(USA) LOGGING COMPANY TARGETED

anony­mous report:

“puyallup wet­lands are under attack by a pri­vate log­ging com­pa­ny that I and oth­ers have yet to iden­ti­fy. this attack was car­ried out on canyon rd. short-term dam­age was done to a hydraulic exca­va­tor, as a warn­ing. if they con­tin­ue — our attacks will increase.”

anony­mous report:

“puyallup wet­lands are under attack by a pri­vate log­ging com­pa­ny that I and oth­ers have yet to iden­ti­fy. this attack was car­ried out on canyon rd. short-term dam­age was done to a hydraulic exca­va­tor, as a warn­ing. if they con­tin­ue — our attacks will increase.”

logging company hit again, USA

Octo­ber 25, 2012
anony­mous report:

“Gilliar­di Log­ging and Con­struc­tion have not got­ten the mes­sage. so we poi­soned one of their semi-trucks, car­ry­ing a vicious wood-chip­per. the evict­ed hawks and owls will be pleased.”

Octo­ber 25, 2012
anony­mous report:

“Gilliar­di Log­ging and Con­struc­tion have not got­ten the mes­sage. so we poi­soned one of their semi-trucks, car­ry­ing a vicious wood-chip­per. the evict­ed hawks and owls will be pleased.”

Wife of Gulf Coast Oilfield Worker Chains Herself to Keystone XL Pipeyard Gate

Draw­ing con­nec­tions to all coastal com­mu­ni­ties threat­ened by tox­ic tar sands devel­op­ment, Cher­ri Foytlin, an indige­nous South Louisiana moth­er of six and wife of a Gulf Coast oil­field work­er, chained her­self to the gate of a Key­stone XL pipeyard. Effec­tive­ly block­ing pipe from being shipped to con­struc­tion sites along the con­tro­ver­sial pipeline’s route, Foytlin’s action coin­cides with the Defend Our Coast activ­i­ties in British Colum­bia, where more than 60 Cana­di­an com­mu­ni­ties are protest­ing a pro­posed tar sands pipeline through their region.

Yes­ter­day the Athabas­ca Chipewyan First Nation filed a legal chal­lenge to Shell’s pro­posed expan­sion of the Jack­pine Tar Sands Mine in Alber­ta, Cana­da. From It’s Get­ting Hot in Here:

“Fol­low­ing these projects, Coun­cil will con­tin­ue on its six-day No Pipelines, No Tankers Speak­ing Tour, stop­ping in com­mu­ni­ties on or near the routes of the Pacif­ic Trails, Enbridge North­ern Gate­way, and Kinder Mor­gan Trans Moun­tain Pipelines.

” ‘The idea is to build sol­i­dar­i­ty between the dif­fer­ent pipeline cam­paigns,’ says Har­jap Gre­w­al, Pacif­ic Region­al Orga­niz­er of the Coun­cil of Cana­di­ans. This includes cam­paigns to stop the pipelines at their source—in the Alber­ta Tar Sands and Frack­ing region in north­east­ern BC.”

Occu­py the Pipeline activists in New York have been strug­gling against the Spec­tra Pipeline which will pump fuel hydrauli­cal­ly-fracked from Pennsylvania’s gas fields into New York City

Foytlin’s arrest is the 32nd arrest since Tar Sands Block­ade‘s actions began more than two months ago and today marks the 31st day of sus­tained protest at the Winns­boro tree block­ade.

“This pipeline is a project of death. From destruc­tive tar sands devel­op­ment that destroy indige­nous sov­er­eign­ty and health at the route’s start to the tox­ic emis­sions that will lay fur­ther bur­den on envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice com­mu­ni­ties along the Gulf of Mex­i­co, this pipeline not only dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly affects indige­nous front­line com­mu­ni­ties but its clear that it will bring death and dis­ease to all in its path,” Foytlin declared.

Refus­ing to accept the Gulf Coast’s des­ig­na­tion as the Nation’s Ener­gy Sac­ri­fice Zone, Foytlin, along with many Gulf Coast res­i­dents and indige­nous activists are dis­mayed but not sur­prised to find the con­ver­sa­tions regard­ing Key­stone XL as a whole from nation­al envi­ron­men­tal groups to the Pres­i­den­tial cam­paigns have made lit­tle to no men­tion of the dam­age TransCanada’s Key­stone XL Pipeline will heap upon Gulf Coast com­mu­ni­ties like Hous­ton and Port Arthur, TX, where Key­stone XL will ter­mi­nate. Already over­bur­dened with oil refiner­ies and oth­er dirty ener­gy relat­ed indus­try, this neglect­ful atti­tude dove­tails neat­ly with TransCanada’s reck­less dis­re­gard for the health and safe­ty of fam­i­lies in the refin­ery com­mu­ni­ties and else­where along the pipeline’s route.

The Rayne, Louisiana res­i­dent, who in the Spring of 2011 walked 1,243 miles from New Orleans to Wash­ing­ton DC as a call for action to stop the BP Drilling Dis­as­ter, has been a con­stant voice speak­ing out for the health and ecosys­tems of Gulf Coast com­mu­ni­ties.

She con­tin­ued, “This fight is also about the per­son­al free­doms giv­en to us through the blood of all of our com­bined ances­try. Con­ser­v­a­tives believe gov­ern­ment is too big, that they are chok­ing out our free­doms. The Occu­py Move­ment believes cor­po­ra­tions have kid­napped those same rights in the pur­suit of prof­it over human­i­ty. I believe both groups are right, and this pipeline and the use of emi­nent domain by a for­eign com­pa­ny to seize and lay claim to Amer­i­can land, aid­ed by the silence of the gov­ern­ment, is an epic exam­ple of those truths.”

Tar Sands Block­ade is a coali­tion of Texas and Okla­homa landown­ers and cli­mate jus­tice orga­niz­ers using peace­ful and sus­tained civ­il dis­obe­di­ence to stop the con­struc­tion of TransCanada’s Key­stone XL tar sands pipeline.

“From the Pacif­ic Coast to the Gulf Coast, Tar Sands Block­ade acts in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all com­mu­ni­ties and indige­nous peo­ple ris­ing up to defend their homes from tox­ic tar sands pipelines. The refin­ery com­mu­ni­ties of the Gulf Coast have his­tor­i­cal­ly been and con­tin­ue to be treat­ed as col­lat­er­al dam­age by indus­try and now landown­ers from Cana­da to Texas are learn­ing that real­i­ty, too,” stat­ed Ram­sey Sprague, a Tar Sands Block­ade spokesper­son born in Houma, Louisiana to a Chiti­macha fam­i­ly. “From start to fin­ish, tar sands devel­op­ment only fur­ther endan­gers com­mu­ni­ties already at far greater risk for death and dis­ease from tox­ic envi­ron­men­tal expo­sure to human-made chem­i­cal pol­lu­tants than com­mu­ni­ties fur­ther away from the petro­le­um refiner­ies and the uncon­scionable min­ing oper­a­tions that define their ori­gins.”

(Belgium) Brussels – Top executive ExxonMobil Nicholas Mockford shot dead

15/10/2012: BRUSSELS – Sun­day night a top exec­u­tive of the petro-chem­i­cal com­pa­ny Exxon­Mo­bil was shot dead in the street in Ned­er-over-Heem­beek, near Brus­sels. Nicholas Mock­ford was shot in the head twice, when he and his wife were leav­ing an Ital­ian restau­rant around 22h. Wit­ness­es saw two men run­ning away car­ry­ing a motor­cy­cle hel­met.

The man died on the way to the hos­pi­tal. His wife Mary was beat­en and cov­ered in blood. Police and DA’s office are say­ing that at this point they aren’t exclud­ing any pos­si­bil­i­ties, from a hit to a car­jack­ing gone wrong. Although the vio­lence used appears to be dis­pro­por­tion­ate for a car­jack­ing, espe­cial­ly know­ing that the killers left the Lexus ATV behind.
Inves­ti­ga­tors are doing every­thing they can to locate the per­pe­tra­tors. They are going through his work at his firm in the hope of find­ing a clue. Exxon­Mo­bil is the com­pa­ny that owns Esso, Mobil and Exxon gas sta­tions.

Indigenous Communities Rise Up in Mexico

For the sec­ond time in less than two years, an indige­nous com­mu­ni­ty in the south­west­ern Mex­i­can state of Michoa­can has erect­ed bar­ri­cades and seized con­trol of secu­ri­ty mat­ters. Locat­ed in the Purepecha high­lands of the Pacif­ic coast state, the small com­mu­ni­ty of Urapi­cho in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Para­cho has been under the self-declared con­trol of the peo­ple for about a month now.

For the sec­ond time in less than two years, an indige­nous com­mu­ni­ty in the south­west­ern Mex­i­can state of Michoa­can has erect­ed bar­ri­cades and seized con­trol of secu­ri­ty mat­ters. Locat­ed in the Purepecha high­lands of the Pacif­ic coast state, the small com­mu­ni­ty of Urapi­cho in the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Para­cho has been under the self-declared con­trol of the peo­ple for about a month now.

The news was pub­li­cized this week with the post­ing of a video on YouTube that shows armed and masked men, some clothed in mil­i­tary-style cam­ou­flage cloth­ing, attend­ing a sand-bagged check­point, where motorists are searched. Two anony­mous, masked spokesper­sons explain the rea­sons behind the upris­ing and the goals of their move­ment.

Res­i­dents say they have been under assault from crim­i­nal bands which have a strong foothold in the region. The Span­ish-speak­ing spokesman men­tions four peo­ple who were forcibly dis­ap­peared in 2009 and 2010, includ­ing a woman named Bautista. “We don’t know her where­abouts,” he says.

The Purepecha com­mu­ni­ty is locat­ed between the towns of Para­cho, long known for its local­ly pro­duced gui­tars, and Cher­an, a larg­er indige­nous com­mu­ni­ty that rose up in April 2011 and seized con­trol of the local gov­ern­ment. Still bar­ri­cad­ed and under com­mu­ni­ty guard, the Cher­an rebel­lion broke out after locals grew frus­trat­ed by vio­lence and gov­ern­ment inac­tion in stop­ping the clear-cut­ting of the area’s remain­ing forests. Like Urapi­cho, numer­ous deaths and dis­ap­pear­ances blamed on orga­nized crime have been report­ed in Cher­an.

The Urapi­cho upris­ing occurs amid esca­lat­ing social con­flicts that have polit­i­cal tem­per­a­tures at the boil­ing point in Michoa­can. In dif­fer­ent parts of the state, mul­ti­ple con­flicts pit stu­dent, teacher and indige­nous groups against the Insti­tu­tion­al Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Par­ty (PRI)-led state gov­ern­ment, as well as leg­is­la­tors from the PRI and allied Green Par­ty against the cen­ter-left PRD, PT and MC par­ties.

On Sun­day, Octo­ber 14, ten­sions explod­ed when the Fed­er­al Police recov­ered bus­es that had been seized by protest­ing stu­dents from three rur­al teach­ers’ col­leges. In the raid, scores of stu­dents were detained, bus­es burned and sev­er­al offi­cers injured.

In response, any­where between 15,000 and 40,000 demon­stra­tors, the esti­mates depend­ing on the source, crowd­ed the state cap­i­tal of More­lia Octo­ber 17 denounc­ing Pres­i­dent Calderon and demand­ing the res­ig­na­tions of state Gov­ern­ment Sec­re­tary Jesus Rey­na Gar­cia and PRI Gov­er­nor Faus­to Valle­jo, who was elect­ed to office in a con­tro­ver­sial Novem­ber 2011 elec­tion.

Con­tin­gents rep­re­sent­ing the Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor of Edu­ca­tion Work­ers (CNTE), the Purepecha Nation and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions par­tic­i­pat­ed in the mobi­liza­tion. A large group of stu­dents encir­cled the state attor­ney general’s office, while a sec­ond group num­ber­ing in the hun­dreds blocked one of Morelia’s high­way exits.

As the week end­ed, the CNTE vowed to con­tin­ue protest­ing in More­lia until the remain­ing 8 stu­dents detained on Octo­ber 14 were released. Out­side the state cap­i­tal, pro­test­ers report­ed­ly occu­pied the town hall of Para­cho and threat­ened to block­ade access to oth­er munic­i­pal­i­ties.

 

more ingo at http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/2012/10/19/indigenous-communities-rise-up-in-mexico/

Under the watchful eye of engaged youth, Pangea and the PLA’s “City Concept” plan was halted by tribal council

Saca­ton, AZ- At the Octo­ber 17, 2012 Gila Riv­er Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty (GRIC) Trib­al Coun­cil ses­sion, Pangea, LLC and the Pecos Landown­ers Asso­ci­a­tion (PLA) attempt­ed to rush for­ward their plans per­tain­ing to the con­struc­tion of a city and free­way with­in the reser­va­tion. Pangea sought the trib­al council’s approval for a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) which grant­ed Pangea and its investors exclu­sive rights to devel­op over 5500 acres of trib­al land on the reservation’s west­ern end along the route of the pro­posed Loop 202 free­way, which GRIC vot­ed against last Feb­ru­ary. The PLA attempt­ed to pres­sure trib­al coun­cil to approve the Pangea corporation’s ini­tia­tive for yet anoth­er com­mu­ni­ty vote on the Loop 202.

But to their sur­prise, Pangea and the PLA were con­front­ed by young peo­ple wear­ing breath­ing masks and No Build 202 shirts who sought to hold both Pangea and the PLA account­able to last February’s Loop 202 vote. In that vote, GRIC vot­ers vot­ed in favor of the No Build option for the free­way. The Gila Riv­er youth, whose breath­ing masks sym­bol­ized the envi­ron­men­tal tox­ins that free­ways bring to the land and air, were at the trib­al coun­cil meet­ing to demand that their elect­ed offi­cials uphold the No Build voice of the peo­ple.

“I can’t vote yet, but if I could, I would have vot­ed No Build too. The peo­ple who want the free­way should think about what my gen­er­a­tion will go through if all we have to inher­it is free­way pollution”said 14 year old Lily Miles, of Komatke and Vah-ki, who was one of the twelve who wore med­ical breath­ing masks and No Build shirts in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the community’s No Build voice.

Since the his­toric Loop 202 vote, many GRIC mem­bers, espe­cial­ly the youth, have felt their trib­al lead­er­ship has not ful­ly upheld the community’s No Build stance. This sus­pi­cion is height­ened since GRIC Gov­er­nor Men­doza allowed Pangea to con­sult with GRIC’s Office of Gen­er­al Coun­sel for their City Con­cept and free­way plans. In addi­tion, Gov­er­nor Men­doza pre­sent­ed the PLA ini­tia­tive that calls for anoth­er Loop 202 vote at the Sep­tem­ber 26th GRIC Leg­isla­tive Stand­ing Com­mit­tee (LSC).

If approved by the GRIC Trib­al Coun­cil, the mas­sive Pangea City Con­cept, the size of over 5000 foot­ball fields, would be the largest con­struc­tion project in the his­to­ry of the Bureau of Indi­an Affairs (BIA) and the Gila Riv­er Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty. The GRIC No Build sup­port­ers who attend­ed the Wednes­day coun­cil ses­sion were com­pelled to raise their voic­es against Pangea and the PLA in the trib­al coun­cil cham­bers with­out say­ing one word. Their breath­ing masks and No Build 202 shirts, stat­ing “Bio­haz­ard 202” spoke to the loom­ing des­e­cra­tion of Muhadag Do’ag (South Moun­tain) and to the neg­a­tive impacts the pro­posed free­way would bring to the envi­ron­ment and over­all com­mu­ni­ty health.

“Our trib­al lead­ers must be held account­able for where their alle­giances lie,” said Renee Jack­son of Vah-ki, who was one of the No Build sup­port­ers who wore breath­ing masks and Bio­haz­ard 202 shirts dur­ing the meet­ing. “Our rep­re­sen­ta­tives must be trans­par­ent in where they stand on the issue of the free­way”.

While coun­cil went to exec­u­tive ses­sion to decide the mer­it of Pangea’s MOU and the PLA vot­ing ini­tia­tive, the twelve youth engaged pro-free­way Gila Riv­er landown­ers in the hall­ways out­side coun­cil cham­bers. The youth shared their con­cerns regard­ing the envi­ron­men­tal, health and cul­tur­al impacts the City Con­cept would bring to their future while coun­cil was in exec­u­tive ses­sion and closed to the pub­lic. The mere pres­ence of these twelve helped give a voice to the 720 GRIC mem­bers who vot­ed for No Build, and their breath­ing masks showed the poten­tial dan­ger the free­way would bring.

“Today we showed where the youth stand and we showed that there are youth who care. Pangea and the PLA’s city con­cept is a dan­ger to our future and both are bio­haz­ards to the land and to the moun­tain,” said Andrew Pedro, 18 years old, from Saca­ton, who print­ed the Bio­haz­ard shirts. “Peo­ple were ask­ing me for more t‑shirts, and I believe that this is the first of more visu­al demon­stra­tions to come.”

“I felt like it was my respon­si­bil­i­ty to be here and get informed about what is hap­pen­ing around me and in my com­mu­ni­ty because I will be inher­it­ing this land too.” said Kar­ma Miles, 11 years old, from Komatke and Vah-ki.

Despite the dif­fer­ences the youth had with fel­low GRIC landown­ers, the youth pre­sent­ed them­selves in a respect­ful mat­ter, and even helped PLA elders by set­ting up chairs dur­ing exec­u­tive ses­sion.

After near­ly an hour in exec­u­tive ses­sion, Trib­al Coun­cil decid­ed that eleven key points need­ed to be met before any MOU regard­ing Pangea’s land use plans could be approved. The eleven points cen­ter around pub­lic safe­ty, bud­get­ing, juris­dic­tion, and land man­age­ment issues that were not addressed with­in the MOU sub­mit­ted by Pangea. Coun­cil clear­ly declared that all points must be met before Pangea’s MOU could be brought back before the coun­cil. Addi­tion­al­ly, the mis­lead­ing Save the Moun­tain ini­tia­tive was held to stan­dard GRIC Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil Secretary’s Office (CCSO) pro­ce­dure regard­ing sig­na­tures ver­i­fi­ca­tion. The PLA sub­mit­ted their Pangea-backed ini­tia­tive to the GRIC Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil Secretary’s Office (CCSO) on Sep­tem­ber 27 with the back­ing of 1,527 landown­er sig­na­tures. Trib­al coun­cil declared that each sig­na­ture must be ver­i­fied first before coun­cil would con­sid­er the ini­tia­tive. As with the per capi­ta ini­tia­tive, a pre­vi­ous people’s ini­tia­tive in Gila Riv­er, the sig­na­tures could take the CCSO four to six months to ver­i­fy, espe­cial­ly with reports of miss­ing trib­al enroll­ment num­bers with the sig­na­tures sub­mit­ted, as report­ed by Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil Sec­re­tary Lin­da Andrews at the coun­cil meet­ing. The Save the Moun­tain ini­tia­tive, which Pangea and PLA deemed” first ever Peo­ples Ini­tia­tive through the People’s rights under the GRIC Trib­al Con­sti­tu­tion”, does not save the moun­tain because it calls for the reject­ed free­way to be con­struct­ed on trib­al lands along the foothills of Muhadag Do’ag (South Moun­tain).

Despite the steps that are legal­ly required to approve a vot­er ini­tia­tive, a Pangea rep­re­sen­ta­tive pres­sured coun­cil to move for­ward and approve the pro-free­way ini­tia­tive. GRIC mem­ber Joey Perez of Pangea attempt­ed to have coun­cil set a much short­er time frame for approval, by cit­ing the 14th amend­ment of the GRIC con­sti­tu­tion, which declares coun­cil has 60 days to make a deci­sion on any ini­tia­tive bought forth to them. The Pangea corporation’s inter­pre­ta­tion, as stat­ed by Perez, was that the 60 days start­ed on Sep­tem­ber 27, when the sig­na­tures were sub­mit­ted, which would force coun­cil to pos­si­bly recon­sid­er anoth­er Loop 202 vote by the end of the year. But Perez, Pangea and the PLA were soon con­front­ed with stan­dard GRIC pro­ce­dures regard­ing ini­tia­tives: sig­na­tures must be ver­i­fied before the ini­tia­tive can be con­sid­ered by the coun­cil.

The rea­son why the Pangea cor­po­ra­tion and pro-build sup­port­ers dis­re­gard the No Build vic­to­ry and are attempt­ing to rush the trib­al coun­cil to sched­ule anoth­er vote on the pro­posed free­way is because in 2013 fed­er­al land leas­ing reg­u­la­tions for trib­al allot­ted lands become much more restric­tive. Changes to Title 25 of the BIA’s Code of Fed­er­al Reg­u­la­tions will require 100 per­cent of landown­er con­sents before the BIA will approve any new leas­es per­tain­ing to the use of trib­al allot­ted lands for busi­ness­es. This would make the Pangea City Con­cept, which is cen­tered around the con­struc­tion of the Loop 202, sub­ject to height­ened fed­er­al reg­u­la­tions.

The deci­sion by Coun­cil to hold Pangea and the PLA trans­par­ent and account­able to the process was a long over­due first step in revers­ing its nine months of inac­tion regard­ing the No Build vote. Pangea and the PLA were expect­ing to walk out of the trib­al coun­cil meet­ing with anoth­er Loop 202 vote sched­uled, and their land devel­op­ment plans to be unop­posed. But Pangea and the PLA left the Octo­ber trib­al coun­cil ses­sion in defeat when con­front­ed with the gap­ing holes of their fraud­u­lent cam­paign to bull­doze over 5500 acres for a Pangea city, and by the faces of the young peo­ple whose future health depends on the preser­va­tion and pro­tec­tion of Muhadag Do’ag, and their lands.

“It was a won­der­ful day, a small vic­to­ry once again,” said Lori Thomas, of Gila Riv­er Alliance for a Clean Envi­ron­ment. “The youth who were present were awe­some. It was good to see them engage in the issue. A small bat­tle was won but the fight still rages on.”

For the youth who attend­ed this round of the big­ger fight to com­plete­ly stop the Loop 202, it showed that their involve­ment will be cru­cial for the future of the com­mu­ni­ty, and that a new form of expres­sion is need­ed so that their voic­es can be heard by the Pangea cor­po­ra­tion, the PLA, as well as by the GRIC trib­al coun­cil and Gov­er­nor Men­doza.

“We made an impact by rep­re­sent­ing all the No Build sup­port­ers who can’t be here, to go to these meet­ings and be heard,” said Ana Mor­a­go, 18 years old, of Sto­ton­ic. “We aren’t bused in, like the way Pangea brings in their peo­ple. And even though we didn’t speak, our actions and how we pre­sent­ed our­selves spoke loud­er”.

For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing the strug­gle against the Loop 202, please con­tact us at: gricagainst202(at)gmail.com or at our Face­book page: Gila Riv­er Against the Loop 202

arson attack on company who put cctv in schools

last night fire erupt­ed in the tran­quil­li­ty of bris­tols well-to-do red­land area, tar­get­ing a marked vehi­cle of Stand­fast Ltd.

last night fire erupt­ed in the tran­quil­li­ty of bris­tols well-to-do red­land area, tar­get­ing a marked vehi­cle of Stand­fast Ltd. besides the usu­al func­tions that led us to attack a com­pa­ny invest­ed in “secu­ri­ty” (as always, secur­ing the sanc­ti­ty of pri­vate prop­er­ty in mass soci­ety) one of their many cctv con­tracts in bris­tol, bath, avon, som­er­set and glouces­ter­shire is both state and pri­vate schools, where as you can read in the news­pa­pers even the toi­lets are no escape from the cam­eras.
dai­ly sub­mis­sion under imper­son­al insti­tu­tions rarely comes nat­u­ral­ly. after the nuclear fam­i­ly, the edu­ca­tion sys­tem at all stages is instru­men­tal in adapt­ing the free child to the civ­i­lized world of work­places, malls and (oth­er) pris­ons that todays youth are des­tined for. con­stant sur­veil­lance has proven a most effec­tive step in this domes­ti­cat­ing process, kids learn­ing to sel­f­reg­u­late under the assump­tion that they’re per­ma­nent­ly being watched, and this has been made to seem nor­mal by real­i­ty tv, the sat­u­ra­tion of con­trol tech­nol­o­gy in the dead syn­thet­ic urban envi­ro­ment (sup­plied by the likes of Stand­fast Ltd.), and the atom­ised crowd of a gen­er­a­tion filled with self­ish fear of pun­ish­ment or repre­mand.

but it is often still the young peo­ple who are least destroyed by this onslaught and who still find them­selves impelled to refuse the sys­tem (like the riots last sum­mer and scat­tered moments of revolt every­day since and before). this is just a reminder — WHEN YOU HIT A LENS IT WILL BREAK LIKE ANYTHING ELSE! so shouts to  youth rebel­lion against soci­ety, the claimants of the recent attack on secu­ri­ty vehi­cles in not­ting­ham, and every­one else com­mit­ted to the time­less crime of free­dom!
strength for Gus­ta­vo Quiroga, held in immi­gra­tion deten­tion after the Delta squat evic­tion in Thes­sa­loni­ki, and for the Grem­lin Alley resisters in cardiff!
strength for the anar­chists non-coop­er­at­ing with the grand jury in the amer­i­can north­west, and for the ones who fled from it!
strength for the street fight­ers held for the march29 bat­tles in Barcelona, and Car­oli­na whos accused of burn­ing a Star­bucks that inspir­ing day!

anar­chy here, now and always — yours in war, counter-sur­veil­lance cores.

 

(USA) Croatan Earth First! Locks Down North Carolina DENR For Complicity In Fracking

Sev­en mem­bers of Croatan Earth First! and par­tic­i­pants from our Pied­mont Direct Action Camp locked togeth­er today, bar­ri­cad­ing the front of North Carolina’s Depart­ment of Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Resources (DENR) build­ing in down­town Raleigh. Pro­vid­ing phys­i­cal, active resis­tance against frack­ing in North Car­oli­na, CEF! has cho­sen DENR for an action as they are respon­si­ble for help­ing legal­ize frack­ing, and will be respon­si­ble for reg­u­lat­ing it. They have also hired a cor­rupt Min­ing and Ener­gy Com­mis­sion board, which includes peo­ple with vest­ed inter­ests in hydraulic frac­tur­ing occur­ing. We are let­ting them know that this farce won’t stand! No com­pro­mise in defense of Moth­er Earth!

In addi­tion, a size­able demon­stra­tion is being held around the lock down, with sev­er­al large ban­ners, signs, lit­er­a­ture, etc. Police active­ly cleared the site, and have closed off the road, label­ing the entire block a crime scene. Press was being pre­vent­ed from approach­ing the site.  In nego­ti­a­tion made with the police, press was allowed inside to do inter­views and take pho­tos if the block­aders agreed to unlock lat­er. The pro­test­ers decid­ed to unlock as a tac­ti­cal deci­sion to walk away with­out arrests and save our legal funds for future events.

Press Release

Croatan Earth First! Locks Down NC DENR For Com­plic­i­ty In Frack­ing

Raleigh, NC – This morn­ing mul­ti­ple peo­ple locked them­selves to the front of the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal and Nat­ur­al Resources head­quar­ters at 217 W. Jones St. in protest of the state’s con­tin­ued path towards the legal­iza­tion of hydraulic frac­tur­ing (or frack­ing) for nat­ur­al gas.  Envi­ron­men­tal­ists across the state have orga­nized and cam­paigned against hydrofrack­ing leg­is­la­tion for over a year, which result­ed in a veto of SB 820 this past sum­mer by Bev­er­ly Per­due.  The leg­is­la­ture over­rode the veto short­ly after dur­ing a con­tro­ver­sial vote in which a mis­tak­en bal­lot was cast for legal­iza­tion, and the vot­er was refused a recast.

“All legal chan­nels of protest have been exhaust­ed,” says Earth First!er Emi­ly Smith at the ral­ly out­side the action.  “We’ve learned that the leg­is­la­ture and reg­u­la­tors will not pro­tect the water we drink and air we breathe.  It’s time for the pub­lic to take oth­er types of action to stop hydrofrack­ing. “   This past Spring NC DENR released a report that gross­ly under­es­ti­mat­ed the pos­si­ble envi­ron­men­tal risks of frack­ing.  Since then, they have been work­ing with the new­ly formed Min­ing and Ener­gy Com­mis­sion which includes sev­er­al mem­bers that are close­ly linked to oil & gas: Ray Cov­ing­ton, a part­ner at NC Oil & Gas, who prof­its finan­cial­ly from an increase in leased lands for frack­ing; Chair­man Jim Wom­ack, a Lee Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­er and an oil indus­try sup­port­er who claimed at a DENR pub­lic meet­ing that you were more like­ly to be hit by a mete­or than have water con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by frack­ing; and Charles Hol­brook a for­mer employ­ee of Chevron Oil.

“Hav­ing peo­ple who sup­port and ben­e­fit from oil and gas extrac­tion on a reg­u­la­to­ry com­mis­sion is like a fox guard­ing the hen­house.”  The EPA recent­ly released a study that con­firmed con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the water aquifer in Pavil­lion, Wyoming with frack­ing flu­ids, but DENR has done noth­ing to mod­i­fy their report.  “We’re not going to let indus­try destroy North Car­oli­na like they have Penn­syl­va­nia,” says Smith refer­ring  to the numer­ous spills that have occurred in the high­ly fracked Mar­cel­lus Shale—including 4,700 gal­lons of hydrochlo­ric acid spilled this year in Brad­ford Coun­ty and a 30-foot methane geyser which erupt­ed in Tio­ga coun­ty, PA.  A blowout at one of Chesa­peake Energy’s rigs in Wyoming this year burned escap­ing methane for sev­er­al days and more than 70 res­i­dents had to be evac­u­at­ed.  “Frack­ing is not only con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing our land and water irre­versibly, but it’s spew­ing mas­sive amounts of methane, a green­house gas, into the atmos­phere.”

More clashes with riot police in Greece over gold mine

Hun­dreds of pro­test­ers in Thes­sa­loni­ki have been in involved anoth­er bat­tle with riot police over plans for a gold mine in north­ern Greece’s Halkidi­ki penin­su­la. One police­man and three pro­test­ers were hurt, while 21 pro­test­ers have been detained. Clash­es between protests and local res­i­dents on one side and police and mine work­ers on the oth­er side have become a reg­u­lar occourance since March when plans for the mine were approved. A mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar gold min­ing project in a near­by area was can­celled a decade ago after sim­i­lar protests.

Below is a trans­la­tion of a recent report about the sit­u­a­tion from Indy­media Athens:

In the moun­tains of Halkidi­ki is a huge dis­as­ter at the expense of Moth­er Nature. The Greek state has sold the rights to exploit the gold beneath the pri­mor­dial forests of dark in the com­pa­ny Eldo­ra­do-Greek Gold. That is why the com­pa­ny has already start­ed the despi­ca­ble work: inten­sive defor­esta­tion of 4,000 hectares of for­est and min­er­al pro­cess­ing plant con­struc­tion between vil­lages Olympiad, Stan, Mary and Great Ieris­sos. The state and the com­pa­ny with the work will take away the life of the for­est itself but also by the thou­sands of ani­mals that live in it, clean ground­wa­ter and soil will be con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by tox­ic sub­stances such as cyanide. In sim­ple words, a whole liv­ing world would exter­mi­nat­ed for the prof­it of multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ment lead­ers, leav­ing behind con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed land and death.

Res­i­dents not com­pla­cent to the dis­as­ter, from pas­sages such as the Olympics and the Great Pana­gia for decades have been strug­gling against min­ing. This year saw the final autho­riza­tion from the gov­ern­ment and the project has now start­ed. From March there have been on going con­flicts with res­i­dents and defend­ers of the for­est on one side and the police and work­ers of the com­pa­ny on the oth­er.

This dom­i­nant behav­ior of cul­ture over nature is a result of the author­i­tar­i­an men­tal­i­ty of anthro­pocen­trism, arbi­trary belief that man is greater than the nat­ur­al ele­ment sur­rounds him. This con­cept is the result of the alien­ation of man from the nat­ur­al world. With the medi­a­tion of the process of civ­i­liza­tion, the build­ing of cities, states and pow­er rela­tions peo­ple ignore the earth-ani­mal-nature, which is direct­ly tied to the exis­tence and devel­op­ment of the nat­ur­al world.

Habi­tats are threat­ened today direct­ly from the mines not only in Halkidi­ki but oth­er parts of north­ern Greece such as Kilkis and Alexan­droupo­lis. But let’s not fool our­selves, the tech­noc­ra­cy and cap­i­tal­ism in today’s world are expressed through a glob­al sys­tem of strik­ing any part of the world over sea or land. But espe­cial­ly in coun­tries of the so-called third world, plun­der of nature and poor peo­ple is unthink­able. Giant multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions with the help of state and inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions extort­ing indige­nous pop­u­la­tions by any means (war, food crises, finan­cial mea­sures) to accept invest­ments and work with them in exchange for a mea­ger salary and a short and mis­er­able life. With mod­ern engines cut forests, dis­em­bow­el the earth, pol­lute the air, water and soil. This hunt for “trea­sure” whether min­er­als such as gold or ener­gy (oil, gas, coal) is total­ly dead­locked and destruc­tive. The so-called progress of civ­i­liza­tion and the ide­ol­o­gy of devel­op­ment only serve the tem­po­rary exis­tence of the world’s author­i­tar­i­an sys­tem that dis­solves cul­tures but tens of thou­sands of years, primeval forests, ani­mal com­mu­ni­ties and ecosys­tems that promis­es dystopia.

The destruc­tion of the nat­ur­al world not only in Greece but also at the glob­al lev­el does not leave us time tol­er­ances of this sit­u­a­tion. Needs as liv­ing crea­tures to deny us the sys­tem dom­i­nates and fight for its destruc­tion. To rede­fine our rela­tion­ship with the nat­ur­al world and to resist that pre­vents us from liv­ing in har­mo­ny with it. The state, the indus­tri­al sys­tem and mazopoi­isi cities need to be destroyed to flour­ish in the debris an indomitable life for peo­ple, ani­mals and nature.

AGAINST THE RAPE OF THE NATURAL WORLD
ANYPOCHORITOS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION AND FOR TOTAL ANARCHY

Coal Seam Gas Banner Drop in Australia

Pro­test­ers from the the Lock the Gate Alliance have tak­en part in a ban­ner drop on Brisbane’s Kan­ga­roo Point cliffs with sev­en giant ban­ners with anti-CSG mes­sages were attached to the cliff face.

Lock the Gate spokesman Innes Larkin said the ban­ners were a demon­stra­tion of the depth of com­mu­ni­ty oppo­si­tion to CSG min­ing in south­east Queens­land.

‘‘If the gov­ern­ment and min­ers think rur­al com­mu­ni­ties will just take this lying down, they’re wrong,’’ Mr Larkin said. ‘‘Peo­ple in the bush are angry and they are pre­pared to make a stand to pro­tect where they live, their soil and their water.’’ Lock the Gate have been run­ning a week of protests across the state, which began with a march and con­cert at Mur­willum­bah in north­ern NSW last Sun­day.