Green Anarchist Magazine No. 70
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ORIGINAL AND BEST No. 70 AUTUMN ‘03 £1/$2 FREE TO PRISONERS GREENANARCHIST For the destruction of Civilisation ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY ISSUE. LIGHTS OUT IN NEW YORK. THE PERENNIAL WILD MEN. BETRAYAL ON BOUGAINVILLE. DIRECT ACTION DIARY. PRISONER SUPPORT. COMBAT DISPATCH. BOB BLACK’S APES OF WRATH. HAMMER OF WITCHES. AUGUST 1, 2003, SAN DIEGO: IF YOU BUILD IT WE WILL BURN IT NEWS www.greenanarchist.org GREEN ANARCHIST No.70 PAGE 2 representative daubed with red paint by ALF. DIARY OF 27: VICENZA, ITALY - More US ELF PUTS SUV’S OFF- Army personnel cars torched. 27: ROME, ITALY - 12 cards at DIRECT ACTION Ford dealership torched. Like attempt at Jaguar dealers. Anti- ROAD FOR GOOD More info: ALF Supporters Group, BM 1160, London WC1N 3XX; war protest. Arkangel, BCM 9280, London WC1N 3XX; North American ALF 29: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, Supporters Group (NAALFSG), PO Box 428, Brighton, Ontario, USA - ELF torch US Nany truck Canada K0K 1HO; Earth First! Action Update c/o PO Box 2971, and sloganise five more: ‘Stop Brighton, East Sussex BN2 2TT; and Earth First! Journal, PO Box the War’, ‘Leave Iraq’. 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702, USA. 30: MILAN, ITALY - Esso garages sabbed. FEBRUARY Forest Defenders to prevent log- 30: PIETRASANTA, ITALY - Six ging. 1: CAPRALBA, ITALY - ALF free city council cars torched in anti- 13: TURIN, ITALY - Duck freed incinerator action. 2,000 mink. from ornamental pond built for 2: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA - 30: BOLOGNA, ITALY - Bomb Olympic complex. found I front of IBM offices. 58 trucks damaged by ALF at 18: SIDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Huge lobster wholesalers. $50,000 31:WELLINGTON, NEW ‘No War’ slogan painted on roof ZEALAND - ALF brick two damage. of Opera House. 6: UPPSALA, SWEDEN - ALF McDonalds, three butchers and 20: BRISTOL, AVON - Two cop another burger outlet. break windows at chinchilla cars trashed and Labour offices farmer’s home. sloganised: ‘No War’, APRIL 9: VOLKEL, NETHERLANDS - ‘Murderers’. 1: CAGLIARI, ITALY - Esso On August 22, the Earth Liberation “Gross Polluter” and “We (Heart) US military satellite dish 20: ROME, ITALY - 8 Esso garages trashed, - 11 nuclear missiles garage torched. Front (ELF) simultaneously carried Pollution.” Across the street, thirty torched. 2: ALFEN / BORCHEN, GER- out acts of property destruction at cars at Duarte Mitsubishi were also off-line for 24 hours. $500,000 21: BROADMEAD, BRISTOL, damage. MANY - 24 dogs freed from several auto dealerships in hit with graffiti that condemned SUV AVON - McDonalds bricked. vivisection breeder. California. ownership. 11: PIEVE DI TECO, ITALY - 21: SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Phone mast torched, ‘Free 3: BRISTOL, AVON - BP petrol Clippinger Chevrolet of West At Rusnak Mercedes Benz in MICHIGAN, USA - ELF trash station trashed. ‘No War’, ‘No Marco’ slogans left. urban sprawl under construction: Covina, California, sustained more Arcadia, California, 10 luxury SUVs 15: PONTEDURA, ITALY - Two Blood for Oil’ slogans. than one million dollars in damages were spray-painted with the words $400,000 damase. 4: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA - Benetton shops bricked and slo- 22: MILAN, ITALY - Mollies after 20 SUVs-mostly H2 Hummers- “terrorist,” “killer” and “ELF.” ganised. ALF torch tiger meat store. were set on fire. Twenty additional Rusnak estimated losses of up to thrown at McDonalds and Israeli $100,000 damage. 17: UPPSALA, SWEDEN - ALF tourist agency during peace vehicles were damaged by the fire, $300,000. break more windows at chin- 4: TARRANO, ITALY - 11 tourist and a warehouse on the site was demo. According to the ELF Press Office, chilla breeder’s home. chalets torched. destroyed. 22: TRIESTE, ITALY - 5 Esso 8: SANTA CRIZ, CALIFORNIA, “ELF actions are a reminder to SUV 19: AMELIA, ITALY - Phone mast garages sabbed. torched. ‘ALF’, ‘Free Marco’ USA - ELF sloganise 65 SUVs In Duarte, California, SUVs from owners of how their personal choices 23: LOS ANGELES, CALIFOR- and trucks: ‘No War’, ‘SUVs Advantage Ford were spray-painted affect the society and environment in slogans left. NIA, USA - Fur and Andrews- 19: ROME, ITALY - Attempted Suck’, ‘No Blood for Oil’. with messages such as “ELF,” which they live.” related windows catapulted. 10: ESSUNGA, SWEDEN - ALF phone mast torching - ‘Free senoir military officer to oppose 23: TURIN, ITALY - Two uni free 8,000 mink from fur farm. JUNE Marco, Free Everyone’ slogans waste dump construction. departments using Morini (HLS 10: LIVORNO, ITALY - Forest left. 3: CHICO, CALIFORNIA, USA - 13: SURREY - Three HSS Hire subsiduary breeder) animals Service manager’s house dyna- DUBLIN, EIRE - US Navy war- ELF opposing sprawl try torch- shops (HLS-related) glued by daubed and sloganised. Peace mited. plane trashed at Shannon airport. ing luxury home: "Civilization ALF. Cancelled HLS contract. flag substituted for ‘No Peace 10: LIVORNO, ITALY - Phone Five areests. as a whole has provenm detri- 13: PUCKAPUNYAL, VICTORIA, for Killers’ banner. mast torched. mental to human and non-human AUSTRALIA - Australian ALF MARCH 24: BRISTOL, AVON - Starbucks 10: SASSARI, SARDINIA - Two animals. We won’t settle for destroy electrified fencing trap- trashed. ‘Stop the War’ slogan. Natural Reserve boats torched in 5: LECCE, ITALY - Benerron anything less than complete col- ping thousands of kangaroos the 24: AVIANO, ITALY - US military access dispute. shop damaged. lapse." night before a military cull. car torched. 11: FORLI, ITALY - Two fur shops, 7: TRENTO, ITALY - Four Esso 4: DETROIT, MICHIGAN, USA - 20: AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA - ALF 27: DANTIAGO, CHILE - Benetton and Blockbusters garages sabbed. ELF torch two homes under con- trash home of HLS lobbyist in Cashpoint machine blown up at paintbombed. 9: HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALI- struction. $700,000 damage. solidarity with Lindsey Parme. US-owned BankBoston. 16: TURIN, ITALY - Sumitomo FORNIA, USA - Thousands of 7: TREVISO, ITALY - 24 cashpoint ‘Abbott Kills’ and ‘ALF’ slo- 27: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, (HLS customer) glued and slo- surveyors flags removed by machines for biotech-funding gans. USA - Car and home of HLS ganised. back sabbed. HAMPSHIRE - thousands of 18: DUBLIN, EIRE - Peace protes- 7: LECCO, ITALY - Two Esso pheasants freed from fattening tors plant potatoes on Shannon garages damaged. pens and sheds. airport runway. SAN DIEGO CONDOS BURNT 14: SASSARI, ITALY - Phone mast WINSHILL, BURTON, 19: ORISTANO, ITALY - bombed. STAFFORDSHIRE: Halls (vivi- McDonalds bomb-damaged. 14: DORGAZI, ITALY - Phone section breeders) employee The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has planned to be built adjacent to the 25: PIETRASANTA, ITALY - mast torched. trapped in home by house-wrap- accepted responsibility for a $50 mil- site. Following the fire, a small, hand- Three Benetton shops trashed. 18: ROME, ITALY - Transport ping chains. lion fire in San Diego, California, that printed sign was taped to a traffic bar- 27: TURIN, ITALY - University destroyed an unfinished five-story rier near the construction site: company supporting Morini customer of Morini (HLS cus- AUGUST condominium complex on August 1. “Thank-You E.L.F. Burn Baby (HLS subsiduary breeder) super- tomer) glued. glued and sloganised. No one was hurt in the blaze, which Burn.” Tad Simmons of Carlsbad 1: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - 19: ROME, ITALY - Two Morini- was credited to the ELF through a said that as an environmentalist he MAY ELF torch condo complex, $50 connected vivisectors’ homes painted slogan: “If you build it, we had mixed feelings about the fire. million damage. 3: LIVORNO, ITALY - Benetton sloganised. will burn it. E.L.F.” “Part of me thinks it’s kind of cool 10: REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY - bricked. ‘Solidarity with 20: CAGUARI, ITALY - Shop that somebody had the guts to stand Morini (HLS subsiduary breed- The Golden Triangle area, where the Mapuche people’ slogan. owned by beach-polluting local for something like this-a cause, and er) farm owner’s car dramatical- complex was located, is adjacent to 9: ALBANY, NEW YORK, USA - politician torched. that nobody ever gets hurt.” ly destroyed. Rose Canyon—home to bobcats, Office trailer of asphalt company 23: EDMOND, OKLAHOMA, 12: SONOMA, CALIFORNIA, coyotes, ash-throated flycatchers, No arrests have been made, but the torched. USA - ALF trash HLS USA - Foie gras resturant red- shouldered hawks, barn owls FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force said 9: PISA, ITALY - phone mast unvestor’s home. trashed. and orioles, as well as at least two several suspects were being tracked. torched. 26: NUORO, ITALY - Tourist struc- 15: PARMA, ITALY - Pioneer Hi- rare and threatened plants. On August 14, FBI agents raided the 18: MODENA, ITALY - Forty quail ture bombed before opening. Brred production plant torcned, home of animal rights activists liberated by ALF, two hunt ken- WINSHILL, BURTON, From 2,000 years ago until the last stopping production in peak-har- affiliated with the San Diego-based nels trashed. STAFFORDSHIRE - Halls (viv century, the Kumeyaay people inhab- vest. ‘Pioneer pollutes seeds. Compassion for Farm Animals 22: PISA, ITALY - Two Sisley breeders) employee’s car paint- ited a seasonal village in Rose Fire to GMOs’ slogan left. (CFA). CFA organized a lecture with (Benetton subsiduary) shops Canyon, gathering acorns from the strippered by ALF. Rod Coronado on the day of the ELF bricked. once abundant coastal live oaks, SEPTEMBER fire. Agents seized phone lists, a com- 30: VENICE, ITALY - Satirical JULY weaving baskets from the arroyo wil- 27: KATHIMERINI, GREECE - puter, a video camera and videotape masked individuals shove shit in 12: PISA / FLORENCE / low and hunting not far from where a Unidentified assailants threw of the lecture, which was part of on- psychiatrist’s face. LIVORNO, ITALY - ARPAT seven-million-dollar crane was molotov cocktail bombs at a going Revolution Summer events in 30: CASALMORANO, ITALY - (Tuscany regional agency) destroyed by the ELF fire. National Bank branch in San Diego. Fires set amongst trucks and offices sent bullets and Green Thessaloniki at around 3 a.m. This particular project, La Jolla machinery at Sygenta site. ‘No Core communique: "In these Since the fire, CFA activists have before launching another two at Crossroads, when completed would GMOs, No Sygenta, No years you destroyed our land, been under constant surveillance and a nearby branch of McDonald’s.