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Forty protesters blocked access to a fracking site threatening an organic farm in North Beaver, PA. The protesters deployed a giant pig in the entrance of the well site, to which four people locked themselves. Despite shutting down the entrance for the day nobody was arrested. The police did, however, take their porcine brother into custody. Native activists and ranchers, who historically have been at odds with each other, came together to organize the event. He spoke about shoddy welding and the holes that activists documented in the welds when blockaded inside the pipe on December 3.
He reminded attendees that the first KXL pipeline has already leaked 30 times. Though the attempt to drown Sprague out with elevator jazz failed to silence him, he was arrested after several minutes. The two climbers—a local law student and a doctor—re9. At the gate to the petroleum complex Caricare, which is used by the transnational company OXY, the ESMAD, Police and Army assaulted the mobilized communities by setting fires to the surrounding pastures, discharging their weapons, destroying a school, taking away food supplies to the protesters and beating and retaining four people.
They cheered the names of each protester and thanked them as they were led away from the group by police. They discovered that researchers captured the jaguar, and had to euthanize it after their trap injured Macho B so badly that he could not be returned to the wild. Organizers said a crowd of 35,, carrying placards in the shape of red stop signs, gathered at the Washington monument on a bright but bitterly cold day for the march on the White House.
Protesters bussed in from 30 states and Canadian provinces. Fifty masked people armed with Molotov cocktails stormed a gold mine in northern Greece. After torching bulldozers, trucks and portacabins belonging to Canadian mining company El Dorado and its Greek subsidiary Hellenic Gold, the group used tree trunks to block police and firefighters from reaching the scene. In the past two years, 25 bears have been taken in the first bear hunting seasons in state history. They were arrested the next day, but the treesit remained.
He stayed in the tree for a day and part of the night. When it started to sleet he snuck down the hemlock and escaped while two police cars, with lights flashing, and two workers In fact, I think he should literally quit drinking the fracking Kool-Aid. Senate Bill permits the state wildlife commission to allow livestock owners and their agents to kill endangered wolves and other predators without a permit even if they are not attacking livestock.
Emergency crews scrambled to contain spilled oil spreading south of the accident. The barge was carrying more than 2, barrels of oil and the tugboat was fueled with diesel. I want to disable these mega-corp, animal torturing, heart-attack inducing, wage-slave camps without ending up a McMartyr.
Signed, —Hungry for Revenge. You are in luck. This is important because all buildings that have natural gas systems also have a gas meter outside. And, all meters have an emergency shut-off valve that can be easily accessed. The meter, which is usually against the back of the building, will look like a rounded grey box bolted together with a plastic window on top. Two pipes run from the meter: If the tab is parallel to the pipe, the gas is on. If the tab is perpendicular it is off never turn on a gas line that is found off.
If the gas is on, a degree turn from an adjustable wrench will stop gas entering the building. Also, there are usually two holes in the tab that line up when the gas is off. For bonus points throw a pad lock on it possibly score the lock off a dumpster or gate using a shim. Within a few minutes the grills are cold and no food can be cooked. Most likely the staff will be glad to have a break and the managers. After a couple of hours of no sales and a couple hundred dollars for a repair person, the gas will be back on and the pilot lights re-lit.
Remember, because of the temporary nature of this trick, timing is key. So, the busier the better think lunch rush. The changes to the Indian act made it far easier to privatize indigenous treaty lands. The small spark ignited at the Saskatoon teachin soon caught flame with a national Day of Action on December 10, when dozens of protests and flash mobs spread across the country under the banner of Idle No More.
One popular protest that has become a signature of the Idle No More movement is the round dance. Part ceremony, part protest, and wholly disruptive, demonstrators take over public space, like shopping malls and busy. In one of the biggest solidarity protests in the US, over 1, people occupied the Mall of America and engaged in a round dance. The day of action saw another significant act of protest. As protesters took to the streets all over Canada, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began what would become a six-week hunger strike to demand a meeting with Prime Minister Harper.
Her hunger strike proved to be a galvanizing force on the budding movement, and soon the flames of Idle No More spread like wildfire. As some Canadians were getting into the holiday spirit, Idle No More protesters continued to escalate their tactics. The next day members of the Driftpile First Nation reciprocated with a highway blockade of their own. Around the same time Aamjiwnaang First Nation members began a blockade of a major rail line that lasted for over a week. In Alberta indigenous Marie protesters shut down two highways and a rail line simultaneously on December On January 5 protesters from several different indigenous nations coordinated to close down five border crossings with the US including the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, the busiest border crossing in North America.
Over 50 demonstrations representing dozens of indigenous nations were held in the US, including a blockade of a border crossing by members of the Mohawk tribe in upstate New York. As spring slowly emerges through the melting winter snow, Idle No More continues to grow and evolve. While the regularity and intensity of the protests have scaled back in February, organizers say this not a sign of retreat, but a time of reflection and education in their communities to ensure their next efforts are even stronger.
In a matter of months Idle No More grew from a small group of teachers to a global struggle for indigenous sovereignty and defense of the land. It is a movement that Earth First! A blood soaked, yellow-fanged, misanthropic wolf to the beaver that took habitat protection into its own webbed paws by killing a fisherman who invaded its space. A year-old man who was with friends on a fishing trip in Belarus approached the beaver attempting to be photographed with it.
The beaver attacked, biting him twice and severing an artery. A newly liberated and unceasingly fighting wolf to Daniel McGowan for surviving the American prison system. The regulation that the Bureau of prisons cited to return him to jail had been declared unconstitutional by federal court in , and he was re-released to the halfway house days later.
A queer, pro-choice, anti-racist, pro-union, anti-border, profree healthcare wolf to the stroke that killed Margaret Thatcher. The death of former British Prime Minister Thatcher, also known as. The witch is dead! An oil drenched, two-faced, lying and hazardous poodle to ExxonMobil for atempting to clean up their , gallon tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas with paper-towels. Bounty DuraTowel may advertise as being three times cleaner than a dishtowel, but different rules apply to benzene filled bitumen spills. A corporate, green-washed poodle to Kmart for killing a white tipped shark while filming a commercial.
The shark was flown from New York to Los Angeles to appear in a television advertisement. The white tipped shark is listed as vulnerable globally and as critically endangered in the Northwest and Western central Atlantic. An intoxicated poodle who just ingested all the cleaning supplies under the sink to pesticide makers Syngenta and Bayer for their ingenious plan to support honeybee health. In an attempt to forestall an EU ban on their bee-killing products, Syngenta proposed planting flowers in the margins of areas sprayed with pesticides to provide bee habitats. They would then monitor the bees to detect the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides blamed for their decline.
So much for the precautionary principle. U are not the first to. But this approach could also prove a minefield for all involved. A few examples of what could go awry: Wolves or cougars that spend any time however short around humyns will likely not possess a healthy enough fear of humyns to avoid being killed after release. Releasing hybrids such as wolf-dog into the wilds can result in future generations of genetic combinations that could be very debilitating to the greater local population.
So, please——here, too——do your homework thoroughly before heading out at night. Most often, stupidity is our own worst enemy However, the elected chiefs operate primarily through Band Council. The OW is a collaborationist group affiliated with the traditional clan system. Dear Readers, Recently, the EF! Dear Ned Ludd, With pipelines all the rage and getting plenty of it in your neck of the woods at the moment, some may have forgotten about one of the more antiquated methods of transporting the insides of the earth, or the trees which should have stayed where they were: While our crusty nouveau-hobo friends might still like to ride the rails, some of us here in europe prefer to dismantle them.
This can be carried out by yourself and with no tools, though a sturdy pair of gloves and lots of friends does speed up the process. Folks up this way like to call this the Schottern, or schottering. The trick involves finding a deserted strip of rail line, preferably one that is on the side of a hill or on a raised section of track.
Under the rail ties the pieces of wood or concrete going perpendicular to the tracks , is a whole bunch of gravel and small stones. Continue this until the railroad tie is floating in the air, a good 6 inches above. Repeat this for the adjoining railroad ties until you get tired. It is better to schottern under consecutive railroad ties here and there, as it makes repairs that much more difficult. The railroad has just been schotterned, and you can sneak home to your cozy cabin or campsite.
By undermining the tracks, any train that rolls over this section will severely damage the track and require extensive repairs before it can be used again. Of course, while the risk of derailment is probably low, if your train is carrying something as nasty as say nuclear waste, it is a good idea to put a warning a good way up the track. No one wants a spill of that in their forest. Though this tactic has been successfully carried out against legions of riot cops with water cannons, its best used when no one is around.
And when the opportunity arises.
It could also be great against trains carrying tar sands oil down into the states. Happy schottering, and as always, Carpe Noctum! For this reason, we will no longer be publishing material directly from DGR for the time being, pending a clarification or retraction of statements made by DGR representatives. J statement on DGR can be found by searching our online Newswire, or writing to us for a copy.
Two emails were sent to the EF! Put it into the s1tes I Gave you. From the These pages are compiled by a joint effort of the EF! Prisoner Support Project and the EF! While the focus of the EF! Prisoner Support Project is on the eco-prisoners, the group also stands in solidarity with prisoners unjustly incarcerated for their beliefs and actions that reflect a broader vision towards liberation from oppressive systems. If you have updates to the information listed here, please email us at efpris riseup.
At the point of his arrest, no criminal damage had occurred. Rebecca is accused of being a member of the Earth Liberation Front. She is facing charges of arson and conspiracy for actions that occurred between and Remember not to write to her about her case at all because she is pre-trial. Each of the CFAA counts carries a year maximum prison sentence, with the total amounting to more than 40 years. On May 28, Jeremy entered a plea agreement to the charge of conspiracy to hack the Stratfor website.
Stratfor Strategic Forecasting is a corporation that gathers. Stratfor often targets politically active individuals and activist groups. Sentencing guidelines for Jeremy indicate a possible years in prison. Though he is charged with committing nonviolent offenses, he has been denied bail. Since his jailing he has been denied access to family for one year and friends for two years, resulting from minor jailhouse infractions. He has also been placed in solitary confinement on two separate occasions while awaiting a trial date over the past year. Sabu was facing months in prison prior to his cooperation.
Four are from the UK and received sentences which will result in them spending less time in prison than Jeremy has spent. Eco Prisoners, Snared Liberationists and Hostages of the Struggle awaiting trial; the other two thought to have participated in the same series of online protests are Irish and will not be prosecuted at all. Jeremy has been active in many activist efforts including Food Not Bombs, building bicycles for low-income people, setting up a community computer lab and teaching classes for immigrants and young people in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, where he lived for much of his early 20s.
His twin brother is petitioning the judge to sentence him to time served. The petition can be found at freejeremy. Sentencing will take place in NYC on September 6. In the meantime, send letters of love and support: As prisoners of the state, you are at risk of being targeted for sexual assault and abuse. While both conventional wisdom and Hollywood dismiss this as an expected prisoner-on-prisoner offense, the truth is quite different. By the government's own stats, percent of reported prison rape is perpetuated by Department of Corrections DOC staff.
While any prisoner can be vulnerable to sexual abuse, LGBTQI prisoners are at higher risk, along with prisoners identified by DOC staff as radicals, jailhouse lawyers and troublemakers. Sexual assault is a weapon of mass destruction in terms of harm and effect in both discouraging prisoners from continuing action and in loss of support or credibility in the. The stigma of rape often marginalizes the survivor—further serving the goals of DOC staff prompting these crimes of sexual violence.
Rape is not part of the penalty! Journal, suggests checking out Just Detention International, a health and human rights organization that seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention: Political Prisoner Birthdays August 4: She gave birth to her son in prison. MOVE is an eco-revolutionary group for black liberation and in defense of all life. She and her MOVE sisters have prevented prisoners from committing suicide, resolved racial disputes, and helped keep prisoners out of trouble so that they can get out on good behavior to reunite with their families.
Trial is set to start in September of this year. Supporters can donate to legal defense at nato5support. Serving 5 years until for an attempted ELF arson on a town house construction site in Pasadena in He will likely be released into a halfway house in late August. There is currently a clemency campaign underway to free Leonard.
His next parole hearing is in Drawing from the history and momentum of four previous powerhouse gatherings specifically by and for womyn transgender or cisgender , transgender men, and genderqueer and gender-variant people in the Northwest, a crew of southern TWACers decided to bring the resistance to the blood-sucking, right-wing guarded swamps of South Florida. TWACers came from far and wide to gather together below the beautiful cypress and oak canopies of Fisheating Creek, Florida.
The day before the camp womyn and trans came and held our own, interrupting St. With our blood riled up and ready for a riot, TWACers came together for four solid days of movement discussions, workshops, trainings and, of course, good times. There were gender and race-based caucuses held for increased sharing, discussion and strategising around identityspecific oppressions. The day of caucusing ended in a critical fishbowl-style discussion, with several brave folks stepping up to share thoughts on varied experiences of exclusion and alienation in the radical environmental movement.
Fishbowl participants discussed transphobia, racism, cultural assimilation and classism among other important topics. Participants all walked away with moving thoughts and new insights on creat-. Camp was located less than a quarter mile from the pristine Fisheating Creek, where we swam and splashed around with alligators, turtles, lizards and gar fish. We reveled in the beauty of majestic old-growth cypress trees, the colorful, lichen-covered oaks and the scattered blooming swamp lilies.
We hiked creekside trails alive with migrating birds and brilliantly-colored lizards. We threw down in the kitchen, coming together to cook up some of the best camp-style foods you can imagine. We dressed up and down for an all-night dance party, where we shook our booties under the moonlight. We stretched our bodies toward the sky every morning, thankful for another day of being amongst inspiring friends and allies.
This TWAC event focused primarily on resistance efforts against prisons and detention centers, culminating in a wildly successful direct action effort to cripple the already limping private prison industry giant, GEO Group. Two U-locked their necks to the main entrance, holding signs declaring solidarity with undocumented detainees, trans prisoners, imprisoned youth, mistreated mental health patients and all those imprisoned. A mob of over 40 womyn and trans attendees and allies rallied with shouts, chants, banners and songs condemning GEO Group as criminals in violation of the rights of womyn, trans and all people.
Eventually the fire department had to remove the doors to remove protesters. Cici works part-time at the Earth First! Journal, and full-time for her Lapasa Apso, Rafi. For years now there has been a debate within Earth First! The more folks we have on the team with diverse experiences from which to draw ideas and inspiration, the stronger we will be as a movement, thus the importance of trying to create a space that is as safe as possible for as many people as possible cannot be understated. The original discussion began with about forty people, and then continued into the next workshop block with a smaller group of about fifteen.
After an extended go-around of introductions that was lengthened by a steady stream of late arrivals, a facilitator began the discussion by asking what makes Earth First! After some discussion the group came to the conclusion that what sets Earth First! The smaller discussion that continued after lunch dug deeper into these ideas.
Many of those who participated in that extended discussion have been long-term Earth First! The discourse seemed to center on two topics, the first of which was the idea of place. Something that I almost always mention when trying to describe why I feel such affinity with this movement is the connection that so many Earth First! The backbone of this movement consists of folks working on campaigns in their home bioregions, while supporting others in their fight to protect their homes.
The other topic that received significant attention during this smaller discussion was misanthropy. In opposition, one participant said that misanthropy has no place within a biocentric framework, or in any effective movement for that matter, which is something I agree with. It is my opinion that recognition of overpopulation is not synonymous with misanthropy, and to incessantly connect the two is an oversimplification of a complex issue. I came away from the extended discussion feeling a lot of things. I left that room feeling closer to everyone else who was there, and I felt rejuvenated in my involvement with Earth First!.
I think it is important that as Earth First! That connection is at the root of biocentrism, and it is at the root of what sets Earth First! As our connection to the Earth and each other grows deeper, we often find that the ways in which we wish to move through this world do not fall within the arbitrary boundaries of the system we so strongly oppose, but rather directly confront this system and its tools of oppression, such as hierarchical gender binaries, white- hetero- and cis-normativity and a denial or ignorance of privilege.
Each of these serves to suppress the wild within us, and it is through these confrontations that we develop more real and meaningful connections with each other and the Earth. Newsletter, available as a free pdf at newswire. My good thoughts and my honest actions have been turned to bad actions and dishonest ideas. My home has been ill-treated. My dear ones have been backbitten and their virtue questioned I beg that this that I ask for my enemies shall come to pass: That the South wind shall scorch their bodies and make them wither and shall not be tempered to them.
That the North wind shall freeze their blood and numb their muscles and that it shall not be tempered to them. That the East wind shall make their minds grow dark, their sight shall fall and their seed dry up so that they shall not multiply. I ask that their fathers and mothers from their furthest generation will not intercede for them before the great throne, and that the wombs of their women shall not bear fruit except for strangers, and that they shall become extinct. I pray that the children who may come shall be weak of mind and paralyzed of limb and that they themselves shall curse them in their turn for ever turning the breath of life into their bodies.
I pray that disease and death shall be forever with them and that their worldly goods shall not prosper, and that their crops shall not multiply and that their cows, their sheep, and their hogs and all the living beasts shall die of starvation and thirst. I pray that their house shall be unroofed and that the rain, the thunder and lightening shall find the innermost recesses of their home and that the foundation shall crumble and the floods tear it asunder.
I pray that the sun shall not shed its rays on them in benevolence, but instead it shall beat down on them and burn them and destroy them. I pray that the moon shall not give them peace, but instead shall deride them and decry them and cause their minds to shrivel. I pray that their friends shall betray them and cause them loss of power, of gold and of silver, and that their enemies shall smite them until they beg for mercy which shall not be given them.
I pray that their tongues shall forget how to speak in sweet words, and that it shall be paralyzed and that all about them shall be desolation, pestilence and death I ask you for all these things because they have dragged me in the dust and destroyed my good name; broken my heart and caused me to curse the day that I was born. This is a curse-prayer that Zora Neale Hurston, novelist and anthropologist, collected in the s.
And by then it was already old. I have often marveled at it. At the precision of its anger, the absoluteness of its bitterness. Its utter hatred of the enemies it condemns. It is a curse-prayer by a person who would readily, almost happily, commit suicide, if it meant her enemies would also die horribly. I am sure it was a woman who first prayed this curse.
And I think, with astonishment, that the curse-prayer of this colored woman—starved, enslaved, humiliated and carelessly trampled to death over centuries—is coming to pass. Indeed, like ancient peoples of color the world over who have tried to tell the white man of the destruction that would inevitably follow from the uranium mining plunder of their sacred lands, this woman—along with millions and billions of obliterated sisters, brothers and children—seems to have put such enormous energy into her hope for revenge that her curse seems close to bringing it about.
In any case, this has been my own problem. Has already taken away education, medicine, housing and food That William Shockley is saying at this moment that he will run for the Senate of my country to push his theory that blacks are genetically inferior and should be sterilized When I consider that he is, they are, a real and present threat to my life and the life of my daughter, my people—I think, in perfect harmony with my sisters of long ago—Let the Earth marinate in poisons. Let the bombs cover the ground like rain.
For nothing short of total destruction will ever teach them anything. And it would be good, perhaps, to put an end to this species in any case, rather than let the white man continue to subjugate it, and continue to let their lust dominate, exploit and despoil not just our planet, but the rest of the universe, which is their clear and oft-stated intention—leaving their. If we have any true love for the stars, planets, the rest of Creation, we must do everything we can to keep the white man away from them.
They who have appointed themselves our representatives to the rest of the universe; they who have never met any new creature without exploiting, abusing and destroying it; they who say we poor and colored and female and elderly blight neighborhoods, while they blight worlds. What they have done to the Old, they will do to the New. Under the white man every star would become a South Africa, every planet a Vietnam.
Fatally irradiating ourselves may in fact be the only way to save others from what Earth has already become. And this is a consideration that I believe requires some serious thought from every one of us. However, just as the sun shines on the godly and the ungodly alike, so does nuclear radiation. And with this knowledge it becomes increasingly difficult to embrace the thought of extinction purely for the assumed satisfaction of—from the grave—achieving revenge.
Or even of accepting our demise as a planet as a simple and just preventative medicine administered to the universe. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. In any case, Earth is my home— though for centuries white people have tried to convince me I have no right to exist, except in the dirtiest, darkest corners of the globe. So let me tell you: I intend to protect my home. Praying—not a curse—only the hope that my courage will not fail my love.
But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the Earth is spared, only justice to every living thing and everything alive will save humankind. And we are not saved yet. Only justice can stop a curse. She has written many books. A historical fiction that follows his first four years of frontline activism and hitchhiking, Angry Tree: Earth Defenders on the Frontlines is due to be printed this year. To order the book, go to writergregmack.
The Feds had established a hour watch below the two tree sitters to starve or dehydrate them out. Support camp consists of four people when Lauren and I arrive, the removal of Marcos and Amelia keeps our numbers stable. As night falls, Joe rants a boisterous monologue while I cross the road closure to the upper bank and distract the Feds.
She must drop the rope to her support at the right moment to prevent cops from grabbing it. I randomly toss rocks and snap twigs as a distraction. I move behind a tree as a light flashes around and intentionally crunch branches loudly. Officer Barney rushes up the hill after me. I stumble through trees and deadfall, feet further until I feel sure the chase has ended.
Officer Barney sweeps the area with his big flashlight. I shield myself with trees. Sitting still, I listen. Did the other cops come looking for me? I creep near the road and radio in softly before imitating a loud hiker. Again, cops ignore me then abruptly shine a spotlight my way. I freeze in place as their scattered movements tell me that the light was accidentally directed my way. He peters out rapidly, aimlessly shining his light. For hours I confuse cops by throwing debris different directions. The radio signal deteriorates, converting. Cops attack Bob, throwing him face first on the ground, then tie him to a tree where he will sit for hours, waiting for shift change.
She has something in mind; let her finish. Let me be with my boyfriend. Please allow me to come down and sit with him. Thundering ground shakes when the life of an old tree ends as it slams to the Earth. Shortly into our day, a friendly Fed from Utah walks down. After gabbing awhile longer, she withdraws up the steep bank. Bruce relates their encounter with cops. A group of violent Earth First! Maria is young and new to civil disobedience campaigns. This is a harsh place for initiation.
Our hardcore, in your face, life-risking operation either welds strong new activists or scares people away from civil disobedience entirely. As we maintain normal background noise complete with pauses and laughter, the three inch closer and closer to the tree. It dangles above the ground. Officer Dover lunges toward the tree. Turning sharply away from the tree, Bruce takes flight over bushes and deadfall. A log catches his foot and he tumbles to the ground then jumps up in one motion. Bruce swings his elbows, sustaining his flight. Dover persists, breathing hard on his neck as they plummet downward.
Dover lunges at Bruce. They struggle, rolling down the mountain until they lose energy and stop. Cops drag Bruce up the steep slope. Lauren and Maria had panicked and dropped their supplies. One more arrest, one more day of dehydration for the sitters. It could snap and kill me! Nightfall inspires Spike, Joe and me to start rotating rant sessions. Psychological torture is the goal, since nobody is willing to risk arrest tonight.
Blurting out fake code words to our imaginary friend Rick, I bluff charge and haphazardly toss objects. Go Rick, you got it! After hours of battering their senses I notice Maria, slumped down in darkness. Rant warfare is a harsh introduction for a newcomer. I help Maria find a flat sleeping space and we all break for the night.
With the new day, activists decide to bum rush the treesits by early afternoon. Spike, Joe, Lilith and Maria risk sacrifice to deliver food and water. Cops will spot you long before you have a chance. Rushing through the trees with mad chaotic screams, bodies crash and rip down the slope. Spike and Lilith are cuffed and hauled away. Officer Barney ambles into camp and pretends to listen as he bobs his head and moves his lips, counting activists. Barney turns to leave and Joe surfaces below camp. Lauren waves him in.
Astounded by her action, I rush to keep Joe away from the cops. Barney sees him and Officer Bethel walks down. Joe sits on a five gallon food bucket fifteen feet away from the cops, still wearing his face mask. Maggie points out that she is someone. The night sky inspires Joe to rant while I execute fake rushes towards the remaining treesit.
Weariness takes hold and we slip into unconsciousness. Heavy clouds roll in.
Bushwhacking up, down and around the ridges is fun on this spectacular day with a radiant new friend. At the stash area, we search in vain for 45 minutes then head back. Near camp, we accidentally skirt within 50 feet of the road, inside the illegally enforced closure. Feds run up the road. We fly down the ravine into a clump of thick brush and hold each other tight as I calm her panic. But soon enough, the campfire glow guides us to safety. Maria generously shares nerve-calming kava. Our herbal induced numbness convinces us to confuse the cops tonight by remaining silent.
Out of severe dehydration, Maggie descends her tree. She walks down to support camp in a great mood. They refused to take me again, so Bethel released me. Officer Barney drops down Chainsaws miss their daybreak routine, so we sleep in. A small twig breaks nearby. Bolting upright, I peer out the front of my tarp. A huge black bear lumbers at me, three feet away.
He brokered a deal allowing us to collect his climbing gear and personal belongings. Who will it be? With a smile, Maggie hikes up. Curly is hauled to jail in Grangeville. Introduction The remote West of Ireland has given us a longstanding and inspirational campaign against Shell. Full of ups and downs, the campaign has worked on many levels: In , for instance, campaigners fighting to protect the Kimberley region in Australia cited the struggle in Mayo as an influence, as did those struggling against Shell in Nigeria.
Brief History Although this article mostly highlights the role of the Rossport Solidarity Camp, the RSC is only part of a story of much wider resistance which is already covered in a number of books and films. The origin of the project is mired in corruption at the highest political level and in the arrogance of multinational oil companies. Recently, the Irish government gave away all of its then-recently discovered gas reserves to multinationals, in particular the Corrib gas field off the coast of County Mayo.
This phrase refers to a period of rapid economic growth in the Republic of Ireland between and To process this gas, the building of a refinery at Bellinaboy was proposed at the end of Sruwaddacon Bay—a designated Special Area of Conservation. The refinery was to be supplied by a pipeline that cut across the land of local farmers. This part of Ireland is not an easy place to live. Generations of people have managed the land in the face of the full force of the Atlantic Ocean and an unforgiving climate, not to mention centuries of British occupation.
At first this resistance focused mostly on legal and political channels, although locals soon developed an antipathy towards the latter as it became apparent just how corrupt most of the politicians were. Three times Shell had to change its pipeline plans; everything it was planning to do was mired in legal battles.
People from across Ireland started arriving to take part in the ongoing resistance and As time went on the campaign battles became increasingly bitter. The arrest of these five farmers who refused to let Shell on their land. The camp has maintained its own sense of identity, being a source of contact with international human rights and environmental activists and being a focal point for ecological campaigning within Ireland.
There is a regular round of visitors from across the country, the UK and further afield. In the police charged protesters with batons, resulting in injuries. Local campaigners were assaulted and in local fishing boats were sunk by masked men. It was a tough time that took quite a toll on the community. As a result, November 11 is an important date on the calendar for the campaign.
During this time international links were developed, including with the Ogoni people of Nigeria, the feedback from struggles providing strength as the resistance became a war of attrition. Rossport Solidarity Camp and Earth First! Since the beginnings of the camp there have been strong links with the UK Earth First! Many of the early contingent of supporters came with an EF! The Campaign From the moment they made the decision to come to Co.
Mayo, Shell has faced resistance, despite having been given all the support they needed from the Irish state. Refinery construction at Bellinaboy was only achieved by the use of open police brutality against locals, leading to human rights investigations. The laying of the off-shore pipe was delayed so much by protesters that the Irish Navy had to be sent in.
By this stage the refinery at Bellinaboy and the off-shore pipe from the Corrib field had been built, reaching land at the Glengad site on the Atlantic coast. They were now looking to finish the project by joining the two pipelines. They finally got permission. The previous few years had seen a pattern develop in the camp: The result was a summer of action, with the compound being repeatedly occupied and work halted. There were daily invasions mixed with other actions to stop vehicles coming in and out.
While this was going on, the final permissions for work to start in earnest were awaited by Shell.
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The rest of the summer was a torrent of actions. Campaigners used a wide variety of other tactics as well, including lock-ons and arm tubes to block roads. People continued to breach the compound and occupy other relevant sites, like the local quarries supplying materials. Large numbers of police were brought in to contain the resistance. At one point Paul Murphy, an Irish MEP, was assaulted by the police, bringing further press attention in what was one of the most surreal days in a campaign that has not had a shortage of them.
An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, pursued a court case against the granting of some licenses to Shell for their work at Aghoose, on the grounds that the proper environmental assessments had not been carried out as required by an EU directive. When the Irish government agreed that. Roosh has primarily made his career trying to promote sex tourism in poor White-majority countries and a substantial part of his customer base are NAMs in the West. Enoch had a good line about this some weeks ago, when discussing libertarianism. The drug dealer is not a passive bystander here.
Yes, the one taking the drug is also liable but the drug dealer is also making an active choice. A sex tourist like Forney or Roosh are not innocent bystanders and they in fact make an active choice in trying to undermine their host socities. They then try to blame this solely on the hosts. This Forney guy is pushing lbs and looks like a prole slob. And he thinks he is an expert on picking up women because some Ukranian woman wants to desperately escape her country.
That is the most beta thing ever. Where will Forney end up next? Syria to brag about how many women he is picking up? But we all know Western women would sniff out the loser in him I 2 seconds flat. Also, high trust societies can be promiscuous without facing to many of the downsides if they keep low trust societies out. It is not either or.
Either you enforce chastity on women and thus give up your freedom to get laid outside of marriage , or you accept promiscuity. Muslim men in Europe are perfectly capable of running a world where they keep Muslim women chaste while Muslim men get promiscuous with European women. Promiscuous women existed, of course, but they lived an outcast life. Which is exactly why the West is in its current situation — that level of hypocrisy was unsustainable in the long run. Go ahead and try to get women to quit shacking up while proposing exceptions for men and see how far that gets.
Try this out on your own son and daughter a real life experiment ; sit them down and tell them that she will not be allowed to shack up with men, but her brother will be excused. Let us know how the conversation goes. The most accurate comparison is that the various Right cliques are basically small criminal gangs, which are essentially powerless before the system with ridiculous resources, organized enforcers and systemic technology.
By and large, existence is permitted not because any effective resistance is possible, but simply by hiding and avoiding attention, thus permitting the system to be distracted into fighting any one part at a time. Any damage that can be done to the zeistgest is in the same fashion — through hit and run, and then avoidance.
Anyone who tries to stand up and fight will be decimated. Given the largely pathetic nature of the Right, then to further fight each other is almost hilarious foolishness. To actually put any effort in engaging other crimethinkers over the details seems about as brilliant as various Al-Qaeda groups duking it out for some irrelevant point long enough for American jets to blow them all into tiny little bits. At its very worst, its basically an escape mechanism for mood-repair: Women are more valuable than men.
Wombs are a limited resource, sperm is plentiful. The rules should be different for men and women. Every society that manages to survive and perpetuate itself recognizes the higher value of women. If you have a valuable diamond and a worthless rock, which one are you going to put in your safe behind locks and which one will you just let lie wherever? Because women are more valuable, a sensible society like 19th century Europe offers women both a set of privileges and a set of limitations that do not apply to men.
The higher value of women is tied to their reproductive role and promiscuity ruins that value. That is why promiscuous women were shunned and they lost the privileges of women. Bro, are you seriously trying to teach a traditional Muslim about how a patriarchy works and its benefits? Of course women have a huge value as mothers of society and need to be cherished and valued. I am giving you advice that comes from a community that is trying its best to hold on to a healthy patriarchy as much as possible.
It is very difficult. You are trying to revive an institution that is currently on life support. Your proposal sounds great for men and gets claps around an alt-right sausage-fest forum , but will you be able to convince your women of its correctness? Your own wife, daughter, sister, mother? Trust me, you need a sign off from your women for this to work because the mothers teach their sons values even in patriarchal cultures. When the Taliban were in charge, they flogged men fornicators and stoned male adulterers also. And they stopped men from cultural practices like inheriting widows against their will.
Because their legitimacy was bound to them adhering to at least their interpretation of sacred law. How does your position derive legitimacy? Again, present a sustainable society that has managed to escape the binary and pull off what you are advocating. Just one, where men can sleep around without censure, but women have to be chaste.
I should add that Heartiste of all people have pointed to studies showing that women with many partners have difficulties mainintaing LTRs. Such a society is going to have more social pathologies. Many white men on the alt-right and in the alt-sphere instictively understand this, but for reasons that escape me still promote parasites like Forner or sex tourists like Roosh at the same time, despite the fact that both of them have made it their personal business interest to spread this dysfunction.
Men are already obsolete, and women will be in maximum 5 years, when lifelike sex robots and workable artificial wombs will come online. All this obssession with sex is pure waste of time, leading to nowhere. Imagine being in year and talking about necessity to secure supply of horse fodder for your country.
Hey, Bro, I think we should move away from Fossil fuels as well, but is how someone chooses to heat her house really worth a pejorative? Again, this was only the case in fables. The general rule of thumb that I have noticed in 52 years of a legendary life is this. If you are getting it somewhere else, you are neglecting your wife, and she will get it somewhere else. The difference is that women are much more likely to get it from your brother or best friend than a stranger. Bosnian Muslims are mostly secularised Europeans. I think he means the non-Europeans who make up the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Western Europe.
Vox also demands that the alt right be a Christian movement which means it will stay relatively small. It is that Amazon is starting to censored wrong thinkers. Your right thinker may well be the next wrong thinker to be censored unless you are Establishment Left. Problem being is that the great passion of all segments of the right is infighting so they can virtue signal their group is the best.
Given that the left controls almost all institutions, the smart thing would be the right finding common ground. One of the particularly dumb moves that vox day, Anglin and Z Man love to make is hating the boomers and blaming them for everything. Boomers were the key demographic behind the success of Brexit and Trump. We have numbers and money two things the alt right desperately needs.
The alt right instead is putting all their hope into Gen Z. By the time they come into power it will likely be too late even if they are as right wing as the right wing wants to believe. These are religious people who make lots of babies for Jesus but have much less extreme lifestyle than the Amish, use the internet and even appear at TV shows. They would probably accept him as a repentant sinner and let him marry one of 10 daughters who are all certified virgins in long skirts. Roosh has primarily made his career trying to promote sex tourism in poor White-majority countries. Btw, the poor east european countries whose females this persian took advantage of are the same ones that used to provide sex slaves to the muslim Middle-East and North Africa a few centuries ago.
And, to a lesser extent, it refers to older white women going to Africa and the Caribbean for sex with well-endowed African youngsters. New Testament Christianity, in principle, is a religion of love. Therefore it is incompatible with the alt-right. You guys need to create your own religion. Unfortunately Europeans are the least spiritual of all the major races of mankind, with a sorry track record in matters of religion. White nationalism needs to distance itself from the manosphere more or less completely. We are completely different movements with completely different values and objectives.
To a significant extent, it is just a money-making organization. Intelligent person should not take it seriously. However, most of the leaders can sometimes speak in a spiritual way. They have genuine worrying about topics not with arrogant self-belief. Also there is some honestly in a lot of leadership. In the topics where size of the church is discussed, you can see all over social media, priests are openly admit the declining numbers of people attending church and their own minimal influence.
This is a group which despite being a bit of a joke, still shows a much more human and spiritual face than the Muslim equivalents — where all you will see is pure materialism of a most degraded form and arrogance. The Islamic world is entirely built on antispiritual desire for power over things and people. In European history this exists to a large extent as well, and is the main motive of the Catholic church.
But there is a vast difference of degree, and also of historical progression Christianity now very much more civilized than in the past. Here is a piracy guide on how to get books and articles for free. This is merely a very condensed version of my full blogroll. The Unz Review - Mobile. An Alternative Media Selection.
All None Exclude Blogs. Teasers Russian Reaction Blog. Books , Censorship , Game , Piracy. Hide 64 Comments Leave a Comment. September 11, at 8: Though I am against censorship except in cases of porn or violence Snap your dick off and stab yourself in the eye. What this will do is sift the wheat from the chaff. Unfortunately I do not think too many manosphere writers are the noble selfless type lol This will separate the men from mice and show the depth and commitment of your revolutionary fervor.
Time to show your idealism and willingness to sacrifice, Right Wingers! I guess you had fun for awhile, though. September 11, at 9: Only those who can withstand the attempt to kill them have any chance of winning. And he wants to lead a popular revolution lol. This is characteristic of the movement — small minded selfish materialists.
The research phase is too grueling. September 11, at Speaking of Armenians, the most famous Armenians are coal burning sluts. If women are shamed into being chaste, the incentive for foreign men to woo them disappears. Complaining about Roosh et al. Not like I read the while thing, but that was the most cringey thing I have ever read. That guy is like so Alpha. This kind of Larping is low quality and not authentic. I want to add 2 points to my earlier comment: Proof Roosh V is a rapist.
There is a whole website dedicated to that. Does anyone know where the milliondollarextreme subreddit has migrated to? Civilizations die from suicide, not murder. In the words of a certain philosopher, clean your room. Welcome to real life. Matt, I have nothing against Roosh and am definitely against censoring him. So who are you to talk? September 12, at September 12, at 1: September 12, at 2: Either you enforce chastity on women and thus give up your freedom to get laid outside of marriage , or you accept promiscuity Nonsense. They are fully to blame; promiscuous individuals create a promiscuous culture.
September 12, at 3: September 12, at 4: September 12, at 5: September 12, at 9: Just around the corner, wait years! Has anyone actually verified the fact that he gets laid? I was in Bosnia for a week in , This is absolutely, positively false. September 13, at 5: Yeah, he says anglin is fake right while his buddies Milo and Cerno are real right. There is nothing the right loves more than infighting. September 13, at 2: September 13, at Roosh has primarily made his career trying to promote sex tourism in poor White-majority countries And this lecherous Iranian sleazebag is an icon of the euro-supremacist alt-right.
September 15, at 6: September 15, at 8: You are trouble Forney. Spencer made a big mistake cozying up to degenerates like you. September 15, at 9: