Earth First! Action Update
Number 67 - April 2000
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"When technology fails, use cut 'n' paste" - Bill Gates
Huge numbers of different anti-GM foods events are planned all over the world in the 'Resistance is Fertile' week of action.
Updates and bulletins.
The Hockley and Gorse Wood protest sites have been evicted, but a new site in Essex has been set up.
Lesbian and gay activists invaded the London offices of the Daily Mail this month.
Fairmile and Newbury protesters go to anti-logging camps in ancient old-growth Karri forest in southwest Western Australia.
Bristol Benefits Action Group turned their local Labour Party offices into an 'Enjoyment Zone' to protest about the introduction of Employment Zones, the cutting of benefits to asylum seekers, the extension of New Deal .
Seven activists from ARROW were arrested at Oakington Detention Centre near Cambridge, after blockading the entrance to prevent asylum seekers from being interned there.
A national engineering recruitment fair held in Birmingham recently was host to many leading UK arms organisations, including British Aerospace, GKN, Lucas and DERA.
The proposed 'upgrading' of the A701 is in fact an entirely new road which will destroy miles of green belt to the south of Edinburgh.
Around 500 people attended a demonstration at Menwith Hill American Spy Base in the Yorkshire Dales.
Students occupied the roof of Liverpool University for an hour in protest against the university's direct investment in GEC and GNR arms companies.
Demonstrations took place all over the world on International Day of Action for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist and activist who has spent over 17 years on Death Row in the USA for a crime he didn't commit.
Guerilla Gardening is not a form of protest, however like many forms of protest Guerilla Gardening can empower the individual to be resourceful and self-reliant and to become a conscious part of the solution to many problems which face us both locally and globally.
Support these prisoners currently inside for animal rights and other types of direct action including J18 convictions.
Upcoming events on the calendar.
Events and actions are taking place all over in opposition to the Terrorism Bill which is on its way get royal assent very soon.
The Glen of the Downs Nature Reserve Vigil (in it's third year) continues.
Activists from Manchester Earth First! have taken action in support of the U'wa people who are fighting against Oxy oil drilling on their sacred lands in Columbia.
For the last 15 years thousands of local people have fought against the Itoiz dam in the Basque Country.
