From Objection to Resistance

“Objection is when I say: this doesn’t suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn’t suit me never happens again.” ~ Ulrike Meinhof

Ten things I learned today.

1. 98% of  ‘the 99%’ do not know what they are protesting for, who or what they are protesting against, or indeed, why there is a protest.The figure ’99%’ is meaningless. It includes people who earn up to half a million bucks per year. Should they not be paying FULL tax? Contributing more than ‘the rest of us’? For it to make a difference it would have to be ‘We are 75%’…doesn’t sound as sexy tho, huh?

2. There is a difference between ‘activity’ and ‘action’. Looking as if you’re doing something is not the same as actually making a contribution. However small.

3. Sleeping in a tent does not turn you into Che Guevara. It turns you into ‘someone who sleeps in a tent’.

4. …Nor does it make you the mouthpiece/voice of a generation (see point 3).

5. The LAST thing you want is the church on your side…really. As Gandhi put it so eloquently, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

6. There is no point getting arrested, photographed, fingerprinted, fined and jailed for nothing. Once you’re ‘in the system’ it’s difficult to drop out of it again. (but not impossible)

7. “Fire and tents do not good bedfellows make. ”

8. Withdraw, regroup, refocus (see point 6). Clinging to a piece of pavement means nothing and is useless. We now know it takes (approx) 2 weeks to organise an eviction order. Tour London!

9. The La-la-lympics are coming up. Plenty of opportunity for disruption then on a World stage. (another reason to stay under the radar for a few months)

10. Personal safety comes first.

(special BONUS wisdom)

11. Never let anyone know EXACTLY what you’re doing.
12. Always know EXACTLY what you’re doing.

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Heaven is Hotter than Hell

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data.

Our authority is the Bible: Isaiah 30:26 reads “Moreover the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days.”

Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the sun and in addition seven times seven (forty-nine) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all.

The light we receive from the Moon is a ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With this data we can compute the temperature of Heaven.

The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation. In other words, Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation.

Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power law for radiation: (H / E)^4 = 50 where E is the absolute temperature of the Earth, 300°K. This gives H as 798°K (525°C) The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed but it must be less than 444.6°C ; the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas.

Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful and unbelieving… shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that the temperature must be below the boiling point, which is 444.6°C. (Above this point it would be a vapour, not a lake.) We have, then, temperature of Heaven, 525°C. Temperature of Hell, less than 445°C.

Therefore, Heaven is hotter than Hell.

Q.E.D.

Never a cross word…

Sixty seven years ago,  a four-letter word appeared as a solution in The Daily Telegraph’s crossword that was to have repercussions that have reverberated down the years to today.

The four-letter word was Utah, innocent enough you might think, but in May 1944 a word pregnant with meaning. Utah was the codename for the D-Day beach assigned to the 4th US Assault Division. A coincidence, surely?

Admittedly, in previous months the solution words Juno, Gold and Sword (all codenames for beaches assigned to the British) had appeared but they are common words in crosswords.

But then on May 22, 1944 came the clue “Red Indian on the Missouri (5)” Solution: Omaha – codename for the D-Day beach to be taken by the 1st US Assault Division.
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On Saturday, May 27 it was Overlord – codename for the whole D-Day operation. On May 30 Mulberry (codename for the floating harbours used in the landings); and finally, on June 1, the solution to 15 Down was Neptune – codeword for the naval assault phase.

With the landings five days away, alarm bells rang at MI5, particularly as The Daily Telegraph crossword had been drawn to its attention two years earlier.

Lord Tweedsmuir (son of the novelist John Buchan) had been called in to investigate the appearance of Dieppe as an answer to a Telegraph crossword clue on Aug 17.

The answer was published on Aug 18 and the raid on Dieppe took place the next day. At that time Tweedsmuir was a senior intelligence officer attached to the Canadian Army, which made up the main assault force for the disastrous Dieppe venture.

Later he commented: “We noticed the crossword contained the word Dieppe and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence – a complete fluke.”

But Juno, Gold, Sword, Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry and Neptune seemed a coincidence too far. Two men from MI5 called on Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler and creator of the puzzles in question, at his home in Leatherhead.

The scene was set for a story worthy of Buchan’s Richard Hannay. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School, which had been evacuated from Tulse Hill in south London to Effingham in Surrey.

Years later, during a BBC television interview in 1958, Dawe referred to the incident, saying: “They turned me inside out.

“They went to Bury St Edmunds where my senior colleague Melville Jones (the paper’s other crossword compiler) was living and put him through the works. But they eventually decided not to shoot us after all.”

An explanation of how the codewords came to appear in the paper emerged only in 1984. Following a re-telling of the “D-Day Crosswords” in the Telegraph, Ronald French, a property manager in Wolverhampton, came forward with further information.

He said that, as a 14-year-old at the school in 1944, he inserted the names into the puzzles.

According to French, Dawe occasionally invited pupils into his study, where, as a mental discipline, he would encourage them to help fill in the blank crossword patterns. Later, Dawe would create clues for their solution words.

French claimed that during the weeks before D-Day he had learned of the codewords from Canadian and American soldiers camped close by the school, awaiting the invasion.

He was adamant that, in the final days before the landings, the words were well known and the only thing secret was the where and when.

Undoubtedly, wartime and the proximity of Allied soldiery was exciting for the schoolboys. French claimed to have kept notebooks of information he gleaned.

“I was totally obsessed about the whole thing. I would play truant from school to visit the camp and I used to spend evenings with them and even whole weekends there, dressed in my Army cadet uniform. I became a sort of dogsbody about the place, running errands and even, once, driving a tank.

“Everyone knew the outline invasion plan and they knew the various codewords. Omaha and Utah were the beaches they were going to. They knew the names but not the locations. We all knew the operation was called Overlord.”

The soldiers talked freely in front of him “because I was obviously not a German spy. Hundreds of kids must have known what I knew.”

French did not remember writing the codenames into the puzzle grids but recalled the consequence. “Soon after D-Day, Dawe sent for me and asked me point blank where I had got the words from.

“I told him all I knew and he asked to see my notebooks. He was horrified and said the books must be burned at once. He made me swear on the Bible I would tell no one about it. I have kept that oath until now.”

That was not quite the end of the affair. In 1995, I received a letter from another Strang old boy, Ken Russell, from Havant, who also spent time filling in grids for Dawe.

He recalls reading a letter in The Times in 1980 – four years before French’s confession – in which yet another old boy owned up to being the perpetrator of the codenames.

Russell wrote: “I was surprised to see a letter from an old boy, who confessed to being the perpetrator of the codenames in the crossword, but kept quiet. He would certainly have received six of the best.”

In January, Ronald French’s son, Simon, took up the narrative after Roger Squires (The Telegraph’s current Monday crossword compiler) had repeated the story in the Wolverhampton Express & Star.

Simon French remembers: “I know the headmaster was close to losing his job as a result. Intelligence officers interrogated my father but in the end, decided it was an innocent matter.”

Today, the implications are not quite the same, but the significance should not be lost.

“Despite orders allegedly given from the top of News International to ensure to “ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive”, staff appear to have found a way of mocking Mrs Brooks one last time.

Among the clues in the paper’s Quickie puzzle were: “Brook”, “stink”, “catastrope” and “digital protection”.

The clues for the Cryptic Crossword seemed to cut even closer to the bone, with examples including: “criminal enterprise”, “mix in prison”, “string of recordings” and “will fear new security measure”.

The clue for 24 Across – which reads “Woman stares wildly at calamity” – is thought to be a reference to a photograph of Mrs Brooks staring furiously from the window of a car as she left News International’s Wapping headquarters following the announcement the News of the World was to be shut down.

The answer to the clue is not one she would appreciate: “disaster”.
Other answers included: “stench”, “racket” and “tart”.” ~ from The Daily Telegraph

Much as I am happy to see a part of the Murdoch empire crumbling, I find it hard to swallow the sheer ruthlessness of having 500 people lose their jobs, in order to save face. Whether you believe it was entirely for Rebekah Brooks to keep her job or to save the BSkyB takeover bid….or, indeed, a bit of both.

Decent people have lost their livelihood. Editors, subs, ‘journeymen’ journos, cleaners, security guards, type-setters…..

I am happy to see a hate-filled paper fold(see what I did there? ) but the loss of good peoples jobs leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

Well done to the crossword hacks who pulled that one off.

Stay anonymous.

We love you as you are . This was for ALL of us

V

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Preamble is:
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country.
Article 14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in their country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organisation and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25
Everyone has the right to an standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised.
Article 29
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Free (wo)man of the Land

Common Law/ Admiralty Law

Meet Your Strawman

What is it exactly?

http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/StrawMan.pdf

Free(wo)man on the land – Veronica: of the Chapman family

http://www.freeandreal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/freedom-veronica-chapman.pdf

Black’s Law Dictionary

http://blacks.worldfreemansociety.org/

Common Law – What is it?

Until recently, the Ministry of Justice had this to say about the British Constitution -

The British Constitution is not, as it is in many countries, a ‘written constitution’. It is not codified in a single document but is made up of a complex web of statutes, conventions, and a corpus of common and other law. It is also informed by an interweaving of history and more modern democratic principles. The legal premise of the United Kingdom constitution – that the UK parliament is sovereign – is a fundamental part of our constitutional arrangements. This means that an Act of Parliament must be obeyed by the courts, that later acts prevail over earlier ones, and that the rules made by external bodies cannot override Acts of Parliament.

The Bill of Rights 1689 and Magna Carta are important elements of our constitution. Magna Carta is Primary legislation and has the same status as any other legislation and is not immune from repeal or amendment. The same applies to the Bill of Rights which was an ordinary Act of Parliament passed in the ordinary way.

This statement is untrue – it is a political interpretation, with a political agenda. It is designed to nullify our Constitution and the protections it provides!!!

The first line, for example, states that the British Constitution is “unwritten.” This is untrue, often repeated and unqualified in the press. It is strange that the Ministry of Justice would make such a statement, since the British Constitution is the basis for many of the world’s constitutions, including those of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Common Law was established by Alfred the Great, who reigned from 871-899AD. He compiled the laws and customs of the nation into the “Liber Judicialis,” based on the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Alfred’s son, Edward, declared

To all who are charged with the administration of public affairs I give the express command that they show themselves in all things to be just judges precisely as in the Liber Judicialis it is written; nor shall any of them fear to declare the common law freely and courageously.

In contradiction to the Common Law, the Civil Law of Rome prevailed in continental Europe. When William the Conqueror invaded in 1066, he brought with him jurists and clerics steeped in the principles of Roman civil law. Our ancient laws and customs withstood the shock, and remained without any serious amendment. Common Law includes the Charter of Liberties, which makes the Monarch subject to the law, the 1102 Synod of Westminster, which abolished slavery in England, the 1627 Petition of Right, which granted the right to criticise the government without fear of arrest, as well as Magna Carta and the Declaration of Right. Common Law defends property rights and rights to self defence.

Many of our greatest constitutional documents are Common Law documents. These are not Acts of Parliament. Their principles cannot be repealed by Parliament, and when our Monarch swore to uphold the “laws and customs” of the people of the United Kingdom at her Coronation, those “laws and customs” include Common Law.

Magna Carta – a Common Law document – was originally signed in 1215, a contract between the knights, barons, clergy, townspeople and the King. Magna Carta affirmed the right of the People to such things as trial by jury, and protection from excessive fines.

In 1297 the Model Parliament confirmed Magna Carta in statute law. Much of this statute has since been repealed. It should be noted that while Parliament can repeal or amend any Act of Parliament (statute), Parliament was not a party to the original Common Law contract, and cannot, therefore, amend or repeal it lawfully, and thus its original provisions remain intact.

Freeman challenging the authority of a court

Freeman interviewed by police

Putting constable on his oath

Prisoner Support

Prisoner Support – November 2010 list

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2010/11//467594.pdf

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JJ, our good friend, animal rights activist and member of punk band Active Slaughter has been remanded in relation to the SHAC campaign against animal testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences. JJ is serving a 3 year sentence.

SUPPORT JJ

WE NOW HAVE ADDRESSES FOR THE PRISONERS INCLUDING JJ:

New SHAC Prisoners

Please write letters to the activists below in solidarity and support:

Nicole Vosper (VM9385)HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZ

Sarah Whitehead (VM7684)HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15 3JZ

Nicola Tapping (New Prisoner)HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15 3JZ

Tom Harris (New Prisoner)HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

Jason Mullen (A8076AX)HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

Alfie Fitzpatrick (New Prisoner)HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

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Please write cards or letters to the following prisoners. Even if you just send a card with a brief message, receiving a message of support from the outside world can make a huge difference to the prisoner. Remember all correspondence is read by prison staff. Also don’t expect a reply as there is a limit to the number of letters each prisoner can write.

Cheques & Postal Orders

Please note that details of who the cheques/POs should be made payable to are listed below. The prisoner’s name and number should be printed clearly on the back of the cheque/PO. The prisoner will then forward the cheque/PO to be processed. Please also include a Stamped Addressed Envelope (SAE) for the prisoner to acknowledge receipt, and indicate in your letter that you have done so.

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Jonny Ablewhite (A5750AH)HMP Hewell, Hewell Lane, Redditch, Worcs B97 6QSJonny has been inside since September 2005 and is serving 12 years for conspiracy in connection with the Newchurch Guinea Pigs Campaign.Birthday: 27th January

What you can send: SAEs; cheques or postal orders made out to ‘HM Prisons’. Please write Jonny’s name/number and sender details on reverse.

Gregg Avery (A4874AD)HMP Coldingley, Shaftesbury Road, Bisley, Woking, Surrey GU24 9EXIn January 2009 Gregg was sentenced to 9 years in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. (One of the UK SHAC 7) Support Page http://www.myspace.com/supportgregg

Birthday: 5h December

What you can send: stamps (12 in letter); Self-addressed envelopes, cheques/postal orders made out to ‘HMP Headquarters’ with Gregg’s name and number and sender’s details on reverse.

Natasha Avery (A5180AD)HMP Send, Ripley Road, Woking, Surrey GU23 7LJ.In January 2009 Nataha was sentenced to 9 years in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. (One of the UK SHAC 7) Support Page http://www.myspace.com/supportnatasha

Birthday: 28th December

What you can send: Cheques/postal orders made out to ‘The Governor’ or ‘HMP Send’, Write Natasha’s name and number on the back. Stamps & an SAE. Also stationery and blank cards, but no Birthday, Anniversary cards, etc.

Mel Broughton (A3892AE) – Update 13-07-10HMP Bullingdon, PO Box 50, Oxford OX25 1WD.

Mel was remanded on 14 December 2007 and was sentenced on 13th February 2009 to 10 years.Update – Unfortunately, Mel was found guilty again (following a sucessful second appeal) for animal rights related offences against Oxford University animal experiment lab. He will continue his original 10 year sentence given him in Feb 2009.Support Page http://www.myspace.com/supportmel

Birthday: 5th July

Alfie Fitzpatrick (New Prisoner) – 21-10-10HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

Alfie is one of the second UK SHAC 6 trial campaigners and was remanded into custody today (21-10-10) at Winchester Crown Court in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. More details soon… Please write letters of support to him.

Tom Harris (New Prisoner) – 21-10-10HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

Tom is one of the second UK SHAC 6 trial campaigners and was remanded into custody today (21-10-10) at Winchester Crown Court in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. More details soon… Please write letters of support to him.

Birthday: 21 May

Gavin Medd-Hall (A3624AD)HMP Coldingley, Shaftesbury Road, Bisley, Woking, Surrey GU24 9EXIn January 2009 Gavin was sentenced to 8 years in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. (One of the UK SHAC 7) Support page http://www.myspace.com/supportgavin

Birthday: 20th March

What you can send: stamps (12 in letter); Self-addressed envelopes, cheques/postal orders made out to ‘HMP Headquarters’ with Gavin’s name and number and sender’s details on reverse. (Please remember that Gavin has poor eyesight and will appreciate if you write in clear, large writing).

Jason Mullen (New Prisoner) – 21-10-10HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DF

Jason (JJ) is one of the second UK SHAC 6 trial campaigners and was remanded into custody today (21-10-10) at Winchester Crown Court in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. More details soon… Please write letters of support to him.

Heather Nicholson (A3158AJ)HMP Foston Hall, Foston, Derby, Derbyshire DE65 5DNIn January 2009 Heather was sentenced to 11 years in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. (One of the UK SHAC 7) Support Page http://www.myspace.com/supportheather

Birthday: 30th January

What you can send: Cheques/postal orders made out to ‘The Governor’, Write Heather’s name and number on the back. Stamps & an SAE. Also stationery and blank cards, no parcels.

Lewis Pogson (A6454AK) – 27-08-10HMP Brixton, Jebb Avenue, Brixton, London, SW2 5XF

Lewis was sentenced on 18th January 2010 to 3 years imprisonment at Lincoln Crown Court in connection with alledged offences at Highgate Farm, breeders of rabbits and ferrets for vivisection based in Lincolnshire.27-08-10 Update: We have heard that Lewis Pogson has been re-arrested apparently for breaching his parole conditions, he is in Brixton Prison. Please write to him.Birthday: 23rd February

Gerrah Selby (A2014AD)HMP Downview, Sutton Lane, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PDIn January 2009 Gerrah was sentenced to 4 years for charges in relation to Huntingdon Life Sciences. (One of the UK SHAC 7).

What you can send: Cheques, postal orders made out to “the Governor” with Gerrah’s name/number on reverse. Cash can also be sent, as well as loose stamps, writing paper, envelopes and paperbacks. Support Page http://www.myspace.com/supportgerrah

Birthday: 26th February

Nicola Tapping (New Prisoner) – 21-10-10HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15 3JZ

Nicola is one of the second UK SHAC 6 trial campaigners and was remanded into custody today (21-10-10) at Winchester Crown Court in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. More details soon… Please write letters of support to her.

Birthday: 6th May

Nicole Vosper VM9385 – Waiting sentence – 21-10-10HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZNicole made a plea at Winchester Crown Court on 16/03/09 on charges relating to Huntingdon Life Sciences and was remanded awaiting sentence.

Support http://www.myspace.com/vegannicole

Birthday 15th February

What you can send: Postal orders made out to ‘The Governor’. Books, stationery, stamps; an SAE. Write Nicole’s name and number on the back.

Dan Wadham (A5705AA)HMP Camp Hill, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 5PBIn January 2009 Dan was sentenced to 5 years in relation to charges in connection with HLS campaigns. (One of the UK SHAC 7) Support page http://www.myspace.com/supportdanwadham

Birthday: 3rd February

What you can send: Only cheques and postal orders can be sent in made out to ‘HMPS’ with Dan’s name and number and the sender’s details on reverse.

Kerry Whitburn (TB4886)HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham NG14 7DAKerry has been inside since September 2005, and is serving 12 years for conspiracy in connection with the Newchurch Guinea Pigs Campaign. Birthday: 18th April

What you can send: stamps; postal orders/cheques payable to HMP LOWDHAM GRANGE – include Kerry’s name and number on back and name/address of sender. Will not accept writing paper or packs of envelopes.

Sarah Whitehead (VM7684) – Waiting sentence – 21-10-10HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15 3JZSarah made a plea at Winchester Crown Court on 16/03/09 on charges relating to Huntingdon Life Sciences and was remanded awaiting sentence. Support page http://www.myspace.com/supportsarah

Birthday: 12th February

What you can send: Postal orders made out to ‘The Governor’. Books, stationery, stamps; an SAE. Write Sarah’s name and number on the back.

Rowan Clingman, son of Elisabeth Ann Willmott, a member of this group, is being held in the Portage County Jail, awaiting trial in January for heroin charges. Presently he can only receive letters and cards. He went through withdrawal alone in an isolation cell with lights on constantly and no bed or toilet. He needs support and encouragement to motivate him to stay strong and sober. Write to him at Rowan Clingman c/o Portage County Justice Center 8240 Infirmary Road Ravenna, Ohio 44266

http://www.vpsg.org/ Vegan Prisoner Support Group

http://www.arprisoners.org/ Animal Rights Prisoner Support

http://www.alfsg.org.uk/ A.L.F Prisoner Support

This doc will be updated regarding any changes from the 25/10/10 sentencing at Winchester.

If anyone stays near Winchester at the moment – There is a newsagents on Upper High Street road,Upper High Street Post Office. And from there you are able to buy magazines and ask the guys there to send them to JJ in the prison (remember to include his prison number).They deliver the magazines themselves to the prison the next morning. (Remember there are three prisoners in Winchester now, Jason Mullen (JJ), Thomas Harris and Alfie Fitzpatrick)

Vegan Recipes

South Indian Vegetable Curry

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Vegan food Blog

http://skintvegan.blogspot.com/

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Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles

Makes 2 dozen Cookies

A beautiful crackle topped chocolate cookie with a spicy cayenne kick and a sugary cinnamon coating. Sold?

For the topping:1/3 cup sugar1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

For the cookies:1/2 cup canola oil1 cup sugar1/4 cup pure maple syrup3 tablespoons almond milk (Or your preferred non-dairy milk)1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 teaspoon chocolate extract (or more vanilla extract if you have no chocolate)1 2/3 cups flour1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon cayenne

Preheat oven to 350 F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

Mix the topping ingredients together on a flat plate. Set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, use a fork to vigorously mix together oil, sugar, syrup, and milk. Mix in extracts.

Sift in remaining ingredients, stirring as you add them. Once all ingredients are added mix until you’ve got a pliable dough.

Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Pat into the sugar topping to flatten into roughly 2 inch discs. Transfer to baking sheet, sugar side up, at least 2 inches apart (they do spread). This should be easy as the the bottom of the cookies should just stick to your fingers so you can just flip them over onto the baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, they should be a bit spread and crackly on top. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

From Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar

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Aloo Baingan, Potatoes and Eggplant Recipe

Ingredients:

1 medium eggplant (baingan) cut into 1″ cubes

2 medium russet potatoes (aloo) cut into 1″ cubes

4 medium tomatoes (tamatar) cut into ½ cubes

2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (hara dhania)

1 tablespoon oilPinch of asafetida (hing)

1 teaspoon cumin seed1 chopped green chili adjust to taste

1 teaspoon ginger paste

1 tablespoon coriander powder (dhania powder)

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1/2 teaspoon paprika (dagi mirch)

1 teaspoon salt adjust to taste

2 tablespoons water

Also needed:Oil to fry

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Anarcho-Pie

Pastry mixed vegRed beanCourgettesWalnutsCashewsTomatoesMushrooms!!

Let’s make a tasty anarcho-pie – Ace vegan food for you and ILet’s make a tasty anarcho-pie – Ace vegan food for you and I

Take eight ounces of pastry and, leaving a little bit aside, roll out two equal portions each a quarter inch thick. Then use one of these to carefully line the bottom of your chosen pie dish.

Cook the ingredients for the pie filling separately and then place these inside the pie dish on top of the pastry base. Wetting the top of the edge of the pastry base, affix the pastry cover to the anarcho-pie.

Now comes the important bit: Using the spare bits of pastry, decorate the top of the pie with a pastry anarchy sign – symbolising our never-ending resistance to the omnicidal system that perverts our lives.

After baking the pie in the oven for between thirty and thirty five minutes at approximately four hundred degrees farenheit it should be ready fir serving and by this time should have developed a good crust!

Mmm… uurrgh, i don’t like mushrooms howay, pass them over – i’ll have them aye, this pie, this pie’s barry – it’s almost as good as – as a singing hiney man! mmm… mmmm… alright john eh aye? aye barry! that’s what it is – pure canny! uurgh, i don’t like walnuts i’ll have them mmmmm…Aye, ye canny baet this vegan food, ken? aye, vegan food oh, it’s the best pure dead brilliant man, anarcho-pie rules, ken? aye how long does this go on for? Who’s doing the dishes? the wimmin! aaaahhh!! street cred gone! knife hi!! knife the anarcho-pie anyway aye man aye kin raj! aye etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeT5b8hC2w – Oi Polloi

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