DISCONNECTED Workers in Ozarow Poland have been rioting against the closure
of their telephone cable factory. They rejected the measly payoff they were
offered, and instead started a 219 day occupation of the factory which
ended abruptly two weeks ago when several buses of security guards
violently evicted the protesters. There's been mass solidarity with the
workers and small groups of anarchists from around Poland have joined them
in helping with blockades around the factory and organising various
ambushes on trucks leaving the site. As one Polish anarchist said, "As soon
as we started harassing security guards in a more organised way, they
started living in a state of permanent siege, hiding inside the factory
behind barricades they built to be protected from us. All day and night
black bloc, workers, and small group of local hooligans attacked them. Lots
of workers were amazed by our way of fighting." This pressure has triggered
new negotiations, but across Poland the number of strikes are growing
because of worsening economic conditions. "ERM." On Monday morning,
protestors from Rising Tide, who campaign for climate change justice,
performed an environmental and social impact assessment of the London
office of Environmental Resource Management (ERM), with some barricading
themselves in the directors office and hanging out a banner 'Oil is War.'
ERM has been carrying out research work for oil giant BP on the proposed
1,770-km pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan through Georgia to the port of
Ceyhan in Turkey. ERM's role is to greenwash the whole project-it plays a
crucial role in convincing public funders to give financial backing to the
scheme. www.ermconcerns.com Meanwhile, last week in Tbilisi, the Georgian
capital, a group of people paid a friendly visit to the office of the
Georgian International Oil Company, one of BP's partners in the pipeline
project. The protest came in response to the Georgian Government's decision
to issue permission for construction of the pipeline by November 30th. The
decision violates Georgian environmental legislation, as it allows the
pipeline to pass through protected areas and water sanctuary zones in the
sensitive Borjomi Gorge. The decision, the Government says, was made to
meet the project timeline and thus fulfil BP's requirements. Rising Tide
network 01865 241097, www.risingtide.org.uk. INSIDE SchNEWS The five animal
rights activists who were facing jail sentences for "conspiracy to hold a
protest" at the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt Kennels (see last week's
SchNEWS) have all escaped prison sentences. Instead, thanks to the judge
reading last week's SchNEWS of course, they were sentenced to do community
service of between 200 and 240 hours, plus court costs. In a further blow
for the Hunt, a protester had his conviction for Harassment overturned. The
judge ruled that the charge was an abuse of the Protection from Harassment
Act (originally introduced to prevent stalking of women). He cited a case
in the High Court where it was ruled that the Act should not be used to
prevent political protest. www.shoreham-protester.org.uk .AND FINALLY. Some
passionate Sydney activists puckered up for a mass game of "Spin the
Bottle" outside the New South Wales State Parliament last month and managed
to tally up a smouldering 154 kisses between them. Apart from giving
themselves severely chapped lips, they were protesting against the
confiscation of the Spin The Bottle Bloc's six-foot papier mache bottle at
the anti- World Trade Organisation demos which took place in Sydney last
month. The confiscation of the bottle was "justified" by the Sydney police
because they believed protestors were planning a violent confrontation, as
proved by the Spin the Bottle Bloc's own communication, which read, "We
invite you to join us for the most militant game of spin the bottle ever
attempted - turning up the heat until every kiss becomes a molotov." The
police, who obviously don't know much about the power of love or the
classic teenage party game, have refused to return the bottle, though they
obviously won't have much use for it themselves http://sydney.indymedia.org
Disclaimer SchNEWS warns all right on readers we print the right stuff not
out right lies. In our right old carry on there's no rights left out
despite writers cramp. Honest.
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Rash of Cell phone cheats in Japan and au.What happens when the phones get
smaller still? Paging Dr Shieffer...Dr Sidney Sheiffer...
