Selar Farm Nature Reserve has been established on the site of a proposed opencast mine in the Neath Valley, S.

The A299, Thanet Way, is a Euroroute crossing the North Kent coast designed to provide a faster link to the port of Ramsgate.

The No M11 Link Campaign have had a good tip-off suggesting that "MUNSTONIA", the very last house on the road route, is to be evicted from Tuesday 20th June.

Preparatory work on the Wells “Relief” Road has begun although the main contract won’t be signed until July 1st.

On Tuesday 30th May, 30 people stopped work at the Garforth opencast mine near Leeds, until about 20 riot police, armed with quick-cuffs, dragged protesters away by their quick-cuffed wrists (quick-cuffs are only meant for violent offenders and cause extreme agony).

To show the stupidity of the governments thinking (the M77 will cut 7 minutes off your journey into Glasgow, trashing its way through Pollok Estate), local cycle campaigners had a race.

A recent Gallup poll has shown that support for protests and NVDA is up amongst the public.

On the 12th -13th June, 72 protestors against the M65 appeared in Blackburn Magistrates Court .

Action against Live Exports is continuing.

On 14th June 1994 35 activists entered British Aerospace's Stevenage site in protest at BAe's sale of 24 Hawk aircraft to Indonesia, a country whose dictatorship has killed around 1,000,000 people in east Timor.

Protests against Shell's decision to sink the Brent Spar oil storage rig in the Atlantic releasing tonnes of highly toxic waste have escalated.

Work has started on this destructive road through many houses and some of Greater Manchester's remaining green bits, with 'exciting land fill sites and other improvements'.

Once a month in cities & towns all over the world cyclists en mass take to the streets to show there is an alternative to pollution and congestion of the Car Culture.

At the end of May, the Land is Ours movement staged a successful week long occupation of an area of enclosed land in Nottingham.

Wednesday 28th June, will be the anniversary of the longest libel trial in history, the McLibel case.

The Fairmile site (on the route of the A30 Honiton to Exeter road) is suffering from its own success at the moment.

A special telephone advice service for Travellers has been set up by Cardiff Law School.

Between August the 6th & 9th Faslane Peace Camp will be holding 4 days of actions at the Trident Nuclear Submarine base near Glasgow.

After the French government's decision to resume nuke testing in the South Pacific there have been angry protests around the world.

On Friday the 2nd June the RPF held their first action at the launch of the new Alfa Romeo.

On Sunday July 23rd, Reclaim the Streets will be having their next street party.

Undercurrents 3, a video round up of direct action news is out now.

Purchasing shares in companies with dodgy environmental dealings and then attending their Annual General Meetings is an increasingly used technique to exert pressure to stop pointless construction projects.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and supporter of the radical green group MOVE, has been in prison in Philadelphia for over 13 years accused of murdering a cop.

Whatley Quarry in Somerset, the biggest hole in Europe (the quarry that is, not Somerset), is planning an extension to increase its ability to supply roadstone for such schemes as the Batheaston Bypass (Solsbury Hill) and the Wells “relief” road.

From August 25-28, the Green Student Network will be having their Summer Camp in Mid Wales.

What's upcoming on the Direct Action calendar

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Earth First! groups around the country and other ecological direct action groups.