Friday 31st October was the last day for submissions to the government's "Opencast Coal Review" which has been out for consultation since July.

On Thursday 13th November the GANDALF trial resulted in 3 editors of 'Green Anarchist' magazine each being sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.

In the latest inner city tree occupation, protestors have taken to the trees in Kingston, west London to try and prevent 56 poplar trees in Canbury Gardens, a public river walk on the side of the Thames, from being felled.

Reclaim the Streets (RTS) activists occupied a derelict central London petrol station in direct response to the already severely undermined Kyoto climate change summit that began on Monday 1st.

On Tuesday 25th November Lord Simon, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe, Director of RTZ and BP stooge, awoke at his house in London to the sight of 12 "eminent scientists" looking for footholds on his roof and taking samples from his garden plants.

On November 11, the Morild, the 35 foot whaling vessel owned by a Norwegian parliamentarian and whaler, was sunk in Norway.

This years' International No Shop Day saw hundreds of groups across the planet, and around 50 throughout England, Scotland and Wales take part in actions designed to raise the perennial question How Much is Enough?

The second camp outside Huntingdon Life Science laboratories in Cambridgeshire is still going strong on a field around the back of the lab.

Last years Hallowe'en street party in Oxford attracted over 1,000 people and three police officers.

A group of Glasgow activists decided to take Her Majesty the Queen's lead and pay Shell Oil a visit on its 100th anniversary.

UK plc had the good fortune of being selected to host the world's first ever Billboard Blackout Championships in the week leading up to this year's No Shop Day.

Faslane Trident campaigners started the month by twice stopping a nuclear convoy carrying eight warheads.

Road rage became road rave across the globe as major streets in Australia, France and Berlin were reclaimed on the same date as the Oxford event.

On 12th November, after a 10 day trial, a jury found Barry Horne guilty of six charges of arson and attempted arson on the Isle of Wight in 1994.

Earlier this month Greenpeace occupied a shipment of genetically engineered soya at the ADM (Archers Daniels Midlands) terminal at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, as part of a new Genetic Hazard Patrol of Europe.

A Pennsylvania project known as the Allegheny Defence Project(ADP) is interested in doing an activists' exchange with a UK group.

A camp has been set up on the route of the proposed Birmingham Northern Relief Road.

Short stories, updates and bulletins.

(The following is adapted from an article in Winter 97 Corporate Watch)

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