"Earthhope environment action Network alerts March 8-March 15, 2000"

to stop the slaughter of grey headed flying foxes. Location --> Melbourne Botanical Gardens
Reason --> they are supposed to be doing some damage to exotic plants in =
the gardens
and the apathy and intolerance of stupid humans,=20
lack of education and Australian media beat up - don't let truth get in =
the way of a good story.
How many flying foxes - 8000 yes that's an 8 and 3 zero's
Flying Foxes are nomadic killing them will solve nothing
The grey headed flying fox is about to be listed under the National =
Threatened Species list
so they must act fast and we must act faster to stop them
scientific counts have proven a population decline of 30% in 10 years
--> they will trap them on fly out of those they miss they will dart=20
for an animal about to be a threatened species in Queensland State NSW =
State and should also be in Victoria State and also Nationally the =
Victorian Government is acting on knee jerk hysteria
PROTEST TO -sherryl Uarbutt@parliament.vic.gov.au=20

Can you create some kind of international outcry from your country=20
use the sydney 2000 olympic ENVIROMENTAL games and disgrace us.
this is very real
do all you can
if you need more info contact
koalahos@tpgi.com.au
fstanvic@ozemail.com.au

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citizen alert part 2 March 8, 2000

to all,
the slaughter has begun
it is being done by the same self confessed scientist
who gets payed thousands for flying fox solutions=20
none of which have ever worked but, hey who cares
he get a $1000 or so a day
this is state of Victoria Government based mess
jacqi you siad don't give up but there is so much stacked aginast common =
sense
the melbourne newspaper the age
contact them as americians and yell your discussed in Australia all =
other media seams to be silent on the issue
letters@theage.fairfax.com.au

hit what ever you can in the US
Australian Consulate
environmental organisations etc etc etc=20
they die as you read
Glen

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Attention all Animal Welfare Organisations around the World ! date = 8-3-00

The Australian Grey Headed Flying Fox are being slaughtered.

Location :

- Melbourne Botanic Gardens, City of Melbourne in the State of = Victoria,=20 Australia.

Reason:

They have damaged some exotic trees in the Garden,
They have no other roost site available due to poor unsustainable=20 agricultural practices (all other historic Flying Fox sites have been=20 destroyed)
Attempts to scare them off have failed

Solution:

(well at least theirs) is to trap via large mist nets as many as they = can and=20 euthanasia them � those they miss will be darted (lets hope = children don�t pick=20 up the lost darts)

How Many:

up to 8,000 (eight thousand) animals

Grey Headed Flying Fox Status:

State of Queensland - about to be listed as a threatened = species.
State of New South Wales - about to be listed as a threratened=20 species.
Nationally (Australia Wide) - about to be listed as a nationally=20 threatened species.
State of Victoria � about to be exterminated to suit the = needs of a few=20 socialites.

Who would be low enough to do this:

- Some of you may remember the feable attempt to scare them from the = Gardens=20 in the past and how it failed.

- Or there is the feable attempt to scare them from near a school at = Maclay=20 in northern NSW and how it failed.

Or how there is an attempt to catch, kill and export for the asian = market=20 Flying Foxes from the Australian Northern Territory (progress = unknown)
Which ever one you consider all the experts all the biologists all = those=20 with any compassion have studied them and all say they all won�t = work, they=20 all won�t have any long term success
That is except one so called expert who gets paid large amounts of = money=20 travelling around Australia doing damage to Flying Fox camps � = and attempt s=20 to sue those that put his name to these letters of truth.
The victorian gentleman who leaked the confidential information = out to=20 conservation groups may also lose his job (a government position) =

Why � because they tried to keep it secret because they know = its wrong - and=20 they knew we would all bite back

HOW CAN YOU HELP

Do what you do best � lobby

This is a crime aginast nature

What right does Australia have to kill koalas � flying foxes = and indeed the=20 list of wildlife related genocide is very long � too long to = mention here but=20 the Australian media is on cover up mode the australian media is = dominated a=20 hand full of un environmental people

It is estimated that if melbourne can do it then Sydney botanic = Gardens is=20 also planning to go down this path

so much for the Sydney 2000 environmentally friendly games

ATTACK AUSTRALIA�S POOR ATTITUDE � DO IT = NOW

from Greenpeace March 9, 2000

Greenpeace Establishes Base Camp in Arctic,
Launches Arctic Action Web Site

Visit the new Greenpeace Arctic Action Web site at
<http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/arctic/index.htm?f>

Last week, eight Greenpeace activists made an
arduous journey across miles of Arctic ice to
establish a base camp one mile from BP Amoco�s
dangerous oil project Northstar. Using wind turbines
to power state-of-the-art communications equipment,
activists at the camp are transmitting photos, video
and audio back to land to protest BP�s oil expansion,
which is jeopardizing the Arctic environment and
fueling global warming.

The Arctic Action Web site offers stunning images
from the camp, multimedia stories from the ice that
combine stills, audio, and flash animation, and an
array of ways to get involved. Visitors can show
their support for renewable energy by signing the
�Citizens for a Solar Revolution� petition, send an
online fax to BP Amoco CEO John Browne, send
postcards to friends, join a �Polar Action� listserv,
and even enter a contest to design a flag for the
Arctic base camp!

Greenpeace is an independent campaigning
organization that uses peaceful direct action to
expose global environmental problems and to
create solutions that are essential to a green
and peaceful future.

Visit the Greenpeace Arctic Action Web site for
more information and to take action:
<http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/arctic/index.htm?f>

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DENlines Issue #10
Defenders  Electronic Network (DEN)
Friday March 10, 2000

1.      WOLVES: Governor Stands Up for Alaska's Wildlife
2.      ENDANGERED SPECIES: Snake River Salmon in Peril
3.      BIRDS: California Condors Return to the Wild
4.      WHALES: Mexico Pulls Plug on Damaging Salt Project
5.      WILDLIFE CALENDAR: Polar Bears Emerge from Their Dens in March
6.      FOR THE RECORD: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on the Arctic Refuge

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1.     WOLVES: Governor Stands Up for Alaska's Wildlife

Alaska Governor Tony Knowles (D) recently announced his opposition
to two wolf-control programs proposed by the state Board of Game,
arguing that more study is needed. Knowles' decision has elevated
the public debate on wildlife management in Alaska to include a
broader range of issues than simply hunting such as wildlife viewing
and public acceptance. Thanks to the hundreds of DEN activists who
e-mailed Governor Knowles opposing wolf control. YOUR EFFORTS MADE
A DIFFERENCE!

Knowles said he will set up a panel of hunters, conservationists and
natives to study wolf control in the proposed areas, only after the
board (1) bans trapping on state lands outside Denali National Park
and Preserve to protect two heavily viewed wolf packs when they
leave the safety of the park, and (2) establishes additional
professionally managed bear-viewing areas to meet increasing demand.
Both initiatives have been advocated by Defenders for years and could
be approved soon by the board.

2.      ENDANGERED SPECIES: Snake River Salmon in Peril

Yesterday, American Rivers named the Pacific Northwest's lower Snake
River the most-endangered river in the United States, citing
devastating impacts from dams on declining salmon runs. Two hundred
years ago, the combined Columbia and Snake River basins were the
greatest salmon watershed in the world with 10 to 16 million salmon
migrating from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in streams farther inland.
Today, habitat degradation, over harvesting and the impact of dams
on the natural hydrology have led to the listing of all four Snake
River salmon species under the Endangered Species Act. One species
has already gone extinct!

Federal salmon managers are seeking public comments on how to save
the endangered Snake River salmon. Conservationists, including
Defenders, state and federal scientists, fishermen and tribes all
agree that removal of four dams on the Lower Snake River is the most
effective way to prevent extinction of these salmon. For more
information visit http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/salmon/salmonsum.html
You can help by sending a free e-mail to federal salmon managers through
the DEN Action Center at http://www.denaction.org

3.      BIRDS: California Condors Return to the Wild

Last week, six juvenile California condors took their first flight
of freedom, soaring over the windswept cliffs and rugged coastline
of central California's Big Sur. Two days later four of the birds
returned to the original site to feed � the sign of a successful
release. The six critically endangered birds will join nine others
previously released in the Big Sur area in a bold attempt by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Ventana Wilderness Society and other
conservation organizations to bring the species back from the brink
of extinction.

A common sight along the west coast as late as the early 1900s,
condor populations began to plummet because of shooting, poisoning
and egg collecting. By the 1980s just 22 birds remained. Through an
aggressive captive breeding program and carefully planned
reintroductions in the Grand Canyon, southern California and Big Sur,
the largest flying land bird in North America is now moving toward
recovery. Currently there are a total of 58 California condors in
the wild. Defenders of Wildlife and the Ventana Wilderness Society
are preparing an environmental assessment to reintroduce an additional
population of condors in the Diablo Range, a remote mountainous area
south of the San Francisco Bay area.

4.      WHALES: Mexico Pulls Plug on Damaging Salt Project

The Mexican government and Mitsubishi Corporation announced that they
are abandoning a controversial plan to build a giant salt plant near
one of the last pristine breeding areas for once-endangered gray
whales. The $100 million salt plant would have been the largest in
the world, covering an area three times the size of Washington D.C.
The announcement ends a five-year campaign by conservationists
worldwide, who oppose the project primarily because of its potential
impact on gray whales that migrate annually from Alaska to Mexico's
Baja Peninsula to breed each winter. What makes the San Ignacio
Lagoon unique is the so-called "friendly whales," which often
interact with wildlife-watching skiffs by approaching and even gently
nudging the boats. Mitsubishi reported that a factor in its decision
was more than 700,000 postcards it received from environmentalists
protesting the project.  Citizen action can indeed make a difference,
even with a large international corporation like Mitsubishi!

5.      WILDLIFE CALENDAR: Polar Bears Emerge from Their Dens in March

Something moves beneath the snow before a single black snout sniffs
the air to check for any danger. Moments later a large female polar
bear breaks out of her underground den in a flurry of snow. Two cubs
(now three months old) follow, getting their first taste of the icy
kingdom that will be their home. Most polar bears spend the winter
wandering across the permanently frozen Arctic Ocean, foraging for
what little food is available. In places like Alaska's Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge they may dig temporary dens to sleep through the
worst storms. However, in November pregnant females create a more
permanent den -- digging a depression into the frozen ground that
becomes covered with drifting snow except for a small air hole. The
snow serves as an insulator, keeping the chamber as much as 37
degrees F warmer than the icy outside air.

The female bear and her young cubs emerge from the den hungry, having
lived solely off her body fat since last fall. During March, ringed
seals are having their pups in ice-covered dens. Polar bears use their
sensitive noses to smell seals under the ice, crash through the
roofs of these dens and scoop out a seal pup for the first meal of
the year. As spring approaches in the Arctic, each day lasts roughly
three minutes longer than the next, allowing more daylight for
forage for food, finding a mate and raising young.

6.      FOR THE RECORD: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on the Arctic Refuge

"I strongly oppose legislation introduced in the Senate today to
open the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to
oil drilling. President Clinton has shown great leadership by
announcing his intention to veto past congressional attempts to
circumvent the wishes of  millions of Americans nationwide who oppose
the degradation of their national treasure. These Americans and the
Clinton/Gore administration have made it clear again and again: we
will protect this last undeveloped fragment of America's arctic
coastline for the thousands of caribou, polar bears, swans, snow
geese, musk oxen and countless other species who use it to birth and
shelter their young."

� Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt
                          reacting to legislation introduced by Senator
                          Frank Murkowski (R-AK) this week that would
                          open the pristine coastal plain of the Arctic
                          National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The
                          refuge is a haven for wildlife and the most
                          important onshore denning habitat for polar
                          bears in the United States.

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from greenpeace March 11, 2000

A few hours ago three of the activists at Ice Camp Sirius were arbitarily
arrested and subsequently banned from northern Alaska until a trial date
scheduled for May 22.

Here's the release:

BP Amoco Reacts to Greenpeace Arctic Protest Camp: Three Arrested

ANCHORAGE, March 10, 2000- The confrontation between Greenpeace and
multinational oil giant BP Amoco escalated today near the site of the
company's controversial Northstar offshore oil site on the frozen Arctic
Ocean. Three Greenpeace activists holding a banner reading "Global
Warming Starts Here" were arrested by Alaska State troopers and according
to police, will be charged with criminal trespass.

At the time of the arrests the activists were outside of the "No Trespassing"
zone, waiting to be interviewed by a contingent of journalists about to arrive
on the scene. The troopers used force to confiscate video and still cameras
and digital images the activists had taken of the Northstar construction site.

"Clearly BP Amoco will do anything to muzzle Greenpeace's message that
Arctic oil drilling imperils the Arctic and fuels global warming," said Melanie
Duchin, from Greenpeace's Anchorage office.

The activists are now being held in Deadhorse, Alaska, and according to
police will be arraigned by telephone this afternoon by a Magistrate in
Barrow. Arrested were Greenpeace USA climate campaigner Dan Ritzman,
Steve Morgan of the United Kingdom and Henk Haazen of the The
Netherlands.

Greenpeace vowed the arrests would not deter its effort to challenge BP
Amoco's Arctic drilling, or the protest camp the international environmental
organization established a short distance from the Northstar construction
site late last month. Five activists remain at the Greenpeace camp, which
consists of two small shelters, powered by wind turbines.

"Greenpeace is determined to get the message out that BP Amoco must
stop Arctic oil drilling because it poses such a grave threat to this fragile
Arctic environment," said Duchin. "Greenpeace activists will stay at the
Northstar site, challenging BP Amoco to take responsibility for its actions."

Greenpeace opposes the Northstar project because it poses a one-in-four
chance of a major oil spill. Greenpeace also opposes the opening of new oil
frontiers because the burning of oil is the number one cause of global
warming. Impacts from the global warming are most acute in the Western
Arctic where temperatures are warming at three to five times the global rate;
since 1978 sea ice equivalent to the size of Texas has melted, eliminating
habitat for polar bears and other marine mammals.
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Kevin Jardine
Greenpeace International
Climate Campaign
Keizersgracht 176
1016 DW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 20 523 6660
Fax: + 31 20 523 6200
E-mail: kjardine@ams.greenpeace.org
WWW: Check out Arctic Action at http://greenpeace.org/arctic
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Greenpeace Arctic Activists List
NO NEW OIL
http://greenpeace.org/arctic

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from Greenpeace March 11, 2000

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS ACTION ALERT AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.

On February 27, eight Greenpeace activists established a camp on the
frozen Arctic Ocean to monitor the construction of BP Amoco's controversial
Northstar project, the first offshore oil project in the Arctic Ocean. On March
10, three of these activists were arbitrarily arrested, one day after
establishing a wind powered observation post to document the trucking of
thousands of tonnes of gravel across ice roads to BP Amoco's proposed
offshore oil drilling site.

Please send the letter below to BP Amoco CEO Sir John Browne.

You can send this letter directly by emailing Mr. Browne at
HomeBP@bp.com and faxing him at: + 44 171 496 4488.

Or you can use a convenient web form that will automatically fax and email
Mr. Browne by going to
http://greenpeace.org/arctic/html/content/browne2frame.html

For more information, visit the Arctic Action site at:
http://greenpeace.org/arctic.

You can also visit SANE BP (BP Shareholders Against New Oil Exploration)
at http://www.sanebp.com.

letter to Sir John Browne

Sir John Browne
Group Chief Executive
BP Amoco
Britannic House
1 Finsbury Circus
London EC2M 7BA

Dear Mr. Browne:

I am writing to ask you to immediately halt construction on the Northstar
Arctic oil project. It is irresponsible for BP Amoco to continue with this
project, which, if completed, would be the first true offshore oil project in the
Arctic Ocean. It makes no sense to open up a new, highly vulnerable area of
the world to large scale oil development when the world cannot even afford to
burn a small fraction of existing fossil fuel reserves without causing
catastrophic rates of climate change.

Over the last few weeks, your trucks have gouged thousands of tonnes of
gravel from an Arctic river bed and dumped it on Seal Island as the first stage
in a major offshore oil drilling operation. Less than two weeks after the
establishment of Greenpeace's Ice Camp Sirius, and only a day after
Greenpeace activists set up a wind-powered observation post near Seal
Island, Alaskan State police arrested three of these activists, falsely
accusing them of criminal trespass when they were waiting outside the
security zone to exercise their free speech rights to talk to visiting journalists.

US federal agencies have warned that the odds of a major oil spill during the
lifetime of the Northstar project are up to one-in-four. No one has ever built a
subsea pipeline under the Arctic Ocean before. The area is covered in sea
ice for 10 months of the year, and as a result, a spill would be difficult to
detect and impossible to clean up once it had occurred.

Moreover, no area of the world is warming faster than Alaska: three to five
times the global rate. The Arctic pack ice has thinned by forty percent over
the last forty years. Polar bears are already losing weight and having fewer
cubs in some parts of the Arctic as a result. Major climate damage is
already underway.

You have seen from the shareholders resolution filed by SANE BP and
Trillium Asset Management that your company's oil expansion policies are
being challenged by your shareholders. This should be a strong signal to you
that the time has come for BP Amoco to reconsider its investments.

Mr. Browne, you have never had a clearer choice. Stop this environmental
crime. Halt construction of Northstar and transfer the funding to your solar
division. Do it immediately. The future and reputation of BP Amoco hangs in
the balance.

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Greenpeace Arctic Activists List
NO NEW OIL
http://greenpeace.org/arctic
This ran in yesterday's UK newspaper The Observer. My favourite bit is the
lame BP quote: "This has been approved by the Alaskan authorities - and
they wouldn't allow us to embark on it if there was a real environment risk."

Hah, hah, hah. And they wouldn't have approved the Exxon Valdez either.

Cheers,
Kevin

Kevin Jardine
Greenpeace International

Battle of the ice hots up as activists are charged
Anthony Browne, Environment
Correspondent
Sunday March 12, 2000

In one of the most inhospitable corners of the world, what is being billed
as a battle for the future of the planet escalated dramatically yesterday.
Three Greenpeace activists who had spent the last month camped out on an ice
shelf in the Arctic Ocean in temperatures of -20C (-2F) were arrested by
Alaskan state troopers, charged with criminal trespass and banned from the
region.
The campaigners - an Englishman, an American and a Dutchman - were part of a
group of eight Greenpeace activists who have been protesting against BP
Amoco for opening up a new oilfield six miles off the north coast of Alaska.
Greenpeace claims that by building an artificial island and drilling below
the melting Arctic ice, BP is promoting global warming and taking a
one-in-four risk of a major oil spill.  BP insists that there need not be an
unacceptable risk just because a practice is unprecedented.
Greenpeace spokesman Peter Morris said that photographer Steve Martin, from
Somerset, Hank Haazen, from Holland, and Dan Ritzman, from Alaska, have been
charged with criminal trespass in the first degree.
The protesters have been living in two insulated canvas tents, pitched on
the rough pack-ice just over a mile from BP's $500 million (�316 million)
Northstar project. The wilderness is probably the region of the world most
affected by climate change, with temperatures rising up to five times faster
than the global average. In the last 20 years, pack ice three times the size
of the UK has melted. Polar bears, deprived of their habitat, have been
starving to death because they cannot find food.
The protesters who were arrested had been standing by their fibreglass
shelter on the edge of the no-trespass zone around Northstar, examining an
anonymous note saying that if the shelter was not occupied, it would be
destroyed.  When six state-troopers marched toward them, the protesters
thought they were coming to explain the note. Instead, the activists were
arrested and their film and video footage confiscated. They have been banned
from coming within 100 miles of the site until the trial in May.
Tanya Popp, one of the five campaigners left in the camp, told The Observer
over a satellite phone: 'We were totally shocked.  They weren't even doing
anything.'
The protesters insist they are innocent of trespass, and allege collusion
between the state troopers and the oil company.  'BP have a lot of money,
and a lot of control in Alaska. I am sure they have a big say in what
happens,' said Popp.
The Northstar production island will have 22 oil wells and is expected to
produce 65,000 barrels of oil a day. To get the oil back on shore across the
pack ice, BP is burying a pipeline for hot oil six feet below the Arctic sea
floor, a technique that has never been used before.
The environmentalists say that the extreme conditions and the immensely
powerful and shifting Arctic ice-pack mean that production will be extremely
risky, with one academic study showing a one-in-four chance of an oil spill.
A BP spokesman said the study was outdated, adding: 'This has been approved
by the Alaskan authorities - and they wouldn't allow us to embark on it if
there was a real environment risk.'
But Greenpeace climate campaigner Stephanie Tunmore said: 'Neither BP Amoco
nor the Alaskan state government will prevent Greenpeace revealing the
appalling truth about oil exploration in the Arctic. The Northstar project
is a real threat to this fragile Arctic environment and will only make
global warming worse.  BP Amoco must halt construction immediately'.
BP Amoco would not comment last night, its spokesman saying only: 'It is a
matter for the police.'
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Kevin Jardine
Greenpeace International
Climate Campaign
Keizersgracht 176
1016 DW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 20 523 6660
Fax: + 31 20 523 6200
E-mail: kjardine@ams.greenpeace.org
WWW: Check out Arctic Action at http://greenpeace.org/arctic
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Greenpeace Arctic Activists List
NO NEW OIL
http://greenpeace.org/arctic

Dear all:

BP Amoco has changed their phone system around and the fax number I
included in the action alert I sent out on the weekend is now a voice number.

This is corrected on the web-to-fax form on our website, but obviously you
have been doing a great job getting your own faxes out as BP called us to
complain that one of their voice numbers has been inundated with faxes.

Serves them right, you might say!

Nevertheless, to make sure that your faxes get through, please send out this
updated action alert and use the corrected number.

Cheers,
Kevin

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS ACTION ALERT AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.

On February 27, eight Greenpeace activists established a camp on the
frozen Arctic Ocean to monitor the construction of BP Amoco's controversial
Northstar project, the first offshore oil project in the Arctic Ocean. On March
10, three of these activists were arbitrarily arrested, one day after
establishing a wind powered observation post to document the trucking of
thousands of tonnes of gravel across ice roads to BP Amoco's proposed
offshore oil drilling site.

Please send the letter below to BP Amoco CEO Sir John Browne.

You can send this letter directly by emailing Mr. Browne at
HomeBP@bp.com and faxing him at: + 44 171 496 4483.

Or you can use a convenient web form that will automatically fax and email
Mr. Browne by going to
http://greenpeace.org/arctic/html/content/browne2frame.html

For more information, visit the Arctic Action site at:
http://greenpeace.org/arctic.

You can also visit SANE BP (BP Shareholders Against New Oil Exploration)
at http://www.sanebp.com.

Sir John Browne
Group Chief Executive
BP Amoco
Britannic House
1 Finsbury Circus
London EC2M 7BA

Dear Mr. Browne:

I am writing to ask you to immediately halt construction on the Northstar
Arctic oil project. It is irresponsible for BP Amoco to continue with this
project, which, if completed, would be the first true offshore oil project in the
Arctic Ocean. It makes no sense to open up a new, highly vulnerable area of
the world to large scale oil development when the world cannot even afford to
burn a small fraction of existing fossil fuel reserves without causing
catastrophic rates of climate change.

Over the last few weeks, your trucks have gouged thousands of tonnes of
gravel from an Arctic river bed and dumped it on Seal Island as the first stage
in a major offshore oil drilling operation. Less than two weeks after the
establishment of Greenpeace's Ice Camp Sirius, and only a day after
Greenpeace activists set up a wind-powered observation post near Seal
Island, Alaskan State police arrested three of these activists, falsely
accusing them of criminal trespass when they were waiting outside the
security zone to exercise their free speech rights to talk to visiting journalists.

US federal agencies have warned that the odds of a major oil spill during the
lifetime of the Northstar project are up to one-in-four. No one has ever built a
subsea pipeline under the Arctic Ocean before. The area is covered in sea
ice for 10 months of the year, and as a result, a spill would be difficult to
detect and impossible to clean up once it had occurred.

Moreover, no area of the world is warming faster than Alaska: three to five
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Dear Members of Global Response's "Quick Response Network:"

Please write letters to government officials in Colombia, protesting
excessive use of police force against the U'wa people who continue their
non-violent protest against Occidental Petroleum.

Below is an Amnesty International call for letters, following the deaths of three U'wa children
as a consequence of police action against U'wa protesters, and the disappearance of  U'wa people.

For background information and the text of the Global Response Action Alert
on the U'wa situation, see the Global Response website at
www.globalresponse.org, "Current Action."

Thanks --
Paula Palmer

A M N E S T Y   I N T E R N A T I O N A L  U R G E N T    A C T I O N   APP E A L
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13 March 2000

UA 60/00
Possible 'Disappearance' / Reported excessive use of force by the police
and
army

COLOMBIA
Eleonor HERRERA (baby)
Luz Helena HERRERA
Wilson HERRERA
Gustavo DELGADO
Antonio DELGADO
Nelson DIAZ
Edgard DIAZ
Alfredo DIAZ
Wilson DIAZ

On 11 February 2000, three children from the U'wa indigenous population
were killed, three others injured, including a young child, and nine others,
including a four month old baby, went missing after the police and army
reportedly violently evicted them from land they had occupied as part of a
protest against an oil company.

Amnesty International is now very concerned for the safety of the nine
missing people named above.

The organization is also concerned by reports that excessive force was used
by the Police and Army in carrying out the eviction: Some 500 Army and
Police (from the Regional Cucuta Command) reportedly used tear gas, riot
sticks and bulldozers to evict around 450 U'wa people from Las Canoas.

The U'wa had occupied the Saravena-Pamplona road at Las Canoas, in the
rural
area of Toledo, department of Santander, on 1 February to try to stop oil
exploration machinery passing through into their ancestral lands.

A few days earlier they had been forcibly evicted from an occupation (an
area outside their reservation] at Cedeno, where oil drilling is due to
take
place, after the Government gave authorization for petroleum exploration in
the area.

Kenowuia Nury BOKOTA (4 months), Mauricio DIAZ (9 years) and Jorge ANIKUTA
(10 years) were all killed and Maria Antonieta HIGUANITO, Chela HIGUANITO
and Patricia HIGUANITO (12 years) were injured.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

For several years the Indigenous U'wa have been protesting against oil
exploration by the Occidental Petroleum Corporation on what they claim to
be
their ancestral lands situated mainly in the Boyaca and Santander
departments of northeast Colombia.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send telegrams/telexes/faxes/express/airmail
letters:
- expressing concern for the safety of Eleonor Herrera (baby), Luz Helena
Herrera, Wilson Herrera, Gustavo Delgado, Antonio Delgado, Nelson Diaz,
Edgard Diaz, Alfredo Diaz and Wilson Diaz, all indigenous U'wa people
forcibly evicted by police from Las Canoas, department of Norte de
Santander, on 11 February 2000;
- expressing concern at reports that the police and army used excessive
force to carry out the eviction;
- urging the authorities to initiate full and impartial investigation into
their whereabouts and into the reported excessive use of force by police
during the eviction in which three U'wa children were killed, for the
results be made public and those responsible to be brought to justice.

APPEALS TO:
President of Colombia:
Senor Presidente Andres Pastrana
Presidente de la Republica
Palacio de Narino
Carrera 8 No. 7-26
Santafe de Bogota, COLOMBIA
Telegrams:     President Pastrana, Bogota, Colombia
Telexes:  396 44281 PALP CO
Faxes:         011 57 1 286 7434/ 284 2186/ 337 1351
Salutation:    Excelentisimo Sr. Presidente / Dear President Pastrana

Minister of the Interior:
Dr. Nestor Humberto Martinez
Ministro del Interior
Ministerio del Interior
Carrera 8, No.8-09, Piso 2
Santafe de Bogota, COLOMBIA
Telegrams:     Ministerio Interior, Bogota, Colombia
Telexes:  396 45406 MINGO CO
Faxes:         011 57 1 286 8025 / 281 5584 / 342 3201 / 341 9739
Salutation:    Sr. Ministro / Dear Minister

Minister of Defense:
Dr. Luis Fernando Ramirez Acuna
Ministro de Defensa Nacional
Ministerio de Defensa Nacional
Avenida Eldorado CAN - Carrera 52
Santafe de Bogota, COLOMBIA
Telegrams:     Ministro Defensa, Bogota, Colombia
Telexes:  396 42411 INPRE CO; 396 44561 CFAC CO
Faxes:         011 57 1 222 1874
Salutation:    Sr. Ministro / Dear Minister

Governor of Norte de Santander:
Sr. Jorge Alberto Garcia-Herreros
Gobernador del Departamento de Norte de Santander
Gobernacion de Norte de Santander
Avenida 5 Calle 13 y 14
Cucuta, Norte de Santander
COLOMBIA
Faxes:         011 57 (75) 710510
Salutation:    Estimado Dr. Garcia

COPIES TO:
Non-governmental Organisation:
Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia (ONIC)
Calle 13, No. 4-38
Apartado Aereo 32395
Santafe de Bogota, COLOMBIA

Ambassador Luis Alberto Moreno
Embassy of Colombia
2118 Leroy Pl. NW
Washington DC 20008

Please contact your Representative and/or two Senators and ask them if they
were aware of this case and what they can do for those affected
(threatened/attacked, etc).  You may point out that any US aid package has
to ensure that such incidents stop altogether or such a package is not
worth
supporting.

Senate offices are:      The Honorable (full name)
                    United States Senate
                    Washington, DC 20510

House offices are:       The Honorable (full name)
               United States House of Representatives
               Washington, DC 20515

Please send appeals immediately. Check with the Colorado office between
9:00
am and 6:00 pm, Mountain Time, weekdays only, if sending appeals after
April
21, 2000.

This information is from Amnesty International's research headquarters in
London, England. A.I. is an independent worldwide movement working for the
international protection of human rights. It seeks the release of people
detained because of their beliefs, color, sex, ethnic origin, language or
religious creed, provided they have not used nor advocated violence. These
are termed prisoners of conscience. It works for fair and prompt trials for
all political prisoners and works on behalf of such people detained without
charge or trial. It opposes the death penalty, extra-judicial executions
(political killings), 'disappearances' and torture or other cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment of all prisoners without reservation.
Amnesty International promotes awareness of and adherance to the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally recognized human
rights instruments, the values enshrined in them and the indivisibility and
interdependence
of all human rights and freedoms.

Please do not repost this appeal to any part of the Internet without prior
permission from Amnesty International. Thank you for your help with this
appeal.

Please read the monthly Urgent Action Network Newsletter posted on the web
at: http://www.amnesty-USA.org/urgact/newslett.html

Urgent Action Network
Amnesty International USA
PO Box 1270
Nederland CO 80466-1270
Email: sharriso@aiusa.org
http://www.amnestyusa.org/urgact/
Phone: 303 258 1170
Fax:     303 258 7881

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