The Black Plume

Here is a Government-mandated list of local bastards, taken from an 11th August 2016 press release, that can’t even be bothered to pay their staff minimum wage.

• 53. Mr Snippers Ltd, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, owed £1,867.54 to 1 worker
• 60. AA Dispatch (UK) Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk, owed £1,669.41 to 1 worker
• 116. Mr Alex Okolidoh & Mrs Victoria Okolidoh, trading as Elite Property Solutions, Norwich, owed £511.20 to 1 worker (note: now trading as Century 21 UK.)
• 155. The Personnel People Ltd, Norwich, owed £298.58 to 15 workers
• 197. Silenster Building Services Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk, owed £103.48 to 1 worker

Sedgeford poultry farm application approved by west Norfolk councillors

West Norfolk Borough Council approves plans for a high intensity poultry farm near Sedgeford, in the north west of the county.

The farm will comprise four buildings, each 20.1m by 91.4m, that each hold 45,000 broiler hens (i.e. chickens raised for meat rather than egg production). According to Newcome Baker Farm’s own application this equates to 38kg/m2; at an average maximum weight of 2.5kg that broilers reach before slaughter, that means there are approximately 15 chickens per square metre. This falls below even the RSCPA’s already poor “Freedom Foods” expectations.

• Website for the proposed development. Note the use of the word “farm” rather than factory: a facile attempt at distraction and PR control that continues throughout the entire website. For example, there are almost no details about the actual development itself even on the so-called “The Facts” tab.
• The planning applications submitted by Newcome Baker Farms Ltd to West Norfolk Borough Council. These contain actual details.
• List of appointed directors. Other businesses owned by them include Fakenham Racecouse, South Pickenham Estate which holds regular pheasant shooting days, and “Countrywise Sports Ltd” and “West Norfolk Amateur Racing Club Ltd” that both  seem to be shell companies for who knows what. A bunch of lovely people, in other words.

While the No to Poultry Factory campaign focuses primarily on the impact that Whin Close Poultry Farm will have on the local human community, this is an important issue for people in Norfolk that give a shit about animals and the earth.

An East Anglia branch of National Action recently emerged, covering Norfolk and Suffolk according to their blog. So far it seems their activities are limited to stickering but let’s not let it get further than that, eh?

Deface and destroy those stickers in the most creative way possible, then take photos and send them our way!

For those unaware of National Action, they are a grass roots national socialist group aimed at “youths” that have appropriated an anarchist aesthetic in attempting to make their nauseatingly dull politics slightly more interesting. The group has had limited success of the street elsewhere in the UK, most notable for their PR-winning “White Man March”.

Unfortunately we were not able to make it down to Yarl’s Wood for the noise demo due to other, urgent circumstances demanding our attentions. Hopefully we can make it to the next one. Nonetheless here is video shot by someone unaffiliated with us.

We might be organising a car or two to drive to the Surround Yarl’s Wood demo organised by Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary. Please contact us if you are interested in coming along.

The MFJ, and our friends and allies around the country organising for justice and equality and fighting racism, we have been breaching the walls and fences of detention centres, reaching inside with chants of FREEDOM. Our detainees friends, partners in struggle, though locked up have made their voices ring out.

Full Facebook post, including photos, can be found here.

At one stage the whole of Lodge Road from almost the top of the Hill, to the bottom of St John’s corner and onto the Bungay/Halesworth Road was completely blocked by hunt supporters vehicles. They had just got out of their cars and headed onto the fields leaving them in the road.. This showed complete disrespect for other road users, and what the hell would have happened if Emergency vehicles had needed to get through. All this evidence will be going to various authorities who have ask for photographic evidence, now they have it. The police were called but refused to come out because of lack of staff. Well that’s a joke, because the week before they deployed 3 vehicles on the word of this hunt, and the officers did nothing all day but sit in their cars, and state ” I saw something, but don’t know what it was being chased.”

Unsurprisingly Bungay Town Council didn’t shut down the Boxing Day Hunt from holding their starting ceremony in the town centre, so it was down to the sabs to do once again what they do every weekend throughout the autumn and winter months: take direct action.

For a view from “the other side” check out this laughable article by hunt-loving Archant newspaper Bungay amd Beccles Journal.

Bungay Town District Council: Stop Supporting Hunting on boxing Day

The Change.org petition linked above has been created asking Bungay Town District Council to stop the Waveney Harriers from undertaking their annual Boxing Day Hunt parade from happening in the town this year, next year, and onwards. The petition is looking for a total of 2500 signatures.

The Boxing Day Hunt is a tradition for hunting packs across the UK in which the hunt will have a public display of their horses, hounds and hunters before engaging in the hunt itself. The Waveney Harriers, though nominally a hare hunt, have in recent years shifted toward pursuing and murdering foxes. The Hunting Act, introduced 2005, was meant to outlaw hunting wild animals with hound packs but the reality is hunting never stopped.