Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action - the new Earth First! Action Update is out! Get your quarterly round-up of ecological direct action from the UK and beyond To download for printing, http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10print.pdf To download for on-screen reading, http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10.pdf

About 20 people demonstrated today (9 February) at lunch time in front of the French consulate in Cromwell Rd, London. The demo had been called by London NoBorders to protest the police raid of the "Kronstadt Hangar" by French authorities in Calais last Sunday.

People put up banners and distributed leaflets. Police was around and made sure no protester got inside the consulate.

On Wednesday 3rd Feb at 9.20 am, High Court Bailiffs came round the Non Commercial House Free Shop, armed presumably with a restitution warrant, and evicted the place and its occupiers.

Federal officials said the team of shooters were tipped off that people attending the birthday party were members of a rival gang known as Artistas Asesinos (Artists Assassins), who reportedly work for the Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán drug cartel from Sinaloa

During the days of action around the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Denmark - most commonly referred to as the COP15 - a group of radio ethusiasts hailing from around the globe came together to produce daily radio shows for Indymedia Radio in four different languages.

Debating radical political culture in Germany, the UK and beyond

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Carmel Agrexco and Cargoflora's depots in Hayes Middlesex was blockaded early this morning. The distribution depots gates were blocked by protesters using D-Locks and Hares' fencing. 

Carmel Agrexco is a partly Israeli state owned company, the largest exporter of agricultural produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Cargoflora is a British company which has, reportedly, been handling Agrexco's imports and provides freight services for Israeli flowers which are produced in Westbank colonies.

Demonstrators in orange jumpsuits and black hoods held a vigil opposite Downing Street calling for liberty and justice for Shaker Aamer the last Londoner held in Guantanamo. 

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The following is a letter circulated among London UNISON officers and actiivists. It is a good bye letter, critique of London UNISON and a call to arms from a retiring long-term UNISON officer.

195 Mare st E8 3QE

On Saturday 6th February the Kronstadt Hangar was opened for the public. In the afternoon, despite a heavy police presence migrants successfully entered the newly-opened space at the invitation of NoBorders activists. The hangar is intended to be a space for information-sharing, debate and practical solidarity.

Together, around 100 activists and migrants broke through police lines chanting “Freedom! Freedom!”. Riot police in full body protection are currently circling the building and threatening the migrants with mass arrests. People are currently occupying the building.      Read full feature

After refusing to cooperate with the UN Gaza enquiry in 2009, Israel submitted its report by UN General Assembly mandate last week. Nigel Parry looks into the background of the Goldstone Report for Rustbelt Radio, a project of Pittsburgh Indymedia.

CHINA BULLIES DAVOS THE IRRELEVANCE OF DAVOS G8, G20 AND COPENHAGEN

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A few days ago, activists from the transnational No Borders network and the French
organisation SôS Soutien aux Sans Papiers have opened a large warehouse
for migrants in Calais as a response to the ongoing repression against the migrants
in Calais by the authorities. [1]

All charges against the Hijacker 11 have been dropped

In the months leading up to London's G20 Summit in April 2009, the British press hyped up police warnings of an impending Summer Of Rage when public anger would erupt over the government's bank bailout. The streets would burn and anarchists would turn the newly unemployed into foot soldiers of the revolution. Thankfully the police calmed the situation by saying whatever happened they were 'up for it'.

Dateline: Iraq Inquiry, Little Sanctuary, Westminster, London, UK, 08:30-11:00, Fri 29 Jan 10 – Hundreds of angry protesters gather outside the QE2 Conference Centre, where Sir John Chilcot and all his little wizards are having a cosy chat with War-Criminal-in-Chief Tony Bliar about what lessons British imperialism can learn from the mountains of corpses in Iraq. The reward offered at www.arrestblair.org for a citizen's arrest attempt on Bliar was promoted, but not claimed, yet... (AFAIK).

Captured on BBC webcam

Protesters plan to build a "fortress" occupied by "ordinary people" on land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway.

A group of nine anti-nuclear campaigners staged a two-hour protest outside the Nuclear New Build Conference in central London this morning in protest at industry attempts to paint nuclear power as a "green" technology and win public support for costly new nuclear reactors.

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Building New Reactors Damages Attempts to Tackle Climate Change (June 2009 briefing by Pete Roche): http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/reports/NewNuclearDamagesClimate.pdf

The London FreeSchool collective has decided to organise another week-end of skillsharing on March 6-7.
This will be the fifth London FreeSchool event since september 2008. We had tons of workshops, hosted in many different social centres scattered around london and lots of very diverse people doing and attending workshops!

Help us to get some skill-sharing workshopy stuff going at the Non Commercial House Free Shop!

Anti-Nuclear Activists Disrupt Parliamentary Committee to Expose "Dumping" of Local Democracy

A Select Committee meeting in the House of Commons was disrupted yesterday morning by a small group of anti-nuclear activists. The incident took place during a packed session of the Department of Energy and Climate Change Parliamentary Select Committee on the proposed nuclear and other energy National Policy Statements as representatives from pro-nuclear energy giants EDF, E.ON and RWE npower and the Association of Electricity Producers gave evidence.

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On 25 January 2010 members and supporters of No Borders Brighton and London No Borders picketed the Crawley Borough Council planning meeting where an application by Arora International Hotels Ltd. to covert the Mercure Hotel into a detention centre was rejected by the Development Control Committee.

Last night, Monday 25th January, Arora's planning application to turn their four star hotel at Gatwick into a detention centre was defeated by 14 votes to 1 at Crawley Council's Planning Meeting.

No Border activists held a demo outside Crawley Town Hall before the meeting and a number went into the meeting.

Articles on Indymedia: | 1 | 2 | 3 | Video October 2009 | Articles on the London NoBorders Website: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Radio Interview on Arora | Press Release 26 January

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On Saturday, 23 January 2010, demonstrators took the streets of central London as part of the 'Life's too short to be controlled' demonstration called by No Borders. This article contains links to audio from the demonstration, including the speeches made at the start of the demonstration, in front of the entrance to St Pancras Station and at the end, near the Eros statue in Picadilly.

Following the violence, vandalism and arrests in Stoke yesterday the EDL have very mixed feelings about what happened. Despite a strong turnout the trouble has created a lot of bad publicity and schisms amongst supporters. However, there are also serious lessons for anti-fascists.