Newsletter Index
No 20 - September '95
'Raid ymddiried mewn hipis!'
The Greenmania camp, an area of public land near the Greenman roundabout in the path of the M11 Link road is expecting eviction on Tuesday 5th September.
On 2nd August, demolition contractors (one firm involved is Hughes of Portsmouth 01705 671671) moved in to destroy 5 buildings on the road route.
The protesters at Selar Farm, fighting the proposed open cast site in Cwmgwrach, South Wales are preparing for battle against a possible eviction from September 1st.
Protesters against the M66 (North of Manchester) through Medlock Valley have been camping at Daisey Nook Country Park since July.
August saw the 1st anniversary of the camps against the M77 in Glasgow.
MAST 2000 is a new maritime organisation.
Over 250 people got together in People's Park Grimsby on August 19th for a “Tribal jam” The rally was organised to raise awareness for the campaign against the Peakes Parkway road in Grimsby.
The Great Northern Land Action will be a Reclaim the Land action and festival in West Yorkshire.
The Earth First!
On August 9th several Native Americans and British EF!
On August 11th - 14th around 100 people returned to the hill for an action packed gathering.
The Land Is Ours together with Friends Of The Earth, The Green Party and Friends, Families and Travellers’ Support Group have just launched a competition to uncover the very best and the very worst landowners in the country.
Phillip Windsor, The Duke of Edinburgh, has ordered 38 ancient Pollard Oaks, all over 300 years old, to be cut down, in ‘Windsor Great Park’.
Eithinog Meadows in Bangor, Gwynedd, N.
At Blackwood Mill Near Darlington a group of Beech trees were threatened by the expansion of some private gardens.
Regular actions have been continuing against the Wells Relief road which will cut through the grounds of a local school.
Jim Chambers and Stuart Edwards are presently in jail, accused of criminal damage on a road construction site.
On August 7th Judge Sabo announced an indefinite stay of execution for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
A growing number of people are now suing the police for damages in court instead of making a complaint against the police.
Come down to Devon and learn to live in the trees at the “tree-protester’s university”!
Over 200 people attended the Nagasaki Action at the Clyde Nuclear Submarine Base, Scotland on August 9th.
NVDA camp outside Menwith Hill - largest US spy station in the Northern Hemisphere.
The campaign against open cast mining is kicking off in the West Yorkshire area.
By occupying the proposed open cast site at Brynhenllys (S.
9 activists from Earth First!
The Earth First! Journal is a forum for the no-compromise environmental movement, a US-based publication.
The thin yellow line of Group 4 are really tooling up at the moment.
M11 Direct Actions: Every Monday and Friday, 10am.
This is the boring stuff we were told to put in or the editor will sulk (she's in Marrakesh spending the profits!
In Shuswap territory in Canada a sacred sundance and burial site is being occupied by Native Americans.
Not content with the massive Reclaim the Streets on the 23rd of July, RTS staged another action just over a week later.
If we don’t want cars on the road we sure as damn don’t want them on the downs.
An Earth First! tour of Ireland to take place in November.
"The Combination" is a group based in Norfolk in a rural location with just over half an acre of land, who are working towards a more self sufficient way of life.
Toxic Alert!
As well as Greenpeace's actions, protests against French nuke testing are spreading around the world.
Direct action is continuing on the route of the M65, being led by an elderly local farmer whose farm is on the path of the road.
Tarmac and the Department of Transport are still "a million miles apart" from reaching a settlement over costs for the construction of the M3 through Twyford Down.
Despite the illegal eviction of their bunker site, the Flat Oak Society are continuing their protest against the A299 (Kent).
A week long peace camp at the British Aerospace factory in Warton, Lancs resulted in many actions and only two arrests by the police.
