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Eco-arsonists for the liberation of the Earth in Mexico

18-07-2009 20:34

13th June - 13th July

Eco-Arsonists Commit Multiple Actions Against Banamex, Scotiabank, & More
EpLT Sets Fire to Luxury Cars Near Mexico City
EpLT Sets Fire to Sabritas Company Office Near Mexico City

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ELF Vandalizes Home of Bank of America Director in North Carolina

18-07-2009 20:18

Earth Liberation Front Communique: 06.21.09/07.07.09

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TESCO Hypermart Development Started

17-07-2009 15:30

At West Durrington near Worthing, West Sussex, TESCO have started major archaelogical digging (ie stripping the first few feet of topsoil) despite still not having full planning permission for the project. We need to get in contact with people who are interested in opposing this.

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Rough Music #21 Out Now!!

16-07-2009 23:46

Brighton's dirt-digging, scurrilous news-rag is out now with a bumper summer edition.

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More broken promises and lies as the fight to save Mainshill Wood continues.

16-07-2009 16:46

Mainshill Solidarity Camp - community picnic
The threat from Scottish Coal is growing, just as the front line against new coal looks forward to its one month birthday (complete with picnic). So get down here! Its now or never! The Mainshill Solidarity Camp is extremely grateful for the continuing support from the local community and will be celebrating its one month birthday on Sunday 19th July with a community picnic at 3pm to which everyone is welcome.

Local residents awoke on Monday morning to the news of yet another application for an extension at Poniel [1], a Scottish Coal mine in the Douglas Valley, something that communities had been assured would not happen, and which new planning policy guards against...

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Direct Action; Ireland, Sweden, USA, Mexico & Italy

16-07-2009 00:23

10th-14th July

DUFFYS CIRCUS SABOTAGED (Ireland)
TIRES FLATTENED ON TRUCKS AT HORSE TRACK (Sweden)
ALF VISIT UC IRVINE VIVISECTOR AT HOME (USA)
KFC SET ON FIRE (Mexico)
"VIVISECTORS ARE KILLERS" PAINTED ON UNIVERSITY BUILDING (Italy)
TELMEX A REGULAR TARGET (Mexico)

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Eco Has Landed?: Kew Ecovillage report

14-07-2009 20:29

England is hit by a heat wave and we are all out enjoying the sun. What a great time to arrange a trip to visit the Kew Ecovillage in west London. I make the journey to London and stay with friends. The morning after, I wake to find that the heat wave has officially ended and London has once again returned to a palette containing many shades of grey. Drizzle trickles down the train window as I make my way to Kew Bridge Station where I am intending to explore. I’m here to discover more about what a group of individuals have been doing since they reclaimed some disused land a month earlier. Land now being used in an attempt to exhibit a more sustainable form of living.

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Climate Camp Cymru 13 - 16 August

14-07-2009 19:34

- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

Climate activists plan Wales’ first Climate Camp

Direct action camp to open near Merthyr, 13-16th August

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Newbury Bypass Documentary

13-07-2009 14:58

photo: Antonio Zazueta Olmos
Call for video tapes of anything related to the Newbury bypass protests of 1996.

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There is no time to act but now! Camp for Climate Action in Scotland 3-10 August

12-07-2009 15:17

For a week of low-impact living and high-impact direct action, keep 3-10 August free and join us in Scotland to take direct action against the root causes of climate change and ecological collapse. This summer the struggle against a capitalist system intent on extinguishing life on the planet will hit the Firth of Forth!

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Tarnac 9: Summons for examination of witnesses in Berlin and Hamburg

11-07-2009 10:30

Recently three people in Germany received an order to appear in the court of Berlin, resp. Hamburg next week to speak out against comrades in France. None of them will speak to the judge, in both places collective public appearances will take place. You find the call out for the thing in Berlin below, the Hamburg text is not translated so far, but the idea is pretty much the same. As well you will find here a text written after the Berlin police was sent to the house of one of these comrades to steal her handwriting for a comparison with a letter found with one of the people in the Tarnac proceedings. The attempt was not successful so far.

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Direct Action; Mexico, Italy & Switzerland

10-07-2009 18:18

3rd-9th July

FIRE SET AT BULLFIGHTING MUSEUM (Mexico)
MEAT VANS BURNED, PET SHOP CHAIN TARGETED (Italy)
MEAT MARKET GLUED UP (Mexico)
WARNING LETTERS SENT TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE OWNERS (Switzerland)
PET STORE PAINTED (Mexico)
KFC, PET STORE GLUED (Mexico)
MEAT MARKETS, TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)

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The 300-350 Show: Ricardo Navarro

10-07-2009 14:22

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We get a majority world perspective on the climate emergency in an interview with Ricardo Navarro from El Salvador. Navarro won the Goldman prize for sustainable development back in 1995 for his work as founder and director of the El Salvador Centre for Appropriate Technology and he is a former director of Friends of the Earth International.

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ALF free pigeons in Surrey

09-07-2009 20:10

Animal Liberation Front activists claimed freeing pigeons that were trapped by netting under a railway bridge on Guildford Road, Fetcham, Leatherhead, Surrey.

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Scottish Coal break through barricades at Mainshill Solidarity Camp with support

08-07-2009 17:16

Scottish Coal break through barricades at Mainshill Solidarity Camp with support from Police

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Anti-Gatwick airport bomb hoaxer jailed

06-07-2009 23:40

Anti-airport protester Gary Collins from Crawley has been jailed for three and a half years for a sending a series of bomb hoaxes and suspicious packages to Gatwick airport.

He had suffered from noise disturbance from the airport as a child and was reported as being unrepentant.

BBC report is here:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8137127.stm

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Strike for Climate Justice! December 11th 2009

06-07-2009 23:19

Environmental activist & political prisoner Jeff ‘Free’ Luers wrote a prison dispatch in which he made a call out for an International General Strike on December 11 2009 in solidarity with the International Demonstrations on Climate Change during the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

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Rossport Solidarity activists board supply ship to Solitaire in Killybegs

06-07-2009 15:16

Today Shell to sea protestors broke through a weak spot in the armada deployed to defend the Solitaire - the supply port in Killybegs. One S2S activist occupied a tyre at side of Shell ship in Killybegs. The Solitaire whilst being an enormous ship is dependent on a constant flow of ships bringing supplies from Killybegs in Donegal.

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Direct Action; Germany, France, Mexico, Sweden, Czech & USA

02-07-2009 18:45

25th June - 2nd July

FOXES LIBERATED FROM HUNTING COMPOUND (Germany)
HOME VISIT FOR PFIZER EXECUTIVE (France)
HUNTING TOWER TOPPLED (France)
TRUCK TORCHED AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE (Mexico)
FUR SHOP PAINTED, CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Sweden)
65 HENS FREED (Czech Republic)
LOCKS GLUED AT CHICKEN RESTAURANTS, FEED SUPPLIER (USA)
12 MINK FREED FROM FUR FARM (Sweden)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE, TELMEX TARGETED (Mexico)
INFAMOUS RESTAURANT TO CLOSE (Sweden)
ONE LESS FUR STORE IN GOTHENBURG (Sweden)