Earth First! Action Update
No.31 - September '96
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'Look upon my works ye mighty and despair' - Shelley.
The Rainbow Keepers are an anarchist ecological movement active in protesting against various projects in the former USSR.
Report from Brighton Reclaim The Streets.
Reclaim The Streets to go to Liverpool to support the Dockers.
On Thursday 22nd August the camps, which are there to resist the construction of the A30 road from Honiton - Exeter in Devon, had a preliminary visit from the Under-Sheriff extraordinaire, Andrew Wilson, but apparently he was last seen fleeing across a field, minus most of his (rather interesting) notes, with the Swamp Monsters from Allercombe in pursuit.
Updates and bulletins.
Planning permission has been granted to the RANK organisation for building a holiday village in this beautiful woodland area in Kent.
Around five hundred people turned up for the Birmingham Street Party on Saturday 17th August.
On 7th August, London Reclaim The Streets had two actions in support of the striking tube workers demands for shorter continuous driving shifts and more notice in regard to shift changes and holidays.
After a period of relative dormancy Oxford Earth First! has been relaunched, capitalising on the energy generated locally by the Newbury campaign.
Follow-up stories and updates after Newbury.
Another day of action against the privately financed A1 motorway (from Alconbury to Peterborough) construction took place on 8th August.
Further to the mention in the last Action Update of a new campaign starting up, this month we have had our first communique from them.
On the 17th August around one hundred people closed a major route through Bath at the city’s third Reclaim The Streets.
Upcoming dates on the EF! calendar.
On 31st July Pioneer Aggregates was given permission to extend Durnford Quarry at Ashton Court park near Bristol.
The A353-354 Weymouth Relief Road in Dorset goes through a SSSI, an area of outstanding natural beauty and a toxic landfill site that will have a major adverse impact on a national wetland bird sanctuary.
Reclaim the Valleys 2 was rockin’ and wrecked.
A direct action camp has been set up in Naburn Woods near York to protect a very beautiful piece of land threatened with development.
On Monday 2nd September, at the Farnborough Airshow, two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to a Hawk Jet by throwing red paint over it.
“It is a powerful image: industrial civilization as one vast, stinking extermination camp.