Earth First! Action Update

The Solsbury Hill protest camp is up and already very active, becoming the natural rural successor to Twyford Down.

Day by day updates from the Solsbury Hill protest camp.

On May 1st there was around 20,000 for a street party and mass demonstration in central London against the Criminal Justice Bill.

This is the new campaign as EF!’s answer to the CJB.

If you feel like lunching out, we suggest doing it at Wymondham, near Norwich, to help the protest against the planned bypass.

Updates from the No M11 Link Road campaign.

Operation Roadblock has now been and gone; a great success which will be an inspiration to other road schemes throughout the country.

Monday 9th May the second Direct Action day activists were out in force for Operation Snowball.

It has come to our attention that much loved area of Coventry, which is a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (the golf course site, not Coventry), is under threat.

The latest growth area of radical activity is North of the border.

Around 40 EF!ers occupied the office of the road planning department of the Strathclyde regional council in protest against the planned M77 motorway extension through Glasgow’s Pollok Estate.

(WFTE) are back again after there Northern Road scheme walk last September with a new one.

For a number of months now, Oxford EF! have been running "Oxford Is Choking", a direct action-based campaign to get cars and buses out of the city centre.

North Wales EF! has first day of action against Bethesda Quarry (McAlpines).

Faslane Peace Camp sits outside the Clyde submarine base, home of Britain’s nuclear weapons, on the Gareloch - 30 miles NW of Glasgow.

Dense forestry around the Coulport armaments depot provided extra cover for those involved in the Spiral Action on Sunday 20th March.

The Greenhouse, which houses Norwich EF!, Hunt Sabs and other groups plus the shop, has now set up a charitable trust and bought the building next door to treble the size of the centre.

For a week Oxford FoE, EF! and concerned residents used direct action tactics to stop trees being cut down indiscriminately.

Under the auspices of CRISP (Citizen's Recovery of indigenous People's Stolen Property) Officers all around the country 'ethically-shoplifted' mahogany and took it to police stations asking them to investigate allegations that the wood is stolen from indigenous people's land.

Corporate Watch - a new EF! initiative - aims to provide EF! activists with the latest information and research about what businesses and corporations are up to.

Dozens of sacks of rotting fruit and vegetables were dumped on the steps of mining giant RTZ’s head offices in March.

Report from the EF! Gathering.

EF!ers are invited to attend the Native Forests Network gathering in Missoula, USA.

A few apologies to make on AU9.

The THORP (Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant) at Sellafield is still going ahead, despite an expensive court action from Greenpeace, unanimous press incredulity and the two-year delay.

The McLibel Trail - McDonalds are taking two unemployed people to court for libel over a leaflet they allegedly wrote about the McMurderers. 

Around 60 LAMB activists nearly shut down the Lloyds Bank AGM.

There has been an unprecedented response from EF!

Thoughts from the current AU editorial crew about the quandary of having less time to do direct action because of the amount of time it takes to produce the AU.