Summary of Repression from ZAD

Screen shot 2014-06-30 at 12.46.24 PM 30th June Sum­ma­ry of arrests and tri­als since the demo in Nantes, Feb­ru­ary 22nd, accord­ing to infor­ma­tion found by the anti-repres­sion com­mit­tee (CARILA)

Screen shot 2014-06-30 at 12.46.24 PM 30th June Sum­ma­ry of arrests and tri­als since the demo in Nantes, Feb­ru­ary 22nd, accord­ing to infor­ma­tion found by the anti-repres­sion com­mit­tee (CARILA)

Feb­ru­ary 22nd: 14 arrests, two released with­out charge. Of the 12 peo­ple charged, 5 had imme­di­ate tri­als the next day, and the 7 oth­ers will have tri­als lat­er (3 on June 19th, 2 minors in children’s court, and no news for the 2 oth­ers).

Feb­ru­ary 24th: 5 imme­di­ate tri­als, 4 of them judged for “vio­lence against some­one with pub­lic author­i­ty”, and “par­tic­i­pat­ing in an armed group”. They were all con­vict­ed.
- 100 hours of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice
- 5 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence
- 5 months of prison
- 5 months of prison and 1 month pro­ba­tion
- 6 months of prison and 6 months of pro­ba­tion + 500 euros for the under­cov­er cops sup­pos­ed­ly injured

Of all those con­vict­ed this day, no one went direct­ly to prison. This means that they can nego­ti­ate a lighter sen­tence.

March 31st: First wave of arrests after the demo: 9 peo­ple were arrest­ed at home (in Car­que­fou, St. Herblain, Nantes, and Ille-et-Vilaine).

- 2 were released with­out charges
- 4 were judged the next day in imme­di­ate tri­als
- 2 minors: one accused of throw­ing fire­works at the police judged in juve­nile court, placed under house arrest until their tri­al in 2015, the oth­er we don’t think they were charged but we have no con­fir­ma­tion
- 1 per­son had a tri­al lat­er but we don’t have con­tact with them

April 1st: Imme­di­ate tri­als for those arrest­ed the day before

- P: 4 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence, for­bid­den to car­ry weapons for a year, for­bid­den to protest in Notre Dame des Lan­des and Nantes for a year
- J: 5 months of prison, for­bid­den to car­ry weapons for 2 years, for­bid­den to protest in Nantes for 2 years
- G: 2 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence + 2 months prison (sus­pend­ed sen­tence from last arrest), aquit­ted for van­dal­ism
- E: 1 year of prison, start­ing imme­di­ate­ly after the tri­al, for­bid­den to protest for 3 years, for­bid­den to have explo­sives or flam­ma­ble mate­ri­als for 3 years. The judge dou­bled the sen­tence that the DA asked for!

May 14th: G arrest­ed in Paris under a war­rant for van­dal­ism Feb­ru­ary 22nd. He refused an imme­di­ate tri­al, fuzzy pho­tos were the only evi­dence. He was placed in pre­ven­ta­tive deten­tion, but got out a month lat­er because of a pro­ce­dur­al error. His tri­al is July 16th.

May 27th: R. arrest­ed in the street in Rennes by under­cov­er cops, trans­ferred to Nantes. He refused imme­di­ate tri­al, and was put under house arrest, and for­bid­den from the Loire-Atlan­tique region until his tri­al, June 19th.

June 13th: Addi­tion­al tri­al for some­one con­vict­ed Feb­ru­ary 24th to decide how much they should pay in dam­ages to the under­cov­er cops. No infor­ma­tion on the ver­dict for the moment.

June 18th:
- O. arrest­ed at home in Rennes, accused of van­dal­ism, he has an imme­di­ate tri­al the next day.
- Some­one from the ZAD arrest­ed in Nantes, who had a war­rant out for vio­lence against the police and par­tic­i­pat­ing in an armed group.

June 19th:
- Tri­al for 3 peo­ple arrest­ed dur­ing the demo ‑K: con­vict­ed of throw­ing paving stones towards the police and arrest­ed in pos­ses­sion of a ham­mer and an iron bar, 4 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence, 18 months pro­ba­tion (forced to find a job or go to voca­tion­al school, and for­bid­den to car­ry weapons) + 105 hours of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice ‑C: con­vict­ed of par­tic­i­pa­tion in an armed group and throw­ing a beer can at the police, sen­tenced to 2 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence ‑G: arrest­ed in pos­ses­sion of a ham­mer, sen­tenced to 1 month sus­pend­ed sen­tence
- Hear­ing for O. (arrest­ed in Rennes the day before): he refus­es his tri­al and is put under house arrest until his tri­al, July 10th
- Tri­al of R. (arrest­ed in Rennes, May 27) for van­dal­ism and par­tic­i­pat­ing in an armed group. Sen­tenced to 8 months sus­pend­ed sen­tence + 1 month sus­pend­ed sen­tence + 5218 euros in dam­ages for the city of Nantes+ for­bid­den from Loire-Atlan­tique region for 2 years.
- Hear­ing for 5 peo­ple arrest­ed 2 days before by under­cov­er cops while dri­ving: ‑one per­son (a hitch-hik­er) accept­ed the imme­di­ate tri­al, con­vict­ed to pos­ses­sion of 1 gram of hash + refus­ing fin­ger­prints and DNA. No sen­tence 3 peo­ple refused imme­di­ate tri­als and are put under house arrest until their tri­al, July 18th 1 per­son refused an imme­di­ate tri­al and is in prison await­ing tri­al (July 18th)

“They were arrest­ed tues­day after a “ran­dom” iden­ti­ty con­trol by under­cov­er cops on the ring road in Nantes. Amoung them was R., who had a tri­al Thurs­day and was on their way to Nantes to see their lawyer with their friends. After 48 hours of police cus­tody, 4 of them were charged with “pos­ses­sion of stolen goods”, sus­pect­ed of hav­ing stolen… a head lamp. Also they refused to give fin­ger­prints and DNA. More seri­ous­ly, they are accused, based on some fly­ers in their car and a tool­box, of “asso­ci­a­tion of wrong-doers”, and “intent to com­mit an armed assem­bly in front of the cour­t­house in Nantes”. They risk up to 5 years in prison.”

June 20th: Hear­ing for S., who lives on the ZAD. He was arrest­ed 2 days before in Orvault, accused of hav­ing stolen 2 books. He had a war­rant out for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Feb­ru­ary 22nd demo. He is accused of theft (with pri­or con­vic­tions), refus­ing fin­ger­prints and DNA (with pri­or con­vic­tions), and par­tic­i­pat­ing with a weapon in an armed group, and vio­lence against the police. He refused an imme­di­ate tri­al and has been put in jail await­ing his tri­al on July 7th.

2 peo­ple are cur­rent­ly in pre­ven­ta­tive deten­tion, await­ing tri­al.

Climate Activists Blockade Oil Terminal, Demand Halt to Crude-by-Rail Traffic in Pacific Northwest

10501739_771642884850_4820811503256859328_n 30th June This morn­ing, cli­mate jus­tice activists with Port­land Ris­ing Tide shut down the ArcLo­gist

10501739_771642884850_4820811503256859328_n 30th June This morn­ing, cli­mate jus­tice activists with Port­land Ris­ing Tide shut down the ArcLo­gis­tics crude oil ter­mi­nal in North­west Port­land.
Port­land res­i­dent Irene Majorie, 22, locked her­self to a 55-gal­lon bar­rel filled with con­crete that was placed on the rail­road track lead­ing into the facil­i­ty.

Train cars enter from a near­by yard to offload oil into 84 stor­age tanks, before it is piped onto ocean­go­ing ships bound for West Coast refiner­ies. Majorie’s arm was locked to a piece of met­al rebar embed­ded in the con­crete, stop­ping trains for four hours before being cut out by police.

Attempts by law enforce­ment to move her and the bar­rel simul­ta­ne­ous­ly risked grave injury; like­wise, any train traf­fic threat­ened her life.

“This is about stop­ping the oil trains,” said Majorie. “But beyond that, it is about an indus­try and an eco­nom­ic sys­tem that places the pur­suit of prof­it before the lives and rela­tion­ships of human beings seek­ing sur­vival and nour­ish­ment, and before the com­mu­ni­ties, ecosys­tems, and plan­et of which we are a part.”

Oil trains are com­ing under increas­ing scruti­ny recent­ly owing to their propen­si­ty to derail in fiery explo­sions. Port­land Ris­ing Tide, how­ev­er, dis­putes the notion that an oil train is ever safe, since crude oil is only trans­port­ed to be burned. What­ev­er the risk of explo­sion, the guar­an­teed result is a wors­en­ing of the cli­mate cri­sis, which is already wreak­ing eco­log­i­cal hav­oc and claim­ing human lives.

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US crude oil pro­duc­tion has risen from ~5 mil­lion bar­rels per day in the late 2000s to ~7 mil­lion bar­rels per day cur­rent­ly. Increased extrac­tion is North Dakota’s Bakken Shale has result­ed in a dra­mat­ic rise in oil train traf­fic, with 250 per­cent more oil trains trav­el­ing Ore­gon rail lines in 2013 than in the pre­vi­ous year.

Gov­er­nor Kitzhaber has expressed “deep con­cern” about oil trains but thus far done noth­ing to stop them. “Soci­ety should be engaged in a rapid, rad­i­cal decline in fos­sil fuel use,” said David Ben­nett. “Instead, policymakers—even those who claim to under­stand the mag­ni­tude of the cli­mate crisis—are forc­ing us to engage in an absurd con­ver­sa­tion about cre­at­ing ‘safe’ oil trains and build­ing more fos­sil fuel infra­struc­ture.”

The ArcLo­gis­tics ter­mi­nal, which began oper­a­tion in Jan­u­ary, is one piece of infra­struc­ture facil­i­tat­ing increased oil pro­duc­tion. When ongo­ing con­struc­tion is com­plet­ed, the facil­i­ty will have the capac­i­ty to trans­port 16,250 bar­rels of oil per day.

In April, Port­land Ris­ing Tide entered the Ore­gon Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Quality’s offices in down­town Port­land, issued ter­mi­na­tion let­ters to employ­ees at their desks, and announced the for­ma­tion of a new People’s Agency, which would car­ry out DEQ’s man­date free of cor­po­rate influ­ence. This is the first enforce­ment action of the nascent agency.

“If our pol­i­cy­mak­ers lis­tened, we would demand an imme­di­ate halt to oil train traf­fic in Ore­gon and the clo­sure of all crude oil ter­mi­nals,” said Emma Gould. “Since they don’t, we’re halt­ing oil trains our­selves.” High res­o­lu­tion pho­tos are avail­able for down­load and may be used with attri­bu­tion

Today’s action saw activists from across the con­ti­nent join­ing togeth­er to say no to oil trains, show­ing that oil trains are an inter­na­tion­al issue of con­cern for peo­ple and non­hu­man ani­mals every­where.

Blockade Halts Old-Growth Logging in Mattole Forest

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10496184_1431644777121536_4907229880304137323_o30th June A for­est defend­er has tak­en to the trees to defend an impor­tant area of the Mat­tole Riv­er water­shed in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Going by the name “Skunk,” the block­ad­er is stop­ping the con­struc­tion of a new log­ging road into old-growth for­est.

Skunk is sup­port­ed by res­i­dents of Hum­boldt coun­ty and allies who have worked for months to stop Hum­boldt Red­wood Company’s plan for 1,000 acres of log­ging in the Mat­tole For­est.

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In April, activists hung a ban­ner across from Hum­boldt Red­woods State Park to protest the log­ging in the Mat­tole.

While Hum­boldt Red­wood Com­pa­ny claims they are not log­ging old-growth, their def­i­n­i­tion restricts log­ging only areas with more than 8 old-growth trees in the span of an acre. They also define old-growth as exist­ing in the year 1800, cut­ting out any trees younger than exact­ly 214 years.

Skunk insists, “Our main demands to Hum­boldt Red­wood Com­pa­ny are very simple—don’t cut unlogged for­est, and don’t cut old-growth. This road threat­ens to destroy for­est that has nev­er been logged before, and will pave the way for log­ging even more impor­tant habi­tat if the com­mu­ni­ty does not rise up to stop it.” 

The Mat­tole pro­vides shel­ter to Gold­en Eagles and Spot­ted Owls, among oth­er rare species, and has long been the home of old-growth Big Leaf Maple, Dou­glas Fir, Tanoak, and Madrone.

This area of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia has a long his­to­ry of for­est defense against Maxxam/Pacific Lum­ber through­out the 1990s. What we are per­haps see­ing is just the begin­ning of a new chap­ter.

 

Karawang Farmers Defend Land From Corporate Eviction

jjjj2 28th June About 1200 peas­ant farm­ers of the vil­lage of Karawang, Indone­sia pre­pared to defend 350 hectares of farm lands that they have tend­ed and sur­vived off of for gen­er­a­tions.

jjjj2 28th June About 1200 peas­ant farm­ers of the vil­lage of Karawang, Indone­sia pre­pared to defend 350 hectares of farm lands that they have tend­ed and sur­vived off of for gen­er­a­tions.  The land in dis­pute has been des­ig­nat­ed by local Indone­sian gov­ern­ment for the expan­sion of a fac­to­ry owned by Agung Podomoro and the peo­ple of Karawang seem to have no recourse except to resist.

On Tues­day the 24th, about 7000 ful­ly equipped riot police forces descend­ed on the vil­lage with two water can­non vehi­cles to enforce the land rul­ing. The local res­i­dents had pre­pared tire bar­ri­cades and hand weapons yet tried first to non-vio­lent­ly resist the encroach­ing forces.

This agrar­i­an con­flict has led to the evic­tion of the 1,200 res­i­dents. It has become evi­dent that the coun­try is in favor to the own­ers of cap­i­tal and indif­fer­ent to ordi­nary peo­ple, such as farm­ers. The proof is the ver­dict of PK No. 160 PK/PDT/2011 des­ig­nat­ing the Pri­ma­ry Water Source (PT SAMP) on land owned by res­i­dents of three vil­lages in the Dis­trict Teluk­jambe.

Based on the deci­sion of the PT SAMP the land has been pur­chased by the Agung Podomoro group and Falkirk Dis­trict Court forced the evic­tion on June 24, 2014, requir­ing 7,000 riot forces.

Results of the inci­dent report­ed by the Con­sor­tium for Agrar­i­an Reform there were 10 work­ers who were assault­ed and one farmer who was shot by riot police and there are 13 peo­ple who were arrest­ed.

The pitch today is still tense as Riot police have set up com­mand posts in dit­i­ga, Marga­mulya and Wanasari Wanaker­ta vil­liages. They also put up a barbed wire fence in the con­flict area, cov­er­ing an area of ​​350 ha. Cur­rent­ly elec­tric­i­ty have been cut into the homes of res­i­dents who inhab­it the land dis­pute.

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So far there has been no response or attempts to pro­vide tem­po­rary hous­ing by the evic­tion com­pa­ny. But offi­cials Falkirk Farm­ers Union (patch) said that the res­i­dents will sur­vive even if the com­pa­ny and Riot police evic­tion use heavy equip­ment.

The Karawang peo­ple demand:
1. Stop the dis­place­ment towards the peas­ants man­dat­ed by state court of Karawang since the land has been plowed and owned legal­ly by the peas­ants who pay tax­es reg­u­lar­ly and obe­di­ent­ly to the states for tens of years.
2. Pull sev­en thou­sands armed mobile brigade back from agrar­i­an con­flict area in Karawang because they intim­i­date and pro­voke the peo­ple.
3. Sol­i­dar­i­ty from all Indone­sians and com­rades in strug­gle who sup­ports the agrar­i­an reform to con­demn the injus­tice suf­fered by the peas­ants.

aSALT COURSE for NUTURUNG ACTIVISTS

In Sep­tem­ber a once a month activists nur­ture course starts, last­ing a year. The pur­pose is to become more effec­tive in our change work, sus­tain­ing it through inner joy and self-aware­ness

In Sep­tem­ber a once a month activists nur­ture course starts, last­ing a year. The pur­pose is to become more effec­tive in our change work, sus­tain­ing it through inner joy and self-aware­ness

the aSALT course (Spir­i­tu­al Activist Lead­er­ship Train­ing) val­ues under­ly­ing lov­ing con­nect­ed­ness and mean­ing beyond indi­vid­ual human life (spir­i­tu­al), activism in all its forms as effort to bring greater jus­tice into  the world, the lead­er­ship of all for all, train­ing as learn­ers and teach­ers togeth­er.

Our base will  be the Pales­tine muse­um in Bris­tol. We’ll have var­ied activ­i­ties includ­ing shared allot­ment work, shared food, body-work as we look  for a self-care/spir­i­tu­al prac­tice to sus­tain us, crit­i­cal think­ing, learn­ing about non­vi­o­lent the­o­ry and the grow­ing of social  change move­ments.

The course requires com­mit­ment and is designed to work along­side an exisit­ing engage­ment. There are things that won’t appeal to all: the phi­los­o­phy is def­i­nite­ly non­vi­o­lent (though not nec­es­sar­i­ly ‘legal’). The group will be diverse and include activists you dis­sagree with. There is a fee though there is also a bur­sary.

The course leader has not been a direct action activist often. He’s an active sup­port­er of Abol­ish Emp­ty Office Blocks, house peo­ple. He fell ill in Pales­tine as a human rights mon­i­tor (which part­ly inspired this course).He’s a men­tor and expe­ri­enced train­er

More details includ­ing con­tact details are on www.schumacherinstitute.org.uk/aSALT

Villager Wins Court Battle Against Hydroelectric Plant Construction

Screen Shot 2014-06-26 at 12.29.06 PM 26th June An admin­is­tra­tive court in the Black Sea province of Rize has ruled to halt the con­struc­tion of a hydro­elec­tric pow­er plant (

Screen Shot 2014-06-26 at 12.29.06 PM 26th June An admin­is­tra­tive court in the Black Sea province of Rize has ruled to halt the con­struc­tion of a hydro­elec­tric pow­er plant (HES) that was being built on the Andon Riv­er, which pro­vides fresh water to at least 3,000 peo­ple in the vil­lage of Küçükçayır.

Küçükçayır vil­lage was declared an envi­ron­men­tal­ly pro­tect­ed site in 2011. The village’s res­i­dents held a protest in Feb­ru­ary against a HES being con­struct­ed near the riv­er, clos­ing the main road of the vil­lage for hours as part of their protest and not allow­ing con­struc­tion equip­ment to oper­ate at the site.

Accord­ing to a Cihan news agency report on Wednes­day, Kezım Delal, one of the vil­lagers, sold a cow and took a loan from a bank in order to file a law­suit against the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny. Empha­siz­ing that he has been strug­gling in court against the con­struc­tion plan, which is like­ly to harm the envi­ron­ment, Delal said the injunc­tion to halt con­struc­tion stands as an impor­tant step towards pro­tect­ing the envi­ron­ment from oth­er upcom­ing pow­er plant con­struc­tion projects that might destroy the country’s nat­ur­al beau­ty.

“I have been liv­ing in this vil­lage for 70 years. I was born here. This is my home. I am so hap­py that court ruled in favor of our future. Now, I just want to see the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny leave us alone right away,” he told the press.

Empha­siz­ing that they have been keep­ing watch for almost eight months in order to pre­vent the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny from doing any dam­age, Delal thanked all his friends who did not leave his side dur­ing the protest. “This vic­to­ry belongs to all of us. Now we can move on with our lives,” he added.

Stat­ing that they were tak­en into cus­tody by gen­darmes many times due to the their protests, Yusuf Esir, anoth­er vil­lager, said that he was hap­py to take a stand against the con­struc­tion plans. “In order to intim­i­date us, gen­darmes took us into cus­tody many times. But nobody can deter us. If any­body should leave this vil­lage, it’s the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny, not us. Because this is our vil­lage,” Esir stat­ed.

MOBILE SLAUGHTER UNIT SABOTAGED

24th June received anony­mous­ly:

24th June received anony­mous­ly:

“Over the week­end, a mobile slaugh­ter unit oper­at­ed by Shoe’s Mobile
Slaugh­ter and Pro­cess­ing (14515 Coon Hol­low Rd, Sub­lim­i­ty, OR) was
decom­mis­sioned by hav­ing a gal­lon of bleach poured into its fuel tank.
When the liq­uid bleach comes into con­tact with the diesel in the tank it
will cre­ate a chem­i­cal reac­tion that will cause rapid cor­ro­sion to the
unit’s fuel system–forcing it to seize up. For the time being this
slaugh­ter unit will be unable to be used to spill the blood of anoth­er
ani­mal.

This method of sab­o­tage was cho­sen because it is silent, effec­tive, and
eas­i­ly repro­ducible. Sym­bol­ic protest and con­sumer boy­cotts in and of
them­selves are not suf­fi­cient in address­ing the imme­di­ate vio­lence that is
being car­ried out against non-human ani­mals every sec­ond of every­day.
Direct inter­ven­tion is nec­es­sary to free impris­oned non-humans and to
destroy the machines that facil­i­tate their exploita­tion.

This action is ded­i­cat­ed to the mem­o­ry of Clé­ment Méric, a veg­an and
anti-fas­cist who was beat­en to death by neo-nazis in Paris a lit­tle over a
year ago. Just as we strug­gle against those who abuse and exploit
non-human ani­mals; we also take an uncom­pro­mis­ing stance against the
far-right’s attempts to not only infil­trate the ani­mal lib­er­a­tion and
envi­ron­men­tal move­ments, but also against their attempts to assert
them­selves in soci­ety in gen­er­al. Let Clé­men­t’s trag­ic death be a
reminder of the neces­si­ty for the move­ment to main­tain a strong anti-fas­cist eth­ic and to oppose the fas­cist scum at every turn.

‘Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the liv­ing.’ ”

Support needed at Yorkley Court NOW

Update 24/6: The sit­u­a­tion here is still urgent as of this morn­ing; large num­bers of secu­ri­ty are cur­rent­ly try­ing to get on site.

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Update 24/6: The sit­u­a­tion here is still urgent as of this morn­ing; large num­bers of secu­ri­ty are cur­rent­ly try­ing to get on site.

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**Sup­port need­ed now — Please get the the site**

Bailiffs attempt­ed an ille­gal evic­tion at Yorkley Court Com­mu­ni­ty Farm this morn­ing & are still there and its like­ly they will try some­thing on the bot­tom strip tonight.

More peo­ple are urgent­ly need­ed to defend the land.

Even if you can just get there for a few hours, it helps to have as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble on site.

Back­ground:
In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing, police and pri­vate secu­ri­ty thugs decend­ed, with­out pri­or Notice (a legal require­ment), upon the peace­ful peas­ants liv­ing on the land, and grow­ing food at Yorkley Court. This out­ragous, com­pete­ly unlaw­ful act of aggres­sion came with­out warn­ing, whilst Yorkley Court Farm are ful­ly engaged with the Dis­trict Coun­cil in their plan­ning process, and were look­ing like­ly to be grant­ed the ini­tial stages of plan­ning per­mis­sion dur­ing the com­ing weeks. We’re not sure what exact­ly the Coun­cil, no doubt in colu­sion with cer­tain pri­vate busi­ness inter­ests think they’re doing, more infor­ma­tion as we get it. Please come and help us stop this ille­gal evic­tion attempt

http://yorkleycourt.wordpress.com/

How to get there: Head to Yorkley, near Lyd­ney in Glouces­ter­shire. See a map below.

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Indigenous boy protests on pitch during World Cup opening ceremony

An indigenous Guarani boy held up a banner reading 'Demarcation Now!' at the World Cup's opening ceremony. 16th June One of the three Brazil­ian chil­dren who released

An indigenous Guarani boy held up a banner reading 'Demarcation Now!' at the World Cup's opening ceremony. 16th June One of the three Brazil­ian chil­dren who released white doves dur­ing the World Cup open­ing cer­e­mo­ny used the occa­sion to demand recog­ni­tion of Indi­an land rights – but his protest was cen­sored by FIFA.

Imme­di­ate­ly after releas­ing a white dove, Jeguaká Mir­im, an indige­nous Guarani boy, held up a red ban­ner read­ing ‘Demar­ca­tion Now!’ But his coura­geous protest was not broad­cast, as the TV cam­eras swift­ly cut away.

Jeguaká’s father, Guarani author Olívio Jekupe, said that the act “showed the world that we are not stand­ing still… My son showed the world what we need the most: the demar­ca­tion of our lands.”

The Guarani are Brazil’s most numer­ous tribe and they live in five states. Much of their land has been stolen from them and is being used for cat­tle ranch­ing and sug­ar cane pro­duc­tion, whilst many Guarani are forced to live in over­crowd­ed reserves or in road­side camps where mal­nu­tri­tion and dis­ease are rife. Some, like Jeguaká’s com­mu­ni­ty known as Kruku­tu, live near urban areas like São Paulo on almost no land.

As a result of the loss of their land, the Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul state suf­fer the high­est sui­cide rate in the world, and their lead­ers are tar­get­ed and killed when they attempt to reoc­cu­py patch­es of their ances­tral land.

The Guarani, Sur­vival Inter­na­tion­al and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions are call­ing on the Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment to uphold its own con­sti­tu­tion and inter­na­tion­al law, and map out the Guarani’s land for their exclu­sive use.

Coca-Cola, one of the World Cup’s main spon­sors, has recent­ly become embroiled in the Guarani land scan­dal by buy­ing sug­ar from US food giant Bunge, which sources sug­ar cane from their ances­tral land. The Guarani are urg­ing Coca-Cola to respect their rights and stop this pur­chase imme­di­ate­ly.

Coca-Cola and FIFA's image has been contrasted with an angry Indian man demanding, 'Let the Guarani live!'

To high­light the deep irony of Coca-Cola and FIFA pro­mot­ing the World Cup with an image of a hap­py Indi­an man with the words ‘Wel­come to the World Cup for Every­one’, Sur­vival has cre­at­ed a spoof ad fea­tur­ing Nixi­wa­ka, a Yawanawa Indi­an wel­com­ing the view­er to ‘The Dark Side of Brazil’ and demand­ing ‘Let the Guarani live!’.

See Survival’s web­site on the ‘Dark Side of Brazil’ for more exam­ples of Brazil’s assault on indige­nous rights.

Bristol: Arrest over 4 arson attacks

handfire 15th June from http://inthebellyofthebeast.noblogs.org The local, now nation­al media scum since 12th June last Thurs­day have been hav­ing a field day about the arrest of an indi­vid­ual regard­ing the 4 arson attacks on c

handfire 15th June from http://inthebellyofthebeast.noblogs.org The local, now nation­al media scum since 12th June last Thurs­day have been hav­ing a field day about the arrest of an indi­vid­ual regard­ing the 4 arson attacks on cel­lu­lar phone tow­ers in the Bris­tol area. It does not sur­prise us here at inthe­bel­ly­ofthe­beast how the cops repres­sion goes hand in hand with that of the media judi­cial pup­pets of the author­i­ty.

We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty to the arrest­ed indi­vid­ual regard­less of the laws enslav­ing con­cepts of guilt or inno­cence, we do not play the state’s game of jus­tice and law, we are in con­flict with the repres­sive witch hunt inflict­ed by the state upon the incen­di­ary minor­i­ty of Bris­tol.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty to all indi­vid­u­als who dare to take the con­flict of prax­is to the beast!

NOT ONE STEP BACK IN THE FACE OF THE STATE, MEDIA, JUDICIAL REPRESSION!

WE WILL POST MORE INFO WHEN WE HEAR IT!