News In Brief...

* A new bulletin, DESIST , has been produced to expose and ridicule the Leninist front group Globalise Resistance available online in PDF format from www.afed.org.uk

* A controversial Orange phone mast at Port Glasgow, Inverclyde was sabotaged in July causing £25,000 damage Source Ceefax

* Check out www.animalfeed.org.uk a new website about GM animal feed, where it's entering the food chain, news items action updates, addresses and action ideas

* US ELF and ALF . Activists targeted Bank of New York buildings on Long Island in June gluing locks and ATM machines spray painted slogans and smashing over 25 windows. In the Detroit area a newly built McDonalds was vandalised in June, two plateglass windows, a drive-thru window and the drive-thru order unit were destroyed; Eight Ford Expeditions were torched at Roy O’Brien Ford in June; An executive office of Weyerhaeuser Co. was torched July 4th

* 800 people from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Germany and the United States took part in the 3rd Street Party in Brno, Czech Rep. on June 2nd www.csaf.cz/english

* Need to ‘communicate’ with an MP? www.faxyourmp.com lets you and finds your MP by postcode if you don’t know which useless duffer you’ve got. e-mail (surname) (1st initial) @parliament.uk - eg. strawj@parliament.uk should work too

* Six activists from 'we are basta!' occupied the top of Freiburg cathedral on June 11th one day before the French-German summit there. Their banner read "no EURO for war and displacement in Colombia"

* The protest against Countryside Residential in Hockley continues in cyberspace. The campaign and evictions have cost Countryside £3 million and they’ve been forced to sell some land to get money back, www.plumberow.org.uk

* A company says it is developing a cat genetically modified not to cause allergies. The GM cat is set to be produced by 2003 according to Transgenic Pets of New York.

* Proposed changes to planning law may make it harder to object to things such as motorways, airports and nuclear power stations. The Campaign for Planning Sanity has promised: “We will fight these proposals at the ballot box, in the courts, on the streets and in the trees and tunnels.” 0161 959 0999, www.onlincam.freeserve.co.uk

* Wearing masks and making obscene gestures at police cameras, about 100 people protested a new security system that scans faces in Tampa. Florida on July 15th

* On June 10th activists destroyed thousands of Round-up ready peas at Seminis research centre, Idaho, USA