“Before I go, I’d like to talk to the guy that controls those incredible men in the tunnels!

Updates and bulletins.

Seventy five people engaging in riotous applause and later enjoying tea and sandwiches with Arthur Scargill at Newbury’s Community Centre requires how many police?

Shell is now using armed escorts to check equipment before resuming full oil production in Ogoni despite continuing repression by Shell-backed Nigerian soldiers.

Last Saturday Gwynedd and Mon Earth First!ers stormed one of the local Shell garages.

Last month a school on Anglesey ‘adopted’ a Hawk jet from Angelsey Valley RAF base.

Monday 21 st January was an international day of action in support of the sacked Liverpool dockers who have been fighting for their jobs and against casualisation since September 1995.

In the light of the Secretary of State’s decision to give the go-ahead to the construction of Manchester Airport’s second runway people recently set up camp on the site of the proposed construction.

Early in the morning on Friday 10th January a group of local people arrived at the offices of Mott MacDonald in Newcastle.

The Money Defacement League that was bom at the Big Green Gathering has been catching peoples imaginations throughout the country.

In the beginning of March, probably 3rd - 7th, six CASTOR nuclear waste flasks from the French reprocessing plant at La Hague and some from German nuclear power stations are supposed to arrive at the German nuclear waste site at Gorleben near Hamburg, Germany.

Upcoming dates on the EF! calendar.

On Wednesday 15th January, twenty people from the newly formed UK Forest Action Network occupied the Canadian Tourist Office in Trafalgar Square, London to protest against the trashing of British Columbia’s ‘Great Coastal Rainforest’.

Lee Bank is part of the Birmingham Convention Centre Quarter.

The Tarahumara and Tepehuan, Mexico’s most isolated indigenous peoples who number around 100,000 and 120,000 respectively, are under threat from a deadly combination of drug traffickers and loggers.

On Saturday 1st February, during a march through the centre of Dover, to mark the second anniversary of Jill Phipp’s death, crushed under a lorry while protesting against the export of live animals from the UK, the front of the local McDonald’s store was completely wrecked by people.

Spring was welcomed at Faslane Peace Camp with a mad punk party that brought loads of Glasgow folk back whom had not been to visit in years.

Tuesday 8th to Sunday 13th of July, 1997 - National Action 14th-15th