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Ravensait, squatted island in the Thames...
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Squat land in Bristol... The latest magpie front piece is by Phglem...
This Film was made on the Direct Action Voulteers on our latest trip to Tasmania Last November... The film maker stayed on -lost to the jungle...
Upper florentine part 2
Part three
This Film was made in Southern Ireland at the Hill of Tara Protest Against the m3 motor way. If you're in the U.K. and u care enough about keeping back somthing small and important of what makes us unique... our heritage, our celtic roots... then get over to Dublin and live and work with people who are the salt of the earth on a hands on approach to stopping a ,motorway in it's tracks... And learn how to build a ''tigger trap''...
The clashing of hardened steel lock-on against hundred thoudand pound bull dozers... The strain of the ropes holding your life when ur two hundred feet up a tree wondering if the balif's gonna just cut the rope holding you're life, like they have before... Like the crying in you're head when u look on a clear felled patch of rain forest that once covered a hundred hectares or more
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WE ARE NOT A BAND, BUT A COLLECTIVE OF ACTIVISTS..
Protest in london - Ausrtrialia day - 26.1.09 At Austrialian High Commission to highlight the continued destruction of rainforest there...
Protesters have been in ocupation of the roof of an office of Rayheon in north Bristol, for over a month... See www.raytheonout.wordpress.com for more info... Any support, food, clean, warm cloths, water and building materials all welcome... find us opposite uwe Filton campus in Bristol Bussiness Park. Come and give your time living in luxuary in our 5 star tent village abd show your support for getting arms dealer out of our communities...!!!
Southern tasmania is home to the tallest hardwood trees in the world!!!
Cable loggers are used where the slope is too steep to work...
Building house's in the rain forest... in an exclution zone... IS FUN!!! Come and viset the amazing Florentine valley b4 it's gone... to loggers... and stay in the wonderfull (5 star) Floz house...
So... 3rd March comes and goes and Camp Florentine is still strong... 10 - 20 people actively working to protect their valley home from the intustrial logging opperations in the nearby rain forest. So Christams was busy, jolly and very festive... with around 40 people on camp... there was a present ceremony, with gifts kindy donated by the local tip shop in Hobart... Thanks u guys...
The main summer events have been Guns and Dozzers... Lose u'r Excluxion tour... A week of continuous actions against working logging coupes in oldgrwth areas... The Upper Florentine Festival - A DIY Carnival... went down a storm, raised us enough money to buy some well needed tools, and provided a well needed exsuce for us all to let our hair down! And now the focus on camp is building a winter house, b4 the weather turns... More soon from Camp florentine... Also check the stillwild still threatened my space
Back in Tassie's ancient forests!!!! Ahhh But the destruction continues... While I have been away , for 10 months in the uk the logging gaints Gunn's Ltd with the help of Forestry Tasmania have cleared vast tracks of land, burning the clearfelled coupes, and the lush, primeval rain forest turned into Eucalyptus mono-culture for the rest of our live-times and way behond... For a cash crop for low grade paper. The wood chips are currentley exported to Japan for paper production, while a small amount is turned into veneer chip board in highley polluting plants. A wood fired power station is also planned as well as a new gaint pulp mill set to consume i think it's 1.5 million tonnes of wood chips per year! See pic's/vidssection - new Tas album for the lastest picy's...
Also viset www.coolforests.org for more new info
These amazing pieces of art have been donated to the cause... so if you want them, make us sensible offers ASAP here by message... Funds raised go to flying climbers and film makers there ASAP... £6000+ for the scorpion... covers delivery and erection... £3000 + for the gateway...
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AUSTRAILIA IS STILL LOGING IT'S 'OLD GROWTH' VIRGIN RAIN FOREST FOR LOW GRADE PAPER PRODUCTION AND SOON FOR BURNING IN A WOOD-FIRED POWER STATION TO BE SITUATED IN THE WELD VALLEY, ON THE EDGE OF SOME OF THE LAST REMAINING RAINFOREST LEFT IN AUSTRALIA... THE VOLUME OF WOOD CHIP EXPORTED BY TASMANIA IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT EXPORTED BY THE WHOLE OF THE REST OF AUSTRAILIA!!! APPARENTLY EASTER ISLAND WASN'T ENOUGH OF A WARNING TO US! THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!! WRITE TO THE PRIMINISTER OF AUS...Jonh HowardThe Hon John Howard MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Everything posted here is footage made by us or friends of ours ... mostly a bloke called Dave in mitigating circumstances... and are from environmental campaigns we've taken an active part in... we're not ashamed to stand up and say that we think these things need to be stopped, and we need help and backing to keep doing the things we do... So if you're circumstances don't allow you to get up on the front line and protest day in day out... fund an activist and know your money's going to the right place... instead of sitting in the bank creating interest for the IMF... Videos like these aren't cheep to make...
The latest Tas vids - 07
Direct Action in the upper Florentine Tasmania 07
Previous No Alternative gigs
Anti-logging direct action - Camp Florentine... Tasmania 07
Remember folks, as u'r snuggling up nice and cosy in u'r beds tonite, that theres a hand full of people around the world sleeping up trees in remote corners of the furthest flung wildernesses... spending their lives defending the last small specks of rain forests left on this planet!!! These trees are our lungs... GET INVOLVED NOW!!! HELP IN ANY WAY U CAN!!! And to all u D.A. kids out there... sweet dreams...
Activist atop a Cable logger
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hello its us again, we got a gig running on saturday night that you might be interested in THis is the START OF OUR NEW RESIDENCY,will be PLAYING a FULL RANGE OF DUBWISE SOUNDS FROM ROOTS CLASSICs TO FUTURE STEPPERS WITH FULL CREW OF LIVE SINGERS AND MUSCIANS JAMMING ON THE DUBS ,it an AMAZING VENUE, A LARGE SPACE WITH A proper SOLID SOUND SYSTEM, BEAUTIFULL SMOKERS TERRACE, friendly management AND A FIVE O,CLOCK LICENCE hope to see you there one love
Upstairs Bristol Vibes Inner Peace area Moussa the Kora player - African chordaphone (or harp) Sam Laurence - The Justin Timberlake of shamanism, and a one man party Sarah Joy - Singer-songwriter with an awesome voice and presence to match Jack Jennings - Ninja nimble-fingers, guitarist for Ashowka and Perhaps Contraption Jamileh Lee - Heartbreaking voice, recently worked with Martina Topley Bird and Chemical Dub Theory Radic - Reggae bassist and percussionist Craig 'Body English' aka Mr Manifest - Poet, compere, MC and reggae vocalist Kev the Poet - the Hip-Hop Bard and dubstealth poet
Hosted by the Synchromystickz Decor by Body English, Operation: Bless Everyt'ing in full effect...
hey thanx for the support hope all cool with you shirts patches back patches and pins now available from us and new ep out soon stay safe RAISED BY DRUNKS STOCKHOLM GLOBAL CRUST
hello its us again, we got a gig running on saturday night that you might be interested in THis is the START OF OUR NEW RESIDENCY,will be PLAYING a FULL RANGE OF DUBWISE SOUNDS FROM ROOTS CLASSICs TO FUTURE STEPPERS WITH FULL CREW OF LIVE SINGERS AND MUSCIANS JAMMING ON THE DUBS ,it an AMAZING VENUE, A LARGE SPACE WITH A proper SOLID SOUND SYSTEM, BEAUTIFULL SMOKERS TERRACE, friendly management AND A FIVE O,CLOCK LICENCE hope to see you there one love
Hi got a busy weekend coming up and was hoping you be able to join us. We be back at cosies for a sunday session, Coming thru as special guest is the mystic melodica man "ILODICA" www. myspace. com/ilodicaroots We will also be joined this night by a full crew of dub revolutionarys, including live sax,trumpet, vocals and mc,s. Stamina Li will also be there with his roots music stall and maybe a few lyrics for us. http://www. myspace. com/stalyrical Plus as always special guests on the night. Also on the friday night i be doing my regular dj slot at the star and garter, come thru for some late night skanking. Bless
so english comrades!! my closest friend Dave Mahoney is currently going through court in the states. 3 assults to second degree charges and three terristic threats.these are in relation to the protests at the republican national convention if they all stick he looking at 21 years!!! These are trumped up charges and is completely innocent. visit HELPDAVEMAHONEY. BLOGSPOT. COM
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credit crunch fuel and food wars - it's time to get real people
When the lights go out What you gonna do when the lights go out no one to listen to you scream and shout It’s coming/It’s here How you gonna feel when the lines go dead and your Third World life stretches out ahead
There’s only so much bio fuel to burn and maybe we’ve already used it There’s only so much Planet Earth can take and we’ve well and truly abused it There was always plenty of wealth to go round but never in the hands of the greedy few who possess it Only enough stuff left for 2 billion 6 billion plus gonna be around to contest it
Bullshit words and empty deeds feed the doubt and plant the seed New demand gives way to new war targeting resources where our enemies are Feed you till you’re fit to burst make you hunger make you thirst Expectation is the key keeps you thinking that you live free Faced with recession faced with loss it’s easier to ignore the cost More tacit consent more Third World horror keeps you feeling safe tomorrow But soon enough when the wind turns cold you’ll have to face the lie you’ve been told You’ll fuck your neighbours and fuck your friends and this is where your humanity ends
Dubstep poetry and UK Hip-Hop, all honest and emotional outbursts from the Hip-Hop Bard of a real life Stonehenge attending Druid Order with assistance from the Synchromystickz, and production from the likes of Appleblim, Defazed and J Rokka...
February 14th marks the US launch of Fair Trade Certified flowers. This V-Day is very special because for the first time Americans can buy Fair Trade Certified flowers and chocolate. Fall in love with Fair Trade and make the pledge to have a Fair Trade Valentine’s Day. Please pass this on to all your Fair Trade Valentines!
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