Earth First! Action Update
No.53 - November 1998
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“This is a revolution dammit - we’ve got to offend somebody”
Most test sites have now been harvested for the year but, with plenty of other targets to choose from, the campaign against genetic engineering continues unabated.
Monday the 26th of October saw the occupation of part of the Biotechnology department of Leeds University in protest against genetic engineering.
On Saturday 24th October, activists brought the genetics campaign to the John Innes Centre in Norwich.
One of the most powerful men in the world, Renato Ruggiero, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, had egg all over his face as he was awarded the prestigious VIP 'Pie in the Sky' award for services to global exploitation and destruction.
Updates and bulletins.
The protest camp at Radstock, near Frome in Somerset, has been served an eviction order as of October 7th.
Rolls Royce, in addition to making parts for Hawk fighter jets, gas guzzling cars for the rich and generally being corporate scum, also make the nuclear reactors and fuel which power Trident submarines.
On the 21st of October a convoy of nuclear warheads was stopped in its tracks on the Newcastle by-pass by activists from Nukewatch and Tyneside Action for People and Planet (TAPP).
This November 10th is the 3rd anniversary of the murders of the Ogoni 9, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the communities of the Niger Delta are appealing for action.
A site has been set up outside Swindon in opposition to a proposed greenfield housing development.
On Tuesday 20 October, the date that the Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations recommenced in Paris, a group going by the name of DIS-MAI attempted to sell off parliament to the multinationals.
Khmelnitsky 2 and Rivne 4 (K2/R4) are two partially built nuclear units in the Ukraine.
As the action update goes to press, campaigners at the site of the Birmingham Northern Relief Road are facing imminent eviction.
The protests against a proposed 32 acre quarry at Bestwood Country Park in Nottingham continue.
Upcoming dates for the calendar.
Three Swedish Ploughshares activists are currently imprisoned in Britain following an action on a Trident Sub.
Taunton was abuzz with class acting on the 16th of October.
The bleak future facing us with Genetech, and ways out of the dilemma, were the subject of the Toxic Planet project in Islington, London.
Following the day of action against open cast mining in October of last year, 19 activists were found guilty of 'besetting a place of work' after a two week trial.
October the 16th was Anti McDonalds day, and as the corporation is close wherever you are on the globe, nobody had to travel very far to participate in the world wide day of action.
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