Squall 16

News And Other Busyness

6.
Torture Tactics
- police getting increasingly heavy-handed with protesters

7
Test Proves Positive
- drug activists launch ecstasy testing kits in Brixton

8
Dan Dares
- disabled peoples' direct action network protest

McLibel Two Take Second Bite
- Dave Morris and Helen Steel are off to the Court of Human Rights to appeal

UNGASS - The Bogeymen
- campaign groups fear that this year’s UN Assembly on Drugs will miss opportunities and deepen mis understandings.

9.
Chalets Shall Stay
- Holtsfield community in South Wales wins right to stay

10.
Life On The Edge
- CJA has turned travellers into criminals

Exodus Enquiry Blocked
- public enquiry into police malevolence against Exodus blocked

Social Exclusion Unit Visit Exodus
- Govt unit examines initiatives for unemployed youth by Exodus

A Bird In The Hand
- Big Issue editor John Bird to stand for Mayor of London

Druids Free To Celebrate At Stonehenge
- police and English Heritage to allow summer solstice access this year

11.
McLibel Goes CD
- the whole of mcspotlight to go out on CD-ROM

Cars Get In The Way Of New Homes
- new reports says too much urban space is given over to parking

Meatheads Slug It Out
- the two burger behemoths to battle it out

Cook Admits British Riot Gear Used In Indonesia
- Foreign Secretary Robin Cook admits Suharto goons used British arms equipment against rioters

UK Atmos. Fear
- UK childhood asthma worst in the world

12.
Activists Blockade BP Refinery
- anti-oil industry action at Essex oil refinery

No Tax Please, We're British
- North Sea oil is the lowest taxed oil in the world

Latin Lessons Left Unlearned
- PR and back-slapping as BP attend Colombian conference

13
Genetix Produces Summer Snowball
- resistance is growing to genetically modified food

SHAG Poo Poo Monsanto
- anti-genetics action at Monsanto's High Wycombe HQ

Weeding Out Bad Genes
- Monsanto breaks genetic rules

14
National Breakdown
- round-up of ecological direct action protests across the country including Crystal Palace, Ashton Court, Dead Woman's Bottom, Derby and Reclaim The Streets street parties

15.
Rat In The Kitchen
- striking workers at the Magnet factory in Darlington are finally offered an inadequate settlement.

Stitched Up In Critchley
- denial of union rights in South Wales factory leads to strike and sackings

International News And Other Busyness

38.
Global Pledges For Free Tibet?
- international support builds for Tibet

Something Fishy At Mitsubishi
- after they win US Greenwash award

US Navy Sinks To New Depths
- sonar weapon experiments conducted on whales and dolphins

Flying Dutchmen Grounded
- anti-aviation protester lock-on to plane

39.
Rotten To The Core
- Apple computers drop Dalai Lama in advertising

Jets, Lies And Video Scrape
- red-faced CBS news-readers caught acting on-air

Rootsman Vs Routesman
- Tasmanian activist has world's first tree-top web site

Trainstopping - The Sequel
- more protests in Germany against nuclear waste trains