EDITORIAL CONTENTS Well here it is at last, Do or Die number 4. We're going to make no apology for being late a s w hen w e've n o t been sw eating it o u t in front of the computer we've been D' locked to Action Reports 1 a digger or sitting in a tree. Never Day 11 So much for the gripes of our readers here's our gripe • send us your articles ! Flying Tree Images 13 Everyone's busy, we know that, but DoD is Falling Bird Man 14 one of the few voices that Earth Firsters ! have Other Islands 15 and it can't function withoutyourinput. There's an incredible range of talent out there writers, Lakota Ways 20 artists, poets etc. Send your material to us News From The now ! Autonomous Zone 21 We're hoping that the next issue will be out around November, but only if we get the Criminal Justice Bill 27 material soon. Producing Do or Die has taught To The Mexican Peolpe 29 us th at a little organisation g o es a long way. As Earth First! matures we're going to have Animal Antics 32 to get it together. At the moment looking Biological Meltdown 33 forward a month is long term, if we're really Lettuce To The Cabbage 35 going to be effective looking we're going to have to learn to plan years ahead. Prisoners 36 The whole Earth First ! movement has Resources 40 expanded massively. The first CK group was Contacts 45 only set up in October '92, now Earth Firsters ! are everywhere up trees, occupying offices Articles, reviews, artwork, poems, and there are of course those fairies. We at Do rants should be sent to .... or Die neither condemn nor condone! But we Do or Die, c/o SDEF, Prior House, do reserve the right to chuckle a bit. Tilbury Place, Brighton, BN2 2GY, EF! stands for no compromise. Other (JK. groups have been swamped by well meaning but naive recruits and lost their original radi­ Copies of Do or Die are available at calism. In fact there is a general process by the price of fc D 'S O * large SA E which radical groups get recuperated into the each, or £0 o O for five including UK mainstream. If we don't want this to happen postage from ... to us we're going to have to work hard. EF! is DS4A, BO X 8, Greenleaf Bookshop, here to defend mother earth, its the only one 82 Colsten St, Bristol, we've got, and we'll defend it by any means Avon, BSl 5BB necessary !

Mso’. \ wnHOM£DGW>!Vl K*.vt *.nd. ACIIQNREPORTS “Earlier this year I told a group of Britains most senior motoring journalists that I thought motoring had never before been under greater threat. Simon Dyer- Director General of the AA Dijon to ably tactic; the campaign has the site office address is always even got positive press in the changing so its probably best to traditionally reactionary rags the contact RA! to find out how to Belfast contact us. Euroroute -Bath EFI & the Solsbury. Hill. Action. Group, This road will damage an AONB, Green Belt Land, de­ Wymondham stroy watermeadows, woodland, As mentioned in the last numerous badger setts, newt issue, Direct Action has com­ ponds and pass through Little menced to halt the construction Solsbury Hill, The ever-sensitive of the Wymondham bypass, all Sunday Mail and Sun, (The DoT have also neglected to pro­ in MaGregors own constituency spectacle implodes!). Action has duce a non-technical summary in Norfolk. In September 93 Earth been to frequent to report here for this scheme, which means First! entered the campaign with other than to say its been pretty the road breaches E.C. legisla­ the occupation of ‘The Willows’, amazing. More info can be found tion. (sounds familiar?) the one house due to be de­ The 'Bypasses' are actu­ in greenet in the 'ef.general' con­ ference. stroyed by the road. The occu­ ally sections of a euroroute pation lasted for exactly one Due to constant eviction which, until recently, had been month. After three court hear- kept secret from Bath locals and the public. Much like the Watford bypass which quickly materialised into the Ml these bypasses are sim­ ply a motorway being built by stealth, a road from Dijon to Belfast. The completion of this road would provide a route through the previ­ ,k 'Ji IT ously less exploited West, a route that would avoid the M25 and is ten miles shorter (Dover to Bristol) than the M25- M4 route. Site invasions are daily and protesters are presently occupying 8 acrcs of woodland and a watermeadow from im­ minent destruction. There have been office occupations, eviction sieges, mass arrests, 60 foot up 9 day tree sits, mothers and children's direct action days, free festivals, burning bull­ dozers, marches, (one with over 1,200 people) and every other conceiv­

DO OR a c t io TS pied for 45 hours. Police are sition. Constnl superquarries in refusing to intervene which Scotland hnvc been promoted explaines the level of arrests- since the seventies by one man, one in 5 months, (compared to Ian Wilson of Wilson Associates. 148 in one month at the M il). Wilson bought the mineral rights We need more people at the for suitable sites in the High­ camp. More people at the camp lands & Islands of Scotland. He will enable us to do more to stop stands to make a fortune by the work on a constant, day to selling the mineral rights of his day basis. sites to the multinational quarry­ -Norwich Earth First! ing companies.

Some reasons for hating Scottish Superquarries Coastal * Coastal Superquarries in­ volve digging up whole moun­ Superquarries tains, in Harris, a hole deep enough to bury the Empire State Stratasearch Geological Building. Consulting organised a confer­ ence entitled, ‘Coastal Quarry­ * Superquarry stone ing in Scotland- The Way For­ shipped by the ‘environmentally friendly’ method of coastal ship­ ward’. On the afternoon of Fri­ ping could be used to build more day 25th February, Auld Reekie EF!, had its baptism of fire! Fifty motorways. activists from Auld ReeKie, Glas­ * Marine: The Minches are gow & Stirling EF!, Faslane covered by a variety of designa­ ings the bailiffs move in remove Peace Camp & various hunt sab tions including 2 international one person from the house and groups, stormed & disrupted the Biosphere Reserves, 5 National two from the roof. ‘The Willows’ Nature Reserves and many sites boring drivel with a bit of chaos, was bulldozed the same day. of Special Scientific Interest. noise & democracy! We were EF! set up camp on the Some of Britain’s most valuable asked why we hadn’t bought disused railway line in February and sensitive marine areas. tickets for the event, (‘cos they of this year, the day before com­ Home to thousands of sea birds cost £150, that's why!), had we pulsory purchase orders came got the day of work and were we including 11% of razor bills & the into force. Security guards and from Harris, (some were from biggest population of Guille­ the projects chief engineer were Shetland & Lewis, some from mots in the country on Handa met by 20 people on the railway New Zealand, so what?). We Island. All these arc at risk from line refusing them access. had more than 20 minutes to put water pollution- which could be On February 11th John our point across, in which sev­ caused by ballast discharge from MacGregor tried to open work eral people were assaulted by bulk carrier ships introducing on the road. Earth First! were members of the hotel staff. Our heavy metals & PCBs from pol­ there to meet him. The ceremony aim was to wake up any decision luted waters. There is also a was delayed for one hour as makers to the fact of our oppo­ considerable risk of introducing police attempted to remove peo­ ple locked onto the JCB. When MaGregor and his busfull of tame The rundown on Big Holes councillors arrived they were met by a shouting crowd. MaGregors There is at present one superquarry in operation, at Glensanda, (Between Oban & Fort William), run by US based speech was constantly heckled and he eventually started the Foster Yeoman. A Superquarry is planned at Lingerabay, Rodel, work with a shovel rather than Harris, Outer Hebrides- proposed by Redland Aggregates. Also at Durness, NW Sutherland & Loch Eriboll East (nearby). 2 the JCB that was waiting for him , because one protester was still separate sites, both feeding stone to ships in Loch Eriboll- a locked down on the digger arm. Marine Conservation Area, because of high wildlife importance. Highland Regional Council support this development. Ove Arup Since construction started work has been halted on a daily have been commissioned to carry out a a £50k concept study, (completion 4/94). Argyll & Shetland are other possible sites. basis with one pile driver occu­

2 DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 alien marine organisms eg aggregates. giant Japanese Whelk. * Last, but nowhere EARTH * Oil spills. near least, the mountain * Dust clouds, (Carcino­ busters are looking to genic), observed at Loch Linnhe, site their superholes in NIGHT (from Glensanda quarry). Dust Scotland because they likely to settle on and stiffie lochs. believe that there will be * Lingerabay houses an ot­ no opposition. They are ter population and a breeding wrong. The Caledonian pair of Golden Eagles which Earth Firstl tribes have could be severely affected by risen, and we shall dog the quarry. all who destroy our * Noise pollution will dis­ means of survival, both turb local wildlife. Work will be here and abroad. We 24 hours. are well placed in Scot­ * Workers are "increasingly land to make direct ‘rep­ dependant on one multinational. resentations’ to the suits Many thousands of Scots have and politicians. Many been made redundant in the past actions are in the larval few years because of companies stagel Send enquires ‘economic restructuring’. with SAE to Auld Reekie * With the increase in such EF1, No Compromise. recourse extraction industries, -Auld Reekie EF1 1st OF Scotland will become simply a Contacts: Auld recourse base. As the third world Reekie EF1, Glasgow JUNE before it. EF1 * There is no NEED for

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... ■ ■ r/.-'r: ' freedom costs the earth yV'v<<' "0 f ■ ? |v » 'Y '• ’•* I'.y V ■; -V A \ T>( , • * DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 3 AdlONREPORXS who was in the cookie club said, stunned observers, "Conformist Bisexuals in "Whilst two of the more femirtine hetero trash." ones kissed and fondled in front BIF are calling for acts of your Face of me another stole my drinks." national, international and trans­ When her partner complained one sexual solidarity. (BIF) of the more extreme BIFers head butted him. In response to the increase The next night, in Notting­ Sheep in in homophobic propaganda from ham Trent students union the and increasingly sexually me­ Wolves group occupied the dance floor. diocre Government ( the inter­ During a long simulated sex act esting ones keep resigning or clothing one of the protesters was force- autoasphixiating), a group from Corporate infiltration of re­ able removed from the dance floor Nottingham have launched their formist ‘environmental’ groups and sustained injuries at the hands continues with the recent ap­ of the security. pointment of a new chairman of Finally in West Bridgeford, the World Wildlife Fund UK. the group descended on the vil­ None other than Mr. Martin Laing, lage hall which was hosting a chairman of the notorious ‘Laing family ceilidh. With complete dis­ Group’- Major road builders, regard for family values two of the Quarrymen and incidentally BIF men (we think) proceeded to own Back to Basics campaign. heavily involved in the Malaysian gyrate erotically against each In mid March a group of ‘Aids for arms’ Pergau Dam other, an act which culminated in militant bisexuals chose popu­ project. the frenzied ripping of clothes. A lar heterosexual nightspots in shocked father of two who didn't Nottingham for their first season wish to be named claimed he had of direct action. The group, BIF, Twyford to cover his childrens eyes to consisted of a half a dozen per­ prevent them from seeing the Update sons of indeterminate gender spectacle. As they left the scene, whose targets ranged from stu­ Actions against the M3 ex­ one particularly glamourous BIFer tension through Twyford Down dent and 60's nights to tradi­ was heard to shout back at are now reduced to individual tional Irish ceilidh. One witness days of action. In case you didn’t know why, its because there just aren’t enough of us around at ‘The thirtieth of November eighteen hundred and the moment, (what with all the thirty. other schemes going critical at The Owslebury lads they did prepare all for the the mo). And anyhow, the dam­ machinery, age has been done. All that’s left And when they did get there, how they let fly. to do can be left to the fairy folk. The machinery flew to pieces in the twinkling of an eye! Free the Land- 28/29 Nov It was The mob, such a mob you never had seen before, the lunar anniversary of Yellow And if you live for a hundred years you never wjll Wednesday- so there had to be no m ore!' an action of some sort! Not only did people turn up to brave the elements in their hundreds, but -Taken from a ballad written at the time of the last labourers the moon eclipsed herself again. revolt of 1830. Widespread dissatisfaction with the mechanisa­ Suffice to say St.Catherines Mill tion of agriculture led to riots in many areas. Threshing and -other was buzzing all weekend, the farm machinery was broken, and savage.sentences were passed play was a resounding success, by Special Judicial Commissions. ' Owslebuty is' a small town and the action on the Monday near, Winchester from which many. of.the machine breakers «. defies description. Mainly ‘coz came. The Winchester Special Commission began its hearings I'm on the injunction and couldn’t on December L8th 1830. Of .the 245 .Hampshire .prisoners the go on, it. Accident blackspot on majority received sentences ranging between heavy fines & v Twyford Down- 3 Jan Designed transportation to Australia, to hanging,. •;- ? . v mainly to be a repeat of last years, quiet. local New. Years cel­ ebration. It actually brought 170 4 DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 ACTIONREPORTS to the down, some from as far violent cities in England, and away as Glasgow! An accident Construction weather which fell to bellow mi­ blackspot was laid out on the nus ten, snow, hail and rain were floor of the cutting, to highlight News. thrown at us by the great global the dangers that the new road Police believe a £2 million warmer. We were trying to stop will bring. Many people also blaze at an Essex construction the Science Park, (City Council. brought coal, for the first footing site could be the work of Green University of Manchester and ceremony, which was followed Activists. UMIST are shareholders with fel­ by much circle dancing and a The fire swept through Cory low planet trashers Ciba-Geigy, dramatic torchlit procession up Environmental's aggregates and Granada TV, Courtaulds and to the old dongas. At this point in waste disposal site at Barling, Ferranti), from building Phase the proceedings, I think the local near Southend, ruining 4 bull­ Four- a laboratory, offices and constabulary thought they were dozers, 2 diggers, and a fleet of huge car park to join the other going to get attacked by over a one that has no cars in which hundred flaming torch bearing was built during phase three. protesters. But, of course, their The actions in the interven­ fears were misplaced- we being ing two weeks ranged from the peaceful folk. Instead of Barbe­ cuddly ‘Burst Main Event’, an cuing Sergeant Bill Orde, we alternative fair for kids, to a fax torched an effigy of John major from David Bellamy, (never mind (in a car). Oh, and a few of the the RTZ sponsorship and the DoT’s fences. The next action 6 trucks owned by the main Ford cars commercial), to direct will probably be in June, and will contractor. The police say that action when the bailiffs came on focus on the Criminal Justice forensic evidence confirms ar­ to the.site to remove us. We had and Public Order Bill. The Twy- son. massive support from locals of ford Down Association, (TDA, - For more Details contactall ages, although getting them not to be confused with Twyford Scotland Yard. to turn up and get in to the way Down Alert!-TD@!), who organ­ Abbey Pond of the development was harder. Local kids, more used to trashing Anyone reading the Guard­ cars than most eco-activists, ian on Friday 25th of February ranted about too many car parks would have been met with the and how much they loved the bjzarre photo on page 5 of two only green space near their individuals standing knee deep homes. in icy water in a pond in Hulme. The site consisted of about ised many of the earliest demos This pair were locked together 0.6 hectares with a small pond against the road are preparing through a length of gas pipe, surrounded by 25 year old trees. for the biggest march ever, most and one of them(me), had a 12 A tree house was built and ham­ probably July/August. The lat­ foot piece of children’s climbing mocks hung, while we also built est news from the contractor is frame d-locked to his neck. Was the ‘Wanstonia’- concrete bol­ that due to bad weather and this a bizarre form of aquatic lards to lock arms through. There exceedingly high protest activity auto-asphyxiation? Was it a new were 30 of us up at the site at THE ROAD WILL NOT BE FIN­ cure for smoking perhaps? In 7.30 am and about the same ISHED ON TIME!!! The whole fact it was the latest in the in­ number of police and bailiffs, contract was supposed to come creasingly long line of Direct but with outside agent provoca­ to a close this August, but a Action taken by Manchester teurs brought in from Lancaster, recent leak from the enemy Earth First!. Liverpool and Leeds, we delayed camp, reported in the local pa- For two weeks we camped trashing the pond by seven per- suggested that the current out on and around Abbey Pond, hours. Every trick in the book completion date is December! one of the most ecologically di­ was used- D-Locking, tree sit­ This doesn’t change the fact that verse ponds, (shouldn’t that read ting, pond sitting, obstruction the first carriageway through the ‘only ponds’) in Greater Man­ and young children. But in the down is due to open this spring. chester and the only green space end most of our activists were We shall of course be staging an in a huge 1960’s architectural arrested and while we remained immediate closing ceremony. abortion that is Hulme, an area imprisoned the pond had a small Love The T.D. 'Lcrtcrs! near Manchester City Centre. We proportion of its waters removed risked death in one of the most by a tanker, while most wildlife

DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 5 ACnONREPOKIS understandably stayed near to road. Group Four were sent in to 1SX. in consortium with: Costain the bottom where they were bull­ dislodge activists from the trees Group PLC.lll Westminster dozed over with rubble. We plan previously in the week, while Bridge Road,London,SE1 7UE, more action. contractors felled trees and dug and, Ballast Nedam Construc­ - Hyperactive Pete, Man­up hedgerows. tion Ltd,Prospect House, 19-21 chester Earth First! The camp at Ledenham Homedale Road,Bromley,BR2 9LY. in consortium with; Trafal­ Bank of gar house Construction (Major Amerikkka Projects) Ltd,Mitcham House, 681, MitchamRoad, Croydon, The Bank of AmeriKKKa, CR9 3AP. finaciers of the Skye Bridge and If a contract is signed, con­ Roads Project, arc also funding struction will start in May/June. a number of other privatised road was folded for the time being but We can and will get through this and bridge building projects in the protest there has not ended. if we all pull together. the 'u.k', Greece, Hungary and We will not be intimidated into Cardiff Students Green Portugal. stopping non-violent direct ac­ Group, University Union,Park EF! have launched the tion by a bunch of bully boys. Place,Cardiff,South BankAmerica Alert Campaign, In the second week of May Glamorgan,Wales. to expose them for the forest protestors returned to Ledenham ref:- ‘Damn that Barrage’, felling, otter hating corporate and successfully stopped work. Do or Die, Issue 3, p8 bastards that they are. The protest was good humoured On 14th February over 30 and the workers simply packed EF!ers occupied their offices for up and left glad for an extra day several hours, blockading their off. More days of action are main entrance and running amok planned . on their upper floors, including -contact Nottingham EF! the trading rooms. for details. - Contact CARDIFF BAY Oxford EF! BARRAGE Pine Marten Ledenham UPDATE leaves A camp of eco-activists As reported last issue, plans who successfully halted work on are afoot to destroy the Cardiff England the Ledenham bypass for two estuary mudflats by the creation A recent survey of the last weeks were viciously attacked of an artificial ‘lake’. The fight known English refuges of the by masked thugs recently. against the Barrage has been Pine Marten; North Yorkshire, The attack happened fol­ going on for eight years - we Cumbria and Northumbria, has lowing a demo by local people in don’t want to loose now. If con­ failed to find any traces of them. favour of the bypass. Ledenham struction does occur, it will be The survey carried out by biolo­ villagers decided in their infinite another direct action situation. gists from the University of Bris­ wisdom that a road was prefer­ However, what we propose tol has shown that the Pine Mar­ able to a 'few trees'. Masked should avert development in the ten is probably now extinct in vigilantes arrived at the camp at first place. What we need is England. 5am armed with chainsaws. They groups around the country to hit The Pine Marten is typi­ proceeded to hack down trees, their local offices and worksites cally a forest dweller. It lives in protestors had been sitting in. of the firms bidding for the con­ both coniferous and broadleafed Anyone getting in their way were tract. In this way we may be able forest, in low and high country. punched and violently assulted. to deter firms from getting in­ It is estimated that for the animal The Ledenham Bypass is volved. We can provide infor­ to thrive a minimum area of 30 routed through a rural trackway mation of targets local to your ha of forest, sufficiently far from and hilltop plantation. The plan­ group. human disturbance, is neces­ tation contains ancient oaks and The two consortiums bid­ sary. Such habitats are increas­ the extremely rare aconite plants. ding for the contract are:- Balfour ingly hard to find and it is loss of Despite hopeful noises from Beatty Ltd, 1 Angel Square, such places that has most likely the DoT about re-routing the Torrens Street, London, EC IV brought the demise of the Pine 6 DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 ACTIONREPQRTS

Marten. ers smashed a glass partition and bigger. The main contract Thankfully a population of and then caused £10,000 worth for the building of the bypass 3,000 in Scotland, might some­ of damage to computer equip­ flyover is likely to commence day lead to the re-colonisation ment. Nothing was stolen.’ Daily any time now. of England! Post, Jan. 9th 94 We can show them they’re Jesmond Dene not going get away with destroy­ Problems at a ing the earth. If we can’t stop the Update bastard’s totally we can Cost Welsh Quarry them, show them there’s no easy End 1993/early 94 the shit ‘Police have been called in profit in earth rape. They’ve al­ up to date:, shortly before winter to investigate complaints of dam­ ready been cost £ 100,000’s- lets solstice, cityworks came in and age at ARC Northern quarry at cost them some more. massacred many mature trees Penmaenmawr after a demon­ At the top of the site, sur­ they’d said they weren’t working stration by green protesters at rounded by destruction, under­ near till spring 1994. Many of the weekend. Management at mined on all sides, its branches these had been tree-sat in the the quarry...claimed that the lower down all sawn away, the summer: great ash trees, syca­ demonstrators had caused dam­ copper beech still stands. Nearby age running* into tens of thou­ mores, willows, Beeches and on a wall has appeared some others were felled, leaving a rav­ sands of pounds. “We were not more graffiti. It says: Not For­ aged landscape. aware of any damage having gotten. occurred on Saturday, but we Many local people are still - written by Little Weed with fighting the bypass, (as they have understand that certain damage help from Bill and Ben. been for 20 years), despite the did comc to light, which is now A pamphlet entitled ‘For continuing serious damage to the subject of a police investiga­ Flapjacks and Mother Earth- the area. Those who’ve been tion” said a North Wales Police Earth Warriors at Jesmond involved are also gearing up to spokesman.’ Daily Post, Oct 26th Dene’, is now available for 60p fight other schemes in the area. 93. .(minimum), and a stamped Lots of people got together at ‘ The motive behind a break addressed envelope from DoD. in at the ARC quarry in Bangor the Dene, from Newcastle to Road, Penmaenmawr is more Twyford to London, as far as Big Mac tries puzzling. After forcing their way Finland and New Zealand. We’ve to silence into the control room the intrud­ learned a lot of useful lessons in fighting the likes of the Criticisms. DoT and For years McDonalds the secu­ protestors have been threatened rity firms with court over protest leaflets and the lo­ and public claims. The McLibel cal council 2 have taken up the challenge bureau­ and are going to court to defend crats. and claims made in a London Green­ what we’ve peace Leaflet. Working on their learnt will own time and money against spread out barristers and lawyers backed to other up by cash from McDonald s ,a road and 20 billion a year corporation, the e n v i r o n ­ campaigners are stretched. Un­ mental like the younger organisation p r o t e s t s : Greenpeace PLC, London Green­ from peace do not have access to NVDA to legal funds. Having brought the legal stuff case against the McLibel 2 to ham- McDonalds are getting scared. mock- The mountains of evidence be­ Mr Pine Martin invites Mr Squirrel building to ing compiled by London Green­ round for supper, an invitation the face-paint­ peace contains much that is Squirrel can't refuse. ing, it just damaging for the prosecution gets bigger case. DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 7 ACTIONREPORTS Legal skulduggery is being ' By this type of action, the aware these complaints were used to thwart the McLibel 2. ecological group endeavours to about my disrupting the activities The judge has taken away their make it known to the world that of the local foxhunts and thereby right to a jury trial, this judge will the young people of England endangering their hounds. now try the case. Documents oppose making the world's poor­ Next I received a letter from and other evidence .which would est countries into rubbish the Immigration Office request­ prove the defendants case, is bins...... ' ing me to come to the Police being withheld by McDonalds Activist station in Stansted to give a taped with the agreement of the judge. interview. When asked on the The trial date also keeps moving threatened telephone the Immigration -of­ in an attempt to interfere with ficer claimed that they had re­ the defence case, This is a with ceived a number of complaints in complex legal trial and some relation to my animal rights ac­ witnesses have to come from as deportation! tivities. She refused to say where far away as South America. I am an Austrian citizen these complaints came from or Leaflets (£12 per 1000) and and I have been in England for 3 what they specifically were about. info available from 0602 585666 1/2 years. Throughout this time I was also told that I had or 061 953 4039, support these I have been employed as a sci­ been kept under observation for people - they need it. entist at the University of Cam­ some time by Immigration and bridge, undertaking research into that they have various photo­ Ecologistas the atmosphere of the Earth: on graphs of my activities. It was mentioned that the Home Secre­ echaron basura en the mechanisms of the forma­ tion of an ozone hole and related tary is "cracking down" on "this puertas de RTZ problems. For about 3 years I sort of thing", which presumably refers to animal rights campaign­ Taken from a Bolivian have been actively campaigning ing. national daily against bloodsports as a mem­ 'For Sending Toxic Waste ber of the Cambridge Anti- Apparently the Home Of­ to Bolivia-Ecologistsdump Bloodsports Society. I have fre­ fice is going to decide in the next rubbish at the doors of quently been on protests against few weeks whether my continued RIZ the local hunts. presence in the United Kingdom In order to express their I first heard of the Immigra­ is conducive to the public good solidarity with Oruro, English tion Service being interested in and thus whether I will be de­ ecologists collected rubbish from me in February, when they ap­ ported or not. Incidentally, a de­ the city of London and dumped proached the Secretary General portation would imply that I would it at the doors of the company of the General Board of the Uni­ not be allowed into the United Rio Tinto Zinc which sent toxic versity, Dr. Livesey. The Immi­ Kingdom again until the deporta­ waste to Bolivia, stated the gration officers apparently tion order has been revoked. League for the Defence of the showed Dr. Livesey photographs Alarmingly, I was informed Environment, (LIDEMA). of me on demonstrations and by the Citizens Advice Bureau in Yesterday at midday the suggested that I might be a sub­ Cambridge that if I was deported English group 'Earth First1 car­ versive. They asked Dr. Livesey for not being conducive to the ried out 'an action in solidarity to appoint two senior scientists public good, I will have no right to with the people of Ururo and to assess my scientific work. see the evidence against me and against RTZ' said LIDEMA. These assessments testify that I I will have no right to appeal. I will The action consisted of de­ am an extremely valuable mem­ only be able to make representa­ positing a large quantity of rot­ ber of the research team and tions to a panel of three Home ting fruit, meat and rubbish from that my scientific contributions Office advisors who will recom­ supermarkets in front of the of­ could not have been done by mend to the Home Secretary fices of the company in London. anyone else. whether or not the deportation It has been approximately a year At the same time people order should be made. since RTZ sent waste from the from the bloodsports commu­ The only course of action I Copper Pass plant to Bolivia to nity started to send letters to the can take, ii seems, is to make the be treated in Orura.... 'Earth First' Senior Proctor of the University public aware of my situation and considers it a disgrace that waste and to the Head of the Depart­ to assert pressure on the Home too dangerous to be processed ment at which I work. They com­ Office in this way. The first step in England should be sent to plained about me demanding therefore is to ask people to write other parts of the planet. my dismissal. As far as I am in support of me to the Home 8 DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 ACOONREPOKTS Secretary. If you decide to write be used instead of building the running campaigns EF! has un­ to the Home Secretary, his ad­ new store on Wymondham Hill. dertaken finnaly came to frui­ dress is: Rt. Hon. Michael Howard The opposition mounted as the tion in, May when the. Secretary MP, Home Secretary , Home idiocy of the whole scheme be­ of State turned down ARC's ap­ Office, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, came more and more apparent. plication for expansion. The London, SWIH 9AT The occupation was a success campaign has included numer­ Please send a copy of your winning local support and in the ous quarry invasions, office oc­ letter to: Anne Campbell MP, face of this Sainsburies decided cupations and doiens of arrests. Alex Wood Hall, Norfolk Street, to pull out. They claimed that On one action in the spring of Cambridge CBi 2LD their retreat was due to eco­ 93, 29 activists were held at nomic problems but Sainsburies various police stations around Success In are continuing to build elsewhere the South-West till court the next in the Southwest. morning. Months later the cases Somerset 1 The next step must be to against the protesters were build on our success and take dropped and the activists have Early this year Sainsburys the spirit of the defense of since taken up suing the police; cancelled their plans to build a Wymondham Hill to the rest of £20 an hour x 25 hours x 29 supermarket in Yeovil, Somer­ the west, and indeed to the rest activists! set. Across the whole of the of the country. Many links have With the expansion halted Southwest supermarket chains been made with other groups in the next logical step for the cam­ are moving in on small towns, the Southwest, for example the paign is to close down the Quarry planting out of town superstores Green party has good ties across all together! which damage High Street shop­ the region and is in a strong - Contact South Somerset ping and encourage car kulture. position to act. EF! for more details. The defence of their green Out of town supermarkets space by residents of Golden Hill Narmarda Dam are part of industries plans for in Bristol had stung the tail of modern towns. More and more Tescos but the supermarket gi­ ,people will be encouraged to use ants had largely carried on build­ “their car where once they would ing superstores. Since many •' have used their feet. The South­ Southwestern towns have ex­ west is a beautiful region, one of panded greatly over the last 20 wide ecological and human di­ years they saw that profits were versity, unless it is defended there to be made in taking trade away is a great deal which could be from local shops. lost. South Somerset Earth First With the rise of the Bath I and others began opposition to Protest A36 Euroroute campaign and the Yeovil Sainsburys early, well There was a demonstra­ the Southcoast Expressway before the date when they were tion at the Indian High commis­ campaign EF! is throwing itself due to start building. They did sion in May in protest at the into opposing roads. While this actions across Somerset hitting continued building of the is right and proper as the roads, stores as far afield as Taunton. Narmarda dam by the Indian and the industry and exploita­ They also disrupted council Government. The protesters tion they'll bring, will damage meetings to gain publicity for managed to occupy the building the Southwest terribly. We must their cause. and hang banners from it's win­ not forget that roads are only Since the planned site of dows. It was a noisy protest made one of the many issues that af­ the store, on the side of up of a variety of people., there fect the ecology of the region. Wyndham Hill near the town were 21 arrests. centre was an important place to Success in In India the police have been the people of Yeovil there was armed by the Government and great local interest. EFIers linked Somerset 2 the area around the dam has up with locals who wanted to You would have thought been cordoned off. 200,000 peo­ defend the place where the end South Somerset EF! would be ple are refusing to move from of WW2 had been celebrated. happy with one victory in a sea­ the side of the intended dam. The campaigners had oc­ son, but no. The campaign The police have orders to fire at cupied the old and unused against the enlargement of 'unruly mobs'. Tcscos on the High street argu­ Whately Quany in Somerset, one - Contact Blackmore Vale ing that the empty store should of the longest, (since Winter 91!), EF! DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 9

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Darkness ' ...Forests were set on fire- but hour by hour, they fell and faded- and the crackling trunks, extinguished with a crash- and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light, wore an unearthly aspect, as if by fits. The flashes fell upon them; some lay down, and hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest, their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro, and fed, their funeral pyres with fuel, and look’d up. with mad disquietude at the dull sky. ... The wild birds shrieked, and terrified, did flutter on the ground, and flap their useless wings. ...The populous and the powerful was a lump, Scasonlcss, llerbless. Treeless, Manless, Lifeless -a lump of death- a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, and nothing stirred within their silent depths...... ’ - Byron, 1816.

Damn that dog Collar.

Long ago he’d jumped in, Now he found he couldn’t jump back. Jim hid from his life, knowing His marriage was a trap.

Sarah knew how to fullfill her life, With commodity relations. In Struggle for the She bought statements of his wealth, And scared him with job applications. Earth. And then one day Jim came home, I was listening to the voices of life Tired of his proletarian objectification. Chanting in unison carry on the struggle He took it out on his wife, the generations surge together in resistance to In line with man’s steriotypification. meet the reality at power. mother earth At last he’d found an emotional vent, Embraces her children In Natural Beauty But Sarah was left with bruses. to last beyond oppressors Brutality, So one day she grabbed her carving knife. as the butterfly floats into life And put it to homicidal uses. we are the spirit Of natural life Which is forever. Some may say she was out of order, The power of understanding Some may say that she had the right. real connections to spirit is meaning The Devil knows who's really to blame, he’s Our resistance The one who conducted their marital rite. Our struggle is not sacrifice lost It is natural energy properly used -Mrs. Bobbitt fan club Secretary. -The late John Trundell, American Indian Move-

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OTHERISLANDS return migration this spring, there Dover. Shipments leave Dover Maltese Hunt will be 80 fewer eagles to test the three or four times a month, usu­ Maniacs effectiveness of the new Maltese ally on a Thursday at 1,3, or 9am. laws. The Anti Nuclear Network are Stricter controls on the asking for info, photos, timeta­ hunting and trapping of wild birds bles or sightings to be reported. came into force in Malta on the Stop Thorp in 1st of January. This follows Sub-Arctic months of heightened tension its Tracks between ecologists and the is­ German Activists from the Indigenous lands notorious bird shooters group "Mahnwache while the regulations were being Gundremmingen" took up 30 People of prepared. Up until now millions meters of private railway line at Russia of birds have been murdered the nuclear plant at About one fifth of the popu­ annually to the hunters but hope­ Grundremmingen. The action lation of the Russian Federation fully this is changing. Under the last September was in protest at are non-Russian national minori­ new regulations herons, egrets, the Transportation of flasks of ties. Among the minority nation­ nightjars, shelducks and stone highly radioactive material. Dur­ alities of the Russian Federation, curlews are legally ‘protected’. ing the first 10 years of operation the Finno-Ugrians represent a Anyone found in possession of the new reprocessing plant at particular problem. a dead or alive protected bird will Sellafleld around 100 flasks will The largest of these ethnic face heavy fines and/or jail. But be transported around the world. groups numbers about half a mil­ before you get optimistic I atn » ! After being arrested activ­ lion. Their situation, especially in afraid hunters have not taken it ists returned and blockaded a the subarctic areas, is similar to lying down. Pro-Hunting posters train taking chemicals into the that of the native peoples on North have sprung up all over Malta nuclear installation. In Novem­ America. proclaiming , ‘ We are prepared ber the Brockdorf nuclear plant With the weakening of the for war’, and the conflict is esca­ near Hamburg was blockaded Stalinist dictatorship that followed lating. Two environmental de­ by a group calling themselves the launching of perestroika, the partment employees, Joe Sul­ the Action Alliance against the native peoples began to protest tana and Alfred Baldachino, were Brockdorf-Sellafield Shipment, against threats to their existence given a police guard at their Brockdorf sends spent fuel to represented by operations of the homes after leaflets with their Sellafleld. oil companies and the police they addresses and telephone num­ The shipments come onto control. bers were distributed by hunt­ this Island through Dunkirk to ers. The front door of the house of the parents of grassroots activist Natalino Fenech was set alight. Used engine oil was dumped in the water at the Xcmxija Nature Reserve, threat­ ening slogans were daubed over property of conservationists, and anonymous letters- some con­ taining severed bird wings and legs- were sent to people with anti-hunting sympathies. Three bird watchers were shot in the Buskett Gardens ‘ sanctuary’, and another activist was hospi­ talised after being attacked while filming a bird trapper. In Novem­ ber, a large flock of short-toed eagles on migration to Africa reached the far north of Malta. Several shooters killed two or three eagles each, one claimed 11. From that single incident, on The Estonian-Lapp Soci­ by the Rainbow Family, the coun­ ment rising up from its own coun­ ety, (E-LS) sent a letter from ter culture group that holds gath-' try so it has to be, of course, the Agraphena Sopachina, a mem­ erings in the US National For­ work of outsiders. ber of the co-ordinating Council ests. The new regulations would Actions reported included of the West Siberian Finno- require a permit for any "Activity arson at Amsterdam Airport in Ugrian group, saving Ugria, re­ that involves or attracts 25 or protest against the ever growing garding the murder of her brother more people." A permit would and expanding airport, (the au­ in law by local police. also be required for "Non-com­ thorities denied the action took Sopchina described an ex­ mercial distribution of printed place but we know better!), the tensive campaign of terror material". destruction of 15 hunters ‘high against the native peoples, in­ While the new rules would seats’ & the ‘painting and deco­ cluding many beatings. The E- effect groups as diverse as the rating’ of the Scientific Council LS explains the situation like this: Boy Scouts it is obviously aimed for Vivisection. 229 cars had " The Forests have been cut or at the Rainbow Tribe a group their tires slashed and 69 were burnt down, the rivers have been which regularly attracts up to glued up in Leiden including the chocked by temporary cause­ 25,000 people at its gatherings. Mayor of the city- total damage ways and bridges built by the They camp together at sites of oilers, and almost all the rivers their own choosing with a vision and lakes have been polluted by of creating natural and social oil wastes. The number of fish harmony as a model for world has decreased by up to 80%... peace. The leaderless group has On the uprooted and destroyed refused to sign permits since land, it is now impossible for the 1981. As an "Unincorporated Khantis to lead their traditional group of individuals" the group way of life. All the things men­ has successfully challenged per­ tioned above are leading to the mit requirements in Arizona in DF100,000. In Groningen total extinction of the Khantis as a 1986 and again in Texas in 1988. damage of 15,000 guilders to nation." With nomadic groups in the UK cars and vehicles from a road Contact: Eesti-Sami being harassed by the Law it is building company. The Twente Uhendus, Roosikrantsi 6, EE- interesting to see that foreign damage of 4,500 guilders re­ 0100, Tallinn, Estonia, Fax (372- governments are up to the same ported to vehicles preparing a 2) 44-18-00; and from Saving No good as ours. refuse dump in a forest area. Ugria (Spasenie Ugry), Ulitsa Stephen Principle of the 132,000 Guilders damage re­ Mira 5, 626-200 Khanty- Rainbow Legal liaison team ac­ ported to material being used to Manisysk, Tyumenskaya Oblast, cuses the USFS of "keeping the investigate gas and oil fields Russian Federation, FAX (345- public off land so their misman­ under Amsterdam City. 71) 41-580. A contact person in agement, rape and destruction Two of the above men­ Moscow is Rita Mayer, phone of the environment are not ob­ tioned actions have been claimed (095) 230-06-54; FAX (095) servable". by the elves. This is most prob­ 230-01-65. Source - High Times, PO ably a playful reference back to -Source: 'Fifth Estate', Fall/ BOX 410, MT Morris, 1L 61054 the 'Kabouters', a late sixties- Winter 93/94 early seventies erco-anarchist movement in the Netherlands- a USFS ‘ Britse eco- Kaboutcr is a elf or gnome, a If the US Forestry Service terroristen symbol of rebirth and unity in has its way it will soon be illegal nature. In February 1970 they to have a gathering on public steken announced the formation of an land without a permit. The right alternative community called the of "peaceful assemble" will soon Noordzee over’ 'Orange Free State', much re­ be abolished in the "Land of the ‘British Eco-Terrorists sembling a more sorted Free". cross the North sea’ was one of Wanstonia. In order to reach the The new regulations repre­ the Dutch newspaper-headlines Autonomous collectivised soci­ sent the latest incarnation of during the International Earth ety they desired, the Kabouters amendments restricting group Nights from October 30-Novem- recommended direct action, events first proposed by the ber 5. The Dutch establishment erotics, communalism and yes USFS in 1983 - and twice struck obviously can’t stomach the idea you got it - monkeywrenching! down in court after challenges of a radical ecological move­ ( 1) 16 DOORDIENUMBER4 OTHERISLANDS (l)'Provos and Kabouters', 86556 most deserving of preservation p553, 'Demanding the Impossi­ nationally. Today merely 0.9% ble- A History of Anarchism', of the coniferous woodland in Peter Marshall, Fontana Press, Scandinavian Norway is protected, much more 1993. Wilderness land must be protected to safe­ guard diversity. Several endan­ Blockades gered and vulnerable species have been identified in X & Spread Skotjernfjell. In despair environ­ As reported in the previous mentalists took direct action, EF- issue (1) the last remnants of the protecting the trees with their Taiga Forest in Scandinavia are bodies to prevent the machines under threat with blockades from razing the forest. Please sprouting up to defend them. Fax letters of protest to:- Prime Navajo Until recently Direct Action has Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland, been happening mainly in Fin­ The Government of Norway fax. Ecologist land but blockades have now 01047-2234-9500. The National spread to Norway. What is un­ Association of Wood Processing Murdered? der threat is irreplaceable wilder­ Industry, fax 01047-2296-1099. British actions in the pipeline, New Mexico activist Leroy ness 50 miles north of Oslo. contact South Downs EF! Jackson's mysterious death in Felling started in December in early October is still unsolved. Skotjernijell, one of the forests Jackson was a co-founder of Dine CARE, the Navajo envi­ ronmental group fighting to save jfTiM-nowirr* wavd£Ki« g the Chuska Mountains. He had IM A -THeoRtTiCAU WAZ.E been receiving death threats j u i from timber industry goons prior it to his death. Jackson's body I - »iv m l — was found rolled up in a thick ..~ r>AAU«\t A «\V. «t >»»'»*. »«* blanket in his van nine days after he disappeared. Three it rlAtw'**1-* 'fl't weeks later the coroners office released a toxicology report stat­ ing that jackson died of an aller­ gic reaction to methadone. Friends and family were shocked and disbelieving as Jackson was never known to! use drugs. Aside from occa-j sional migraines, he was con- j sidered by his physician to be in : excellent health. New Mexico State Police and friends continue to dispute the date the van was first seen. Police claim that on October 2, a hiker saw the van parked at e the overlook on US 64, 20 miles - east of Tierra Amarilla, while i friends and local activists con- ; Itumliitf, tend that they drove by the same • fcif CAftUUft place on several occasions dur­ bciitill ing the nine-day period and ' never saw the van. U. , More info from: Dine; \ Hr*. smw CARE, PO Box 121, Tsaile, AZ DOORDIENUMBER4 OTH ERISLAN DS (1) ‘Wilderness Defendersterrorist units. This was a very Jambhoji, the son of a village Jailed’, p29, Do or Die, Issue 3. organised squat which has been headman, was gifted with a vi­ going for years and has not lost sion. In the vision he saw the its original radicalism. people fighting with the forces of Ecodefence Since the eviction last No­ Nature. This, he understood, was Russia vember there have been large the cause of their suffering. In­ demonstrations against the Evic­ spired by the vision, Jambhoji, On the night of 11-12 No­ tion and destruction of the Zu­ (now called Swami Jambeshwar vember the ’Radical Brigades for rich squat. New buildings have Maharaj) set down the tenants Ecological Defence' took action been squatted and it is hoped of the Bishnois faith. These in­ at various sites around that the Wohlgroth squatters can cluded a prohibition on the cut­ continue there. ting of green trees and g ban on The Blitz anarchist centre the killing of animals. As the in Oslo Norway has been at­ Bishnois practised their faith, tacked twice first by shotgun their environment responded and wielding Fascists and then later soon they prospered, once again by the police. The Fascist attack living in a lush and fertile land. In was repulsed by people in the the non-Bishnois areas of Raja Kaliningrad city. They destroyed centre and no one was injured. Stan, desert and famine contin­ seven 'dozers used for clearing In February Blitz was raided by ued. Today, through oral tradi­ forested ground. With their ac­ the police, there weren't enough tion, Bishnois children grow up tion activists wanted to sound a people there to defend it and the learning to embrace and talk warning to their government cops were able to stay for 6 with the beloved trees. about the drastic forest clear­ hours searching through files and Perhaps the most inspir­ ance happening in the Kallingrad confiscating mollies. The ing story is of Amitra Divi. One region. Air pollution is very bad strength and violence of fascist day in 1731, the Maharaja of in Kaliningrad and they wanted groups in Norway, and for that Jodhpur, Abay Singh, decided to show their opposition to the matter Sweden means that radi­ to build a new palace for himself, government 'selling nature'. cal bookshops, squats, unions and sent axemen to go out and Source- European Youth have to be prepared to deal with procure wood. The axemen For(est) Action (EYFA). attacks by fascists. Later that came to the Bishnois village of day 25 people responded by Jalnadi, which was surrounded Translators going to the Chief Inspectors by luxuriant forests. Amitra Devi house and tearing down her ran to the men and begged them needed fence. to not cut down the trees. Un­ We desperately need trans­ The police claimed that moved by her plea, the men lators for articles, letters and their raid on Blitz raid was to look continued their work. Amitra 'zines we receive from activists for stuff taken from police at a Devi clung to the first tree marked around the world. East/Central previous riot which broke out to be felled. She refused to be European and ex-USSR lan­ when the police tried to arrest moved. “One chopped head is guage translators would be es­ some anti fascists. Other anti cheaper than a felled tree”, were pecially welcome. If you are se­ fascists came to the aide of their the last words that she spoke rious please write. Thanks! friends and a riot broke out leav­ before the axe cut through her ing 7 cop cars trashed. body, soaking the forest floor Contact: BLITZ, Pilestredet with her blood. Each of her three 30c 0164 Oslo. Norway. Fax daughters rose in turn to take Squats Under +47-22-11-23-49. Amitra Devis place. Each daugh­ , Attack. ter in turn was cut through by the axe. It seems that the M il and The Tree The axemen withdrew to Rutland Park Mansions are not gather reinforcements and the alone in coming under attack. In Huggers Jalnadi villagers sent out a call Zurich the Wohlgroth building , for help to the surrounding A long drought brought home to 120 people, with a bar Bishnoi villages. When they re­ death to many of the trees and and cafe and other community turned they warned the assem­ hardship to the people of space, has been evicted by 300 bled villagers that if they resisted Rajastan India in 1485. During cops with water cannon and anti they too would die. The Bishnois this time of parched suffering, 18 DOORDIENUMBEK4 OTHERISLANDS held to the trees. That day 359 radical environmentalism. killed,and kiosks burned down. people from 49 different Bishnois -Peggy Sue McRae 210 journalists were imprisoned villages were massacred by Further readings- Hugging and 35 are still being held and axemen. the trees: The story of the Chiptko their lawyers say that they have The axemen had been able Movement by Thomas Weber, been interrogated and tortured. to secure only one third of the Penguin 1989 This is part of widespread wood required by the Maharaja. Contact- EF! India oppression in Turkey where 24 Infuriated, the Maharaja raged leading trade unionists are in and demanded an explanation. prison. Opposition politicians When told of the bloodbath that are regularly killed with the Le­ was responsible for the delay, gal Democratic Party losing 50 the Maharaja stopped work on members in the last 2 1/2 years. the new palace and determined All this is designed to suppress to visit the site of the slaughter. any mention of the even greater Realising the horror of what had mayhem being waged on the happened, the temperamental people of the 10 provinces in ruler underwent a change of heart Kurdistan. The declaration of the and pledged that the Bishnois Ozgar Gundem state of emergency in Kurdistan would never be called on again Ozgar Gundem (Free is as thin cover for the govern­ to provide wood for the realm. Agenda) a news paper in Turkey ments war against' the PKK, a As Amitra Devi acted in the Eight­ is having it's staff assassinated left wing Kurdish party. eenth century so the Chipko and imprisoned. Ozgar Gundem In Kurdistan whole villages movement acts today, saving has a good reputation as an are being herded into towns to forests through action. Today in independent newspaper produc­ destroy the local economy and the village of Amitra Devi an ing the only accurate informa­ deprive the PKK of support. annual fair called Khejarli, (in tion about what is going on in Meanwhile a modern army is honour of the trees), is held to Kurdistan, in south and east killing the PKK wherever it can commemorate the martyrdom Turkey. Since April 1993 only find them. of the 363 who died. Thousands 10 of 210 issues have been pub­ Ozgar Gundem, of Bishnois men dressed in white lished without being confiscated, Sachsenring, 29-31 50677, and women in bright colours 7 reporters have been killed, 12 Colone Tel: (46)221 31 10 27/ pay homage, remember, and distributors, newspaper boys and 28 reaffirm their commitment to office staff also have been

Korean students protest at US interference in the region. Clinton aims to halt nuclear proliferation, not a bad thing, just hypocritical when the USA has the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world.

DOORDIENUMBER4 OTHER ISLANDS the Polish-Russian frontier, Limes 130 feet, the Ash 129 stretches the last substantial sur­ feet, the Scots Pines 125 feet, Bialowieza viving ruminant of the primeval the Maples 120 feet, and the Forest Under woodland: the mixed deciduous Goat Willows 72 feet. and coniferous Bialowieza for­ The legally protected Threat est, part of which has never been UNESCO Bialowieza Biosphere degraded by man. It is the only Reserve, (47 square Kilometres), Logging is due to increase area in the world where Euro­ is relatively intact; however the this year in the last lowland pri­ pean Bison roam wild, along remaining area of the Bialowieza meval forest in Europe- Poland's with Elk, Boar, Moose, Deer, the forest, (1,203 km square), Bialowieze Forest. Tarpan Horse, the Wolf, Lynx needed to protect the larger ani­ Decidous forest was once and that rare denizen of the mals like lynx and wolf, which the charateristic landscape of streams of forest meadows, the have larger territory than the much of lowland Europe, and in Beaver. Whoever sees this forest reserve provides, has been heav­ its heyday this forest of Oak and sees Europe as it was thousands ily clear-cut since the 1960's. other broadleafed trees was al­ of years ago. Worried that a larger area of the most as vast as the Amazon The trees are overwhelm­ forest will become protected, the rainforest today. By 2000 B.C. it ingly tall and of shapes few Eu­ Polish State Forestry Commis­ had acheived its greatest extent ropeans nowadays are accus­ sion is planning to increase the and glory, covering the British tomed to. The Oaks are not the logging by 25% this summer. If Isles, the southern parts of squat, spreading types we nor­ this does come about ecologists Scandanavia, France and North­ mally see: here they are giants will be out in force to stop the ern Spain in the west, and reach­ soaring upwards more than 130 destruction of one of the most ing in a wedge shape into Russia feet, with massive dead straight diverse and wild places on earth! in the east. branchless trunks surmounted Further reading: The Polish One hundred and forty five by tiny round crowns of leaves. Forest Report', English edition'. miles east of Warsaw, straddling The Spruces reach 160 feet, the Available from Polish EF!

A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST EXPLOITERS OF LAKOTA WAYS

In June 1993 at the Lakota Summit V, a gathering of representatives from 40 different tribes and bands of the Lakota unanimously passed a Declaration of war against exploiters of Lakota Spiritual­ ity. This Declaration is intended for those who persist in exploiting, abusing and misrepresenting the sacred traditions and spiritual practices of the Lakota poeple. From the Declaration - FOR TOO LONG WE HAVE SUFFERED THE UNSPEAKABLE INDIGNITY OF HAVING OUR MOST PRECIOUS 1AKOTA CEREMONIES AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES DESECRATED, MOCKED AND ABUSED BY NON-INDIAN WANNABES, HUCKSTERS. CULTISTS, AND SELF STYLED NEW AGE SHAMENS AND THEIR FOLLOWERS. THE ABSURED PUBUC POSTURING O F THIS SCAN­ DALOUS ASSORTMENT OF PSEUDO-INDIAN CHARLATANS, WANNABES, COMMERCIAL PROFITEERS AND CULTISTS COMPRISE A MOMENTOUS OBSTACLE IN THE STRUGGLE OF TRADITIONAL LAKOTA PEOPLE FOR ADEQUATE PUBUC APPRAISAL OF THE LEGITIMATE POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS O F THE REAL LAKOTA PEOPLE. WE MUST PREVENT OUR OWN PEOPLE FROM CONTRIBUTING TO AND ENABLING THE ABUSE OF OUR SACRED CEREMONIES BY OUTSIDERS AND CERTAIN ONES AMONG OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE PROSTITUTING OUR SPIRITUAL WAYS FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH GAIN, WITH NO REGARD FOR THE SPIRITUAL WELL BEING O F THE PEOPLE AS A WHOLE. Darrell Standing Elk, Sicangu Lakota and traditional Lakota counselor said to the summit - "We are in danger of having our sacred spiritual ways stolen from us - the key to our survival. We must raise a united voice of protest against those who would steal our spiritual traditions and tell them: you cannot have them, not today, not tomorrow, NEVER!"

20 DO OR DIE NUMBER 4 NEWSFROMTHE ADTONOMOUSZONES HEZONE-* PROTECTS ITSOWN) So what has made the MU Link Road such PR terms through their involvement in the Link a cause celebre? Firstly, it has the advantage of Road, then it will become extremely difficult for the being in London, close enough to embarrass DoT to find three other “construction” companies Britain’s politicians and catch the media’s atten­ who are daft enough to take the remaining con­ tion. Secondly it tracts! “Contract is a linchpin of 2” covers the the European crucial stretch Round Tables through Leyton plans for eco­ a n d nomic euro- Leytonstone; al­ routes in West­ though “ad­ ern Europe. By vance prepara­ halting the road tion works” in London we (knocking down can save wood­ houses, or just lands, rivers & damaging them heathlands all enough to make the way to New­ them uninhabit­ castle, without able) are already endangering under-way there, their ecology by the actual road- having mud building contract fights with hun­ will not now be dreds of secu­ awarded until rity guards and August 1994. It police in their was originally midst. due to have The area STARTED in threatened by January, so they the Link Road are at least 9 comprises two months behind very different schedule al­ localities. At the ready. So the eastern end of campaign is un­ the route is Wanstead, a reasonably affluent, doubtedly hav­ conservative leafy-green London suburb. To the ing some sort of an effect! west arc Leyton and Leytonstone, areas of high- THE START OF THE density urban housing, built at the turn of the century, but badly neglected ever since the pro­ ACTION: 13th posal for the Link Road first blighted the area forty years ago. To look at it now, you could be September - 1st forgiven for thinking that the best thing for Leyton and Leytonstone would be to demolish them and November 1993 grow a forest. The first big event - a march along the route Overall management of the road-building of the road - took place in mid-August 1993, with project has been entrusted to WS Atkins Consult­ just one month to go before the start of the ing Engineers. They have divided the road into contract. The second event was on September, four separate sections, each of which will be built 13th, the day the bulldozers were due to arrive! by a different contractor. So far, only one of the Around 100 people were there to greet the con­ four contracts has been awarded. Norwest Holst tractors that day - needless to say, the contractors have now started work on “Contract 4” in didn’t dare to show up! So the protesters cel­ Wanstead, since it is expected to take the longest ebrated their first victory in the full glare of the time to complete. Our hope is that if Norwest national media, by reclaiming a vacant house Holst can be made to suffer both .financially and in which had been compulsory-purchased by the

DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 21 Department of Transport (DoT). By the end of the was set up beside the tree, and for the following day, the house had its roof repaired, and was month, the camp fire became a focal point for the covered in banners. 1-0 to the campaigners! campaign. Local people, including grandmothers Contractors Norwest Holst duly arrived the and children, came down to George Green each following morning, and immediately met with stiff night, bringing food for the tree-dwellers. People opposition. Norwest Holst’s first task was to clear from different backgrounds began to get to know a patch of woodland, which took them nearly one another; professional people, retired people three weeks, due to regular tree-sits, bulldozer and Twyford Down veterans spent long evenings lock-ons and other delaying tactics. On one day, together, talking, forming new friendships, ex­ forty men employed for a full day only managed changing ideas about roads, the environment, to cut down four small trees! consumerism, life, the universe and everything.... Yet in other respects the campaign was not Something new and beautiful had been created in taking off as we might have hoped. The real the community. Many local people talk of their challenge was (and still is) to find enough people lives having been completely changed by the willing to occupy the many houses which the DoT experience. has already purchased and left vacant along the Word of the George Green Chestnut Tree route. Generally the houses are structurally sound, spread via a small article in the Guardian newspa­ although several have had their first-floor ceilings per. Two days later, the postman delivered a letter knocked out, with the aim of making them unin­ addressed to the Chestnut Tree itself! One of the habitable. The campaign has held a number of campaign’s solicitors immediately seized on this house-rebuilding days, in an effort to tempt more to argue in the law courts that the tree-house squatters to come and live in what can otherwise should be formally recognised as a “dwelling”! be fairly unpleasant conditions. Other houses The strategy worked, the tree-house had made have been barricaded, and we have already had legal history, and hundreds more letters started to some success in resisting evictions. But the DoT pour in from all around the country! The DoT now has now accelerated its efforts to destroy the had to apply for a court order to evict the tree- houses. dwellers from their new “home”, a process which delayed them for several more days. By the time THE CHESTNUT TREE: they had obtained the court order, they knew that 2nd November - 7th any attempt to remove the tree-dwellers would meet with serious resistance. They would have to December 1993 organise a major police operation, and this in turn took several weeks to plan. At the heart of Wanstead lies George Green, Actions continued sporadically, but in prac­ a highly valued local park. The focal point of the tise Norwest Holst were hardly managing to do any Green was a magnificent 250-year-old sweet chest­ work worth stopping! On Tuesday 30th Novem­ nut tree. Local people had been led to believe that ber a crane arrived to start digging the entrance to the road would pass under the green in a tunnel, the tunnel a few yards up the road from George so they assumed that their tree was safe. What Green. At midday, two protesters evaded the they were not told was that the tunnel was only a security guards, climbed to the top of the crane, shallow cut and cover tunnel, and that the tree and “locked on” with bike locks 30 metres above would have to be cut down to allow it to be built. the road below! The contractors attempted to On Tuesday 2nd November, Norwest Holst started remove them with fire engines, high hoists, hy­ to put up wooden hoardings around the chestnut draulic bolt-cutters - but nothing could bring them tree. Local people were horrified, especially the down! They stayed up until after work had children who, for the rest of that week, came out finished at 6pm that evening, before descending from school as often as they could, and lay down voluntarily. in the way of the contractors to stop them putting A- more sinister development occurred in the up the fences. By Saturday 6th November they early hours of Friday morning, 3rd December. had finally completed the fencing, just in time to Protesters were subjected to two attacks within 20 prevent us from holding a planned “Tree Dress­ minutes of one another, at different places on the ing” ceremony. Several hundred local people, route. The first took place in Claremont Road, a furious at this, came out that day and tore the threatened street in Leyton which houses a number fences down again! Suddenly, the campaign had of protesters and other squatters. At 1.00am, two found a focus and a symbol - local support, which men passed down the street, one driving slowly in had so far been dormant, now sprang into life! a car, the other walking beside him, smashing The next day, a local nursery donated a through the window of every parked vehicle in number of plants, and the children created a sight. Twenty minutes later, six men struck at “Peace Garden” in the shadow of the tree, bearing Wanstead. They poured petrol over the tree and the words "Save the World”. A tree-house was the bender, and threw a Molotov inside the bender built in the branches of the chestnut tree. A bender 22 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 of the tree. Many more people ar­ rived during the early hours of the following morning. One group locked themselves into a ring around the treetrunk, with their arms linked by steel tubing; others climbed up into the tree itself. As predicted, about 400 police officers arrived at 5am that morning, and immediately started to clear people out of the way from around the base of the tree. Pension­ ers were dragged away without warn­ ing, one had his face punched, smashing his glasses. Another pro­ tester had his foot broken when it was deliberately stamped on by a policeman. The police used pressure points extensively whilst removing them. After about an hour of scuf­ fles, the police had the tree sur­ rounded, and started to bring in rein­ forcements to cordon it off. At 11 am a 'cherry picker' (highhoist hydraulic platform) arrived to remove protest­ ers from the tree itself (I). People lay in the road blocking its path, and were again dragged away by the police. At one point the cherry picker became stuck in the mud as it ap­ proached the tree; one security guard and one demonstrator were injured as it attempted to free itself. One tree occupant managed to climb onto the arm of the cherry picker, and locked himself to it with handcuffs. Eventually they demolished the for good measure. Protesters were asleep in both tree after 9 hours and a police operation which had the bender and the tree itself. It is very fortunate cost £100,000. It had forced the DoT to humiliate that only one protester suffered slight burns - the itself in a very public manner. Virtually all the attackers’ intentions were clearly MURDEROUS. national newspapers carried reports and photo­ Police arrested two people caught escaping the graphs of the incident - in many cases on the front area, and charged them with “arson with intent to page. The loss of the tree was a tragic day, and yet endanger life”. We always knew that roads were also atruly wonderful day. It had hammered built, not for the good of the public, but to suit the another huge nail into the coffin of the DoT’s roads interests of the roads lobby. This attack shows programme. just how deeply entrenched those vested interests Soon afterwards, local families gathered for are, and the extent which they are prepared to go a march through central London to the Depart­ to defend their interests once threatened. ment of Transport’s offices in Westminster. A nine BLACK AND BLUE year old boy presented the DoT with a young sweet chestnut tree, and requested that Roads TUESDAY: December Minister MacGregor should plant the new tree on George Green to replace the one he had demol­ 7th ished, and of course, halt the motorway construc­ tion. By early December, rumours began to circu­ late of a major police operation to evict the tree- WANSTONIA dwelling, and it soon became clear that the ru­ A long Christmas break in the 'construction' mours were serious. Within 24 hours phone calls industry gave the campaign some time to recover had gone out to people all around the country. On our energy. But it was soon clear that a new threat Monday evening, 6th December, about 150 peo­ was looming. On December 30th the DoT served ple gathered for an all-night vigil around the base DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 23 'noticcs to quit' on the tenants of a row of large Edwardian houses next to George Green itself. established These houses included the homes of Patsy Braga On the same day, (25th of January), as the and Mike Edwards, two local anti-road campaign­ government published four greenwash reports on ers; another of the houses had been 'colonised' by sustainable eco-rape, tree ‘surgeons’ arrived to the campaign in October, for use as a direct action chainsaw down a copse of Yew, Oak and Holly centre! So at the start of 1994, these houses trees in Leytonstone. Opening the gates they were officially became squats. The campaign needed surprised to find their ‘work site’ turned into a to do something dramatic to make a big issue of camp site of assorted benders and tree ham­ these houses. On Sunday 9th January, with the mocks. Police arrived to evict ‘Trespassers’ but threat that the houses could be demolished imme­ realised that the protesters had legal possession of diately after a High Court hearing the following the land. ‘If you want to remove my clients you will Thursday, a meeting of the inhabitants and other have to go through the court!’ smirked a cam­ local people decided that they would make a paign solicitor to a disgruntled police officer. Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the Nearly the whole of the street was by now under UK, and set up the “Independent Free Area of the control of the campaigners and Fillebrooke Wanstonia”. The campaign’s solicitors wrote to Road is declared independent. Long live the Au­ the Foreign Office to advise them of our intentions tonomous Free Area of Leytonstonia! & a Declaration of Independence was drawn up. Bash Wednesday The outcome of the High Court case was unex­ Direct action slowed down in preparation for pectedly favourable one house was reprieved the upcoming eviction of Wanstonia and we con­ completely (forcing the DoT to go back to square one), and a stay of execution was granted on the centrated on digging ditches and erecting barri­ cades. We didn’t have to wait long, the big day others. came on Ash Wednesday, now renamed Bash Actions, actions and Wednesday, and what a surreal day it turned out to be. Far to surreal, in fact, for this scribe so I will yet more actions leave it to of all people-The Daily Telegraph. Meanwhile outside the Free Area on the 'Link Road Protesters in handcuffs cut away 10th of January the contractors returned from a from concrete filled spin drier...but now they plan long Christmas and New year holiday. Activists to regroup in Leytonstone. tree sat threatened trees and there was much The Battle for Wanstonia- Self styled chainsaw diving- including one activist head butt­ republic smashed by police ing a working chainsaw while wearing a crash The battle of Wansted began at dawn yester­ helmet. This went on for a number of days. On the day when police officers taking part in Operation 20th 20 Wanstonians blockaded a pile driver Barnard converged on what protesters had dubbed, being driven onto the construction site that was “The Independent Free Area of Wanstonia”. In Wansted Green and were met with 50 Territorial their attempt to stop the M il link road, the Support Group with police dogs- one happily protesters had called on the foreign office and the wielding his truncheon. United Nations to recognise the row of Edwardian houses they had occupied as an independent Site invasions & country. Both appeals were rebuffed and they grappling hooks found themselves in breach of court orders requir­ ing them to leave. They refused and the court The next action saw a dynamic shift of officials prepared to move in, backed by uni­ tactics. 300 turned up for a day of action on formed officers and units of the Territorial Support January 22nd, shifting gear into the offensive. Group -(2)-, who are specialists in public order Fort Norwest-Holst was held siege for an entire confrontations, detectives from the area major day, with the formidable defences breached on investigation team and a small number of horse­ several dramatic occasions, (even if the grappling man. Police detailed to enter the occupied proper­ hook proved over ambitious!). The security ex­ ties had protective clothing and riot helmets.....By celled themselves again, old Andy ‘chipped tooth’ 6am, the houses had been filled with protesters got so excited he had to be revived with the old who were waiting with a mix of apprehension and ‘paper bag over the head routine’ (apparently it is good humour. Some sang folksy protest songs a recognised first aid technique!). Many of the and one even rang the police station complaining other guards smashed their own computers in the that he was cold and asking them to hurry up. The furore. By the end of the day, the main site on police arrived in a procession of coaches an hour Cambridge park road was without security cam­ later.... officers stopped traffic, sealed olT the area eras, electricity or an intact set of blueprints. and made way for the court officials to attack the Leytonstonia barricaded front doors with sledgehammers. Once inside the properties, officers worked their way up, 24 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 systematically clearing each room and ejecting the police turned their attention to the roofs. Initial the occupants to behind a cordon of 200 yards attempts to lift protesters off using one cherry away. Protesters used a variety of tactics. Two picker crane were unsuccessful; but officers had were chained together through a hole in the more success using two cranes. As each house chimney breast. Another two were handcuffed to and roof was cleared, the properties were demol­ an old spin dryer with cement. When the upper ished by mechanical diggers, filling the air with and lower floors of the houses had been sealed. choking dust. A handful of demonstrators who

footnotes 1) It may seem strange that it took the contractors so long to get a cherry picker to the tree, however this can be explained quite simply. The contractors fearing that monkeywrenchers would be in the area, put their chcrrypicker under 24 hour guard, and being completly paranoid hired another and hid it down the road in a school car park. According to sources in Norwest Holst there fears were realised and despite the guards the Hydraulic Platform started to fall apart when they attempted to move it. Without hesitation they drove down to their ‘secret’ backup platform only to find it WRENCHED! Cherry pickers are rather sparse in East London, especially for companies who have a reputation for “not looking after hired machinery”. Do or Die, of course condemns all acts of illegality! 2) The Territorial Support Group are highly trained police units only used in times of public 'disorder'. Originally named the SPG (Special Patrol Groups), they changed name a couple of years back after a number of embarrassing instances. One involved a baker who was driving his mini to work, unfortunately for him he passed a SPG unit who mistook him for a escaped kidnapper and immediately shot him dead leaving his car careering into others at a roundabout. Numerous occasions of black lads finding themselves bleeding in the gutter after encountering the SPG also surfaced. The SPG now with a very dirty public record disbanded and a day later the TSG was formed- with nearly exactly the same employees. All in all not a nice bunch. DO ORDIEISSUE4 25 had occupied a tree in front of one of the properties Rising, Lcytonstonia is still awaiting attack with a was clcarcd last. By then, the officials were work­ 24 watch on guard and more houses are coming ing under lights. Demonstrators appeared demor­ under our control daily. alised, but said they were planning new occupa­ tions on another part of the route in nearby Beware the Ides of Leytonstone. “ It has taken them this long to clear March a small row of houses, but there are...another 250 for us to occupy before this road is built”, said And that is where Operation Roadblock came one...Sabatage and damage to contractors equip­ in. With the new Criminal Justice Bill imminent, ment since early December has been estimated at and lets face it, minor amendments aside, immi­ £35,000 ...Since last September, when the Wansted nent is the word, and with the roads programme protests began in earnest, about 100 people have virtually on its knees, (which it is), we have no been arrested, mainly for obstruction and criminal choice but to go big time with the current cam­ damage to site equipment. A spokesman for the paigns. Operation Roadblock was planned to form Department of Transport denied any accusation a national rota of activists and get 100 people per of having ridden rough-shod over the wishes of day to the M il for at least a month, starting from the 15th of March. The 15th of March is of course local people. the Ides of March when Julias Caesar got stabbed- Wanstonia Rising the beginning of the end of the last great road Just when they thought they’d smashed building empire. Operation Roadblock switched Wanstonia up it pops again, only 500 yards down the campaign once again on to the offensive, no from where the Chestnut grew. An empty tobac­ longer would the state decide the agenda, I, 200 conist due for eviction was squatted and turned people over one month took part in direct action, into a drop in centre for the campaign. On the digger diving and all that jazz. Using a rota system following Monday Squibb & Davies the demolition turned out to be a very effective means of mobi­ men illegally entered hitting protesters with sledge­ lizing people- a model for other protests maybe? hammers. After re-enforcement’s of protesters Operation Roadblock 2 is on the horizon as well as arrived they left, the same rigmarole happens a the ambiguous sounding Operation Liquidate. So couple of days later, but the protest regained come down to the Autonomous Zones and expe­ occupancy. After a few weeks of occupation the rience some peaceful 'urban warfare'. contractors smashed aprt Wanstonia Rising, but -Written by a dodgy group of shady charac­ within days a new house was squatted Wantonia ters including Roger Geffin, Secret Squirrel and Rising 2.At the time of writing Wanstonia is still Yellow pinky.

'On closer examination we find that trees perform many more offices in relation to the soil than that of merely pegging it down. By virtue of cooling the air and spraying the sky and multiplying the clouds they exert considerate influence upon the fall and distribution of rain; by virtue of sponging the earth around their feet they enormously influence the behaviour of floods, the discipline of rivers, the supply of springs, the health of fish;...and by the virtue of their power to suck up moisture by the ton they dry the swamps and control the malarial mosquitoes. Forests are much more than meets the eye. They arc fountains. They are oceans. They are pipes. They are dams. Their work ramifies through the whole economy of nature.’ - J. S. Collins, from ‘The Triumph of the Tree’, 1950

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6 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 The Criminal Justice Bill

The state declares war on what it cannot Other clauses end the right of silence and virtually control...... ban convoy driving. This briefing explains what In June 1986 David Mellor, Minister of State the state will be able to do legally, in reality the at the Home Office, explained on BBC radio that police will often act above and beyond the call of the government had no intention of introducing a the law. criminal trespass law. There was no need for it, he Clauses 52 and 53: aggravated trespass said; it would create more problems than it would The definition of aggravated trespass rests solve. It comes as no surprise to anyone that on intention. Neither the police nor the prosecu­ nearly eight years later the Home Office is pushing tion would have to prove that disruption or ob­ through those very laws it denied it would ever struction of lawful activities or intimidation of propose. The Criminal Justice & Public Order Bill people actually took place; the crime of aggra­ clauses 52-55 create new offences of aggravated vated trespass can be committed purely by inten­ trespass, and holding or attending trespassing tion. assemblies. This means in effect that nearly all the The most wet of protests would become activity EF! groups and their ilk are presently criminal. For example, if you stand on the steps involved in will, most probably late summer, be­ of an office leafleting workers as they enter, you come criminal. would be guilty of aggravated trespass and could This briefing deals specifically with the clauses go to prison for up to three months, even if the relating to protest and Public Order, however, protest is good humoured and only involves a various other clauses aimed at other ‘enemies handful of people. You will be a trespasser. The within’ may also be applied to protest. For in­ office workers will be involved in the lawful activity stance the act also criminalises squatting, mean­ of going to work, and you will have intended to ing that we will no longer have a stay of execution disrupt or obstruct that activity by talking to them. after setting up land occupations, while the appro­ Even if you hadn’t, a police officer might think priate companies apply for an eviction order. otherwise- and there is no requirement of proof that actual disruption took place- only the inten­ tion. If you leafleted on the pavement in front of the building, it would after all, under present law be Obstruction of the Queens Highway. Clause 53 makes it a criminal offence not to leave land if SQUATTING asked to do so by a police officer who “ reasonably believes” (hat a person is committing, has com­ IS IT A CRI^J?| mitted or intends to commit the offence of aggra­ vated trespass. It would be extremely difficult to T O BE HOHEliS- mount a defence against this in court. Clause 54 and 55: Trespassery assemblies THERE ARE 818,000 Under Clause 54 in London the police will need only the permission of the Home Secretary to EUPTy HOMES INTHE UK impose a ban. Elsewhere the police must apply to ---- (D.0.E APRIL ^ 2)- the local authority, which needs the consent of the Home Secretary to impose a ban. Bans can be E VERY squatter IS imposed even on the use of ‘public’ land provided 0FF1CIALD' H O M ELES S ^ that the public only has a limited right of access. ACCORDING TO SECTION58 Most ‘public places’ have limited rights of access. Clause 54 also covers any assembly on the high­ OF The HOUSING ACT W85 way, (section 14a(9)). While on a carmaggedon action as well as facing charges of Public Order KUPfW SQUATIING Section 5, Section 4, Obstruction of the Queens Highway and Obstruction of a Police Officer in the execution of his/her duty; we will now sit arms linked in front of the Juggarnuaghts of progress contemplating three months imprisonment. Clause 55 gives the police the powers lo stop people

DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 27 whom they ‘reasonably believe’ to be on their On a table at an office in London.. way to an assembly which they ‘reasonably believe’ is likely to be prohibited by that or­ der, and direct them not to proceed. During the Twyford 93 debacle police roadblocks were used on a number of occasions to make it difficult for protesters to arrive at the camp; the most notable in­ stances being 30th of April to the 2nd of May and ^lst-22nd of May. At the time these were entirely illegal, this clause legalises such re­ strictions of freedom of movement. Clause 22: bail conditions The Bill includes proposals relating to bail. Under current law, the power to impose conditions on bail rests with the courts. How­ ever, Clause 22 of the If you don't want to be a Bill gives police new powers to impose bail mugshot - mask up ! conditions if they con­ sider this necessary ‘for the purpose of preventing eviction of Wanstonia entitled ‘When protest is the that person from- (a) failing to surrender to cus­ proper road to change’, arguing that, ‘.....if you tody, or (b) committing an offence while on bail, believe something should be changed or stopped, or (c) interfering with witnesses or otherwise ob­ join a protest....and if you won’t, don’t Complain structing the course of justice’. In practise, the when life becomes unbearable. You have only police will arrest people for minor offences such as yourselves to blame.’. The Sunday Express(2) Breach of the Peace primarily for the purposes of heralded the M il protesters, beards and dreads imposing bail restrictions. This tactic has been included, as ‘The citizens who care’. We seem to used considerably against EFlers for the last year have attracted support from the whole spectrum and a half, most notably at the Isle of Sky, the City of society, to imprison hundreds of ‘caring citi­ of London, Jesmond Dene, the Mil, Twyford zens’; would be a political disaster. Down & all Boots and MacDonald stores. At The bill will instead be used as an excuse for Twyford bail conditions were used as exclusion mass arrests of which the resulting cases will no orders banning activists from a I mile wide 4 mile doubt be dropped at a later date. They will use it long area including much of the town many of the to scare off potential activists and make it physi­ activists lived in. Before the Bill this tactic has often cally difficult to get access to areas of running proved ineffective, with courts ruling against the dispute. The few who they will imprison will be the policies recommendations- now the police decide! alleged ‘ringleaders’ & ‘political agitators’. Here How will it be applied? lies the benefit of having a structure which is non- Although the Bill affirms the states right to hierarchical and decentralised- we have no lead­ imprison us for three months at a time for simply ers, we have no committee, no organisers. Or at striving to halt Genocide & Ecocide or for that least that’s how the rant goes. The truth is a bit point for even thinking of it , mass imprisonment’s more hard to swallow, the state recognises it, arc unlikely. We live in strange times. The Mail on maybe its time we did. Sunday, (I), recently carried an article on the Continued page 32 28 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 “Here we are, the dead. We die again, but this time to live. To the Mexican people

a pivotal role in the Mexican Revolution. Although To the peoples and governments of the recent events have been reported several times world: over by various news agencies, a short summary Brothers and Sisters: Since Jan 1 of this year, our Zapatista troops began a series of politico-military actions with the UDMDOILMK]® principal objective of letting the Mexican people and the world know the miserable conditions that millions of Mexican, especially we the Indigenous people, live and die in. With these actions, we also z m m let people know our decision to fight for our elementary rights in the only way that the govern­ ment authorities have left us: armed struggle...... — General Command of the Indigenous Revo­ lutionary Clandestine Committee of the Eje’rcito Zapatista dc Liberacio’n Nacional (EZLN), from the moun­ tains of Southeastern Me’xico. January, 6, 1994 t Articles on the resistance of indigenous peo­ ples are a regular feature in many ecologically minded publications. This issue we cover the recent native activity in southeastern Mexico. The EZLN is fighting for land, food, and freedom to control their own lives in southern Me’xico. In the first three weeks of armed struggle the Zapatista * i ^ National Liberation Army (Eje’rcito Zapatista de \ • mm’ Liberacio’n Nacional) accomplished more, mili­ L. ' w tary and politically, than any of the guerrillas of Central America have in the past 12 years. They claim a tradition of radical Indigenous self-deter­ mination, Zapatismo, and in doing so set them­ selves politically and strategically apart from al­ most every other clandestine armed group in Latin America. They are not vanguard Marxist guerrillas in search of a social base to lead into the revolu­ tion. They are not even trying to conquer the rest of the country (although they clearly wouldn’t mind if some other Mexicans caught on to their ideas). They are trying to reclaim and protect their is useful. native land, their culture, their families, their vil­ lages and towns, their lives. The facts, in brief, are the following: several thousand combatants liberated several towns and The real beginnings of the current rebellion cities (among them, San Cristo’bal de las Casas, can be found in 1492 and 1910. Spain’s conquest Ocosingo, Las Margaritas and Altamirano) in the of what is now Latin America gave rise to the name of the EZLN. They were armed, but some­ conditions under which most Native peoples in times with little more than ancient rifles or ma­ this hemisphere still struggle, and die. Emiliano chetes. They wore bandannas over their faces and Zapata offered a radical solution to those condi­ flew a black flag with a red star on it. After securing tions: that Indigenous campesinos take back their the city of San Cristo’bal de las Casas, with a land. Zapata’s army of Indigenous peasants played population of 100,000, the EZLN fighters attacked DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 29 the jail, freeing 129 prisoners. for the Indigenous population, The soldiers opened prisons in that the land be held commu­ several other towns as well, and nally in ejidos (land trusts) which redistributed stockpiled food could not be bought or sold among the people. In Ocosingo, (provided for by articles 4 and much of the EZLN hid away for 27, which were respectively de­ three days prior to the attack— leted and gutted when the con­ around two thousand soldiers stitution was revised two years hid among the people in a small ago). They also demanded the town and were “not noticed.” right to rebel. Article 39 reads Proceso, a Me’xico City news as follows: weekly, offered the following ex­ planation: “... in a ‘war region’ “National sovereignty es­ like this, for every one of the sentially and originally resides revolutionaries there exists a base in the people. All political power of support among the commu­ emanates from the people and nities, and for this reason it is its purpose is to help the people. difficult to find those involved.” The people have, at all times, In several other towns and cities, the inalienable right to alter or not only were Mexican police modify their form of govern­ officers disarmed by the EZLN, m ent.” but disrobed as well, and left in their own jails. It was this right that the EZLN claimed as they began What is most distinctive their struggle. If that were not about the EZLN is their political enough legitimacy for one sophistication, both in their de­ armed revolutionary movement, velopment of an extensive base they went still further: “We also in the population of Chiapas and ask that international organiza­ in the timing and justification of tions and the International Red their recent armed actions. The Cross watch over and regulate insurgents have justified their our battles, so that our efforts entire revolt under the Mexican are carried out while still pro­ constitution and have demanded tecting our civilian population. to be officially recognized under We declare now and always that international law as a belligerent we are subject to the Geneva force in order to bring the con­ Accord, forming the EZLN as • flict under international war con­ the fighting arm of our libera­ ventions. As further criteria for tion struggle.” The EZLN has dialogue with the government tried to put itself in a curious negotiator, the EZLN demanded placc: a legitimate (in fact, le­ an end to aerial bombings of gal), Indigenous people’s lib­ Indigenous communities; re­ eration army. spect for the human rights of the local population; the withdrawal Almost from the start the of government troops to their Mexican government has tried barracks; and the declaration of to claim that the situation in a cease-fire. Chiapas was caused by some sort of outside agitator. The first Article 39 of the Mexican tack was to claim that the EZLN constitution, which legally justi­ were trained, led, supported or fies the entire rebellion, was rati­ supplied by Guatemalan guer­ fied under pressure from rillas. This theory is doubtful for evidence of significant amounts Zapatista and other liberatory at least three reasons: the poli­ of Guatemalans in the EZLN or forces in 1917, at the end of the tics of the EZLN are incompat­ coordination with other groups Mexican Revolution. The ible with those of the Guatema­ in Guatemala. Zapatistas, distrusting the pro- lan guerrillas, the military tactics government forces in the centre are quite different (the Zapatistas The EZLN is an Indigenous, of the country, demanded that have been much more success­ peasant army. During one inter­ land be guaranteed in perpetuity ful), and there is absolutely no view, Subcomandante Marcos 30 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 EZLN-] slated that it was organized by indigenous have engaged in vote fraud for decades, and after ethnicities, with the Clandestine Indigenous Revo­ the last elections in 1988, several towns rose up lutionary Committee setting the strategic and against the fraudulent vote counts. Chiapas voted political direction based upon broad “accords" overwhelmingly (over 90%) for the PRI in the last existing between the different Indigenous groups. election, according to the official counts. Many are joking that they cannot understand what the The EZLN is a liberation army that seeks not Mexican Government is afraid of: with such a high to establish a political regime of one kind or level of support in the region, the EZLN must, in another, but rather to free the people to make fact, be members of the PRI! those decisions themselves. Their stated goal is to -For more information contact Mexico EF! establish liberated zones in which the people can be freed from the one-party dictatorship of the PRI (the Party of the Institutional Revolution, Me’xico’s Excerts from ruling party for over 50 years) and can decide their communiques own direction. This struggle for political freedom * Don’t leave this heavy flag in our hands is central to the strategy of the EZLN. alone. Let the actions of all raise it. Let us all change the land that embraces it. Brothers and Much has been said about the question of Sisters, don’t forget this voice from the mountains. timing of the rebellion with respect to the North The light which our dead bid farewell to is still very American ,Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA—TLC small. Let us all be submerged in light. Let us break in its Spanish initialogram). NAFTA formally went this disgraceful night. It is time for it to awake.’ into effect at midnight, Jan I, 1994 and it was this *1 was taking care of a small monkey that did point that the Chiapanecos chose for the onset of not respect authority as ALL little ones should. their revolution. “NAFTA... for the Indians is a Ignoring my magnificent military appearance and death sentence. Once it goes into effect, it means the already slightly discoloured red star on my an international massacre.” Marcos was referring chest (which said to the rest of the then already to the economic impact of NAFTA on the peas­ powerful EZLN, that is the six, that I was an infantry ants in rural southern Me’xico. Campesinos cur­ lieutenant), the monkey (we always suspected rently live at a barely subsistence level by working that it was a “she” and not a “he”) had this habit small plots of land and selling their labour to of climbing up my chest and hanging itself from fincas, farms owned by powerful land-owners my right shoulder whenever it so desired. Raul, What NAFTA brings to Me’xico are the biggest one among us in all senses, taught us. cheap beans and grain grown by the Lucha sang tangos in the afternoons, hours of enormous agribusiness firms of the tangos and crickets. Food was running out. We Midwestern US. They will consistently be knew what was coming. We were already invinci­ able to outprice the small-plot farmers of Chiapas, ble and small. January was still a long way whose lives are now at risk. Without the food and off...the year? 1984 (does this remind you of income from the small plots of land they work, something). The mad hatter and the March hare they will not be able to survive. In fact, NAFTA is sang: merely one economic factor, although an impor­ tant one, in the stew of trouble that has brewed in “Happy, happy not-birthday Chiapas, Morelos, Guerrero and other southern to you, I give you (twice). states in Me’xico for decades. If today is not your birthday then we will have to celebrate. We have learned that, according to a Ser­ (twice).” geant in US Army intelligence, on March 18 a small group of military intelligence operatives of Alicia was able to get out. We are still the US army will arrive in Guatemala to scout out here...and we sing...still... the border with Chiapas and locate a spot appro­ Greetings and good luck in the ides of March. priate for a battalion-sized encampment. The —From the mountains of Southeastern camp should be established some time this sum­ Mexico, Subcomandante Insurgent Marcos, Gen­ mer. This is solid information that the US consid­ eral Command of the Indigenous Revolutionary ers the situation in Chipaps serious and of poten­ Clandestine Committee of the Eje’rcito Zapatista tially long duration. de Liberacio’n Nacional (EZLN), March 15 1994. P.S. Who bids you farewell amidst a friendly The national elections in Me’xico are less gale.- This March as everything is in chaos, fake than six months away and how Chiapas is or is not care of yourselves if there is a way.” resolved will have everything to do with who wins. -COMMUNIQUE ENDS-

DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 31 Animal Antics

1 "Chimpanzees, Ai and Akira [captor given pressing the butt of his shotgun behind its head. names] at the Kyoto University Primates Research The snake coiled around the butt and pulled the Institute,., used keys taken from a guard to open trigger with its thrashing tail, firing one of the their cages, crossed the hall to free their friend, the barrels and shooting Ahani fatally in the head. His orang-utan, Doodoo, and bolted to freedom." - colleague tried to grab the shotgun, but the writh­ from 5th Estate Fall Winter 1993, Vol 28 # 3. ing reptile triggered the other barrel, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency - [Ap, Reuters]” 2 “When in captivity, orang-utans display - 24 April 1990. - Examples 4 and 5 drawn from remarkable mimicry and manipulation. There is a Foryean Times, June 1992. joke among zoo-folk that, if offered a screwdriver, a gorilla would use it to scratch itself. A chimp Plant Protest would hurl it at another chimp. But an orang-utan " In February 1982, David, M, Grundman, a would wait until the keeper had disappeared, and 27 year old man from phonix, went out into the then use it to unlock the cage." - BBC Wildlife Arizona Desert and fired repeated shot gun blasts Ja n .’94. into a giant Saguaro Cactus, the large pitchfork­ shaped Saguaro is Arizona's State plant and a 3 "When a park service used a newly made protected endangered species, widespread de­ road to gain access to cull an elephant group, struction of this cactus by collectors and vandals several individuals [[in the group]] broke off tree has led state authorities to impose fines and even branches and piled them over the road to close it prison terms on offenders The cactus Grundman off; when the branches were removed, the el­ fired on was 27-feet tall, only about half the ephants just put them back.” - BBC Wildlife Oct. maximum height the species is capable of achiev­ ’93. ing. Standing a few feet away from it, Grundman concentrated his fire about 4 feet up the base of 4 "Rabbit-hunting farmer Vincent Caroggio the plant. When he let loose for the 3rd time, the of Chartres, France paused for a rest and laid his trunk gave way. to Graundmans surprise, the 23 gun down. He was immediately shot dead by a foot upper section of the cactus toppled directly on rabbit, which rushed from its burrow and bumped to him. Grundman tried to step out of the way, but against the trigger.” - Scottish Sunday Mail 14 the cactus knocked the gunman to the ground April 1991. with a vengeful force, and perforated his body with thorns, for good measure. Grundman was pro­ 5"Ali-Ashgar Ahani, 27, an Iranian hunter, nounced dead on arrival at Phonix hospital." from- tried to catch a snake alive near Teheran by 'The Eco Wars', by David day, Harrap Books, 1984.

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* The rapid deteroratation of the rainfall efficiency now proceeding in East Africa is due to deforestation and soil erosion’ 1939, G.V.Hacks, ‘The Rape of the Earth’, pl95

‘ Not so long ago it was the “natural order” for africans to be taken as slaves on plantaations. Much racism today depends on concepts of inate inferiority or fear of the unfamiliar. Women who demand equality of opportunity and equal consideration find themselves faced with a whole string of arguments which range from the biological to the spiritual- all arguaments which end with the conclusion (sometimes expressed with sympathy) that such is the way of the world. Happily every day more people see through the con. But confront most convinced anti-racists and anti-sexists with SPECIESISM and you may get a laugh, or annoyance; they may see your point (but do nothing) or just amble off mumbling about being too busy with starving kids or the right to work. Pin them down and they will trundle out the same worn out arguments which they have already rejected as a basis for racism and sexism.’- Spectacular Times 'Animals’

‘ "Primroses and landscapes”, the Director pointed out, "have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature.’”- Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’ 32 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 The Biological Meltdown

The life support systems of the earth are where else. Since humans first arrived, several of being de-stabilised. An unprecedented biological the islands endemic species have become extinct collapse is taking place worldwide, and only un­ and 80% of the natural vegetation has been de­ precedented effort will curtail the massive wave of stroyed.(8) extictions. Even though tropical forests m ake up only Although about 1.4 million species have 6% of the Earth’s land surface, they are home to currently been named and described by scientists, an estimated 50 to 90% of all species.(9) no one really knows the total number of species on “ ...the most dangerous malady afflicting the Earth; current estimates range from 5 million to 30 Earth is that of exfoliation- destruction of its living million or more. It has been predicted that 17,500 skin. In human medicine the loss of skin from species may be lost to extinction each year and whatever cause is a serious threat to life; the loss some scientists forecast that total losses may of more than 70% of the skin by burning is usually reach 1 million by the year 2000. Peter Raven fatal. To denude the earth of its forests and other estimates that we could lose 10% of the worlds natural ecosystems and of its soils is like burning species by 2000 and more than 25% within the the skin of a human, and we shall soon have next few decades.(1) replaced with inefficient farmlands 70 % of the In addition to the species that will be lost earth’s natural land surface cover...... The ef­ outright, many thousands of plants and animals fects of forest clearance will probably be the first will be reduced to populations teetering on the gigantic disaster to greet us within the next decade edge of extinction. When a species becomes rare, or two. Numerical models based on Gaia theory, it loses genetic variety and becomes more vulner­ and the experience of past civilisations, both able to the many factors that threaten its long term predict that once more than this proportion of self survival. regulating ecosystems dies, (65%), then it can no Based on the current rates of forest clearance longer sustain its climate and total collapse takes in Latin American forests, it has been forecast that place. “(10) as those forests shrink to half their original size by “ At bottom, 35% of the world’s land surface the year 2000, 15% of the forest plant species, or is at risk from turning into deserts. This land is about 13, 600 kinds of plants could be lost. (2) home to 850 million people. There are 45 million Of the 11,500 plant species found in Europe, square kilometres of dry lands. Of these an area 21% are endangered. Of some 20,000 plant spe­ which is about as big as North and South America cies originally found in the United States, 90 combined is already at risk of turning into desert. species are extinct and 2,040 are endangered. In “( 11) Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Spain, (1) Global Tomorrow Coalition. 'The Global over 20% of mammalian species are classified as Ecology Handbook1. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990 threatened, in the Western Hemisphere, (2) Ibid. populations of many forest birds and migratory (3) Ibid. shorebirds are declining- as much as 60-80% in (4) Idid. many cases.(3) (5) 'Life Support: Conserving Biological Di­ Wetlands are amongst the earths most im­ versity', Worldwatch Institute, 1992. portant and biologically diverse ecosystems. Be­ (6) Idid. tween 25 and 50% of the worlds swamps and (7) Ibid. marshes have been lost.(4) (8) Conservation Foundation. ‘State of the Three-Fourths of the worlds bird species are Environment: A view toward the nineties.', W ash­ declining in population or threatened with extinc­ ington, D.C., 1987. tion. (5) (9) World Resources Institute, ' World re­ Amphibians, (frogs, salamaders, newts and sources 1988-1989', New York: Basic Books, related species), are declining worldwide.(6) Inc., 1988. In Indonesia 1,500 local varieties of rice have (10) 'Gaia- The practical Science of Plan­ disappeared in the past 15 years. Nearly three- etary medicine'. By James Lovelock, Gaia Books fourths of the rice grown today descends from a Ltd, 1991, pl57. single plant.(7) (11) ‘ The Crisis of Life on Earth’, Tim Island habitats are especially vulnerable. For Radford., p.206. example, Madagascar is home to more than 6,000 plants, 106 birds, 142 frogs, and half of the world's chameleon species, all of which are found no­ DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 33 Biodiversity and the of crop species is decreasing. In short this islands eco-system has been devastated. British Isles 'Since 1945 the (JK has lost 30% of its rough grazing land, 65% of song thrushes, 90% of mead­ Species loss like many ecological issues has ows, 50% of lowland woodlands, heaths and fens entered this islands mass psychology while re­ and 140,000 miles of hedgerow. 80 commons maining fundamentally misunderstod. Obscured have been deregulated'(l) by a haze of large numbers and strange sights, You would think then that biodiversity would species loss is seen as something solely in relation be the 'environmental' movements main priority, to rainforest, Pandas and David Attenburgh talk­ but no. Most local groups involved in stopping new ing of brightly coloured fungi. Biodiversity is seen developments, (roads, supermarkets etc.), are as something distant, something separate from more likely to talk about damage to landscape day to day life. Something foreign, which has no than damage to ecology. To oppose a cutting relation to o u r' green & pleasant land' 7 soley because it destroys a hillfort or 'the view', Biodiversity is the expression of healthy ecol­ rather than because it trashes a ancient woodland ogy. It may seem distant to these Isles because or destroys 2,000 year old badger sets is yet more these Isles are SICK. It has been said that civilised anthropocentric rubbish. man walks the earth leaving deserts in his foot­ We live in what is mostly an ecological prints. As the frontiers of this civilisation opened catastrophe. An anatomy diagram is beautiful, but up, so the cedars of Lebanon and the Broadleaf is nevertheless a dead body. The summer lush­ forests of this island were trampled underfoot. ness of pasture land is deceptive, after all, the With the great forests all but destroyed the soils of lawns at Wimbledon are green but not particularly Lebanon eroded, and washed and blew away. healthy. We must start to talk of life, of biodiver­ Thanks to this islands mild temperate climate, its sity. We must change the way we think about the fate was to remain a different kind of desert. A country. You cannot escape urbanism in the desert of ploughed fields, of a thousand swaying countryside, todays countryside is, on the whole, barley stalks. an extension of urbanism. The dominant interac­ Soon the last sizable remnants of the great tion in the country is, as in cities, the oppression forests were slashed, to provide timber for the and degradation of ecosytems by civilised man. growing Naval machine, to undermine the free We must understand the lands ecology and who still lived in the forest and to build the new take further action against those who destroy its cities & bring more money into the government remaining diversity, for if we don't, soon there will coffers. All that was left was a spiderweb like be nothing but man and his creations. network of hedges and treelines, draped over an (1) Council for the Protection of Rural Eng­ otherwise barren landscape; acting as corridors land. between, with little exception, small managed woodland. The very symbol of the concept which destroyed the land, property, became the final refuge of diversity. Criminal Justice Bill Continued. With the advent of agri-business even the EF! has a centralised structure based on the hedges are now being destroyed and the diversity hierarchy of organisational knowledge. If they jailed a well targeted couple of dozen activists the Earth First! ‘movement’ would be crippled. We have no chance of defeating the Criminal Justice Bill, but to make sure that the bill does not defeat us we must make skill sharing a priority! There is no Justice- Just CJs! 1)The Mail on Sunday, London Edition, 20.2.94. 2) The Sunday Express, London Edition, 6.3.94. 3)This article owes more than is probably legal by copyright to a briefing entitled, ‘Restric­ tions on peaceful protest', produced by the Na­ tional Council For Civil Liberties. They have pro­ duced four others packs covering all aspects of the bill, at u 1.50 each, a) Police Powers, b)Criminal Justice, c) Restrictions on outdoor raves and festivals &d) Restrictions on Travellers and Squat­ ters. There Address is: Liberty Campaigns Office, 21 Tabard street, London SE1. 34 DO OR DIE ISSUE 4 cjC ettuce to the

Dear Earth First!, I've just com e across a copy of Do or Die and, after 10 years of working in depressing jobs it has given me hope. I thought 1 was destined to be a lone voice in a mad world, is it too much to ask for' a clean, kind, friendly world? I don't think so. What a world to be brought up in these days, it's run by terrorists - populated by apa­ meleons, gain people's trust, we feel that to say STOP THE thetic puppets. So many people relate our ideas to their lives, ...... or NO MORE...... We are used to the way things are they won't even listen if we ap­ are made to feel bad about it that when decent people stand pear a threat. You know how the and then allow ourselves to be up and speak they are descried government sets us apart to dis­ guided by someone 'better' at as bomb wielding troublemak­ tract them from the way that the organising campaigns- who can ers. country is run. produce nice positive images. From birth we are catego­ 1 lost my nose stud, stopped 1 would like, via your or­ rised in little groups that are dying my hair, changed my dress gan, to suggest to these people pitied against each other when and, no, I haven't sold out. 1 that if what those grey-suited the real enemy are the ruling have just learnt urban camou­ m asses in the city do is positive, class - the leaders of industry. flage, while some people are then GET NEGATIVE! and if So for 10 years 1 have se­ outside with banners, I'm inside you cant handle that remem­ cretly and silently travelled alone with an ID card doing my worst, ber, NO more roads is good for doing whatever 1 could against I only wish I could share my the earth and is therefore posi­ the tide of madness. 1 don't hate experiences It would really make tive. Stop campaigning for more the city in the way you do and I you laugh. You'd be surprised rail travel, alternative timber et don't yearn to live in a field with how much you can get away and start organising for a really no technology. I quite like some with dressed in a suit. If you positive campaign:- Industrial technology, I just think we want to take the walls apart, Collapse! should use it to create a better then do it from the inside, learn -Vic. world. I really think we could get to infiltrate, take the bastards on organised with som e thought their own level. Hi folks,

the middle of it, and for years were being enclosed" attack on the vigil there was a now Jammerdai has been ex­ Send Letters of support large police^ presence on the ploited for clay. Enough! Pual to the following address; streets of Tower Hamlets. How­ started burning bulldozers. EYFA International, ever the BNP were able to march Seventeen eco-sabatge ac­ P.O. BOX 92066, 1090 AB, through the area smashing shops tions followed. Last summer Paul Amsterdam, Netherlands. and harrassing locals with no was caught after a video of his arrests. And the police wonder They will pass them onto Paul. action was shown on 'Crime Time why people call them fascists. TV'. He was sentenced to nine Contact: Tower Hamlets months imprisonment; he was Nine Defense Campaign, c/o PO moreover declared 'insane' by Box 73, London, E7 081 548 the Dutch court. As you read 0099.

CRIMINAL INJUSTICE STUFF

Notifiable Offences in England and Wales recorded by the Police in 1992

Vehicle Crime 28% Burglary 24% Other Theft 23% Other Offences 20 % Violent Crime 5% 5.6 million Offences

The word 'Crime' gets bandied about as if the major this, Paul is being observed by threat to the life and liberty of Dutch eco- psychologists. In its final the people of this Island is the pronounment in May, the Dutch 'criminal'. A criminal has be­ activist High Court will possibly sen­ come much more than a per­ declared tence him to what amounts to a son who commits a crime, life sentance, eg. he will be the criminal is a fiction cre­ 'Insane' thrown in a Mental Institution; ated to scare us at night. A seemingly on the sole founda­ days TV will contain a dozen Three years ago Paul S., tion of his court statement- sim­ programmes based around (35), from the Netherlands de­ ply for not believing the the police and hundreds of cided that ecological destruc­ domimnent 'sanity' that rapeing references to a world, or un­ tion in his region had gone far the earth is big and clever. derworld, of crime that is a enough. Along the River Meuse, During his police fictional creation. close to the densly populated intcrogation Paul admited that , Statistics are a bad lens urban complex of Vcnlo-Teglen " In spring 1990, I spray painted to see the world through and near the Dutch-German Border 'Entry Forbidden' signs in these figures are just there to lies Jammerdai. It is 4km square Jammerdai covering 'Forbidden' give a little insight into the UK of open rolling landscape alter­ so only 'Entry' was still visible. I prison system. The interest­ nated with woodland of great still remember quite clerly how ing thing about these figures ecological value. The Govt plan the 'iron curtain' had just fallen, is that they are remarkably to build a road stright through while woodlands and a quarry similar to what you would DOORDIENUMBER4 37 JUSTICE ? - Just Us I have found a hundred years ago, about the numbers of people in and decrepit cells into modern violent crime is a small part of prison for non payment of debt, cells with luxuries such as a toi­ the crime figures, sexual abuse 22,750 in 1993, this represents let. i and rape hardly figure in the 1/4 of all admissions to prison. The Archbishop of Canter­ figures as much of it goes unre­ Of these 504 were for not paying bury one said, " In many cases it ported and few charges brought. the poll tax and 845 for not can be argued that prison is a The main difference is the rise in having a TV licence. The vast short term economy, which vehicle crime, but then stealing majority of these defaulters were brings with it no long term solu­ car stereos wasn't an option 100 unemployed and in multiple debt. tions. Instead it leads to the per­ years ago. Britain has the highest rate petuation of a criminal class". People in Prison. of imprisonment in western Eu­ He is far from alone in this view. 4% of prisoners are female. rope and numbers are rising at One study which found that in­ This figure hides the thou­ the rate of 350 per week. New creasing the prison population, sands of women is psychiatric prisons are being built ofien by taking the criminal off the street, incarceration, it is largely true to private companies such as our would reduce crimc. This study say that men go to jail and friends Group 4 and there are estimated that a doubling of women go to the asylum, except plans for prison ships. Reports prison numbers would reduce for racial minorities who are sent from the '80s wave of prison crime by 1%. Many leading Ouse, in quantities to both. riots describe practices such as criminologists, police, wardens 8% male and 12 % female slopping out and overcrowding and politicians are starting to prisoners are West Indian or Af­ as leading to prisoners spending talk about cost effective sys­ rican. 2.5% arc from the Indian 20 hour days in their cells. Is it tems for dealing with crime that Subcontinent. any wonder that in Brixton prison are preventative not custodial. The prison population is ,for example, 17 inmates and 3 However in the USA. the Clinton getting younger 25% are under staff have committed suicide in administration is preparing new 21, and are drawn from 'disad­ the last five years, many other legislation , the Crime Bill, it vantaged classes', 1/3 of sen­ prisons have similar suicide adds 52 offences to the Federal tenced men are homeless, 3/4 records. crimes punishable by death, and of prisoners last job was manual Outside the prisons there is would lead to more prisoners. In and unskilled, 15% of prisoners a second wave of social destruc­ Britain the Criminal Injustice Bill are illiterate. A. Medical assess­ tion. People leaving prison re­ coming into force later this year, ment is '85 stated that 20-30% port problems finding housing largly unopposed by Labour or were borderline mentally abnor­ and finding jobs and problems Liberal parties, will add a whole mal, whatever that means. One adjusting to a less institutional new swath of imprisionable Home office report said, "These social framework. 6000 children crimes to the police armoury. are characteristically trivial of­ are affected every year by the fenders disturbed rather than imprisonment of their mothers, Alexander Paterson, the mad ... it may be that prison is unlike incarceration of fathers prison commissioner of the not the most desirable environ­ which disrupts some families the 1930's said, "It is impossible to ment for such individuals, but in incarceration of the female par­ train men for freedom in a con­ fact, it is frequently the only ent often destroys them. Lone dition of captivity", by freedom asylum available...". There have fathers if they are around find it we assume he meant life outside also been suggestions that 1/3 difficult to cope leaving children the prison. This statement is not of prisoners are dyslexic . in care, the cost of a child in care only true it needs to be taken There has always been con­ would be around £700 pw ( a further, it is impossible to create cern for the thousands of re­ secure unit costs more ) to be a free society by locking people mand prisoners, the British legal added to the cost of the incar­ behind bars. A rise in the prison system advertises itself with slo­ ceration of a parent which was population goes hand in hand gans such as 'innocent 'till proven £1,915 pm in '92. Prison riots with greater police powers and guilty, however this doesn't stop add to this expense, the Wymott encourages a climate of fear. A them locking up thousands of Prison riot, claimed to be the recent survey found that 30% of people who are awaiting their direct result of overcrowding, women were to scared to drive at trials. The length of time people cost 20 million. One prison of­ night, blatantly this sort of level wait for trial has risen from 23 ficer at Dartmoor described the of fear is totally out of proportion days in 1970 to over 50 days in riots as, "A blessing in disguise", to the risk. Scaring people with 1984. Recently concern has been since the necessary refurbish­ crime stories and police operas expressed in some newspapers ment had turned what were old and then increasing police pow- DOORDIENUMBER4 38 crs, arming them and be­ who often acted from the most patrol. ing 'hard on crime' may be good scandalous principles of selfish Unarmed police will have for politician's election prospects, avarice'. the right to refuse to attend a but it creates immense social violent incident if an armed re­ damage and great expenditure. sponse vehicle is available. Ultimately the 'crime' band Police Get wagon can only lead one way, a Guns direction that is becoming in­ Police Get creasingly apparent, towards a Under new proposals out­ Bigger Sticks police state. lined by Paul Condon the police After the beating of Rodney commissioner of the Metropoli­ King by the Los Angeles police tan police, the London Met.. 2000 the US style side handled baton out of the forces 28,000 police lost some of its charm. The Brit­ officers will be authorised to carry ish police started experimenting guns. This represents a large with telescopic batons and other increase and will mean nation­ devices. Now the Metropolitan ally 11,000 out of 125,000 po­ police in a move that could well lice will be fire arms trained. be followed by other police forces Apart from the increase in arms are introducing the new 'Arnold' trained cops, the rules surround­ polycarbonate baton as stand­ ing the use of firearms is to be ard equipment. changed to allow easier access The new 2ft high tech. trun­ to guns. This is a major step on cheon has already been used by the road to an armed police force. the Northumbrian police and Present rules state that fire­ they liked it. If used to hit people arms should be concealed, these over the head it would be ex­ Magistrates in the Cl8th will be scrapped and police will tremely dangerous, police pub­ were not held in high esteem, drive around with guns on their licity showed it in used against Tobias Smollett in his History of laps and walk around with a an knife attack, we'll have to see England in 1760 described them holster on their belt. how it gets used.. The baton gets worn openly hanging from as,'Men of profligate lives, needy, Police will not have to get the belt and not hidden in the mean, ignorant and rapacious permission from senior officers before taking weapons out on pocket as the old truncheon. feCtW'HliW tlW ! fSCW hFW sa S tn txlH f GREEN BRIGADES

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essays stand as a testement to this book will increse in rel­ Suing the relentless risistance and strenghth evance. in the face of crushing opposition.lt Cops shows that the destruction of The Verge Available from indegionous peoples through the Available bi-monthly Haringey Solidarity expropriation and/or destruction from EYFA, P.p. Box Group, (HSG),PO BOX of their land bases is very much an 92066, 1090 AB, 2401, London, N8. ongoing phenomenon in the the Amsterdam, This is a well produced and US and Canada. Netherlands. clear leaflet on how to go about It shows that the processes Fealing socially alienated, suing the police. This leaflet cov­ are not simply genocidal;they are think we are the only remanants ers briefly : increasingly ecocidal in their im­ of (in-)sanity surrounded by what you can sue for, plications. Not only the people of humans who's only puropsc is what kind of court case it the land are being destroyed, but, to work, consume and die? will be, more and more, the land itself. Don’t despair, you are not how much you could win, The nature of native resistance to alone, there are millions like what costs are involved. the continuing onslaught of the us, all over the world 'The The police have had easy invading industrial culture is Verge’ is the cure for despair. time with Earth First!, while a few shaped accordingly. It is the re- This is THE euro-wide eco- brave souls are suing the s i s t a n c e activist networking magazine. police over various bru­ forged in the Published in cnglish it carries talities and false arrests crucible of a news of direct action from 30 for the most part too struggle for countries across the continent. Eco-Anarch-Situ-Blah-Blah- many people let it go. survival. Es­ Suing the police can be says include; Blah oriented mayhem. It's satisfying and financially ‘Radioactive Great. rewarding so when we Colonalisation’, Ecology can we must do it. ‘ The Black •and our endangered Struggle Hills land struggle’, Life Support for the ‘The Navajo- Systems Hopi land Land dispute’, and Eugene P.Odium, 2nd Ed, 1993, Sinaucr - Indigenous ‘The Water Associates- Free from Rcsisitance to Plot: Hydro- any major bookstores. (icnocidc, Ecocide logical Rape One of the problems with and expropriation in Northern running around the country in Contcnipory Canada’. North America. objecting to everything is hav­ A s ing to explain new and com­ Ward Churchill, E F ! e r s Common Courage plex ideas to different people in Press, 1993, incresingly different areas. If you, like me £12.95 involve are an amayuer ecologist then Ward Churchill, themselves this book is a must. This book (Creek/Cherokee Metis), in land rights provides basic clear explana­ a co-ordinator of the issues, tions of most central ecologi­ whether it be Colorado chaptor of the cal issues. American Indian Move­ reclaiming It is important to be able ment, has put together a the high­ to communicate to people and collection of his essays lands, de- explain that our politics are not on native land struggles fending driven by whimsey or a desire which has no parrallel. It rights of ac­ to see our faces in the papers. is much more than a cess or stop­ Our politics came out of ne­ compendium of theft and ping the cessity, simply if the human gcnocidc, these collected concrctenisalion race docs not relate sustainably of our land, DOORDIENUMBER4 40 y acti m ac

and respectfully to the ecology zine has got the lot. From the our phones and pay informers to around it, not only docs it risk USA its packed full of interesting find out. The problem for them is major ecological disasters, and obscure articles, reviws, car­ that since we don’t even know (these have already begun), it toons etc.Read it! how we manage to get it to­ risks the very survival of life, At War With gether half the time, and since including of course itself. we have nothing to hide the MI5 This book deals with all The Truth and Special Branch are wasting their time. the major issues; population, - The true Story of evolution, energetics, and also Searchlight Agent Tim Terror or Love explains ecosytems covering , Hcppie o marshes, wetlands, forsests, In the mirky world of fascist m oceans and others. It does this infiltration and counter infiltra­ Bomtni Bauman, £6.95 in a clear and calm way, never tion there are many players MI5, - available from good failing to get across the priciples fascist sects, trot party frount radical bookshops of the study of ecology. From groups, and anti fascist or­ or DS4A . Gaia Hyposthesis, to the carbon ganisations. Its a ^ A personal ac­ cycle and from Genetic confusing mess count, from someone Enginerring to Global Model­ but this pam­ who was there, of a ling. phlet goes revolutionnary group As Earth First! we are enor- some way to which dccided to pick up clearing up guns and build bombs. the confu­ Bommi came out of the sion. radical scene of the late This is 60's, an ailienated worker the story o who wanted more than the infiltration 40 years of slavery of a green and a pension. He group by a was part of the mously bad at getting our ideas supposidly anti Roaming Hash across to the public. Ecological fascist group based Rebels and later the politics in Britain historicaly has around the magazine June 2nd Movement, been very much an asthctic en­ Searchlight. It soon becomes named after the day that a young vironmentalism, concerned clear that Searchlight's articles protestor was killed by the po­ middle classes who want the over the last few years have as lice. countryside to look natural, (but much to do with the editor Gerry This isn't an uncritical his­ not threating!). Though in EF! Gables prejudices and desire for tory which papers over the mis­ there arc many 'isoms'. Social power as they have to do with takes and problems of an urban ecology, Deep Ecology, Libera­ the truth. The easyest explana­ guerilla movement in the mod­ tion Ecology and Rcvolutinary tion for this I found not in At War ern Industrial west. Bommi went Ecology; there still remains a With The Truth but scrawled on underground in 1972 leaving the very low Ecological literacy even a toilet wall,' Searchlight = MI5 June the 2nd movement which among EFIers. This book has The American Communist others carried on. Having seen helped me understand what I Party in New York was once so friends killed by the police and am doing and should be read by heavily infiltrated that most of still living in hiding now, he wrote everone who walks, cnmpains it's membership and most of it’s Terror or Love while on the run. and lives on planet earth. money came from the FBI. If the This book provides us with a The Infinte same is true of EF! then they’re rare insight into the psychology doing a good job. and history of a generation which Onion, The message of this story many would have us believe did 40p-good rabid hook is keep your contact list well nothing but smoke dope and stores or DS4A. hidden, don't say anything stu­ grow their hair long. Anti-Facist, Animal Libera­ pid on the telephone and never Particularly interesting is tion, Native American struggles, trust anyone except yourself. Bommi's account of the sexism RAF, cars vs penguins, recipies, There are certain people"who endemic in the .June-2nd Move­ pink pacifists in Yugoslavia- this arc interested in how-we organ-' ment and Red Army Faction. On' isc and will send infiltrators, tap actions the women were treated DO OR DIE NUMBER4 41 RESOURCES like men and back at the hide is expensive and it can be diffi­ Available from good book­ out they were treated like sex cult to get planning permission, shops. objects. Meanwhile the women you could claim you want to did most of the work. Although produce electricity, however no the groups are very difTerent from one will be fooled and you will How To Sink EF! there are lessons here for loose the clement of surprise. Whalers, Earth Firstlers, both male and You should be careful in Driftncttcrs and other female, but mostly for the male. Environmentally Bommi not only writes Destructive Ships. about what drove the alternative Sea Shepherd Orcaforcc hippie scene to produce bomb agent 13, throwing anarchist groups but Britain is an island nation, also criticises the addiction to most trade relies on the guns. This book makes you feel docks.Title says it all really! (al­ as though you know what is like legedly) to have a gun in your pocket and the construction of your bomb, be ready to use it. It also makes plutonium is a radioactive The Direct you feel as if you know what that substence and it is best to keep does to someones head. It is a several inches of a gamma Action Video captivating and exciting read - absorbant material between you £4.00, available from you'll not want to put the book and it. Protective clothing can Oxford EF! down. easily be made from a beekeep­ Described as 'half an hour ing siut and some tin foil. of empowering scenes of the Faslane Focus There is much mistery sur­ powers that be getting it in the Availiablc with rounding nuclear weapons, es­ neck all over the world, (non- donation from-Faslane sentially they are very simple violently, of course).' Peace camp, Shandon, devices. Just wrap some high Helensburgh, Breaking Free: Dunbartonshire. Scotland explosives around your lump of plutonium and connect a timing Great 'zine from the The device, for example an alarm hyporactive set of mani@cs that clock. 16kg of plutonium would Adventures of is the faslane peace camp. News give an explosion roughly equiva­ on Trident, nuclear convoys and lent to 1 thousand tonnes of TNT, Tin-Tin the reclaiming of scottish land this should be enough to make £3.95 plus 50p (p&p) back from the english military. your point. from DS4A Inspirational! You bomb need not be an Politics in a palitable form. How to Make entirely destructive device, there This is a carton tale of Tin tin and are many creative aspects, an his friends, a tale of love, strug­ Your Own airburst explosion for example gle and revolution. Tin-Tin, a will leave structures at the eye of working class lad gets involved Nuclear Bomb the explosion standing. Or rather in a strike, meets feminism, and -a guide for the ambitious than just crudly blowing your learns that there is more to revo­ vandal target away you could set the lution than barracades and Some have bombs to pro­ bomb off down wind from, for balaclavas. tect democracy, the Russians example, a town. This way most What makes this book used to have the 'Workers bomb' of the buildings will remain stand­ intresting, beyond the fact that with this pamphlet and a little ing and just as many people will is very redcablc, is that Tin-Tin is plutonium we could soon have die, just a little more slowly. not only faced with the problems the eco bomb. It should be noted that it of bosses, the police and army, First obtain your Plutonium. would be unwise to visit the re­ he also has to face up to his own Luckely for the ambitious terror­ gion of the explosion for a few prejudices. This cartoon book is ist the government has left large decades after the explosion. It about escaping, escaping from quantities of the stuff all across should also be noted that a reli­ the boredom of the factory, es­ the country, if you live in Eng­ able method of transport should caping the trap of stereotyping land or wales you are unlikly to be used after planting the de­ and escaping the trap of believ­ be more than 100 miles from a vice, hitch hiking is not ing things cannot change. They pile of the stuff. Making you own recomended for this journey. can, they must and they will. DOORDIENUMBER4 42 RESOURCES native media. Why have you AK distribution. The Complete views misinterpreted and lied Manual of about on 'IV and radio when you can tell It like it really is! If you find any difficulty Pirate Radio THE BLAST ! getting hold of any of the Available from freedom recources in this section you can Mew paper from the Agita­ bookshop, 84b White always try DS4A, Box 8, tor Index Collective from theTwin Chapel, high st, london, Greenleaf Bookshop, 82 Colston E17QX, £1.00. Cities USA and part of the Love st, Bristol, Avon, BS1 5BB. All A basic introduction to Pi­ ond Rage Federation. Covers books, 'zines, videos ect are rate Radio. How to set up n Zapatistas, Rascism in the States, welcome for submission to the studio, build a transmitter and Prisoner support and much Recources section of 'Do or lunch ariel. However this book foils to more. I 'or a mag with an overt Out', (obviously within reason), get across how easy it is to get political stance, and a quite tra­ cross-fertilisation, networking transmitting. You can now buy ditional one at that, it remains and solidarity are essential for kits for small and medium radio Iresh and honest. The Agitator the continuation and growth of transmitters through the bock Index platform printed in this the an EFFECTIVE movement. pages of most electronic* mogn first Issue is one of the best When we climb out of our re­ zines. Devices for bugging and political platforms that I've seen, spective ghettoes, forget our all sorts of useful electrical de­ the interview with Lorenxo sectarian predjudicies and link vices are cheap and easily avail­ Komboa Ervin on Anarchism and up; this is when we force the able. the Bluck Revolution should be state into retreat, lets keep the Those who control the m e­ lead by all anarchists, and for momentum going and turn the dia control our minds. It Is e»- that matter all greens. heat up on the REAL 'eco-terror- sential that we develop nn niter The B last! Available from ists'! I C T O B E R - 21 st-3Oth - 1994

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