In mid January this year the Secretary of State gave the go ahead for a second Runway at Manchester Airport despite years of opposition from local residents and environmental groups.

Four East Timorese refugees, a Catholic priest and three parishioners celebrate Easter by trespassing at British Aerospace's Warton plant in protest at the sale of Hawk jets to Indonesia.

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

In the next few months South Hams District Council are planning to carve out the side of the Townstal Valley near Dartmouth, in South Devon, to create a new road.

During the early hours of March 9th Animal Liberation Front activists broke into battery units belonging to 'Mr Welsh Egg' in Somerset where cages were opened and 111 hens were liberated from their battery cages to be taken to new homes.

To mark the 6-month anniversary of the CIWF vigil against live animal exports 100 activists staged a protest outside the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the end of February.

A long overdue get together for people fighting for a decent planet!

Lever Park is set in the rolling Lancashire countryside near Wigan and attracts hikers, bikers, climbers and families to its three reservoirs, pike and Chinese gardens for a non-commercialised day out breathing clean country air.

Activists arrested at Fairmile get relatively good results in court.

May 9th is the official European Union Day.

The public enquiry began on Tuesday 18th for the second stage of the scheme at Holyhead.

This planned development near Bath will go past a nature reserve, housing; through hedgerows, trees, badger sets and an area of archaeological interest.

On 26th March German activists hung a giant banner from Cologne Cathedral, “Man is not god”.

After clear cutting Clayquot Sound (British Columbia, Canada), the tree butchers are moving up the coast onto Nuxalk Nation territory.

March 15th and March 22nd saw actions against genetically manipulated food in Sainsbury's stores in London.

Paul Watson, president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has been arrested in the Netherlands under an order of the Norwegian Government.

At Temelin Nuclear power plant, Czech Republic July 6th - July 14th 1997

Upcoming dates on the EF! calendar.

On the 4th of April, Cornwall's first road protest camp was set up on the route of the St.

At Nantgwyddon in mid Glamorgan villagers have been blockading a tip for the last month.

On March 21 st some Dongas moved onto the site of a proposed supermarket on the outskirts of Yeovil (border of Somerset and Dorset).

The West African Equatorial Forest on the Akaibom/Cross River States borders in the south of Nigeria is being systematically destroyed.

European peace and environmental activists who met in Belgium this March decided on a new international campaign of civil disobedience to uphold international law to abolish nuclear weapons.

The NVDA tour to Germany is happening this May.

Constitutional crisis in Bougainville sees President of PNG resign.

Comment piece from Guardian writer Jay Griffith about how the direct action movement exists outside mainstream politics.