[frontline-news] Press Release: ELF STRIKES AGAINST URBAN SPRAWL IN SAN DIEGO

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Frontline Information Service   -  Press Release: ELF STRIKES AGAINST URBAN
SPRAWL IN SAN DIEGO: FOUR HOUSES BURNED TO THE GROUND IN ACTION AGAINST
"DEVELOPMENT DESTRUCTION" -  09/19/03 
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ELF STRIKES AGAINST URBAN SPRAWL IN SAN DIEGO: FOUR HOUSES BURNED TO THE GROUND
IN ACTION AGAINST "DEVELOPMENT DESTRUCTION"

For Immediate Release

CALIFORNIA - Through media reports, the ELF Press Office has been made aware of
an Earth Liberation Front action against urban sprawl in the early morning
hours of September 19, 2003. Although the ELF Press Office has received no
communications about this action from the persons responsible, a banner found
at the site of the fires reading "Development destruction. Stop raping nature.
The ELFs are angry," indicates a claim of responsibility by ELF activists. The
fires broke out at approximately 4 a.m. in the upscale Carmel Valley
neighbourhood of San Diego, California.

The fires took out four houses under construction in two parts of the
neighbourhood and caused an estimated $1 million in damages. This is the fifth
action in 2003 against urban sprawl known to have been the work of the Earth
Liberation Front. Other occurences of ELF actions in response to the
encroachment of luxury housing on wild space since January 1st include fires in
San Diego, California (August); Chico, California (June); Macomb County,
Michigan (June), and Superior Township, Michigan (April). 

Although there has been no statement by ELF activists about the most recent
actions in San Diego, a communique sent after the fires in Macomb County read
in part, "For too long, we, the people... have allowed our magnificent forests
to be levelled and shipped off, our water to be poisoned and now, greed driven
developers are trying to marginalize off the last green spaces and habitat of
our unknown Edens." It is clear from past statements and recent actions of the
ELF that urban sprawl has become a central issue in the struggle to protect the
earth.

The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that
uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of
the natural environment. Since 1997, the ELF in North America has caused over
$100 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life and
the planet.

Any communications received by the ELF Press Office will be forwarded on to
interested members of the press.

The Earth Liberation Front Press Office is an autonomous entity that serves to
publicize news and actions of the ELF, as reported through news media or by
anonymous communications from the individuals involved in activities.

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Contact:
North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office
elfpress at resist.ca 
www.earthliberationfront.com



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