Earth First! Action Update

The publicised action to attempt to close down Milford Haven on Saturday 15th February did not happen.

The first week of March saw the biggest ever mobilisation of police in peacetime Germany to force through a shipment of nuclear waste containers to the storage depot at Gorleben, near Hamburg.

Updates and bulletins from EF! and other direct action campaigns.

A massive pre-election ‘Two Day Festival of Resistance!’ and Reclaim The Streets in London planned for April.

On Sunday 9th February the animal liberationist Barry Horne ended his hunger strike that was begun on Monday 6th January.

‘No Opencast’ campaigners descend on the Nottinghamshire home of the Chief Executive of RJB Mining, the company responsible for destroying vast amounts of the environment in the UK.

The 18th March will be the first day of the public enquiry for the second stretch of the A55 Euroroute across Anglesey.

Twenty activists from Forest Action Network (UK) occupy the London offices of Mahogany importer Meyer International pic.

About 30 people met at Daisy Nook visitors centre on the morning of 21st Feb - the first anniversary of the eviction of the small tree village at Daisy Nook.

There are now 4 camps on the site of the A320 road scheme at Stringers Common.

Street Parties have gone international with a 'Reclaim The Streets'-style event in Amsterdam.

The Rank organisation still plan to construct an ‘upmarket holiday village’ affecting over 1000 acres of land in the Lyminge Forest in Kent.

On International Women’s Day, activists pay visit to the offices of Abel and Imray, solicitors acting for Biocyte, the US Biotechnology company which holds the patent for human umbilical cord blood cells.

While government bods met for a conference, in Lancaster House, near to St James’ Park, London, to bash out the Government’s position on Biotechnology, they were met by Super Heroes Against Genetics (SHAG).

Upcoming dates on the calendar.

The Wandsworth Eco-village site that was evicted and obliterated in October last year is about to be re-occupied.

The island of Bougainville's amazing story of fighting for autonomy and to protect its environment from mining.

A little bit more of the paradise that is commonly known as countryside in our supposedly pleasant land is due for the chop and digger.

Judi Bari, a prominent Earth First! organiser in the US, and victim of anti-EF! car-bomb attack, dies peacefully of cancer.

by Jerry Mander.