Do Or Die #7 1998

Contents

The Iditorial

These Islands

• Direct Action Six Years Down the Road: From the past to the future of the anti-roads movement.
• Lights, Cameras... Activism!: The stormy relationship between direct action and video media.
• In Tusks We Trust: From Sussex to Scotland, wild boars are doing it for themselves!
• No Escape from Patriarchy: Male dominance on direct action camps.
• No-One Ever is to Blame: On environmentalists' need to scapegoat government and industry.
• Pressmennan: Defending the ancient oakwoods of Scotland.
• No Opencast! A brief history, plus reports and thoughts on the recent action in Derbyshire.
• Animal Antics: Road-wreckin' rabbits and pissed-off primates say "Take that, humans!"
• Personality Politics: Revolt is contained by overexposure... direct action as spectacle?
• Treehouses of the World: We should never have come down from the trees!
• Farmaggedon! Industrial Agriculture - why it has to go and what could follow its demise.
• Carry on Camping: A round up of UK direct action camps from the last year.
• The Oil Industry: Thrills, spills and then kills - Followed by...
• Putting a Spanner in the Oil Industry's Works: Hints on how to fuck up the oil mega-machine.
• World Wide Fraud: WWF pandering to the will of industry - and responsible for genocide.
• Quarry Fighting in the South West

Other Islands...

• Viva Sasé: Tierra y Libertad: Reports from the squatted village in Spain.
• Occupy, Resist, Produce: Brasil's landless peasants' movement - an inside view from a roving EF!er.
• Green Fort versus Mean Port: Resistance to harbour development in Holland.
• Tíocfáidh Ár La: Pixies Reclaim Ireland - direct action re-greening the 'Emerald Isle'.
• Hot Dam! Victory for the people opposing the Maheshwar dam in India.
• Behind the Balaclavas: First hand impressions of the Zapatista communities.
• Direct Action Down Under: Reports from eco-direct actions and campaigns in Australia.
• Thanksgiving is for Turkeys: Amerikkka Celebrates Genocide - and Native Americans continue to resist.
  Global Round-up: News from Sri Lanka, France, the Phillipines and Thailand.

Paranoia... noia... noia... BOO!

• In the Dungeons of Fortress Europe
• Thought Police imprison Green Anarchists in UK.
• Europol
• Radikal: The repression of Radikal magazine in Germany.
• Italian anarchists framed.
• CS Gas: How to combat the effects

Odds and Sods...

• Prisoners of War: UK and overseas prisoners listings and contacts for International Prisoner Support Organisations.
• Book Reviews: Gathering Force, published by the Big Issue, Anarchy After Leftism, by Bob Black, Concrete Jungle, edited by Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman
• Recommended Reading: Monkeywrenching the media monoculture with small reviews and contact details for over 65 weird and wonderful publications.
• Lettuce to the Cabbage: 'Go on punk, make my day'... letters from our long-suffering readers.
• Ways into the ecological resistance networks: two pages of UK and international contacts.