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Earth First! Action Update

Number 42 - September 1997 Download PDF
Global Actions Against Genetix
It's time to get active!
End Corporate Dominance
It gobbles whole mountains and forests, drinks rivers dry, spews toxic waste and enslaves whole populations.
100 Days To Chill The Globe Warmers
100 DAYS is a growing network of groups and individuals.
Roll Up..... Roll Up For The Mystery Tour
Part Three of the Dockers and Dreadlocks trilogy is coming somebody's way soon as disaffected New Britons prepare for the Dockers Mystery Tour.
News In Brief
Lettter writing can be very effective.
Bosnia Wins Burger War
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.
Earth First Arrival At Kings Cross?
Copenhagen Park is a green oasis near Kings Cross, providing relief from the craziness of London's urban sprawl.
Delta Update
United grassroots opposition to oil companies destroying the Niger delta is growing as shown by recent mass rallies in Nigeria.
Faslane Peace Artists
Fun and frolics continue at the fifteen year old camp.
South East EF! Gathering
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
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.
Bluebell Wood Urban Resistance
The madness of local council planning was highlighted perfectly in Bluebell Wood in the heart of urban Manchester.
Public Acclaim For Reclaim The Streets
Earlier this summer Leicester based activists reclaimed their streets with a huge community party.
Bingley Bypass Blag
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.
McUpdate
On September 3rd, the McLibel Defendants lodged their Notice of Appeal after serving it on McDonald's solicitors.
Newbury Re-re-union
There's been another action on the route of the Newbury Bypass to commemorate the granting of eCostain's main contract.
West Papua Crisis Continues
Since late August four Ekari tribal people have been killed in the area around Freeport and Rio Tinto's giant mine in West Papua.
Radstock Railway
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.
Mass Blockade Of Government Run Arms Fair
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).
Teigngrace Campaign Halts Contractors
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.
Surviving In A Globalised World
Play Fair Europe are hosting the International Autumn University on North South issues and the environment.
Ireland's Glen Of The Downs
Like a break - for a little while - in Ireland?
Feature : Affinity Groups
"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.