In Bristol the campaign has organised mass postal sanction-breaking, and worked to raise awareness of the worsening situation. The government is continuing with plans to cull thousands of badgers in an experiment to establish links between tuberculosis in cattle and badgers. The cull in the Ross - on Wye area seems to have come to a standstill in the face of opposition. Many people are needed to monitor the area for M.A.F.F. vehicles. M.A.F.F. premises in Truro have been targeted.
Some workers now wear balaclavas to work and cover their registration plates.
On 20th August a cage filled with protesters dressed as badgers blocked the road to the M.A.F.F compound, until police finally managed to dismantle it. Squatters fighting to defend Bishopston Community Centre in Bristol were evicted in a dawn raid by over 50 police and bailiffs, on 14th July. For six weeks the centre had been a lively place of resistance, and now it stands boarded up and guarded. The Mexican army has recently occupied key towns and EZLN army bases in the Lacandon jungle. In an attempt to cut off the Zapatistas from the outside world the Mexican government is launching the latest in a long line of offensives against the 'communities in resistance'.