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No 20 - September '95

'Raid ymddiried mewn hipis!'

No M11 Link
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.
Newbury
On 2nd August, demolition contractors (one firm involved is Hughes of Portsmouth 01705 671671) moved in to destroy 5 buildings on the road route.
Selar Farm Nature Reserve
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.
No M66
Protesters against the M66 (North of Manchester) through Medlock Valley have been camping at Daisey Nook Country Park since July.
No M77 Or M74
August saw the 1st anniversary of the camps against the M77 in Glasgow.
Marine Action Society 2000
MAST 2000 is a new maritime organisation.
Peakes Parkway
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.
Northern Land Action
The Great Northern Land Action will be a Reclaim the Land action and festival in West Yorkshire.
Earth First! Gathering
The Earth First!
Boycott Waterworld
On August 9th several Native Americans and British EF!
Solsbury Hill
On August 11th - 14th around 100 people returned to the hill for an action packed gathering.
Our Land In Their Hands
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.
Prince To Butcher Ancient Oaks
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’.
Gwynedd Land Occupation
Eithinog Meadows in Bangor, Gwynedd, N.
Tree Sitting
At Blackwood Mill Near Darlington a group of Beech trees were threatened by the expansion of some private gardens.
Wells Relief Road
Regular actions have been continuing against the Wells Relief road which will cut through the grounds of a local school.
Prisoners Support
Jim Chambers and Stuart Edwards are presently in jail, accused of criminal damage on a road construction site.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
On August 7th Judge Sabo announced an indefinite stay of execution for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Suing The Police
A growing number of people are now suing the police for damages in court instead of making a complaint against the police.
A30, Devon
Come down to Devon and learn to live in the trees at the “tree-protester’s university”!
Faslane Peace Camp
Over 200 people attended the Nagasaki Action at the Clyde Nuclear Submarine Base, Scotland on August 9th.
Womens’ Peace Camp
NVDA camp outside Menwith Hill - largest US spy station in the Northern Hemisphere.
Leeds Opencast
The campaign against open cast mining is kicking off in the West Yorkshire area.
Brynhenllys.. Cadwch Y Moch O'r Winllan
By occupying the proposed open cast site at Brynhenllys (S.
N-Day, No Car Day
9 activists from Earth First!
Earth First! Journal
The Earth First! Journal is a forum for the no-compromise environmental movement, a US-based publication.
Group 4 Get Guns!
The thin yellow line of Group 4 are really tooling up at the moment.
Diary Dates
M11 Direct Actions: Every Monday and Friday, 10am.
An Editorial
This is the boring stuff we were told to put in or the editor will sulk (she's in Marrakesh spending the profits!
Sundancers Under Armed Siege
In Shuswap territory in Canada a sacred sundance and burial site is being occupied by Native Americans.
Reclaim The Streets
Not content with the massive Reclaim the Streets on the 23rd of July, RTS staged another action just over a week later.
Offroading In Sussex
If we don’t want cars on the road we sure as damn don’t want them on the downs.
EF! Roadshow
An Earth First! tour of Ireland to take place in November.
The Combination
"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!
Toxic Alert!
Free Tahiti - Nuke Chirac!
As well as Greenpeace's actions, protests against French nuke testing are spreading around the world.
M65
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-v-DoT
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.
Thanet Way
Despite the illegal eviction of their bunker site, the Flat Oak Society are continuing their protest against the A299 (Kent).
Stop The Arms Trade!
A week long peace camp at the British Aerospace factory in Warton, Lancs resulted in many actions and only two arrests by the police.