Earth First! Action Update
Issue 65 - January 2000
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"Different Millennium, Same Shit." - Pavlov
A new Prevention of Terrorism Bill is making its way through Parliament,
and looks set to become law in Autumn.
An energetic, super sexy, post J18/Seattle, ideas generating gathering for anti-capitalist, anti-state visionaries(!
An American conglomerate is negotiating to purchase rights to over 700
square km around Eppawala in Sri Lanka.
The Earth Liberation Front target Boise Cascade over deforestation in the Pacific Northwest.
Four days later, on December 31, the E.
Eviction Imminent at Gorse Wood road protest camp - Likely to be week of Mon
7th Feb.
The government is embarking on a project to increase the number of waste
incinerators in the UK from 10 to 167.
White-suited Newcastle activists died spectacularly in front of the Civic
Centre as a symbolic column of tyres belched coloured smoke.
22 defendants appeared at Lincoln Magistrates Court on 19th January for an
expected 2 week trial relating to the 'Smash Genetix' action in Spittal-in-the-Street,
Lincs, last July.
Edinburgh, Newcastle and other cities have seen the arrival of a group of
modern Stone Age protestors.
National days of Action against Natwest Bank are proving effective.
Sarah Spencer, Sales Manager of Shamrock Monkey Farm, feels that her home
has become 'like a prison.
On 22 Jan 6 people were arrested for criminal damage and later re-arrested
for conspiracy to cause criminal damage with regard to trashing badger traps
in Herefordshire.
On 24th January, the direct action group Solidarios con Itoitz (Basque
Country) did an action on the Brandenburg gate in Berlin - against the
destructive Itoiz dam project in the Basque Country and for criticising the
penalty of 5 years of prison that 8 of their comrades got for another
peaceful action.
The Arnhem judge has decided that the GroenFront!
A new camp has been set up to defend Stanton moor in the Derbyshire part of
the peak district.
Since the summer of 1997, there has been a permanent camp at Glen of the
Downs nature reserve to thwart the latest road scheme of Wicklow County
Council.
Rob Thaxton is a prisoner who recently received a sentence of seven years
and four months for his part in the riot that took place on June 18th in
Eugene, USA.
National Demo at Shamrock Farm, Monkey Unit.
The OKasional Cafe no.
BOCM Pauls, a company which manufactures more animal feed than any other
company in the UK and uses GM ingredients in most of its products, was
besieged by cows.
Non-violent protesters of the NBA (Narmada Bachao Andolan , a more-than-decade long mass movement against destructive development and displacement in the Narmada River Valley, India) converged on the Maheshwar dam (one part of the Narmada dam system) and illegally occupied the dam site.
In Santa Cruz at 8 PM on December 14th, Dr.
Calling all cold and miserable activists to the tropical island of Vieques.
Earth First! and other direct action groups across the country and internationally.