Earth First! Action Update

Report of night-time action against the road-building at Twyford Down. 

Following an injunction on FOE activists the bulldozers finally went in, decimating woodland and carving off top soil - but EF!ers from all around the country came down to cause more problems for them.

One morning in a respectable sea-side town, British Telecom workers arrived at work to find it bricked-up.

Some upcoming dates on the calendar.

Fisons have recently announced that they are to sell their peat extraction business!

26 countries are taking part in this day of outrage against the continuing exploitation and destruction of tropical rainforests.

Europe's largest ever demo against the importation of rainforest timber was held at Liverpool docks.

Letters from Earth First!ers.

The following are draft guidelines - aims, methods and principles - drawn up at the Earth First! Gathering in April.

One of the resolutions of the Brighton Gathering was a Consensus agreement on respect for Women-only space within the EF! movement.

World Bank Report brands Malaysian forestry: "a Sunset Industry".

An outrageous article in the New Straits Times 27-4 opens by saying that: "Several environmental organisations in the West have become aggressive and are threatening to use violence and terrorism In their smear campaign against tropical timber".

Britain imports 20% of our paper and card pulp from Canada - a lot of which comes from the temperate rainforest in British Columbia, Canada.

Manerplaw, base of the democracy forces and home of the environment and human rights centre, supported by EF!

Rainforest activists from Earth First! and Rainforest Action Groups from around the country blockade the Malaysian Airlines office in Piccadilly, London.

Directory of Earth First! and other ecological direct action groups around the country and abroad.