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We hadapublicmeetinglastweekandinvited been RoyOldhamandhehasgotafingerinevery CAN YOUEXPLAINTHATMORE?” LABOURPARTY-THE LOCAL ALSO FIGHTING THECOUNCIL,BUT *Messages ofprotesttoRoy Oldham, *Donations andsolidaritymessagesto “We inthefirstf realised “IS THISDISPUTEJUSTABOUT councilmeetingthat’s“We’ve every beenstorming “WHAT OTHER “If ourunionhadspokentothecompanyearlier “WHAT ABOUTYOURUNION?” Tameside has For thepast16yearsleaderof “YOU SAIDYOUWERENOTJUST www.cbuzz.co.uk/SchNEWS hat’s and happeninginthiscountry, round the country thatthiswasn’t thecountry round llington Rd, Ashton Under believed in believed THINGS HAVE ameside workers, we’re ew weeks of ew weeks the same thing. Wethe samething. thestrike Ashton- ter, onlygotpayrisesofjust20%lastyear. BP, ASD of in charge struggles onwith£2.4millionayear,whilethose poor ‘oleJanLeschlyofSmithKlineBeecham themselves payincreasesofup67%!.Meanwhile ers aredemandinginflationarypayrise)gave cently raiseinterestratesbecausegreedywork- (who’ve beencomplainingthattheyhadtore- poor oldexecutivesatTheBankofEngland struggling tomakeendsmeetelsewhere.The low-pa of Justice,TheStrand,Londonat10.30am yet- sobethere:Court6ofTheRoyalCourts you want) thesentence. It’s about notover appeal waspublicoutrage(orsemi-public,if One reasonforthembeingletoutbeforetheir back intoprisonorgettheirchargesdropped. The appealwilldecidewhetherthey’llbeput sion, wereletoutonbail(seeSchNEWS161). porting ondirectaction,butinasurprisedeci- sentenced tothreeyearseachforsimplyre- Green July.of editors Three TuesdayWednesday and 21stand22ndof been movedforwardandisnowsetfornext Issue 176 CRAP JOBOFTHEWEEK eat atMcDogshits,ifyoureallyneeded one. chemical exposure.Anotherreason notto lapsed and3werehospitalisedas a resultof week andinFebruary get $0.06anhour!Theyworka 70hour ‘happy’ meals.Thewomenwhowork there makes DisneycharactersforMcDonalds ToyswhichKeyhinge Vietnam, Co.in Factory Centres. *Orwhataboutajobatthe shoes £1.88anhour! shop.’ £2anhour trained toserveandadvicecustomersin Previous experiencepreferred.Maybe are healthy, spotillnessorotherproblems. cleaning outcagesandmakingsureanimals made acomplaintorever beenidentified. 31st even now duetoappear in Hereford on July Court man’s homeand6am West Mercia’s raided the finest of down two Soafterspendingmonthstracking him him. voyeurs decidedanearby activist hadassaulted thevideo off, wandered sheepishly and up got months ago. Even though Beag Consort against a demonstration trip upandfall down anembankmentduring videospottedoneof of If you’re unhappy at If The datefortheGandalfThreeAppealhas GANDALF UPDATE Crap Arrest oftheWeek Both ofthesespottedinBlackburnJob worker- *Factory *Pet ShopAssistant Red 500hours eyed copsploughingthrough y-New-Deal-job though the alleged victimhasneverthough thealleged A, Rank, A, Free/Donation , spare a a , spare being forced intoacrap- beingforced fulltime, stitching 200fell ill, 25col- their own a their own arrested him. He is him. arrested the red faced plod -‘feedingand Alliance &Leices- thought forthose Anarc pparently hist were les 14 HILLGROVE ARTICLE SchNEWS in brief MANCHESTER “It was amazing to see such diverse people working The Obsever pulled a swiftie on gene kings The new camp set up urgently needs support . together towards a common goal” said one activist.”There Monsanto on Sunday. A full page advert by the The Arthur’s woods apparently obstructs the satel- was a balaclava youth talking to 60-year old women company, was followed by two pages devoted to lite and radar reception of the expanding Manches- from the RSPCA about the best way to break through those destroying genetically engineered sites around ter Airports. The police are currently nicking the the police lines”. the country! Meanwhile George Monbiot was on key players, then bailing them off site. Directions - Things are hotting up down at t’farm- Hillgrove Channel 4 news ripping apart a Biotechnology find Styal on a road atlas. Ask any local in Styal Farm, that is, the cat breeders run by Farmer Brown spokesperson last week. However, he told us, C4 where Arthur’s Wood is. “They all love us here and loads in Witney, Oxon which has supplied the vivisec- originally intended to put him opposite a Monsanto of them are involved.” Camp mobile 0777 5602954. tion industry for 27 years- including, according to man but the company said , “You are never getting us * Following on from last weeks story about leaked info, the horrific military research establish- into a studio with him”. So much for their open debate Faslane peace camp outside the Trident nuclear ment at Porton Down. Animal Rights campaign- *** Hey you with dreadlocks - want to know what base in Scotland : Argull & Bute Council have ers have been keeping up the pressure on this mis- to do with all those unwanted headlice? Well, proposed a meeting with the camp at the begin- anthropic yokel with National Demos every six researchers at Middlesex University are seeking ning of August. This change of tactics might weeks, which have seen Mr Plod out in force and volunteers to donate head lice for a project that’s have something to do with the fact that evicting the farm turned into a barricaded war zone. Now looking to find a natural treament *** THE the camp could possibly cost the cash strapped things have taken an even more sinister turn: on THIRD BATTLE OF NEWBURY is alive and Council up to £200,000. The Council recently 12th July, activists gathering in nearby Witney for well at a new address: PO Box 5642, Newbury, closed a community centre to save just £50,000! speeches and a planned march on the farm discov- RG14 5WG New phone:07000 785 201*** There ered that the Home Secretary (who, incidentally, is a new events listing available called the Net- TUBEWAY ARMY has a house just down the road from the farm....) working Newsletter Project At 7:30am on Monday morning train surfing Re- had imposed a last-minute Stonehenge-style 5-mile , most claim The Streets (RTS) activists climbed onto the ‘ Unlawful Assembly’ exclusion zone around the of the stuff takes place in Manchester but there roof of a tube train at Bank Station and shut down farm under Section 14a of the Criminal Justice are other actions listed check out: http:// the eastbound Central Line. The action was in sup- Act-, thus preventing the demo taking place, and www.poptel.org.uk/marc/members/Network- port of the tubeworkers’ strike against privatisa- effectively denying the right to protest. Undeterred, ing/calendar/dates.html for latest additions *** tion. They unfolded a carriage-length banner read- activists regrouped and decided to march on the WEST COUNTRY ACTIVIST SUMMER ing, “Private Profit at Public Expense”, while others offices and labs of Colin Blakemore, vivisector GATHERING Friday 7th- Sunday 9th August dressed as ‘fat cats’ offered to buy Bank station, extraordinaire ,- the result? An impromptu Re- Location to be announced Further information: handing out peanuts and explanatory leaflets to claim The Streets! Cops tried to set up roadblocks; 01626 363844 -Email: [email protected]. Sub- passengers,underground signs were subverted to read activists broke through or dodged through scribe to the West Country Activist Newsletter: ‘Laughing all the way to the Bank’. More supporters sidestreets. Although the farm was unreachable, 10, 2nd class stamps for 5 issues. Send name and holding a huge “Stop Privatisation - Support the and only a few of the thousand or so present made address to: WCA, c/o PO Box 426, Bath. BA1 Tubeworkers” banner picketed the station entrance. it to Blakemore’s, the horrendous costs to the cops 2ZD*** The Big Green Gathering is later this A spokesperson for RTS said “...selling off the network, of policing Hillgrove were pushed up once more, month from July 29th -August 2nd on the Wilt- far from improving the service as the government claim, will Get involved!For more information on the shire Downs near Warminster - more details tel bring only deteriorating conditions and higher prices for Lon- Hillgrove campaign write to Save the Hillgrove 01747 870667. Admission advance ticket only. don’s travellers while increasing car congestion and pollution Cats, Box CB, 111 Magdalen Rd., Oxford, OX4 Ecotrip will be there with many talkshops over on the streets. Three activists were arrested. 1RQ, or Tel: 0121 632 6460. Ask to be put on the three days including ten on the subject of ge- RTS have a history of supporting transport the mailing list netic engineering issues.*** Live Wild Or Die workers. During the 1996 tube strike activists SchNEWS Vocab Watch: misanthropic— #7—hot off the press. In defiance of expecta- organised a simultaneous Critical Mass bike block- people hater. Well, do YOU know the word for tions, sleep, and sanity. 40 newspaper-size pages ade, while others occupied the office of the Lon- cat-hater?? full of anarchy, sabotage, direct action, militant don Underground Manager Meanwhile, the campaign against Huntingdon labor, eco/animal liberation, primitivism/anti-tech, ....Reclaim the Streets: 0171 281 4621; PO BOX 9656 Life Sciences (HLS)rolls on. The company is the class war, Chumbawamba on veganism & ideol- London N4 4JY NOTE NEW WEBSITE AD- UK’s biggest contract testing company who torture ogy etc. LWOD, c/o POB 481, Tucson, AZ 85702, DRESS! www.gn.apc.org/rts.E-mail: [email protected] and kill for profit. They have been the focus of Amerika..*** “Liz loves Ace. Stingray takes speed, London meetings every Tuesday 7pm : At the attention ever since two undercover investigators Liz takes Stingray, Ace is choked, so’s the Earth. moment we’re at the ArsenalTavern, Blackstock exposed the companies cruelty with ‘It’s a Dogs The bailiff gets them all”, A cracking new play Rd, London N4. (Finsbury Park tube.) Street par- Life’ which led to the company shares to plummet. called ‘Cars’ by Jon Salway is being performed at ties coming up: * Sheffield (acoustic - bring an At the last demo HLS cunningly let their staff the Harvest Forestry 1 New England St, Brighton instrument) August 1st; *Bristol August 15th.meet go home early denying protestors the opportunity 7:45 21st-26 July for tickets ring 01273 689 12 noon Eastville Prk M32 junc 2 Tel 0117 939 093 to chat. The demo saw 10 varied arrests, several of *After the success of the Global Street Party which were made by Thames Valley Police who KEBELE PRAGUE is holding a FUN “n” ACTION Week, came to the party to pick up Hillgrove activists! ARROOOGA at Kebele Kulture Project in 26-30.September :starting with a five year birthday People then moved on to nearby breeders Bristol. This top community space, squatted for celebration of occupying ‘ Squatt Ladronka’, 3 Interfauna, and then to the home of Dr Pamela 3 years and now facing imminent eviction, has days festival of punk rock, ska and other bands Mullins - previously head of Rodent Toxicology - been trying to buy the building from the bank from all over the world, followed by a street party who apparently cowered behind closed curtains that owns it They have got an ethical bank to on the 29th. Meet 2 p.m. Palackeho square with an iron bar, while those attending enlight- promise a 70% loan on the £20,000 asking price Thousands expected with thirty Czech DJs and ened the neighbourhood about her job, until police which leaves Kebele just £6,000 to find. As well bands, fire show, drums, street theatre. More info : moved them on. Incidentallly, one of the police as the Cafe there is a book and video library, Zeme predevsim! (Earth First! Prague - support Evidence Gatherer’s cars crashed into an oncom- children’s workshops,bike workshop, healing and grup) PO BOX 237160 41 Praha 6 CZECH ing vehicle after taking a roundabout too fast! Tut! Spanish lessons and the project is really making REBUBLIC Email: [email protected] HLS share prices are now just 17.5p (and they waves in trying to promote alternative ways of made a loss of over five million last year), so HLS living. Kebele also managed to feed the working ...and finally... can be closed down, keep up the pressure and crews at Glastonbury this year with their mobile So apparently agents from MI5 are being used support the activists outside the labs at Altringham catering. They are so close to a secure future it to investigate ‘benefit cheats’. Jeremy Corbyn Road, Wilmslow and Wooley Road, Alconbury. would be madness for us to let this project fail- Labour MP for Islington North said “This is Next demo : Saturday 1st August, meet at noon, they DESPERATELY need your donations and desperation in the post-cold war era to find something for Wilmslow Railway Station, Cheshire. maybe if you’re a band or promoter, why not MI5 to do. MI5 would be better concentranting on Contact Huntingdon Death Sciences Campaign, organise a benefit? Kebele is at:14 Robertson Rd, pursuing large scale tax evasion by the wealthy in off- PO Box 325, Cambridge, CB1 2UF Eastville, Bristol. 0117 939 9469. HELP ‘EM!! shore tax havens”. 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