Climate Rush gets chained to Parliament

28 jan­u­ary 2009

Climate Rush chained to parliament28 jan­u­ary 2009
As I write this blog our MPs are debat­ing the sub­ject of the third run­way in the Com­mons. Although any deci­sion made will not be bind­ing it is pos­si­ble that there will be a labour revolt over the cur­rent deci­sion to go ahead when a vote is held at 7pm this evening. A not insignif­i­cant amount of MPs are seri­ous­ly annoyed with our gov­ern­men­t’s col­lu­sion with BAA, with two MPs decid­ing to resign over the issue this morn­ing.

Cli­mate Rush were out­side the gates of Par­lia­ment to show what they think of our far­ci­cal democ­ra­cy at 10.30am this morn­ing, cun­ning­ly bear­ing chains under large coats. It was an easy stroll over to the rail­ings and a leisure­ly pad­lock­ing ensued before any police even took any notice. Eight women and two men dressed in assort­ed Edwar­dian-style gear unfurled their lov­ing­ly sten­cilled aprons bear­ing the immor­tal DEEDS NOT WORDS, and pro­ceed­ed to smile for the atten­dant press.

After about an hour the police decid­ed to move every­one else off the area with a bit of force, before then mak­ing a u‑turn and let­ting every­one back in. They threat­ened arrest sev­er­al times, for protest­ing in a SOCPA area (you have to apply to protest any­where near Par­lia­ment) with­out a per­mit, and then for refusals to unchain. This was much to the amuse­ment of the pro-cannabis lob­by over the way in the square, who heck­led us through their mega­phone. I think they may take tips from us in the future. Tourists stopped to have their pho­tos tak­en. Suf­fragettes drank tea from a flask and ate turk­ish delight.

Even­tu­al­ly, the bolt­cut­ters arrived, and the police chopped through the chains. But still no arrests, in fact they appeared des­per­ate to avoid any arrests, clear­ly dread­ing the extra pub­lic­i­ty over our demon­stra­tion of true democ­ra­cy in action — orders seemed to change rapid­ly from whomev­er was pass­ing them down from on high. After all the Suf­fragettes had been freed a group hud­dle ensued to decide on whether to fur­ther attempt arrest, but it was decid­ed that this might prove near­ly impos­si­ble giv­en that it had already proved so dif­fi­cult, and instead we went off for a cup of tea and a plate of chips in the Methodist Church Hall cafe.

I’d like to think that some­thing sen­si­ble might occur in gov­ern­ment today, like our elect­ed politi­cians real­is­ing that build­ing a third run­way is not com­pat­i­ble with cut­ting 80% of our CO2 emis­sions, as already agreed. Alas I fear not.…
Join the fun with Cli­mate Rush if you’d like to voice your opin­ion on this mat­ter on a future date.

climaterush.co.uk

More pho­tos at http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/amelias_blog/2009/01/climate_rush_gets_chained_to_p.php

Arson attacks on luxury/railway cars, construction machines and airport fencing, Germany

26/01/09: Again cars torched

Direct Action Germany: 8th-26th January
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Direct Action Germany: 8th-26th January
26/01/09: Again cars torched
22/01/09: Arson attack on cars of the Ger­man Rail­way Ser­vice (Deutsche Bahn)
19/01/09: Exter­nal fence prop­er­ty of the police dam­aged
14/01/09: Three upper­class cars burned
10/01/09: Two cars and a moto burned down
09/01/09: Unknown per­sons set con­struc­tion machines in flames

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Again cars torched

Berlin, 25 of Jan­u­ary 2009

Again arsons attacks in Friedrichshain.
In the night to Sun­day, three cars got burned.
In the Elde­naer­str. a Porsche Cayenne got torched, togeth­er with a Golf parked next to it.
A few min­utes lat­er, a pass­er-by dis­cov­ered a burn­ing DHL vehi­cle in the Thaer­str.
The state secu­ri­ty took up the inves­ti­ga­tions.

Source: Berlin­er Zeitung

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Arson attack on cars of the Ger­man Rail­way Ser­vice (Deutsche Bahn)

Berlin, 22 of Jan­u­ary 2009

a claim we received:

„Attack the handy­men of the nuclear-lob­by

Before the Cas­tor’s trans­port 2008 took place, sev­er­al rail­ways line have been sab­o­taged through hook­claws in France and Ger­many. Short­ly after­wards, 9 com­rades have been arrest­ed in France, accused of mem­ber­ship with­in a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion and of being respon­si­ble of the sab­o­tages.
One of them is still in prison.

It is not a new thing, that in France one inprison activist upon antiter­ror laws. Already in Jan­u­ary 2008, it came to the impris­on­ment of five per­sons, described by cops and press as part of the „ultra­left­ists, anar­cho-autonomen“ move­ment, and they are wait­ing since then for their tri­al, in the dun­geons of the french jus­tice.

Such a way of pro­ceed­ing seems to be a strong trend with­in euro­pean author­i­ties respon­si­ble for the secu­ri­ty issues. Also the ger­man state secu­ri­ty works a lot on its ter­ror­ist-con­struc­tion, which new­ly land­ed in a tri­al against alleged mem­bers of the Mil­i­tant Group.
In Greece, 13 youths are sit­ting in prison since the begin­ning of the Decem­ber insur­rec­tion, also con­front­ed with the antiter­ror para­graph.

That is why on the 22 of Jan­u­ary we torched 5 cars of the Deutsche Bahn dur­ing the action week for the Tarnac 9.

As long as the Deutsche Bahn will keep on offer­ing its rail­ways for the nuclear trans­port, they will remain always a tar­get of our protest.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty means attack

a few „ultra-left­ists-anar­cho-autonome“.“

More pic­tures here: http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/foto/
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Exter­nal fence prop­er­ty of the police dam­aged

Frank­furt’s air­port, 19 of Jan­u­ary 2009

Mon­day the 19.1.09 one reck­oned that unknown per­sons dam­aged the exter­nal fence put by the police had been seri­ous­ly dam­aged, pre­cise­ly on its north­ern and west­ern side.

The amount of the dam­age is quite high.

Tues­day the 20.1.09, a group, which is clear­ly against the expan­sion of the air­port and calls itself „frank­furt’s gen­er­al sweep­ing blow“ (n.t.: wordgame in ger­man, the group name is almost the same as the one of the most impor­tant frank­furt’s news­pa­per), took respon­s­abil­i­ty for the attack by send­ing a claim.
Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the „frank­furt’s com­mon sweep­ing blow“!

Source: http://waldbesetzung.blogsport.de

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Three upper­class cars burned

Berlin, 14 of Jan­u­ary 2008

Three cars have been destroyed by arson on the ear­ly hours of wednes­day.
A pass­er byer notice a mer­cedes burn­ing in the Wiener­str. (Kreuzberg) around 2.20am and called the cops. The fire­bri­gade came to extin­guish the fire, the car got seri­ous­ly dam­aged though.

At Michaelkirch­platz, Mitte, a bmw burned around 3.15am.
Just 100m far­away, in Leuschn­er­damm, Kreuzberg, anoth­er bmw burned. The fire brigade extin­guished both fires. The cops sus­pect a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion behind the actions, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Tage­spiegel

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Two cars and a moto burned down

Berlin, 10 of Jan­u­ary 2009

Unknown per­son set last night a car and a moto on fire, in the Geth­se­manes­traße. The moto was a bmw, an opel car parked next got also dam­aged. Few min­ut­ed lat­er, cops reck­oned that an audi parked in the area was also in flames.

Since cops believe a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion behind the facts, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Tage­spiegel

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Unknown per­sons set con­struc­tion machines in flames

Berlin, 9 of Jan­u­ary 2009

Unknown per­sons set up sev­er­al con­struc­tion machines in flames, it hap­pened on a con­struc­tion site in Pankow.
Inhab­i­tants saw the flames on the spot, sit­ed in the Richard-Ermisch-straße and called the cops.
A dig­ger and two rad­lad­er got burned. State secur­tiy inves­ti­gates, since a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion is believed, there is no trace of the authors.

Source: ddp

infos about the con­struc­tion site: http://www.concepta-stadthaeuser.de/en/news/building-projects.html

Note for eng­lish speak­ing per­sons: sev­er­al lux­u­ri­ous hous­es are being build on this spot, close to an area where sev­er­al house­pro­jects are locat­ed.

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Tribal Solidarity category created

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Imbolc at Tara

***************CALLING ALL TARA WARRIORS**************

Imbolg is fast approach­ing and the Protest Sea­son is kick­ing off again in style!

DAY OF ACTION for Tara, this Thurs­day 29 Jan­u­ary. Meet­ing Wednes­day night at Vig­il Farm, for actions ear­ly and all day Thurs­day.
Come pre­pared — bring sleep­ing bag, torch, water­proof warm clothes, cam­eras, ban­ners, cos­tumes, musi­cal instru­ments etc etc

***************CALLING ALL TARA WARRIORS**************

Imbolg is fast approach­ing and the Protest Sea­son is kick­ing off again in style!

DAY OF ACTION for Tara, this Thurs­day 29 Jan­u­ary. Meet­ing Wednes­day night at Vig­il Farm, for actions ear­ly and all day Thurs­day.
Come pre­pared — bring sleep­ing bag, torch, water­proof warm clothes, cam­eras, ban­ners, cos­tumes, musi­cal instru­ments etc etc

*All wel­come, please tell lit­er­al­ly every­one. Protests can­not con­tin­ue unless we have the num­bers to sup­port us.
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If you can­not make it on Thurs­day but would like to help out, we need help with:
Press releas­es
Ban­ner mak­ing mate­ri­als
Cam­eras
Food
Any­thing else you thing that could be help­ful!
Tara is call­ing, the days are get­ting longer and warmer. Protest­ing is great cra­ic, it’s nev­er to late for TARA

For more details con­tact me on the num­ber below
Slán a Pix­ie
Lou

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00 353 86 3600478
Sáb­háil Teamhair
Shell Chun Sáille
www.tarapixie.net

http://www.savetara.com

E.On Ref Off!

On Sat­ur­day 24th Jan­u­ary a group of Lon­don Cli­mate Camp activists turned up at Stam­ford Bridge dressed as foot­ball ref­er­ees to show E.ON the red card.

Eon red card 1Eon red card 2On Sat­ur­day 24th Jan­u­ary a group of Lon­don Cli­mate Camp activists turned up at Stam­ford Bridge dressed as foot­ball ref­er­ees to show E.ON the red card. Over 40,000 Chelsea and Ipswich fans arriv­ing for the game heard us blow­ing the whis­tle on E.ON’s dirty FA Cup spon­sor­ship mon­ey, and thou­sands of them were per­son­al­ly hand­ed an “E.ON F.OFF” red card explain­ing how the com­pa­ny is mak­ing foul prof­its from the cli­mate cri­sis. It was all good fun and reac­tions were pret­ty pos­i­tive — E.ON them­selves would have paid tens of thou­sands to get the oppo­site pub­lic­i­ty for their brand!

Activists take action “In Defence of Ancient Forests”

26.01.2009
Today, pro­test­ers climbed trees and hung ban­ners in front of the Aus­tralian High Com­mis­sion in Lon­don to raise aware­ness of the con­tin­ued log­ging of Australia’s old growth and high con­ser­va­tion val­ue forests. An emer­gency report com­piled by envi­ron­men­tal and protest groups in Tas­ma­nia was deliv­ered detail­ing the dev­as­ta­tion of pub­lic forests at the hands of wood­chip com­pa­ny Gunns Ltd. The com­pa­ny pro­pose more than 10km of log­ging roads to access 12 log­ging ‘coupes’ all of which con­tain irre­place­able ecosys­tems and some of the tallest trees on the plan­et.

Australian wilderness protest at Embassy26.01.2009
Today, pro­test­ers climbed trees and hung ban­ners in front of the Aus­tralian High Com­mis­sion in Lon­don to raise aware­ness of the con­tin­ued log­ging of Australia’s old growth and high con­ser­va­tion val­ue forests. An emer­gency report com­piled by envi­ron­men­tal and protest groups in Tas­ma­nia was deliv­ered detail­ing the dev­as­ta­tion of pub­lic forests at the hands of wood­chip com­pa­ny Gunns Ltd. The com­pa­ny pro­pose more than 10km of log­ging roads to access 12 log­ging ‘coupes’ all of which con­tain irre­place­able ecosys­tems and some of the tallest trees on the plan­et.

Last Mon­day, con­cerned mem­bers of the British pub­lic deliv­ered a peti­tion with 936 names to the embassy ask­ing for an imme­di­ate halt to log­ging old growth for­est in Tas­ma­nia.
The protest is moti­vat­ed by the evic­tion of the long stand­ing protest camp in the Upper Flo­ren­tine val­ley in Tas­ma­nia. To date 30 pro­test­ers and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers act­ing in the defence of the protest camp have been arrest­ed.

“We have gained sup­port from the Rt Hon Nor­man Bak­er MP, who is in the process of tabling an ear­ly day motion in Par­lia­ment express­ing con­cern about the extent of log­ging in the Upper Flo­ren­tine val­ley in Tas­ma­nia” said for­est cam­paign­er Phil Neale.

In July, fol­low­ing a meet­ing in Que­bec, The World Her­itage Com­mit­tee request­ed the State Par­ty to con­sid­er an “exten­sion of the prop­er­ty to include appro­pri­ate areas of tall euca­lypt for­est”, once more high­light­ing this issue as being an inter­na­tion­al con­cern.
This request has reit­er­at­ed inter­na­tion­al con­cerns with the con­tin­ued destruc­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s ancient forests.

“We are call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Rudd and Pre­mier Bartlett to heed the advice of the IUCN now and place an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on log­ging in the glob­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant forests of the Styx, Weld and Upper Flo­ren­tine” — Ula Majew­s­ki spokesper­son for grass roots cam­paign group ‘Still Wild, Still Threat­ened’.

There where unnec­es­sary amounts of police in the area but no arrests.

For more infor­ma­tion vis­it www.huon.org and www.stillwildstillthreatened.org

Cornwall Arms Factory Disrupted

FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Corn­wall Arms Fac­to­ry Dis­rupt­ed

This morn­ing, activists from Stop Ker­now Arms Trade occu­pied the roof of Hel­ston Gun­smiths, a com­pa­ny who man­u­fac­ture tanks & small arms, to high­light the irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the arms trade.

FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Corn­wall Arms Fac­to­ry Dis­rupt­ed

This morn­ing, activists from Stop Ker­now Arms Trade occu­pied the roof of Hel­ston Gun­smiths, a com­pa­ny who man­u­fac­ture tanks & small arms, to high­light the irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the arms trade.

In 2007, the UK sold weapons to 11 of the 13 coun­tries iden­ti­fied as being loca­tions with at least one armed con­flict in 2006. Hel­ston Gun­smiths were involved in sup­ply­ing guns to the Iraqi police force which end­ed up in the hands of Al Qae­da. It’s hard to deter­mine where weapons will even­tu­al­ly end up, and arms man­u­fac­tur­ers have a vest­ed inter­est in keep­ing things this way. Around 90% of casu­al­ties in armed con­flicts are caused by small arms, which are used for domes­tic repres­sion by cor­rupt regimes and pro­long vio­lent con­flict.

Con­tact Danielle Scu­d­amore on 07789 898374 for more infor­ma­tion.

ENDS

2008 round-up — fighting development on disputed lands: Mohawk blockades & site invasions in the Six Nations

Mohawk pro­test­er Brant gets light penal­ty for block­ades
Sep­tem­ber 29, 2008

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Tyendinaga mohawk flag & blockade

Mohawk pro­test­er Brant gets light penal­ty for block­ades
Sep­tem­ber 29, 2008

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Mohawks stop instal­la­tion of police facil­i­ty, Sep­tem­ber 24, 2008

…a group of about 50 peo­ple were at the site Tues­day after­noon, vow­ing to block offi­cials from plac­ing a pre­fab build­ing they feel the com­mu­ni­ty was not con­sult­ed about.

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Six Nations group stops work at Eagle Place hous­ing site in Brant­ford, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2008

A Six Nations group blocked an attempt to begin work Mon­day on the site of a new hous­ing devel­op­ment at Erie Avenue and Bir­kett Lane.

Up to 30 mem­bers of the Hau­denosaunee Men’s Fire gath­ered at the site of a 99-home sub­di­vi­sion at about 6 a. m. and didn’t leave until ear­ly after­noon.

Their efforts pre­vent­ed city work crews from begin­ning work to pro­vide ser­vic­ing to the site, which is one of five des­ig­nat­ed no-go zones in bylaws passed by the city and an injunc­tion obtained in Ontario Supe­ri­or Court pro­hibit­ing activ­i­ties that stop con­struc­tion work.

“We’re required to be here. It’s our duty to be here, ” said native spokesman Dahwehido:geh, also known as Phillip W. Skye.

“This land is part of the Eagle’s Nest Tract. It has nev­er been sur­ren­dered, ced­ed or giv­en up and it’s our duty to pro­tect it.

“We’re here to make sure that no shov­el is put into the ground.”

As he spoke, Skye had a repli­ca of the Two Row Wampum draped over his arm.

He said devel­op­ment of the site would dam­age the area’s eco-sys­tem and he encour­aged city offi­cials to move away from devel­op­ing vacant land.

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Arrests spark Six Nations block­ade in Cale­do­nia, Sep­tem­ber 02, 2008

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, Stephen Pow­less, 43, and two teens were arrest­ed in Brant­ford for alleged­ly being on the con­struc­tion site at the Hamp­ton Inn on Fen Ridge Court, next to the Kingspan Insu­lat­ed Pan­els devel­op­ment site from which they are barred.

Police said the trio are under a court order to stay away from the land and were all charged with breach of a court order and mis­chief.

Clyde Pow­less, a spokesper­son for Six Nations, said the arrests were a “cat­a­lyst” for the block­ades, but that the com­mu­ni­ty is also frus­trat­ed by the slow pace of land claim nega­tions with the provin­cial and fed­er­al gov­ern­ments.

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Six Nations peo­ple shut down anoth­er Brant­ford devel­op­ment, August 6, 2008

More than 30 Six Nations pro­test­ers shut down work on a $500-mil­lion indus­tri­al and com­mer­cial devel­op­ment on Oak Park Road Tues­day morn­ing, say­ing envi­ron­men­tal con­cerns must be addressed.

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Six Nations peo­ple take aim at hotel project, July 19, 2008

They set up a large teepee at the edge of the Hamp­ton Inn hotel site on Fen Ridge Court after suc­cess­ful­ly halt­ing con­struc­tion of the near­by Kingspan Insu­la­tion ware­house and head­quar­ters.

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Six Nations peo­ple block job site over land dis­pute, July 14, 2008

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Ten­sions over native land claims in South­ern Ontario flared again Mon­day morn­ing as a pro­test­er blocked a cement truck’s access to a build­ing site and then alleged­ly assault­ed a police offi­cer.
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The dis­agree­ment in Brant­ford stems from plans to build an insu­la­tion fac­to­ry and head­quar­ters on land that is sub­ject to a long-out­stand­ing native land claim.
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“We’re con­tin­u­ing to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion. The under­ly­ing issue here is a 200-year-old land claim against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, so the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment needs to accel­er­ate the nego­ti­a­tions lead­ing to a res­o­lu­tion of this issue,” said Greg Crone, Mr. Bryant’s press sec­re­tary.

The Six Nations claim own­er­ship of the area as part of a his­tor­i­cal treaty that they allege was not prop­er­ly hon­oured. The local gov­ern­ment received a tem­po­rary injunc­tion in May that pro­hibits inter­fer­ence with devel­op­ment on the site — owned by Ire­land-based Kingspan — and sev­er­al oth­er near­by prop­er­ties.

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Mohawks pulling down fence
Ignor­ing injunc­tion, Six Nations peo­ple stop work at devel­op­ment sites, July 8, 2008

‘Today is the first day of tak­ing back our ter­ri­to­ry’
Ignor­ing injunc­tion, native pro­test­ers stop work at devel­op­ment sites

Natives ignored a court injunc­tion Mon­day by march­ing onto devel­op­ment sites across the city.

Con­struc­tion was halt­ed at five projects as about 150 native pro­test­ers burst onto dusty work sites and ordered employ­ees to shut down equip­ment.
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When the pro­test­ers moved along Fen Ridge Court to the con­struc­tion site for Kingspan Insulation’s new head­quar­ters and indus­tri­al plant, they found all the work­ers, their cars and equip­ment were behind a locked eight-foot met­al fence.
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When the work­er refused, say­ing the land belonged to the devel­op­ers, sev­er­al natives sim­ply lift­ed a por­tion of the met­al fence out of its moor­ings and swung it out like a gar­den gate. When it top­pled, the natives walked over it and swarmed over the enor­mous prop­er­ty, rang­ing out to where huge earth-movers were oper­at­ing and insist­ing the work stop.

At each site, the pro­test­ers wait­ed patient­ly for the work­ers to shut down equip­ment, pack up their tools and move out of the area, often wav­ing good­bye.

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Tyendinaga flags & camp
Sol­i­dar­i­ty with Tyen­d­i­na­ga and Six Nations, May 1, 2008

Ontario Provin­cial Police (OPP) attacked the Mohawk peo­ple at the Tyendinaga/Deseronto reclaimed quar­ry on Fri­day, April 25, 2008, arrest­ing as many as 10 peo­ple and point­ing guns. Sol­i­dar­i­ty block­ades, actions and demon­stra­tions took place in Six Nations/Caledonia, Akwe­sasne, Kah­nawake, Guelph, Ottawa, Toron­to and Van­cou­ver over the fol­low­ing four days. On April 26, the OPP threat­ened to remove by force the block­ade of the High­way 6 bypass at Six Nations/Caledonia, but rein­force­ments that arrived from the reserve con­vinced the cops oth­er­wise. The OPP backed-off from the Tyendinaga/Deseronto quar­ry on April 29 and the block­ade of the High­way 6 bypass at Six Nations/Caledonia was brought down.
Mohawk flag in road blockade
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Show of OPP force ends native block­ade, April 23, 2008

Native pro­test­ers who orches­trat­ed a block­ade of a major por­tion of this town ear­li­er this week dis­persed Tues­day morn­ing when con­front­ed by a pha­lanx of OPP offi­cers.

As well, the devel­op­er who sparked the inci­dent pledged Tues­day to stay away from devel­op­ing any por­tion of lands involved in the native claim known as the Cul­bert­son Tract.
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Pro­test­ers are still occu­py­ing por­tions of the dis­put­ed land devel­op­ment, most notably at the near­by Thur­low Aggre­gates quar­ry along Deseron­to Road, which they have occu­pied since last March.

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Devel­op­ment must stop on our land, Octo­ber 20, 2007

Mem­bers of Six Nations staged a 12-hour protest Fri­day at Hen­ry Street and Wayne Gret­zky Park­way, halt­ing con­struc­tion of a $40-mil­lion com­mer­cial devel­op­ment.

About a dozen natives arrived at 6:30 a.m., block­ing the site entrance to stop work­ers from dri­ving in. They erect­ed Six Nations flags and signs that read “Six Nations Land” and “Your Lease is Up.” City police mon­i­tored the site dur­ing the protest, which end­ed at about 6 p.m.

The First Gulf devel­op­ment was also the site of a Six Nations protest in March, when natives asked for a delay in work until the com­pa­ny met with the Six Nations Con­fed­er­a­cy.

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OPP arrest nine at Cale­do­nia re-occu­pa­tion, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2007

The last pock­et of native pro­test­ers was cleared yes­ter­day from a res­i­den­tial con­struc­tion site where a house builder was severe­ly beat­en last week.

With neigh­bours watch­ing and cheer­ing from their back yards, about 50 OPP offi­cers in riot gear marched in and arrest­ed nine men and women who had defied their native elders by refus­ing to leave the Stir­ling Street devel­op­ment.

The oper­a­tion went off with­out any major hitch­es and natives watch­ing from the side­lines made no attempt to assist the pro­test­ers. It was in marked con­trast to the abortive OPP raid at Dou­glas Creek Estates on April 20, 2006, when pro­test­ers with clubs and crude weapons chased off a heav­i­ly- armed police tac­ti­cal team, injur­ing sev­er­al offi­cers.
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For the first time since last Thurs­day, when all con­struc­tion had stopped, oth­er trades­peo­ple had start­ed trick­ling back in as well.

Even with the large police pres­ence, Gualtieri said his brick­lay­ers were appre­hen­sive and were work­ing much faster than usu­al.

They had noticed a hand­ful of native pro­test­ers pok­ing around a large mound of dirt on the east side of the devel­op­ment where there was a large ban­ner accus­ing Cana­da of geno­cide against abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple.

In the ear­ly after­noon, police start­ed set­ting up check­points and road­blocks around the sub­di­vi­sion and told work­ers to leave for their own safe­ty.

By about 2 p.m., a large num­ber of vans and oth­er spe­cial­ized police vehi­cles, plus two canine units, rolled onto the site.

By about 2:30 p.m., there were about 100 offi­cers on the site, includ­ing mem­bers of Hamil­ton police, and a large con­tin­gent of tac­ti­cal offi­cers in riot gear.

Gualtieri said he was impressed by the mil­i­tary pre­ci­sion of the oper­a­tion as he watched the tac­ti­cal offi­cers suit­ing up and prepar­ing to con­front the pro­test­ers.

He added it was empow­er­ing to watch the baton-wield­ing offi­cers tap­ping their shields in uni­son as they closed in on the pro­test­ers, who had refused to budge when a uni­formed offi­cer had asked them to leave a few min­utes ear­li­er.

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Native protest stalls Brant­ford project, Sep 5, 2007

A small city devel­op­er fears he has lost his financ­ing, trades­peo­ple and sup­pli­ers for a $1.2‑million, four-duplex devel­op­ment native pro­test­ers shut down yes­ter­day.

May­ber­ry Homes own­er Mike Quat­tro­cioc­chi, a for­mer Brant­ford city coun­cil­lor, said sev­er­al pro­test­ers climbed into a foun­da­tion hole being dug and sat down in front of a back­hoe, effec­tive­ly stop­ping work at 11 a.m.

They argued the land is the sub­ject of a land claim.

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Tyendinaga rail blockade
Fol­low the links above for more info on each protest, and more.

For oth­er indige­nous resis­tance in Cana­da dur­ing 2007, see http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22099

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Back­ground 2005 arti­cle on indige­nous resis­tance: Min­ing: Steal­ing the Land from Under Us

Back­ground -
In 1995, Tyen­d­i­na­ga filed a spe­cif­ic claim for the Cul­ber­ston Tract, a 923-acre par­cel near their ter­ri­to­ry. In 2003, as part of the land claims nego­ti­a­tions, the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment acknowl­edged that the Cul­bert­son Tract had nev­er been sur­ren­dered, but rather than return the land, want­ed Tyen­d­i­na­ga to take a cash buy-out.

ELF Mexico torch urban expansion, vandalise 30 Telmex phones

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Jan­u­ary 22:

Graf­fi­ti such as ‘Destroy­ers,’ ‘Mur­der­ers’ and ‘F.L.T.’ was paint­ed on two machines of urban expan­sion and destroy­ers of the land; a fire had also been set in one of these.

We will not allow more exter­mi­na­tion!

F.L.T/E.L.F Mex­i­co”

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anony­mous report:

“Jan­u­ary 16:

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Jan­u­ary 22:

Graf­fi­ti such as ‘Destroy­ers,’ ‘Mur­der­ers’ and ‘F.L.T.’ was paint­ed on two machines of urban expan­sion and destroy­ers of the land; a fire had also been set in one of these.

We will not allow more exter­mi­na­tion!

F.L.T/E.L.F Mex­i­co”

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anony­mous report:

“Jan­u­ary 16:

20 Telmex tele­phones were vic­tims of van­dal­ism by the Frente de Lib­era­cion de la Tier­ra.

Attack­ing civ­i­liza­tion until its com­plete col­lapse!

Mex­i­co”

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anony­mous report:

“On 12 Jan­u­ary, 10 Telmex phone booths were van­dal­ized with spray paint.

Direct com­bat against civ­i­liza­tion!

Lud­dites Against the Domes­ti­ca­tion of Wild Nature (LCDNS)

Mex­i­co”

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Source — http://directaction.info
ELF actions — http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/sabotage

Firebird Social Centre eviction bid fails at first hurdle

Jus­tice not Cri­sis were tak­en to court today by the own­er of the Fire­bird who was attempt­ing to seek an imme­di­ate evic­tion.

Jus­tice not Cri­sis were tak­en to court today by the own­er of the Fire­bird who was attempt­ing to seek an imme­di­ate evic­tion.

JNC’S legal team pre­pared a defence oppos­ing the evic­tion on many grounds includ­ing incor­rect ser­vice of papers and hard­ship. Fol­low­ing a 30 min hear­ing the Judge agreed that the own­er had failed to cor­rect­ly serve the legal papers and the case was adjourned for 3 weeks for a fur­ther direc­tions hear­ing.

JNC’ intend to vig­or­ous­ly oppose an imme­di­ate evic­tion and offered the own­er a Order by con­sent deal which seems like­ly to be accept­ed. If accept­ed JNC agree to vacate the premis­es when the the site is sold for Social­ly rent­ed homes, amongst oth­er things and the own­er would agree to allow us to remain.

This is a sub­stan­cial vic­to­ry for our cam­paign and should see 30 new homes for rent built on the site. This is only a start in reduc­ing the 30,000 wait­ing list and our cam­paign will con­tin­ue. We are cur­rent­ly con­sid­er­ing our options when this bat­tle is won and will report details of our next squat when it is iden­ti­fied.

We would like to thank the Squat­ters Advi­so­ry Ser­vice for their help in the prepa­ra­tion of our defence.

More info or for the Loca­tion of The Fire­bird Social Jus­tice Cen­tre justicenotcrisis.wordpress.com