Earth First! Action Update
Number 52 - October 1998
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“Big cars are the dying flame of civilisation” - Betty Blue
Shoreham Docks shut in memorial action for Simon Jones.
The campaign against the Avon Ring Road (stage 2) hangs in the balance.
News of another victory for direct action greeted activists at the EF! summer gathering, as mining company Watts Blake Bearne (WBB) withdrew their application to quarry clay from the Teigngrace valley in Devon.
Updates and bulletins from EF!.
The Ashton Court Camp was set up 7 months ago in opposition to the extension of a limestone quarry owned by Australian Multinational Pioneer Aggregates into a wildflower meadow and public parkland.
On 19th Sept, five Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists, remanded for objecting to a toxic world and genocide, held a peaceful protest in the Scottish women's prison, Cornton Vale.
Activists from Manchester EF! recently occupied the regional head office of Siemens, a German multinational who are building unsafe nuclear power stations across Eastern Europe, including the well-known Mochocve plant in Slovakia.
At 5:30 on Sunday afternoon, a number of concerned individuals carried out a citizens' inspection of a potentially hazardous 'test' site of genetically modified (GM) crop at Coltrannie Farm in Perthshire, owned by Plant Breeders International, a subsidiary of Monsanto.
The fourth English snowball action took place on the Sunday 20th Sept.
The camp at Arthur's Wood, is expecting eviction proceedings to begin imminently.
On Sunday 6th September over 2,000 people marched on Hillgrove Farm, cat breeders for the vivisection industry, as part of the ongoing campaign to shut it down.
On 2nd September Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) held its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM).
Carlisle residents have been angered by a planning application by Alfred McAlpines to build 11 luxury houses in Knowe Field Woods on the northern edge of Carlisle, Cumbria.
Leyton in East London looks set to become the scene of another road battle as construction of the Leyton 'Relief' Road now looks imminent.
Upcoming events for your calendar.
Supporting those inside for ecological direct action.
An array of action took place at this year's COPEX exhibition, the annual showcase for the trade in torture weapons.
Green Guard camp, set up to prevent the construction of 500 houses in Nantwich, near Crewe, has now been evicted.
Nottingham's Reclaim The Streets party was held on September 19th, in part to compensate for the city council having banned the annual carnival.
Wednesday 9th of September saw the start of the eviction of the LMS building in Oxford by Oxford University.
- Ideas for Fundraising for EF! Groups
The following is a list of notes which arose from strategy discussions held at the Earth First! Gathering.
