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the ELF Strikes at biotech facility in Long Island |
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by Friends of the ELF
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02 Sep 2001
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This is the second time the ELF has hit the Cold Spring Harbor Biotech complex in just over a year. |
1-Communique
2-Press release by ELF press office +++
"Statement for Aug 21st ELF Action
On Tuesday August 21st members of the Earth Liberation Front, paid visit to the newly built bio-tech building for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, located on Sunnyside Blvd, in Plainview, Long Island. Here activists inflicted heavy damages to their exterior air filtration and coolant systems, by smashing thermostats and computer instruments, and damaging extensively insulation to coolant pipes. The building was donned with slogans denouncing genetic engineering, one reading "tampering with biodiversity = extinction", the other reading "Love E.L.F.". Upon retreat windows were also smashed. This was a warning shot from the Long Island community to the Labs, that the technologies they develop have potentially drastic and lethal consequences. Be forewarned that we are watching your every move, and if you thought for one second that you could keep your new Plainveiw lab location under wraps you were gravely mistaken. We watch your every step. E.L.F." +++ Press release by ELF press office September 2, 2001
EARTH LIBERATION FRONT STRIKES COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORIES AGAIN ON LONG ISLAND; SABOTAGES NEWLY BUILT BIO-TECH BUILDING
PLAINVIEW, LONG ISLAND, NY – The Earth Liberation Front (E.L.F.) has officially claimed responsibility for sabotaging a new bio-tech building at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on August 21, 2001. This is the second time the E.L.F. has targeted this facility in just over one year.
A communiqué sent by the E.L.F. stated, "Here activists inflicted heavy damages to their exterior air filtration and coolant systems, by smashing thermostats and computer instruments, and damaging extensively insulation to coolant pipes. The building was donned with slogans denouncing genetic engineering, one reading ‘tampering with biodiversity = extinction’, the other reading ‘Love E.L.F.’. Upon retreat windows were also smashed."
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground movement that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the natural environment and exploitation of life. Since 1997 in North America alone, the E.L.F. have caused over $40 million in damages to entities profiting from the destruction of life.
The E.L.F. previously struck Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on July 13, 2000, destroying two acres of genetically modified corn and greenhouses containing seedlings.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories are responsible for research related to the "discovery of hybrid vigor (which) led to increased corn production and to a revolution in crop breeding". This is now more commonly referred to as "the green revolution" and identified by thousands of scholars and activists from the Global South as a root cause of the starvation and depletion of soil and bio-diversity occurring at an unprecedented pace around the planet.
Contact: North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office 503.478.0902 |
See also:
http://www.earthliberationfront.com
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