Cardigan Bay campaigners force oil company u-turn.

A coalition of anti-oil campaigners are calling on activists to strike at oil targets over the next 3 months in a concerted 100 days of action.

Campaigners in North Wales recently set up the Gelli Tree Village to protect deciduous trees around a badger sett in a cash crop forest.

Eviction at Lyminge is imminent and support is needed now.

Short reports, updates and bulletins.

A camp was set up on a proposed ball clay quarry extension at Teigngrace near Newton Abbot.

Ashton Court is a public park on the western edge of Bristol which is at risk of being quarried.

Nearly 2 weeks after the 28th July deadline and there are still no eviction papers for the Faslane Peace Camp.

October 2nd marks the start of 2 weeks of Global Days of Action against Biotechnology.

On Saturday 14th June animal liberation activists conducted a peaceful and legal inspection of Babraham Farm in Cambridgeshire for breaches of animal welfare laws.

The 8 activists who sabotaged the construction of the Itoiz dam in Navarra, Spain last year have been taken to court again.

From the 25th July to the 3rd August, over 3000 people from all five continents gathered in Spain to discuss how current economic policies are affecting our everyday lives around the world, and how we can create a global network of local organisations that can resist them (no small feat.

On 17th June a prisoner at HMP Bullingdon went on hunger strike until he could be guaranteed a diet free of Genetically Manipulated (GM) food.

An experimental crop of oilseed rape, owned by the US based biotech corporation Monsanto, has been destroyed by local residents at a farm near Coventry.

This nature reserve is habitat for several internationally important endangered species of insects and moths and is about to be destroyed by the chainsaws of the road industry.

50,000 people marched in Amsterdam against the recent Euro summit and were met with various charges by riot police with batons and tear gas.

Upcoming events on the direct action calendar.

20 Ogoni men are still in prison in Nigeria awaiting “trial” - framed for murder on the same charges that Ken Saro-Wiwa faced last year.

At the beginning of July Avon and Somerset police were surprised to stumble on an anti-road and quarry camp complete with treehouses, tunnels and walkways.

Two campaigners have set up a camp in the village of Shoreham to prevent the destruction of an old orchard and meadow.

On 5th August members of AGAST (a coalition of groups opposed to the A1 expansion) occupied part of the A1(M) site near Alconbury in Cambridgeshire.

A campaign has kicked off to stop Costain building a stock exchange on the site of the Spitalfields Market.

The mobile office project is an idea from the A30 action group who plan to convert a van into an office that is mobile and powered from sustainable energy.

Reports from several RTS street parties, including one in Finland.

Following the A30 protest Exeter’s local paper The Express and Echo recently reported that the Under Sheriff of Devon, Trevor Coleman, is “hiring out a team of ‘Swampy Busters’ for developers who fear they will be targeted by eco-warriors”.

The Rainbow Keepers, who have been blocking the only road into the Rostov Nuclear Plant in Russia since 16th July 1997, were violently attacked by 500 workers, and the camp was burnt down on 29th July.

On October 6th NASA is planning to exploit its position within the world’s major superpower, and place the rest of the planet at a huge risk.

Corporate Watch researches corporations and supports grassroots campaigns against large companies.

The camp was set up in May 96, against the proposed ‘brown route' which will go over a toxic landfill site, through 2 SSSI’s, a 200 year old Beech plantation called Teddy Bear Wood and on archeologically rich Ridgeway amongst other things.

Planning application is underway for Europe’s biggest toxic waste dump on the only remaining greenfield site in Newland.

At the EF! national gathering, the idea of an International Newsletter with news from the ‘frontlines’ around the world was suggested.

Manchester's resistance to mindless development has gone urban.

A peaceful mass trespass will go ahead in Oxfordshire on the 20th and 21st September to reclaim our right to roam on all uncultivated land.

Increasing numbers of community groups and local residents are ringing up local EF! activists asking for help with campaigns.

PAN is a network for parents that emerged at the EF! gathering.

A case for non-violent direct action against the millenium exhibition.

Gandalf defendants are in Portsmouth Crown Court on August 26th.