Earth First! Action Update
No.29 July '96
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'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees' - William Blake.
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.
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.
On Monday 17th June activists from across the country descended on the British Aerospace factory at Warton near Manchester.
The island wages a war to fight to protect its rainforests from mining.
Notice to quit has now been served on all three camps along the route of the proposed D.
Short articles and updates.
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 private security company ‘Pinkertons’ have won the security contract for the construction phase of the Newbury contract.
The McLibel Trial reached its Second Birthday on 28th June this year.
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.
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.
Local fight to protect woods near York from 'development'.
A camp has been set up in an area known locally as Teddy Bear Woods, in Weymouth, Dorset.
Daisy Nook and Audenshaw camps were evicted on June 5th by Under-Sheriff Andrew Wilson and his band of hired thugs.
Some thoughts from the editorial team.
Upcoming dates in the Direct Action calendar.
Report from the Earth First! Gathering in Wales.
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.
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 streets were reclaimed on Sunday 9th June.
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.
The fight against Celtic Energy’s destruction of the Welsh valleys continues, with work on all sites steadily progressing.
“Biotechnology is not neutral.
