Earth First! Action Update

100 police, security guards and Tarmac workers faced 500 activists.

The government has dropped its £300 million plans to drive a road through Oxleas Wood in southeast London.

Environmental activists in Norwich remove mahogany furniture from Bonds store, and took the furniture to the police station, reporting it as stolen property.

17 women climb over the wall of Buckingham Palace garden in order to raise the issue of Britain's nuclear testing on the Shoshone people's lands in America.

The Malaysian Timber Industry was recently successfully taken to the Advertising Standards Authority.

This year Tarmac's AGM was considerably more interesting than usual.

Notts EF! co-ordinated another bank action in Nottingham city centre.

Another action protesting at proposals to enlarge Whatley Quarry to eat even further into the Mendips.

On 6th January Chris Cole walked into the British Aerospace factory in Stevenage and allegedly caused £500,000 of damage to military aircraft nose cones and other aircraft.

A weekend in Oxford of non-violence preparation and groupwork for radical environmental groups.

Manchester EF! re-visit Texas DIY as part of the Mahogany Action Week.

Vigil and protest against nuclear submarines at Faslane.

The M11 link would divide East London and destroy communities and homes in its path. Squatters are urgently needed to fill homes as they become vacant.

A day of action in defiance of Newcastle City Council’s injunction stopping "people unknown" from trespassing on the construction site resulted in 14 arrests.

The Wensum Valley near Norwich is threatened by a link to the Norwich Northern Relief Road.

The Valley of the Aspe - a wilderness area in the Pyrenees - is again under threat due to a plan to build a road through it.

Updates on four road protest camps.

In the West Country, a road project is looming which threatens to damage local communities and devastate the environment (destroying on ancient woodland, an area of species-rich wetland, and habitats for wildlife, including badger sets).

Direct action short articles.

A word from the production teams of this issue.

Earth First! and other direct action groups.