4 Sep 2001
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Frontline: ELF Strikes Cold Spring Harbor Labs Again... (NY, USA)

Frontline Information Service - News 8/08/01

EARTH LIBERATION FRONT STRIKES COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORIES AGAIN ON LONG ISLAND SABOTAGES NEWLY BUILT BIO-TECH BUILDING
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URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
September 2, 2001

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 communique 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 organization 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 communique continued, "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 Plainview lab location under wraps you were gravely mistaken. We watch your every step. E.L.F."

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
http://www.earthliberationfront.com

*A copy of the communique sent by the E.L.F. appears below.
COMMUNIQUE SENT BY THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT

"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 Plainveiw, 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."

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