Earth First! Action Update
Issue 70 - August 2000
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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing" . - Einstein
The anti-GM crop rally held in Nether Compton was a great success.
Nine GM farm scale trials damaged or destroyed within the last three weeks.
Updates and bulletins.
Residents of Hinchley Wood, Surrey, have defeated McDonald’s plans to build a drive-thru by occupying the site for a mammoth 552 days!
Join a Collective looking for land-preferably Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire.
Voices in the Wilderness and other groups are organising mass non-violent civil disobedience in London calling for an immediate lifting of economic sanctions on Iraq.
Hundreds of Range Rovers, Jeep Cherokees, Land Rovers and other large vehicles in London have been labelled with adhesive stickers that are proving almost impossible to remove.
Campaigners have recently been targeting Circus King, a travelling circus owned by Jeffrey Mackie, which uses animals in its acts.
This anniversary is used for a weekend of action against the expansion of the Prison Industry.
On Saturday over sixty people left the Bastille Day site and went to join the Close Harmondsworth Campaign in a picket outside Harmondsworth Detention Centre, one of the Immigration Service Prisons.
The CAGE campaign use direct action to prevent illegal deportation of asylum seeker.
Increasingly companies are using a captive labour force, paying as little as £2.
Since 1993 the UK prison population has shot up from 45,000 to a record 65,000.
The Earth First! network makes clear our opposition to racism and facism, and a new campaign - No Borders - has emerged to fight borders, racism, deportations and support refugees.
This year’s EF! Summer Gathering was possibly the most successful and well-attended yet.
On June 20 2000, 30 people constructed a wall of bricks in the door of the Spanish Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands to protest against the building of the Itoiz Dam in the Basque Country of Spain.
The Green Party have achieved their first ever Bill amendment, and have managed to get the definition of terror in the Terrorism Bill changed.
The midsummer street party in Edinburgh was a huge success.
On June 18th, a Carnival Against Capitalism took place in Eugene, USA.
This issue focusses on the dire predicament of anarchist Mark Barnsley, who was given a staggering 12 year sentence for defending himself against a drunken attack in 1994.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
BOCM Pauls animal feed processing plant in Hampshire is closed down in an anti-GM action. BOCM deals with genetically modified crops.
Trolley Theatre want to network with anyone who is interested in mixing performance with direct action and eco-education.
Police and private security moved in this month and removed protesters in tree houses and tunnels at Glen of the Downs protest camp, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Action against UK company Molecular Nature in solidarity with the people of Chiapas, against the Maya ICBG project that could see genetic patents on compounds extracted from plants from this region.
