Earth First! Gathering 2008 - print sizeEarth First! Summer Gathering
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
27 Aug - 1 Sept 2008, Norfolk
Join us for 5 days of workshops and planning actions

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LAST CALL FOR RUNNING WORKSHOPS

at the Earth First! Summer Gathering
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
27 Aug - 1 Sept 2008, Norfolk

Get in touch if you or your campaign/group/network would like to run a workshop or session at the gathering, especially if you can offer workshops on action training, direct action campaigns, ecology, ecological restoration and sustainable living.

Email us on summergathering _ AT _ earthfirst.org.uk or ring 01524 383012

Deadline 12 August!

We've already got lots of workshops confirmed. Join us for:

April 28, 2008

Travellers, who had been evicted from a site they had occupied for nearly two years, near Radstock, Somerset, Now face a violent eviction from a disused quarry, in the Mendips.

Beyond TV 8 flierUndercurrents is calling for submissions of short videos and animations on the theme of the festival: social justice and environmental action.

Manor allotments demoSunday the 23rd September was a sad day in the history of gardening. It was the day the Manor Gardens Allotments were closed by the Olympic Delivery Authority.

Marsh Lane allotment protest flierMarsh Lane allotmentsDetails of March & Rally Against Olympic Evictions on Allotment Demolition Day - Sunday 23rd Sept
Meet 2pm outside Hackney Town Hall

The demo will be in solidarity with other evicted groups such as Clays Lane Housing Co-op who have already been evicted from their homes and traveller/Gypsy communities soon to be evicted. The demo in Hackney calls into question the excessive social, economic and environmental costs of the Olympics as a catalyst for (de)regeneration.

EF! AU logo 1The printed EF! Action Update is back again! After a bit of a lull a new editorial collective is in place and ready to roll. We have just produced a summer edition in time for the Camp for Climate Action, where you can pick up printed copies.

Gagged 18 coverHeres the pdf - http://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/gagged/gagged18.pdf
audio to follow in the next few days.

You are cordially invited to the NORTHERN ECO-ACTION GATHERING taking place on Saturday 11 November from 10.30-6pm in the BRADFORD RESOURCE CENTRE followed by food and socialising in the 1 in 12 social centre. For practical details see below and check our website http://www.eco-action.org/northern/

Sep 28 2006

Birth pangs of a new group, the Bath Activist Network, bringing together people in Bath who want to work together to fight for positive change, connecting all radical "disciplines" holistically, knowing that every problem in this world is interlinked.

EF! Summer Gathering: 16th-20th August, near Aberystwyth, mid-Wales; www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk
Camp for Climate Action: 26th August-4th September, near Selby, Yorkshire; www.climatecamp.org.uk

Planet Picnic in Castle Park, Bristol (next to broadmead) on Sunday 25th. Bring friends and food to forge links & have fun! Families welcome. attendance free and highly recommended, bring drums and pi

Fliers & pretty posters, in English & Welsh, are available if you contact the EF! gathering collective, or you can download them from the website, http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Plus all the usual info on workshops, entertainments (& how to offer both), what to bring and not to bring, pratical info on access, dogs, kids and much much more.

The Earth First! Summer Gathering 2006 will be from Wednesday the 16th of August until Sunday the 20th. The location will be at a new site in Wales.

>>What is the Earth First! Summer Gathering?