Earth First! Action Update
Number 9 - March 1994 Download PDF
Special Roads Issue
A potted history of the build-up to the
planned new 'bypass' - which will bypass the current bypass - in
Wymondham, southwest of Norwich.
The independent state of Wanstonia is
besieged in the latest chapter of the M11 Campaign.
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.
A local community campaign is in place, and
has started a direct action camp against this road building.
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.
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.
Six arrests were made on 23rd February at
British Aerospace Warton in Lancashire, under "suspicion of possessing
items with which to commit criminal damage.
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.
Manchester EF!, who have been targetting
Texas Homecare with Ethical Shoplifts, have had a major victory.
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.
At last the sounding board you’ve all been
waiting for - a publication called 'Letters From The Wilderness'.
Greenham Common still there and doing
anti-militarist direct action.
Updates and news stories from local Earth
First! groups around the country.
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 co-ordinated day of action against banks around
the country targetting Midland and Lloyds banks.
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!
A new ASDA store is being built in
Wolverhampton town centre, and Tarmac are the contractors.
To make this a really big event we are asking
all groups and radical magazines to publicise it within their country or
region.
Tributes from around the world have been
pouring in after the sad demise of Isaac the newt.
The Criminal Justice Bill represents a
serious attack on our rights to protest, to party and simply to live our
lives as we choose.
Roll up, roll up, everything must go.
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.
More and more people are standing up and
saying “no” to the bulldozer, including ex-magistrates, pensioners,
children and generally people from all backgrounds.
Get yourself down (or up) to the Redwater
Arts Centre which is on a beautiful hillside near Todmorden, West
Yorkshire.
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.
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.
