<>Here is a round up of the recent struggles and events in Preston, based around the future of the ...

Bandstand community gardens, bottom of woodhouse ridge, meanwood rd, leeds

York University - Derwent College, room D/056

AEW 105 and AEW 106, University of York

This years EF! winter moot was held in Dipton Community Centre, which looks over the proposed site for an open-cast at Bradley. Members of the local campaign against the mine have asked if people who attended the moot, (as well as those who didn't) would write in their objection to the development.

 

 

The Mainshill solidarity camp was evicted on the 25th Jan 2010 after 7 months of occupation and over 30 actions.

The eviction lasted 5 days with 45 arrests.

This short film documents only a part of the 5 days, so look out for the longer version when it's released.

 

<>Bowing to the inevitable, Bradford Council confirmed this morning that the hoardings around the Westfield[1] hole would be taken down soon, and the area within partly landscaped. Alas the wide-open vistas we dreamed of will still be blocked by the maroon hoarding being repositioned around the massive hole at the centre of the project, with little perspex windows through which public art may be...

Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action - the new Earth First! Action Update is out! Get your quarterly round-up of ecological direct action from the UK and beyond To download for printing, http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10print.pdf To download for on-screen reading, http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10.pdf

The Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.

Equipment for subsea mining is being built in Newcastle.

Holding the politicians behind Mainshill Open Cast Coal Mine to account

Featuring: Jim Hood MP, Karen Gillon MSP, Councillor Danny Meikle and Lord Home

<>This short film documents the corruption, conflict of interest and hypocrisy dominating the politics of South Lanarkshire, that result in Scottish Coal receiving approval for coal mine after coal mine in the Douglas Valley. With no regard for co...

Don't Let The Buggers Get You Down! is a short film made by Daniel Epstein who visited the Mainshill Solidarity Camp in July.

<>"In South Lanarkshire, Scotland, a group of protestors are opposing the establishment of a new mine. They've set up camp on the proposed site, determined to keep contractors at bay. They're the Mainshill Solidarity Camp. Driven by green-politics, and a strong dislike for...

Stopping Work at Mainshill

<>documents the destruction caused by the ongoing work to turn Mainshill Wood into an open cast coal mine, up until October 2009, and the many actions that had taken place to stop and slow it. This video was in preparation for a gathering at the Mainshill Solidarity Camp that saw over 70 people come to the camp for the weekend and take action against the treefelling and...

Debating radical political culture in Germany, the UK and beyond

Money grabbing UK coal have overcome one of the largest barriers in their plans to opencast the PONT VALLEY,

OPPONENTS of a large opencast mine in a picturesque valley fear the worst now that planning permission has been granted to move a colony of Great Crested Newts – a protected species.

<>Durham County Council planners agreed to an application by UK Coal to create four habitat ponds for wil...

Dipton Community Centre, Front Street (A692), Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9DR

Dipton Community Centre, Front Street (A692), Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9DR

A planning application for a biofuel power station in Barnsley which had been withdrawn has now been resubmitted.

 

B&K Universal Limited Grimston

Grimston, Aldbrough

After seven months of occupying woodlands in South Lanarkshire the Mainshill Solidarity Camp is preparing for an eviction on Monday the 25th. The camp called a pre-eviction gathering after receiving a tip-off.

<>They are calling for people to come to the site and prepare to resist the forced removal by the notorious National Eviction Team, who visited the site late last year. The land they are oc...

Leeds residents are celebrating after Leeds City Council voted to cut city-wide carbon emissions 40% by 2020.

Sumac Centre

245 Gladstone Street,

Nottingham

NG7 6HX,

England

Star and Shadow

Newcastle

<>The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the UK ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. We believe we can make a real difference by doing it ourselves rather than relying on leaders, government...

SAVE OUR SALFORD GREEN BELT!!!

STOP SALFORD CITY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENTS ON SALFORD GREEN BELT  

A general intro to the night, filmed at Manchester Permaculture Winter feast

Muir Court,

Sagar Place,

Off St Michael's Road,

Headingley, Leeds