Call for International support: Pungesti, Romania under SIEGE from Police Forces and CHEVRON

Chevron wants to do the same in Poland, but we will kick this shit off !

Good on Romania! Fight the corporate scum

Fascism, corporate rule.

Sorry this is happening, OP. Very sad indeed. As for the lease agreement with Chevron, just ask the people of Colorado what the lease agreements do...

Fucking companies come in, fuck the land and resources up, take their profits and leave environmental hazards that are in no way conducive to a hearty, healthy life or existence. Truly a travesty for humanity and all in the name of fucking MORE AND MORE MONEY.

Best wishes for the Romanian people who care about their country. FUCK the "authorities" that let in the earth destroyers. They should be forced to live within the oil-gas-stench that fills the air anytime these fucking companies have a chance at the earth's resources.

The problem is introducing hydrocarbons into the aquifer. After fracking your well water will be carcinogenic if contaminated with oils. Faucets that will light (methane) are common too.

The message is plain enough, and we have ignored it for too long:
the great, centralized economic entities of our time do not come into
rural places in order to improve them by "creating jobs." They come
to take as much of value as they can take, as cheaply and as quickly
as they can take it. They are interested in "job creation" only so
long as the jobs can be done more cheaply by humans than by
machines. They are not interested in good health--economic or
natural or human--of any place on this earth.
Wendell Berry

NO..... it's not too much to ask, but none of us have it either.

People don't know how to fight back peacefully and effectively.

You don't fight back by having confrontations with the power structure. You don't fight back by starting violence.

You find peaceful ways to undermine the power structure.

Pungesti .

what your local municipal council is telling you after you chose them by vote ?

are they telling you that you selected them very good or good only or they are telling you that they are very happy now that you selected them ?

democracy , huh ??
fight back or die!
and kick out those US bastards

Police = Serve the corporation interest, only.

Thoughts and prayers with Romania.

The major name of Pungesti: Vlasa Mircia.
Vice-major is Voinea Vasile.
And the head of violent gendarmery operation in Pungesti is Mr. Olaru.

Let's start from here.
Let's do something that punishes these people, as they have the decision-making function in the area.

They should lose their jobs as soon as possible, to show them that the PEOPLE HAS THE POWER.

STOP CRYING and DO SOMETHING.

FIRST THING TO DO: PUNISH THE FIRST CORRUPT NEXT TO YOU

You need to understand that we cannot change the corrupt local authorities unless we change the whole political class. The local authorities in Pungesti are protected by their bosses in Bucharest. Even the prime minister Victor Ponta congratulated the riot police for abusing those poor villagers who were just defending their lands and their rights, calling them "a bunch of extremists who oppose the welfare of the country". This is war between US (the people) and THEM (the ruling class)!

As a small update from Pungesti, the situation is still critical and the atmosphere is almost war-like. The Romanian media (with very few notable exceptions) is not reporting anything, or reporting in a very distorted way. Fortunately a few international newspapers have picked up the story and are helping to spread the news.

This weekend, a few hundred activists from all over the country are expected to arrive in Pungesti. We'll see how the situation develops. I will keep you all updated!

Here's an article from France 24:

AFP - On a frozen field braving police, Romanian villagers hold vigil in a makeshift camp set up to block US energy giant Chevron from exploring for shale gas.

On Monday, hundreds of Romanian riot police forcibly removed protesters from the camp clearing the way for Chevron's excavators to reach the site where the company intends to drill its first exploration well in Romania.

But some of the villagers from Pungesti, in this impoverished region of North-Eastern Romania, hung on, taking turns to man the camp just adjacent to the Chevron site and despite an imposing police presence.

"We have potatoes to eat, an improvised stove. We protest to protect our way of life and our health," one of the local farmers, Alexandru Focsa, 44, told AFP.

"The authorities do not want to listen to us but we are determined to go on despite the abuses and the fines handed by the police," he said.

Like Focsa, many in this rural region oppose the highly controversial drilling technique used to extract shale gas known as "hydraulic fracturing" or "fracking".

The full article here: [link to www.france24.com]

Last Edited by Inner Warfare on 12/05/2013 09:29 AM

Man... his laugh at the end.. so defying against us, romanians

Update from the village of Pungesti, Romania:

Hundreds of protesters have broken into a Chevron site after the US oil giant resumed its search for shale gas in northeast Romania. RT’s Lucy Kafanov reports from the scene, where clashes ensued as riot police started streaming in.

Some 400 people gathered on Saturday in the village of Pungesti, according to local media.

RT’s Lucy Kafanov reports that the demonstration kicked off quite peacefully with the protesters chanting “Chevron go home.”

“The situation then escalated. Some people had run across the road towards the Chevron property, there was a bit of a commotion, and we saw the protesters run into the property; the surrounding perimeter fences were taken down," Kafanov reports. Local media said people were able to tear down fences to 20 acres of land owned by the company.

Full article here: [link to rt.com]

Many protesters have been arrested.

Chevron has announced that it will temporarily suspend its operations in Pungesti as a result of the local opposition. They have also suspended their operations a few weeks ago after the initial protests, but tried to resume them on December 2 with the intervention of large riot police troops.

Right now the press is denied access to the camp once again. To see some video footage of what happened earlier today, visit these two links:

[link to www.ustream.tv]
[link to bambuser.com]

Last Edited by Inner Warfare on 12/07/2013 08:53 AM

Violent intervention of riot police against fracking oposing population in Pungesti, Romania

Protests against Chevron shale gas exploration (which would result in exploitation as stated by Romanian law upon simple request by the company) resulted in clashes between riot police and protesters today, 07.12.2013 in Pungesti, Vaslui county, Romania!

Two people were violently beaten off by riot police and are hospitalized!

Several others were abusively arrested!

Full article: [link to ireport.cnn.com]

Please share this CNN iReport news article to all your friends, and we might get a chance for the main CNN website to publish it!

UPDATE:

Chevron began their exploration again this morning, after backing down yesterday.

Russia Today, the only international television present at the site and broadcasting what's going on in Romania! This is no coincidence that no western big media outlet was sent here, despite the appeals we launched. They will say that the protests are backed by Russia, this is why Russia Today is there! The media of the West has joined together to sack Romania and make look like the protests are backed and instrumented from Russia!!! Please help Western media outlets there to take away this stupid accusation!

[link to rt.com]

If not visible, please turn on captions to see English subtitles!

Almost an on topic current event.

It is connected to this actually, as the protests are against Chevron also

Thread: Romania: antisemitism or Gabriel Resources/Chevron and the kinds psy-op?

this is just a glimpse of the "modus operandi" of these nice people.... "You don't do what you're told?!? Ok, we will play the antisemitism card, that's always a winner"

A few thousand people protested tonight in Bucharest agains the government.



Willy Schuster, one of the symbols of the anti-fracking movement in Romania was arrested in Bucharest, during an ongoing protest against the Government's politics concerning shale gas and mining. He suffered serious head injuries!

Willy is taken to hospital for stitches after receiving a blow to the head from police. Heavy hearts here. He joined protests in Bucharest after the members of parliament give themselves immunity from prosecution. Riot police blockade streets all over Bucharest to prevent protesters from gathering. Among other laws the corrupt government is pushing through are 1. releasing land ownership to non-citizens which is done nowhere else in the world, and 2. Allowing mining and drilling anywhere. This is all about power and money. Willy Schuster, God bless you for standing firm for justice in your country. You're an example to us all.

today is the 24th anniversary of the coup d'etat

things might warm up over there