Earth First! Action Update
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Earth First! Action Update

Issue 64 - December 1999 Download PDF

"Action is the life of all, & if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing” Gerrard Winstanley

Oi WTO
Between November 30th and December 3rd Seattle hosted the third ministerial conference of the WTO.
News In brief
Updates and bulletins.
“Wanted: Mass Murders”
British Aerospace held a careers seminar at Manchester University, where they hoped to attract young people to join the company which makes weapons of mass destruction.
Aberystwyth Students Scare Off The SAS!
Despite his training as a former S.A.S. soldier, the threat of criticism was too much for Tim Spicer (Scaredy Spice) chief executive of Sandline International, the private army-rentamob responsible for the carnage in Bougainville among other atrocities.
Exodus Victory
Luton's Exodus Collective have managed to defeat a last minute attempt to evict them from a farmstead they have occupied since 1992.
Brief Encounter
Marks and Sparks were caught with their trousers down at the opening of their new Manchester store by Super-heroes armed with the biggest pair of pants in the city.
Safety Dad Gets Cross
Dad Derek Potter was furious after his six-year-old daughter was knocked down on a busy road outside his cafe.
Funky Monkeys
Nov 28th’s demo against Shamrock Monkey Farm in Sussex saw activists blockading Brighton town centre while the riot squad waited on a country lane 20 miles away.
Shell On Earth
The oil-rich Niger Delta has been profitably exploited by oil companies such as Shell for many years.
Poll Tax Privatised!
Since April, local authorities have no longer had the right to use the courts to collect unpaid Poll Tax.
100,000 New Terrorists
The queen’s speech announced that the government wants to introduce a new, revamped Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Also Beware:
The queen’s speech also proposed giving the security services sweeping powers to intercept Internet communication and read private e-mail.
What They Say About Us
Over the last few years, many academics have written about environmental direct action and Earth First! In this feature we aim to show the people who have been written about, just what exactly has been said about them.
Protest Camps Round-Up
Updates from several ongoing ecological protest camps around the country.
Faslane Update
At the ‘Torch Trident’ party and actions on 5th November, there was a beautiful sunny day.
S.O.S Itoiz
Suspended 125 metres above London on the Millennium Wheel, the latest action of the Solidari@s con Itoiz began their European Tour.
Narmada UK
On 8 th November, 40 Narmada UK activists marched from Covent Garden to the Indian Embassy in London, to protest against the continuation of work on the mega dams on the Narmada river which will destroy the homes and livelihoods of thousands of tribals in India.
Action Diary
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
Prisoners
Listed in this issue are a group currently inside to do with J18, plus another group who got custodial sentences for direct action against Hillgrove Farm vivisection lab.
Campsfield 6th Anniversary
Three hundred people, from Kent, Bristol, Bradford, Leeds, Coventry, Birmingham, Brighton and London, marked the sixth anniversary of the opening of Campsfield Immigrant Detention Centre.
Free Mumia Demo's
Demo’s took place across the world when black activist Mumia Abu Jamal’s death warrant was signed.
U’wa Communique
“Approximately 200 members of the U'wa indigenous tribe of northeastern Colombia assembled in a permanent settlement on part of our ancestral land [ on ] November 16.