Earth First! Action Update
Issue 62 - October 1999
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"I might as well have struggled with a bear or tried to reason with a lunatic" - Emily Bronte
September 14th-17th saw the biggest arms fair ever to take place in the UK and one of the most successful anti-arms trade demos to date.
Updates and bulletins.
The "Seeds of Resistance" gathering was held as a counter-gathering to the World Seed Conference in Cambridge, giving an alternative vision to corporate chemical-soaked control, GMOs and seed bank decline.
In 1996 resistance began building to prepare for September 1999, to release Burma from 37 years of brutal dictatorship,with demonstrations and stamping banknotes with the date 9-9-99 (as for J18 in the UK ).
Police and Bailiffs moved in on the 21st to begin the process of evicting protesters from Arthur's wood.
The second conference of Peoples' Global Action (PGA) took place in Bangalore, India in August.
On September the 7th a Nottinghamshire farmer, Home Farm in Screveton, announced that he had decided to back out of plans to grow a farm-scale experiment of oil seed rape, on behalf of agrochemical company AgrEvo after local people expressed environmental concerns.
Report from the Norwich RTS street party.
Recently, it came to the attention of some costumed Norfolk outlaws that a play about one of their historical comrades was being sponsored by filthy, murdering, corporate bad guys Shell.
In the morning the road to the university was blockaded and all car drivers leafletted about a self run carshare scheme we've facilitated.
About 20 activists brought the Galton Institute's (previously the British Eugenics Society) two day conference on 'Man and Society in the New Millenium' to a hasty finale by disrupting the concluding lectures.
Squatted social centre the 121 Centre in Brixton evicted after eighteen years.
Jack Straw gets a warm welcome when he comes to Manchester for the International Police & Security Expo.
Upcoming events on the calendar.
Supporting those inside - in this issue several arrested in the US on June 18th.
In Bury, local families are campaigning against a local developer who wants to build houses on a small reservior, a local wildlife haven.
People from the URGENT network visited their arch-enemies the House Builders Federation at their Annual Golf Tournament.
The long running campaign against the road being built through the Glen of the Downs in Ireland finally seems to be coming to a conclusion.
Hillgrove Farm - breeders of cats for vivisection - is closed, and 800 cats are now on their way to good homes.
The EF!AU received 2 anonymous communiques this month.
On September 13th, Eircom engineers tried to pass a picket in Berkely, New Ross, Ireland to erect a mobile phone mast.
About thirty people took part in London Greenpeace's 'Free the World' bike ride billed as an evolution of critical mass and protest pickets.
Brick by Brick Resistance To The Prison Building System
Following on from the strength of June 18th, November 30th will be a global day of action against capitalism and the domination of money, private property and power over people and the environment.
The Leeds EF! editorial collective has some thoughts about the EF! Action Update and its role in the movement as it hands it over to the Newcastle collective.
