Earth First! Action Update

As part of the Global Week of Action against Genetic Engineering, Super Heroes Against Genetics were at it again.

Four CAR2 campaigners evaded police, undercover detectives and tuxedoed Reliance security guards to gate-crash the ‘Runway 2 Celebration Dinner’ in Manchester on the 18th April.

Sussex farmer who ploughs chalk grassland SSSI loses and site to be restored.

Updates and bulletins.

On April 30th, BAe found themselves at the end of one of the largest shareholder actions of the season.

Local people fighting the re-routing of the A16 at Grimsby are facing new levels of road-building violence.

In Manchester on 27th of April, two anti-runway campaigners challenged the now infamous ‘exclusion zone’ bail conditions by handing themselves in for breach of bail, and demanding a court review of this condition.

On 1st April, 2 addresses in Chichester were raided in an attempt to seize literature linked to radical publications.

Breach, a marine protection group in Goole, East Yorks, are co-ordinating action against Drax Power Station, near Selby.

On 24th April, Argyle and Bute Council announced their intention to evict Faslane.

In the Wake of the very successful Big Gene Gathering earlier this month, a new group, Hereford GenEthics, has evolved to co-ordinate the campaign against Genetically Engineered food in the Herefordshire area.

300 take the streets in Hull Reclaim The Streets.

On Saturday 17th April, Hull on Earth occupied an area of inner city ‘wasteland’, in a day of action to highlight Land Rights issues and awareness, and to provide an open access space for NVDA training and workshops on related lifestyle issues such as living in Co-ops, Permaculture, Non-Violence and more.

On April, 23th, the eve of 11th Anniversary of Chernobyl, a group of activists from the environmental movement ‘Rainbow Keepers’, ‘Ecodefence’ (Ecozahust) and NECO groups blockaded the Ukrainian President’s residence in Kiev/Ukraine to protest against Ukrainian nuclear policy.

One of the camps is in court on May 8th.

Residents of Holtsfield chalet community - under the threat of eviction - win their case in the House of Lords.

The Countryside Council for Wales has jointly published a ‘conservation’ (nature reserve) plan for Llandona/Llaniestyn common whose recommendations amount to the razing of the common land.

Upcoming events on the calendar.

There were many twists in the tales of the black horse, when a black panto horse trotted into the Lloyds-TSB AGM on April 15th.

Critical Mass has reached the grand old age of 3.

On the East Coast of Scotland, twenty five miles from Edinburgh, lies Pressenman Woods, a tiny fragment of the once immense Caledonian forest that covered large areas of the country.

A celebration on the anniversary of the occupation a year ago, when the Wandsworth Eco-village squatted Guinness’s riverside plot.

A group of ten activists, including three East Timorese refugees, entered the Glover Webb factory in the early hours of 5th May at Hamble, near Southampton, to comply with international codes of conduct on arms control.

The Head State Support Group is being set up to provide help (legal & letter writing) for people who feel mentally unstable from too much direct action (at a rough estimate over 15 people were sectioned under the Mental Health Act during and after Newbury).

An initiative to centrally supply expensive kit local groups can't afford, partly funded by the Weaver's Guild Cafe, which itself does cost or even free food at actions.

Live Exports direct action at Shoreham harbour gave activists further insight into other bad aspects to the port.