Earth First! Action Update
Issue 64 - December 1999
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"Action is the life of all, & if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing” Gerrard Winstanley
Between November 30th and December 3rd Seattle hosted the third ministerial conference of the WTO.
Updates and bulletins.
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.
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.
Luton's Exodus Collective have managed to defeat a last minute attempt to evict them from a farmstead they have occupied since 1992.
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.
Dad Derek Potter was furious after his six-year-old daughter was knocked down on a busy road outside his cafe.
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.
The oil-rich Niger Delta has been profitably exploited by oil companies such as Shell for many years.
Since April, local authorities have no longer had the right to use the courts to collect unpaid Poll Tax.
The queen’s speech announced that the government wants to introduce a new, revamped Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The queen’s speech also proposed giving the security services sweeping powers to intercept Internet communication and read private e-mail.
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.
Updates from several ongoing ecological protest camps around the country.
At the ‘Torch Trident’ party and actions on 5th November, there was a beautiful sunny day.
Suspended 125 metres above London on the Millennium Wheel, the latest action of the Solidari@s con Itoiz began their European Tour.
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.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
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.
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.
Demo’s took place across the world when black activist Mumia Abu Jamal’s death warrant was signed.
“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.
