Maxaam out of HumboldtPreliminary announcement of the next Forest Defense Skillshare. We'll be rendezvousing in the Ancient Redwoods here in Humboldt. More details will be out shortly. Inviting old-timers and newcomers alike!

Extinction is Forever College Grove treesit30.3.08
Bunbury residents turned out on Sunday to a second picnic to show the powers that be that they don't want the forest at College Grove to be destroyed by developers.

Pictures, more info on all these actions and updates at http://www.fossilfoolsday.org
Start planning your next action on the upcoming days of action on False Solutions (1st May), and Food (3rd June).
More details are below these brief reports:
Bacton FFD 1Activists Blockade Major Gas Terminal, Norfolk UK
Earth First! UK activists today blockaded the UK’s largest off shore gas terminal at Bacton in Norfolk. 40% of the UK’s domestic gas comes ashore here, is processed and distributed by pipeline. Activists blockaded the main road outside the site at 6.30 am this morning, preventing construction workers and shift workers from arriving. There were 19 Arrests.

Slaughtered seal31.03.2008
The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers twice rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Farley Mowat today. The Sea Shepherd is present at the baby seal hunt to document the killings. Witnessing a seal being clubbed is a crime in Canada.

A date for your diary!

Climate Action Movement Building
Network for Climate Action
Saturday 19th April, 10am - 5pm
Friends Meeting House Sheffield
Map - http://home.btconnect.com/sheffieldquakers/hire.htm

Prisoner Solidarity 3Four years have gone by since the International Solidarity with Political Prisoners Conference was held in Donostia, Basque Country.

Prisoner Solidarity 4MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, in 1972 by John Africa. MOVE was described by CNN as "a loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a 'back-to-nature' lifestyle and preached against technology."

Click here to join the action, join us on March 19th, 2008.

This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war and drives the war.

http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar/

Chevron refinery lock-on barrel blockadeOn Saturday March 15th, activists and community members protested the war in Iraq, environmental racism and global warming by blockading the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, CA.

Prisoner Solidarity 9Spirit of Freedom
(March 2008)
Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"
(Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)

Barrick Gold Secretly Building Roads to Attack Mt. Famatina in La Rioja

12th March 2008

Rabbit with spanner & Earth First!The dates of the EF! Summer Gathering have been changed, to work better with other events happening over the summer such as the Saving Iceland protest camp and the Camp for Climate Action.

The new dates are Wednesday 27th August to Monday 1st September 2008.

This should give us all the space to recover & reflect, and to plot & plan onwards and upwards.

On March 7th - International Women's Day - dozens of Brazilian women occupied a research site of the U.S.-based agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, destroying the greenhouse and experimental plots of genetically-modified (GM) corn.

Paul Watson with bullet & bent badgeJapanese coast guards with flash grenades07/03/2008
At 1545 hours (0445 GMT), a clash between the crew of the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru turned violent when the Japanese Coast Guard began to throw flash grenades at the crew of the Steve Irwin.

College Grove tree-sit2008-2-29
A group of Concerned Independent Activists (CIA) have placed a platform occupied by an activist, high up a tuart tree in bushland at College Grove in Bunbury. It is hoped this will delay destruction of this contentious forest.