Earth First! Action Update
Issue 79 - Oct/Nov 2001
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“Not once have I ever had to doubt the beauty of dissent, the brilliance of trust.” Paul Robinson, Gothenburg prisoner.
Report from the mass demo against the DSEi arms fair.
Updates and bulletins.
People invade and occupy the army recruitment office in Brighton as a protest against the war in Afghanistan.
On Oct 7th the ‘No War but the Class War’ discussion group was holding an open meeting about a class-based response to the current ‘war’.
Pixies visit a prison construction site in Ashford, Surrey on the night of Sept 12th.
A day of action at Hatfield Moor, Yorkshire opposing peat mining.
Firstly we’d like to report the fantastic news that Lee Himlin has been released from prison.
Eleven people found not guilty of aggravated trespass following anti-GM action at the Sainsburys distribution centre in Borehamwood.
Thousands demonstrated in Brighton on the first day of the Labour Party Conference.
Activists disrupt recruitment talk being given by Shell at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds.
Solidarity demonstration at Swedish embassy for Gotenburg prisoner Paul Robinson.
Under the cover of darkness on Sept 25th a subverted billboard in Norwich caused quite a stir.
Some reports of covert direct action in Bristol.
Upcoming events on the calendar.
There have been a lot of peace vigils etc. against the US ‘war’ - here's some websites to get more information.
The Rising tide network have issued a call to take local action to coincide with the COP7 round of Climate talks.
An appeal has gone out from Genoa for all those who reported friends missing during the Genoa protests to get in touch.
People's Global Action (PGA) are calling out for actions against the next WTO summit at Doha, Qatar in November.
Do or Die are planning to run a set of articles on Latin America (especially indigenous struggles) and are looking for people who are interested in contributing.
SchNEWS have published a pamphlet criticising the role of leftist groups - the Socialist Workers Party and Globalise Resistance - in the emerging anti-capitalist movement.
Bringing together groups and individuals across the West Country who are defending the environment and communities.
"Any political movement that does not support its political internees is a sham movement" - Ojore Lutalo, political prisoner
A discussion of farming and food production in Britain looking at how neo-liberalism and agri-business has crushed smaller-scale farming.
In Devizes, Wiltshire there has been an on-going campaign to save four London plane trees growing in the town square which the council wanted to kill.
During a visit to Nottingham to talk about homelessness on Sept 5th, Tory MP Anne Widdecombe had to dodge more missiles.
On Sept 23rd feminist avengers took action against the war machine (manifest in the convoy that regularly transports nuclear warheads from Burghfield, Berkshire to Coulport Base, West Scotland).
Despite police efforts to ban all political activity in Burnley on Sept 1st, due to threats of an NF march, one group of activists managed to enter the town.
About 60 people turned out to oppose a planned BNP event in Sunderland on Sept 15th.
European Car Free Day 2001, Sept 22nd, was celebrated in Bristol, in part, with what was billed as “The Big Bike Ride”.
As if the human and environmental abuses of the oil industry weren’t enough, Shell also have plastic packaging materials tested on animals at Huntingdon Life
