On Saturday 27th April, Loyalists planned to march through the centre of London.

The merry friends of Robin Hood were back in Sherwood Forest for the week of Beltane!

Sunday May 5th saw over 300 people take over a derelict piece of land in the Tory borough of Wandsworth, London.

In West Papua a New Orleans based mining company, Freeport McMoRan, has been running a mine that exploits the people and is destroying the ecology of the area.

Protesters to set up camp protecting forest in Kent from holiday village 'development'.

A massive street party will be held in Leeds on Saturday May 18th in a bid to raise awareness about the growing transport problems within cities.

Bulletins and updates.

Oil companies have permission to drill Cardigan Bay.

After a very enjoyable Beltane celebration, the latest from Fairmile is that camps have just been classified as a ‘leisure activity’ by the fire brigade.

This day coincided with a rally against water privatisation and as the rally came to an end, so the banana bunch kicked off!

Reclaim the Valleys has been set up firstly in response to Celtic Energy’s proposed plans for 72 opencast mines in South Wales and secondly, to put low impact self sufficient communities back on the Welsh agenda.

On April 10th in the state of Morelos, Mexican peasants were ambushed by police resulting in one peasant being killed and 18 others injured.

Building of the ‘Batheaston Bypass’ has caused the destruction of a watermeadow, a 500 year old badger sett and three woodlands.

On Sunday 12th May there was a Public Forum of Mining and Indigenous Peoples Consultation in London.

The AGM season kicked off in Edinburgh on 11th April with the first ever Lloyds/TSB meeting.

Mass protest against radioactive waste trains at Gorleben, Germany had glib comments 'condemn(ing) the violence of the protesters' from Greenpeace spokesperson on the TV news.

In this months Action Update we have published an open letter from an Earth First!

Upcoming dates on the Direct Action calendar

The action began with a die-in outside the AGM with blood being splashed all over the forecourt.

The three women who smashed up the Hawk back in January, along with one other woman who is charged with conspiracy, are still being held on remand.

Whenever it is publicly announced that the first Hawk war planes have left for Indonesia, there will be a protest and civil disobedience outside parliament on the following Thursday in solidarity with the people of East Timor.

Fresh Air Fortnight (FAF) campaigns on pollution such as from traffic, incinerators, air travel and the rest.

Still no need for direct action against the Avon Ring Road Stage II, part of the largest local authority road scheme in the country.

Work on route is limited to erection of cattle fencing and archaeological ‘watching briefs’.