West Midlands
new EF! Action Update
In an end of the summer compact EF!AU, find news about kicking shell in the teeth in Rossport again and then some more, solidarity with the community at Dale Farm, and anti-GM resistance - Spuds you Don't Like demo in England, sabotage in Germany, France and Scotland.
ASS needs you!
The Advisory Service for Squatters releases its first newsletter... and wants your help!
The hardworking bunch at the Advisory Service for Squatters have just released their annual report in the form of a newsletter.
Its full of as much information, juicy gossip and as many requests for help that you can fit on two sides of A4!
Site evicted at Huntingdon Lane
19th August 2011
Campaigners were this afternoon evicted from the site of a massive new mine in Telford after defying UK Coal bosses for 18 months.
An eviction team working on behalf of the company was sent onto the site in Huntington Lane, Little Wenlock, this morning to remove the protesters and destroy their camp.
Earth First! Summer Gathering Update 2011
Location announced, workshop schedule published, and how the kids space is going to work. All for the Earth First! Summer Gathering which begins on the 10th of August and runs until the 15th.
Get in touch if you need more information.
Countering the GM come back summer camp
Bring your stove and tent for an anti-GM weekend. Fri 22nd pm: Camping available. Sat 23rd: Delivering a trailer load of organic spuds to the doors of the John Innes Centre in protest at GM potato trials there. Sun 24th: a day-long planning session: GM is coming back – we’ll be ready. See below for more information.
Activists temporarily halt work at Huntington Lane
On Tuesday 5th July activists from the Telford no new coal (aka Defend Huntington Lane) protest site halted early morning operations by storming the open cast mine. Two protesters dead locked on to heavy plant machinery, disrupting the destruction caused by them. Activists have been on the site for 15 months and are awaiting eviction papers.
Stop New Nuclear newsletter no 1, July 2011
Welcome to Stop New Nuclear's first newsletter. You receive this newsletter because you have signed one of the pledges, or you signed up to the newsletter. Thank you for this.
We plan to send a newsletter to all pledgers and newsletter subscribers about once a month, and possibly more frequently in the weeks before the blockade. Feel free to share and distribute this newsletter.
Action Update + Summer Gathering + website
The latest EF! Action Update is out - download it, subscribe and distribute.
The Summer Gathering is coming up - see here for the location and programme, and here for more details
Latest Action Update
Climbing, blocking, stinking, sabbing earth defenders rock!
Roll on down to the EF! Summer Gathering in mid-August.
Paint-throwing, blockading, rioting, boarding up offices and gathering hundreds of thousands together - all ways to try and defeat the Nuclear Behemoth.
Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011
This year's Earth First Summer Gathering takes place in East Anglia this year, starting on the 10th of August and running for five days. With six workshops tents we have space for over 100 discussions, presentations and workshops. The spaces are filling up fast, but there is still time to book a spot.
Glos Guerilla Gardening meet-up
I've been talking to lots of people interested in starting some form of guerilla gardening group in gloucestershire, and I'm sure there are many more of you out there...
So lets get gardening!


