Earth First! Action Update
Issue 66 - March 2000
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“The media will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing" - Malcolm X
On St. Valentine’s Day about 500 people arrived at Faslane Nuclear Sub Base to take part in a massive blockade.
February 12th saw the second National Demo against Huntingdon Life/Death Sciences in Cambridgeshire, where 500 animals of many different species die daily in cruel and useless experiments.
Updates and bulletins.
Beach in Thailand ruined for the making of the film 'The Beach'.
Italian eco-activist Silvano Pellissero sentenced to long stretch and called a 'terrorist'.
Dutch GroenFront activists evicted from squats that blocked building of freight railway line.
Across the world people are waking up to the implications of GE technology.
Kugelblitz is a London TV production company with close links through their director Martin Durkin to the virulently anti-environmentalist and mysteriously funded 'Living Marxism'.
Protest camps at Gorse Wood and Hockley under threat.
Charges for the “Nestle 16” have been dropped just before the planned court case.
Women around the world are involved in a huge variety of different actions, campaigns and events, constantly challenging, resisting and speaking out against oppression.
The U’wa people in Colombia risking their lives to protect ancestral lands from oil drilling.
Campaigners in Oxford are trying to stop Berkeley Homes evicting voles and lizards and building £350,000 worth of 'socially useful' housing alongside the canal.
City Police spotters nabbed Kuldip Bajwa demonstrating outside the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth due to his likeness to someone caught on video hitting a police riot shield with a placard pole at June 18.
Saptal Ram in jail for fourteen years for defending himself against a violent racist attack in a Birmingham restaurant.
Asking for support for several activists in prison following J18.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action is taking place in over 40 cities in 16 countries, including, in England, London, Sheffield, Manchester and Southampton.
On Sun 30th April, everyone is invited to A30 "Class of 2000" - in opposition to the Terrorism Bill - come dressed for direct action.
Auditions are taking place for actors, technicians and anyone else interested in taking part in a play about the "Haymarket Martyrs" from the group who organised the Bradford production in previous years.
In a bizarre twist to the UK/US 'special relationship', the US navy will soon be arriving off the north coast of Scotland.
Two people from the Protest Naked For The Right To Be Naked In Public campaign are up for, yes, indecent exposure at Birmingham Crown Court on the 25th Feb.
Road builders Mott MacDonald win the Concrete Society Millennium Award.
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