Earth First! Action Update
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Earth First! Action Update

Number 9 - March 1994 Download PDF

Special Roads Issue

The Lizard Tribe
A potted history of the build-up to the planned new 'bypass' - which will bypass the current bypass - in Wymondham, southwest of Norwich.
Wanstonia Mania
The independent state of Wanstonia is besieged in the latest chapter of the M11 Campaign.
Notts EF! In Success Scandal
The Leadenham Bypass, Near Lincoln got planning permission on February 14th and the DoT attempted to start work trashing a semi-ancient wood and hedges.
A36 Corridor (Bath)
A local community campaign is in place, and has started a direct action camp against this road building.
SOS Solsbury
The planned Batheaston-Swainswick Bypass at Solsbury Hill near Bath will damage a World Heritage Site, proposed SSSI, AONB and encroach on Green Belt land. There is a protest camp - get inolved.
Leicester Road Plans Scrapped - Another Success
Campaign groups have won a major victory in the battle to stop a 4-lane road being built through the middle of residential Leicester to feed a superstore development.
No BAe HAWK Planes To Indonesia
Six arrests were made on 23rd February at British Aerospace Warton in Lancashire, under "suspicion of possessing items with which to commit criminal damage.
Leeds CRISP-O
The House of Fraser Store, Rackhams, in Leeds was recently visited by a posse of CRISP officers resulting in the removal of two mahogany tables as well as other pieces of stolen hardwood.
Texas Victory
Manchester EF!, who have been targetting Texas Homecare with Ethical Shoplifts, have had a major victory.
Noticeboard
When over 100 protesters met at ARC Northern’s quarry at Penmaenmawr, Gwynedd recently, the local Daily Post didn’t mention ARC stood to benefit by supplying road stone to the proposed new A11 motorway through Snowdonia.
New EF! Publication!
At last the sounding board you’ve all been waiting for - a publication called 'Letters From The Wilderness'.
Greenham Common
Greenham Common still there and doing anti-militarist direct action.
Local News
Updates and news stories from local Earth First! groups around the country.
RTZ And Honduras
Alfredo Sandoval, an indigenous Honduran, spoke at the EF! Gathering in Leicester about his community’s fight to stop mining giant RTZ from developing a destructive open cast mine in the Minas de Oro region.
A Bunch Of Bankers
A co-ordinated day of action against banks around the country targetting Midland and Lloyds banks.
York Occupation
Monday 31st January York and Leeds EF!ers and Third World Firsters occupied Midland Bank, York for five hours and had a whale of a time!
It ASDA be EF!
A new ASDA store is being built in Wolverhampton town centre, and Tarmac are the contractors.
International Earth Night
To make this a really big event we are asking all groups and radical magazines to publicise it within their country or region.
Abbey Pond Bulldozed
Tributes from around the world have been pouring in after the sad demise of Isaac the newt.
Criminal Justice Bill - More Injustice
The Criminal Justice Bill represents a serious attack on our rights to protest, to party and simply to live our lives as we choose.
Earth Arc Winter Sale
Roll up, roll up, everything must go.
M11 Operation Roadblock
The No M11 Link Campaign is about to deliver a fatal blow to the national roads programme with the largest campaign of peaceful protest ever seen against roads in Britain.
Attention - Road Ahead
More and more people are standing up and saying “no” to the bulldozer, including ex-magistrates, pensioners, children and generally people from all backgrounds.
3rd National Gathering 8-10 April 1994
Get yourself down (or up) to the Redwater Arts Centre which is on a beautiful hillside near Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
Skye Rising - Bank Of America, London
The Bank of America, financiers of the Skye Bridge and Roads Project, are also funding a number of other privatised road and bridge building projects in the UK, Greece, Hungary and Portugal.
Success In Somerset
After 11 months where legal and direct action campaigners worked hand in hand, and after plans had been signed and sealed by Sainsburys and the district council, the consumer giants pulled out before the bulldozers arrived.