Earth First! Action Update
Number 69 - June / July 2000
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"Leave it! The country is too old to be mucked around." Kevin Buzzacott
A derelict garage in Pittsmore, Sheffield is squatted and turned into thriving community centre.
In the Basque country a community has squatted five abandoned medieval villages in ruins.
The Leys Farm and Allotments Action group in Blackpool are fighting to save their site from 'development'.
A spontaneous action at the MAFF building in Smith Square, London.
Updates and bulletins.
May 6th saw a great anti-Terrorism Bill demo on Bangor high street.
Renewed resistance to the E7 motorway in the beautiful Aspe valley in the south of France.
The Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB) are an international network of Pie-rect Action resistance to neoliberalism, politicians and sell-out NGO 'leaders'.
A list of actions targetting AGMs and meetings of corporations.
A community event will take place in Liverpool on Saturday June 17th, involving the reclamation of unused land.
The Cork Harbour Anti Pylon Group is fighting the construction of Overhead High Voltage Power Lines in The Cork Harbour Area on the South Coast of Ireland.
About 30 people occupied the construction site of the new HMP Onley prison in Northamptonshire on 30 May.
Anti-genetics campaigners and disabled activists converged on the multimillion pound genetics showcase the International Centre for Life (ICFL), on Saturday 27th May in Newcastle.
Part 1 of report about Mayday 2000.
Part 2 about Mayday 2000 with round-up of actions around the country.
On September 26-28 the IMF and World Bank are holding their 55th annual summit in Prague.
On May 25th, representatives from 21 countries tried to use Genoa as a biotechnology showcase.
Please support these people currently inside for ecological and other direct action.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
The protest site at Golden Cross Road, Essex, set up to oppose the destruction of woodland to make way for luxury houses was evicted on Friday 12th May.
Sunday 14th of May was 5 years since the first RTS party, on Camden High Street.
Making the connection between the original looting of human and natural resources by slave traders and the roots of multinational economic imperialism in the present day.
Super quarry threatened in the Blackbrook Valley, Devon.
RTS-style street parties held in Glasgow and Dublin.
