Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 43 - November 1997Back to list of articles in this issue

News In Brief

- Requiem for the Car and Roads & Cars are two websites being launched this month, exploring the culture and crisis of the car. The first bears a critical farewell to its glamorous image, the second presents an archive of photos of anti-road activities. For info and site details contact 0181 980 6256

- The Sustainable European Tour, SET '98, is looking for people. A new motivated and inspired team is trying to get things going and already have a couple of exciting ideas for next year. How about this one: Hiring an unemployed Irish fisherman with boat, starting off in Ireland and travelling all the way down to Spain, Greece; or just travelling with our bus and trailer but this time to the south of Europe (east and west). So if you know any exciting and creative people (you) or groups (especially from the south) please get in touch. Contact ASEED.

- A CRITICAL MASS celebrated the life of Danny Plank, aged 29, who was killed by a Parcel Force van riding his bike home from work. There was over a hundred cyclists who delayed the traffic for the entire journey that Danny made regularly from Shoreham to Worthing

- Turning the Tide is a program which attempts to bring together personal empowerment, community building and effective campaigning strategies. They are running a workshop on active nonviolence on Saturday November 29th in Birkenhead. Contact 13 Riverside Walk, Little Neston, South Wirral L64 0TT.

- A new networking forum / newsletter is being put together by and for radical women working on a wide range of campaigns across Britain. Could you contribute news? Write about your experience? Take photos? Contact 0171 978 8214

- Robin Cook blocked 3 export licenses for sniper rifles and armored Land Rovers, worth around £1 million, to the Indonesian regime, still in brutal and illegal occupation of east Timor and West Papua. Not Bad. Then, the Labour Party Conference safely out of the way, more licenses were granted for a wide array of weapons and nuclear components. Not much consistency in Cook's ethical foreign policy. However, the principle has now been established that it's ok to block arms sales to repressive regimes that violate human rights and exploit the environment for the benefit of multinationals.

- Road Alert has done an updated reprint of 'Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Road Building' order your copies of this excellent book now from Road Alert.

- McDonalds Action Group, Kent have convinced their planning committee to refuse permission for a 'McDrive-Thru', an appeal is expected:- 0956 355 864 or 0181 462 0820

- So far over 70 reps of radical publications have signed a statement of solidarity with the defendants of the GANDALF trial, in defence of free speech. For more details or to add names to the list, contact Corporate Watch.