Come Together

In early July people active in Earth First!, Road Alert! and Reclaim The Streets met with representatives of Friends of the Earth (all the top bods) and Greenpeace in the FoE offices in London. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how best the NGO’s and the Grassroots groups can work together and move forward as one movement.

FoE are obviously keen to cooperate with EF! etc. and to officially endorse our Direct Action tactics. Hooray! All groups agreed not to "brand" campaigns with their own name in future, but to tackle them together. This is a very positive step. The government and destruction companies depend on the movement being weakened by internal disagreements. Together we could be a great force and FoE will be willing to finance some campaigns which use Direct Action.

Greenpeace are in the process of getting together an “Action Network” to link every single environmental campaigning group in the country and are planning a gathering next month to get it going. So! Get out there and talk to your local FoE and Greenpeace groups. Make sure they are supporting and endorsing Direct Action and get working together! Let's find some common ground and leave any differences behind us.