In protest at the government plans to reinstate the roads building programme by stealth, the offices of Sir Michael Meacher, Environment Minister and Lord Gus McDonald, Transport Minister are occupied.

A new editorial collective has now formed to take on the Action Update from February onwards.

Fidelity Investments has dumped 18 million shares of Oxy stock, approximately 60% of their holdings worth over $412 million dollars.

Wembley locals have set up a campaign to stop McAlpine from destroying their local trees, but desperately need more help.

A strong Welsh coalition against the Terrorism Act has formed.

Updates and bulletins.

Christmas turkeys close down Asda distribution centre protesting against Asda's meat and dairy products being raised on GM animal feed.

Sixty Greenpeace volunteers dressed as pantomime chickens shut down the UK's only GM soya mill.

Five GM crop pullers on trial at Darlington Magistrate's Court get conditional discharges.

The wash-out talks on climate change at den Haag (Netherlands ) in November were matched by a festival of opposition and direct action.

About 50 very wet people from cyclists to drummers to walkers to a group in fantastic carnival costumes took to the streets to help people make the mental leap between extreme weather and climate change.

Activists blockade the front entrance of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Leeds in protest against their involvement in 'Carbon Trading'.

A small but spirited group of concerned people brought a mini-carnival into the home of capital on 13th October to make clear connections between profit, climate change, floods and fuel protests.

This year’s organizing collective would like to hear what people want from their 2001 Summer Gathering.

Support this list of people currently inside for ecological and other direct action.

West Papua declared independence on the 1st December.

Cork Harbour, Eire, has one of the highest concentration of powerlines in the country.

Twenty people enter the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) offices in Sheffield in protest at the continued imprisonment of Sheffield anarchist Mark Barnsley, and the withholding of vital evidence from his defence.

McDonalds open in Bangor and are greeted by EF!ers and others giving away free veggie burgers and bilingual leaflets.

Upcoming dates on the calendar.

Work stops on the Sir Robert McAlpine job in Bishopsgate, London as over 100 construction workers attend a mass meeting outside the site where Vincent Dooley lost his life in a fall.

No Sweat - a UK-based campaign against sweatshop-made garments - has been launched.