A1M Tel : 01438 367452 Opposing A1(M) "upgrading". A30 Action PO Box 6, Ottery St Mary, Exeter, EX11 1YL Tel : 01404 815729 http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/3081/ Anti-DBFO road campaign, very experienced in defensive tactics, going for several years. Advance Party PO Box 3290, London NW2 3UJ Party people + newsletter. Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) c/o 2 St. Paul's Road, Islington, London, N1 2QN. Tel : 0171 359 8814 Fax : 0171 359 5185 AK Distribution 22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9PE Tel : 0131 555 5165 ALARM UK (national Alliance Against Roadbuilding) 9/10 College Terrace, London E3 5AN. Tel/fax : 0181 983 3572 Anti-road network of local grassroot groups + newsletter + briefing sheets including Action Observing. ALF Supporters Group BCM Box 1160, London WC1N 3XX Prisoner support + newsletter. Anarchist Black Cross 121 Railton Road, London , SE24 0LR Practical support for political prisoners + magazine. Bindman & Partners 275 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8QF Tel : 0171 833 4433 Fax : 0171 837 9792 Solicitors with excellent criminal lawyers. Bingley Bypass Campaign Tel : 01274 826520 Campaign to stop A650 trunk road. British Monomarks London, WC1N 3XX Confidential mail forwarding service. Broken Bars Box 25, 82 Colston Rd, Bristol, BS1 5BB Prisoner support newsletter. Campaign Against Lorry Menace (CALM) 62 Oakhurst Grove, London, SE22 9AQ Tel : 0181 693 8752 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 162 Holloway Road, London, N7 8GQ Tel : 0171 700 2393 Fax : 0171 700 2357 Youth CND : 0171 607 3616 E-mail : cnd@gn.apc.org Newsletters, NVDA training. Centre for Alternative Technology Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ Tel : 01654 702400 Fax : 01654 702782 e-mail : cat@gn.apc.org Loads of progressive publications on solar and wind power, compost toilets etc. Chesterfield Law Centre 44 Park Road, Chesterfield, S40 1XZ Tel: 01246 550674 Fax: 01246 551069 Helpful legal advice. Colin Seymour Tower St, Flamborough, East Yorkshire Campaigns through the courts after digging up old laws. He has beaten open-cast mine proposals and plans which involve digging up hedgerows. Communities Against Toxics PO Box 29, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, L66 3TX Tel : 0151 339 5374 http://www.gn.apc.org/cats/tc/ Campaign against toxic waste dumps and incinerators. Companies House Cardiff, CF4 3UZ Conscious Cinema PO Box 2679, Brighton, BN2 1UJ Tel : 01273 278018 e-mail : c/o schnews@brighton.co.uk The news you don't see on TV. Contraflow c/o 56A Info Shop, 56 Crampton St, London, SE17 Fax : 0171 326 0353 Newsletter. Corporate Watch Box E, 111 Magdelen Road, Oxford OX4 1RQ Tel/fax : 01865 791 391 e-mail : mail@corporatewatch.i-way.co.uk http://www.oneworld.org/cw/ Research dodgy companies and publish the dirt. Council for the Protection of Rural England (C.P.R.E.) 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1 0PP. Tel : 0171 976 6433 Fax : 0171 976 6373 Publish some good reports. They are very conservative. Counter Information c/o Transmission, 28 King St, Glasgow G1 5QP Newsletter. CREATE B' Bond Warehouse, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN Tel : 0117 925 0505 e-mail : create@cityscape.co.uk Eco-village network. Dead Trees EF! c/o SDEF!, Prior House, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton, BN2 2GY e-mail : svage@easynet.co.uk http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/campaigns/earthfirst.html Distribute lots of books and pamphlets, including "Do or Die". Delta Box Z, 13 Biddulph St, Leicester LE2 1BH Campaign against Shell and Nigerian abuses of Ogoni people. Distribution Service for Anarchists (DS4A) Box 25, 82 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB. Mail order bookshop for those titles you don't see in Dillon's. Earth Liberation Prisoners c/o Box 23, 5 High Street, Glastonbury, Somerset Prisoner support. Earth First! Action Update PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY e-mail: actionupdate@gn.apc.org web site: http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/campaigns/ earthfirst.html Send min. £5 postal orders or cheque to "Earth First!" for 12 issues. Subscriptions - not the EF! HQ! Earth Rights The Battlebridge Centre, 2 Battlebridge Rd, Kings Cross, London, NW1 2TL Tel : 0171 278 1005 Solicitors specialising in environmental law. The Ecologist Agriculture House, Bath Road, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1DU Tel : 01258 473795 Fax : 01258 473748 e-mail : ecologist@gn.apc.org Excellently researched monthly magazine. Ecotrip The Jan Rebane Centre, Brixton, London SW9 0BL Tel : 0171 737 0100 Inspiring social gatherings. Environmental Law Foundation Tel : 0171 404 1030 May help with legal challenges to schemes. Environmental Transport Association Old Post House, Heath Rd, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8RS Tel : 01932 828882 Fax : 01932 829015 If you've got a car, join the ETA, instead of the AA or RAC, as they both actively lobby for more roads. Ethical Consumer (ECRA Publishing) Unit 21, 41 Old Birley St, Manchester M15 5RF Tel : 0161 226 2929 Fax : 0161 226 6277 e-mail : ethicon@mcr1.poptel.org.uk Research consumer products to see how "right-on" they are, and publish a monthly magazine. Faslane Peace Camp Shandon, Helensburgh, Scotland Tel : 01436 820901 Womens Actions Tel : 01706 812663 Long established camp outside nuclear submarine base in Scotland. Freedom Network PO Box 9384, London SW9 7ZB Tel/fax : 0171 582 3474 Action line (recorded message) : 0171 793 7343 Anti-Criminal Justice Act alliance. Freedom Press Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX Tel : 0171 247 9249 Print two newsletters and classic anarchist texts. Freewheelers 25 Low Friar St, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 5UE Tel : 0191 222 0090 / 0191 222 0094 Fax : 0191 221 0066 e-mail : lindsay.gill@freewheeler.octacon.co.uk National lift sharing, organised hitch-hiking. Friends and Families of Travellers 1st Floor, 33 High St, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9HT Tel/fax: 01458 832371 Crisis line 0378 432210 Support nomadic people in Britain. Also hold a national list of sympathetic solicitors Friends of the Earth 26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ. Tel : 0171 490 1555 Fax : 0171 490 0881 Friends of the Earth (Scotland) 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG Tel : 0131 554 9977 Fax : 0131 554 8656 Frontline Magazine c/o 53 Edithna St, Stockwell, London, SW9 9JR Tel : 0973 328640 Green Anarchist Network BCM Box 1715, London, WC1N 3XX Radical eco-newspaper. GreenNet Bradley Close, 74-77 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PF e-mail : support@gn.apc.org Tel : 0171 713 1941 Fax : 0171 837 5551 E-mail provider, i.e. where you get an e-mail address. The Green Party 1A Waterlow Rd, London, N19 5NJ e-mail : greenpartyuk@gn.apc.org tel : 0171 272 4474 Fax : 0171 272 6653 Greenpeace UK Canonbury Villas, Islington, London N1 2PN Tel : 0171 354 5100 / 865 8100 Fax : 0171 696 0012 http://www.greenpeace.org GuilFIN PO Box 217, Guildford, GU22 6FF Free information newsheet. Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9DX Tel : 0171 837 4473 Hunt Saboteurs Association PO Box 2786, Brighton, BN2 2AX Tel: 01273 622827 hsa@gn.apc.org http://envirolink.org/arrs/hsa/hsa.html Irwin Mitchell Solicitors St. Peter's House, Hartshead, Sheffield S1 2EL Tel : 0114 276 7777 Fax : 0114 275 3306 Excellent solicitors for suing the police. Jigsaw Non-Violence Project The Jigsaw Box, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RQ Tel : 01865 240383 NVDA training. Justice? c/o Larkfield Centre, 39 Inglefield St, Glasgow G42 Tel : 0141 226 5066 / 424 1797 Produce "Cothrom" newsletter. Justice? c/o Prior House, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton, Sussex BN2 2GY Tel/fax : 01273 685913 e-mail : justice@intermedia.co.uk http://www.cbuzz.co.uk/Schnews/index.html Produce "SchNEWS", excellent weekly newsheet. The Land is Ours Box E, 111 Magdelen Rd, Oxford OX4 1RQ Tel: 01865 722016 e-mail : eartharc@gn.apc.org Campaign for access to land + newsletter. Legal Defence & Monitoring Group c/o BM Haven, London WC1N 3XX Tel : 0171 837 6687 e-mail : ldmg@phreak.intermedia.co.uk Experienced Action Observers. Letslink UK 61 Woodcock Road, Warminster, Wilts. Tel : 01985 217871 e-mail : 104047.2250@compuserve.com Network of Local Exchange Trading Systems. Liberty 21 Tabard Street, London SE1 4LA. Tel : 0171 403 3888 Fax : 0171 407 5354 Formerly National Council for Civil Liberties. Lloyds and Midland Boycott Campaign Manchester University Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PR Tel : 0161 274 4665 Campaign for High Street banks to get rid of Third World Debt. London Cycling Campaign 228 Great Guildford Business Square, Great Guildford St, London, SE1 0HS Tel : 0171 928 6112 Fax : 0171 928 2318 Manchester Airport Campaign Coalition Against Runway 2 (CAR2), c/o One World Centre, 6 Mount St, Manchester, M2 5NS Tel : 0161 834 8221 Fax : 0161 834 8187 Mobile : 0958 451525 e-mail : campaign@mfoe.u-net.com http://www.gn.apc.org/resurgence/car2.html Opposing a new runway which would obliterate a large area including woodland and old farm houses. McLibel Support Campaign / London Greenpeace (nothing to do with Greenpeace UK!), 5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London N1 9DX Tel : 0171 713 1269 e-mail : dbriars@world.std.com http://www.mcspotlight.org/ What's wrong with McDonalds? If you don't know, get in touch. Mendip Hills Not Holes P.O. Box 2113, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 Campaign against expansion of Whatley Quarry. Menwith Womens Peace Camp A59 Lay-by, Nr Menwith Hill Spybase, Nr. Harrogate, N. Yorks tel: 01943 468593 Women's camp highlighting international spy base. MIND Granta House, 15-19 Broadway, London, E15 4BQQ Tel : 0181 519 2122 Fax : 0181 522 1728 Campaign and advice group for people in mental distress. Has over 200 local association. Minewatch Methodist Clubland, 54 Camberwell Road, London, SE5 0EN Tel : 0171 277 4852 Fax : 0171 277 4853 e-mail : minewatch@gn.apc.org Campaign internationally against large-scale mining Nonviolent Resistance Network 162 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DQ Tel : 0171 607 2302 Fax : 0171 700 2357 e-mail : cnd@gn.apc.org NVDA training + newsletter No Opencast c/o Miner's Office, 2 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2LS Oppose open cast mining, dig up Heseltines lawn etc. Organic Roundabout Ltd 28 Hamstead Road, Hockley, Birmingham, B19 1DB Tel : 0121 551 1679 Fax : 0121 515 3524 Supply organic fruit and vegetables. Partizans 218 Liverpool Rd, London, N1 Tel : 0171 700 6189 e-mail : colmine@wolfnet.com Campaign against multi-national quarry company Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) + newsletter. Peace House Greenloaning, Dunblane, Perthshire, FK15 0NB Tel : 01786 880490 Resource and action centre, NVDA Training. Peace News 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DY Tel : 0171 278 3344 Fax : 0171 278 0444 e-mail : peacenews@gn.apc.org Excellent internationally-distributed monthly magazine. Covers a wide range of issues. Peace Prisoner Support c/o 16 Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds, LS7 3HB Tel : 0113 262 9365 Pedestrians' Association 126 Aldersgate St, London EC1A 4JQ. Tel : 0171 490 0750 Quarterly magazine, which used to be quite good. Permaculture Association PO Box 1, Buckfastleigh, Devon TQ11 0LH. Tel : 01654 712188 Positive alternatives, forest gardening, compost loos, mulching and much more! + newsletter. Ploughshares Support Network Box X, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 Tel : 01865 714036 Disarm weapons of war by committing accountable criminal damage. Prison Reform Trust 15 Northburgh Street, London, EC1V 0AH Tel : 0171 251 5070 Fax : 0171 251 5076 National Charity which deals with enquiries about prisons and produces a very useful book called "The Prisoner Information Book". Prison Watch 24 Rochester Close, Derby, DE24 0HS Tel : 01332 756158 Fax : 01332 753515 Provide advice and support to prisoners and their families. Quaker Peace and Services Friends House, Euston Road, London, NW1 Tel : 0171 387 3601 Fax : 0171 388 1977 e-mail : qps1@gn.apc.org "Turning the Tide" NVDA training project. Radical Routes 24 South Road, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 Tel : 0121 551 1132 Fax : 0121 515 3524 Network of radical co-operatives. Reclaim The Streets PO Box 9656 , London N4 4JY Tel : 0171 281 4621 e- mail : rts@gn.apc.org http://www.gn.apc.org/rts/ Do lots of anti-car, pro-bike and pedestrian actions. Red Pepper 3 Gunthorpe St, London, E1 7RP Tel : 0171 247 1702 Fax : 0171 247 1885 e-mail : redpepper@online.rednet.co.uk http://www.rednet.co.uk/redpepper/ Socialist magazine. Reforest the Earth 42-46 Bethel St, Norwich, NR2 1NR Tel : 01603 631007 Fax : 01603 666879 e-mail : reforest@gn.apc.org Royal Society for Nature Conservation (R.S.N.C.) The Green, Witham Park, Waterside South, Lincoln LN5 7JR Tel : 01522 544400 Fax : 01522 511616 Salisbury Transport Action Group (STAG) PO Box 1611, Salisbury, SP1 2BF Tel : 01722 339224 Save Our Railways Southbank House, Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SJ Anti-rail privatisation. Scottish Council for Civil Liberties 146 Holland Street, Glasgow, G2 4NG Tel : 0141 332 5960 Fax : 0141 332 5309 Sea Action c/o Brighton Peace Centre, 43 Gardner St, Brighton, BN1 e-mail : bripeace@pavilion.co.uk Tel : 01273 620125 Fax : 01273 689444 Direct Action in boats. Smallworld Media 1a Waterlow Road, Archway, London N19 5NJ Tel : 0171 272 1394 Fax : 0171 272 9243 Film makers. Squall PO Box 8959, London, N12 5HW Tel : 0171 561 1204 Fax : 0171 272 9243 e-mail : squall@phreak.intermedia.co.uk http://www.phreak.intermedia.co.uk/squall Comprehensive and entertaining newpaper, which is essential reading. Stringer's Common Campaign 50 Old Farm Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1QN Tel : 01483 32167 http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/4452/ hairymog.html Anti-road campaign to stop the A320. Camp called Yogurt Free State... Teddy Bear Woods Camp Tel : 0468 221454 Campaigning against Weymouth A353-A354 Relief Road. Third Battle of Newbury PO Box 5520, Newbury, RG14 7YW Tel/fax : 01635 45544 http://www.gn.apc.org/newbury/ Road protest campaign. Tools for Self Reliance Ringwood Road, Netley Marsh, Southampton, SO40 2GY e-mail : tools@gn.apc.org Tel : 01703 869697 Fax : 01703 868544 Make and repair tools for Southern nations. Transport 2000 10 Melton Street, London NW1 2EJ. Tel : 0171 388 8386 Fax : 0171 388 2481 Transport pressure group. UK Working Group on Landmines 601 Holloway Road, London N19 4DJ Tel/fax : 01296 632056 Undercurrents 16b Cherwell St, Oxford, OX4 1BJ tel : 01865 203661 fax : 01865 243562 e-mail : underc@gn.apc.org News you don't see on TV! The Vegan Society Dept GW, Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, E. Sussex, TN37 7AA Tel : 01424 427393 Veggies 180 Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3HW Tel : 0115 958 5666 Mobile cafe, may do food for big events if you give them notice. Woodland Awareness and Network of Defence (WAND) Tel : 01368 850630 Scottish woodland defence network. Women's Environmental Network 87 Worship St, London EC2A 2BE Tel : 0171 247 3327 Campaigns on issues particularly effecting women, as well as genetic engineering etc. ======================================= Selected International Contacts Australia EF! Canopy, PO Box 1738Q GPO, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia Tel : 0061 3 3547972 Eire An Talamh Glas c\o Anne, Abbey St, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, Eire Ballyhoura Talamh Glas Cois Abhann, Kileen, Garyspillane, Co. Limerick Tel : 00 353 62 46868 Trocaire 12 Cathedral St, Dublin 1 Tel : 00 353 1 874 3875 EF! France Eco Action, 2 Bis Arthur Magot, 60000 Beauvois, France Resistance Verte, BP 631, 53006 LAVAL Cedex, France La Goutte d'Eau, Cette Eygun, F-64490, France Tel : 010 3359 347883 Protest against road through Vallee d'Aspe in the French Pyrennes (last habitat of brown bear in Europe). Netherlands Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development (ASEED Europe) Postbus 92066, 1090 AB, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel : 0031 206 682 236 Fax : 0031 206 650 166 e-mail : aseedeur@antenna.nl Network of European youth environment groups European Youth For Action (EYFA) Postbus 94115, 1090 GC, Amsterdam, Netherlands e-mail : eyfa@antenna.nl EF! Germany c/o Avalon, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 24, 45127 Essen, Germany Sustainable Europe Tour (SET) Merzhauser Strasse,150-007, 79001 Freiburg, Germany India Anand Skiria, PB#14, Cochrin 682001, Kerala, India Tel : 0091 484 25435 Philippines Volunteers for Earth Defence, 189 San Antonio Ext.SFDM, 1105 Quezon City, Philippines Poland Workshop for all Beings, ul.Modrzzewskiego 29/3, 43- 300 Bielsko Biala, Poland Fax : 0048 30 29496 Russia Rainbow Keepers, POB 14, Nizhny Novgorod 603082, Russia Tel: 007 8312 343280 e-mail : rk@glas.apc.org EF! Slovakia A. Hinklo 11, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia South Africa Young Lions EF!, PO Box 27491, Greenacres 6057, South Africa e-mail : 101356.2535@compuserve.com Spain M.A. Dernandes, Taller de E.A.A.CURUXA, J.B. Xelmirer J, Campus Universitario, 1570 S Santiago, Spain Tel : 0034 81 584321 Sweden Morgan Larsson, Lagmansgaten 9C, 46 37 Vanersborg, Sweden USA Earth First! Journal PO Box 1415, Eugene, OR 97440, USA Tel : 00 1503 7419191 earthfirst@igc.apc.org Rainforest Action Network, 450 Sansome St, San Fransisco, CA 94111 Tel : 001 415 398 4404 Fax : 001 415 398 2732 e-mail : boycottmc@igc.apc.org http://www.ran.org/ran/ Ukraine Rainbow Keepers, c/o Nadia Shevehenko, Glushkova 17- 22, Kiev. 252187 Tel : 007 044 2669310 e-mail : nadia@glas.apc.org ======================================= Brays Detective Agency (have spied on roads protestors ever since Twyford. Their heads could be in your dust bin at this very moment.) 8 Bellevue Road Southampton SO15 2AY Tel : 01703 637496/7 or 635946 Fax : 01703 639552 British Roads Federation (the mouthpiece of the Roads Lobby) Pillar House, 194-202 Old Kent Road London. SE1 5TG. Tel : 0171 703 9769 Fax : 0171 701 0029 Richard Turner Limited (climbers used to evict tree people in Stanworth Valley, Newbury, Selar and Brynhenllys) 101 Couple Lane, Old Tupton, Chesterfield Tel : 01246 861738 Fax : 01246 863587 ======================================= "Toothless Dogs" English Heritage Fortress House, Saville Row, London, W1X 1RB Tel : 0171 973 3000 Fax : 0171 973 3001 English Nature Northminster House, Peterborough, PE1 1UA Tel : 01733 455100 Countryside Council for Wales Plas Penrhos, Fford, Penrhos, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2LQ Tel : 01248 385500 Police Complaints Authority 10 Great George St, London, SW1P 3EA Tel : 0171 273 6450 Scottish Natural Heritage 12 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh, EH9 2AS Tel : 0131 447 4784 ======================================= Department of the Environment 2 Marsham St, London, SW1P 3EB Environment Agency Rivers House, Waterside Drive, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS12 4UD Tel : 01454 624400 Quango combining National Rivers Authority and Her Majesties Inspectorate of Pollution Highways Agency St Christopher House, Southwark St, London, SE1 0TE Tel (press office) : 0171 921 4180 Lawrie Haynes (Director) : 0171 921 4080 Highways Agency Roads Program Directorate Tollgate House, Houlton St, Bristol BS2 9DJ Highways Agency Federated House, London Road, Dorking, Surrey Tel : 01306 870100 Fax : 01306 870222 Department of Transport Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DR Tel : 0171 271 5000 Public enquiries : 0171 271 4800 Press enquiries : 0171 271 5764 Press notices posted at : http://www.coi.gov.uk/coi/depts/GDT/GDT.html House of Commons Under Big Ben, By the River Thames, Westminster, London, SW1A 2PW Tel : 0171 219 3000 House of Lords Westminster, London, SW1A 0PW European Parliament Rue Belliard 97/113, 1040, Brussells, Belgium UK Office : 0171 227 4300
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