Climate activists’ convictions quashed

The con­vic­tions of 20 cli­mate activists were quashed by the Court of Appeal on Wednes­day. The 20 had been con­vict­ed of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit aggra­vat­ed tres­pass at Rat­cliffe-on-Soar pow­er sta­tion, in Decem­ber last year.

The con­vic­tions of 20 cli­mate activists were quashed by the Court of Appeal on Wednes­day. The 20 had been con­vict­ed of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit aggra­vat­ed tres­pass at Rat­cliffe-on-Soar pow­er sta­tion, in Decem­ber last year. How­ev­er, rev­e­la­tions about the with­hold­ing of evi­dence gath­ered by under­cov­er police offi­cer Mark Kennedy led to the Direc­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions request­ing an inde­pen­dent review into the safe­ty of the pros­e­cu­tions. Lord Chief Jus­tice, Lord Judge, said the con­vic­tions had been a mis­car­riage of jus­tice.

On the IMC newswire: Cli­mate activists’ con­vic­tions quashed | HM Court of Appeal: Lord Chief Jus­tice Appeal Judge­ment on Ratcliffe20 | Not­ting­hamshire­Po­lice extreme­ly dis­ap­point­ed shame | Rat­cliffe pow­er sta­tion pro­test­ers cleared on appe | Rat­cliffe Crown Court Tri­al ‘Col­lect­ed Report’ PDF

Pre­vi­ous fea­tures: Guilty ver­dict in Rat­cliffe tri­al | Rat­cliffe Tri­al: Week 2 | Rat­cliffe Tri­al: Pros­e­cu­tion Opens | Rat­cliffe Con­spir­a­cy Tri­al Begins | Mass Arrest of 114 Cli­mate Activists in Raid

Activists’ state­ment

We are 20 of the 114 peo­ple who were pre­emp­tive­ly arrest­ed near E.ON’s Rat­cliffe-on-Soar coal pow­er sta­tion over two years ago. Dur­ing our tri­al last year we argued that our plan to safe­ly shut down the pow­er sta­tion was nec­es­sary in order to pro­tect the ever esca­lat­ing num­bers of peo­ple dying as a result of cli­mate change. We lat­er found out our tri­al was rigged by the police and CPS to get con­vic­tions.

Through plac­ing under­cov­er offi­cers in our move­ment, using mass pre­emp­tive arrest and rig­ging our tri­al, the state has delib­er­ate­ly attempt­ed to silence dis­sent­ing voic­es. This quelling of dis­sent, now repeat­ed in the young peo­ple fac­ing prison for protest­ing against the attacks on pub­lic ser­vices, is fun­da­men­tal­ly unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic. It is yet anoth­er exam­ple of those in pow­er pro­tect­ing their own inter­ests. Whether it’s E.ON Ener­gy or News Inter­na­tion­al, the gov­ern­ment and police have a track record of col­lud­ing with big busi­ness. We need to look at the root caus­es of cli­mate change, and ask why the prof­its of cor­po­ra­tions such as E.ON are being pri­ori­tised over future gen­er­a­tions, and the mil­lions already on the front line of our chang­ing cli­mate. Tak­ing action on cli­mate change is not an act of moral right­eous­ness, its about pro­tect­ing our future. His­to­ry is full of exam­ples of ordi­nary peo­ple act­ing to defend their rights and those of oth­ers, and we need a strong move­ment of peo­ple doing just that. Win­ning this appeal is just one small vic­to­ry in the fight against the sys­tem­i­cal­ly polit­i­cal nature of polic­ing. We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all those have suf­fered injus­tice from the state or face repres­sion for dar­ing to take polit­i­cal action.

Links:

Rat­cliffe on Tri­al

The full judg­ment

DPP announce­ment of inde­pen­dent inquiry

Not­ting­hamshire Police state­ment

GM wheat gets the chop, Australia

Update: offices raid­ed week after decon­t­a­m­i­na­tion / French sci­en­tist dis­cov­ers signs of tox­ic effects relate

Update: offices raid­ed week after decon­t­a­m­i­na­tion / French sci­en­tist dis­cov­ers signs of tox­ic effects relat­ed to eat­ing GM foods / action video

14 July 2011

Green­peace activists, includ­ing one moth­er who wants to pro­tect her fam­i­ly, have stopped a GM wheat exper­i­ment out­side Can­ber­ra this morn­ing.

Two women used whip­per snip­pers to remove a con­tro­ver­sial genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) wheat crop before day break.

The activists con­struct­ed a decon­t­a­m­i­na­tion area to safe­ly dis­pose of the untest­ed and poten­tial­ly unsta­ble GM organ­isms.

Safety in question

The activ­i­ty fol­lows the rev­e­la­tion that Australia’s peak sci­en­tif­ic body, CSIRO, is con­duct­ing the world’s first human feed­ing tri­als of GM wheat, with­out ade­quate safe­ty test­ing.

“This GM wheat should nev­er have left the lab,” said activist and moth­er, Heather McCabe. “I’m sick of being treat­ed like a dumb Mum who doesn’t under­stand the sci­ence. As far as I’m con­cerned, my fam­i­ly’s health is just too impor­tant. GM wheat is not safe, and if the gov­ern­ment can’t pro­tect the safe­ty of my fam­i­ly, then I will.”

CSIRO’s wheat exper­i­ment came under recent scruti­ny when eight inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tists and doc­tors ques­tioned the ethics and sci­en­tif­ic rigour behind it. In an open let­ter the sci­en­tists ques­tioned the safe­ty of human feed­ing tri­als planned for lat­er this year in which Aus­tralians would be fed GM wheat from the Can­ber­ra based tri­als.

Conflict of interest

On 30 June, CSIRO reject­ed a Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion request by Green­peace which request­ed fur­ther infor­ma­tion to ensure the safe­ty of the human feed­ing tri­als, along with trans­par­ent infor­ma­tion about the com­mer­cial part­ner­ships CSIRO has with for­eign biotech com­pa­nies to com­mer­cialise GM wheat.

In a July report – Australia’s Wheat Scan­dal Green­peace detailed a major con­flict of inter­est at CSIRO. Two direc­tors of the biotech giant Nufarm – the dis­trib­u­tor of Monsanto’s prod­ucts in Aus­tralia – also sat on the CSIRO board at the time of the wheat experiment’s approval. View the info­graph­ic detail­ing the con­nec­tions

GM wheat has already been reject­ed in Cana­da, North Amer­i­ca, Rus­sia and the EU. The CSIRO is being used as a front for for­eign biotech com­pa­nies; this has com­pro­mised its research and put Australia’s mul­ti-bil­lion dol­lar wheat indus­try at risk.

Inevitable contamination

All of the evi­dence shows that GM can’t be con­tained in the field. Green­peace has tak­en action to pro­tect our food sup­ply being con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by exper­i­men­tal GM wheat. Now the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment must step in and pro­tect the health of Aus­tralian peo­ple.

“We had no choice but to take action to bring an end to this exper­i­ment,” said Green­peace Food cam­paign­er Lau­ra Kel­ly. “GM has nev­er been proven safe to eat and once released in open exper­i­ments, it will con­t­a­m­i­nate. This is about the pro­tec­tion of our health, the pro­tec­tion of our envi­ron­ment and the pro­tec­tion of our dai­ly bread.”

Trials of potentially unstable GM wheat strains are currently planted in five states and territories across Australia

TAKE ACTION: Tell the gov­ern­ment to end its con­tro­ver­sial GM wheat tri­als

READ THE REPORT: The biotech takeover of our dai­ly bread

MORE INFORMATION: Fol­low the sto­ry so far

No TAV: renewed violent clashes in the Susa Valley

On 22nd July peo­ple tried tak­ing the fences to the work-site down, and the police used water can­nons. Ten­sions have been mount­ing in pre­vi­ous days. Much tear gas has been used, stones thrown, with water can­nons also used to put out the fires set under the fences.

On 22nd July peo­ple tried tak­ing the fences to the work-site down, and the police used water can­nons. Ten­sions have been mount­ing in pre­vi­ous days. Much tear gas has been used, stones thrown, with water can­nons also used to put out the fires set under the fences.

Videos

More videos

The A‑Team — your guide to dif­fer­ent police forces in the Val de Susa.

23rd July 2011 — over 500 pro­test­ers lay siege to the works for four hours at night.

24th July — peo­ple tried to pull down the gate to the work site, fol­low­ing a ral­ly at which the moth­er of Car­lo Giu­liani (killed dur­ing protests against the G8 in Genoa 10 years ago) spoke.

The 4 activists arrest­ed on 3 July fol­low­ing the NO TAV protests in Chiomonte were all released the pre­vi­ous week. More info

Come up to Rossport! Shell Starts Work on onshore pipeline

22nd July 2011

Shell have brought a dig­ger and a port-a-cab­in into the exist­ing tem­po­rary com­pound in Augh­oose. This is in prepa­ra­tion to start build­ing a per­ma­nent com­pound in Augh­oose from which they hope to start dig­ging the tun­nel for the pipeline which will con­nect Bal­linaboy refin­ery to the 70 kms of off­shore pipeline. They will come in full force on Mon­day 25th July, please come up to Mayo and show your sup­port! A mass day of action is planned for Fri­day 29th July, but come up any time.

22nd July 2011

Shell have brought a dig­ger and a port-a-cab­in into the exist­ing tem­po­rary com­pound in Augh­oose. This is in prepa­ra­tion to start build­ing a per­ma­nent com­pound in Augh­oose from which they hope to start dig­ging the tun­nel for the pipeline which will con­nect Bal­linaboy refin­ery to the 70 kms of off­shore pipeline. They will come in full force on Mon­day 25th July, please come up to Mayo and show your sup­port! A mass day of action is planned for Fri­day 29th July, but come up any time.

There were over 70 IRMS (Shel­l’s pri­vate secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny) present to secure the two trac­tors with trail­ers bring­ing in the equip­ment. The pri­vate secu­ri­ty blocked off about 300 metres of the pub­lic road to allow the trac­tors to enter the com­pound. Sev­en peo­ple from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp ran down to try and inter­vene but a long line of IRMS had the road blocked off, and sev­er­al peo­ple were assault­ed by IRMS on the pub­lic road. Two peo­ple had to receive med­ical atten­tion. One per­son has made a state­ment to the gar­daí regard­ing the assaults, but the gar­daí were quite reluc­tant to receive the state­ment.

The dig­ger and the port-a-cab­in entered the com­pound, how­ev­er with­in 15 min­utes over 20 pro­test­ers from the camp and local res­i­dents had gath­ered out­side the com­pound, and no fur­ther work was car­ried out for the rest of the day.

Many of the IRMS secu­ri­ty mem­bers seem to be new, and ear­li­er this week mem­bers from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty camp observed a group of 12 IRMS mem­bers who seemed to be on their first shift. Peo­ple went up to talk to the secu­ri­ty guards, explain­ing to them why peo­ple are against the Shell project and talk­ing to them about why they are there protest­ing. Many of the new secu­ri­ty guards were vis­i­bly uncom­fort­able, and seemed quite affect­ed by what they were hear­ing.

This over-show of force today may have been some sort of train­ing ses­sion for the new IRMS secu­ri­ty before the real work starts on Mon­day. When deal­ing with some of the pro­test­ers who had been speak­ing with the secu­ri­ty guards, it was obvi­ous­ly much more dif­fi­cult for them to use the force they’d been ordered to use on peo­ple. One pro­test­er from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp explained that “it felt so much more empow­er­ing to talk to them on a human lev­el and tell them why I was there, than to get beat­en up by them. When the lads I’d been speak­ing with were ordered to remove me, they were bare­ly able to touch me. It was a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence than I’ve had with IRMS in the past.”

This activ­i­ty on Fri­day fol­lows a week of con­tin­u­ous actions at the Bord na Móna site in Shramore out­side Ban­gor Erris. Shell intends use this site to store the 125,000 tonnes of peat meant to be removed from the bog at the Augh­oose site. The 500,000 tonnes of peat removed from the Bal­linaboy refin­ery site in 2006/7 was stored at Shramore. In the past few weeks pri­vate con­trac­tors have been extend­ing the road net­work at Shramore to accom­mo­date the Shell project. This week pro­test­ers from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp have turned their atten­tion to the Bord na Móna site and have been occu­py­ing trucks and dig­gers, block­ing the front gates with con­crete lock-ons, and putting bar­ri­cades in the roads on-site. Here is a brief run-down of the week:

Tues­day: Four peo­ple put their arms into con­crete lock-ons in front of the gate at the Shramore site, block­ing work for three and a half hours. No arrests were made.

Wednes­day: About 20 peo­ple entered the Shramore site, climb­ing on top of trucks and dig­gers to stop them work­ing, block­ing the front gates, and gen­er­al­ly shut­ting down all works on site. The gar­daí arrived on scene but even­tu­al­ly left with­out mak­ing any arrests.

Thurs­day: Work start­ed at about 3pm at the Shramore site, and work was stopped about 30 min­utes lat­er. Pro­test­ers chained the gate shut to pre­vent trucks from deliv­er­ing the grav­el need­ed to extend the road net­work on the site. The vehi­cles with­in the site which were active were all suc­cess­ful­ly occu­pied, includ­ing three trucks, two dig­gers and one crane. The occu­pa­tion con­tin­ued for the rest of the work­ing day, no arrests were made.

Fri­day: Work start­ed just after 7:30am but was prompt­ly halt­ed by pro­test­ers block­ing the front gate and sub­se­quent­ly occu­py­ing the few machines which had start­ed work. Just before mid­day word arrived that work at the Augh­oose site had begun, so most peo­ple left. Those who stayed saw that work did not start up again till about 2pm and by 3:30pm anoth­er group of pro­test­ers had returned to halt works again for the rest of the day.

In con­clu­sion, very lit­tle work was accom­plished at Bord na Móna’s peat depos­i­to­ry site in Shramore this week. Shell began work in Augh­oose on Fri­day, and the local com­mu­ni­ty is gear­ing up for a fine resis­tance next week when Shell comes in full force. Get up here and show your sup­port! A day of mass action is planned for Fri­day the 29th of July, but come up soon­er if you’re able.

To get in touch with the camp: 00353 85 114 1170 or rossportsolidaritycamp[at]gmail[dot]com

Calais: “Welcome to Fortress Europe” action

Sat 23rd July 2011

This after­noon over a dozen No Bor­ders activists blocked both vehi­cle entrances into the City Europe com­pound, stop­ping shop­pers and screen­ing those try­ing to enter with rules almost as arbi­trary as those used at real bor­ders… check­ing the colour of their cars, stop­ping peo­ple wear­ing hats or glass­es or with too many peo­ple in the car, see­ing as Fortress Europe was get­ting full.

Sat 23rd July 2011

This after­noon over a dozen No Bor­ders activists blocked both vehi­cle entrances into the City Europe com­pound, stop­ping shop­pers and screen­ing those try­ing to enter with rules almost as arbi­trary as those used at real bor­ders… check­ing the colour of their cars, stop­ping peo­ple wear­ing hats or glass­es or with too many peo­ple in the car, see­ing as Fortress Europe was get­ting full.

While peo­ple shout­ed ‘con­trôl fron­tière ici’ vehi­cles refused entry were direct­ed to Coquelles deten­tion cen­tre on the street oppo­site. After only sev­er­al min­utes some peo­ple try­ing to enter became very irate at the incon­ve­nience this mock bor­der con­trol was caus­ing to their after­noon shop­ping. How­ev­er many peo­ple were recep­tive to the demon­stra­tion and its pur­pose and lots of leaflets explain­ing the sit­u­a­tion in Calais were dis­trib­uted, with peo­ple tak­ing on board the point of the action.

Secu­ri­ty and police arrived soon after and removed the bar­ri­er at one gate. Activists in high-vis­i­bil­i­ty jack­ets con­tin­ued to con­trol and direct traf­fic for half an hour before being forced into the car park.

This fake ‘con­trol zone’ demon­stra­tion mim­ics the farce of ID and bor­der con­trols that seg­re­gate and per­se­cute peo­ple because of their race, nation­al­i­ty and income.

Refugees here are being sub­ject­ed to poli­cies aimed at dri­ving them under­ground and mak­ing them invis­i­ble. This nor­mal­iza­tion of state vio­lence has been put in place by British and French gov­ern­ments. These peo­ple have often been dis­placed by the poli­cies of these gov­ern­ments and are liv­ing not just the pain of the loss of the lives they left behind and the fear and uncer­tain­ty for their futures.

Unlike a demon­stra­tion pre­vent­ing peo­ple from enter­ing a shop­ping com­plex, the Euro­pean pol­i­cy of bor­der clo­sure is deny­ing peo­ple the chance to escape dan­ger and mis­ery. Dur­ing the last months an esti­mat­ed two thou­sand refugees flee­ing the war in Libya have drowned in the Mediter­ranean and rather than send­ing res­cue boats, Fron­tex the Euro­pean bor­der force, has sent boats to push refugees packed into boats back to the Libyan coast.

In Calais over the last few weeks there has been a step up in the offen­sive against migrants start­ing with the evic­tion of Africa House – the shel­ter and home of around 100 peo­ple with and with­out papers – with mass evic­tions and the destruc­tion of peo­ples homes and per­son­al belong­ings.

After force­ful­ly mak­ing peo­ple home­less, every place peo­ple move to, to eat, rest or sleep, has been sub­ject to mass raids and con­stant harass­ment, leav­ing peo­ple with lit­er­al­ly nowhere left to go.

No Bor­ders denounce the com­pli­ance of the police and the munic­i­pal ser­vices with such bar­bar­ic orders and denounce the com­plic­i­ty of those who wit­ness this and yet remain unques­tion­ing­ly silent. We are all human. We must chal­lenge the hypocrisy and seg­re­ga­tion that bor­der con­trols cre­ate.

No bor­ders, no nations, stop depor­ta­tions.

Another attack on mining interests in the Philippines

MANILA : Sus­pect­ed com­mu­nist rebels in the Philip­pines attacked a min­ing com­pa­ny com­pound, while in anoth­er inci­dent the rebels clashed with sol­diers, the mil­i­tary said on Thurs­day.

MANILA : Sus­pect­ed com­mu­nist rebels in the Philip­pines attacked a min­ing com­pa­ny com­pound, while in anoth­er inci­dent the rebels clashed with sol­diers, the mil­i­tary said on Thurs­day.

GMA News report­ed that Major John Andra­da, spokesman for the Army’s 3rd Infantry Divi­sion, said about 40 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels on Wednes­day attacked the com­pound of Drill Corp., a sub-con­trac­tor of Philex Min­ing Corp., in Nab­u­lao vil­lage in Sipalay City in the cen­tral island of Negros. He said the rebels dis­armed a secu­ri­ty guard and burned the work­ers’ quar­ters as well as the per­son­nel car­ri­er truck.
Accord­ing to Andra­da, the rebels fled using a company’s vehi­cle, which was lat­er found burned.
The Visayan Dai­ly Star report­ed that the attack was an attempt to force the min­ing com­pa­ny to pay rev­o­lu­tion­ary tax­es. Priest-turned-rebel Frank Fer­nan­dez said in an ear­li­er state­ment that the rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ment has been ordered to launch mil­i­tary and polit­i­cal strug­gles, aimed at stop­ping the ongo­ing min­ing explo­rations and oper­a­tions of sev­er­al min­ing com­pa­nies that have pend­ing min­ing rights appli­ca­tions in Negros.
He claimed that mas­sive min­ing oper­a­tions in the moun­tains of Negros Occi­den­tal and Ori­en­tal have already cov­ered 40 per­cent of the total land area of the island, or 80 per­cent of the total agri­cul­tur­al land, adding that there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that Negros may soon be trans­formed into a desert.….

http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/philippines-communist-rebels-attack-mining-firm/

Activists Occupy Montana Capitol Building vs Tar Sands

Break­ing News: Activists Occu­py Mon­tana Capi­tol Build­ing Demand­ing Gov­er­nor Schweitzer Pub­licly Oppose Key­stone XL Pipeline and Tar Sands Mega­load Ship­ments

Activists from across the nation and around the world join Mon­tana and Ida­ho res­i­dents in demand­ing that Schweitzer final­ly stand up to “Big Oil.”

Break­ing News: Activists Occu­py Mon­tana Capi­tol Build­ing Demand­ing Gov­er­nor Schweitzer Pub­licly Oppose Key­stone XL Pipeline and Tar Sands Mega­load Ship­ments

Activists from across the nation and around the world join Mon­tana and Ida­ho res­i­dents in demand­ing that Schweitzer final­ly stand up to “Big Oil.”

On the morn­ing of July 12th, six activists from Earth First! and North­ern Rock­ies Ris­ing Tide have risked arrest by occu­py­ing Gov­er­nor Schweitzer’s office in an act of non-vio­lent civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. The activists have locked their arms in a mock oil pipeline made out of PVC plas­tic pipe. In the wake of the Sil­ver­tip spill, Gov­er­nor Schweitzer has pub­licly chas­tised Exxon Mobil, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly con­tin­u­ing to pro­mote the con­struc­tion of the Key­stone XL pipeline, mega­load ship­ments bound for the Alber­ta Tar Sands and oth­er extreme fos­sil fuel projects through­out the state.

“If the Gov­er­nor has his way, Mon­tana will be trans­formed into what is essen­tial­ly an ener­gy extrac­tion colony for Big Oil. The Sil­ver­tip spill is sim­ply a short pre­view of what this would mean for the lives and liveli­hood of all Mon­tanans,” says Great Falls native Peter Dolan, one of the eight occu­py­ing the office.

Activists inside the Capi­tol are also demand­ing that Schweitzer stand up to Tran­sCana­da and oth­er inter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal orga­ni­za­tions by pub­licly oppos­ing Alber­ta Tar Sands expor­ta­tion. This project is wide­ly known as the most destruc­tive ener­gy process on the plan­et by lead­ing envi­ron­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions. Accord­ing to a recent report by Uni­ver­si­ty of Nebras­ka-Lin­coln engi­neer­ing pro­fes­sor John Stans­bury, nei­ther Tran­sCana­da nor the reg­u­la­tors eval­u­at­ing the pro­posed Key­stone XL pipeline have prop­er­ly con­sid­ered the risks. Stans­bury said Tran­sCana­da under­es­ti­mat­ed both the fre­quen­cy of spills on the pipeline and the sever­i­ty of the worst-case sce­nario spills.

“As the recent Exxon­Mo­bil pipeline dis­as­ter has made clear, Gov­er­nor Schweitzer is attempt­ing to turn Mon­tana into an extrac­tion state, while at the same time pub­licly pro­claim­ing his sup­posed sup­port for clean ener­gy, pro­tect­ing the envi­ron­ment and build­ing healthy com­mu­ni­ties. It’s one or the oth­er. You can’t be clean and dirty at the same time,” accord­ing to Bozeman’s Eri­ca Dos­sa, who also took part in the action.

Earth First! was named in 1979 in response to a lethar­gic, com­pro­mis­ing and increas­ing­ly cor­po­rate envi­ron­men­tal com­mu­ni­ty. Earth First! takes a decid­ed­ly dif­fer­ent approach towards envi­ron­men­tal issues by using all the tools in the tool­box, rang­ing from grass­roots orga­niz­ing and involve­ment in the legal process to civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. North­ern Rock­ies Ris­ing Tide is the Mis­soula based chap­ter off the inter­na­tion­al, decen­tral­ized, grass­roots move­ment Ris­ing Tide. They are an all-vol­un­teer net­work of groups and indi­vid­u­als who pro­mote local, com­mu­ni­ty-based solu­tions to the cli­mate cri­sis and take direct actions to con­front the root caus­es of cli­mate change.

North­ern Rock­ies Ris­ing Tide -

Fight­ing for things in the North­ern Rock­ies

www.NorthernRockiesRisingTide.org

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vd4QC_rB4

HELENA, Montana—Check out this new short film from the Earth First! occu­pa­tion of the Mon­tana capi­tol against the Tar Sands and oth­er indus­tri­al ener­gy infra­struc­ture in the North­ern Rock­ies, fol­low­ing the 2011 Round Riv­er Ren­dezvous.

Five peo­ple locked down, 20 danced on the governor’s table, 70 peo­ple occu­pied the office, busi­ness as usu­al was dis­rupt­ed! If you can, please con­sid­er donat­ing a bit of mon­ey to the arrestee’s legal fund HERE

Squattastic meeting, Sun 17th July, organise vs. new anti squat law

On Wednes­day, the gov­ern­ment launched its con­sul­ta­tion paper on crim­i­nal­is­ing tres­pass and squat­ting.

Its time to organ­ise the rebel alliance. Come to the next www.squattastic.blogspot.com meet­ing this Sun­day 17th July, 2–6pm at 11 the ‘well fur­nished squat’ 11 ter­race rd hack­ney e9.

On Wednes­day, the gov­ern­ment launched its con­sul­ta­tion paper on crim­i­nal­is­ing tres­pass and squat­ting.

Its time to organ­ise the rebel alliance. Come to the next www.squattastic.blogspot.com meet­ing this Sun­day 17th July, 2–6pm at 11 the ‘well fur­nished squat’ 11 ter­race rd hack­ney e9.

This pro­posed new law may affect our rights to protest and occ­cu­py spaces,as well as poss­si­bly affect­ing students,workers occupations,tenants,charities,housing groups and squat­ter home­less.

www.squattastic.blogspot.com (for squat­ters /underground net­work­ing)

www.squashcampaign.org (for public,media and over­ground out­reach)

Net­work it, defend the last of our rights while we still have them.

Huntington Lane court papers served – Eviction Imminent

July 12, 2011
The camp site has been served a court notice ear­li­er today with sum­mons for a hear­ing on the 15th of July – this Fri­day.

Court time is @ 10.am, The Telford Coun­ty Court, Telford Square, Malins­gate, Telford,TF3 4JB

July 12, 2011
The camp site has been served a court notice ear­li­er today with sum­mons for a hear­ing on the 15th of July – this Fri­day.

Court time is @ 10.am, The Telford Coun­ty Court, Telford Square, Malins­gate, Telford,TF3 4JB

We are send­ing an URGENT CALL OUT for as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to come down and sup­port us in what­ev­er way they can!

http://defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com

Camp Frack — Weekend of 17th-18th September 2011

Join the resis­tance to the “frack­ing” inva­sion! Stop the mas­sive expan­sion of shale gas extrac­tion in the UK! We need renew­ables and pow­er­down — not anoth­er source of fos­sil fuel!

Join the resis­tance to the “frack­ing” inva­sion! Stop the mas­sive expan­sion of shale gas extrac­tion in the UK! We need renew­ables and pow­er­down — not anoth­er source of fos­sil fuel!

Camp Frack will take place adja­cent to the UK’s first frack­ing oper­a­tions at Sin­gle­ton, near Black­pool (near­est train sta­tion Poul­ton Le Fylde). It will be organ­ised with the sup­port of a local farmer who is pro­vid­ing the land. It will involve locals, grass­roots groups, indi­vid­u­als and NGO’s in work­shops and dis­cus­sions on shale gas and on form­ing effec­tive UK wide resis­tance against it. It will involve rais­ing local aware­ness about the prob­lems with shale gas and an action day of protest against the drilling activ­i­ties cur­rent­ly in progress in the Black­pool area.

More details will be cir­cu­lat­ed in August regard­ing venue etc. To be kept up to date or for any ques­tions email campfrack@gmail.com

on why to oppose frack­ing and poten­tial drilling sites in the UK, see http://nofrackinguk.com/

http://www.campaigncc.org/fracking