Earth First! Action Update
Number 46 - February 1998
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'War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.' - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
A dramatic midnight announcement of capitulation by the state government of Madhya Pradesh has ended the protest occupation of the Maheshwar dam site in India.
The camps at Dead Woman's Bottom were evicted, setting a new precedent.
Bill Gates, Microsoft magnate, received a cream pie in the face recently from a little known Belgian group whose slogan is "Let's pie!
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Radical action is getting a little less radical now that 'normal' residents are taking up direct action to stop a luxury housing development in their village.
To date there have been three transports of high level nuclear waste going to Gorleben in northern Germany.
It has recently been revealed that between Christmas and New Year a genetic test site at Broomfield Agricultural college, connected to the University of Derby, was trashed.
A naked protest in freezing weather was the latest high profile action at Cornyhaugh Mink Farm, Kirkley Mill, Ponteland.
On 18th January massive numbers turned out for a demo at Hillgrove Farm in Oxon, where approximately 1000 cats are bred for use in vivisection laboratories.
After 2 years and 4 months the Liverpool Dockers have ended their fight to get re-instated.
On January 8th, about 100 farmers from the 2nd largest French farmers union, Confederation Paysanne (CP), attacked a Novartis conditioning and storage plant.
The occupation of the threatened Bury St Edmunds Water Meadow in Suffolk continues despite gales, floods and cold winter weather.
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Over 50 people took part in the first of a series of monthly Gandalf support group meetings in London on 28th January.
On 12th February Dutch activists occupied the entrance of MAI chief negotiator Engering's office, in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague, The Netherlands.
MAI negotiations are in trouble again.
On 12th February an American EF!
After over two years of protest, it looks like Pressmennan woods has had a reprieve.
South Downs EF!
A global electronic spy network that can eavesdrop on every telephone, email and telex communication around the world has been officially acknowledged in a recent European Commission report, 'Assessing the Technologies of Political Control'.
John and Ian got found guilty of criminal damage and public disorder and got sentenced to 12 months for each offence.
Dalton Insulators offer to pay the travelling expenses of anyone going to London on March 1st for the Countryside Rally to support the pro hunt lobby.
In the first six months of 1998 the national, regional and international processes will see a wave of conferences, meetings, summits and back room hand shakes, aiming at consolidating the economic and political power of a handful of transnational corporations.
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