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The struggle against exploitations, especially in indigenous lands, is growing. Everywhere the dominant culture demands more land, more resources, at the expense of the locals and the rest of nature.  And everywhere, we fight back.

In Gállok environmentalists, anarchists and Saami (the indigenous people of northern Europe) fought together to stop the opening of new mines in reindeer herding areas, and we will continue fighting together to stop exploitations of what gives us life.

Today some mining resisters came together to show support for the struggle against fracking in Elsipogtog in Turtle Island (North America). Your fighting spirit gives us hope and inspiration.

Same struggle, different battles

 

Kamp mot exploateringar, speciellt bland ursprungsbefolkning, växer överallt. Överallt kommer den dominerande kulturen och kräver, mer mark, mer resurser, på bekostnad av lokalbefolkning och resten av naturen. Överallt kämpar vi emot.

I Gállok förenades miljökämpar, anarkister och samer för att stoppa gruvetableringar mitt i renbetesland, och vi kommer fortsätta kämpa tillsammans mot exploateringar av det som ger oss liv.

Idag samlades några gruvmotståndare i Jåhkåmåhkke (Jokkmokk) för att visa sitt stöd för kampen mot fracking i Elsipogtog på Turtle Island (Nordamerika). Eran kämparglöd ger oss hopp och inspiration.

Samma kamp, olika platser.

 

 

 

Gör en solidaritetsaktion imorgon 2a dec! #Elsipogtog #mikmaqblockade

Emergency Day of Action Dec 2nd – Solidarity for #Elsipogtog

A message from the HWY 11 Land Defenders:

“We are not giving up despite these harsh weather conditions, sacrificing time with our families, our jobs, our homes, not only to protect land, water and people but to ensure a brighter future for the next 7 generations. We are asking for more support, through road blocks to be in solidarity. This is not just an Elsipogtog issue, this is a global issue and we need to raise awareness. Show us support any way possible, sending thank you’s, road blocks, banners, even dropping by, all and every type of support is appreciated.”

ElsipogtogThe 3rd encampment in Mi’kmaq Territory, at HWY 11, which saw stand off’s between the Mi’kmaq peoples protecting the water and RCMP protecting corporate interests, is requesting widespread global support.

The Provincial Court of New Brunswick has approved an injunction which names 5 people, including “Jane” and “John Doe”, to target the HWY 11 encampment. This encampment has successfully turned away SWN vehicles and is preventing SWN from conducting seismic testing on unceded Mi’kmaq lands. Each day that SWN cannot conduct its testing, it costs the company $54, 000. SWN is once again looking to the RCMP to enforce the injunction most recently granted. At this time, the RCMP have used the injunction to target the Mi’kmaq and have set up a “check point” on HWY 11, where the RCMP stop vehicles to arrest passengers and drivers at their whim.

We remember the last time the RCMP enforced an injunction against the Mi’kmaq people. As seen historically, the RCMP will continue to enforce the violation of treaties and attack Indigenous self-determination. At this time, the RCMP are not only harassing Mi’kmaq Land Defenders and non-Native supporters, but continuing to throw them in jail. On Thursday, November 28th the Mi’kmaq again turned SWN away – declaring another day of victory. They are standing up against brutal police repression, and continued theft of Indigenous lands and ongoing colonization. Show them they are not alone!

On Monday Dec. 2nd HWY 11 Land Defenders are asking you to show your solidarity by taking action in your community. Where possible, highway shutdowns are encouraged however any action of support, such as banner drops, are welcome. #ShutDownCanada

Ge aktivisterna support i domstolen!

Aktivister i rondellen i Jokkmokk

Aktivister i rondellen i Jokkmokk

Ge aktivisterna support i domstolen!

I Gällivare:

Torsdagen 28/11, i Gällivare, inleds rättegångarna mot de aktivister som gripits under sommarens gruvprotester i Gállok (Kallak). För att ge dem stöd och fortsätta uppmärksamma vad kampen handlar om kommer vi under dagen att genomföra en manifestation utanför tingsrätten i Gällivare.

I stockholm:

Vi anordnar i Stockholm den 28/11
en stödmanifestation
för våra hjältar, Gállok-aktivisterna.

Tid: 10.00
Plats: Medborgarplatsen

I somras genomfördes Kamp Gállok, ett protestläger för att uppmärksamma regeringens destruktiva mineralpolitik, och för att stoppa JIMAB:s (Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB) prospekteringar i Jokkmokk. Flera våldsamma polisingripanden med gripanden ägde rum, och redan nu står de första aktivisterna åtalade. Domstolsförhandlingarna äger rum i Gällivare tingsrätt den 28 november.

I Jokkmokk och Gällivare anordnas stödmanifestationer för de åtalade.

Vi vill också visa vårt stöd för aktivisterna även i Stockholm.
Vi bjuder in alla till att delta och på sitt egna sätt stötta aktivisternas insatser och kampen mot regeringens gruvpolitik.

Vi kommer att med oss en banderoll eller två, gott humör, några trummor och pepp till aktivisterna.

Det har kommit upp andra aktiviteter som förslag här nedan, och vi uppmuntrar alla till att ta initiativ och utöka stödet på det sätt en känner för, tillsammans med oss och på andra platser.

Låt oss visa vårt stöd tillsammans!

Modereventet i Gällivare:

http://www.facebook.com/events/1426801284202103/

Mer info:

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artikel=5687809

Call for actions in Hambacher Forest Germany: NEW FOREST UNDER DIRECT THREAT OF EVICTION

Link to the resisters website

The Ham­bach fo­rest oc­cupa­ti­on is . For the se­cond time in one month the po­li­ce has been at­ta­cking the camp. Guar­ded by riot cops a fly­ing squat of RWE wor­kers equip­ped with chain­saws and a bull­do­zer en­t­e­red the pro­test site. Wi­thout ques­tio­ning the order that had been given to them they pus­hed for­ward the de­struc­tion of the pla­net we‘re all li­ving on, hel­ping to erase one of the ol­dest fo­rests in Eu­ro­pe. The huge bull­do­zer just squee­zed ever­y­thing in front of it: young trees, an­thills and wasp’s nests as well as rare blue shi­ning mushrooms which have been growing on some bar­ri­ca­des were de­s­troy­ed by this huge tech­no­lo­gi­cal mons­ter. Ever­y­thing re­sis­ting was chop­ped to pie­ces. They left not­hing but an aisle of de­struc­tion be­hind.
At the same place where they had en­t­e­red last time in an at­tempt to pro­hi­bit this year’s third fo­rest oc­cupa­ti­on there was a more than two meter high wall, built from the fal­len trees of the aut­ho­ri­ties last at­tack, en­forced by metal, soil and a crone of bar­b­wire. The other ways to the site are na­tu­ral­ly pro­tec­ted by beech thi­cket and up to 20 meter high oak trees.
The po­li­ce sur­roun­ding the camp is of cour­se doing their dirty job for RWE. Wor­kers dres­sed in oran­ge vests star­ted ope­ning the mesh of wire with bolt cut­ters. As soon as they undid the knot­ting they star­ted to chop the stilts with their chain­saws. Then there was a low noise co­ming from the bull­do­zer’s en­gi­ne when tons of steel were cra­shing into the bar­ri­ca­de se­ver­al times. Fi­nal­ly the bar­ri­ca­de broke and fi­nal­ly they en­t­e­red to de­s­troy ever­y­thing they were able to find on the ground.
After the bai­liffs loa­ded ever­y­thing up and ex­chan­ged some shake-​hands for an ob­vious­ly suc­cess­ful ope­ra­ti­on they left with the haul. What was left were some piles of soil, some stumps and ac­tivists ut­ter­ly de­ter­mined to strugg­le on.
The dis­re­spect for the eco­lo­gi­cal sys­tem of the wood­land ex­pres­ses the be­lief of RWE that the Ham­bach fo­rest is just pro­per­ty and not­hing more than an pre-​open-​cast-​mi­ne-​si­te. They sure would like to clear cut as fast as pos­si­ble, turning ever­y­thing into a dead and moon­like land­scape to dig for li­gni­te as well as hin­der any more pro­tests against their de­vious plans.
It is not pos­si­ble to blind us by the so cal­led re-​cul­ti­va­ti­on on the So­phi­en­hö­he which ob­vious­ly will never be able to com­pen­sa­te at all the en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact of de­s­troy­ing life, soil and plants which had cen­tu­ries time to grow and form a uni­que eco-​sys­tem.
Win­ter is co­ming and evic­tion is pret­ty li­kely
Since 18 month we are re­sis­ting from dif­fe­rent sites at the Ham­bach fo­rest. 547 days of crea­ti­ve and de­ter­mined strugg­ling as well as the at­tempt to live a ra­di­cal and self-​or­ga­ni­zed life full of so­li­da­ri­ty, au­to­no­my and mu­tu­al aid.
We`d like to in­vi­te you to visit us and help us to pre­pa­re the two sites (the pro­test camp on the mea­dow, lo­ca­ted at the fo­rest’s edge and the oc­cupa­ti­on in the fo­rest) for the fast ap­proaching win­ter and the an­ti­ci­pa­ted evic­tion as well and to share our fight against the on­go­ing clear cut­ting bet­ween Oc­to­ber and March.
You would like to come and join for one day? One week or lon­ger? To cook collec­tive­ly (vegan)? Build things? Make music? Oc­cu­py trees? Build bar­ri­ca­des and fight against the har­vesters?
Just come over!
You can help us with what is going on al­re­a­dy or es­ta­blish your own ideas. There are ple­nty of ways to sup­port the strugg­le. It doesn’t mind whe­ther you can climb or not, al­most every day we do have all kinds of skill sharing – and we‘d like to share all your dif­fe­rent in­te­rests and ex­pe­ri­en­ces too! And there’s al­ways en­ough things to do, to enjoy and to gain know­ledge about – on and above ground!
The raid yes­ter­day con­firms us to re­main at least the ne­cessa­ry thorn in the paw of RWE and the exis­ting and rot­ten sys­tem. We want to un­plug ca­pi­ta­lism in ge­ne­ral, to deny the logic of grow­th and to stop the ex­ploi­ta­ti­on of the earth through all sorts of means, amons­gt them fac­to­ries and power plants.
Let`s op­po­se RWE and po­li­ce relent­less­ly.
We don’t stand by and watch big com­pa­nies, po­li­cies and other struc­tu­res of power to de­s­troy ever­yo­ne’s and ever­y­thing’s means of li­ving. Life is not for sale! We want to live and we want the whole frea­king bake­ry.
So we fight every struc­tu­re threa­te­ning a good and free life. It doesn’t mat­ter if it’s RWE or ano­ther cor­po­ra­ti­on, po­li­ti­ci­ans, po­li­ce, mi­li­ta­ry, courts, the fa­scists next door or the daily se­xism, ra­cism, ho­mo­pho­bia, etc.
For an on­go­ing life- strugg­le in love and so­li­da­ri­ty!
For life its­elf!
For an­ar­chy!
Pi­ra­tes of Hambi
By the way:
There’s al­ways a need for do­na­ti­ons of (pre­ser­ved) food, clim­bing gear, con­struc­tion and fire wood, tar­pau­lin, iso­la­ti­on, tools, nails, string,rope, etc.