Earth First! Action Update

In Britain’s first NVDA on a Genetically Manipulated-test site, the Super Heroes against Genetix First XI donned their outfits again for a game of cricket on a potato test field site just outside Cambridge this month.

After a long hard winter in Devon and the rapid, violent evictions of Allercombe and Trollheim it looked like Babylon had caught up and many people predicted the end of onsite campaigning.

As you should know the Earth First! Summer Gathering is from Wednesday 9th - Tuesday 15th July this year.

Short articles, updates and bulletins.

On the same morning that Undersheriff Randalf Hibbert began an attempt to evict Flywood, the longest standing camp at the Manchester Airport protest site, his staff back in their elegant Chester offices must have thought they were far from the scene of the action.

They’re everywhere, practically every weekend, and sometimes you can go along and not even know anyone.

On June 2nd around 15 people occupied a British Aerospace office in Central London for four hours, ‘liberating’ the company’s closely guarded ethical policy from their Manual of Corporate Governance and closing the office all afternoon.

The Holtsfield result in the House of Lords last month, in which some tenants won their case against eviction, was great as an initial victory but was limited as the developer, Elitestone Ltd, has served notices to quit on further tenants.

The Department of Trade and Industry received a visit recently from a group calling themselves BP (standing for either Blairs Pals, Broken Promises, Bloody Politics) armed with a wooden cutout of Sir David Simon and an oil drill.

At the end of May Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd Captain jailed in Holland, won the first round in his battle against extradition to Norway when the presiding judge threw out two of the most serious charges.

Eight people have been arrested near Pressmennan Wood in East Lothian and charged under an 1865 Act which was passed to stop dispossessed crofters occupying their crofts during the Highland clearances.

On 16th May this year we attempted to 'combine the issues, confront industry'.

You won’t need much analytical skill to work out the victory at Stringers Common where Surrey County Council have completely backed down and abandoned their plans to widen the A320.

The Stringers Common spirit should be attracting hoardes of pixies to Lyminge Forest where another ridiculously possible victory is waiting to be won.

Wyndham Hill, in Yeovil, is bordered on three out of four sides by concrete, development and car parks.

A collective of A30 campaigners tested the ‘Vote Labour for more of the same bollocks’ idea by setting up a new camp on the lunar landscape which was Fairmile.

Upcoming events on the direct action calendar.

UK prisoners may have the safest diet in the country after a jailed airport campaigner went on hunger strike to fight for a GM-free diet at HMP Risley.

The Peaks Parkway project is a planned 5km diversion of the A16 through Grimsby.

Beagle breeders in Consort.

CS Gas - is effects and how to combat them.