Update: Daily solidarity demonstrations will take place from 4-6pm outside the house. All are welcome ----
Saturday November 15, 2008

Waldbesetzung Kelsterbach (Kelsterbach Forest Occupation Camp)

Big parts of the beautiful forest of Kelsterbach near the airport of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) are in danger of being destroyed.

12 noon (on the dot), Heathrow Terminal 5 Departures ('Security North' section)
on the first Saturday after the Government makes its decision on Heathrow expansion
(unless all forms of expansion are ruled out – see below).

Reveal your t-shirt and then pelt Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon with red sponges.

THE STORY SO FAR ...

On November 12th, 2008 at 5.15 pm. six climate activists dressed in period costumes as suffragettes complete with big hats, marched into a municipal city council meeting in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden.

The Bath Bomb
@nti-copyright: copy and distribute!
Issue #16
free/donation
Nov 08

Because now it's okay to love America

We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis

Remember to think about security when planning actions & campaigns, every month - there's been a helpful reminder in a Sunday newspaper that our aims and the aims of the state are somewhat different!

Though the article can be taken to be a police unit safeguarding their ongoing budgets and employment - as has happened in the past with similar scare articles (from the police & the security services) - it's also a handy reminder of the security issues we should think about to ensure that our campaigning remains effective. Check out the background dirt on the journos below...

Surprisingly, many streets in Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, are still named after heroes of monarchy and colonialism.

Edited direct action highlights from http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html -

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
20 hours later than planned, after many convincing, creative blockades, the CASTOR road transport reached the Gorleben interim storage depot at 00:39 am on Tuesday 11 November

November 12, 2008
The inhabitants of 87 Ashley Road woke up this morning to a garden full of cops and bailliffs here to evict them from the house that is a home to around 15 people, and make them homeless.

11th November 2008
French police raided alleged anarchist cells in three cities on Tuesday and arrested at least 10 suspects following a series of sabotage attacks on the country's high-speed rail network.

Sutton Courtenay Against The Incinerator: Anti-incinerator protest stagedThe SCAI who are trying to stop an incinerator being built in south Oxfordshire have held a protest outside County Hall. The site at Sutton Courtenay near Didcot is one of two being considered by Oxfordshire County Council.

November 08, 2008
CASTOR-BLOCKADE WITH CONCRETE BLOCK NEAR WÖRTH: A group of young people at about 12.45 pm Saturday made the railway line unpassable for the Castor train shortly after it crossed into Germany, 500 metres north of Berg station. Three men and women fastened their arms in the massive block placed under the track sleepers. The train has been stopped for now.

Birmingham homeless land squat 1Birmingham homeless land squat 25.11.2008
A protest camp named after Councillor John Lines who’s responsible for the city’s housing, was established last Thursday on derelict land owned by Birmingham City Council. Cllr. Lines has denied there is a homeless problem in Birmingham and also denies there is money available to build new ‘social housing’. The occupied land has been unused for around seven years whilst there are over 30,000 people in the city waiting for housing.

Make a living not a killing bannersUpdate: RBS didn't turn up to a Cambridge careers fair and e.on have given a few a miss now - keep on going folks, there'll be lots of other murderous companies coming your way...

--

Careering Downwards, courtesy of Cambridge University!