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For the second time, activists have invaded Glasshouse Country Farm in Australia as a response to the investigation released by Animal Liberation Queensland three weeks ago.
About 70 more activists held the front outside whilst 100 invaded the pig farm. No arrests have been made and eight piglets were rescued.
UNTIL WE WIN.
A comrade and journalist in Hambacher Forst fell from a traverse whilst getting closer to the treehouse being evicted at the time. They have passed away. The NRW minister of interior has declared a “pause” in the eviction. We aren’t prepared to make any extra comments. We will come back to publishing as soon as we possibly can. Please, understand that these moments are difficult for the team so if anyone has PMed us we might take some time before answering.
A comrade and journalist in Hambacher Forst fell from a traverse whilst getting closer to the treehouse being evicted at the time. They have passed away. The NRW minister of interior has declared a “pause” in the eviction. We aren’t prepared to make any extra comments. We will come back to publishing as soon as we possibly can. Please, understand that these moments are difficult for the team so if anyone has PMed us we might take some time before answering.
With the eviction well underway in the 12,000 year old forest of Hambach, the actions of those protecting capitalism increase in violence whilst the action of those protecting the earth increase in numbers.
Oaktown has been for the last three days the main focus of the eviction. After cutting many people out of their lock ons, they attacked Simona (pictured below). Simona is a ground structure that kept a little secret inside, a reinforced tunnel that kept the cops occupied for quite a long time. Police had no problem driving over the tunnel, endangering the multiple activists locked underground, and resulted to lift the whole house out of the way to access the entrance of the tunnel. Right now, Oaktown still resists, with one activist comfortably sleeping in a hammock in the highest point of a tree.
Yesterday the forest walk brought thousands of people to the small town of Buir. Packing train after train with angry people from many different cities, the police tried to control them on the line of the forest and announced that the forest walk was cancelled for the day. As if the police was able to cancel the walk! With great rage and spirits, hundreds of people broke the police line chanting “We want a forest walk!” and accessed the woods of Hambach. Once in the forest, the police was visibly outnumbered, having to face hundreds of people that made machines get out of the woods and even surrounded one of the police tanks, that had to hastily run out whilst police forces used violence against crowds chanting “We are peaceful, what are you?”. Today, the police has focused on Gallien and on the Westside Warriors (Beechtown and Cozytown). Latest news from Gallien report screams of pain coming out of Bolo.
Meanwhile, around Germany but also in many other countries, support actions have been sending solidarity to all the seedlings in the forest. From banner drops to planting trees inside of embassies and RWE offices, people have been getting creative. The latest report from the legal team shows 100+ arrests during the evictions, with 18 people still in custody.
With the eviction well underway in the 12,000 year old forest of Hambach, the actions of those protecting capitalism increase in violence whilst the action of those protecting the earth increase in numbers.
Oaktown has been for the last three days the main focus of the eviction. After cutting many people out of their lock ons, they attacked Simona (pictured below). Simona is a ground structure that kept a little secret inside, a reinforced tunnel that kept the cops occupied for quite a long time. Police had no problem driving over the tunnel, endangering the multiple activists locked underground, and resulted to lift the whole house out of the way to access the entrance of the tunnel. Right now, Oaktown still resists, with one activist comfortably sleeping in a hammock in the highest point of a tree.
Yesterday the forest walk brought thousands of people to the small town of Buir. Packing train after train with angry people from many different cities, the police tried to control them on the line of the forest and announced that the forest walk was cancelled for the day. As if the police was able to cancel the walk! With great rage and spirits, hundreds of people broke the police line chanting “We want a forest walk!” and accessed the woods of Hambach. Once in the forest, the police was visibly outnumbered, having to face hundreds of people that made machines get out of the woods and even surrounded one of the police tanks, that had to hastily run out whilst police forces used violence against crowds chanting “We are peaceful, what are you?”. Today, the police has focused on Gallien and on the Westside Warriors (Beechtown and Cozytown). Latest news from Gallien report screams of pain coming out of Bolo.
Meanwhile, around Germany but also in many other countries, support actions have been sending solidarity to all the seedlings in the forest. From banner drops to planting trees inside of embassies and RWE offices, people have been getting creative. The latest report from the legal team shows 100+ arrests during the evictions, with 18 people still in custody.
This morning, police is everywhere. Gallien is surrounded by cops, Oaktown doesn’t seem to have any police presence and monopods and tripods are starting to be vacated.
Heavy machinery on the other hand is stuck at the entrance of the forest. It is raining, and thanks to the past attacks by the police there is more mud than green on the ground.
The spirits are high and the people are willing to put up a fight. Over 100 people have appeared to the first line of the forest as a spontaneous solidarity demo. There are demos and actions popping up all over Germany.
We are aware that most of our readers are U.K. based. Also, many of you only know about Hambacher Forst because of us. We are not going to write a massive dissertation about the animals and plants an a different social system between the forest. You can do the learning yourself. But we are going to ask for something. We are asking you to take action. We are asking you to not simply “share and be sad” about this story. We want you to do something against it.
Here is a list of all of the buildings RWE has in the U.K. From energy rations to offices, there are many different levels of action that can be taken to fight back. It is your time to take action.
www.rweukjobs.com/
FOR THE FUCKING WILD.
1st September, UK
anonymous report:
“Five water-deprived ducks liberated from their prison by members of the ALF cell FAM964. Now free in their forever home, these birds narrowly missed their slaughter date. Our thoughts go to all those left behind and all other animals oppressed by the human species. The fight continues, and will never stop, until total animal liberation.”
Yesterday a strong force of 2/3000 cops decided to raid the meadow. They use the excuse of a police officer having been hit by a projectile thrown with a slingshot and that they needed to find the “offensive weapon”.
They proceeded to arrest 20 people that were squatting the roofs and that would be released the same day.
Whilst arrests were happening, a thorough search was undergo and they took all tools from the workspace, broke the clay oven with batons, tear down roofs of buildings and took away both 1000l canisters that are used to store all drinking water for the occupation. All this, within legal camp grounds and without permission of a judge.
This is a show of the tactics they are trying to implement, weakening the occupation with huge numbers and small actions before the actual eviction starts.
The meadow is now asking for tools and water so anyone able to help, please do so.
For anyone reading this, today the police is not blocking the entrances and there is no ID controls, so it is an ideal time to get in and help inside the forest.
We will keep you updated as more news come in.
HAMBI BLEIBT!
Photo: Destruction of the tool shed and workspace. Apparently screwdrivers are a potential offensive weapon.
The IAPF – International Anti Poaching Foundation – www.iapf.org counts with an all women anti-poaching unit patrolling the land and protecting the wild.
The (apparently controversial according to the media) program started with 36 women being pushed even harder than men through a special forces style training. Only three dropped out.
The empowerment of women from disadvantaged backgrounds doesn’t just create an opportunity for them, but also for those around them. Although the unit is a wildlife conservation team, their background makes them work within the community and not against it and many have plans to open schools and foster orphans.
The fact that the whole team went vegan just says something is very right about the group.
We have linked up a video where you can see some of their training. Sadly, the documentary focuses a lot more on their white man trainer than on them, so we didn’t want to feature it as the main media. Who would’ve thought that media would still be so backwards thinking, reinforcing those social hierarchies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbY9MImrJtw
POWER TO MARGNINALISED GROUPS. FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE EARTH.
Tsastilqualus Ambers Umbas and Shawna Green were arrested on the 18th of January after refusing to leave the DFO, situated on an increased indigenous territory.
The action was done in solidarity with the many indigenous people fighting the salmon farming in their land, that not only creates a culture of cruelty but also represents a ticking biological bomb for the ecosystem around it and a huge danger for the wild Pacific salmon which is legally supposed to be protected.
SOLIDARITY WITH OUR INDIGENOUS COMRADES AND IN DEFENCE OF THE EARTH AND THE ANIMALS!
LIBERATION.