Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: FWD: Hwy 55 & Earth Liberation Front communique (fwd)


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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:23:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: FWD: Hwy 55 & Earth Liberation Front communique

        This may be of interest, or even an inspiration...

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>====================>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 			TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1999
>CONTACT:					BOB GREENBERG  612-879-8929
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>EARTH LIBERATION FRONT
>CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY
>FOR SABOTAGE
>ON HIGHWAY 55
>CONSTRUCTION
>EQUIPMENT
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>MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- In a communiqué recieved Monday, October 4th, the Earth
>Liberation Front (E.L.F) claimed responsibility for two separate incidents
>of economic sabotage (property damage) against C.S. McRossan Inc., a
>company currently involved in building a portion of the reroute of Highway
>55.
>
>The E.L.F is responsible for the burning of Vail Associates last winter in
>Vail, CO.  Eco-terrorists Vail Associates were attempting to expand
>operations at the expense of the Lynx, an endangered species.  The E.L.F.
>inflicted over $12 million in damages on Vail Associates main ski lodge.
>
>According to the communiqué, the ELF claims to have damaged conveyor belts
>and machinery at C S McRossan's office located in Maple Grove, Minnesota on
>Monday, September 27.  The second incident happened in the early morning of
>of Sunday, October 3.  The ELF claims to have poured sand into machines and
>cut hoses and wires on three machines located at the Highway 55
>construction site in South Minneapolis.
>
>This is the type of action that is necessary to end the abuses of a
>government no longer responsible to the people and destroying the very
>fabric of life at biological and social levels in favor of corporate profit
>and elite privilege.   This ongoing genocide will not be tolerated.  The
>E.L.F. has opened the tool box, peered inside, and taken out the right
>tools for the job.  Indigenous people and indigenous species should no
>longer suffer for the extravagant lifestyles of the few.  We hope to see
>more of this in the future.
>
>
>Communiqué
>
>Greetings from the Earth Liberation Front.
>
>we are claiming responsibility for the second attack upon C S McRossan's
>machinery. In the early morning hours of sun oct 3, the ELF entered the
>construction site on highway 55 in Minneapolis where the company is
>working.  Machines that were found with accessable holes had sand poured
>into the oil,  the draining of them. Three machines had hoses and wires cut
>before the elves escaped into the night. This follows an attack earlier in
>the week on mon sept 27  when a visit was paid to CS McRossan's offices in
>Maple Grove, where we slashed conveyor belts and damaged machinery. We see
>highway 55 as symbolic of the larger system that is strangling us of our
>air and water. The NAFTA superhighway and the roads into the forests are
>all a symptom of  the sick capitalist system that puts profits before
>people or ecosysytems. As long as the trees continue to fall, so will the
>profits made of this project. This is just the beginning of a new level of
>battling against highway 55 and car culture. We urge the elves of MN and
>the world to unite against the profit hauling infrastructures around the
>globe. Target machines, offices , and equipment used to build roads. We are
>everywhere and we are watching. We will be back.
>
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>live simply
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