News In Brief

Issue 2 of Delta, the publication that covers news on the Ogoni, Shell and Nigeria, is available for £1.00 including postage from: Delta, Box Z, 13 Biddulph Street, Leicester, LE2 1BH. Yearly subscriptions are a minimum of £3.00 for four issues.

There will hopefully be a South East Regional Earth First! Gathering around late March or early April time. More information to follow soon.

There is now an Earth First! Northern Networking Newsletter. For a copy send an SAE and a photocopying donation to: EF! Newsletter, York EF! c/o York LEAF, York Peace Centre, 15a Clifford Street, York. Telephone: 01904 410185 or e mail: socs203@york.ac.uk. There is also to be a second Northern Network gathering in April, if you can help the contact is also York EF!

In London a semi-permanent set of tree walkways has been established for anyone who wants to learn the basics of abseiling, prussicking, and putting up and negotiating rope walkways, without having to venture onto a nasty muddy protest site out in the sticks. Contact London Reclaim The Streets on: 0171 281 4621.

The Autumn issue of the Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group Newsletter is out now. Available for £1.50 from: ALFSG, BCM 1160, London WC1N 3XX.

There is to be a three week Direct Action Tour of Germany this May. It will include chances to exchange skills, hold workshops and join other people in actions. Some of the German activists will be coming back to the UK in June. For more details contact Lime Earth First! on: 01524 849 313.

The Earth First! Action Update has two copies of Voice, a German language Animal Liberation magazine that we cannot read. Anyone that wants them should send an A4 SAE to the Action Update.

The second issue of Corporate Watch magazine is now available for £1.50, including postage, from Corporate Watch, Box E, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RQ.

Mining company Freeport McMoRan, part owned by the Britain based Rio Tinto Zinc, has avoided an investigation by the World Bank into the running of their gold mine in West Papua by cancelling their World Bank insurance. The original decision to investigate the running of the mine came after resistance from local people. This result reinforces the fact that reliance on State and Corporation bodies to protect people and the environment is only hope misplaced, and the only answer is autonomous resistance and grass roots direct action by the people affected and their allies.