Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
Back to list of Action Update issues
Issue Thumbnail

Earth First! Action Update

No.29 July '96 Download PDF

'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees' - William Blake.

Batheaston Bypass Opening
Solsbury Hill is located just off the A46 near Bath and The ‘Batheaston Bypass’ dual carriageway, that cuts through the side of Solsbury Hill, will be opened on Thursday 11th July.
Street Festival
Reclaim The Streets Parties have been happening all over the country and this is just a quick reminder to people that there is to be a HUGE Street Festival happening on July 13th in London.
British Aerospace Action
On Monday 17th June activists from across the country descended on the British Aerospace factory at Warton near Manchester.
Bougainville
The island wages a war to fight to protect its rainforests from mining.
A30 Fairmile
Notice to quit has now been served on all three camps along the route of the proposed D.
News In Brief
Short articles and updates.
Faslane Peace Camp
On 12th June, fourteen years since Faslane Peace Camp was first set up, a Trident Warhead convoy was delivering it's cargo to the Coulport Base.
The Fourth Battle Of Newbury?
The private security company ‘Pinkertons’ have won the security contract for the construction phase of the Newbury contract.
McLibel Trial
The McLibel Trial reached its Second Birthday on 28th June this year.
Move
Ramona Africa, from the radical ecological group MOVE in America, has succeeded in her case against the City of Philadelphia, to win compensation for the bombing of the MOVE commune in 1985 that killed thirteen people.
Penwith Earth First!
The mining industries’ welcome collapse 100 years ago, in West Cornwall, led to Europe’s first post-industrial region and the landscape is a testimony to nature’s ability to reclaim the scars left by industrial human interference.
Naburn Woods
Local fight to protect woods near York from 'development'.
Weymouth Relief Road
A camp has been set up in an area known locally as Teddy Bear Woods, in Weymouth, Dorset.
M66 Eviction
Daisy Nook and Audenshaw camps were evicted on June 5th by Under-Sheriff Andrew Wilson and his band of hired thugs.
Editorial
Some thoughts from the editorial team.
Events
Upcoming dates in the Direct Action calendar.
Earth First! Gathering
Report from the Earth First! Gathering in Wales.
International Earth Nights
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has called for International Nights of Action from 12 - 14th July purely directed towards the liberation of other species of the earth, who are being regarded as non-species by the way that they are treated, either through torture or their habitats and numbers being decimated.
Lyminge Forest
At Lyminge Forest in Kent the RANK organisation are pushing ahead with their plans to build a holiday village with construction due to start in October.
Leicester Street Party
Leicester streets were reclaimed on Sunday 9th June.
Young Lions Earth First!
Young Lions Earth First! in South Africa had a roadshow which travelled all the way through the country as well as going on to visit five neighbouring countries.
Porl Y Ynys (People Of The Island)
The fight against Celtic Energy’s destruction of the Welsh valleys continues, with work on all sites steadily progressing.
Genetic Enclosure: The Ultimate Commodification Of Life
“Biotechnology is not neutral.