Earth First! Action Update
Number 42 - September 1997
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It's time to get active!
It gobbles whole mountains and forests, drinks rivers dry, spews
toxic waste and enslaves whole populations.
100 DAYS is a growing network of groups and individuals.
Part Three of the Dockers and Dreadlocks trilogy is coming somebody's
way soon as disaffected New Britons prepare for the Dockers Mystery
Tour.
Lettter writing can be very effective.
Four years of war in Bosnia all but wiped out the local small
business infrastructure and left the door wide open for Western
businesses and governments.
Copenhagen Park is a green oasis near Kings Cross, providing relief
from the craziness of London's urban sprawl.
United grassroots opposition to oil companies destroying the Niger
delta is growing as shown by recent mass rallies in Nigeria.
Fun and frolics continue at the fifteen year old camp.
At the EF! Gathering the idea of having a South East regional Gathering was discussed and people are now trying to organise one for later on this year.
Huntingdon Research Centre, aka Huntingdon Life Sciences, is facing a
possible shutdown in the light of an inquiry which began after a
Channel 4 documentary revealed the extent of HRC's brutal activities.
The madness of local council planning was highlighted perfectly in
Bluebell Wood in the heart of urban Manchester.
Earlier this summer Leicester based activists reclaimed their streets
with a huge community party.
Sustained on-site protesting and local campaigning along the route of
the proposed Bingley bypass have led the DOT to temporarily shelve
plans for the new road until March 1998 when a new decision will be
made.
On September 3rd, the McLibel Defendants lodged their Notice of
Appeal after serving it on McDonald's solicitors.
There's been another action on the route of the Newbury Bypass to
commemorate the granting of eCostain's main contract.
Since late August four Ekari tribal people have been killed in the
area around Freeport and Rio Tinto's giant mine in West Papua.
Cash grabbing councils and big business are at it again in Somerset,
ignoring the needs of the local community and trashing the land for
profit.
Around 1,000 people joined in a Campaign Against Arms Trade(CAAT)
protest against the Royal Navy and British Army Equipment Exhibition (or
Reenee Beenee).
The anti quarry campaign at Teigngrace, near Newton Abbot have won a
temporary halt to construction and forced the government to consider a
public enquiry.
Play Fair Europe are hosting the International Autumn University on
North South issues and the environment.
Like a break - for a little while - in Ireland?
"The vital flow of life back and forth from affinity groups to core,
the intense sense of community that knits together all the groups
internally as well as externally has no parallel.
