Earth First! Action Update
Issue 68 - May 2000
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"To me, Spring is a movement, a mighty surging upward. It isn’t coaxed from above, but moved from below.” Richardson Wright
Mass demonstrations on the streets of Washingtoon DC against The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and WTO meeting.
Mayday 2000 is a global day of action and carnival against capitalism.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are coming to Prague in September.
Updates and bulletins.
On 18 April an indigenous leader from Colombia joined a protest in the City of London as part of the U'wa’s campaign to save their ancestral lands from oil exploitation.
An electronic protest against the Daily Mail and London Evening Standard was a great success, with the Daily Mail letters editor saying they had received over 1,000 e-mails complaining about their coverage of asylum seekers, which has been stirring up racism and fuelling hostility towards refugees.
New campaign to raise awareness about mental health in society.
Eight protestors were arrested after halting a convoy carrying Trident nuclear warheads going to the nuclear submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde.
Now that Spring is in the air, the first shoots of a truly global campaign against Genetic Engineering are bursting forth as campaigners around the world unite to prevent the Biotechnology companies from enslaving the earth’s resources for their own ends.
A successful protest was held on 11th March, while the same day saw the opening of the ‘Terrorist Tearooms’, a squat infoshop/cafe in the High Street.
Shoppers in Manchester were taken by surprise on Saturday 1st April when several hundred wannabe terrorists, disguised in police uniforms and riot gear, attempted to intimidate and coerce a group of fluffy protestors into, well, not protesting.
Ethical concerns about the brave new world of genetically altering humans and eugenics.
On July 14th 2000 diverse and independent groups will unite, taking action, against prisons and the companies behind them.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
A list of regular - mainly weekly - protests events around the country.
On Saturday 25tb March, people took down the main electric supply cables at Campsfield Detention Centre, Kidlington near Oxford.
A new squat community centre, Wiser Monkeys, has opened in Sheffield.
On World Day for Lab Animals around 2000 people went to Huntingdon Life Sciences vivisection labs in Cambridgeshire.
Residents of Gartocher Terrace in Glasgow are running a direct action campaign to stop William ‘Rubbish Rat’ Combe moving his waste disposal business into the quiet street.
