ the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall on Wednes­day.

The final open plan­ning meet­ing for the Land & Free­dom Camp will be this Wednes­day (14th Sept) in the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don from 6 p.m onwards. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be logis­ti­cal prepa­ra­tion for Sat­ur­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and the rest of the camp, PR strat­e­gy organ­i­sa­tion and net­work­ing the event. 

Event: final L&F plan­ning meet­ing.
Time: 6 p.m
Loca­tion: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Trans­port: near­est tube: Water­loo
Con­tact: 07963475195

Call out for pre­sen­ta­tions, music and per­for­mance for Land & Free­dom Camp

Have you got some­thing you would like to present relat­ing to the core issues of the Land & Free­dom Camp?  Per­haps you’d like to express your­self through music, poet­ry, the­atre or anoth­er art form? Have you got an activ­i­ty or work­shop that will empow­er peo­ple?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organ­ise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Com­mon between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d pre­fer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the loca­tion to be post­ed on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are cur­rent­ly short of: tarps, tents, ban­ner mate­r­i­al, cook­ing pots, food & water con­tain­ers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videog­ra­phy, real jour­nal­ism, pho­tog­ra­phy, art, cook­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, facil­i­tat­ing, skip­ping, tat­ting & fun­ning 8)

Join the Net­works and spread the word:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845#

fol­low us on Twit­ter : @freetheland

www.landandfreedom.squat.net

Fliers and posters for shar­ing and print­ing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land and­free­dom/­land-free­dom-ca mp-poster+105652

Fli­er———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Con­tact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Pro­pri­ety and sin­gle inter­est divides the peo­ple of a land and the whole world into par­ties and is the cause of all wars and blood­shed and con­tention every­where”

 

Ger­rard Win­stan­ley & 14 oth­ers TheTrue Lev­ellers Stan­dard Advanced — April, 1649

Email Con­tact email: Land_and_freedom-medium
Lan & Free­dom

Greet­ings,

This is an update on the Land & Free­dom Camp: a 7 day open exhi­bi­tion and demon­stra­tion tak­ing place on Clapham Com­mon from Sat 17th Sept til Sun 25th Sept.

The aim of the camp is to high­light the issue of the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship and the pol­i­tics and laws regard­ing the use of the land local­ly and glob­al­ly.  We want to com­mu­ni­cate the myr­i­ad of effects that the cur­rent sys­tem has includ­ing:

  •  the almost com­plete restric­tion of access to land to live (and grow) autonomous­ly and sus­tain­ably by com­mon peo­ple in the UK and around the world due to laws gov­ern­ing use of the land and/or eco­nom­ic dom­i­na­tion of it by the few (despite there being over 5 acres of land for every human being on earth) *
  •  the ensu­ing effect of arti­fi­cial scarci­ty of avail­able land that the restric­tion of access cre­ates: dri­ving up the cost of hous­ing and reduc­ing it’s avail­abil­i­ty in both cities and the rur­al areas.  This cre­ates a slave cul­ture where peo­ple strug­gle to make end’s meet in crammed urban envi­ron­ments or as for the most of the world’s pop­u­la­tion even to put food in their mouths. 
  • the mod­ern lega­cy of polit­i­cal struc­tures that serve the inter­ests of the land own­ing estab­lish­ment which have been pre­vi­ous­ly con­struct­ed through his­to­ry by the same priv­eleged group. 
  • the laws and land grabs which these struc­tures con­tin­ue to push for­ward  dis­pos­sess­ing peo­ple local­ly and glob­al­ly: whether it be the UK Gov­’s agen­da to ban squat­ting, evict­ing peo­ple from their land (Dale Farm) or as in Africa with the forced dis­pos­ses­sion of peo­ple from the land they depend on for their sur­vival.
  • the com­plete­ly unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, unsus­tain­able and dan­ger­ous con­trol of the nat­ur­al resources by pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions for prof­it, monop­o­lis­ing pro­duc­tion of human­i­ties bare neces­si­ties: food, fuel, water and so on. The result: food scarci­ty, destruc­tion of eco-sys­tems, cli­mate change, peak oil etc…

We go peace­ful­ly to Clapham Com­mon call­ing for a rad­i­cal change in the eco­nom­ics of land own­er­ship: a redis­tri­b­u­tion of land local­ly and glob­al­ly and a reform of the laws which cur­rent­ly pre­vent rea­son­able access to the land by the com­mon peo­ple. 
We are com­mon peo­ple!

Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny

On Sat­ur­day 17th Sep­tem­ber, we will be meet­ing at the Band­stand on Clapham Com­mon from 12 O’Clock onwards for the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Land & Free­dom Camp.  Join us, whether you intend to stay the night or not.  There will be some music, pre­sen­ta­tions, a peo­ple’s assem­bly, games and a pic­nic.  If you want to, bring an instru­ment, some food and/or a game that groups can play. 

Event: Land & Free­dom Camp open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.
Time: 12 Noon onwards.
Loca­tion: Band­stand, Clapham Com­mon.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/6l66xw4
Trans­port: Clapham Com­mon tube or Clapham South. Bus­es from Clapham Junc­tion.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195 for any ques­tions.

Ban­ner Mak­ing Ses­sion @ Pass­ing Clouds in Dal­ston this Mon­day

If you fan­cy mak­ing some beau­ti­ful ban­ners, this Mon­day (12th Sept), there will be an oppur­tu­ni­ty to paint ban­ners for the Land & Free­dom Camp at Pass­ing Clouds from 6–8 p.m   If you are able to please bring along paint and or ban­ner material/brushes. 

Event: L&F ban­ner mak­ing ses­sion
Time: 6–8 p.m
Loca­tion: Pass­ing Clouds, Dal­ston, E8,
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/5rwam74
Trans­port: Haggerston/ Dal­ston Kings­land.
Con­tact: 07963 475 195.

Final plan­ning meet­ing @ the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall on Wednes­day.

The final open plan­ning meet­ing for the Land & Free­dom Camp will be this Wednes­day (14th Sept) in the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don from 6 p.m onwards. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be logis­ti­cal prepa­ra­tion for Sat­ur­day’s open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and the rest of the camp, PR strat­e­gy organ­i­sa­tion and net­work­ing the event. 

Event: final L&F plan­ning meet­ing.
Time: 6 p.m
Loca­tion: Blue Zone, 4th Floor, Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall, South­bank, Lon­don.
Map link: http://tinyurl.com/5voqotw
Trans­port: near­est tube: Water­loo
Con­tact: 07963475195

Call out for pre­sen­ta­tions, music and per­for­mance for Land & Free­dom Camp

Have you got some­thing you would like to present relat­ing to the core issues of the Land & Free­dom Camp?  Per­haps you’d like to express your­self through music, poet­ry, the­atre or anoth­er art form? Have you got an activ­i­ty or work­shop that will empow­er peo­ple?  If so, please send an email to landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org with what it is that you want to do and we can organ­ise a time and day with you to do it on Clapham Com­mon between 17th Sept and the 25th.  If you’d pre­fer, just come along to the camp itself (exact details of the loca­tion to be post­ed on landandfreedomcamp.squat.net on the 17th Sept).

 
TAT CALLOUT.
We are cur­rent­ly short of: tarps, tents, ban­ner mate­r­i­al, cook­ing pots, food & water con­tain­ers.  If you can help with all or any of these, please email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org, call or text: 07963 475 195.  Thx 8)

SKILLS WANTED
Videog­ra­phy, real jour­nal­ism, pho­tog­ra­phy, art, cook­ing, com­mu­ni­cat­ing, facil­i­tat­ing, skip­ping, tat­ting & fun­ning 8)

Join the Net­works and spread the word:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845#

fol­low us on Twit­ter : @freetheland

www.landandfreedom.squat.net

Fliers and posters for shar­ing and print­ing.

 

 

Poster——–>https://we.riseup.net/land and­free­dom/­land-free­dom-ca mp-poster+105652

Fli­er———–>https://we.riseup.net/asse ts/65289/Reclaim%20the%20c ommons1.pdf

Con­tact: landandfreedom.squat.net
Tel: 07963 475 195.

 

“Pro­pri­ety and sin­gle inter­est divides the peo­ple of a land and the whole world into par­ties and is the cause of all wars and blood­shed and con­tention every­where”

 

Ger­rard Win­stan­ley & 14 oth­ers TheTrue Lev­ellers Stan­dard Advanced — April, 1649

Email Con­tact email: landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org

“>landandfreedomcamp@aktivix.org

ELF ACTIONS IN RUSSIA APRIL/MAY 2011

received anony­mous­ly:

received anony­mous­ly:

“Dur­ing the night of may 4th we sneaked upon anoth­er tree har­vester and torched it, using the heavy rain as cov­er. 15 min­utes lat­er it explod­ed (we sus­pect fire in hydraulics to be the cause). Police and city offi­cials con­firmed the suc­cess­ful torch­ing and evac of the destroyed vehi­cle (link to the eco-cam­paign site with cita­tions: http://ecmo.ru/news/n‑1778/).

This spring saw works to clearcut a huge Khim­ki for­est con­tin­ue unabat­ed. In spite of numer­ous and mas­sive peo­ple protests, all the legal and lib­er­al stuff (polls, peti­tions, law suits, con­certs, demos, vig­ils, etc.), author­i­ties, law enforce­ment, and their fas­cists and mafia lack­eys (for­ev­er togeth­er in Rus­sia) push for the com­ple­tion of clear-cuts so that they may get on to the actu­al road-build­ing. And in one part of the for­est they’ve already redi­rect­ed a flow of a riv­er (a sin­gle and major body of water and site of sig­nif­i­cant avian pop­u­la­tion in the area) to facil­i­tate con­struc­tion of a road junc­tion link: (in russ­ian, but has pho­tos http://ecmo.ru/news/n‑1772/).

We ask of all whom it may con­cern to con­sid­er actions against Vin­ci, France (the inter­na­tion­al con­sor­tium financ­ing this defor­esta­tion project), as it seems the only viable tar­get out­side Rus­sia. Appre­ci­a­tion for your sol­i­dar­i­ty out there, peo­ple, and our sol­i­dar­i­ty with your local fights of our glob­al resis­tance!

- ELF-Rus­sia, Inter­na­tion­al Net­work of Action and Solidarity/ Infor­mal Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion”

—–

report­ed by activists in Rus­sia:

“An ELF group claims respon­si­bil­i­ty for torch­ing of a work­ers’ shed (the build­ing was checked to ensure it was unoc­cu­pied pri­or to the attack) at a tree­cut site in south­ern Moscow (Bitcevs­ki for­est) on the night of april the 11th. An 5 litres of gaso­line and incen­di­ary device for time delay were used because of close prox­im­i­ty to guard­house and seri­ous sen­try pres­ence in the region. The for­est has seen numer­ous eco­tage actions (spik­ing, torch­ings of vehi­cles and stor­age sheds, etc), hence intense police atten­tion. No pho­tos or videos were released. The shed and its con­tents explod­ed 5 min­utes lat­er for unknown rea­sons.
— ELF-Rus­sia, Inter­na­tion­al Net­work of Action and Sol­i­dar­i­ty — Infor­mal Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion”

—–
Bitcevs­ki

“Urban gueril­las” in Moscow have claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for the torch­ing of a large exca­va­tor at a con­do­mini­um con­struc­tion site near the Bitcevs­ki for­est on April 9. The con­do­mini­um is being built in part by the Russ­ian Mil­i­tary Intel­li­gence Ser­vice. Mil­i­tary per­son­nel are sup­posed to be sta­tioned in the build­ing. Video from the action and the Russ­ian com­mu­nique avail­able here: http://blackblocg.info/index.php/protestnye-dejstviya/93-gorodskie-partizany-atakovali-tochechnuyu-zastrojku-v-yasenevo

—–

anony­mous report:
“On the night of april the 5th, 2011, an exca­va­tor was set aflame and explod­ed 10 min­utes lat­er at the high­way con­struc­tion site that cuts through forests of Moscow region.

- ELF-Rus­sia”

VILLAGERS RESIST POWER PLANT, DRILLING VEHICLE BURNED, TURKEY

report­ed by activists in Turkey:

report­ed by activists in Turkey:

“On 5th of Sep­tem­ber, drilling vehi­cles of Anadolu Group (this group is the biggest part­ner of McDon­alds Turkey, Coca Cola Turkey) which tries to build a ther­mic pow­er plant to Gerze-Sinop tried to enter Yayk­il vil­lage. Local peo­ple and eco-activists bar­ri­cad­ed the roads to vil­lage for defend­ing their land, but police and gen­darme attacked peo­ple with tear gas, pep­per spray, water can­nons and batons. Activists answered this attack with stones and slo­gans. Dur­ing the police attack some build­ings, barns, farms and bush­es caught fire; 25 activists and 4 police­men injured.

Because of their resis­tance, drilling vehi­cles left the vil­lage. At night police took 6 activists in cus­tody from their homes.

At night of Sep­tem­ber 6, a drilling vehi­cle which was wait­ing in a gas sta­tion near the vil­lage was burned by unknown peo­ple. The vehi­cle is total­ly destroyed. Gen­darme and local police is still search­ing for the arson­ists in Gerze.

For pic­tures you can check out: http://www.gerzegundem.com/son-dakika/yaykilda-kan-akti-h545.html

For the video of police attack:
http://webtv.sabah.com.tr/webtv/videoizle/gerzede-polisten-cevrecilere-sert-mudahale

Ani­mal and Earth Lib­er­a­tion Sup­port­ers from Turkey”

DSEI protest convergence space

Con­ver­gence space for DSEI protest now open — all wel­come.

St. Mar­garet’s House Set­tle­ment
21 Old Ford Road
Beth­nal Green
E2 9PL

We have tak­en the above space (a for­mer Veg­an restau­rant) and have opened it as a con­ver­gence space for next weeks DSEI protests. All wel­come.

Please bring sleep­ing bags and an open mind­ed atti­tude to how we can close DSEI this year.

Con­ver­gence space for DSEI protest now open — all wel­come.

St. Mar­garet’s House Set­tle­ment
21 Old Ford Road
Beth­nal Green
E2 9PL

We have tak­en the above space (a for­mer Veg­an restau­rant) and have opened it as a con­ver­gence space for next weeks DSEI protests. All wel­come.

Please bring sleep­ing bags and an open mind­ed atti­tude to how we can close DSEI this year.

There are cur­rent­ly 20 of us and we expect to have over 30 oth­ers arriv­ing Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, we are not work­ing with the ‘fluffy’ demos of Dis­arm DSEI and CAAT, we are about stop­ping DSEI.

Occupy! Manchester — 2nd October Tory Party Conference

From 2–5 Octo­ber 2011 the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty are com­ing to Man­ches­ter to hold their annu­al con­fer­ence. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in imple­ment­ing their dis­as­trous pro­gram of pub­lic sec­tor spend­ing cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This con­fer­ence should not go unop­posed. We intend to make the oppo­si­tion to the cuts and the wide­ly shared belief in a bet­ter alter­na­tive future vis­i­ble, and we’d like to do this with you!

From 2–5 Octo­ber 2011 the Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty are com­ing to Man­ches­ter to hold their annu­al con­fer­ence. All eyes will be on this city as the Tory’s analyse their progress in imple­ment­ing their dis­as­trous pro­gram of pub­lic sec­tor spend­ing cuts, and reveal plans for the years ahead. This con­fer­ence should not go unop­posed. We intend to make the oppo­si­tion to the cuts and the wide­ly shared belief in a bet­ter alter­na­tive future vis­i­ble, and we’d like to do this with you!

Tories not wel­come!

We have been inspired by the large and vibrant stu­dent protests that took place last win­ter, by the dynam­ic and high-impact actions of UK Uncut, and by the pop­u­lar demon­stra­tions we are wit­ness­ing across North Africa, the Mid­dle East, Spain and Greece. The times are chang­ing and peo­ple are speak­ing out against injus­tice and inequal­i­ty.

What are you plan­ning to do?

We need to try new forms of oppo­si­tion. We have marched in our tens of thou­sands at pre­vi­ous par­ty con­fer­ences, and in our hun­dreds of thou­sands in Lon­don. Cru­cial as they are, more march­es in big­ger num­bers will not be enough. As the anti-war protests of 2003 showed, the gov­ern­ment finds them easy to ignore. As anger at the Con-Dem cuts grows we need to make it more vis­i­ble.

The cuts are for the ben­e­fit of the rich – we refuse to pay for their cri­sis!

The TUC have called a nation­al demon­stra­tion to be held in Man­ches­ter on Sun­day Octo­ber 2nd. That after­noon anti-cuts pro­tes­tors will occu­py Albert Square to cre­ate an assem­bly of protest on the doorstep of the Tory’s con­fer­ence, a sym­bol of the mass oppo­si­tion to the cuts and a place for real
debate and dis­cus­sion about the alter­na­tives and the pos­si­bil­i­ties.

Come ready to make noise, and stay for the long haul!

Occupy!MCR

Sup­port­ers so far:

* Bak­ers Food and Allied Work­ers Union – Man­ches­ter and Mersey­side.
* Edu­ca­tion Activist Net­work.
* Geoff Brown, Sec­re­tary of the Man­ches­ter TUC (pc).
* Man­ches­ter Book Bloc.
* The Man­ches­ter Green and Black Cross.
* Man­ches­ter UKun­cut.
* Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty Staff against the Cuts.
* Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dent Union.
* Queer Resis­tance North-West.
* Real Democ­ra­cy Man­ches­ter.
* Shift Mag­a­zine.
* Social­ist Work­ers Par­ty.
* Social­ist Work­er Stu­dent Soci­ety.

German coal blockade during climate camp

30.08.2011
Since 10.30 this morn­ing a group of over 50 activists have been blockad­ing a coal trans­port rail­way in the Cologne area. The action takes place at the same time as the near­by inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Camp, protest­ing the open-cast min­ing of brown coal (www.klimacamp2011.de)

30.08.2011
Since 10.30 this morn­ing a group of over 50 activists have been blockad­ing a coal trans­port rail­way in the Cologne area. The action takes place at the same time as the near­by inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Camp, protest­ing the open-cast min­ing of brown coal (www.klimacamp2011.de)

The activists peace­ful­ly blocked the line ear­ly this morn­ing, erect­ing ban­ners and green­wash­ing the rail­way tracks. The protest is aimed at ener­gy giant RWE, which oper­ates a num­ber of pow­er sta­tions in the area and is respon­si­ble for about 10% of Ger­many’s car­bon diox­ide emis­sions.

The protest is being kept well-sup­plied with blan­kets and food by mem­bers of the cli­mate camp, and is cur­rent­ly prepar­ing for a night on the tracks.

The inter­na­tion­al cli­mate camp is sit­u­at­ed in the vil­lage of Man­heim which is sched­uled to be destroyed in order to enlarge a brown coal strip mine. Brown coal, or lig­nite, is a less pure form of coal and is there­fore much less ener­gy-effi­cient and cre­ates greater emis­sions than reg­u­lar coal.

The inter­na­tion­al cli­mate camp includes guests from as far afield as Colom­bia and Azer­bai­jan and aims to build links with­in the inter­na­tion­al cli­mate jus­tice move­ment, call­ing for urgent sys­tem change, not cli­mate change.

Genetically Modified Papaya Farm Sabotaged in Hawaii

8.9.11

Accord­ing to Hawaii Coun­ty police, thou­sands of GE papaya trees were sab­o­taged last month, appar­ent­ly by machete on the Big Island.

8.9.11

Accord­ing to Hawaii Coun­ty police, thou­sands of GE papaya trees were sab­o­taged last month, appar­ent­ly by machete on the Big Island.

“It’s hard to imag­ine any­body putting that much effort into doing some­thing like that,” said Delan Per­ry, vice pres­i­dent of the Hawaii Papaya Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press. “It means some­body has to have pas­sion­ate rea­son.”

Workshop for Actions and Alternatives — all-year-climate-camp

There’s some­thing strange about cli­mate change: It’s well-known, there’s no need for gen­er­al edu­ca­tion. Every­body sup­ports approach­ing the prob­lem and stop­ping human-caused cli­mate change.

There’s some­thing strange about cli­mate change: It’s well-known, there’s no need for gen­er­al edu­ca­tion. Every­body sup­ports approach­ing the prob­lem and stop­ping human-caused cli­mate change.
Although gov­ern­ments promise answers and solu­tions, we’re just watch­ing a rapid increase of the cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe. Thus the sus­pi­cion comes to mind, that the right solu­tions haven’t been found – or rather that they’re not accept­able for econ­o­my and gov­ern­ments.
The ques­tion aris­es, if our world can wait for a solu­tion. Peo­ple in regions, where it comes to food short­age, scer­tain­ly not. At first, peo­ple in poor regions won’t be able to adapt to changes. Droughts or floods will force them to flee. Most­ly var­i­ous rea­sons urge peo­ple to flight, yet cli­mate change will play an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role.
This fact by itself ques­tions the dis­tri­b­u­tion of raw mate­ri­als and food on this world – or why the poor­est, who con­tributed the small­est part of cli­mate-rel­e­vant green­house-gas­es so far, shall bear most of the dam­age.
Europe guards itself: Legal bar­ri­ers for flee­ing per­sons are intol­er­a­bly high and on the Mediter­ranean Sea, the Euro­pean police force “fron­tex” pro­vides a hard­ly pass­able block­ade. We see this sit­u­a­tion as cyn­i­cal and dis­sat­is­fy­ing – for the flee­ing it’s rather fatal. On the basis of this exam­ple we want to illus­trate that it’s about more than ener­gy-sav­ing lamps and recy­cled paper. Nei­ther do we see the nuclear phase­out in Ger­many, linked to a half-heart­ed ener­gy tran­si­tion, as a solu­tion. There’s a lot to do…

This fly­er address­es to all per­sons, who are not will­ing to wait for a solu­tion “from above” any­more. The aim shall be to take the ini­tia­tive your­self, to see your­self as an active per­son in this “polit­i­cal pow­er game”, in which we usu­al­ly just should move as con­sumers. Let’s cre­ate deter­mined, pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics togeth­er from below – for an entire­ly dif­fer­ent cli­mate.

Why in the Rhen­ish brown coal-min­ing region?
In this region, brown coal is mined in three open­cast mines, main­ly for six gigan­tic coal-fired pow­er sta­tions, where­by the vast bulk of CO2 in Europe is emit­ted. What “Wend­land” is for nuclear ener­gy, the Rhen­ish brown coal-min­ing region has to become for car­bon ener­gy. We want to work togeth­er with con­cerned locals – whole vil­lages are forced to reset­tle – in sol­i­dar­i­ty against destruc­tion.
We want to present a live­ly counter-image to cap­i­tal­ist destruc­tive­ness! Here, exper­i­men­tal liv­ing of a cli­mate-neu­tral future, over there the tear-off edge, the hole – square-kilo­me­tres of destruc­tion. Decide now!

Space for learn­ing
Cours­es and sem­i­nars shall be pro­vid­ed in a Do-It-Your­self cul­ture. Themes turn around cli­mate-neu­tral life, non-hier­ar­chi­cal meth­ods and forms of organ­i­sa­tion, diverse kinds of the­o­ret­i­cal stuff and meth­ods of resis­tance. And since we nei­ther belief in homo­ge­neous con­cepts from above against cli­mate change, nor find them desir­able, we con­sid­er a debate from below nec­es­sary. A debate, in which every­one is invit­ed to take part, which isn’t build up on expert’s hier­ar­chies, which doesn’t seek uni­fi­ca­tion, but which can stand dif­fer­ent posi­tions, in hope that there will arise syn­the­ses out of ten­sions in between.

And action…
The work­shop shall serve as a plat­form for dif­fer­ent actions against destruc­tion of the envi­ron­ment and liv­ing space. There­by we focus on devel­op­ing putting into prac­tice meth­ods of actions, which we togeth­er do with per­sons from there and else­where, which aim at the eman­ci­pa­tion of the sin­gle indi­vid­u­als.

The Work­shop for Actions and Alter­na­tives is being built up from Sep­tem­ber (2011) on in
52355 Düren, Kalls­gasse 20

How to get there and lat­est infos:
waa.blogsport.de

If you feel appealed by this text, there are diverse pos­si­bil­i­ties how you can take part:
— Come and see what we’re doing
— Con­tribute your ideas and tal­ents (of organ­i­sa­tion for exam­ple)
— Get in touch if you want to teach or learn some­thing
— Dis­trib­ute this fly­er
— Offer your abil­i­ties: Lay-out­ing, writ­ing, do research
— Dona­tions of mon­ey would also help:
account of dona­tion: