Earth First! Action Update
Issue 78 - September 2001
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“The song of the dodo, if it had one, is forever unknowable because no human from whom we have testimony ever took the trouble to sit in the Mauritian forest and listen” David Quammen
Four protesters from London Rising Tide occupied the main boardroom of the British Airport Authority on August 9th.
Activists from the Rising Tide Network and other groups held an RTS on July 22nd.
Updates, bulletins and short articles.
During the EF! Gathering an impromptu action was organised against Hepworth, an international company that exploits prison labour.
During the EF! Gathering an impromptu action was organised against Hepworth, an international company that exploits prison labour.
During August two actions to stop peat mining happened at Hatfield Moor near Doncaster, one of the only Peat Moors left in England.
A recent article in the Northern Echo reported that persons unknown had damaged a GM trial crop in Hutton Magna, near Darlington.
Following a wave of actions at GM farm scale trials, reports are coming in of increased security measures at damaged crop sites.
Following the Highlands’ biggest ever anti-GM rally in Inverness on Aug 18th, local people in Munlochy began a vigil to stop planting of GM winter oilseed rape.
The Centre for Life had it’s 1st Birthday party gatecrashed by GeneNo!
Last issue we reported on the Genoa G7/8 summit.
On Aug 18th the Italian consulate in Bristol was targeted in solidarity with all who participated in the resistance in Genoa.
During the early hours of July 23rd five GM crop decontaminators removed Aventis GM maize plants from the farm scale trial at Preston Wynne, Herefordshire.
Upcoming dates on the calendar.
An international website has been set up to help support those suffering trauma post the Genoa protests.
Dear everyone, hope your summer gathering was as lovely as ours and yippee, it’s time to think about the next one!
The next EF! Winter Moot will be in Manchester over a weekend at the end of Jan/beginning of Feb 2002.
Supporting those inside for the crime of ecological, anti-fascist, anti-war or other social justice direct action.
Two British activists currently inside - Garfield Gabbard and Paul Robinson - need help.
“Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.
We Need Your Support And Interest To Save Stanton Moor
Faced with the prospect of another Monday meeting London Reclaim the Streets decided ‘sod this, let’s go to the ballet’.
On August 11th/12th, the British National Party (BNP) held its 2nd annual Red White and Blue Festival on a farm near BNP Fuhrer Nick Griffin’s home in Mid-Wales.
Two anti-nuclear activists from the North-East were snaffled recently by MOD police at Coulport on the west coast of Scotland.
On August 11th around 600 activists gathered for a national demo against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
Procter and Gamble’s (P&G) new HQ in North Tyneside was recently targeted by a high profile anti-vivisection demonstration.
Anti-WTO impostors have struck again, delivering a lecture about the rights of slavery, the stupidity of Gandhi and the supremacy of free trade to an enthusiastic crowd of scientists, engineers and marketing professionals; who all thought they were watching an official WTO representative.
