Earth First! Action Update
Number 11 - June 1994
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edited by Michael Howard
Protesters against the building of the M65 in Lancashire have built treehouses and squatted compulsory-purchased houses in the path of the destruction.
Imported Brazilian mahogany ‘reclaimed’ from department stores and timber companies around Britain by CRISP-O are taken to the Houses of Parliament.
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.
A list of eco-resistance and animal rights protesters currently inside who need and deserve support.
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.
Anti-nuclear campaigners break into the Sizewell B nuclear power station and find an astonishing lack of security.
Researching companies and what they are doing with a view to helping sustained, informed direct action campaigns against them.
The Innu people have blockaded the access road leading to the construction site of Hydro-Quebec’s Sainte-Marguerite III (SM-III) hydroelectric project.
Several nuclear power stations around the country are hit with actions - Torness, Hinkley Point, Sizewell, Hunterston and Dungeness.
The £92m Cardiff Bay Barrage will cause the first wholesale destruction of an SSSI and set a dangerous precedent for other ‘developments’.
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, a disused limestone quarry at Warmsworth, Doncaster, is now ready to be used as a landfill site.
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.
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.
Birmingham EF! hold a picnicing trespass (and football game) at the Group 4 Training HQ.
Around eighteen women disrupt work on the A11 Wymondham/Besthorpe bypass near Norwich.
Later the same day, the women’s group went to greet John Major as he visited the Lotus car factory at Hethel, Norfolk.
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.
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.
There will be a mass trespassory assembly at Twyford Down, as the first carriageway of the new road is about to open.
Updates on a list of current or pending road protests around the country.
Updates about the continuing protests against the M11 Link Road in Leytonstone - including the squatted and fortified street at Claremont Road.
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.
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.
We have recently sent Action Updates to a number of addresses in Southern Ireland.
Anti-nuclear protesters barricaded themselves inside several offices within Scottish Nuclear’s headquarters in East Kilbride in May.
Cardiff Green Group to have summer camp.
