Earth First! Action Update
No. 30 - August '96
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'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
Report from the huge RTS that took the M41 motorway in West London.
After the success of the Direct Action Conference in Brighton last year there will be another one this year on 23rd November, again to take place in Brighton.
Earlier this year the residents of Faslane Peace Camp decided to hold a meeting of all interested parties to decide the future of the camp.
The Hawk jet-smashing women are acquitted after doing £1.5million in damage.
The contract has now been awarded for the A30 road near Exeter.
Around sixty people disrupted the opening of the Batheaston Bypass through Solsbury Hill on 11th July.
As Celtic Energy continues to destroy the South Wales Valleys, the direct action campaign to stop opencast quarrying goes on.
Back in December ‘95 Whatley Quarry was the scene of one of the Earth First!
A Euroroute is being built through this ecologically sensitive area in southern France.
On 2nd August Wandsworth Eco-Village entered the High Courts of (in)Justice.
Actions against the construction of the M66 near Manchester continue, with a small group of people who regularly go digger diving and crane sitting.
The Job Seekers Allowance, yet another attack on minorities is due to come in operation this October and will cut thousands of people off benefits and make signing on for those that still qualify far harder.
What's on the direct action calendar
Alleged editors of the UK’s only primitivist paper, Green Anarchist, are appearing from 2pm Thursday 8th August at Portsmouth Magistrates court for their committal hearing.
Between 12th-14th July the Earth Liberation Front had called for International Earth Nights to target the perpetrators of all forms of animal abuse.
Bougainville is an island in the Pacific that is occupied by Papua New Guinea.
Toxics and Genetic Engineering in the context of a campaign has largely been ignored by Earth First!
Nine coach loads of fresh new security guards have recently arrived in Newbury, courtesy of Pinkertons (who have already had their offices visited by protestors).
The English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens has suggested that McDonald’s be allowed to open a burger restaurant at the prehistoric site’s new visitor centre.
Some key points that came out of the EF! space at BGG