CHICKEN FARM RAIDED, 22 CHICKS FREED

Click here for pic­tures from the res­cue.
View video here: http://www.sarconline.co.uk/tv

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“0100hrs, 03/11/2006, Fovant Down, Wilt­shire.

Click here for pic­tures from the res­cue.
View video here: http://www.sarconline.co.uk/tv

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“0100hrs, 03/11/2006, Fovant Down, Wilt­shire.
Tar­get: Lloy­d’s Ani­mal Feeds Ltd — Live­stock Divi­sion.

Look­out in place, tools at the ready, we began. Large bolt-cut­ters were used to chop through the tight secu­ri­ty: one small pad­lock hold­ing the door closed.

We shone our torch­es into the dark­ness and could­nt believe our eyes. Rows upon rows of bat­tery cages, crammed full with thou­sands of Broil­er chicks. They were being kept ille­gal­ly in the tiny cages and grown to become “food” for the glut­to­nous, blood-thirsty meat indus­try.

With­in min­utes we were done. We left hun­dreds of thou­sands of inno­cent lives behind that night, des­ig­nat­ing them to a life of hell and a death that is beyond words. But with us we took 22 friends who are now liv­ing the life they were meant to live: free from exploita­tion and suf­fer­ing in a sys­tem equat­ed to con­cen­tra­tion camps.

For all those left behind, we urge you to act. Ani­mals need YOU, and they need you NOW. They wait inside locked build­ings across the world.. it is up to YOU whether you reach for your bolt-cut­ters and break them out. Noth­ing stands in your way, except your­self.

Ded­i­cat­ed to cur­rent pris­on­ers Don Cur­ray and Joseph Har­ris, and deceased ani­mal lib­er­a­tionist Bar­ry Horne, who passed away five years ago on Novem­ber 5th. The fight goes on in your spir­it.

Until the last fac­to­ry farm is brought to the ground, until the final slaugh­ter­house is made ille­gal, until every lab shuts its doors, until all ani­mals are free from the shack­les self­ish bas­tards place upon them… A.L.F.”

activists lock down Alcoas’ London offices

Late on New Years Day activists tar­get­ed 2 Alcoa front com­pa­nies, (Kawneer in cen­tral Lon­don and ASA in North Lon­don.) Both com­pa­nies had their front access doors locked shut with D‑locks and chains, and were left grafit­ti mes­sages that they should leave Ice­land straight away.

Alcoa graffiti
Alcoa London lockedLate on New Years Day activists tar­get­ed 2 Alcoa front com­pa­nies, (Kawneer in cen­tral Lon­don and ASA in North Lon­don.) Both com­pa­nies had their front access doors locked shut with D‑locks and chains, and were left grafit­ti mes­sages that they should leave Ice­land straight away.
They are destroy­ing the last pris­tine wilder­ness in Europe right now, as well as trash­ing oth­er com­mu­ni­ties and ecosys­tems all over the world.
See www.savingiceland.org for a mas­sive amount of resources and infor­ma­tion.

This is a clear mes­sage to all heavy indus­tries — this year, 2007 will be a year of dis­sent and rev­o­lu­tion­ary change. We will no longer hold back, the future of our world and our peo­ples is at enor­mous risk and the time to act is now!
No longer will we allow these multi­na­tion­als to destroy with impuni­ty, hid­ing behind the anonymi­ty of glob­al cap­i­tal­ism.
These are the first drops of a storm that you have reaped and which will inten­si­fy! We will tar­get you every­where and at any time. You will pay for your dirty dol­lars with inse­cu­ri­ty. We are com­mit­ted to shut you down!

It is also a mes­sage to our move­ments. We have been warn­ing of hav­ing lit­tle time left to make change, for too long. That time has run out and the time to act is NOW
We see noth­ing to cel­e­brate in the pass­ing and start­ing of anoth­er year unless it is to her­ald a year of mon­u­men­tal, rev­o­lu­tion­ary change; where a sys­tem based on sense­less, self­ish, greed is destroyed and sys­tems based on respect, respon­si­bil­i­ty and coop­er­a­tion are sup­port­ed to flour­ish.

we are all ‘the peo­ple’
where is every­where
and
now is the time

LOVE+RAGE

Didcot power station trashing lakes — house squatted

Hi all a group of us opposed to the destruc­tion of Radley Lakes by infill­ing them with pul­verised fly ash (PFA) from N pow­ers coal burn­ing Did­cot pow­er sta­tion, have squat­ted a large house on the edge of Thrupp Lake and are now in legal pos­ses­sion. Our inten­tion was to use the house and its ground as a field cen­ter for locals and vis­i­tors, how­ev­er N pow­ers lawyers have been busy and they are in court on wed 10th of Jan to get this over­turned and us evict­ed. We intend to resist this and need peo­ple to turn up who are pre­pared to help defend our stake in the lakes future, so if you get down there for the 10th or short­ly after please do so, for updates call me on 07762733332.

Radley LakesHi all a group of us opposed to the destruc­tion of Radley Lakes by infill­ing them with pul­verised fly ash (PFA) from N pow­ers coal burn­ing Did­cot pow­er sta­tion, have squat­ted a large house on the edge of Thrupp Lake and are now in legal pos­ses­sion. Our inten­tion was to use the house and its ground as a field cen­ter for locals and vis­i­tors, how­ev­er N pow­ers lawyers have been busy and they are in court on wed 10th of Jan to get this over­turned and us evict­ed. We intend to resist this and need peo­ple to turn up who are pre­pared to help defend our stake in the lakes future, so if you get down there for the 10th or short­ly after please do so, for updates call me on 07762733332.

We also need the fol­low­ing:
Ladders/steps
gas heaters,
blan­kets, duvets, sleep­ing bags,
fur­ni­ture,
fluro jack­ets, cook­ing and eat­ing uten­sils,
Net­ting (army/climbing type),
lock on equip­ment,
weld­ing equip­ment,
tarps,
food and gen­er­al stuff.

Fail­ing this sign peti­tion at
http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk/documents/SaveRadleyLakesPetition.htm or
vis­it the web­site at
http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk/

or send us a let­ter or dona­tion to

RLLF,
San­dles,
Thrupp Lane,
Radley (Low­er),
Oxford­shire,
OX14 3NG.

GREYHOUND TRACK DAUBED IN PAINT

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Portsmouth Grey­hound sta­di­um has been treat­ed to a new paint job. Slo­gans such as ‘ALF’ and ‘You bet they die” were daubed in red paint on the out­er perime­ter fenc­ing to draw atten­tion to the local peo­ple about what is going on inside that hell hole.

report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Portsmouth Grey­hound sta­di­um has been treat­ed to a new paint job. Slo­gans such as ‘ALF’ and ‘You bet they die” were daubed in red paint on the out­er perime­ter fenc­ing to draw atten­tion to the local peo­ple about what is going on inside that hell hole.

Until all are free
ALF”

CHICKEN FARM CLOSED BY ALF

report­ed by activists in the UK:

“John Park­ers Poul­try in Hamp­shire has final­ly closed after a sus­tained cam­paign of direct action. The actions tak­en includ­ed:

08/03/06 — 50 hens lib­er­at­ed
04/10/03 — 1024 hens lib­er­at­ed.

report­ed by activists in the UK:

“John Park­ers Poul­try in Hamp­shire has final­ly closed after a sus­tained cam­paign of direct action. The actions tak­en includ­ed:

08/03/06 — 50 hens lib­er­at­ed
04/10/03 — 1024 hens lib­er­at­ed.
19/06/03 — Chick­en units sab­o­taged, con­vey­or belts, cages, lights,
feed­ing appa­ra­tus etc… also 100 hens lib­er­at­ed.

These are just the report­ed actions, rumor has it there were sev­er­al
more…”

22/12/06: Anti-consumer Christmas Carols, London

Fes­tive delay, but final­ly here:
A sev­en minute video cov­ers the bru­tal attacks by a group of crazed and dan­ger­ous­ly drunk Christ­mas Car­ol singers as they ram­paged their way from Carn­a­by Street onto Oxford Street, storm­ing the most splen­did insti­tutes of “cheap and afford­able” con­sumer church­es.

Fes­tive delay, but final­ly here:
A sev­en minute video cov­ers the bru­tal attacks by a group of crazed and dan­ger­ous­ly drunk Christ­mas Car­ol singers as they ram­paged their way from Carn­a­by Street onto Oxford Street, storm­ing the most splen­did insti­tutes of “cheap and afford­able” con­sumer church­es.

Nike­Town, Sel­f­ridges, Deben­hams and Top­shop — all fine estab­lish­ments with clean employ­ment rights records and high­ly paid staff mem­bers, with guar­an­teed pen­sion schemes, were sub­ject­ed to bas­tardised fes­tive dit­ties by a vis­i­bly dan­ger­ous crowd of thugs, rude legal observers and cru­el cam­era­men, none with the least amount of con­cern for pub­lic safe­ty.

A cru­el and vicious stunt that should not be copied by any­one, any­where in the world.

221206: Anti-Con­sumer_­Car­ol­s_Lon­don — video/x‑ms-wmv 18M

New Year London Stunt Action by Saving Iceland

On new years day 2007 a group of activists climbed ST PAULS cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern simul­tan­ious­ly to hang ban­ners, as well as on the mil­le­ni­um bridge to kick start a year of decent against heavy indus­try in Ice­land and Trinidad.

On new years day 2007 a group of activists climbed ST PAULS cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern simul­tan­ious­ly to hang ban­ners, as well as on the mil­le­ni­um bridge to kick start a year of decent against heavy indus­try in Ice­land and Trinidad.
Heavy Industry banner hang

PRESS RELEASE
1 Jan­u­ary 2007

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTORS ARE TO HOST A STUNT ACTION IN LONDON

On new years day, cam­paign­ers from the group SavingIceland.org climbed St.Pauls Cathe­dral and the Tate Mod­ern as part of the SavingIceland.org cam­paign, a group ded­i­cat­ing to chal­leng­ing the destruc­tion of Europe’s last remain­ing great wilder­ness­es, in Ice­land. This is to be a protest against the destruc­tion of rur­al com­mu­ni­ties in Trinidad and the Ice­landic wilder­ness­es, the last of their kind in Europe, both at the hands of the alu­mini­um indus­try.

The Ice­landic gov­ern­ment is sac­ri­fic­ing its glacial rivers and geot­her­mal resources in order to pow­er alu­mini­um smelt­ing facil­i­ties. It is to destroy some of Iceland’s great­est nat­ur­al trea­sures and pol­lute its waters. This will cause con­sid­er­able dam­age to its tourism and fish­ing indus­tries. The Trinida­di­an gov­ern­ment is sell­ing its vast reserves of nat­ur­al gas to cre­ate an off-shore alu­mini­um smelter that many fear will under­mine the liveli­hoods of entire com­mu­ni­ties who are depen­dant upon fish­ing.

Tomorrow’s action is part of an ongo­ing inter­na­tion­al cam­paign in sup­port of local resis­tance against heavy indus­try in both Ice­land and Trinidad.

SavingIceland.org has been involved in the organ­i­sa­tion of two protest camps held in Ice­land and numer­ous sol­i­dar­i­ty actions staged across the globe. It is cur­rent­ly coor­di­nat­ing its third protest camp on the island, com­menc­ing on 6th July 2007.

More infor­ma­tion:
http://www.savingiceland.org

critical mass 29 december Mcr — a story from the ride

crit­i­cal mass fri 29 decem­ber

We met at the usu­al time and place of 6pm at cen­tral library in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre. There were about ten of us, num­bers being a bit low beca­sue many peo­ple had gone to oth­er towns and cities for christ­mas and new year, but mak­ing up the num­bers we had peo­ple from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!

crit­i­cal mass fri 29 decem­ber

We met at the usu­al time and place of 6pm at cen­tral library in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre. There were about ten of us, num­bers being a bit low beca­sue many peo­ple had gone to oth­er towns and cities for christ­mas and new year, but mak­ing up the num­bers we had peo­ple from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!

We rode around the roads for an hour and a half with the bicy­cle
soundsys­tem play­ing a mix­ture of Slay­er and Country/ folk. Some peo­ple cheered us and some dri­vers tried to kill us by dan­ger­ous­ly over­tak­ing us and dri­ving on the wrong side of the road near­ly into on-com­ing cars.

One woman said that we were being mean to her chil­dren beca­sue we were slow­ing her down and so I explained that we were cel­e­brat­ing bikes over car cul­ture because amongst oth­er things (and in addi­tion to oth­er groups of soci­ety) cars give chil­dren asth­ma and run them over and so maybe she’d like to recon­sid­er and sup­port us, but she lat­er over­took us slow­ing down an ambu­lance that we were mak­ing space for to get through, she did­nt get very far, about 200 yards to the next lights! She would have been quick­er on a bike (of course!) Oh well. but that was real­ly the only ran­dom­ly vague­ly neg­a­tive inci­dent most peo­ple seemed pleased to see us or inqui­sis­tive about why we were rid­ing.

It was a fun ride and nice that some new peo­ple came on it. Hope­ful­ly
we’ll see them again. After the ride some of us went for a beer in the bar. nice.

We were going to have a ben­e­fit night on the jan­u­ary mass but as its
pangea (a big stu­dent night) where lots of peo­ple seem to be going and lots of our friends bands seem to be play­ing at we thought that feb­ru­ary mass would be bet­ter (its also my birth­day!). But at the next one some­one will hope­ful­ly come down and film and inter­view some peo­ple on the mass for a film about cycling in Man­ches­ter I’m try­ing to make. On that note can any­one that knows film stuff that might be up for help­ing get in touch.

thought you might like to see this too post­ed by some­one in the GMCC
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/postbag/template/2006/12/28.html?1

critical mass 29 dec 06

“Calm the Climate – No More Roads!” say protesters ‘nailed’ to asphalt in Aotearoa/New Zealand

28/12/06: The open­ing of the Welling­ton Inner City “Bypass” was delayed, as it was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers this morn­ing in an action against new roads.

Road nailing action 1Road nailing action 228/12/06: The open­ing of the Welling­ton Inner City “Bypass” was delayed, as it was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers this morn­ing in an action against new roads. Two peo­ple were nailed to the asphalt just before 7am at the cor­ner of Tarana­ki and Arthur Streets. One per­son was arrest­ed (15 cops showed up!) and was charged with obstruct­ing a pub­lic way.

The long-await­ed open­ing of the Welling­ton Inner City “Bypass” is/was delayed this morn­ing, as it is/was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers who claim that new roads exac­er­bate cli­mate change.
“The gov­ern­ment could save bil­lions of dol­lars, and slow cli­mate change, by mak­ing a pro-active deci­sion to stop build­ing new roads,” said Charles Sylvester, a pro­test­er.

“It’s often said — for exam­ple in the Stern Report – that the poten­tial costs of cli­mate change mas­sive­ly out­weigh the costs of reduc­ing our emis­sions. But to stop build­ing new roads would not even have a cost. In fact it would save bil­lions — and help to sta­bilise our emis­sions. Every time we build a new road car-dri­ving becomes eas­i­er, mak­ing peo­ple less like­ly to use the low-or non- pol­lut­ing modes of trans­port such as walk­ing, cycling, trains and bus­es. Peo­ple also have to trav­el fur­ther due to small but cumu­la­tive increas­es in urban sprawl,” said Doris Brown, anoth­er pro­test­er.

“Our population’s col­lec­tive total dis­tance-trav­elled, and the per­cent­age of peo­ple using each mode (bike, bus, etc), have a much greater influ­ence on emis­sions than any “effi­cien­cy improve­ments” such as bio­fu­els, hybrid vehi­cles and the reduc­tion of idling time in traf­fic jams,” said Charles Sylvester.

“Bil­lions of dol­lars may seem to be well-spent on new roads when cost-ben­e­fit analy­sis counts dol­lars but does not ade­quate­ly recog­nise envi­ron­men­tal and social val­ues. Extend­ing road­ing sys­tems how­ev­er pro­motes car use with mon­ey that could be used to improve pub­lic trans­port and pro­vide fur­ther facil­i­ties such as cycle­ways to encour­age walk­ing and cycling,” said Doris Brown.

“The com­mu­ni­ty here have strug­gled for over forty years to stop this so-called “by-pass” and we achieved a lot in terms of res­cued build­ings and a small­er road. The strug­gle is not over though. While polit­i­cal par­ties and greedy cor­po­ra­tions squab­ble over who looks the green­est our glob­al cli­mate chaos wors­ens. Peo­ple will not sit back and take it. The storms have come but seeds are sprout­ing. Expect to see more protest action!” said Charles Sylvester.

Melt­ing ice­caps, endan­gered Polar Bears and seri­ous drought in Aus­tralia are “canaries in the mine” sig­nal­ing a glob­al cli­mate change cri­sis that threat­ens the via­bil­i­ty of weath­er and ocean sys­tems on which life and civil­i­sa­tion depend.

“The GHG [green­house gas] prob­lem is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous to our civ­i­liza­tion because we are pre­dis­posed to ignore it”, said Prof. Peter Bar­rett FRSNZ (Direc­tor, Antarc­tic Research Cen­tre, Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty of Welling­ton) in an arti­cle orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in the “Evening Post”, 10 May 2002 (www.gsnz.org.nz/gs_archive/gsprpb.htm). “If the shrink­ing trend [of the Arc­tic ice cap] con­tin­ues at its present rate of 8 per cent a year, there could be no ice at all at the pole as ear­ly as the sum­mer of 2060” report­ed the Domin­ion Post, 20 Sept, 2005, B1 sum­maris­ing results of a study con­duct­ed by US Nation­al Snow and Ice Data Cen­tre and NASA researchers. “For­mer U.S. vice-pres­i­dent Al Gore…visit[ed] Auck­land [in Novem­ber this year] to tell key busi­ness lead­ers and politi­cians in a closed meet­ing that they must act now to avert cli­mate change cat­a­stro­phe” (Sun­day Star Times Oct 29, 2006, A1).

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion see
www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/transportation/seven.asp
(sev­en arti­cles in pro­fes­sion­al jour­nals, show­ing that new roads induce new traf­fic)
www.vtpi.org (tran­port pol­i­cy analy­sis); www.livingstreets.org.nz (pro­mot­ing walk­ing)
www.option3.org.nz (peo­ple-friend­ly trans­port plan­ning)
www.techmedia.co.nz/t2K/ (light rail etc); www.climatechange.govt.nz . (sta­tis­tics)
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk (Stern Review)

Some red paint was dis­cov­ered on the ‘bypass’ under Ghuznee Street by a pho­tog­ra­ph­er.

Links: Heart­beat | Cli­mate IMC | Cli­mac­tion | Option3 | Earth First! | Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front | Save Hap­py Val­ley

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Some notes on nail tac­tics:

Actu­al­ly the nails were not very good, and only held the pro­test­ers down if they were VERY still. We used approx. 1.5 inch gal­vanised nails which were very hard to nail into the ash­phalt, at least for a non-chip­py, and they kept bend­ing. If I had to do it again I would use 6 inch non gal­vanised nails and a decent ham­mer. I could­n’t see the need for gal­vanis­ing. The nails were not going to rust off in the half hour or so the pro­test­ers were allowed to stay on the road.

I am not sure if police car­ry a claw ham­mer or jem­my, but if not, then then some decent nail­ing might have delayed the traf­fic until they could get one from the cop shop.
—
We tried the nails on anoth­er bit of asphalt that was new­er and the nails went in real­ly eas­i­ly. The asphalt on arthur street was a bit old­er and com­pact­ed. Live and learn.
I think the gal­vanised nails were just ones they found and not specif­i­cal­ly cho­sen for that rea­son.
And yeah it was more a pho­to stunt in order to get our voic­es heard… and it worked ;o)
Yay.

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video

PLANE STUPID Newsletter #6

PLANE STUPID Newslet­ter #6

“This is a deeply trau­ma­tized com­mu­ni­ty which has been lied to for years and years

Plane Stupid logo 2PLANE STUPID Newslet­ter #6

“This is a deeply trau­ma­tized com­mu­ni­ty which has been lied to for years and years
by the avi­a­tion indus­try and one polit­i­cal par­ty after anoth­er. There is a litany of
bro­ken promis­es. I won­der just how you might feel if you had endured all this for
years! I am so angry I am almost incan­des­cent with rage at the immoral­i­ty of it
all.” — A res­i­dent of Har­mondsworth, near Heathrow

~ VICTORY FOR STOP STANSTED CAMPAIGN! ~

After a sus­tained and long run­ning cam­paign by the com­mu­ni­ty near Stanst­ed, the
Uttles­ford Dis­trict Coun­cil have blocked the pro­posed plans for expan­sion of the
exist­ing run­way. BAA how­ev­er is refus­ing to accept the demo­c­ra­t­ic rul­ing and is
tak­ing it to a pub­lic enquiry. A cam­paign fund has been launched to fight the
enquiry. www.stopstanstedexpansion.com

~ OCCUPATION AGAINST BRISTOL EXPANSION ~

On the 4th Decem­ber, activists from South West Cli­mate Action occu­pied North
Som­er­set Envi­ron­ment and Plan­ning Offices to protest against plans for expan­sion of
Bris­tol air­port. Pho­tos and report at www.indymedia.org.uk

~EASYJET SHUT IN DAY OF ACTION AGAINST SHORT HAUL FLIGHTS! ~

On Novem­ber 6th, activists from around the coun­try came togeth­er to take
action against short haul flights. Plane Stu­pid activists shut down the Lon­don HQ of
Easy­Group, the own­ers of low-cost car­ri­er Easy­jet, and Lon­don Ris­ing Tide vis­it­ed
the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty, pre­sent­ing them with a giant cheque for their £9.2
bil­lion annu­al sub­sidy.

In Cam­bridge, Man­ches­ter, Read­ing and Lon­don, there were protests out­side
trav­el agents, while Leeds Brad­ford air­port was plas­tered with anti-avi­a­tion
stick­ers. Robin Hood air­port received a vis­it from Robin and his Mer­ry Men,
dou­bly-angry because the air­port has been oppos­ing local wind farm appli­ca­tions.
Activists in Man­ches­ter dropped a ban­ner, and in Southend a trav­el agents was shut
when a pro­tes­tor locked her­self to the front door.

30 trav­el agents across the UK had their front doors chained shut
by activists who left signs on the win­dows read­ing, “Closed for a total
rethink. See www.planestupid.com”

A mem­ber of staff at Flight Cen­tre said, “Plane Stu­pid are caus­ing may­hem here
today, every­one is get­ting all aer­at­ed and vexed.” We’ll give them “aer­at­ed and
vexed!” What about the 182 mil­lion peo­ple to die in Africa this cen­tu­ry alone
because of cli­mate change, or the res­i­dents of ‘hacked off’ Har­mondsworth?

The day of action came as new research from HACAN Clearskies shows that 100,000
flights from Heathrow each year are to short haul des­ti­na­tions that are eas­i­ly
reach­able by the more sus­tain­able train alter­na­tive.

Reports and pho­tos at www.indymedia.org.uk

~ COURT REJECTS ASBOS FOR NEMA 25 ~

Lough­bor­ough Mag­is­trates Court reject­ed calls from the Crown Pros­e­cu­tion Ser­vice to
slap ASBOs on the 24 Plane Stu­pid activists who they described as “high­ly orga­nized
extrem­ists” that were arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with the shut down of Not­ting­ham East
Mid­lands short haul air­port in Sep­tem­ber.

In an appar­ent move aimed to avoid hav­ing the case heard by a jury, the charge of
pub­lic nui­sance was dropped, as was the charge relat­ing to an alleged breach of the
avi­a­tion and secu­ri­ty act.

Cam­paign­er for Plane Stu­pid, Ellen Rick­ford, said, “The same day that we learn the
gov­ern­ment is push­ing ahead with its air­port expan­sion pro­pos­als, they try to use
ASBOs to stamp out peace­ful protest. Well, it seems their plans were as doomed as
the avi­a­tion indus­try.”

17 activists got one year con­di­tion­al dis­charges (the min­i­mum sen­tence avail­able)
and each was charged £70 in costs. The 5 charged with crim­i­nal dam­age in addi­tion to
aggra­vat­ed tres­pass were giv­en vary­ing lev­els of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. One per­son was
referred to Crown Court due to unre­solved legal issues and anoth­er had his case
adjourned until Jan­u­ary 31st. One oth­er activist was unable to attend court due to
ill­ness.

Help us pay our fines! Donate via: www.planestupid.com

~ TOP 100 GREEN CAMPAIGNERS OF ALL TIME ~

Vet­er­an green cam­paign­er and staunch sup­port­er of Plane Stu­pid, John Stew­art, has
been named by the Envi­ron­ment Agency as the 82nd most influ­en­tial green activist of
all time! Just one posi­tion behind Mahat­ma Gand­hi, Plane Stu­pid is mighty glad he’s
on our side and proud that he’s often been our spokesman!

~ MARKETING GURU PREDICTS END OF SHORT HAUL AIR TRAVEL ~

In a cov­er-sto­ry fea­ture of Mar­ket­ing Week­ly Mag­a­zine, trig­gered by our nation­al day
of action, a PR guru is quot­ed as say­ing that he thinks short haul bud­get air trav­el
will go the same way that coal did in the 80s because, “they are unnec­es­sary,
out­dat­ed and there­fore fac­ing decline.” Too right!

~ AVIATION INDUSTRY PUBLISH “TEN REASONS TO KEEP FLYING” ~

Respond­ing to Plane Stu­pid­’s “10 rea­sons to ground the Plane” — the avi­a­tion
indus­try’s PR peo­ple at www.cheapflights.co.uk have come up with, “10 rea­sons to
keep fly­ing!” This comes after the Stern report sin­gled out avi­a­tion as one of the
most sig­nif­i­cant caus­es of cli­mate change.

~ ‘ETHICAL MAN’ JOINS PLANE STUPID ON LONDON CLIMATE MARCH ~

Around fifty Plane Stu­pid-ers marched togeth­er with Air­port­Watch cam­paign­ers and
Stanst­ed res­i­dents on the Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change (CaCC) march to Trafal­gar
Square on Novem­ber 4th. There was an 8ft long wood­en plane on storks, big ban­ners
and tons of peti­tion­ing. March­ing with Plane Stu­pid was News­night’s ‘eth­i­cal man’
and Seize the Day’s Theo and Shan­non. Pho­tos avail­able soon on the web­site…

In the mean­time, see www.indymedia.org.uk

~ POLITICS ROUND-UP ~

Gor­don Brown snubbed sci­en­tists and cam­paign­ers calls for tough new green tax­es and
instead opt­ed in his pre-bud­get report for the pathet­ic polit­i­cal ges­ture of
increas­ing air pas­sen­ger duty by £5. This news came less than a week after a report
from BA boss, Rod Edding­ton, who was hired by Gor­don Brown and paid by us the
tax­pay­er, to (shock) sug­gest air­port expan­sion was a good thing. So we now know that
indus­try boss­es sup­port their own plans. Fan­cy that!

~ DO YOU WANT US TO SPEAK IN YOUR AREA? ~

Plane Stu­pid speak­ers have appeared at the Lib Dem Region­al Con­fer­ence along with
Shad­ow Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter, Chris Huhne; at the LSE along­side Stop Cli­mate Chaos
direc­tor, Ashok Sin­ha; at stu­dent union venues includ­ing in Lon­don and Sus­sex; and
at local Green­peace and FoE meet­ings across the UK. If you want us to come and talk
in your area, get in touch. info@planestupid.com

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CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION MEETINGS

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful cli­mate camp at Drax, plans are afoot for the next camp
which will be at a dif­fer­ent location.get involved with putting plans into action.

www.climatecamp.org.uk

PLANE STUPID BENEFIT GIG/FILM SHOWING

On Fri­day 26th Jan­u­ary, Brix­ton Jamm presents The Alabama3. Tick­ets avail­able soon
via www.planestupid.com

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~ PLANE STUPID: A year in review ~

On Novem­ber 29th, Plane Stu­pid had its first anniver­sary. For a reflec­tion on the
incred­i­ble momen­tum we’ve built up over the last year, with video footage and pho­tos
for down­load, see www.planestupid.com

~ PLANE STUPID Blog ~

Plane Stu­pid has estab­lished a blog at www.myspace.com/planestupid. Its first blog
entry includes, “The arm­chair envi­ron­men­tal­ist’s guide to off­sets… or ‘How to save
the world for 38p!’)”

~ LEGAL RESOURCE FOR ACTIVISTS~

Expe­ri­enced cam­paign­ers are offer­ing free advice and train­ing to grass­roots groups
includ­ing legal skills and more. www.seedsforchange.org.uk

~ THE SHEILA McK­ECH­NIE AWARDS ~

The Sheila McK­ech­nie Awards pro­vide cam­paign devel­op­ment pack­ages to grass­roots
cam­paign­ers. Up for grabs is a ‘Trans­port Award’.anyone want­i­ng to apply should see:
www.sheilamckechnie.org.uk