Earth First! Action Update
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Earth First! Action Update

Number 11 - June 1994 Download PDF

edited by Michael Howard

Eco-Police In Arresting Roads Action
Protesters against the building of the M65 in Lancashire have built treehouses and squatted compulsory-purchased houses in the path of the destruction.
Mahogone-y!!
Imported Brazilian mahogany ‘reclaimed’ from department stores and timber companies around Britain by CRISP-O are taken to the Houses of Parliament.
McLibel - McLiars
McDonald's are suing two people for libel - Helen Steel and Dave Morris - and now it's going to a High Court trial - albeit without a jury.
Prisoner Support
A list of eco-resistance and animal rights protesters currently inside who need and deserve support.
Narmada Dam
Due to local and international pressure, World Bank pull out of funding dam in India which threatens to flood forest, farmland and displace a population - however it's not over yet.
Unguided Tour Of Sizewell
Anti-nuclear campaigners break into the Sizewell B nuclear power station and find an astonishing lack of security.
Corporate Watch
Researching companies and what they are doing with a view to helping sustained, informed direct action campaigns against them.
Blockade Against Hydro-Quebec’s SM-III Project
The Innu people have blockaded the access road leading to the construction site of Hydro-Quebec’s Sainte-Marguerite III (SM-III) hydroelectric project.
The Nuclear Fight Back Grows
Several nuclear power stations around the country are hit with actions - Torness, Hinkley Point, Sizewell, Hunterston and Dungeness.
Welsh Barrage Leak
The £92m Cardiff Bay Barrage will cause the first wholesale destruction of an SSSI and set a dangerous precedent for other ‘developments’.
World Bank: 50 Years Is Enough!
This July, the World Bank Is celebrating 50 years of existence: 50 years of imposing inappropriate development on some of the most vulnerable places and people in the world.
Levitt Hage
Levitt Hage, a disused limestone quarry at Warmsworth, Doncaster, is now ready to be used as a landfill site.
Leeds EF! Protest Over Kirkstall Valley Development Plans
Leeds EF! locked themselves to the enhance doors, blocking public access to the offices of the Leeds Development Corporation on 3rd of June in protest at secrecy over development at Kirkstall valley.
British Aerospace In Court
Back in February about 20 people descended on the BAe Warton factory (just up the road from Preston) for an afternoon of cold, snow and protest.
Group 4 Trespass
Birmingham EF! hold a picnicing trespass (and football game) at the Group 4 Training HQ.
Womens' Action At Wymondham
Around eighteen women disrupt work on the A11 Wymondham/Besthorpe bypass near Norwich.
Prime Minister Meets EF! Activists
Later the same day, the women’s group went to greet John Major as he visited the Lotus car factory at Hethel, Norfolk.
Cafe 1 : Cars 0
The Oxford is Choking campaigners, in co-operation with Oxford FoE, staged a ’refreshingly' new form of protest in the heart of Oxford on 15th June, in the middle of the historic Broad street.
Target: 'Men In Suits'
Increasingly amongst EF!’ers there is a belief that the decision makers should be targeted for action more rather than endless encounters with workmen who talk at length about their mortgages.
The Return Of Twyford Down
There will be a mass trespassory assembly at Twyford Down, as the first carriageway of the new road is about to open.
Road News
Updates on a list of current or pending road protests around the country.
M11: Out Of Their Trees?
Updates about the continuing protests against the M11 Link Road in Leytonstone - including the squatted and fortified street at Claremont Road.
Solsbury Hill
So far, after 2 months, Amey have barely been able to construct their compound or access routes, despite the rough treatment of protesters by Reliance Security.
Kill The Bill Is Immortal
With the Criminal Justice Bill on the horizon, it's worth pointing out that eighty-seven events that we know about to have taken place which are presently legal, will be criminal offences after the Bill comes in.
Eire EF!
We have recently sent Action Updates to a number of addresses in Southern Ireland.
Scottish Nuclear Offices Invaded By Protesters
Anti-nuclear protesters barricaded themselves inside several offices within Scottish Nuclear’s headquarters in East Kilbride in May.
G.S.N. Summer Camp
Cardiff Green Group to have summer camp.