Linslade anti-bypass protest need people; plus injunction details

Linslade anti-bypass protest site near lon­don (leighton buzzard/milton keynes) urgent­ly need peo­ple. They have start­ed cut­ting trees and a site has been estab­lised.

Look at www.roadalert.org.uk for more infor­ma­tion.

Before you come please call vic­to­ria har­vey 01525 385097 or 07815 817108 AND some­one from the site 07868740689, 07854631024, 07799816888.

We real­ly need you, the site is get­ting quite sort­ed but more pro­tes­tors will be a very wel­come relief.

I don’t have time to go into great detail about the protest but you can get this off road alert. We are abot 30 miles south of lon­don, near leighton buz­zard and mil­ton keynes.

There is an injunc­tion against any­one who goes to the site to protest against the road (per­sons unknown!) This goes to the high court tomor­row (tues­day 8th feb­ru­ary), it used to cov­er the pub­lic road­way but we won the right to stand there. There are peo­ple squat­ting in the zone with the injunc­tion on it.

I’m very sor­ry about the lack of detail, time is very lim­it­ed, please look on the protest web­site, road­alert and tele­phone us.

We need you. You can help!!!

www.linsladeprotest.org.uk

 

 

Bucks Coun­ty Coun­cil applied for the catch-all secret Injunc­tion ban­ning ‘Per­sons Unknown’ from any form of protest at the site of the road, at a secret hear­ing on Fri­day 28th Jan­u­ary, with­out pro­test­ers being able to chal­lenge it. It banned any form of protest. There was a Hear­ing today, Tues­day 1st Feb­ru­ary, at the High Court in Lon­don, and a com­pro­mise was reached.

The terms of the Injunc­tion have been changed. I haven’t seen the injunc­tion, but I under­stand it now allows observ­ing and protest­ing on the foot­paths and B4032 road — so the local protests against the road can con­tin­ue on the B4032. Locals are also very con­cerned that they are not allowed close enough to get evi­dence of alleged breach­es of the Habi­tats Direc­tives, as they are felling trees with bat roosts in, with­out Ecol­o­gists on site, or licences from DEFRA.

The way they got the orig­i­nal Injunc­tion was appalling, and shows their atti­tude to free speech. It was served at the camp at 7pm, so no one could seek legal advice over the week­end (no-one knew the impli­ca­tions of it, so that is why there has been a silence over the last cou­ple of days!). They applied for a secret hear­ing and a fast track process and were grant­ed that. Any­one wish­ing to con­test the Injunc­tion was giv­en until 4pm on Mon­day 31st Jan­u­ary to seek Legal Advice and file a Defence (7 work­ing hours!).

Direct action is still pos­si­ble! Today cam­paign­ers hung a ban­ner say­ing “Chal­lenge Car Cul­ture” oppo­site the Ayles­bury HQ of Buck­ing­hamshire Coun­ty Coun­cil. This occurred at the same time as Gar­rett Emmer­son, Head of Trans­porta­tion, was hav­ing meet­ings with Bed­ford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil about the Bypass! See  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/304619.html

Bilston Glen Protest Site update, spring 2004

Here’s a short update from our camp:

Here at Bil­ston Glen Anti-Bypass Protest Site we get more sort­ed for every day that pass­es by. More defences are com­ing up con­stant­ly and the stan­dard of the camp is steadi­ly improv­ing. We have a new kitchen, a new info-space, a well sort­ed and cosy com­mu­nal, a new guest house and a new show­er. We’re cur­rent­ly build­ing a huge com­mu­nal tree-house and some oth­er tree-hous­es are also under­way. For three months we’ve been orga­niz­ing “Sun­day Free Cafes” (open days) the first sun­day every month, which we intend to con­tin­ue with. Spring is here, the birds are singing and the leaves are com­ing out, we’re look­ing for­ward to the sum­mer. The 1–4 of July we’re invit­ing like-mind­ed for a green anar­chist gath­er­ing to dis­cuss how to fight the mega­ma­chine and learn prim­i­tive skills.

The plan­ning per­mis­sion for the road is still there. PPL, the com­pa­ny who where gonna finance the road have gone bust (way-hey!) though, so as it looks now it’s up to the local coun­cil to pay for the road. But PPL has been bought up by Bay­er, the enor­mous bio-tech mon­ster, so they might very well finance the road. Cen­tral gov­ern­ment mon­ey might also come in as Tony & co want to see the biggest bio-tech clus­ter in Europe here out­side of Edin­burgh, and a road for the trans­ports to and from it.

So we still want and need more peo­ple to fight against this part of the hor­ri­ble destruc­tion of our world. You and every­one else who sup­port us is very wel­come to join us!

Save Bil­ston Glen! No More Roads! For a life wild and free!

by Bamse, part of the Bil­ston Glen col­lec­tive

e‑mail: info@bilstonglen-abs.org.uk
Home­page: http://www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk

Phone and Email Blockade of Bayer Cropscience

Mon­day 22nd of March saw a phone and email block­ade of Bay­er Crop­science, aimed at under­min­ing their com­mu­ni­ca­tions and dis­rupt­ing the smooth run­ning of their offices.

The direct line of Paul Rylott, the head of Bio­science, was cho­sen along with the main Crop­science email address. Unfor­tu­nate­ly Rylot­t’s line appeared to have been dis­conect­ed so for the rest of the day it was the back­up num­ber — for the bio­science depart­ment — which was called instead. It is not known how many peo­ple took part in this action but we must have caused some both­er as the oper­a­tor was tak­en off the phone ear­ly in the day and the answer­phone switched on instead. Hope­ful­ly when they lis­tened to it it was full of anti-gm mes­sages. Hun­dreds of emails were also sent.

This was the lat­est of sev­er­al phone, fax and email block­ades, and a ‘vir­tu­al sit-in’ to have tak­en place against Bay­er over the last 6 months. There will no doubt be more in the future. To be kept informed of them sub­scribe to the Stop Bay­er’s GM Crops email list — you can do this at www.stopbayergm.org.

Bay­er Crop­science are tar­get­ed as they only remain­ing com­pa­ny try­ing to get approval to grow gm crops com­mer­cial­Ly in the UK.

PHONE AND EMAIL BLOCKADE — AGAINST GM & BAYER

Phone 01223 252514 — direct line of Paul Rylott, head of Bay­er Bio­science.
Email ukinfo@bayercropscience.com

Paul Rylott may have been sacked by Bay­er but he’s not gone yet! And he is still one of the key play­ers in the attempt to bring GM crops into Britain.
Please take the time to phone in and let them know what you think of their plans to grow GM crops in Britain. It does­nt take very many peo­ple doing this to affect their com­mu­ni­ca­tions and dis­rupt the work­ing of their offices. (And it only takes 20p!)
If you can’t get through on these then try
01223 252557 or tech@bayercropscience.com

NB — it’s best to use a phonebox and dial 141 before the number.…just to keep your­self safer!

Or try me direct­ly on paul.rylott@bayercropscience.com

How­ev­er, please dont keep hang­ing up after one ring, and sav­ing your 20 pences, you cheap­skates. I real­ly upsets me when peo­ple do that repeat­ed­ly. Some nasty peo­ple keep doing that for hours on end so we end up hav­ing to dis­con­nect our phones. So dont do it, cos it’s real­ly not nice.

And if I’m not around con­tact my col­league Julian
Tel: 01223 252426
Fax: 01223 252427
Email: julian.little@bayercropscience.com
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THE GM PHONE BLOCKADE — CHANGE OF NUMBER: 01223 252557

Paul Rylot­t’s land­line has been dis­con­nect­ed: recep­tion claims he is no longer employed there.
So keep ring­ing and email­ing, but use the recep­tion phone: 01223 252557
or ukinfo@bayercropscience.com

More sabotage of Bayer

Locks jammed at Bay­er Crop Sci­ence in North York­shire

On the 30th of Jan­u­ary the Bay­er Crop Sci­ence facil­i­ty in North New­balds, North York­shire had all its locks jammed with met­al and super­glue.

This is the 3rd or 4th time this has hap­pened at this build­ing.

The jam­ming of locks is a quick and sim­ple action which can be car­ried out very safe­ly at pret­ty much any Bay­er loca­tion in the coun­try. It can also have an effect dis­pro­por­tion­al to the effort put into it — when work­ers are unable to get to work pro­duc­tiv­i­ty will sure­ly suf­fer.

Activist’s Guide to the Peat Industry published, Corporate Watch’s ‘Turning Dirt into Dollars’

Pub­lished in Novem­ber 2003
Turn­ing Dirt into Dol­lars, an Activist’s Guide to the Peat Indus­try, includes address­es, maps & detailed back­ground.

http://archive.corporatewatch.org/publications/peat/peat2.htm

Hulme Developer gets a Roasting (Manchester)

Dig­ger trashed in action relat­ing to 25 mature trees being felled in Man­ches­ter

A prop­er­ty devel­op­er, who plans to build on the Loret­to Col­lege Play­ing Fields, got a vis­it from upset local peo­ple ear­ly on Tues­day 29th July. Around 25 mature trees on the play­ing fields have recent­ly been destroyed and a large JCB dig­ger has start­ed ground works.

Local peo­ple despair at the use­less politi­cians who get vot­ed in for 3–5 years, then enclose green spaces, close swim­ming baths and sell off schools and play­ing fields. These are all sold to pri­vate devel­op­ers, who are only there to make mon­ey for their share­hold­ers, not our local com­mu­ni­ty.

Peo­ple broke into the large dig­ger using cut­ters and doused the cab, elec­tron­ics and com­put­er in paraf­fin. Then stand­ing back, threw in the spark. Dam­age has been esti­mat­ed at up to £100,000.

Hope­ful­ly insur­ance com­pa­nies and con­trac­tors get the mes­sage. Devel­op­ers who destroy our com­mu­ni­ty green spaces, close foot­paths and kill our trees, are not wel­come.

It is sad that new dig­gers only take around a month to build, mature trees take a life time.

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There has been a group set up by local res­i­dents in response to this unex­pect­ed felling of mature trees.

—extract—-
We are a col­lec­tive main­ly based in Hulme but with a net­work of organ­i­sa­tions sup­port­ing our cause from all over the city. Our aim is to halt to fur­ther expan­sion of the con­struc­tion in Bir­ley Fields as well as to activ­ley pro­tect our green spaces that we are sad­ly loos­ing by the day.
Through non-vio­lent, peace­ful but direct action we will pre­vail.
Ral­ly inter­est­ed peo­ple to this egroup and we can start the resis­tance to the destruc­tion of our area, stand up for the envi­ron­ment which we so des­per­at­ley need and prove that peo­ple pow­er is all we need to make a dif­fer­ence.

Local residents directly oppose development in Hulme, Manchester

How local res­i­dents begin cam­paign against — diver­secity — (a not-so-local devel­op­ment com­pa­ny)

Around 10am ish today (and i say 10am ish cos i dont have a watch) Diver­secity a devel­op­ment com­pa­ny began sur­vey work on a love­ly tree scat­tered site in Hulme . By 11am ish local res­i­dents were wak­ing up to the real­i­ty of the Leaf St. devel­op­ment and decid­ed some­thing had to be done! And fast! So a few folk went and spoke to the sur­vey­ors giv­ing them fair warn­ing that peo­ple did­n’t want them to con­tin­ue their work . One of the sur­vey­ors even agreed with local res­i­dents, say­ing “I would­n’t want it if I lived round here.”
Any­way lets cut to the chase…around 1pm ish the sur­vey­ors head of for lun­cheon… and there it is…

A gold­en oppor­tu­ni­ty of spon­ta­neous ener­getic bliss.….… a free-form-freena-na-gig-group is formed and the but­ter knife* of jus­tice is called upon and before a sur­vey­or can say “chips peas and gravy, luv!” the bore drill cable is cut through like warm soya margarine…and that’s all the sur­vey­ing work done for one day at least!!!!!

BIG WHOOPS OF JOY!!!!!!! round one.…. local res­i­dents — 1 diver­secity — 0

* for (but­ter knife) insert (bolt crimpers)* 🙂