RE-OKUPATION OF THE LAPPERSFORT, CALL OUT FOR SUPPORT

The Lap­pers­fort for­est has been okupied again,
and is now under evic­tion threat.

Come and stay if you like!
Aktion & Evik­tion Prac­tice Week­end 4–6 Decem­ber

Lappersfort December 09 weekend flyerThe Lap­pers­fort for­est has been okupied again,
and is now under evic­tion threat.

Come and stay if you like!
Aktion & Evik­tion Prac­tice Week­end 4–6 Decem­ber

In the dark chilly woods, a new wind is stir­ring; win­ter is mov­ing in, and with the cold nights come a new band of pirates and elves tip­toe­ing their way between the trees.

After 14 months of oku­pa­tion, and a point­less pact with the dev­il signed by 3 pre­vi­ous oku­pants stat­ing that the for­est should be vol­un­tar­i­ly packed up by Novem­ber the 30th, it seemed that the strug­gle to save the Lap­pers­fort was com­ing to an end…

But all ends are new begin­nings in dis­guise, and a new seed of mutiny has been sewn in the fer­tile soil of the forest.As long as it stands threat­ened, the Lap­pers­fort will be okupied by humans to defend it.

Grown over the ruins of an old ammu­ni­tions fac­to­ry, the Lap­pers­fort for­est stands as a sym­bol for the re-growth and re-wild­ing of nature and for the heal­ing of the wounds left by indus­tri­al and sub­ur­ban civil­i­sa­tion.

The action camp is as of now under direct EVICTION THREAT, and we are now busy with bar­rikad­ing, dig­ging in, and get­ting ready every way we can, while still try­ing to reach out for more humans to come and help pro­tect this beau­ti­ful piece of for­est from falling vic­tim to anoth­er point­less project of the kap­i­tal­ist death machine.

For a free­space in the woods and for the woods, for life and wilder­ness every­where, Lap­pers­fort stays until the bit­ter or bet­ter end……

On the week­end of the 4–6th of decem­ber (hop­ing that the camp still exists by then), there will be work­shops on evik­tion and aktion relat­ed stuff, includ­ing climb­ing, tun­nel­ing, lock­ons, freeclimb­ing etc. There will obvi­ous­ly be food and music, and we are still look­ing for indi­vid­u­als or bands to come and play, and oth­er peo­ple with ideas for work­shops are also wished for.

Lap­pers­fort stays!

lappersfort@riseup.net
http://lappersfort.freehostia.com

Three Remain in Jail Following Anti-Coal Resistance

Yes­ter­day, four indi­vid­u­als halt­ed blast­ing on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. They are now charged with tres­pass­ing, con­spir­a­cy, obstruc­tion, and lit­ter­ing; bail has been set at $2,000 cash-only per-per­son.

Yes­ter­day, four indi­vid­u­als halt­ed blast­ing on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. They are now charged with tres­pass­ing, con­spir­a­cy, obstruc­tion, and lit­ter­ing; bail has been set at $2,000 cash-only per-per­son.

Ear­ly this morn­ing, we were able to bail Nick Mar­tin out of jail. He glad­ly gave his thoughts on the action, “I’m proud to have been part of some­thing that suc­cess­ful­ly stopped blast­ing. This act of non­vi­o­lent civ­il dis­obe­di­ence is only a small piece of a resound­ing call to save Coal Riv­er Moun­tain.”

The pow­er­ful actions of our friends did not go unno­ticed by com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. Bo Webb, a res­i­dent of Nao­ma said, “The peo­ple of the Coal Riv­er Val­ley who are threat­ened by this sludge dam fail­ure are appre­cia­tive, at least I am very appre­cia­tive, and proud of these folks to risk arrest of them­selves in order to pro­tect this com­mu­ni­ty.”

In light of his return home, Nick fur­ther stat­ed, “I am glad to be out of jail and back in a lov­ing com­mu­ni­ty of friends, thanks to every­one who sup­port­ed us dur­ing this action. I can’t wait to see the oth­ers and I hope we can bail them out soon.”

Lau­ra Von Dohlen, Grace Williams, and Dea Gob­lirsch will remain in jail until we can gath­er enough dona­tions to bail them out as well.

Donate imme­di­ate­ly via pay­pal to:

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Please actu­al­ly donate as soon as pos­si­ble.

Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain

Four Pro­tes­tors cur­rent­ly on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. Two locked down to drill rig on Bee Tree Per­mit site. Mine secu­ri­ty and coun­ty police are cur­rent­ly there as well. Blast­ing is still halt­ed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/21/09
Con­tact: Zoe Beavers 304–854-7372
Email: news@climategroundzero.org

Four Pro­tes­tors cur­rent­ly on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. Two locked down to drill rig on Bee Tree Per­mit site. Mine secu­ri­ty and coun­ty police are cur­rent­ly there as well. Blast­ing is still halt­ed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/21/09
Con­tact: Zoe Beavers 304–854-7372
Email: news@climategroundzero.org

PETTUS, W. Va. – Ear­ly this morn­ing two con­cerned cit­i­zens, Dea Gob­lirsch and Nick Mar­tin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal Riv­er Mountain’s Bee Tree moun­tain­top removal site, effec­tive­ly stop­ping blast­ing. Two oth­ers, Grace Williams and Lau­ra Von Dolen, joined them in direct sup­port, hold­ing a ban­ner with the mes­sage “Save Coal Riv­er Moun­tain”.

These non­vi­o­lent pro­tes­tors have tak­en this action to bring atten­tion to the extreme dan­ger fac­ing res­i­dents of the Coal Riv­er Val­ley from blast­ing near the Brushy Fork Impound­ment. They plan to stay locked down until law enforce­ment removes them.

Res­i­dent of Rock Creek, W Va., Del­bert Gun­noe, stat­ed his con­cerns with the blast­ing, “You know when they put a blast over there, and it shakes the win­dows over here, at what, ¾‑a-mile dis­tance, imag­ine what it does over there.” Gun­noe con­tin­ued, “if [the impound­ment] did bust…what would be the destruc­tion? The town of Whitesville would no longer exist.”

The four are fear­ful of the blast­ing that Massey Ener­gy began in late Octo­ber. These blasts are 200 feet from the Brushy Fork Impound­ment, per­mit­ted to hold nine bil­lion gal­lons of tox­ic coal slur­ry. The impound­ment sits atop miles of hol­low, abound­ed under­ground mines, fur­ther endan­ger­ing its integri­ty. By Massey’s own esti­mates, rough­ly 998 peo­ple will die should the dam break. The emer­gency evac­u­a­tion plan states that a 40-foot wall of sludge, crest­ing at 72 feet, will flow through the val­ley, reach­ing 20-feet-high about 15 miles down the road. Apart from the ini­tial flood, the impact of this poten­tial spill would be felt along the Coal River’s 88 miles.

“The Brushy Fork Sludge Impound­ment keeps res­i­dents of the Coal Riv­er Val­ley up at night, wait­ing for eight bil­lion gal­lons of tox­ic coal slur­ry to come rush­ing towards them,” said Dea Gob­lirsch, one of the two locked down. “I don’t know how Massey exec­u­tives sleep sound­ly at night.”

Hydrol­o­gist, Dr. Rick Eades spoke of con­cerns about the sta­bil­i­ty of the dam as blast­ing occurs. He ques­tioned “blast­ing where under­ground mines exist­ed in the Eagle coal seam, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for adverse­ly affect­ing near-sur­face bedrock in a way that could pos­si­bly enhance path­ways for slur­ry to be released via the sub­sur­face and bypass the dam.”

The con­cern is that slur­ry will break into under­ground mine shafts and blow out through old mine open­ings on the side of the moun­tain. This poten­tial­i­ty for Coal Riv­er Moun­tain mir­rors the cause of the world’s largest slur­ry spill which occurred in Mar­tin Coun­ty, Ky. In 2000, 250 mil­lion gal­lons of slur­ry broke forth from a 2.2‑billion-gallon impound­ment, killing near­ly all life in the Big Sandy Riv­er. Its impact reached all the way to the Ohio Riv­er, about 100 miles away.

Ear­li­er this week, EPA sent out a let­ter to Mar­fork Coal Co., a sub­sidiary of Massey Ener­gy Co., air­ing con­cerns about the absence of a val­ley fill per­mit, and request­ing an exten­sive amount of infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the moun­tain­top removal oper­a­tion on the Bee Tree site.

In note of this, Nick Mar­tin, cur­rent­ly locked down, said, “The EPA’s recent action proves that the com­mu­ni­ties’ con­cerns about this site are shared at the high­est lev­els of gov­ern­ment.”

Matt Louis-Rosen­berg, a Cli­mate Ground Zero activist, adds, “Coal Riv­er Wind attempt­ed to get a meet­ing with the gov­er­nor for a year and it took peo­ple sit­ting in his office to get him to sit down and meet with con­cerned com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, just like it takes our actions up on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain to get the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to step in.”

The con­cern showed by the EPA reflects what the res­i­dents of the Coal Riv­er Val­ley have known for a long time; the Brushy Fork Impound­ment is putting lives in dan­ger, and the blast­ing on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain only increas­es that dan­ger. The pro­tes­tors on the Bee Tree site are putting out a call to action to save Coal Riv­er Moun­tain and pro­tect all those who would be impact­ed by a cat­a­stro­phe there. This action fits into a larg­er fight against moun­tain­top removal in Appalachia.

On the whole, Gunnoe’s sen­ti­ment was, “Don’t like much about Oba­ma, but he’ll have one heck of a sup­port­er if he stops moun­tain­top min­ing.”

Note: More infor­ma­tion avail­able at http://climategroundzero.org.

ELF Attacks Carso Cement Company in Mexico State

“On the night of Novem­ber 18, we again attacked the enter­prise CARSO in the state of Mex­i­co. This time we saw that a wide hose com­ing out of the cement busi­ness was fur­ther con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing the canal. The tox­ic waste of civ­i­liza­tion com­plete­ly destroys bio­di­vesi­ty, cre­at­ing ill­ness and addi­tion­al­ly, these destroy­ers of the land push to the edge the last that remains of wild nature.

“On the night of Novem­ber 18, we again attacked the enter­prise CARSO in the state of Mex­i­co. This time we saw that a wide hose com­ing out of the cement busi­ness was fur­ther con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing the canal. The tox­ic waste of civ­i­liza­tion com­plete­ly destroys bio­di­vesi­ty, cre­at­ing ill­ness and addi­tion­al­ly, these destroy­ers of the land push to the edge the last that remains of wild nature.

It is because of this that we decid­ed to act and we threw bot­tles filled with gaso­line at the hose, and after this we threw rocks wrapped in cloth and lit on fire. The per­son oper­at­ing a big crane had a look of aston­ish­ment after see­ing from the dark­ness of the branch­es of the trees, balls of fire com­ing direc­ty at the prop­er­ty of the wretched CARSO enter­prise.

We will not tol­er­ate more envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion. The vin­di­cat­ing fire lives not only in our words but also in our actions.

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front”

http://www.elfpressoffice.org/comm111809.html

forest occupation

resis­tance to evic­tion of for­est occu­pa­tion in bel­gium

Dear friends of one of Bel­gium’s last remain­ing forests

The shit is about to hit the fan
the investor’s greedy eyes are cast­ing their long shad­ows over the Lap­pers­fort’s few trees;
their low wages pup­pets are sharp­en­ing their knives and lick­ing their fin­gers

resis­tance to evic­tion of for­est occu­pa­tion in bel­gium

Dear friends of one of Bel­gium’s last remain­ing forests

The shit is about to hit the fan
the investor’s greedy eyes are cast­ing their long shad­ows over the Lap­pers­fort’s few trees;
their low wages pup­pets are sharp­en­ing their knives and lick­ing their fin­gers
We expect the evic­tion of our beloved home with­in the next short month, the 30th/Nov, the 1st and 2nd/Dec so far being the dates of the high­est evic­tion threat
I wished to be able to tell u dif­fer­ent­ly but this place once buzzing with peo­ple is now pret­ty low in num­bers. ‑BUT there are still peo­ple will­ing to fight, so this is a call-out
WE NEED MORE PEOPLE
prefer­ably to stay

what else u can do:
20th/Nov gath­er in the for­est
21st/Nov use medi­a’s cor­rupt­ed minds and play or don’t play along with their stu­pid game once more (details to be explained in case u come)
pass this mes­sage on to any­one u think appro­pri­ate
see u in the trees

http://lappersfort.freehostia.com/en/index/index.html
tele­phone-num­ber: 0032 470 — 96 86 51
lappersfort@gmail.com

Reminder: Mainshill — weekend of action and workshops!

Week­end of Action and work­shops
at MAINSHILL SOLIDARITY CAMP

Sat 28th Nov — Tues 1st Dec

With signs that the evic­tion may hap­pen any minute the Main­shill sol­i­dar­i­ty camp need all the sup­port they can get (see http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/ for more details on the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion).

Week­end of Action and work­shops
at MAINSHILL SOLIDARITY CAMP

Sat 28th Nov — Tues 1st Dec

With signs that the evic­tion may hap­pen any minute the Main­shill sol­i­dar­i­ty camp need all the sup­port they can get (see http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/ for more details on the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion).

Since June, the Main­shill camp has been occu­py­ing the site of a new open cast coal mine in Lanark­shire with lots of local sup­port and seri­ous­ly delay­ing work with dig­ger div­ing, drill rig occu­pa­tions and sab­o­tage actions.

If you can, go now! Oth­er­wise, join us for our open week­end Sat 28 Oct — Tues 1st Dec. There’ll be direct action work­shops, legal brief­in­gs, a guid­ed tour of the site and a small pos­si­bil­i­ty of a ceilidh with local peo­ple on Sat­ur­day night, plus what­ev­er actions peo­ple are up for.

There’s lots and lots to do — not only are con­trac­tors busy felling trees on site, there are also four open­cast coal mines with­in spit­ting dis­tance of Main­shill, as well as the Raven­struther coal rail depot.

From jump­ing on machin­ery and build­ing momen­tum and sup­port in the com­mu­ni­ty, to chop­ping wood and clean­ing out the com­post loos — there’s some­thing for every­one!

A brochure of coal tar­gets in Scot­land plus Dig­ger Div­ing for Begin­ners can be found at http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=10

WHAT TO BRING:
*warm clothes, boots and water­proofs, a tent, sleep­ing bag and mat
*tools for build­ing work and action mate­ri­als if you can
*Most impor­tant­ly bring your­self and friends.

FOOD:
There’ll be com­mu­nal veg­an food for a dona­tion, so come pre­pared to help with chop­ping veg.

GETTING THERE:
The camp is right next to junc­tion 12 of the M74, which runs from Carlisle to Glas­gow. The near­est train sta­tions are Lanark and Hamil­ton and there are fre­quent direct busses to the site.
Email us if you need a lift from the train sta­tion.

Detailed trav­el direc­tions:
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=415

MORE INFO AND CONTACT:
info@leaveitintheground.org.uk
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=827

Please note: Peo­ple arrest­ed at Main­shill are held overnight, then tak­en to the Sher­if­f’s Court in Lanark­shire on the next work­ing day before being released, (i.e. if you’re arrest­ed on Mon­day you’ll be let out on Tues­day, but if you’re arrest­ed on Fri­day or Sat­ur­day you’ll have to wait til
Mon­day!) If you are plan­ning to take action, make sure you’ve got the next work day off too.

Mainshill Eviction Alert: the National Eviction Team show up on Site

20.11.2009
This morn­ing the process to evict Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp began. Mem­bers of the Nation­al Evic­tion Team, along with police climbers, are cur­rent­ly on site, walk­ing around tak­ing pic­tures. At the moment there are about 10 police/eviction team on site, they are attempt­ing to gain access to dwellings and mak­ing threats.

20.11.2009
This morn­ing the process to evict Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp began. Mem­bers of the Nation­al Evic­tion Team, along with police climbers, are cur­rent­ly on site, walk­ing around tak­ing pic­tures. At the moment there are about 10 police/eviction team on site, they are attempt­ing to gain access to dwellings and mak­ing threats.

The Nation­al Evic­tion Team, for those who dont know, are a spe­cial­ist group of sher­iffs offi­cers that evict Activists, Hip­pies, and Squat­ters from tun­nels, tree­hous­es and build­ings.

Res­i­dents of the camp are ask­ing for any­one who is able to go to site as soon as pos­si­ble to boost num­bers and strength­en the camps posi­tion.

More infor­ma­tion as we get it.

Fore direc­tions see here http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=415#How%20to%20Get%20There

COP15 OUT, 5th December 2009

*they call them­selves lead­ers?*

On Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 5th 2009, Cli­mate Camp Lon­don will be join­ing the tens of thou­sands of peo­ple descend­ing on Lon­don to help put the spot­light on the fail­ing inter­na­tion­al cli­mate talks in Copen­hagen.

*they call them­selves lead­ers?*

On Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 5th 2009, Cli­mate Camp Lon­don will be join­ing the tens of thou­sands of peo­ple descend­ing on Lon­don to help put the spot­light on the fail­ing inter­na­tion­al cli­mate talks in Copen­hagen.

Now is the time to chal­lenge the vest­ed inter­ests, cor­po­ra­tions and polit­i­cal sys­tems that are caus­ing cli­mate change and so we’ve got a secret plan to take a space in the city away from and after the wave.

It’s time to show our ‘lead­ers’ how we’re going to take action to reduce emis­sions our­selves.

*COP OUT WHEN*

05.12.09, after the wave

*COP OUT WHERE*

Lon­don – at a secret loca­tion

Watch out for details and sign up for txt mes­sages at www.climatecamp.org.uk/london

There are plen­ty of real­ly cheap coach­es head­ed for Lon­don on Dec 5th and they’re leav­ing from all over the coun­try.

Book your seat now — http://bit.ly/CRtCO

*COP OUT WHY*

Because the fail­ing UNFCCC talks in Copen­hagen are at best plan­ning false solu­tions to cli­mate change like car­bon trad­ing. If the gov­ern­ment and cor­po­ra­tions get their way, then the next cri­sis won’t be finan­cial. It’ll be much worse. The stu­pid­i­ty of total trust in mar­kets will only bring cat­a­stro­phe.

Buy Nothing Day (Bristol, Birmingham, Falmouth, Leeds, Lincoln, Sheffield…) — Steal Something Day (everywhere)

Bris­tol: To buy, or not to buy…

Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 28th is Buy Noth­ing Day (UK). It’s a day where you chal­lenge your­self, your fam­i­ly and friends to switch off from shop­ping and tune into life. The rules are sim­ple, for 24 hours you will detox from shop­ping and any­one can take part pro­vid­ed they spend a day with­out spend­ing!

Shop Less Live MoreBris­tol: To buy, or not to buy…

Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 28th is Buy Noth­ing Day (UK). It’s a day where you chal­lenge your­self, your fam­i­ly and friends to switch off from shop­ping and tune into life. The rules are sim­ple, for 24 hours you will detox from shop­ping and any­one can take part pro­vid­ed they spend a day with­out spend­ing!

Every­thing we buy has an impact on the envi­ron­ment. Buy Noth­ing Day high­lights the envi­ron­men­tal and eth­i­cal con­se­quences of shop­ping. The devel­oped coun­tries — only 20% of the world pop­u­la­tion are con­sum­ing over 80% of the earth­’s nat­ur­al resources, caus­ing a dis­pro­por­tion­ate lev­el of envi­ron­men­tal dam­age and an unfair dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth.

As con­sumers we need to ques­tion the prod­ucts we buy and chal­lenge the com­pa­nies who pro­duce them. What are the true risks to the envi­ron­ment and devel­op­ing coun­tries? The argu­ment is infi­nite — while it con­tin­ues we should be look­ing for sim­ple solu­tions and Buy Noth­ing Day is a good place to start.

As last year’s buy noth­ing day was a huge suc­cess in the city cen­tre, we will be doing the same event again — a free shop, where peo­ple can take away things for free. We will be right at the heart of the mad shop­ping world that is Broad­mead.

Help­ing peo­ple think about the mate­r­i­al world we live in, and mak­ing con­scious deci­sions in the way we exploit the world, its peo­ple and the nat­ur­al resources.

Bring musi­cal instru­ments, things to give away in the free shop, chalk, and your love­ly self!

Hope to see you there.

Hap­py 10th Buy Noth­ing Day!

Buy Noth­ing Day start­ed in North Amer­i­ca in the ear­ly 90’s and has grown to an inter­na­tion­al day cel­e­brat­ed in over 50 coun­tries. The Buy Noth­ing Day UK web­site went online in Jan­u­ary 2000. We’re not quite 10 years old, but on Novem­ber 28th Buy Noth­ing Day will be just 10 days young — anoth­er rea­son to cel­e­brate the fru­gal fes­ti­val.

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

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Birm­ing­ham: We are hold­ing our 8th annu­al San­ta Parade in Birm­ing­ham City Cen­tre for Buy Noth­ing Day on 28th Novem­ber at 12:00 noon. Email: joe (at) birminghamfoe.org.uk. For last years parade click here.

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Fal­mouth:
Free Shop
Ker­now Action Now! a new direct action group in Corn­wall will be launch­ing what will become a reg­u­lar Freeshop on Buy Noth­ing Day. The Freeshop will be from 1pm out­side the old Wool­worths in Fal­mouth, Corn­wall.

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Leeds:

Buy Noth­ing Day is try­ing to make peo­ple think about the goods they buy — think before you shop!  We are NOT ask­ing you to go with­out milk if you run out. Instead, before you buy think about where things come from, how they got here, what resources were used to make them and: do you REALLY need them?

The idea is to encour­age peo­ple that instead of buy­ing some­thing for Christ­mas they could make some­thing (see our alter­na­tive Christ­mas gifts for ideas).  There is so much adver­tis­ing say­ing BUY THIS we thought that there should be some say­ing BUY NOTHING.

Last year we had Christ­mas Car­ols, a free shop, food and all for free in Brig­gate.  Lots of peo­ple inter­est­ed in the con­cept and lots of cups of tea.

Join us.

See web­site below for meet­ings or come to Brig­gate — 11am

http://www.greenactionleeds.org.uk/buy-nothing-day-09

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Lin­coln:

My Dads Strip Club out again on Buy-Noth­ing-Day-Release, this time three events in three days in the city of Lin­coln.

Thurs 26 Nov 2009 8–10pm Dog and Bone, St Johns St, Lin­coln.
BITE THE HAND feeds thoughts of break­ing con­di­tioned respons­es … sub­vert­ing sys­tems upon them­selves… inter­rupt­ing need­less con­sump­tion… and cut­ting off the pow­er. Enjoy an evening at the Dog and Bone with My Dads Strip Club as they demon­strate to you ‘the art of reclaim­ing space’. Putting embar­rass­ment aside, they will address the del­i­cate sub­ject of car­nal knowl­edge of Coke machines. The com­e­dy in the work runs very close to anger, and excites all kinds of stuff in on-look­ers.

Fri 27 Nov 2009 5.30–7.30 pm at the Healthy Hub cafe Beau­mont Fee
(after The 4pm Mini-Wave hap­pen­ing at the cathe­dral )
FROM DIRTY CASH TO CLEAN GREEN come watch us try to nav­i­gate our way out of the chaos of cli­mate change through draw­ing and per­for­mance cap­tur­ing the con­nec­tions between slag heaps and super­mod­els green-wash­ing and the titan­ic and our flood­ed out cum­bri­an towns. Sound by FLOTEL.

Sat 28 Nov 2009 at var­i­ous loca­tions in the city of Lin­coln.
GOOD SHIT DOESN’T HAVE TO COST THE EARTH Mak­ing our annu­al dis-func­tion­al attempt to relate to the shop­ping expe­ri­ence MDSC will try to coerce inno­cent shop­pers to break their addic­tion to mass pro­duced poor­ly made prod­ucts (cheap-shit) instead offer­ing for sale alter­na­tive organ­ic and sus­tain­able high-priced mer­chan­dise. Meet us for a report back at the Dog and Bone pub 1pm sharp.

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Lin­coln Mini Wave — meet Fri­day 4pm out­side Lin­coln Cathe­dral. The event is in sol­i­dar­i­ty with mobil­i­sa­tions around the UN con­fer­ence in Copen­hagen www.ecolincs.org
Buy Noth­ing Day — sab­o­tage the shop­ping
www.buynothingday.co.uk
www.dogandbonelincoln.co.uk — Best com­mu­ni­ty pub in Great Britain award 2009

http://www.mydadstripclub.com

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Con­sumer Virus Out­break, Sheffield

Meet by the stat­ue in the main Mead­owhall con­course at 1pm and do any­thing but shop!
We know that sweet tasty braaaains will be short sup­ply dur­ing the run up to Christ­mas, but let’s see what we can do … Zom­bies and out­break cleanup crew are all wel­come : bring friends, cos­tumes, signs and fake blood aplen­ty!!!
A face­book event page can be found here : www.facebook.com
FEEL FREE TO INVITE FRIENDS : ALL ARE WELCOME IN THE ZOMBIE HOARD!!!

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Steal Something Day
Steal Some­thing Day

“…Unlike Buy Noth­ing Day, when peo­ple are asked to “par­tic­i­pate by not par­tic­i­pat­ing,” Steal Some­thing Day demands that we “par­tic­i­pate by par­tic­i­pat­ing.” Instead of down­play­ing or ignor­ing the cap­i­tal­ists, CEOs, land­lords, small busi­ness tyrants, boss­es, PR hacks, yup­pies, media lap­dogs, cor­po­rate bureau­crats, politi­cians and cops who are pri­mar­i­ly respon­si­ble for mis­ery and exploita­tion in this world, Steal Some­thing Day demands that we steal from them, with­out dis­crim­i­na­tion.…

…Unlike the mis­placed Buy Noth­ing Day notion of con­sumer empow­er­ment, Steal Some­thing Day pro­motes empow­er­ment by urg­ing us to col­lec­tive­ly iden­ti­fy the greedy bas­tards who are actu­al­ly respon­si­ble for pro­mot­ing mis­ery and bore­dom in this world. Instead of ignor­ing them, Steal Some­thing Day encour­ages us to make their lives as uncom­fort­able as pos­si­ble.

As we like to say in Mon­tre­al: diranger les rich­es dans leurs nich­es!

And remem­ber, we’re talk­ing about steal­ing, not theft. Steal­ing is just. Theft is exploita­tive. Steal­ing is when you take a yup­pie’s BMW for a joyride, and crash into a parked Mer­cedes just for the hell of it. Theft is when you take can­dy from a baby’s mouth.

Steal­ing is the re-dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth from rich to poor Theft is mak­ing prof­its at the expense of the dis­ad­van­taged and the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment. Steal­ing is an unwrit­ten a tax on the rich. Theft is tax­ing the poor to sub­si­dize the rich. Steal­ing is noth­ing more than a tax on the rich. There is sol­i­dar­i­ty in steal­ing, but prop­er­ty is noth­ing but theft.…”

For the full orig­i­nal text and call-out, go to http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/432

Black Cat Occupied Social Centre website now online + events info

*First­ly, we have a shiny new web­site. It is still under­go­ing a bit of work, but has all the impor­tant info you need to know about the place. You can check it out at — http://blackcatcentre.blogspot.com/

Black Cat Centre logo*First­ly, we have a shiny new web­site. It is still under­go­ing a bit of work, but has all the impor­tant info you need to know about the place. You can check it out at — http://blackcatcentre.blogspot.com/

*Just a quick reminder about our ben­e­fit gig this Fri­day (20th) fea­tur­ing Robb John­son & the Irreg­u­lars, Tracey Cur­tis, Cos­mo and a cool, though un-named acoustic ska out­i­fit we found busk­ing in Bath town cen­tre! At only £3/4 sug­gest­ed dona­tion, plus dona­tion din­ner and bar, it looks set to be a wicked night rais­ing funds for decent caus­es (the posties, the black cat and local rad­i­cal rag the Bath Bomb), so drag yer­self over to the West­coun­try for the night. (we have plen­ty of crash space, so why not kip over, then find yer way over to Bris­tol’s Kebele Cen­tre for their birth­day bash on the Sat­ur­day night?)

*From 1pm sat­ur­day, we will be hav­ing an open day, with var­i­ous work­shops (includ­ing bike repair and mak­ing wal­lets from junk, squat­ting Q&A, film show­ings in the evening, lunch and much more). Every­one wel­come!

So, between us and Kebele, we have a cheap and nifty week­end of rad­i­cal relax­ing, cre­at­ing and par­ty­ing going on — there’s nev­er been a bet­ter week­end to spend in the South West!

There is always some­one in at the Black Cat, so if you want to pop over at any time, drop us an email.

Black Cat Col­lec­tive
bathsocialcentre@gmail.com
http://blackcatcentre.blogspot.com/