Earth First! Action Update
No. 2 - Winter Solstice '91 Download PDF
On the 21st December South Downs EF! carried
out the first road blockade in the Carmageddon campaign and their first
action.
EF! action at the Malaysian Tourist Board in
London over the logging of rainforests in Sarawak, as local tribespeople
face prosecution for protecting their rainforest homeland.
We are now up and sprinting, and would like
to say a big cuddly 'Hello' to all lifEF!forms out there.
Sea action on The Thames as the first Carmageddon
action in London targeted the opening of the new Dartford Bridge.
The Department of Transport is proceeding
with road building despite a plea from the EC Environment Commissioner
for them to come to their senses over three particular projects.
On December the 4th 1991, Earth First!
initiated and coordinated Britain's first action against the importation
of tropical "dead rainforest" timber.
In late November, activists from the London
Rainforest Action Group and Lea Valley Earth First! scaled the front of
Australia House in the Strand, London, in protest at the Australian
Government's plan to introduce Resource Security Legislation.
Action planned by Merseyside Green Action/Earth
First! to target the importation of tropical "dead rainforest" timber.
British Columbia is known as the "Brazil of
the North", because of the large areas of boreal and temperate
rainforest within it, but also because of the rate the forest is being
destroyed.
At least 8000 square kms of Burma's unique
Teak forests are destroyed every year making it the third highest rate
of deforestation in the world.
The Earth First! Roadshow will be agitating,
educating, aggravating and inebriating as it goes from Liverpool to
Brighton in one hectic, action packed month.
Mid Somerset Earth First! in the last Action
Update announced that we had produced a news sheet which listed the
health food companies involved in dodgy dealings.
Support these people imprisoned for an action
against a ski resort in a wilderness area in Arizona.
Animal rights and welfare organisations have
at last joined together to protest at the use of animals in cosmetic
tests.
In early February President Callejas of
Honduras will finalise and sign a massive logging contract with US paper
products giant Stone Container Corporation, which threatens to devastate
the homeland of the Miskito Indians.