Earth First! Action Update
Number 48 - May 1998
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"Precisely because I do not have the beautiful words I need I call upon my acts to speak to you" - Nicaraguan Sandinista Daisy Zamora
Staff turning up for work at Monsanto's offices in both London and High Wycombe recently were greeted by a pile of bullshit which bore the message: "WE DON'T WANT MONSANTO'S BULLSHIT".
On March 31st the camp at Eithinog/Brewery Fields near Bangor (a green field site threatened by housing development) was violently evicted.
Cambridge pulled off a successful street party on 25th May.
The Bass Recreation Park Camp in Derby is going strong, with about 20 folk living in to protect public-owned green space from being turned into a shopping centre.
Bromley council plan to 'develop' the site of the historic Crystal Palace which stood on the highest point in South London until it burned down in 1936.
On April 20, activists from the Corporate Action Network invaded the offices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) protesting against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment(MAI).
So incensed were the residents of Peacehaven by the government's proposal to build 113 commuter belt houses in their valley that they decided upon direct action as a possible first resort.
The 1998 EF! Gathering is likely to take place in the south west of England around mid September - precise details to follow or there may be some info in the corresponding article to this in the printed edition of the AU.
On April 6th Argyll & Bute council's eviction attempt against Faslane Peace Camp, Britain's longest-running protest camp, was thrown out of court.
On Saturday 25th April Oldham EF! activists, including 3 children, descended on the home of Peter Casey of Casey Construction Group, contractors for the landfill project in the Beal Valley.
A new anti-road campaign has kicked off in Oxford against a six-lane road in the city centre to be paid for by green-belt trasher, Persimmion Homes, and Oxford University.
On the 6th of April about 30 activists went to stop a nuclear waste train carrying three CASTORs travelling from Germany to Sellafield.
The March 14 "Cycle Lanes Not Fast Lanes - Stop the BNRR" Rally in Birmingham was supported by 50 cyclists, including several kids on their BMXs, plus some skateboarders and rollerbladers.
Gwynedd and Mon EF! is preparing for the Anglesey Euroroute (A55) due to start work in the Autumn.
Just before midnight on Easter Sunday 12 peace protesters, including three East Timorese victims of genocide, entered the British Aerospace factory at Warton.
The campaign at Radstock Railway continues.
Hillgrove Farm has been breeding cats and kittens for the vivisection industry for the last thirty years.
As EU Transport and Environment Ministers met in Chester at the end of April they were confronted with the spectacle of banner waving EF!ers and a 10 minute ear-bashing.
In Shell-backed Nigeria, General Abacha continues his plans to succeed himself as a civilian dictator this year.
Scottish activists have been blockading Greengairs Landfill Site near Airdrie to stop PCB contaminated soil from England being dumped at the depot.
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