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because activists say a british investigation into torture allegations is a farce after the government says it will decide whether to actually release the results it's going to british officers have been involved in the forcible interrogation of prisoners overseas for years. now the story of the eco warriors who put themselves on the line to protect the environment special report is next. yes so. that's the mission here that's where exactly he is rated ok.
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for giving a warning to the oriental bluebird that they are violating the emperor he will sanctuary there if you comply with morning so we delivered a serious blow to them in order to be. to walk down the street see a child being abused and do nothing you don't stand there and watch whales die and hold a banner and do nothing. our oceans are dying we've already removed ninety percent of the fish from the oceans and we're continuing to exploit them i don't believe in protest to me protesting is submissive it's like please please please don't do that and they do it anyway you know it's a grovelling you know we shouldn't be protesting we should be intervening. is a battle is a war. what governments and big business have been doing is
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extremely destructive and it seems silly to me it's you think of it as not a war and something that we should fight back against i don't like setting things on fire i don't like sneaking around at night wearing a ski mask crawling underneath cars i don't like it i don't like sitting in a tree two hundred feet up in the air risking my life but i feel a necessity to do these things. but being an eco warrior means to me is. doing all you can to defend the earth. it can be hard because a lot of people think you should never break the law or at least not for political purposes.
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to just invest things have to change i want to take action instead of waiting passively otherwise change won't happen but if we reach a certain critical mass. and many of us act together we can change the world.
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this afternoon this is my food supply i want to point to the police corner i was up here it's not for a few days the moment we won so no we won't need it. we occupied the trees to propound fox in file from cutting them down this is a work of clearing the forests or they could lay pipe to the coal plant they're building in the industrial part of town you'll see the thing so it was a great opportunity to sabotage the corporation and to bring our protest in an urban area with us that will kill the idea. it kills i don't find the name
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squirrel. but. i'm. one of the time never dismantle it a platform also usually the cops do it when the effect is from the trees. to three months for the courts to issue an injunction stopping work due to a normal lease in the permit granting process so enormously was that no one asked the people no hearings were held. liable i don't need a piece of paper saying what they did was illegal and once it's done the paper is useless but i want to stop firms of this office and.
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work from the act of taking direct action for about ten years. look at first it was street theater then i took action against in summer isn't taking billboards. well always been a client weren't so one day i decided to combine activism with climbing i like the way it works so i carried on i combine my hobby and my political commitment. this rail line goes to dawn and were spotted ten kilometers we don't know if it's another twenty by road to the future nuclear waste disposal site. the reason no a temporary site trains loaded with nuclear waste is wrong on this line yeah. well imagine my surprise is the key to a successful action. jump over the fans. but
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. i don't want to go. one two three four five six. let us on this seventy five seventy six seventy seven i can't so much as seven officers plus those over there not that there's a crowd on the bridge that's about twenty five per person that's what they need to drive the nuclear train for. as you probably already know i remain passive and never cut anything or destroy anything.
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if you look at your i obviously don't have an on off switch to stop all nuclear construction overnight it's not although. they say i'm in custody we stand by tiny step we're making our dreams come true. to see the contacts so typists in this is silly con to has sixteen sponsors. take us on offense to all who want us each one gives ten twenty thirty euros a month which adds up to three hundred fifty euro based isis or sil has unusual talents and cause them to work it's a meeting of people who can give money because they approve of her actions and i do know what they can't do with themselves as for just thanks to this financial support sil can do her thing call millie and independently of each other and.
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sussan. and. giver interact action only commit to face and the legal consequences so when i think over the rails for a few hours and they bring me to trial. for trespassing no whatever i can't say no
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that wasn't me i don't want to be seen a lot of about my actions are for everybody to see and i do not hide. i'm never done jail time but i've been fined what i've done to french and german law they are minor infractions they don't go on my criminal record. massive prison one is i think these are the cases i have filed according to tight trial is part of the action at the courthouse a lot of other things are going on there are demonstrations and there is a hung and people climb on the roof of the courthouse i'm often. stage an action like that gives us more press. we talk to reporters about issues like extortion nuclear waste g m always our weary each and arrange our grievance so for us i can't apologise for say.
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the couple. were surrounded by the forest up here. the green diamond resource company is the
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largest redwood landowner the largest single redwood landowner and they have about four hundred thirty thousand acres which is far bigger than any of the parks. their target age their age they want to clear cut this forty five years old and that's just pretty much tree farming these trees can grow to be thousands of years old so when you're just continually stunting it to a maximum of forty five or fifty years it's not a forest at all it's just a tree for. live. live.
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thank you. the first year was cut down about five years ago that's what most a green dam is land looks like is really small scrubby trees and brush. come through. and see all the tree is i think it's about seventy we don't really recognize their right to claim ownership of this land when all they're doing is exploiting it.
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first first is the movement never part of. one of the main mottos of earth first is no compromise in the defense of mother earth. we want them to stop clear cutting we want them to stop using herbicides we want them to not log on stephen unstable hillsides because a lot of erosion and landslides and we want them to not cut anymore old growth ever . we're here to protect the ecosystems that we rely on to preserve viable and really that everyone on this earth relies on because these trees soak up huge amounts of carbon or the atmosphere and this forest was allowed to grow to its full potential it would greatly reduce the impacts of climate change because these trees get so huge and lived for so long in iraq resistant that they stored just massive in massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
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we got all the supplies you asked for i brought some hot. farmer has been climbing. and he's pretty. like an inch more than ninety feet. who is great to be here. apples. thank you. in one campaign in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was a tree sitter who. was unable to get food or water for three days because there
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were security guards posted under his tree and he had to treat his own pist. to make it for the last few days. i'm going to make chocolate cake. chocolate. and coke and you know better talk and i. hope it will be great. but. it's not really about like lifestyle choices it's about taking action against. the corporations that are destroying the earth. we're breaking the law but they're breaking the rules you know like they're breaking my heart on the way and unlike the spirit like it's like so much more
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heinous criminal trespassing and illegal camping building a bridge to. the survival of these ecosystems rely on people of conscience taking a stand but since bush took office. the level of involvement with the earth first and with civil disobedience to defend the forests has severely declined and they used to be hundreds if not thousands of people who had come to humboldt county merely to defend the redwoods during logging season and now we're lucky to have twenty. it was the other way. to do it it is just like op. was. i. i. think we have to remember that it's not
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just a game it's because and what they called the chembur wars appear people have been seriously injured and killed and friends of mine have been chased through the woods and been chased off of steep hills and one of them had to be airlifted out of a remote area because he was chased off a hill and just like hated his pelvis. are you going to. lose all my everglade. fulfill still or no the men are my never break. i i.
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was. doing there was. was shortly after i was involved. the police in humble county started pepper spraying helpless people who were locked to each other and then dipping q-tips into it and jabbing people's eyes with it really. want to. you know. this was just for trespassing refusing to leave nothing more. and ensuring its environmental activist admits his part in torching trucks and two eco terrorist hats his sentence six and a half years in prison sitting through eleven days on a ledge of court and spittle building in two thousand and nine. i know i trained
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hero who was born michael score pity talk a lot about saving forests but he wouldn't admit he was among the arsonist who the following year course racial logging trucks interest acacia and truck support last line and sand and gravel now he hands. i was incarcerated for almost six years including the halfway house and home confinement time. i had done everything that i knew i could to help save those trees that you go creek and they still were trying to kill those trees i done everything that i knew i could buy what i didn't purchase by what i
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did with my own body and my actions by road blockades and tree sits and they still were pushing forward with that sale and so i thought a bit of desperation. i don't consider arson violent personally if someone renders an enum an object that is pillaging the planet in and. disrespecting our earth mother if they render that piece of equipment useless i don't consider that violent unless i'm not advocating any one thing i just. encourage people to do something i have to send this form to my probation officer every month to let him know what i've been doing for the month and that i'm not causing any problems. starting this past december so it's set for to go on for two and a half more years i have been targeted by the f.b.i. and the u.s. government because of my political ideology and as
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a consequence the government has labeled me as a terrorist. arson is a serious crime but although it is certainly a far cry from nonviolent civil disobedience it is not terrorism it's property crime it's sabotage or it's arson but it is not terrorism. i there are a few ok. i. was present. in the system itself and solved and. we all. might be here we do our best that we can to support people that are that are being targeted by the government.
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that's. not particular regard of climate change there's certainly an eco terrorist threat as we've had incidences recently and the west coast there was some incidents in washington state i think it was where it would heckle terrorism which really knocked down some radio towers of the set fire to some buildings is not new i mean it's been going on for about twenty twenty five years and censors been terrorist
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before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country there was a terrorist in the school system of this country so it's we want off for a while now is it you know obviously having killed people like al qaeda has no faith perhaps and we understand that and that's a good thing ok and it's a really good thing. in this country patriot act is really messed up and obviously people doing even nonviolent activist work can be considered terrorists and. i don't want to be on the terrorist watch list just for speaking my my opinions it is a battle it is a war what governments and big business have been doing is extremely destructive it's a fucking war like they're going to protect their interests their power and profits
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at all costs just need to work on a way is where. you don't get caught or something can't help. the. to. see.
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the emissions. trading take three per cent store charges three. three. three. three per.
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