EARTH FIRST UK WINTERMOOT

WHAT: Weekend of workshops, discussion and gathering
WHERE: Sumac Centre, Nottingham UK.
WHEN: 9th – 11th February.

The Earth First UK’s winter moot date and location has been anounced, it will be hosted in the Sumac Centre (Nottingham UK) 9th-11th February.

As always, you can expect a weekend of workshops and talks, probably a party on the Saturday night and the opportunity to meet new and old friends to plot, conspire and relax.

Sleeping will be in communal areas ot the Sumac Centre, essentially indoors camping (so do not bring a tent! 

Three meals a day provided, but bring your own snacks if you feel peckish! EF! Collective asks to leave a donation at the door to cover costs, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

There is level access to the Sumac Centre and a wheelchair accessible bathroom, but if you have any other accessibility needs you can reach out to the collective on earthfirstuk [at] riseup.net

More info about the moot can be found on the EF! Website: www.earthfirst.uk

RECLAIM THE POWER ACTION CAMP ANNOUNCED

WHAT: Mass protest camp for climate justice.
WHEN: 8th-13th August 2024.
WHERE: UK

Reclaim the Power has sent us a call to join their action camp in august this year fighting back against Drax, a company chopping woods and burning trees under the disguise of bio fuel who is also the single largest carbon emitter in the UK. Read their words below:

“Reclaim the Power Action Camp 8-13th August

Reclaim the Power is back this summer with a mass protest camp for climate justice. As a decade old direct action network we will welcome new faces and old to a mass action camp targeting Drax – the biggest emitter in the UK, the world’s biggest burner of trees and a key driver of environmental racism.

Join hundreds (hopefully thousands) of others from across the country and further afield for six days of workshops, communal living and action to fight the greenwashing eco-genocide of Drax. We will be camping from the 8-13th of August and attendance is entirely free, supported by donations.

Interested? Sign onto the mailing list here https://actionnetwork.org/forms/rtp24

Want to help organise with us? Come to the next gathering – a two day space to make decisions, get to know people and learn new skills. Gatherings are for everyone: new faces and those around since the Drax train hijack of 2008.

There will be a crash space, childcare, cheap and vegan food, and it will be wheelchair accessible.

Our next gathering will be on the 24th and 25th of February in York.

Sign up and find out more here: https://reclaimthepower.org.uk/news/york-gathering/

We can’t wait to see you all!!”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIUS MASON! – PRISONER SUPPORT 

Congratulations to Marius Mason who turned 62 a few days ago. 

Marius is a transgender, anarchist, animal rights, and environmental activist, who has been locked up for several years. In 2009 Marius was sentenced to 22 years in prison for arson, among other things. 

If you wanna write to Marius it will be deeply appreciated. Post letters to following address,

Marius Mason #04672-061
FMC Fort Worth
P.O. Box 15330
Fort Worth, TX 76119
USA

Find more information about Marius, and the conditions for communicating by mail at,
https://supportmariusmason.org/

NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN! IN SOLIDARITY! 

MASS ACTION AGAINST FORESTRY CAPITAL IN SWEDEN 2024

WHAT: Mass action against Swedish forestry industry.
WHEN: Summer 2024
WHERE: Gävle Sweden.

Take Concrete Action (TCA) is a network of autonomous radicals in so called Sweden. Two years ago TCA did a successful blockade against the concrete factory Cementa, on Gotland. This summer TCA is going for the forestry capital, with a mass direct action in Gävle. (Date is TBA)

“What lobby organizations, easily bought politicians and dubious scientists call a forest is not the same as what most of us think of when we hear the word. It’s not a bushy, messy, busy place. They are gigantic plantations. Since the end of the nineties, both the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Swedish forestry companies have been using a definition of forest that even includes clear-cut forests (where all tress are literally cut down). An incestuous relationship exists between Swedish authorities, the forest industry and research.

The PR image that the forestry and pulp industry have managed to establish on their business is total fiction – pulp fiction.

Our network have spent some time studying, writing about and taking action in questions about forestry. In the summer of 2024 we will arrange a climate camp in Gävle, with aim at the pulp industry, together with both old and new comrades… Conscious consumption choices are not enough, we have to change the whole shit.. Join!”

Read more at,

takeconcreteaction.info (as for now only in Swedish)

– IG: https://www.instagram.com/takeconcreteaction

– FB: https://www.facebook.com/takeconcreteaction

Support,

– Firefund: https://www.firefund.net/tca

AUTOBAHN GMBH IS TARGETED WITH FIRE IN MEMORY OF TORTUGUITA.

via Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

[photo unrelated to the action]

18th January, Lower Saxony Germany.

“In the early morning of January 18, 2024, a fire broke out on the premises of the Lower Saxony Traffic Management Center in Hanover, where a car belonging to Autobahn GmbH caught fire.”

“The night after the eviction of Tümpel Town, we went out and dedicated a car from Autobahn GmbH to the fire.

Autobahn GmbH is a target that is responsible for so many ecocides, evictions of forest occupations and industrial destruction.

With our action, we are sending a message of complicity with the struggle for Tümpel Town and expanding the area of struggle!

But we will not remain passive and put ourselves in the hands of the henchmen and the repressive, murderous, racist system.

We will find our answer to the destruction in a direct, anonymous attack against the existing conditions and will not allow ourselves to be controlled.

We are everywhere! Tümpel Town is everywhere!

In memory of Tortuguita, killed exactly one year ago by the cops in Atlanta Forrest.

In deep solidarity with the struggles for the forests.

Switch off the system of destruction!”

Original post in Gerrman at https://switchoff.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/18/switch-off-autobahn-gmbh/

SOME ANARCHISTS SMASH 18 WINDOWS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE CREDIT UNION FOR TORTUGUITA.

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

18th January, San Francisco USA.

“In the early hours of January 18, one year after the police murder of Tortuguita, we smashed 18 windows at the San Francisco Police Credit Union as an act of vengeance for it.

We also honor the memories of Klee Benally, Sekou Odinga, and Banko Brown. Fight for the dead, fight for the living!

some anarchists”

MACHINERY SET ALIGHT IN MEMORY OF TORTUGUITA.

via: Scenes From the Atlanta Forest.

16th January, Weelaunee USA.

To Shadowbox Studios,
You dumb motherfuckers left your feller buncher near the highway where everyone could see it lit the fuck up in the night sky. You’re all fucking losers and we hope the extra rain sank its lifeless corpse so deep in the mud that it takes weeks to get it out.

To everyone else,
There is still a forest to defend, and some of us intend to do so with or without a “movement” to back us up. There is more to the Weelaunee forest than the section that is fenced off and under 24/7 police occupation. We vowed to defend the forest from Blackhall too. No matter what the project is, anything destroying forests must be met with the same rage, hostility, and violence. Weelaunee is our home and we will not abandon it.

Fuck a feller buncher. Fuck Shadowbox Studios. Hollywood will burn wherever it decides to go, as will the pigs trying to protect it.

Pictured below is a visual representation of the region of woods under threat. There is still much to lose, but also many opportunities to strike. Take them.

For Tort, who brings rain to cover the tracks of saboteurs everywhere, who brings them quick wits, good luck, and eternal protection in the treeline of the ever-abundant and growing forest. We will never forget you, and nothing will ever extinguish the fire you set in our hearts. May it spread everywhere and always.”

THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT DESTROYS TWO HUNTING TRAPS AND LIBERATES THREE HENS AND A ROOSTER.



19th January, Lombarda Italy.

Received anonymously via email:

ENGLISH (translation):

“Tonight a rooster and three chickens locked up by a hunter were freed from an unjust imprisonment that did not allow them to live a life worthy respectful of their needs. Also found inside the shack were two trapping cages that were destroyed and a message was left for the hunter.

We believe that denying freedom to our animal brethren is always unjust; therefore, for us disobedience is a moral responsibility that we will never fail until every cage is empty. GO!

A.L.F ♥”

ITALIAN (original):

“Stanotte un gallo e tre galline detenute da un cacciatore sono stati liberati da un’ingiusta prigionia che non gli permetteva di vivere una vita degna e rispettosa della propria etologia. All’interno delle baracche abusive sono state trovate anche due gabbie trappola per la cattura di animali che sono state distrutte ed è stato lasciato un messaggio all’infame.

Crediamo che negare la libertà ai nostri fratelli animali sia sempre ingiusto; pertanto, per noi la disobbedienza è una responsabilità morale a cui non verremo mai meno until every cage is empty. GO!

A.L.F ♥”

TEN CHICKENS LIBERATED FROM AN EGG FARM. IN MEMORY OF TORTUGUITA.

19th January, North UK

Received anonymously via email: 



“Under the dark blanket of the night we broke into a caged chicken egg farm and took ten chickens away from the bars and into freedom. Thousands were left behind in a dystopian barn, imprisoned to produce profits for a farmer who sees them as nothing else but stock.

Those ten chickens will now discover grass, mud, sun rays and rain. They will get to experience the outside, they will be able to make friends or to take some time to themselves, they will no longer be valued based on their productivity, they will slowly regain their personhood.

When we walked out the barn, hearing the gentle chattering of the hens, we spared a thought for Tortuguita, murdered a year ago by the filth for protecting Weelaunee. We riot from afar, in raging memory.

We are tired of strategising action like liberation is a chess board. We don’t know what works, but we know that fighting is the only way of surviving an increasingly oppressive system that subjugates us all for profit. Be it arson against the machine or the liberation of crickets from a pet shop, don’t let your spirit dwindle and keep fighting.

Action is oxygen to the blessed flame.

some anarchists.

THE ALF ATTACKS MORE HUNTING INFRASTRUCTURE.

18th January, North Italy.

Received anonymously via email:

ENGLISH (translation):

“During the night we attacked and destroyed a hunting shed used to murder ducks.
The war for animal liberation continues.
ALF”

ITALIAN (original):

“Nella notte abbiamo attaccato e reso inoffensivo un capanno utilizzato per la caccia alle anatre.
La guerra per la liberazione animale continua!
A.L.F.”