Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding

Chapter 16 - Useful Contacts


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.

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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

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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

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"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



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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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