Hambach Treesitter Suffers Fall

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Octo­ber 16th, 2014

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Octo­ber 16th, 2014

Heli­copter res­cues fall­en climb­ing activist – climb­ing part­ner arrest­ed with­out rea­son

On Mon­day, a French activist fell down from a 8 metre high plat­form at a for­est occu­pa­tion near the clearcut bor­der of the open cast mine Ham­bach. A heli­copter brought the con­scious acci­dent vic­tim to the near­by hos­pi­tal. Anoth­er for­est occu­pant was arrest­ed by the police dur­ing the res­cue mis­sion and was held at the police sta­tion in Düren for sev­er­al hours with­out rea­son. For 3 years, activists have been protest­ing in the Ham­bach For­est against Europe’s biggest open cast mine, which is locat­ed between Cologne and Aachen.

“Our year­long expe­ri­ence, tuto­ri­als, train­ing ses­sions and inter­na­tion­al secu­ri­ty stan­dards, show: We are pro­fes­sion­als. The secu­ri­ty of the activists is our first pri­or­i­ty.“, explains Nina Wag­n­er, climb­ing train­er and for­est occu­pant. The activists now want to clear the case com­plete­ly and search for fail­ures in the secu­ri­ty pro­ce­dures. It’s the first seri­ous acci­dent since the start of the protest, which is held dai­ly in the for­est, ele­vat­ed from at least 8 metres. “Our activists know, why they do their protest in the top of the trees. We are deter­mined to resist the cli­mate killer brown coal, even at high per­son­al risk.” con­tin­ues Wag­n­er.

Though the res­cue was suc­cess­ful, the activists are very con­cerned about the acci­dent. “She’s in our thoughts, and we hope that she will recov­er from her injuries.” says Wag­n­er. After the fall, the occu­pants react­ed quick­ly and start­ed to imme­di­ate­ly per­form first aid. While one team took care of the emer­gency call, anoth­er removed the bar­ri­cades, which are nor­mal­ly in place to pre­vent an evic­tion by police forces, to clear the way for the res­cue team. In the future, more strin­gent secu­ri­ty mea­sures will be in place in order to avoid anoth­er rare inci­dent like this. The vic­tim, which was able to speak direct­ly after the fall, was brought by heli­copter to the uni­ver­si­ty hos­pi­tal in Aachen.

Ts’ka7 Warriors Burn Down Imperial Metals Ruddock Creek Mine Bridge

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Inter­na­tion­al State­ment, Octo­ber 14, 2014

With much dis­cus­sion with Elders Coun­cils and around Sacred fires and cer­e­monies the Secwepemc Ts’ka7 War­riors have act­ed out their col­lec­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty and juris­dic­tion to and in the Ts’ka7 area by deac­ti­vat­ing the Impe­r­i­al Met­als Rud­dock Creek mine road.

Impe­r­i­al Met­als Cor­po­ra­tion nev­er asked for or received free, pri­or and informed con­sent to oper­ate in Secwepemc Ter­ri­to­ry.  The Impe­r­i­al Met­als Mount Pol­ley mine dis­as­ter, in the area known as Yuct Ne Senxiymetk­we, the absolute destruc­tion and dev­as­ta­tion of our Ter­ri­to­ry has nev­er been answered for.  No repa­ra­tions have been made.    Instead Impe­r­i­al Met­als con­tin­ues to force through anoth­er mine in our Ter­ri­to­ry while crim­i­nal­iz­ing the Klabona Keep­ers of the Tahltan Nation also exert­ing their juris­dic­tion­al and with­hold­ing con­sent from the same com­pa­ny.

The geno­ci­dal dis­place­ment of the Secwepemc from their Home­lands through star­va­tion, fear and assim­i­la­tion by the state and indus­try being act­ed out by Impe­r­i­al Met­als stops now.  We are com­mit­ted to the ongo­ing pro­tec­tion of our Ter­ri­to­ry.  Our salmon is sacred, our land is sacred, our Women are sacred, our water is sacred and we the Peo­ples, the right­ful title hold­ers are the deci­sion mak­ers and we will pro­tect them.

Agree­ments made by elect­ed chief and coun­cil do not have author­i­ty and do not rep­re­sent us.  This is a warn­ing to Impe­r­i­al Met­als Cor­po­ra­tion:  Leave our Lands and do not come back.  This is a warn­ing to the provin­cial gov­ern­ment: You do not have juris­dic­tion on this Land to issue per­mits to any cor­po­ra­tion.  This is a warn­ing to investors (includ­ing the province), con­trac­tors, sup­pli­ers and sub­sidiaries:  Divest from Impe­r­i­al Met­als Cor­po­ra­tion.  We the Secwepemc, unit­ed, will not allow Impe­r­i­al Met­als Cor­po­ra­tion to con­tin­ue. Secwepemc Law will pre­vail in our Ter­ri­to­ry.
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Secwepemc Ts’ka7 War­riors

Portland Oil Terminal Blocked, USA

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Activists form block­ade against oil trains at Arc Logis­tics, crude oil-by-rail ter­mi­nal

NW Port­land, Ore­gon: 100 peo­ple gath­ered in protest this after­noon (9/10/2014) at Arc Logis­tics, Portland’s only crude oil-by-rail ter­mi­nal. Five activists risked arrest by sit­ting direct­ly on the rail tracks to pre­vent an oil train from reach­ing the oil ter­mi­nal. Infor­ma­tion leaked from a work­er at the facil­i­ty revealed that due the con­tro­ver­sial protest, oil ship­ments had been halt­ed for the day. Pro­test­ers, includ­ing those block­ing the tracks have dis­persed peace­ful­ly.

Crude oil trains have caused a great deal of con­tro­ver­sy across the coun­ty. Near­ly a dozen derail­ments have occurred in the past two years, many end­ing in fire­ball explo­sions that have killed 47 peo­ple and caused hun­dreds of mil­lions in prop­er­ty dam­age. Event orga­niz­ers say these trains rep­re­sent an unac­cept­able threat to our com­mu­ni­ties: risk­ing explo­sive train derail­ments, dan­ger­ous spills and leaks, degrad­ing air qual­i­ty, and desta­bi­liz­ing the cli­mate.

“I am an obste­tri­cian, gyne­col­o­gist with a degree in pub­lic health. I have devot­ed my career to pro­tect­ing moth­ers and babies and worked inter­na­tion­al­ly in almost 40 coun­tries. I have taught at Har­vard and Stan­ford. The impor­tance of these efforts now pales,” said Kel­ly O’Hanley, MD, MPH, one of the five activists will­ing to risk arrest if an oil train attempt­ed to enter Arc Logis­tics. “I have nev­er gone to jail but the specter of cli­mate change has moved me out of my clin­ic, out of the hos­pi­tal and out of my com­fort­able liv­ing room – onto the streets and into jail if nec­es­sary.”

Port­land is a choke point for fos­sil fuel trans­port in the North­west. We are draw­ing the line to sup­port all those affect­ed from extrac­tion to the cli­mate-desta­bi­liz­ing com­bus­tion,” says orga­niz­er Mia Reback, “today’s action is intend­ed to send a strong mes­sage that the com­mu­ni­ty will not allow these dan­ger­ous oil trains to come through Port­land.”

Today’s protest con­tin­ues a series of direct actions and resis­tance against North­west oil-by-rail projects. In June, activists with Port­land Ris­ing Tide blocked the Arc Logis­tics site in Port­land when a woman locked her­self to a con­crete filled bar­rel on the tracks. Fol­low­ing that action, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers across the North­west have set up block­ades at oil facil­i­ties in Ana­cortes, Wash­ing­ton, Everett, Wash­ing­ton and most recent­ly Port West­ward, Ore­gon.

Arc Logis­tics cur­rent­ly ships crude by rail from fracked oil shale in Utah. The first US tar sands mine is under con­struc­tion in Utah and Arc could soon be accept­ing this con­tro­ver­sial fuel. The Arc Logis­tics ter­mi­nal can also receive explo­sive Bakken crude oil from North Dako­ta with­out noti­fy­ing Port­land res­i­dents.

The Cli­mate Action Coali­tion demands that the city of Port­land halts the oper­a­tions of Arc Logis­tics and impos­es a ban on all new fos­sil fuel infra­struc­ture that puts our cli­mate and com­mu­ni­ties in jeop­ardy.

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The Cli­mate Action Coali­tion is: Port­land Ris­ing Tide, NoKXL, 350 PDX, Port­land Rag­ing Grannies, First Uni­tar­i­an Uni­ver­sal­ist Com­mu­ni­ty for Earth Team, PDX Bike Swarm

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Kinder Morgan Surveyor Office Blocked by ‘Pipeline’, Canada

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Octo­ber 7th, 2014

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Octo­ber 7th, 2014

Activists installed a “pipeline” ear­ly this mor­ing in front of the down­town offices of McEl­han­ney map­ping. The adhoc group says the com­pa­ny was taget­ed for its part in sur­vey­ing for the con­tro­ver­sial Kinder Mor­gan pipeline expan­sion plan on Burn­a­by Moun­tain.

The group erect­ed a pvc pipeline, com­plete with drip­ping ‘bitu­men’ and notices to “Get off Burn­a­by Moun­tain.”

From the group’s release:

“Ear­ly this morn­ing the entrance to McElhanney’s down­town Van­cou­ver office was block­ad­ed. The doors were locked, a “bitu­men pipeline” blocked the stairs and posters were past­ed. The action is in response to McElhanney’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in sur­vey­ing for the Kinder Mor­gan pipeline expan­sion project in Burn­a­by .

 

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“The pro­pos­al aims to increase the num­ber of bar­rels of Alber­ta bitu­men deliv­ered to Burn­a­by and the Sal­ish Sea from 300,000 bar­rels a day to 890,000 a day. This would result in an astro­nom­i­cal and dan­ger­ous increase in tanker traf­fic through the Bur­rard Inlet. The expan­sion cross­es the unced­ed ter­ri­to­ry of many Indige­nous nations and is evi­dence of con­tin­ued oppres­sive col­o­niza­tion and ram­pant cap­i­tal­ist greed.  Resis­tance to this project is strong and unwa­ver­ing!

“The Secwepemc Women War­rior Soci­ety has been vocal­ly opposed to the projects’ intru­sion through the heart of their ter­ri­to­ry, the Tsleil-Wau­tuth Nation has launched a legal bat­tle as well as cre­at­ed a treaty with sur­round­ing nations vow­ing to pro­tect the Sal­ish Sea, even local may­ors are stand­ing up in oppo­si­tion. Despite the resound­ing no from affect­ed com­mu­ni­ties, Kinder Mor­gan is con­tin­u­ing with the project and hir­ing com­pa­nies to do inva­sive stud­ies that are against Coast Sal­ish law and even “Cana­di­an” colo­nial bylaws. No means no and the peo­ple, led by Indige­nous resis­tance are not back­ing down to cor­po­ra­tions!

“This dis­rup­tion has been brought to you by a group of friends who refuse to accept, and are com­mit­ted to resist­ing, the con­tin­ued col­o­niza­tion of indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries by cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ment.  We oppose the oppres­sive nature of the oil and gas indus­try in our fight for cli­mate and social jus­tice. We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with front­line com­mu­ni­ties who are fight­ing destruc­tive and oppres­sive resource extrac­tion projects.”

The office entrance has now been blocked off by Van­cou­ver police.

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All-Woman Tripod and Lockdown Halts Enbridge Line 9 Pipeline Operations for Hours

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The third woman at the protest spent hours teetering on this makeshift construction before being removed by firefighters. (Kate McKenna/CBC)
Octo­ber 7th, 2014
Three activists who chained them­selves to a fence at Enbridge’s Mon­tre­al
head­quar­ters had their locks and chains cut just after noon on Tues­day.

After spend­ing hours in the cold rain, Alyssa Symons-Bélanger, Jes­si­ca Lam­bert and a third woman were removed from the fence they chained them­selves to at Enbridge’s head­quar­ters on Hen­ri-Bouras­sa East.

She attached her­self to a chain-link fence with a heavy chain around her waist and a bicy­cle lock around her neck.

“I know that today I stand with these peo­ple, and these peo­ple stand with me also in oppo­si­tion of Enbridge’s Line 9,” she said.

The group of pro­test­ers, who accord­ing to Symons-Bélanger are not part of a larg­er orga­ni­za­tion, issued a news release Tues­day morn­ing say­ing they were look­ing to dis­rupt Suncor’s refin­ery oper­a­tions.

Enbridge plans to reverse the 9B sec­tion of its Line 9 pipeline. (Enbridge)

Enbridge trans­ports the crude oil to Mon­tre­al via pipeline, where refiner­ies like Sun­cor process it.

Symons-Bélanger said she is against Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline rever­sal for a vari­ety of rea­sons, includ­ing safe­ty con­cerns and improp­er com­pen­sa­tion for peo­ple whose land is touched by the pipeline.

She was a mem­ber of the group of pro­test­ers who walked for 34 days from Cacouna, Que., to Kane­sa­take in the spring.

Coordinated Direct Action against Maules Creek Mine Suspends Work at Several Sites

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Two protesters scaled a coal loader and dropped a banner at Whitehaven's Werris Creek mine. (photo courtesy Leard Forest Alliance)

Two pro­test­ers scaled a coal loader and dropped a ban­ner at Whitehaven’s Wer­ris Creek mine. (pho­to cour­tesy Leard For­est Alliance)

Octo­ber 2nd, 2014

Activists protest­ing against a coal project have dis­rupt­ed min­ing oper­a­tions at sev­er­al sites in the Gunnedah Basin, in north­ern New South Wales.

An anti-coal protest group said about 150 pro­test­ers had tar­get­ed four mines and a coal loader oper­at­ed by White­haven Coal, which is plan­ning a con­tro­ver­sial mine at Maules Creek, near Narrabri in the state’s north-west.

Oppo­nents, includ­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ists and farm­ers, have said the project and asso­ci­at­ed for­est-clear­ing pose sig­nif­i­cant envi­ron­men­tal threats includ­ing to bio­di­ver­si­ty and water required for agri­cul­tur­al use.

Four pro­test­ers chained them­selves to access points to the Maules Creek project and two scaled the coal loader at the Wer­ris Creek mine and unfurled a ban­ner.

At the Tar­ra­won­ga mine at Bog­gabri a pro­tes­tor climbed a tri­pod struc­ture to block access to the site while, three oth­ers chained them­selves togeth­er across the road.

Two pro­test­ers chained them­selves to a gate at the Roc­glen mine near Gunnedah and anoth­er pair chained them­selves to a gate at the Gunnedah coal han­dling plant.

Police from Bar­won Local Area Com­mand said at least six peo­ple were arrest­ed.

They includ­ed a 27-year-old envi­ron­men­tal­ist who chained him­self to a rail line near New­cas­tle.

Police res­cue offi­cers had to cut the man free and he was like­ly to be charged with tres­pass.

The Aus­tralian Rail Track Cor­po­ra­tion con­firmed the protest had dis­rupt­ed rail oper­a­tions.

The rail line, which is used to trans­port coal into the Port of New­cas­tle for export, was blocked for more than two hours.

Protesters demand inquiry into ‘flawed approval processes’

Helen War, from the Front Line Action on Coal group, said the pro­test­ers want­ed the State Gov­ern­ment to con­duct an inquiry into how the Maules Creek project was giv­en plan­ning approval.

“They’re call­ing for an imme­di­ate stop to work at the Maules Creek mine and for the New South Wales Gov­ern­ment to con­duct a full inquiry into the flawed approval process­es,” she said.

White­haven Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Paul Fly­nn said the protests caused lit­tle dis­rup­tion at Maules Creek, but there were delays at the company’s oth­er active mines.

“The police have been called for each of these activ­i­ties,” he said.

“The real­i­ty of it is, is that it will only be a mar­gin­al impact on us for the day, and unfor­tu­nate­ly again anoth­er wide­spread con­sump­tion of impor­tant valu­able com­mu­ni­ty resources such as the police and police res­cue.

“I’m not quite sure what these peo­ple thing they’re doing by tar­get­ing just inno­cent peo­ple try­ing to do their job.”

Greens leader Chris­tine Milne vis­it­ed an activist camp site near Maules Creek on Sun­day to show sup­port for the ongo­ing protest action.

The par­ty has con­tro­ver­sial­ly sup­port­ed those involved in the unrest, includ­ing activist Jonathon Moy­lan.

Moy­lan was giv­en a 20-month prison sen­tence in July after plead­ing guilty to issu­ing a fake press release that tem­porar­i­ly wiped mil­lions of dol­lars from the company’s books.

Ms Milne said Moy­lan was sup­port­ing the Maules Creek farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty and has had his day in court.

“And that is what you do when you’re an activist but the com­pa­ny hasn’t faced the full face of the law and that is what is wrong here,” she said.

“You’ve got com­mu­ni­ty activists who are pre­pared to take the con­se­quences but the com­pa­ny who gets out of tak­ing the con­se­quences.”

Hambach Forest Blockade “Brutally Attacked”

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Today, on Oc­to­ber 1st 2014, the de­mons­tra­ti­ons against the on­go­ing cle­aran­ce of the Ham­bach Fo­rest con­ti­nue at the gates of Eu­ro­pe’s big­gest open cast mine.

At 09:25 am three bull­do­zers, one chain dredger and one truck were oc­cup­ied at the gate­way of the open cast mine Ham­bach.
The wor­kers of RWE and the hired se­cu­ri­ty re­ac­ted vio­lent­ly. They at­ta­cked the de­mons­tra­tors with met­al pipes. Dig­gers which were oc­cup­ied by per­sons sit­ting on them con­ti­nu­ed to move, dis­re­gar­ding the fact that this was a se­rious threa[t] to the ac­tivists‘ lives.

Due to the vio­lence per­for­med by RWE’s wa­ge­wor­kers the ac­tivists were dis­pla­ced from the ter­ri­to­ry al­re­a­dy 15 mi­nu­tes lat­er. They wi­th­drew to avoid fur­ther vio­lent esca­la­ti­on.

Is the pl­an­ned de­struc­tion of a fo­rest more im­portant than the health of human beings?

Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on on today’s events and pic­tu­res will fol­low soon!

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De­s­pi­te the vio­lent be­ha­viour of the wor­kers no­bo­dy was in­ju­red se­rious­ly. Here are pic­tu­res show­ing the ac­tion: 01.​10. blo­cka­de ac­tion

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One per­son was blo­cking the sho­vel of a chain dredger. The dri­ver star­ted the en­gi­ne any­how and began to shake the sho­vel try­ing to throw down the per­son sit­ting in it. One of the truck dri­vers tried to re­mo­ve an ac­tivist from a ve­hi­cle vio­lent­ly using his hands. When this didn’t work he grab­bed a tool and at­ta­cked the ac­tivists.

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The wor­kers at­a­cking the ac­tivists work for the de­con­struc­tion com­pa­ny H.B.-​Kai­ser Ab­bruch und Erd­ar­bei­ten. This com­pa­ny it at the mo­ment re­s­pon­si­ble for the de­con­struc­tion of the old Ham­bach Rail­way in the name of RWE. Se­ver­al ma­chi­nes were wor­king alt­hough peop­le were stan­ding close to them. The dri­vers de­clined to stop the en­gi­nes, even though they would have been ob­li­ged to do so for sa­fe­ty re­a­sons ac­cor­ding to Ger­man law.

The wor­kers at­ta­cked the ac­tivists not only with their fists but also using ham­mers and even a crow­bar. Hein Bert Kai­ser, the own­er of the com­pa­ny, was on site as well. He was ac­tive­ly in­vol­ved in the vio­lence against the ac­tivists and even threa­tened them:  “Who­ev­er da­ma­ges my dig­gers and cars is going to die.” Being asked, he con­fir­med: “This is a death thre­at.”

Also report­ed was a new canopy occu­pa­tion:

Du­ring the night to Sep­tem­ber 30, ac­tivists oc­cup­ied a tree near the edge of the open cast mine Ham­bach. The tree is one of many that is sup­po­sed to give way for the brown coal mine Ham­bach du­ring the cut­ting se­a­son that starts on Oc­to­ber 1.
“This de­struc­tion is only one ex­amp­le em­pha­si­zing the val­ue of en­vi­ron­ment and hu­mans in this eco­no­mic sys­tem!”, one of the tree oc­cu­p­iers says.
“The open cast mine, one of the big­gest pro­du­cers of CO2 in Eu­ro­pe, is not only re­s­pon­si­ble for the ex­pul­si­on of hu­mans and the de­fo­re­sta­ti­on of one of the last pri­me­val fo­rests in Midd­le and Wes­tern Eu­ro­pe. It is also ha­ving an im­pact on the world cli­ma­te. Thus, it is joint­ly re­s­pon­si­ble for heat­waves, droughts and floo­d[s]. The­re­by whole eco­sys­tems are col­lap­sing, es­pe­ci­al­ly in the Glo­bal South, and many peop­le lose their li­ve­li­hood.”
With this ac­tion the ac­tivists want to op­po­se the de­struc­tion of life and call ever­yo­ne to get in­vol­ved in the con­ser­va­ti­on of our li­ve­li­hood.
“We see our­sel­ves as a part of a glo­bal mo­ve­ment, which is ac­cu­sing the pro­fit of in­di­vi­du­als in di­sad­van­ta­ge of ever­yo­ne! We are in so­li­da­ri­ty with in­di­ge­nous peop­les all over the world, who are es­pe­ci­al­ly suf­fe­ring from the pow­er of com­pa­nies and who in some cas­es ef­fec­tive­ly ma­na­ge to re­sist”, ano­ther ac­tivist says.

Villagers to Re-Occupy Land Acquired for Posco Project

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More join protest against Posco land aquisition. (Photo appeared first in 2011 article under the citation of The Hindu.)

More join protest against Posco land aqui­si­tion. (Pho­to appeared first in 2011 arti­cle under the cita­tion of The Hin­du.

Octo­ber 1st, 2014

Posco Pratirodh San­gram Sami­ti (PPSS), which is spear­head­ing move­ment against acqui­si­tion of land for mega steel project by South Kore­an steel major POSCO in Odisha’s Jagats­ingh­pur dis­trict, said that vil­lagers would re-occu­py land acquired for the project.

“Land has been acquired for the steel project in pen and paper and some patch­es by use of force. But, vil­lagers are deter­mined to re-occu­py land which had been enjoyed by them gen­er­a­tion after gen­er­a­tion,” said Prashant Paikray, spokesper­son of PPSS, on Mon­day.

Mr. Paikray said as many as 32 cas­es had been reg­is­tered in local police sta­tion on charges of re-occu­py­ing the ‘acquired’ land.

“We are back­ing peo­ple to take pos­ses­sion of the land which was claimed to be acquired by the State gov­ern­ment for the com­pa­ny. Many vil­lagers have start­ed to con­struct betel vine yards,” he said.

Mean­while, vil­lagers of Dhinkia passed unan­i­mous res­o­lu­tion in their Pal­li Sab­ha not to divert their for­est land for non-for­est pur­pose.

“We will try to con­vince vil­lagers of all near­by habi­ta­tions to pass sim­i­lar res­o­lu­tion in the forth­com­ing Gram Sab­ha sched­uled to be held next month,” he said.

The PPSS appre­hend­ed that the State gov­ern­ment being backed by Naren­dra Modi gov­ern­ment, which is wide­ly seen as pro-cor­po­rate regime, would give a fur­ther push to the project that is yet to take off due to resis­tance by local peo­ple.

The orga­ni­za­tion is re-organ­is­ing peo­ple to put up bar­ri­cades at vil­lage entrance for pro­hibit­ing entry of State admin­is­tra­tion. The South Kore­an steel major had signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing with Odisha gov­ern­ment in 2005 to set up 12 mil­lion tonne per annum capac­i­ty steel plant in Jagats­ingh­pur dis­trict. But dur­ing past nine years, the project has not moved beyond the process of land acqui­si­tion.

Recent­ly, the State gov­ern­ment had announced com­ple­tion of acqui­si­tion of 2,700 acres of land for the first phase of steel project. But the admin­is­tra­tion had not been able to get phys­i­cal pos­ses­sion over the land. Even, bound­ary wall around the acquired land could not be erect­ed.

Anti-industrial Sabotage in Southern Quebec in Solidarity with Evicted Algonquin Protesters

Octo­ber 1st, 2014

by King Ludd and his army of Feni­ans / Anar­chist News

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by King Ludd and his army of Feni­ans / Anar­chist News

Brief resume of this com­mu­nique: A rail­road tele­com was burned and three res­i­den­tial devel­op­ment pan­els van­dalised in response to an evic­tion of Native resisters in Gatineau and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the 5E3, some­where in south­ern K‑bekk.

Full ver­sion:

So the oth­er night on Sep­tem­ber 21, we’ve set fire to a rail­road telecomm cable link­ing Brigham to Sher­brooke (Qc) to the US, think­ing about the Algo­nquins peo­ple recent­ly evict­ed from a resis­tance camp and detained in Gatineau. We took the time to select a rail­way bridge in the mid­dle of nowhere near Water­loo, so we’d not have to dig to get to the cables or attract too much atten­tion. Some fuel was dropped through an open­ing in the steel cas­ing of the cables, then set on fire. Noth­ing fan­cy. It worked bet­ter as we’d guessed, as a few sec­onds lat­er it already smelled burn­ing rub­ber a few meters away. The enclosed air in the con­duct appar­ent­ly turned the fire into some­thing like a blow torch. Kind of easy game to be repro­duced else­where by oth­ers, we told our­selves… so that’s a rea­son to let oth­ers know.

Of course it didn’t cause the whole tech­no-indus­tri­al sys­tem to col­lapse! Soci­ety is still pret­ty much func­tion­al today. But you got­ta start attack­ing it some­where. Though it did feel as if an impor­tant nerve deep below soci­ety had been sev­ered. And this felt good get­ting off our ass­es in the mid­dle of the night for this.

It is note­wor­thy that this rail­way line is the exact same on which the tar sands train used to pass, tak­ing the lives of a hun­dred peo­ple last year. It is again used to trans­port oil from the West to the US, though at much small­er rate. Soon it will be replaced by the equal­ly par­a­sitic and dev­as­tat­ing pipelines, unless a seri­ous oppo­si­tion to it ris­es out from the cur­rent apa­thy so wide­spread in south­ern Que­bec these days. As the sheep put their trust in the bureau­crats and the “experts” with all their “mora­to­ri­ums”, legal chal­lenges and “envi­ron­men­tal assess­ments”, the pop­u­lar beast is tamed and kept in line, the same line that led us to a dis­as­ter last year, and keeps destroy­ing the wild life around…

Hence, as bonus, dur­ing the fol­low­ing days, pan­els for rur­al res­i­den­tial devel­op­ments were van­dal­ized, each in the name of pris­on­ers Amélie, Fal­lon and Car­los impris­oned in Mex­i­co, two of which are from Mon­tre­al.

Two pan­els were spray-paint­ed in Sainte-Eti­enne-de-Bolton (not very far from that sab­o­tage) where “Eco­cide” was writ­ten, and a large pan­el by the high­way 10 that ties Mon­tre­al to Sher­brooke.

Those ges­tures are far from the inten­si­ty of the attacks those three per­sons are accused of, but they tar­get anoth­er end of the same same social machine that destroys and rapes the liv­ing, here as in north­ern Alber­ta, Mex­i­co and else­where.

We take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pass on our shared view on fight­ing the progress of tech­no-civ­i­liza­tion: This fast-grow­ing type of visu­al pol­lu­tion plays a key role in the destruc­tion process paving way to the inva­sion of tech­no-indus­tri­al soci­ety, but also are very wor­thy alter­na­tives to the clas­sic urban van­dal­ism. There’s no geopol­i­tics of van­dal­ism, what mat­ters being just the sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the tar­get to the infra­struc­ture behind, and this one is sen­si­tive as fuck. Though as count­less graf­fi­ti in the City will at least express a cri­tique and give a vir­tu­al impres­sion of dis­or­der, at best defame the fas­cists and the cops and cap­i­tal; sub­ur­ban sprawl can be stopped or slowed down in direct result from van­dal­ism against those spec­tac­u­lar out­lets of cap­i­tal (in this case, the gang­ster con­struc­tion indus­try and all its par­a­sites who just wan­na pay them­selves a yatch with easy mon­ey out the sale and destruc­tion of fic­tion­al­ly-owned land, who’re pret­ty much the same fuck­ers who pay them­selves sum­mer res­i­dences here with gen­tri­fi­ca­tion mon­ey in the city. Get the pic­ture?). We have proof of this, by expe­ri­ence… we have seen major real-estate cor­po­ra­tions with­draw­ing from devel­op­ments, just because of pan­els being recur­sive­ly van­dal­ized. We fought this kind of tac­tic, no mat­ter how low-scale or bor­ing it may look like, deserves to be brought back in the attack menu, at least as appe­tiz­ers. So, tons of oppor­tu­ni­ties for sub­vertive art at the tip of the civ­i­liza­tion­al spear­head. A good field for spread­ing anti-civ memes too!

For all the crea­tures killed or evict­ed by the death machine of soci­ety that keeps spawl­ing.

For the wild!

– King Ludd and his army of Feni­ans, from the dark­ness of the for­est

Video: BBC Coverage of UK Arsons

Sep­tem­ber 30th 2014

from ABC Hur­ri­cane

A BBC seg­ment on the recent wave of arsons in the UK with a short inter­vew seg­ment with for­mer ELF spokesman Leslie James Pick­er­ing.

Sep­tem­ber 30th 2014

from ABC Hur­ri­cane

A BBC seg­ment on the recent wave of arsons in the UK with a short inter­vew seg­ment with for­mer ELF spokesman Leslie James Pick­er­ing.

Main­stream media have recent­ly shown a short news report con­cern­ing the recent insur­rec­tionary attacks in the Bris­tol area.

Many of these actions were claimed in sol­i­dar­i­ty with impris­oned anar­chist com­rades around the world.

The report pathet­i­cal­ly attempts to spread fear amongst the pub­lic by imply­ing that any­one could be tar­get­ed by ‘extreme anar­chists’ at any time, any­where. This claim is made even though nobody has been injured in these actions, and total­ly ignor­ing the fact that all of these attacks are direct­ed sole­ly against the sys­tem of con­trol and not ran­dom indi­vid­u­als.

It appears to be noth­ing more than a des­per­ate attempt by a clue­less police force to get the pub­lic to do their work for them.

We can only hope that the num­ber of attacks shown in this video below [flash- not avail­able with tor], some of the meth­ods described and the fact that no charges have been brought against any­body will act as a cat­a­lyst for oth­ers to realise the pos­si­bil­i­ty of strik­ing back.

Love and rage to the insur­gent minor­i­ty!

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­rades inside and out­side the walls!