Camp AARDVARK (Arboreal Activists Reinforce Decent Values Against Redevelopment Killing) has been set up to protect St Mary's Churchyard, the very last green open space in Southampton, from being developed by a partnership of Church of England plc, the higher education establishment and the usual property speculators.

Apparently modern-day sheep-rustlers have their eye on Dolly the cloned sheep.

From A SEED Europe: It has been brought to our attention through various sources that Adrian Franks of Eco-Action France (& EF! France) is an infiltrator selling information on activist groups to corporate clients.

Tyneside Action for People and Planet, known to their friends as TAPP, are up to all sorts.

Two months on, Prague's Global Street Party is still making the pages of the newspapers, which describe it as the biggest confrontation between demonstrators and police in Czechoslovakia for ten years, and the scene of the worst police violence since 1968.

On American Independence Day, the dodgy types at Menwith Hill spy base traditionally invite local dignitaries to drop in for tea.

Donald Dewar, Secretary of State for Scotland, was recently given a 'souvenir' from Coalburn by the Scottish Opencast Action Group: two full carrier bags of coal dust were handed over at the Scottish Office with the message, Collected from the lungs of children living next to opencasts.

The idea: to hold a celebration of the Diversity of Life in the grounds of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, where Dolly was cloned.

On July 4th five women safely and openly removed GE crops from a field release site in Oxfordshire.

While New Labour announced their White Paper on Transport, which says little about the rights of pedestrians and cyclists, London Reclaim the Streets solved all our problems with their Green, Black and Red paper.

On the morning of the RMT rail trade union strike by 10,000 workers, London activists climbed onto the roof of a tube train at Bank and shut down the eastbound Central Line, in support of the tubeworkers' stand against privatisation.

The mass demo on 11 July against Hillgrove Farm, breeders of cats for vivisection, was supposed to start with a rally, followed by a protest at the farm.

At 4am on June 4, the eviction and clearance of Polish EF!'s St Anna mountain camp began, with residents isolated by a barrier and an official media ban.

Spring is definitely in the air here at Big Willow Eco Village at Crystal Palace, and it has brought with it two things - sex and plants.

Direct action came to the Royal Agricultural Show when the Kenilworth Croppers openly cut 75% of a GE display crop.

400 people, including David Bellamy and therefore the TV cameras, turned out in the rain for the Teigngrace National Rally, to walk through (?

South Downs folk again took the government at their word and took back their 'freedom to roam' - 200 people mass-trespassed and camped over, reclaiming areas incorrectly signposted “Private - No Right of Way” and picnicking on Balmer Down, which dates back to the Iron Age.

The police threat to evict Ashton Court protest camp if they didn't leave by the Ashton Court Festival weekend seems to have been a lot of hot air.

Undercover cops who'd set up a secret camera in a Tayside farm's barn and parked up in their unmarked car, hoping to catch some of the Scottish folk who are decontaminating their country by removing genetics test crops, had to run for their lives when the car exhaust set the barn on fire.

Members of Rainbow Keepers and Tira Nigra were regularly terrorized by Ukrainian Security Service (USS, the former Ukrainian KGB) while attempting to organize actions against the recent Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Kiev.

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