VEGETARIANS PUT THE BRAKES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is gaining speed. Scientists are warning us of famines, floods and flaming forests, should we not change our ways.But we are not toast yet! On one level, we need collective political action. In our personal lives, simple lifestyle changes can reduce our individual greenhouse emissions.
DETOX DIET FOR THE PLANET
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases result from burning fossil fuels in our industries, airplanes, cars... Travelling by bike and train instead of car and planes, using energy saving light bulbs, lowering room temperatures, etc. are all good and important changes. However, in themselves they are not enough to decrease our greenhouse gas emissions by the 75 percent needed to avoid catastrofic climate change. Industrialised countries have a huge “carbon footprint” largely because of our excessive consumption of meat and other animal products. Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 % of all greenhouse gases.
MEAT IS WASTEFUL
Producing one calorie of animal protein requires more than 10 times as much fossil fuel input than a calorie of plant protein. Feeding massive amounts of grain and water to farmed animals and then killing them and processing, transporting, and storing their flesh, milk, eggs etc. is extremely energy-intensive. 90% of the world's soy is fed to animals, even though humans could eat these and other protein-rich beans directly, saving much land, water, and energy.
WE ARE OUTNUMBERED...BY CATTLE
There are now three times as many farmed animals as people on this planet, and they are the main source of human-induced methane emissions. Methane emissions cause nearly half of the planet’s human-induced warming. And this source is on the rise: global meat consumption has increased fivefold in the past fifty years.
BEEF IN EUROPE = DESERT IN BRAZIL
Trees are great: they help to regulate our climate and store carbon dioxide. Over time, humans have transformed 30% of the Earth's land area into fields, and two thirds of this is used for producing fodder or grazing grounds for animals. The explosion of soy cultivation for the animal industry has caused the destruction of millions of hectares of forest and savannah with extremely high and valuable biodiversity in the Global South. Destroying vast acres of forest to feed farmed animals, and the manure they produce, release large quantities of greenhouse gases.
ORGANIC VEGANS COOL THE PLANET
Adopting a vegan diet reduces one person’s impact on the environment even more than giving up your car or forgoing several plane trips a year. (But you vegans out there shouldn't use this as an excuse for flying for your holidays!) In terms of climate and the environment, food should also be locally sourced, seasonal, and organic.Organic agriculture reduces CO2 emissions by not relying on the production and import of artificial herbicides and nitrogen based fertilizers. Check where your food comes from and cut down on your “food miles”. Keep you local farmer and bakery in business! It will pay off latest when we're hit by Peak Oil. A shift to a localised economy with seasonal, organic, vegan food will make regional economies flourish, with smaller-scale agriculture replacing international corporations and the stranglehold they have on the economy.
IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE WE CAN DO ABOUT IT?
We're dealing with a problem so huge that it cannot be dealt with only within the consumer setting. Scientists say we have only 7 years to make the necessary changes to avoid catastrophic climate change. What is being done then? Governments are talking green, but building more airports and coal plants. Corporations feed us greenwash and slick PR campaigns to cover up their dirty business. Both strive for endless economic growth and the solutions they offer not aim to change the status quo. We need to make the changes ourselves, right now. Some of these changes will require mass-scale social change, such as decentralized power. Some will require us to learn new skills and reconnect with the land.
In Europe and beyond, there is a growing movement of people who want to move beyond false solutions into creative and practical action. People are learning to make their lives more sustainable and enjoying the power of collective action.
Take a look at some action ideas at www.howtocookaplanet.net
*
vegan: A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals.
then some quotes to sprinkle aroud the text when theres space:
‘As individuals, we have to do something more transcendent than just taking up space living on the planet.’
-Doug Tompkins
‘By 2050 a million species could face extinction’.
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2004.
“Carbon emissions could be slashed by an incredible 21% overnight if we all stopped eating meat”. British scientist Alan Calverd writing in journal Physics World http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=10219&channel=0
Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. UN report “Livestock's long shadow”, 2006.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
EYFA NETWORK NEWS! April 2008
EYFA NETWORK NEWS! April 2008
EYFA newsletter is a tool to spread information on campaigns, actions,
meetings and convergence happening around Europe and beyond. Info is
forwarded to our network e-list and to network partners and contacts.
Please send us info if you have news to be spread.
NOTE: We have started after the summer with thematic newsletters and
archiving these on our website. You can find this newsletter (with loads
more 'hyperlinks') at http://eyfa.org/newsletter/on_borders (See also
here our September Newsletter on GMO's). Or you can check out the
version below (without all these 'hyperlinks'):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.on Immigrants Initiatives
April 2008
As May approaches, the wishes and winds of change coming from immigrants
initiatives become more evident. Preparations for MayDay protests and
French May celebrations are becoming a favourable omen for migrant
movements. With this Newsletter, our purpose is to emphasize the active
role of immigrants in their own struggles. Immigrants and refugees are
not mere victims to be defended. S/he is a crucial political actor in the
social and economic life of every country. And, though their actions may
sometimes go unseen, they are courageously speaking out loud,
simultaneously resisting and confronting migration regimes from all over
the World.
If you want to suggest a topic or have news to share - write to us!
eyfa@eyfa.org
~Contents~
1. What immigrants achieve against all odds?
2. Migrant Domestic Workers
3. Protest and Repression in Harmondsworth – UK
4. San Papiers Workers Strikes – France
5. The Voice Refugee Forum – Germany
6. Workers’ Strike in Manolada – Greece
7. Euro Mayday
8. Links for related events
1. What immigrants achieve against all odds?
There is no doubt about the intensification and increasing sophistication
in immigration control measures. Accordingly, the poor immigrants'
position within European countries is deteriorating by the increasing
obstacles to participate legally on the national society and economy.
This lack of documents accentuates the precarity of their labour
conditions and inability to have access to any kind of governmental
assistance. Indeed, it is difficult to perceive immigrants' effective
political role and strategic articulation. Nonetheless, immigrants and
refugees initiatives to create a common front against discriminatory and
violent migratory policies do exist. These struggles come from different
flanks. First, the tenacity and persistence of immigrants to reach a
country and keep up with all the responsibilities of any other citizen
(mainly, working to keep up with daily living costs) challenges the often
arbitrary schemes of national population control. This kind of resistance
is not radically open against the system, but these practices are radical
when it is considered the constant creative thinking needed for an
everyday survivable coming from social and territorial segregation.
Second, the European migration regime, and its selective inclusion, has
simultaneously provoked the coalition of immigrants from different
backgrounds in one or multiple countries. Third, in positions of absolute
segregation, as it is in detention centres and refugee camps, immigrants
still fight and develop strategies to denounce human right's violations,
with the help of activists from outside.
More info check: http://thistuesday.org/node/130
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2. Migrant Domestic Workers
Most of the poor immigrants in search for a better future in Europe find
instead marginalization. This way, many immigrants end up working in the
privacy of a home as domestic workers or au pairs, allowing the adult
members of the household be part of the so-called productive economy. As
many citizens go outside for an extra income for the household, the
non-citizens find a niche as domestic workers. Accordingly, the number of
undocumented immigrants in private households is increasing all over
Europe. And the work of international networks such as RESPECT Migrants
(http://thistuesday.org/node/24) has become crucial for denouncing the
systematic violation of human rights. This network, in particular, is
committed to migrant empowerment through self-organizations, and is also
composed by migrants' self-organizations. With this objective, Theater of
the Oppressed (TO) (http://www.toplab.org/whatis.htm) has proved to be
quite effective in empowering domestic workers, which provides them with
the capacity to represent themselves and to be the main actors in
campaigns for their rights.
One consequence of this struggle is the standard-setting “Decent work for
Domestic Workers” that was approved on March 18 this year by the
International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body, with the full
support of the workers' group, the employers group, the Latin American and
Caribbean Group, and 19 countries (including 5 European countries). This
standard setting in the ILO agenda will help to establish better working
conditions for thousands of migrant domestic workers - who are mainly
women and young immigrants.
Standard-Setting ILO:
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_090361.pdf
More links to TO initiatives:
http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3. Protest and Repression in Harmondsworth, UK
On April 1st about 300 detainees began a peaceful demonstration in
Kalyx-run Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre against their
administrative detention and poor conditions in the centre. They also
wrote and signed a petition and sent it to the European Court of Human
Rights. The protest continued with over 100 detainees refusing food. The
detainees complaint is that they are being deported without having their
cases properly heard, due to time restrictions and bad legal
representation. Meanwhile, they are held in deplorable conditions, and
without any criminal charges. A detainee told No Borders London: "The food
is disgusting. The medical facilities are appalling...It is mental
torture, people are going mad". The detainees' peaceful protest started
with mass food refusal by almost all of the detainees, and later on 120 of
them went to the courtyard remained there all night.
This is only an example of incidents, disruptions and protests that happen
in Harmonswoth. According to one refugee, “Every day someone is pushed to
madness and suicide. People resist every day, every day someone is on
hunger strike.”
Detainees Petition: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395575.html
Other Links:
http://noborderslondon.blogspot.com/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395251.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4. San Papiers Workers Strikes, France
While France is approaching the fortieth anniversary of May ’68, Paris’
streets are being flowed by hundreds of undocumented immigrants from
restaurants, department stores, cleaning companies and gardening demanding
working papers. Since the beginning of April, the undocumented workers
from the popular Restaurant Café La Jatte and the chain restaurant
‘Charlie Birdy’ are on strike, and are organizing other immigrant workers
to demand their rights and calling other immigrants to join their
protests. Now around 500 strikers are claiming their rights since under
French law after one year of contract they are entitled to receive their
papers.
Many undocumented migrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America have payed
for retirement, unemployment and national health care which they will
never receive due to their illegality in the country. For more than a
week, there have been strikes and occupations, supported by CGT Union,
Droits Devant, SYNHORCAT, Rights First, employers and others. Although
Sarkozy promised not to legalize massive numbers of immigrants, the
pressure on France’s economy will make him rethink his strong
anti-immigrant political stance.
French: http://lille.indymedia.org/
Spanish: ‘Sin Papeles’ en Francia
On May 68: http://libcom.org/history/articles/france-1968/,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJZgkhSCq8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5. The Voice Refugee Forum – Germany
Refugees from refugee isolation camps in Germany have been in contact with
human rights activists from The Voice Refugee Forum, and have described
the living conditions of such centres. "Anytime you ask the authorities
about something, they make the situation worse.” “Making a request from
the authorities confirms the heat of their pressures on you. It also means
giving them clues on where they can hit you more. They can be very
sympathetic with you but you have to know that their minds take an extra
ordinarily different position. Their intention is to ruin you but yet they
pretend not to be responsible for your pains. That is the ethics of their
Job.”
For the violent treatment received in these camps, the refugees have
designed a concrete strategy against their administrative confinement.
Among the demands from the refugees and The Voice are: “decentralization
of Refugees housing in standard accommodation in independent and private
housing; [the solidarity and strength of] migrants and refugee communities
to stand up to the challenge and to protest the state policies of forced
isolation of refugees in often remote camps and barracks; the exploitation
and maltreatment of refugees by imposing degrading and arbitrary systems
of psychological and financial "punishment"; the abolition of intimidating
controls and insist on the right to freedom of movement”, etc.
More info:
English: http://thevoiceforum.org/taxonomy/term/6
Deutsch: http://thevoiceforum.org/node/757
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6. Strike in Strawberry fields, Greece
More than 400 migrant workers working under very precarious conditions
went to strike for the first time in Manolada, Greece. Strawberry pickers
from South Asia and the Balkans demand an increase in their €18 per day
salary, which is less than a minimum wage since they work 12 hours a day
and live in tents given by their own employers – and deducted from their
salaries. Their employers argued that they don’t have enough money to
award this salary raise. Furthermore, farmers and hired thugs attacked the
migrants, and three trade unionists have been hurt and received treatment
in hospitals. The police arrested one farmer and 60 of the strikers.
Finally, their salaries were raised to €26 per day.
More info :
http://noborderscamp.org/en/aggregator/sources/3
http://athens.indymedia.org/?lang=en
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7. Euro MayDay: Transnationalization Now!
Many activists and grassroots organizations are preparing themselves to
celebrate the International Workers' Day, and protest for the rights and
recognition of immigrant workers. Many immigrants are participating
actively in the organization of actions, protests and discussions. The
Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Action (TCMA) has contributed a
lot to building up the atmosphere for the 1st of May by carrying out a
transnational campaign where migrant struggles could be heard for more
than only one day. This is a 9 months initiative, which began during a
Frassanito Network meeting, and the idea is to support and interconnect
migration-related activities already planned by various groups and
networks. The importance is to organize migrants struggles in an
international scale to find common grounds to fight against the migration
regime. More info on TCMA :
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=407
The dimension that this transnational initiative has acquired is clearly
seen in Italy. In Milan, for example, “a process of communication between
migrants' and precarious' movements opened the possibility of a MayDay
centered on the paradigmatic character of migrant labour in the whole
process of precarization.” Uniting behind the theme of 'precarity' is the
main cause of this positive response. Migrants' illegal status confounds
and divides workers, makes more difficult to see how migrants and
non-migrants workers are subdued to the same profit-oriented enterprises,
and ignores the migrants' double precarity. Accordingly, a mass
demonstration under the slogan “no-borders, no precarity” aims to demand
unconditional legalization and connect these claims with the ones in US
demonstrations. In this scenario, Euro MayDay has opened a political and
social space where everyone that experiences precarity in their working
conditions is protagonist of their struggles. These demonstrations’ main
objective is to radicalise the workers’ and immigrants’ movement, in doing
so they aim at the 'heart of the monster': freedom of movement, the right
to stay and equal benefits for workers- citizens or not.
1st of May: Milan, Porta Ticinese, h. 3 pm
Next stations of The Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Action:
June 6th: in Warsaw/Poland (Deutsch: http://frontex.antira.info/& English:
http://no-racism.net/article/2520/)
August 17th to 24th: in Hamburg/Germany:
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=415
September 18th to 21st: in Malmoe/Sweden:
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=427
October 7th: near Ceuta in Marocco
**More May Day Links for other countries:
Around the World: http://www.xpdnc.com/links/mayday.html
Greece: http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=449
Czech Republic: http://www.csaf.cz/akcie.php?id=1100
Spain: http://www.lainvisible.net/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
8. Other Migration-related events and links
@ Dikili, Turkey: Noborder camp from August 25 to September 2nd 2008:
http://no-racism.net/rubrik/35 . The camp aims to support people coming
from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan or from Africa, and who have decided to
take the hard and dangerous path of migrating overland or through sea,
confronting Greek and Turkish authorities.
english: http://no-racism.net/article/2510
deutsch: http://no-racism.net/article/2508
türkçe (pdf): http://no-racism.net/upload/732416843.pdf
@ European Social Forum, Malmo, from 17th to 21st of September
If you or your organization is interested to make a presentation, seminar
or workshop on the topic of migration, this is the link to the ESF
Migration Network open wiki workspace:
http://openesf.net/projects/migration-network/project-home
ESF extended info:
English: http://www.resist.org.uk/?q=node/824
Italian: http://www.meltingpot.org/articolo3789.html
French: http://www.expulsesmaliens.org/
Spanish: http://rebelion.org/dieterich/031115dieterich.htm
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EYFA newsletter is a tool to spread information on campaigns, actions,
meetings and convergence happening around Europe and beyond. Info is
forwarded to our network e-list and to network partners and contacts.
Please send us info
NOTE: We have started after the summer with thematic newsletters and
archiving these on our website. You can find this newsletter (with loads
more 'hyperlinks') at http://eyfa.org/newsletter/on_borders (See also
here our September Newsletter on GMO's). Or you can check out the
version below (without all these 'hyperlinks'):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.on Immigrants Initiatives
April 2008
As May approaches, the wishes and winds of change coming from immigrants
initiatives become more evident. Preparations for MayDay protests and
French May celebrations are becoming a favourable omen for migrant
movements. With this Newsletter, our purpose is to emphasize the active
role of immigrants in their own struggles. Immigrants and refugees are
not mere victims to be defended. S/he is a crucial political actor in the
social and economic life of every country. And, though their actions may
sometimes go unseen, they are courageously speaking out loud,
simultaneously resisting and confronting migration regimes from all over
the World.
If you want to suggest a topic or have news to share - write to us!
eyfa@eyfa.org
~Contents~
1. What immigrants achieve against all odds?
2. Migrant Domestic Workers
3. Protest and Repression in Harmondsworth – UK
4. San Papiers Workers Strikes – France
5. The Voice Refugee Forum – Germany
6. Workers’ Strike in Manolada – Greece
7. Euro Mayday
8. Links for related events
1. What immigrants achieve against all odds?
There is no doubt about the intensification and increasing sophistication
in immigration control measures. Accordingly, the poor immigrants'
position within European countries is deteriorating by the increasing
obstacles to participate legally on the national society and economy.
This lack of documents accentuates the precarity of their labour
conditions and inability to have access to any kind of governmental
assistance. Indeed, it is difficult to perceive immigrants' effective
political role and strategic articulation. Nonetheless, immigrants and
refugees initiatives to create a common front against discriminatory and
violent migratory policies do exist. These struggles come from different
flanks. First, the tenacity and persistence of immigrants to reach a
country and keep up with all the responsibilities of any other citizen
(mainly, working to keep up with daily living costs) challenges the often
arbitrary schemes of national population control. This kind of resistance
is not radically open against the system, but these practices are radical
when it is considered the constant creative thinking needed for an
everyday survivable coming from social and territorial segregation.
Second, the European migration regime, and its selective inclusion, has
simultaneously provoked the coalition of immigrants from different
backgrounds in one or multiple countries. Third, in positions of absolute
segregation, as it is in detention centres and refugee camps, immigrants
still fight and develop strategies to denounce human right's violations,
with the help of activists from outside.
More info check: http://thistuesday.org/node/130
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2. Migrant Domestic Workers
Most of the poor immigrants in search for a better future in Europe find
instead marginalization. This way, many immigrants end up working in the
privacy of a home as domestic workers or au pairs, allowing the adult
members of the household be part of the so-called productive economy. As
many citizens go outside for an extra income for the household, the
non-citizens find a niche as domestic workers. Accordingly, the number of
undocumented immigrants in private households is increasing all over
Europe. And the work of international networks such as RESPECT Migrants
(http://thistuesday.org/node/24) has become crucial for denouncing the
systematic violation of human rights. This network, in particular, is
committed to migrant empowerment through self-organizations, and is also
composed by migrants' self-organizations. With this objective, Theater of
the Oppressed (TO) (http://www.toplab.org/whatis.htm) has proved to be
quite effective in empowering domestic workers, which provides them with
the capacity to represent themselves and to be the main actors in
campaigns for their rights.
One consequence of this struggle is the standard-setting “Decent work for
Domestic Workers” that was approved on March 18 this year by the
International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body, with the full
support of the workers' group, the employers group, the Latin American and
Caribbean Group, and 19 countries (including 5 European countries). This
standard setting in the ILO agenda will help to establish better working
conditions for thousands of migrant domestic workers - who are mainly
women and young immigrants.
Standard-Setting ILO:
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_090361.pdf
More links to TO initiatives:
http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3. Protest and Repression in Harmondsworth, UK
On April 1st about 300 detainees began a peaceful demonstration in
Kalyx-run Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre against their
administrative detention and poor conditions in the centre. They also
wrote and signed a petition and sent it to the European Court of Human
Rights. The protest continued with over 100 detainees refusing food. The
detainees complaint is that they are being deported without having their
cases properly heard, due to time restrictions and bad legal
representation. Meanwhile, they are held in deplorable conditions, and
without any criminal charges. A detainee told No Borders London: "The food
is disgusting. The medical facilities are appalling...It is mental
torture, people are going mad". The detainees' peaceful protest started
with mass food refusal by almost all of the detainees, and later on 120 of
them went to the courtyard remained there all night.
This is only an example of incidents, disruptions and protests that happen
in Harmonswoth. According to one refugee, “Every day someone is pushed to
madness and suicide. People resist every day, every day someone is on
hunger strike.”
Detainees Petition: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395575.html
Other Links:
http://noborderslondon.blogspot.com/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395251.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4. San Papiers Workers Strikes, France
While France is approaching the fortieth anniversary of May ’68, Paris’
streets are being flowed by hundreds of undocumented immigrants from
restaurants, department stores, cleaning companies and gardening demanding
working papers. Since the beginning of April, the undocumented workers
from the popular Restaurant Café La Jatte and the chain restaurant
‘Charlie Birdy’ are on strike, and are organizing other immigrant workers
to demand their rights and calling other immigrants to join their
protests. Now around 500 strikers are claiming their rights since under
French law after one year of contract they are entitled to receive their
papers.
Many undocumented migrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America have payed
for retirement, unemployment and national health care which they will
never receive due to their illegality in the country. For more than a
week, there have been strikes and occupations, supported by CGT Union,
Droits Devant, SYNHORCAT, Rights First, employers and others. Although
Sarkozy promised not to legalize massive numbers of immigrants, the
pressure on France’s economy will make him rethink his strong
anti-immigrant political stance.
French: http://lille.indymedia.org/
Spanish: ‘Sin Papeles’ en Francia
On May 68: http://libcom.org/history/articles/france-1968/,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJZgkhSCq8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5. The Voice Refugee Forum – Germany
Refugees from refugee isolation camps in Germany have been in contact with
human rights activists from The Voice Refugee Forum, and have described
the living conditions of such centres. "Anytime you ask the authorities
about something, they make the situation worse.” “Making a request from
the authorities confirms the heat of their pressures on you. It also means
giving them clues on where they can hit you more. They can be very
sympathetic with you but you have to know that their minds take an extra
ordinarily different position. Their intention is to ruin you but yet they
pretend not to be responsible for your pains. That is the ethics of their
Job.”
For the violent treatment received in these camps, the refugees have
designed a concrete strategy against their administrative confinement.
Among the demands from the refugees and The Voice are: “decentralization
of Refugees housing in standard accommodation in independent and private
housing; [the solidarity and strength of] migrants and refugee communities
to stand up to the challenge and to protest the state policies of forced
isolation of refugees in often remote camps and barracks; the exploitation
and maltreatment of refugees by imposing degrading and arbitrary systems
of psychological and financial "punishment"; the abolition of intimidating
controls and insist on the right to freedom of movement”, etc.
More info:
English: http://thevoiceforum.org/taxonomy/term/6
Deutsch: http://thevoiceforum.org/node/757
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6. Strike in Strawberry fields, Greece
More than 400 migrant workers working under very precarious conditions
went to strike for the first time in Manolada, Greece. Strawberry pickers
from South Asia and the Balkans demand an increase in their €18 per day
salary, which is less than a minimum wage since they work 12 hours a day
and live in tents given by their own employers – and deducted from their
salaries. Their employers argued that they don’t have enough money to
award this salary raise. Furthermore, farmers and hired thugs attacked the
migrants, and three trade unionists have been hurt and received treatment
in hospitals. The police arrested one farmer and 60 of the strikers.
Finally, their salaries were raised to €26 per day.
More info :
http://noborderscamp.org/en/aggregator/sources/3
http://athens.indymedia.org/?lang=en
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7. Euro MayDay: Transnationalization Now!
Many activists and grassroots organizations are preparing themselves to
celebrate the International Workers' Day, and protest for the rights and
recognition of immigrant workers. Many immigrants are participating
actively in the organization of actions, protests and discussions. The
Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Action (TCMA) has contributed a
lot to building up the atmosphere for the 1st of May by carrying out a
transnational campaign where migrant struggles could be heard for more
than only one day. This is a 9 months initiative, which began during a
Frassanito Network meeting, and the idea is to support and interconnect
migration-related activities already planned by various groups and
networks. The importance is to organize migrants struggles in an
international scale to find common grounds to fight against the migration
regime. More info on TCMA :
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=407
The dimension that this transnational initiative has acquired is clearly
seen in Italy. In Milan, for example, “a process of communication between
migrants' and precarious' movements opened the possibility of a MayDay
centered on the paradigmatic character of migrant labour in the whole
process of precarization.” Uniting behind the theme of 'precarity' is the
main cause of this positive response. Migrants' illegal status confounds
and divides workers, makes more difficult to see how migrants and
non-migrants workers are subdued to the same profit-oriented enterprises,
and ignores the migrants' double precarity. Accordingly, a mass
demonstration under the slogan “no-borders, no precarity” aims to demand
unconditional legalization and connect these claims with the ones in US
demonstrations. In this scenario, Euro MayDay has opened a political and
social space where everyone that experiences precarity in their working
conditions is protagonist of their struggles. These demonstrations’ main
objective is to radicalise the workers’ and immigrants’ movement, in doing
so they aim at the 'heart of the monster': freedom of movement, the right
to stay and equal benefits for workers- citizens or not.
1st of May: Milan, Porta Ticinese, h. 3 pm
Next stations of The Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Action:
June 6th: in Warsaw/Poland (Deutsch: http://frontex.antira.info/& English:
http://no-racism.net/article/2520/)
August 17th to 24th: in Hamburg/Germany:
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=415
September 18th to 21st: in Malmoe/Sweden:
http://www.noborder.org/chain08/display.php?id=427
October 7th: near Ceuta in Marocco
**More May Day Links for other countries:
Around the World: http://www.xpdnc.com/links/mayday.html
Greece: http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=449
Czech Republic: http://www.csaf.cz/akcie.php?id=1100
Spain: http://www.lainvisible.net/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
8. Other Migration-related events and links
@ Dikili, Turkey: Noborder camp from August 25 to September 2nd 2008:
http://no-racism.net/rubrik/35 . The camp aims to support people coming
from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan or from Africa, and who have decided to
take the hard and dangerous path of migrating overland or through sea,
confronting Greek and Turkish authorities.
english: http://no-racism.net/article/2510
deutsch: http://no-racism.net/article/2508
türkçe (pdf): http://no-racism.net/upload/732416843.pdf
@ European Social Forum, Malmo, from 17th to 21st of September
If you or your organization is interested to make a presentation, seminar
or workshop on the topic of migration, this is the link to the ESF
Migration Network open wiki workspace:
http://openesf.net/projects/migration-network/project-home
ESF extended info:
English: http://www.resist.org.uk/?q=node/824
Italian: http://www.meltingpot.org/articolo3789.html
French: http://www.expulsesmaliens.org/
Spanish: http://rebelion.org/dieterich/031115dieterich.htm
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Help to solve food crisis !!!
Dear friends,
Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure -- sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
Sign the Petition
Watch the Video
Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here's why -- we're plunging headlong into a world food crisis. Rocketing prices are squeezing billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to South Africa. Aid agencies say 100 million more people are at risk of starvation right now[1]. In Sierra Leone alone the price of a bag of rice has doubled, becoming unaffordable for 90% of citizens[2]. Fears of inflation stalk the whole world, and the worst could be yet to come.
We need to act now -- before it's too late. As Ban Ki-Moon holds a high-level UN meeting on the crisis, we're launching an urgent campaign with African foreign minister and human rights campaigner Zainab Bangura. Click below to see Zainab's video message and add your name to the food crisis petition -- we need to raise 200,000 signatures by the end of this week to deliver a massive global outcry to leaders at the UN, G8 and EU:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
The prices of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice have almost doubled, and the crisis is slipping out of control -- so we're calling for immediate action on emergency food aid, speculation and biofuels policy, while asking forthcoming summits to tackle deeper problems of investment and trade.[3]
The global food crisis touches and connects us all, creating a tsunami of hunger for the poor and damaging economies and squeezing citizens in the rich world too. But solutions are on the horizon if leaders act fast [4] -- sign the petition at the link below now, then forward this email and ask friends and family to do the same:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
With hope,
Paul, Galit, Ricken, Graziela, Iain, Mark, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
Sources:
1. BBC: "How to stop the global food crisis": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7365798.stm
"The New Economics of Hunger", Washington Post, 27 April 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602041_pf.html
2. Zainab Bangura, Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, video message to Avaaz members http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
3. Chinese news citing World Bank figures: http://www.cctv.com/english/20080426/102406.shtml
Reuters: "Rising food prices to top UN agenda" http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL1890947220080424
4. See BBC article above, and "Rising Food Prices" by Alex Evans (Chatham House report) http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/11422_bp0408food.pdf
UN scientific report on fixing the world food system: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347239.stm
The Guardian: "Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger", George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/15/food.biofuels
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ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means "voice" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Paris, Washington DC, and Geneva.
Don't forget to check out our Facebook and Myspace pages!
Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure -- sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
Sign the Petition
Watch the Video
Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here's why -- we're plunging headlong into a world food crisis. Rocketing prices are squeezing billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to South Africa. Aid agencies say 100 million more people are at risk of starvation right now[1]. In Sierra Leone alone the price of a bag of rice has doubled, becoming unaffordable for 90% of citizens[2]. Fears of inflation stalk the whole world, and the worst could be yet to come.
We need to act now -- before it's too late. As Ban Ki-Moon holds a high-level UN meeting on the crisis, we're launching an urgent campaign with African foreign minister and human rights campaigner Zainab Bangura. Click below to see Zainab's video message and add your name to the food crisis petition -- we need to raise 200,000 signatures by the end of this week to deliver a massive global outcry to leaders at the UN, G8 and EU:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
The prices of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice have almost doubled, and the crisis is slipping out of control -- so we're calling for immediate action on emergency food aid, speculation and biofuels policy, while asking forthcoming summits to tackle deeper problems of investment and trade.[3]
The global food crisis touches and connects us all, creating a tsunami of hunger for the poor and damaging economies and squeezing citizens in the rich world too. But solutions are on the horizon if leaders act fast [4] -- sign the petition at the link below now, then forward this email and ask friends and family to do the same:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
With hope,
Paul, Galit, Ricken, Graziela, Iain, Mark, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
Sources:
1. BBC: "How to stop the global food crisis": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7365798.stm
"The New Economics of Hunger", Washington Post, 27 April 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042602041_pf.html
2. Zainab Bangura, Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, video message to Avaaz members http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/12.php
3. Chinese news citing World Bank figures: http://www.cctv.com/english/20080426/102406.shtml
Reuters: "Rising food prices to top UN agenda" http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL1890947220080424
4. See BBC article above, and "Rising Food Prices" by Alex Evans (Chatham House report) http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/11422_bp0408food.pdf
UN scientific report on fixing the world food system: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347239.stm
The Guardian: "Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger", George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/15/food.biofuels
----------
ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means "voice" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Paris, Washington DC, and Geneva.
Don't forget to check out our Facebook and Myspace pages!
De een zijn dood... verdienen aan de voedselcrisis
globalinfo.nl
Miljoenen mensen sterven van de honger en door de huidige voedelscrisis zullen dat er alleen maar meer worden dan vorig jaar. Tegelijkertijd maken grote voedselbedrijven en spekulanten recordwinsten. Grain heeft daarover een rapport uitgebracht.
De wereldwijde voedselcrisis brengt veel mensen ellende toe, maar mondiale agribusiness bedrijven, handelaren en speculanten harken grote winsten bij elkaar. De fundamentele oorzaak van de huidige voedselcrisis is de neoliberale globalisering zelf, die voedsel van een bron voor levensonderhoud omgevormd heeft in een goed waarmee gegokt wordt, zelfs als dat massale honger onder de armste mensen op aarde betekent.
De organisatie GRAIN heeft daarover een nieuw rapport uitgebracht onder de titel 'Making a Killing from Hunger': http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=39
Veel van de nieuwsberichten over de mondiale voedselcrisis richten zich op de rellen in arme landen, waar arbeiders en anderen zich geen raad weten met de omhoogschietende kosten van basisvoedsel. Maar er zit nog een andere kant aan het verhaal: de grote winsten die momenteel gemaakt worden door de grote voedselbedrijven en investeerders. Cargill, de grootste graanhandelaar op de wereld, zag in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar een winststijging van 86 procent bij de handel in goederen. Bunge, een andere grote voedselhandelaar, had een winststijging van 77 procent in het laatste kwartaal van vorig jaar. ADM, de op een na grootste graanhandelaar wereldwijd, kon 67 procent meer minst in 2007 melden.
Ook de grote supermarktconcerns worden er niet slechter van: de winst bij TESCO, de Britse supermarktgigant, steeg afgelopen jaar met een recordbedrag van 11,8 procent. Andere grote retailers, zoals het Franse Carrefour of Wal-Mart uit de VS, vertellen dat de voedselverkoop de hoofdsector voor hun winst zijn. Investeringsfondsen, die wegtrekken van de instortende aandelenmarkten en de kredietcrisis, zitten te juichen bij de goederenmarkten en drijven de prijzen op die daardoor buiten bereik komen van voedselimporteurs als Bangladesh en de Filippijnen.
Deze winsten zijn geen bizar natuurverschijnsel. Gedurende de laatste dertig jaar hebben IMF en Wereldbank de zogenaamde ontwikkelingslanden gedwongen om alle vormen van bescherming van hun lokale boeren op te heffen en hun markten open te stellen voor mondiaal agribusiness, speculanten en gesubsidieerd voedsel uit de rijke landen. Dit heeft de meeste ontwikkelingslanden veranderd van exporteurs van voedsel in importeurs. Momenteel is zo'n 70 procent van de ontwikkelingslanden netto importeur van voedsel. Daar komt bij dat de liberalisering van financiële transacties het makkelijker heeft gemaakt voor investeerders om controle over markten te krijgen voor hun eigen gewin.
Beleid op het gebied van landbouw is geheel los komen te staan van het belangrijkste doel: dat van het voeden van mensen. Liever dan eens de balans op te maken over hun eigen rampzalige beleid, leggen regeringen en denktanks nu de schuld bij productieproblemen, de groeiende vraag in China en India, en biobrandstoffen. Hoewel dat natuurlijk een rol speelt, is de fundamentele oorzaak van de huidige voedselcrisis de neoliberale globalisering zelf, die voedsel van een bron voor levensonderhoud omgevormd heeft in een goed waarmee gegokt wordt, zelfs als dat massale honger onder de armste mensen op aarde betekent.
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GRAIN, Making a killing from hunger: We need to overturn food policy, now! "Against the grain", April 2008, http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39 in PDF http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39&pdf
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Globalinfo.nl publiceert regelmatig achtergrondinformatie over de huidige voedselcrisis en de gevolgen daarvan:
http://www.globalinfo.nl
Miljoenen mensen sterven van de honger en door de huidige voedelscrisis zullen dat er alleen maar meer worden dan vorig jaar. Tegelijkertijd maken grote voedselbedrijven en spekulanten recordwinsten. Grain heeft daarover een rapport uitgebracht.
De wereldwijde voedselcrisis brengt veel mensen ellende toe, maar mondiale agribusiness bedrijven, handelaren en speculanten harken grote winsten bij elkaar. De fundamentele oorzaak van de huidige voedselcrisis is de neoliberale globalisering zelf, die voedsel van een bron voor levensonderhoud omgevormd heeft in een goed waarmee gegokt wordt, zelfs als dat massale honger onder de armste mensen op aarde betekent.
De organisatie GRAIN heeft daarover een nieuw rapport uitgebracht onder de titel 'Making a Killing from Hunger': http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=39
Veel van de nieuwsberichten over de mondiale voedselcrisis richten zich op de rellen in arme landen, waar arbeiders en anderen zich geen raad weten met de omhoogschietende kosten van basisvoedsel. Maar er zit nog een andere kant aan het verhaal: de grote winsten die momenteel gemaakt worden door de grote voedselbedrijven en investeerders. Cargill, de grootste graanhandelaar op de wereld, zag in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar een winststijging van 86 procent bij de handel in goederen. Bunge, een andere grote voedselhandelaar, had een winststijging van 77 procent in het laatste kwartaal van vorig jaar. ADM, de op een na grootste graanhandelaar wereldwijd, kon 67 procent meer minst in 2007 melden.
Ook de grote supermarktconcerns worden er niet slechter van: de winst bij TESCO, de Britse supermarktgigant, steeg afgelopen jaar met een recordbedrag van 11,8 procent. Andere grote retailers, zoals het Franse Carrefour of Wal-Mart uit de VS, vertellen dat de voedselverkoop de hoofdsector voor hun winst zijn. Investeringsfondsen, die wegtrekken van de instortende aandelenmarkten en de kredietcrisis, zitten te juichen bij de goederenmarkten en drijven de prijzen op die daardoor buiten bereik komen van voedselimporteurs als Bangladesh en de Filippijnen.
Deze winsten zijn geen bizar natuurverschijnsel. Gedurende de laatste dertig jaar hebben IMF en Wereldbank de zogenaamde ontwikkelingslanden gedwongen om alle vormen van bescherming van hun lokale boeren op te heffen en hun markten open te stellen voor mondiaal agribusiness, speculanten en gesubsidieerd voedsel uit de rijke landen. Dit heeft de meeste ontwikkelingslanden veranderd van exporteurs van voedsel in importeurs. Momenteel is zo'n 70 procent van de ontwikkelingslanden netto importeur van voedsel. Daar komt bij dat de liberalisering van financiële transacties het makkelijker heeft gemaakt voor investeerders om controle over markten te krijgen voor hun eigen gewin.
Beleid op het gebied van landbouw is geheel los komen te staan van het belangrijkste doel: dat van het voeden van mensen. Liever dan eens de balans op te maken over hun eigen rampzalige beleid, leggen regeringen en denktanks nu de schuld bij productieproblemen, de groeiende vraag in China en India, en biobrandstoffen. Hoewel dat natuurlijk een rol speelt, is de fundamentele oorzaak van de huidige voedselcrisis de neoliberale globalisering zelf, die voedsel van een bron voor levensonderhoud omgevormd heeft in een goed waarmee gegokt wordt, zelfs als dat massale honger onder de armste mensen op aarde betekent.
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GRAIN, Making a killing from hunger: We need to overturn food policy, now! "Against the grain", April 2008, http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39 in PDF http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39&pdf
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Globalinfo.nl publiceert regelmatig achtergrondinformatie over de huidige voedselcrisis en de gevolgen daarvan:
http://www.globalinfo.nl
Groenfront infoavond
Dinsdag 6 mei Groenfront infoavond van af 20.00 in de Molli Chaoot, van Ostadestraat 55 huis Amsterdam.
Wat is groenfront, laatste up-date over campanges, laatste nieuws over Schinfeld, film
- E-Mail: molli@squat.net Website: http://www.molli.nl
Wat is groenfront, laatste up-date over campanges, laatste nieuws over Schinfeld, film
- E-Mail: molli@squat.net Website: http://www.molli.nl
Groen Front eco activist victory in court,
Activist who clime the tree to protect the squautted camping behind the Durgerdam and nature there it's not guilty according higher appeal court. Thats dubble victory. First was that he revield the thruth about the owner's illegal eviction and cutting the trees, and the police brutality aswell- he was pulled from -10 meters high without any protection. Second was that the court believed him not to the cops who wanted to prosecute him for resisting of arest and violence against them. Ofcourse this last was sneaky lie, what they ussualy do. But this time nobody belived them. Juppieee !!!
Abaut Schinveld...
GroenFront! Schinveld - 29.04.2008 16:04
Na een vernietigende uitspraak van de Raad van State voelt minister Cramer van VROM zich gedwongen binnen zes weken een beslissing te nemen over de omstreden Nimby maatregel die de kap van 20 hectare bos beoogt af te dwingen in Schinveld. Eind augustus (2007) moest Cramer al een besluit hierover genomen hebben. Dat heeft zij nog steeds niet gedaan. De Raad van State maant haar nu opnieuw om een besluit te nemen. "Het wordt nu tijd voor Cramer om kleur te bekennen. Is het onze milieu-minster of is ze Staatssecretaris van Defensie", zegt GroenFront!-activist Peter Polder. 'Niet het kappen van het bos maar het sluiten van de basis is nu de enige reeele optie'
Vorige week nog stuurde Cramer een Kamerbrief waarin ze een absurde uitruil met de gemeente Onderbanken voorstelt. Cramer wil de NIMBY-maatregel opheffen, als de gemeente vrijwillig meewerkt aan de boskap. NIMBY staat voor Not In My BackYard en is de dwangmaatregel waarmee de 6 ha boskap in 2006 was afgedwongen. Wethouder Hans Ubachs heeft al laten weten dat daar geen sprake van kan zijn.Afgelopen juli oordeelde de Raad van State al dat het NIMBY-besluit nooit genomen had mogen worden en dat Cramer binnen 6 weken met een ander besluit moest komen. Nu oordeelt de Raad van State dat ze opnieuw een besluit moet nemen. "De uitruil die Cramer met de gemeente voorstel is absoluut niet gepast. De regering heeft zich bediend van grof machtsmisbruik en heeft nog een hoop goed te maken in Zuid Limburg. Ook nu krijgen ze weer grove kritiek van de Raad van State. Laat ze eerst maar de NIMBY-maatregel van tafel halen als teken van goede wil," zegt Peter Polder.
Momenteel loopt er ook nog een andere procedure bij de Raad van State waarin de regering eist om de vrije hand te krijgen in het kappen van 20 ha bos. Die uitspraak zal ook ergens de komende tijd zijn. De vrees bestaat dat de overheid via politieke spelletjes alsnog een trucje vindt om toch te gaan kappen. "Mocht Cramer willen gaan kappen, dan zullen wij het bos bezetten en verdedigen," zegt Peter Polder. "Heel Nederland weet nu waar Schinveld ligt. "Het verzet zal dus nog vele malen feller en massaler zijn dan de vorige keer,"vervolgt hij.
Website: http://www.groenfront.nl
Na een vernietigende uitspraak van de Raad van State voelt minister Cramer van VROM zich gedwongen binnen zes weken een beslissing te nemen over de omstreden Nimby maatregel die de kap van 20 hectare bos beoogt af te dwingen in Schinveld. Eind augustus (2007) moest Cramer al een besluit hierover genomen hebben. Dat heeft zij nog steeds niet gedaan. De Raad van State maant haar nu opnieuw om een besluit te nemen. "Het wordt nu tijd voor Cramer om kleur te bekennen. Is het onze milieu-minster of is ze Staatssecretaris van Defensie", zegt GroenFront!-activist Peter Polder. 'Niet het kappen van het bos maar het sluiten van de basis is nu de enige reeele optie'
Vorige week nog stuurde Cramer een Kamerbrief waarin ze een absurde uitruil met de gemeente Onderbanken voorstelt. Cramer wil de NIMBY-maatregel opheffen, als de gemeente vrijwillig meewerkt aan de boskap. NIMBY staat voor Not In My BackYard en is de dwangmaatregel waarmee de 6 ha boskap in 2006 was afgedwongen. Wethouder Hans Ubachs heeft al laten weten dat daar geen sprake van kan zijn.Afgelopen juli oordeelde de Raad van State al dat het NIMBY-besluit nooit genomen had mogen worden en dat Cramer binnen 6 weken met een ander besluit moest komen. Nu oordeelt de Raad van State dat ze opnieuw een besluit moet nemen. "De uitruil die Cramer met de gemeente voorstel is absoluut niet gepast. De regering heeft zich bediend van grof machtsmisbruik en heeft nog een hoop goed te maken in Zuid Limburg. Ook nu krijgen ze weer grove kritiek van de Raad van State. Laat ze eerst maar de NIMBY-maatregel van tafel halen als teken van goede wil," zegt Peter Polder.
Momenteel loopt er ook nog een andere procedure bij de Raad van State waarin de regering eist om de vrije hand te krijgen in het kappen van 20 ha bos. Die uitspraak zal ook ergens de komende tijd zijn. De vrees bestaat dat de overheid via politieke spelletjes alsnog een trucje vindt om toch te gaan kappen. "Mocht Cramer willen gaan kappen, dan zullen wij het bos bezetten en verdedigen," zegt Peter Polder. "Heel Nederland weet nu waar Schinveld ligt. "Het verzet zal dus nog vele malen feller en massaler zijn dan de vorige keer,"vervolgt hij.
Website: http://www.groenfront.nl
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