Three banks in Leicester were the focus for protests about the High Street Banks’ involvement in the continuing 3rd World Debt Crisis.

Despite a court interdict protestors managed to disrupt work on the 2nd June - the first of a series of days of action planned for the summer.

The 15th May International Day of Traffic Action was the biggest ever this year, demonstrating the growing demand for building climate alliances between countries of the north with those of the south.

A ship action aiming to blockade shipments of mahogany is planned for the near future, as part of the UK Mahogany Campaign.

Updates from the Twyford Down protests.

Since the court case in Pau on 2nd December 1992 declaring the road works illegal, an Environmental Impact Assessment has been carried out.

National march and rally being organised by ALARM UK as part of its campaign against the Government’s £20 billion National Roadbuilding Programme.

Actions were held in Bristol protesting the opening of the notorious Golden Hill Tesco superstore.

In Oxford local opposition is growing to the North Oxford bypass and the Barton bypass.

The Save Wensum Valley Campaign will be holding a community event to promote the Wensum Valley and protect it from a proposed road.

August Summer camp to work out tactics and strategy for the forthcoming revolution.

Brief report back from the EF! Gathering in May in Leicester.

24th May A protest at Timbmet timber yard in Oxford took the campaign to ban Mahogany a step further.

1st July International Day of Protest in support of Clayoquot Sound, Canada.

7th June to 14th June Part of the UK Mahogany Campaign in support of the Brazilian coalition against the mahogany trade.

There will be a three-day talking shop 'Partnerships For Change' in Manchester which will be all about sustainable-this, sustainable-that and sustainable-the-other. All are invited to come and 'monkeywrench the hell out of it'.

Doncaster EF! has appealed for help, actions, media etc. to save Levitt Hagg Wood from a land fill plan.

An alteration to the A30 at Yeovil is planned to route the road along the bank of the River Yeo to meet a Sainsbury in a greenfield at the foot of an Ancient Hill.

Black Downs A303 public enquiry will take place for the whole of September and first two weeks of October, In Honiton.

A campaign against the huge ARC quarry in the Mendips.

170 trees - including 200 year old elms and oaks -  in Jesmond Dene, Newcastle are threatened by the proposed Cradlewell bypass.

'The Oxleas Alliance' is dedicated to defending Oxleas Wood, a SSSI, and stopping the road that threatens it - the East London River Crossing (ELRC).

The European Summit will be held in Copenhagen and protests are planned to raise environmental issues in the minds of the Eurocrats and generally cause mayhem and chaos, non-violently and peacefully of course.

The purpose of the Action Update is to report on non-violent direct actions happening around the country at any time and to publicise forthcoming actions.

Contacts directory for EF! groups around the country, as well as other ecological direct action groups.