Tomorrow, 1 March, ALCOA arms manufacturers and aluminium giant are to announce at their ALCOA Global Center in New York if they are going to push for yet another aluminium smelter in pristine Iceland, against the will of the majority of Icelandic people.
STOP ALCOA!
ALCAN are also among the killers of Iceland
More trouble every day for ALCOA!
At the time of writing around thirty protesters are blockading the entrance to the Runcorn Alcoa factory near Manchester. Seven people have locked onto each other with armtubes and for nearly three hours all traffic to and from the factory has been blockaded. Alcoa are being targeted because of their involvement in the Karahnjukar dam projects. The campaign is growing and intensifying as the Icelandic government and Alcoa's plans for devastation of the Icelandic landscape expand. Tomorrow Alcoa will announce whether they intend to build another smelter in the North of Iceland, a decision we feel should me made by the people of Iceland rather than a foreign corporation.
Recently a third of the workers at the Runcorn factory have been made redundant, according to them to get cheaper labour. Workers passing by our protest have all been very polite and many have wished us luck. The protest has been peaceful.
Interview with one of the protesters, footage and more still photographs from the protest is available. Please contact:
stopalcoa@yahoo.co.uk
For more information on today's protest call: (0044) 7765243665
Recently a third of the workers at the Runcorn factory have been made redundant, according to them to get cheaper labour. Workers passing by our protest have all been very polite and many have wished us luck. The protest has been peaceful.
Interview with one of the protesters, footage and more still photographs from the protest is available. Please contact:
stopalcoa@yahoo.co.uk For more information on today's protest call: (0044) 7765243665
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Nice Action!
28.02.2006 17:51
fr
Lifts the spirits to see
28.02.2006 18:39
delia
Extremists
28.02.2006 23:50
A 'lock on' is when a domestic extremist fastens him/herself onto an object to cause an obstruction or disruption using a padlock in combination with arm tubes to make it difficult for the police to remove the individual, the object or both.
Lock ons usually involve several domestic extremists and can involved the use of multiple arm tubes, barrels, vehicles, clamps, D-locks in combination and at more than one location.
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