No GMO — Destroyed a transgenic maize field in Italy

From Italy to Can­cun — Jus­tice, Dig­ni­ty, Inde­pen­dence
10 / 8 / 2010

Italian GM action 1Italian GM action 2Italian GM action 3Italian GM action 4From Italy to Can­cun — Jus­tice, Dig­ni­ty, Inde­pen­dence
10 / 8 / 2010

This morn­ing one hun­dred activists of the Asso­ci­a­tion Ya Bas­ta Italy entered in a ille­gal field of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied maize in Vivaro (Por­de­none province, north­east­ern Italy). The action start­ed at noon. Activists destroyed two meters tall plants.

Back in April, the farm­ers and activists of Ya Bas­ta Italy denounced the ille­gal plant­i­ng of maize in Vivaro.

The field was placed under seizure, but the rul­ing still is tak­ing too long for polit­i­cal debates with­in the gov­ern­ment. From below, then came the imme­di­ate response con­cern­ing the life and the defense of bio­di­ver­si­ty, which can not be cow­ard­ly dom­i­nat­ed by cap­i­tal and spec­u­la­tion.

In the pub­lic state­ment of Ya Bas­ta activists declared them­selves “indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties” and join the fight for jus­tice and dig­ni­ty for all com­mu­ni­ties found in Cochabam­ba dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Assem­bly in April.

Also, defend­ing the right and desire to leave the hell of trans­genic cul­tures which destroy the plan­et and poi­son the Moth­er Earth and the waters.

The cli­mate changes, the soil dries, water is pri­va­tized: enough … to Can­cun!

Video and pho­tos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdGLyGveaCo
http://www.globalproject.info/it/in_movimento/No-Ogm-Distrutto-campo-di-mais-transgenico/5543

Climate Camp Cymru meetup point announced

*Cli­mate Camp Cym­ru*
*13 — 17 August*

Open­cast is trash­ing the south Wales land­scape — it’s time to take action…

From mid­day on Fri­day 13th August you are invit­ed to a con­ver­gence space in cen­tral Cardiff. The loca­tion of this space is Cardiff Quak­er Meet­ing House, 43 Charles Street, Cardiff.

*Cli­mate Camp Cym­ru*
*13 — 17 August*

Open­cast is trash­ing the south Wales land­scape — it’s time to take action…

From mid­day on Fri­day 13th August you are invit­ed to a con­ver­gence space in cen­tral Cardiff. The loca­tion of this space is Cardiff Quak­er Meet­ing House, 43 Charles Street, Cardiff.

From here peo­ple will be direct­ed to a train sta­tion, where minibus­es will be avail­able to trans­port peo­ple to the the site. Expe­ri­enced cyclists may wish to bring bikes and cycle to the site.
NB: you will need £4.50 each way for the train fare.

The loca­tion of the site will be announced at approx­i­mate­ly 2pm on Fri­day 13th August.

At 2pm on 13th August peo­ple will be sen­tenced at Merthyr Crown Court for the lock-on to the rail­way line between Ffos-y-Fran and Aberthaw pow­er sta­tion. It would be great if peo­ple could go to the court to sup­port them. Trans­port will be arranged to the site after.

The con­ver­gence space in Cardiff will be open until 5pm. We encour­age every­one who can to reach the site on Fri­day night, although the minibus­es will be avail­able through­out Sat­ur­day from the train sta­tion.

Please watch this space for more detail.

Things to bring:
Tent
Sleep­ing bag
Warm clothes and water­proofs
Plate, bowl, mug and cut­lery
Loo roll

and a bike could be use­ful too

www.climatecampcymru.org
info@climatecampcymru.org
07040 909 147

Legal sup­port phone con­tact dur­ing the camp will be 07587 220197

3 days of action for Beat the Boreholes in Rossport

Shell drilling stopped for an hour and a half

6.08.2010
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Campers go out before 7am and suc­cess­ful­ly pre­vent work­ers from access­ing the drilling plat­forms.

rossport-wadersShell drilling stopped for an hour and a half

6.08.2010
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Campers go out before 7am and suc­cess­ful­ly pre­vent work­ers from access­ing the drilling plat­forms.

9 Campers wadded and kayaked out to the plat­forms this morn­ing and halt­ed work for 1 and half hours. IRMS work­ers even­tu­al­ly secured the area by push­ing peo­ple away and drag­ging their kayaks down the estu­ary. Kayaks were deflat­ed by secu­ri­ty and some peo­ple were dan­ger­ous­ly forced to swim in high cur­rents. There were no arrests.

We real­ly need more peo­ple to come and take part in actions over the next two months. Please get in touch if you think you would be able to come down and help stop Shell.

http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org

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Shell drilling stopped for 5 hours – as Beat the Bore­holes con­tin­ues

05.08.2010
Yes­ter­day morn­ing 11 peo­ple from Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp wad­ed and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s sur­vey work in Sruwad­da­con Estu­ary. Over­all drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one per­son climb­ing up one of the legs of the drilling plat­forms. Sev­er­al peo­ple also attached them­selves to the 2 out­er drilling poles which are under the plat­forms.

The campers went out before 7am to pre­vent work­ers get­ting access to the plat­form and held the plat­form for about 4 hours before being removed by IRMS secu­ri­ty. Despite only 11 pro­test­ers being present, it took 50 IRMS to come before they could secure the area. After about 5 hours the drilling work­ers got on board and start­ed prepar­ing the drilling oper­a­tion. Even­tu­al­ly they start­ed drilling at around 1pm, despite the climber still being perched at the side of the plat­form. They drilled for approx­i­mate­ly an hour before the climber came down and swam back to shore.

The drilling plat­forms are cur­rent­ly in a vital part of the SAC; close to bird feed­ing and nest­ing sites. At this time the estu­ary is also used as a migra­tion route for Atlantic Salmon which are an Annex 1 species (the most pro­tect­ed EU cat­e­go­ry). They are very vul­ner­a­ble to suf­fo­ca­tion by sus­pend­ed solids in the water clog­ging their gills and today we saw evi­dence of sed­i­ment spew­ing into the estu­ary from the bore­holes. Move­ment of the plat­forms will also release sus­pend­ed solids; endan­ger­ing the sup­pos­ed­ly pro­tect­ed salmon. This direct­ly con­tra­venes the pur­pose of the SAC which Min­is­ter Gorm­ley seems to con­ve­nient­ly for­get when it comes to facil­i­tat­ing big busi­ness here in Mayo but likes to remind us at oth­er times such as on 2nd August in rela­tion to restrict­ing leisure activ­i­ties to pro­tect SAC’s, the Min­is­ter said;
“Along with oth­er EU States, Ire­land has des­ig­nat­ed cer­tain areas for nature pro­tec­tion and, in those areas, that must be our pri­or­i­ty. Many peo­ple, indeed, find recre­ation in the enjoy­ment of undis­turbed nature,” he con­clud­ed .
Indeed Gorm­ley, that is what the peo­ple of Erris have been say­ing for 10 years; its time to pro­tect this SAC from Shell!

John Gorm­ley’s recent press release:
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/NationalParksandWildl…n.htm

rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org, www.shelltosea.com

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Shell dis­rupt­ed — Beat the Bore­holes con­tin­ues

9.8.2010
Yes­ter­day at about 2.30pm Shell began to low­er “Jack — 1” — one of two sur­vey barges cur­rent­ly in Sruth Fha­da Chonn estu­ary SAC (Spe­cial Area of Pro­tec­tion) — in order to tug it to anoth­er part of the estu­ary.

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp was ready and will­ing to claim free pas­sage of the pub­lic estu­ary and in the process upset the oper­a­tion. Over a dozen Shell secu­ri­ty boats and two Gar­da RIBS could­n’t keep the 6 kayk­ers out, with two of them reach­ing the mov­ing barge after an hour and a half of chase.

Shel­l’s jack-up barges are dam­ag­ing Sruth Fha­da Chonn estu­ary SAC (Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion) by drilling sur­vey bore­holes for the pro­posed Onshore Cor­rib Gas Pipeline tun­nel — the lat­est route offered by Shell as a means to hook up the refin­ery to the well. At each new loca­tion the barges mas­sive legs are low­ered into the estu­ary crush­ing life beneath the sand. Estu­ary water is being used to lubri­cate the work, and and out­fall pipe is dis­charg­ing it back in to the sup­pos­ed­ly pro­tect­ed waters.

The Gar­daí seemed hap­py to let IRMS do as they pleased on the water, with kayak­ers being unlaw­ful­ly rammed, grabbed, towed against their will — all on a pub­lic water­way. At one stage an IRMS boat stole one kayak from under its own­er, cap­siz­ing him into the water. The Gar­daí issued many Sec­tion 8 warn­ing under the pub­lic order act (to the kayk­ers) but no arrests were made, despite one kayak­er mak­ing it onto the mov­ing rig.

Beat the bore­holes con­tin­ues, now both rigs are in the upper estu­ary — on the sand at low tide and acces­si­ble by walk­ing.

rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org, www.shelltosea.com

Trashing, dashing, bashing, mashing: the new EF! Action Update

So what have you been up to the last few months? Just hang­ing around?
Maybe you’ve been part of human wheel-clamp­ing aero­planes, climb­ing up scaf­fold­ing tripods incon­ve­nient­ly placed in the road, smash­ing machines at open-cast mines, play­ing nuked-dead in the street, kayak­ing against bore­hole drill rigs in Ire­land, burn­ing mobile phone masts, resist­ing Tesco, camp­ing against trash­ing of wood­land, with some suc­cess at Tit­nore (& oth­er protest camp updates), or get­ting in on BP’s act, spilling oil in pub­lic places.

Or have you been on hol­i­day, tak­ing part in indige­nous block­ades against log­ging, dams and min­ing, spilunk­ing against high speed trains, slash­ing tuna cages, blockad­ing Mon­san­to HQ, trash­ing GM fields, and more?

So what have you been up to the last few months? Just hang­ing around?
Maybe you’ve been part of human wheel-clamp­ing aero­planes, climb­ing up scaf­fold­ing tripods incon­ve­nient­ly placed in the road, smash­ing machines at open-cast mines, play­ing nuked-dead in the street, kayak­ing against bore­hole drill rigs in Ire­land, burn­ing mobile phone masts, resist­ing Tesco, camp­ing against trash­ing of wood­land, with some suc­cess at Tit­nore (& oth­er protest camp updates), or get­ting in on BP’s act, spilling oil in pub­lic places.

Or have you been on hol­i­day, tak­ing part in indige­nous block­ades against log­ging, dams and min­ing, spilunk­ing against high speed trains, slash­ing tuna cages, blockad­ing Mon­san­to HQ, trash­ing GM fields, and more?

Maybe you’re in need of a break. But if you’re not, and are just champ­ing at the bit, the return of AUn­tie MIffy’s prob­lem page might help, address­ing what to do if there’s no local group near you. There’s an arti­cle about the begin­nings of EF! in this coun­try, look­ing for­wards to the next 20 years, to help inspire. If you need sup­port to get things going where you live, do get in touch. And if all that’s not enough, here’s a quo­ta­tion, from Paul Wat­son, the Sea Shep­herd cap­tain:

“Future gen­er­a­tions will not have the chance and those that came before us did not have the vision nor the knowl­edge. It is up to us — you and I.”

Print ver­sion
Oth­er issues and extra info

Anti-Coal Protest raft sails down River Seven

On Sun­day 31st res­i­dents from the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Camp took their mes­sage onto the riv­er Sev­en and sailed it down­stream. The six per­son raft com­plete with a big “No New Coal” ban­ner and UK Coal dig­ger fig­ure­head sailed down the Riv­er Sev­en and past EON’s Build­was B coal fired pow­er sta­tion which is where the coal from Hunt­ing­ton Lane will even­tu­al­ly end up. It then sailed fur­ther down­stream and under the famous Iron Bridge where it was meet with cheers from a crowd of locals and tourists who had gath­ered on the bridge.

No New Coal Raft
On Sun­day 31st res­i­dents from the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Camp took their mes­sage onto the riv­er Sev­en and sailed it down­stream. The six per­son raft com­plete with a big “No New Coal” ban­ner and UK Coal dig­ger fig­ure­head sailed down the Riv­er Sev­en and past EON’s Build­was B coal fired pow­er sta­tion which is where the coal from Hunt­ing­ton Lane will even­tu­al­ly end up. It then sailed fur­ther down­stream and under the famous Iron Bridge where it was meet with cheers from a crowd of locals and tourists who had gath­ered on the bridge.

There was also a team on land who were rais­ing aware­ness of the camp by talk­ing to the peo­ple on the river­side and bridge about what they were doing and why they where doing it. Gen­er­al­ly most peo­ple were sup­port­ive and pos­i­tive about the cam­paign. The event also had a fair bit of local media over­age with the Shrop­shire Star and Mid­lands Today both cov­er­ing it.

The camp has now been stop­ping work at Hunt­ing­ton Lane almost six months, if you want to help then dona­tions of food, tools and water are always appre­ci­at­ed as are new faces at the camp

West Mid­lands Cli­mate Action
http://wmclimateaction.wordpress.com/
http://wmclimateaction.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/protest-raft-river-seven/

Waders tie down Shell testing rig in Mayo, Republic of Ireland

30.07.2010
10 peo­ple from the Ross­port sol­i­dar­i­ty camp delayed Shell’s sur­vey work for the dan­ger­ous and exper­i­men­tal Cor­rib gas pipeline yes­ter­day. The cam­paign­ers wad­ed out to one of the rigs drilling bore­holes in the Sruwad­da­con estu­ary the rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occu­pied the space under­neath it to pre­vent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours.

Beat the Boreholes banner30.07.2010
10 peo­ple from the Ross­port sol­i­dar­i­ty camp delayed Shell’s sur­vey work for the dan­ger­ous and exper­i­men­tal Cor­rib gas pipeline yes­ter­day. The cam­paign­ers wad­ed out to one of the rigs drilling bore­holes in the Sruwad­da­con estu­ary the rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occu­pied the space under­neath it to pre­vent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours.

Shell’s secu­ri­ty guards IRMS cut the ropes around the rig, but did not try to remove the pro­test­ers so the occu­pa­tion of the area under the rig con­tin­ued until the Gar­dai arrived. Six of the waders were arrest­ed and tak­en to Bel­mul­let police sta­tion. Three oth­ers returned to the water in kayaks to make a fur­ther attempt to stop the rig but were blocked by secu­ri­ty in speed­boats – one kayak­er was also arrest­ed. All those arrest­ed were lat­er released with­out charge.

Shell is cur­rent­ly drilling sur­vey bore­holes to gath­er infor­ma­tion to sup­port its plan to put the gas pipeline through a tun­nel run­ning up the estu­ary. Cam­paign­ers from the local com­mu­ni­ty and the sol­i­dar­i­ty camp have been obstruct­ing the test­ing in a series of protests and actions on water and on land.

‘Beat the Bore­holes’ cam­paign is up and run­ning, invit­ing groups to the camp to take on an action against one of the esti­mat­ed 80 bore­holes. To get involved in the cam­paign, call or email the camp. The ‘Beat the Bore­holes’ guide will be pub­lished soon.

Yesterday’s action coin­cid­ed with Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp mem­ber Niall Harnett’s 100th day in prison. Niall was sen­tenced to five months in prison on a trumped-up charge of assault­ing a police offi­cer, after mak­ing him­self a thorn in Shell’s side with his work on the cam­paign over sev­er­al years.

rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org

Protesters attack Russian town hall to save forest

2010-07-29
A band of 100 masked peo­ple staged a vio­lent envi­ron­men­tal protest in a qui­et Moscow sub­urb, hurl­ing Molo­tov cock­tails and fire­works at city hall while object­ing to plans for clear­ing a local for­est for high­way con­struc­tion, Russ­ian police said.

2010-07-29
A band of 100 masked peo­ple staged a vio­lent envi­ron­men­tal protest in a qui­et Moscow sub­urb, hurl­ing Molo­tov cock­tails and fire­works at city hall while object­ing to plans for clear­ing a local for­est for high­way con­struc­tion, Russ­ian police said.

The cen­turies-old oak for­est in Khim­ki has been a focus of con­tro­ver­sy for years, as author­i­ties plan to cut down much of the woods to make way for a major high­way along the increas­ing­ly jammed route from Moscow to Shereme­tye­vo Inter­na­tion­al Air­port. In 2008, a local jour­nal­ist who report­ed on the issue was bru­tal­ly beat­en and left crip­pled and brain-dam­aged.

Late Wednes­day about 90 uniden­ti­fied peo­ple attacked Khim­ki city hall, Moscow region­al police said.

Russ­ian tele­vi­sion broad­cast ama­teur video footage show­ing masked attack­ers throw­ing fire­works and bot­tles at the build­ing, on which they had spray-paint­ed “Save Russ­ian forests” and “No to Khim­ki for­est clear­ing.” Khim­ki offi­cials said the attack­ers also threw Molo­tov cock­tails.

City hall secu­ri­ty offi­cers stayed inside the build­ing, and called police after the assailants had left, Khim­ki police chief Vik­tor Tanasiy­chuk said.

“Nat­u­ral­ly, police squads did not find any­one at the scene when they arrived,” he said. Police said the attack­ers then left on a sub­ur­ban train to Moscow.

No one was arrest­ed at the scene, but police lat­er detained nine envi­ron­men­tal­ists who have lived in the for­est to stop log­gers from clear­ing the trees. The activists denied any involve­ment in Wednes­day’s attack, and a police spokesman con­firmed they were not sus­pect­ed in the attack. The spokesman said the activists instead are sus­pect­ed of dis­turb­ing pub­lic order and resist­ing police, but he did not elab­o­rate.

The head of the coun­try’s Union of Envi­ron­men­tal Non-Gov­ern­men­tal Orga­ni­za­tions, Andrey Morgu­ly­ov, accused police of detain­ing the activists to derail their plans to meet Thurs­day with the Russ­ian deputy nat­ur­al resources min­is­ter and to attend a ses­sion Fri­day of the Pub­lic Cham­ber on the Khim­ki for­est.

Envi­ron­men­tal pro­test­ers have become increas­ing­ly vocal in Rus­sia in the recent years.

Thou­sands of peo­ple took to Moscow’s streets after Prime Min­is­ter Vladimir Putin signed an order this year to reopen a paper mill on Lake Baikal, the world’s old­est and deep­est lake now believed to be under seri­ous threat from indus­tri­al pol­lu­tion and devel­op­ment. The lake holds an esti­mat­ed 1,500 unique species of plants and ani­mals.

Bruised over Teghut: Environmental pressure group defiant after protest breakup, Armenia

29.07.10
Police used force on Wednes­day to break up a protest in Yere­van near a com­mer­cial bank that intends to loan a con­tro­ver­sial min­ing project in north­ern Arme­nia. Activists were at VTB bank to protest its financ­ing of Armen­ian Cop­per Programme’s (ACP) devel­op­ment of a mine in Teghut.

Teghu protest29.07.10
Police used force on Wednes­day to break up a protest in Yere­van near a com­mer­cial bank that intends to loan a con­tro­ver­sial min­ing project in north­ern Arme­nia. Activists were at VTB bank to protest its financ­ing of Armen­ian Cop­per Programme’s (ACP) devel­op­ment of a mine in Teghut.

The activists demand­ed that VTB should stop the fund­ing of the “anti-eco­log­i­cal and ille­gal Teghut project”, pub­li­cize the Bank’s envi­ron­men­tal cri­te­ria [for loan pro­grams] and the names of those who have devel­oped these cri­te­ria. The pro­test­ers fur­ther called for an end to what they call a con­temp­tu­ous atti­tude towards soci­ety, for hon­or­ing the prin­ci­ples of trans­paren­cy and account­abil­i­ty and also demand­ed that clear answers be giv­en to let­ters of envi­ron­men­tal and human rights orga­ni­za­tions.

The Gov­ern­ment made the deci­sion on devel­op­ing the cop­per and molyb­de­num mine in Teghut in Novem­ber 2007, giv­ing ACP a license for 25 years. This is the first case when the gov­ern­ment allows min­ing amid a for­est site. The Teghut mine – in the lush province of Lori – is the sec­ond largest in Arme­nia, after the cop­per and molyb­de­num mine in Kajaran in south­ern Arme­nia. Experts esti­mate that the mine in Teghut con­tains more than 1.6 mil­lion tons of cop­per and 100,000 tons of molyb­de­num.

From the very out­set envi­ron­men­tal­ists in Arme­nia care­ful­ly mon­i­tored the government’s deci­sion to devel­op the mine, con­stant­ly voic­ing con­cerns about pos­si­ble irrepara­ble loss to the envi­ron­ment (dam­age to the eco sys­tem, dis­ap­pear­ance of some of the rare species of flo­ra and fau­na, threats to pub­lic health because of tail­ings, etc.). ACP offi­cials, mean­while, argue that the min­ing indus­try will cre­ate new jobs for the local pop­u­la­tion and will con­sid­er­ably improve the social con­di­tions in the province and gen­er­al­ly will con­tribute to the country’s eco­nom­ic growth. Despite the per­ceived ben­e­fits, how­ev­er, ACP seemed to be expe­ri­enc­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in find­ing a finan­cial part­ner for the Teghut mine oper­a­tion.

Russ­ian-owned VTB has decid­ed this year to pro­vide ACP with a promised sum of about $300 mil­lion. So far only a small part of the loan has been pro­vid­ed, and the pro­vi­sion of the basic sum has been delayed because of the finan­cial cri­sis.

At first, the activists demand­ed to see VTB man­age­ment, but when nobody approached them, they sat on the bank steps, hin­der­ing cus­tomers and employ­ees from enter­ing. The demon­stra­tors demand­ed that the bank cus­tomers should not use the ser­vices of a bank that pro­motes “the destruc­tion of Arme­nia”.

Police arrived to dis­perse the pro­test­ers. In the ensu­ing scuf­fle, chair­man of the Green Par­ty of Arme­nia Armen Dovlatyan was among those who suf­fered minor scrapes.

The activists also turned to the Ombudsman’s office, whose rep­re­sen­ta­tive heard them and said: “We will decide what to do” – and then left.

Ecol­o­gist Karine Danielyan, who in the end also joined the demon­stra­tors, says that the eco­nom­ic prof­it from the oper­a­tion of the mine will nev­er be near enough to off­set the envi­ron­men­tal dam­ages caused by it. Accord­ing to her, it will take years to com­pen­sate for the forests now being destroyed.

“And forests not only in the ter­ri­to­ry of the mine oper­a­tion will be destroyed, but also upper forests, because water will descend into that cav­i­ty and the upper forests will dry out,” says Danielyan, adding that the local water resources also get con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed and the bio­di­ver­si­ty of the for­est is van­ish­ing.

Urban development in Mexico attacked by elves

On the night of July 27 we made a bon­fire with prop­er­ty belong­ing to destroy­ers of the Earth.

Mexico ELF attackOn the night of July 27 we made a bon­fire with prop­er­ty belong­ing to destroy­ers of the Earth.

In the Dinamos woods in the Mag­dale­na Con­tr­eras sec­tion of Mex­i­co City, there is an urban expan­sion project that is still in the ear­ly stages of con­struc­tion. It involves the cre­ation of deep wells that would take water from the riv­er with the goal of urban expan­sion and anthro­pocen­tric progress.

For that rea­son veg­an elves are respon­si­ble for the fol­low­ing sab­o­tages:
‑We blocked the wells with stones, bricks, blocks and rub­ble, pre­vent­ing the riv­er water from flow­ing through its pipes.
‑We graf­fi­tied the machines and the con­struc­tion mate­r­i­al with slo­gans such as ‘Stop urban expan­sion’, ‘No more civ­i­liza­tion of wild envi­ron­ments’ and ‘Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra’
‑We burned three machines using incen­di­ary devices, includ­ing: two bull­doz­ers and a small machine that removes rub­ble; the small­est device was placed in the first one at the ped­als, in the sec­ond one the win­dow was shat­tered with rocks and the device was put in the cab­in and in the third machine the device was placed on the cables.

We fled into the night with­out a trace. The dam­age was in the thou­sands of pesos. We want to make it clear that what we did was in defense of the earth, which is destroyed every day by ego-cen­trism and author­i­tar­i­an­ism, but for every wild or semi-wild envi­ron­ment destroyed, hun­dreds of their machines and prop­er­ties will be destroyed and left unus­able. Let this serve as a les­son to the exploiters of the earth!

This action ded­i­cat­ed to the ani­mal lib­er­a­tion war­rior in the Unit­ed States, Wal­ter Bond, recent­ly jailed for three fires against ani­mal exploita­tion com­pa­nies. Ded­i­cat­ed as well in sup­port of Leo in Italy, and to Adri­an and Abra­ham.

Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra /Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front

Beat the Boreholes continues!!

27.7.10
The com­mu­ni­ty cam­paign against Shel­l’s work in the estu­ary is going strong with reg­u­lar actions hap­pen­ing. Last week locals viewed the bore­hole-drilling rigs dur­ing a walk on the strands of the estu­ary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yes­ter­day but were slowed down by kayak­er action.

Beat Boreholes27.7.10
The com­mu­ni­ty cam­paign against Shel­l’s work in the estu­ary is going strong with reg­u­lar actions hap­pen­ing. Last week locals viewed the bore­hole-drilling rigs dur­ing a walk on the strands of the estu­ary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yes­ter­day but were slowed down by kayak­er action.

Secu­ri­ty around the rigs has been mas­sive — 6–10 secu­ri­ty boats includ­ing a con­stant day­light-hours watch on the shore near the sol­i­dar­i­ty camp, plus two so-called ‘safe­ty boats’.

Mem­bers of the local com­mu­ni­ty walked close to the drilling barges at low tide and showed their oppo­si­tion to Shel­l’s destruc­tion of Sruwad­da­con estu­ary. The estu­ary is not only a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion and Spe­cial Pro­tect­ed Area – it has been an inte­gral part of life in the com­mu­ni­ty for gen­er­a­tions. Despite this, Min­is­ter John Gorm­ley has giv­en the go-ahead for Shell to dam­age it.
John Gorm­ley minister@environ.ie

Last week 8 com­mu­ni­ty sup­port­ers from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp took their kayaks for a spin out on the water — and were met by a dozen secu­ri­ty boats while hav­ing a clos­er look at the barges.

Yes­ter­day signs that Shell were prepar­ing to move the rigs to a new posi­tion led to a spon­ta­neous action by a small group of kayak­ers from the camp. Although they were pre­vent­ed from get­ting near the rig by the mas­sive secu­ri­ty pres­ence, work seemed to stop while the kayaks were in the water.

Both rigs have now been moved a few miles upriv­er towards Aghoos, and are posi­tioned oppo­site the house of Ross­port 5 mem­ber Willy Cor­duff — a move some peo­ple are view­ing as provoca­tive.

Come to sup­port and be part of com­mu­ni­ty resis­tance. Beat the Bore­holes is up and run­ning, sign up for your bore­hole or find out how you can help – get in touch with Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!

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Beat the bore­holes land divi­sion — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KULXgsqD18w
Beat the bore­holes water divi­sion — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsuLn6iiWuw