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Earth First! Action Update

No 21 - October '95 Download PDF

'Un ar hugain or diwedd!'

Shut Whatley Quarry
At the EF! gathering in Lancashire, it was decided to go for a huge national hit on Whatley Quarry in the Mendip Hills, Somerset.
Third Battle Heats Up
Protesters against the A34 Newbury bypass are on the alert for bulldozers.
Reclaim The Streets!
Manchester and Birmingham EF!
M66, Greater Manchester
The M66 extension intends to link the M62 at Middleton to the M63 near Stockport creating a motorway ring around Manchester.
Tarzan Gets It Back!
Early one Sunday in September and a motley collection of ex-miners, trade unionists and environmentalists are looking for coal with pickaxes and spades.
The Quercus Tribe
A harvest moon gathering took place at the protest camp on the A30 (Devon) at Fairmile on September 9th.
M65
The barn in the route of the M65 at Guide, Blackburn was demolished on the 14th September.
Roads On The Rocks!
The Green Party and Friends of the Earth have launched a campaign to promote a Road Traffic Reduction Bill.
Give Shell More Hell!
Over the last 30 years, Shell’s oil extraction in the Niger Delta area of West Africa has devastated the ancestral lands of the Ogoni Tribe.
Rainbow Keepers
The Rainbow Keepers - environmentalists in the former Soviet Union - have been holding a protest against the construction of a gas terminal on the eastern shores of the Black Sea.
Prince Butchers Ancient Oaks
As a result of Prince Phillip's orders, 60 younger trees have been cut down at Windsor Park.
Campaign Against The Arms Trade
Protesters from the Campaign against Arms Trade staged an invasion of the Government Arms Fayre, in Aldershot on Sunday September 3rd.
Earth First! Gathering
Summary of the 6th UK Earth First! Gathering in Lancashire.
Greenmania Evicted
The Greenmania camp, in the path of the M11 link road was evicted on Tuesday, September 5th.
CoolTan Arts
CoolTan Arts Centre in Brixton is no more!
Sellafield Peace Camp
Helen and Kate have appeared at Warrington Magistrates, following the Risley Action on Chernobyl Day.
Selar Farm Nature Reserve
The battle against the proposed Celtic Energy Opencast Site at Cwmgwrach, South Wales looks like dragging on over the winter.
C.J.A.? No Way!
Nearly a year after becoming law the Criminal Justice Act is suffering problems.
Bloody Barrage Gets Bolloxed
Guess What!
Anti-Corporations Fayre
This year the London Greenpeace fayre is changing its emphasis and will be the Anti - Corporations Fayre.
Editorial
Great to see some of you at the EF!
Diary Dates
Every Tuesday: weekly vigils/actions, 5-8 pm - outside French Embassy (London) Against Nuclear Testing.
Opencast In Yorkshire
Garforth is a town increasingly being surrounded by open cast mines.
Free Mumia!
Mumia Abu-Jamal is still on death row in Amerika.
McLibel Back On Trial
The case is under way once again.
Brynhenllys, In Their Faces
Celtic Energy, - once British Coal Opencast's project to quarry South Wales, has been spannered by squatting the Brynhenllys site.
Critical Park
Activists from Lancaster Critical Mass have found a new target!
Faslane Peace Camp
Campaigns against the Faslane Nuclear Base in Scotland have planned a three day extravaganza from October 7th - 9th.
Earth Liberation Prisoners
The summer edition of Earth Liberation Prisoners is now available from E.
Thanet Way
This a quote from Construction News "Kent County Council is being forced to spend more than £1.
"This One's For Newbury"
A group of 10 people demonstrating against the governments silence over French Nuclear Testing recently managed to incorporate another demo on behalf of Newbury.
(Wo)Menwith Hill
Kate Witham has been charged with £21,000 damage to a radome at Menwith Hill US spy station.
Road Alert!
Road Alert!