Earth First! Action Update
No. 32 - October '96
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‘The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think is right.’ - Henry David Thoreau.
“So long as people fight against oppression and exploitation, we will be there, fighting alongside them.
Updates and bulletins.
No work has yet started in the Mendip Hills, on the expansion of Whatley Quarry by quarrying company ARC.
On the first day of the Job Seekers Allowance various groups across the country voiced their disapproval.
‘Naburn Woods - Healthcare in Action!
‘The Hunger Gathering’ is an alternative forum that runs parallel to the World Food Summit, and it will be happening in Rome this year between 9-18 November.
After the legal victory of the four ploughshares women at the end of July (who back in January smashed up a Hawk fighter jet) there is an increased level of public debate and concern over theft of land and resources that leads to human and environmental degradation of Indonesia and the lands that it has occupied.
At the US Earth First! Round River Rendezvous in July this year the 29th of October was selected as an International Day of Action against Corporations.
Nearly one year after the execution of the nine Ogoni environmental and human rights activists in Nigeria, campaigners across the world are preparing for an anniversary week of events from 4th—10th November.
In spite of a massive police operation, aided by the Essex Police helicopter, several dog sections, Suffolk and Norfolk Cops and under the watchful gaze of the Forward Intelligence Team (plainclothes and on their shiny new mountain bikes) over 1,000 people successfully reclaimed Mill Road in Cambridge for six sunny hours on Saturday 14th September.
News just coming from Bougainville Island in the Pacific says that there has been renewed and very heavy fighting between the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army over the weekend of Friday 6th to Sunday 8th September.
On Monday 7th October rail services across much of Northern Germany were sabotaged.
Upcoming dates for the calendar.
In early September forty people occupied an artificial island in the middle of Oeresund, Denmark.
Newbury contractors Costain held their AGM on 9th September in Westminster.
Signs of visitation from Otters have been found at Rackmarsh, Bagnor on the Lambourne river.
The fourteen year old resistance centre Faslane Peace Camp was set to close just two months ago but instead there has since been an massive increase of activity.