Earth First! Action Update
No. 47 - March 1998
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"Now is the hour to get violent with your telly, fly into the streets and create carnival and festival..."
A group of EF!ers and friends occupied the offices of the House Builders Federation(HBF), which lobbies for building commuter houses on greenbelt land rather than the provision of social housing.
People are needed at Brewery Fields, a greenfield site near Bangor threatened by housing.
To highlight the risk of genetic pollution protestors visited an AgrEvo oilseed rape test site in Scotland this month.
The three French farmers who destroyed 5 tons of Novartis genetically engineered Bt maize seed have been sentenced: two of them to eight months suspended imprisonment, one to five months, and all to pay Novartis FF 500.
The recent pro-hunting Countryside March did not go off entirely as planned - the frequency on which it's 'March FM' was broadcasting for the day was hijacked by a group called the Hunt Sabs Broadcasting Corporation.
Mass Trespass in commemoration of the Diggers movement.
Bulletins and updates.
At the front line.
Harsh sentences for Gandalf 3, and other activists currently inside.
Derby residents set up a city centre camp in February after plans to develop one of their few green spaces were revealed.
Travelling along the approach road to the Coryton BP oil refinery in Essex, a group of daytrippers were so appalled at the sight that they blocked the road.
The camp at Ashton Court Quarry is moving into a new phase of activity as work on the site is likely to start any day.
Around 200 cyclists reclaimed Oxford's streets recently to draw attention to the city's pollution and accident rate.
The application for felling trees at Canbury Gardens, Kingston was signed on 17th March.
This May (15th - 17th) heads of state of the eight most industrialised countries will converge on Birmingham to discuss globalisation.
On 21st February around 150 people attended the West Country Activist Gathering.
On 13th March four women walked undetected inside RNAD Coulport, checking on the presence of nuclear materials, before finding an unattended police launch and requisitioning it for their lawful peace work.
The Mexican government was blamed for the massacre at Acteal in Chiapas by a recent picket outside its Embassy in London.
Upcoming dates on the Direct Action calendar.
"Under a government which also imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison.
Earth First! groups around the country and other relevant contacts.