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12-10-2010 18:06
www.smashedo.org.uk/hammertime.htm325 Magazine - issue 8
12-10-2010 17:46
Palestine Today 10 12 2010
12-10-2010 17:26
Rising Tide Banner Drop, Avonmouth
12-10-2010 17:22
Avonmouth targeted for international day of climate action
Bridgeovertoubledclimate writes: This morning activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide dropped a banner reading 'Import Coal: Export Poverty' from Avonmouth bridge near the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and environmental justice.
The Royal Portbury Docks contains one of the largest coal import terminals in the UK. There are currently plans to build several new coal power stations in the UK, and 71% of coal used in Britain is imported.
Tracy Jones from Rising Tide said “Fossil fuel extraction devastates communities, from villages destroyed by floods in Pakistan to land grabs in Colombia, and is being resisted around the world. The failure of the Copenhagen climate summit shows that governments have their hands in the pockets of corporations and cannot be trusted. It's up to ordinary people to take direct action to stop climate chaos.”
October 12 – 16 is the Global Minga in Defence of Mother Earth, an international week of action for climate and environmental justice called by indigenous peoples from the Americas, social movements and allies around the world. Further actions are happening in London this Saturday at the Crude Awakening (4), which people from Bristol will be attending.
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Film About Climate Activism Seeks Crowd Of Donors
12-10-2010 16:41
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12-10-2010 16:01
see www.smashedo.org.uk/hammertime.htmUS threat to attack Iran with nukes is “criminal”
12-10-2010 14:49
The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says.When Obama administration officials, like those of the Bush regime before it, say “all options are on the table,” they are threatening nuclear war and that is prohibited by international law, says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Not only has the International Atomic Energy Commission said this charge against Iran “is simply not true,” Boyle pointed out, but threatening Iran with nuclear war in itself constitutes an international crime.
Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 34
12-10-2010 14:25
Work has been continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building in Nottingham. The building, now being fully enclosed with the main doors having being constructed and fitted All window frames fitted last year. Earlier this year, guttering and assorted woodwork has been completed.
Work has been continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building in Nottingham. The building, now being fully enclosed with the main doors having being constructed and fitted All window frames fitted last year. Earlier this year, guttering and assorted woodwork has been completed.
Volunteers are now working on the final push for the building to be completed! Whowwa!!
Final layers of clay slip have been applied to the inside walls. There is just a little more of this to do. A bit more woodwork around the window frames. Then a great deal of tidying up.
The more eagle-eyed amounst you will have noted very little past disussion / work has been devoted to the floor. There may be ambition to do more about its' construction in the future, but it is felt leaving it rough is quite acceptable. As ever, construction cost would be prohibitive to do much else.
So, dear readers, if you have enjoyed watching the progress of this building being constructed ..... how about getting out from behind your computer screen, and get up to EcoWorks, and volunteer your services for any final touches, needing to be done.
All could have been done a lot earlier, if a bunch of 'already-skilled' people had just got on with it. But, it was generally descided that by involving many volunteers, folks might go away, and having been inspired by the project, and with a bit of hands-on experience ....... have ideas and help others think about what they could do with other sustainable projects in their own areas.
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Ecoworks is on the Hungerhills allotment site, reached off Ransom Road, St.Anns .....
If needed, they can provide transport from the city centre by arrangement. Ring Tim on 07719 428187 for more info.
Hot drinks supplied; please bring your lunch.
Ecoworks
info@ecoworks.org.uk
http://www.ecoworks.org.uk
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The story so far:
EcoWorks: Straw Bale work on "eco-building" in St.Anns
Part 1
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/08/321023.html
Part 2
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/08/321341.html
Part 3
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/08/321520.html
Part 4
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/09/323670.html
Part 5
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/09/323739.html
Part 6
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/10/326154.html
Part 7
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348189.html
Part 8
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348210.html
Part 9
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348233.html
Part 10
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348254.html
Part 11
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348275.html
Part 12
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/10/353572.html
Part 13
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/03/364622.html
Part 14
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/03/364643.html
Part 15
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367142.html
Part 16
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367250.html
Part 17
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/05/370333.html
Part 18
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/06/373754.html
Part 19
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/06/373775.html
Part 20
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/07/375507.html
Part 21
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/09/381873.html
Part 22
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/10/382863.html
Part 23
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/12/387066.html
Part 24
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/12/387087.html
Part 25
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/12/388129.html
Part 26
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/12/388151.html
Part 27
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/03/393265.html
Part 28
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400248.html
Part 29
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400273.html
Part 30
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/09/408730.html
Part 31
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2009/01/419304.html
Part 32
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2009/02/422386.html
Part 33
http://notts.indymedia.org.uk/articles/202
Part 34
http://notts.indymedia.org.uk/articles/515
My Straw Bale Building 'Collected Set' on Flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tash/sets/72157602998632987
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Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
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It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Dissident Island Manchester edition ready to go
12-10-2010 14:25
While some of the crew were up visiting the fine people from Redbricks Radio we met up with some friendly Mancunians and did a show...
• We spoke with our hosts for the evening, Mule Magazine, about what they've been getting up to lately as well as issues surrounding alternative media in general
• Veg, from the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair, came in to give us a rundown on how this year's event went
• There were words of enlightenment from Aidan, part of the Manchester radical history group
• Nes came in to talk to us about all that's happening with I Bike MCR
• Finishing us off with some tunes from around the world we had our old friend Drunkin Dunkin spinning some tunes..
Japan Continues Murdering Dolphins and Whales... Canada Has Not Ended Seal Murd
12-10-2010 14:17
turning the blue seas purple with the red blood of dolphins10 years of the Palestinian Intifada
12-10-2010 13:22
On 25 September, activists from FRFI and other groups held a lively demonstration outside Marks and Spencer on Oxford Street, to mark 10 years of Palestinian Intifada and 10 years of the weekly picket against M&S
The Intifada began on 29 September 2000, a day after Ariel Sharon and 1000 riot police marched through the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Temple Mount is home to Islam’s third most holy shrine, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police used live ammunition and rubber bullets against unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, killing 6 and injuring 220. Within the first few days of the Intifada, 700,000 bullets and projectiles had been fired in the West Bank, and 300,000 in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the Intifada in 2000, activists in the campaign Victory to the Intifada (VTI) have been demonstrating outside Marks and Spencer stores, calling for a consumer boycott of Britain’s biggest corporate sponsor of the Israeli state. Marks and Spencer annually sell approximately £240 million worth of Israeli goods, but have also been marked with a long history of political support for the state of Israel and the Zionist movement. This goes as far back as the1940s, when M&S Chairman Israel Sieff advocated ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and continues today - in 2008, Chief Executive Stuart Rose proclaimed to Zionist charity World Ort that “we share the same values”. Victory to the Intifada calls for the complete boycott of M&S, as a symbol of boycotting British state and corporate support for the vicious Zionist state.
Activists from FRFI, marking 10 years of Intifada and VTI action, were joined by representatives of the CPGB-ML, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign, George Jackson Socialist League, Boycott Ahava campaign and other groups in the demonstration, which lasted from 12-3pm. Demonstrators were surrounded by Palestinian flags, banners and placards, as signatures were collected and leaflets handed out to passers-by on Oxford Street. The few vocal Zionists were soon drowned out in a sea of support, with hundreds signing the petition.
At around 2 pm, activists presented Marks and Spencer with a few of the petitions received over 10 years. In front of the building activists unveiled a wall of filled petitions, stretching the length of the entire shop. The petitions, only a small percentage of the more than 30,000 signatures received over 10 years, stood as a reminder to Marks & Spencer that we will not tolerate its sponsorship of the racist Zionist state. Chanting demonstrators and the petition wall attracted much public attention and support, with many more signing to show their opposition to the Zionist state.
VTI will continue to take action against Marks and Spencer each week, to show our solidarity with Palestinians suffering under British and US backed Israeli state terrorism and apartheid. As the Israeli state continues its barbaric actions, it is crucial for us in Britain to take a stand against the Zionist state and its British corporate and state sponsors.
Demonstrate 6-8pm every Thursday, outside Oxford Street M&S.
For further details, contact:
Email: victoryintifada@hotmail.com Tel: 020 7 837 1688
Major TUC regional Anti-Cuts Protest Sheffield 23 Oct
12-10-2010 12:52
The TUC have called a Yorkshire and Humber wide demo against the cuts on the 23 Oct, big players (TU bureaucrats?) such as Brendan Barber TUC boss are speaking, one hopes the service users, carers, claimants, pensioners, young people, rank and file public sector workers also get a chance to speak not just attend.Three more restaurants selling foie gras in the Midlands - Please contact
12-10-2010 12:33
MacMalatesta On The BNP
12-10-2010 12:30
The BNP are no' lookin' sae guid north ae the border! Or doon south.Oppose the English Defence League London rally on October 24th
12-10-2010 11:37
The English Defence League are a racist & Islamophobic organnisation with links to the BNP, Combat 18, Blood & Honour, National Front & UKIP. They have rioted in Newcastle, Dudley, Bolton, Bradford & Leicester. The EDL have been arrested on bombing charges, have placec pigs heads on mosques, pulled off womens hijabs etc. They say they are against extremism but are against all Muslims.5th Objection to the Minorca Mine Application
12-10-2010 11:25
PR 83 'The Minorca Opencast Mine experience is likely to be a longer term' blot on the landscape' says MOPG' This Press Release accompanies the publication of our 5th set of objections to the Minorca Surface Mine Application on the effect this application would have on the local landscape and gives some of the detail contained in the submission as well as suggesting why the effect may be longer lasting.
It also announces the postponement of the Determination Date
PR 83 12/10/10
THE MINORCA OPENCAST MINE EXPERIENCE IS LIKELY TO BE A LONGER TERM 'BLOT ON THE LANDSCAPE' SAYS MOPG'
The Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) in their fifth response to Wardle Armstrong’s supplementary set of documents in support of UK Coal’s Minorca Surface Mine Application object to the effect that working this site will have on the views that people and visitors currently enjoy. In their Visual Impact Assessment MOPG point out that:
“Public highways or footpaths bound the entire site, and as the site is comparatively small for the size of the operation there can be little luxury of pushing soil mounds and bunds back away from the roadside to make them less intrusive. It is proposed that along 4000m of the perimeter of the site, immediately adjacent to the road, there would be either 5 or 8 meter high soil mounds immediately inside any existing field hedges. Only along 750 m would the mounds be positioned 30m back from the hedges. This would result in the general experience of travelling along these roads being severely changed for the worse, with the open aspect being completely destroyed”.
In addition either by design or omission, Wardle Armstrong has provided misinformation on the number of properties affected. After the July 2009 submission the Landscape Officer for LCC wanted a list of
“…… those properties that have been assessed as having blocked views. Photographs taken from the southern site boundary show a clear site line to the upper windows of Measham House Farm, and the upper windows of some properties on Shackland Drive are visible from the western boundary of the site.”
In response, Wardell Armstrong have prepared a table (section 2.32) to provide an assessment of all properties within 500m of the site. This table implies that there are 19 dwellings within 500m. Because they have failed to notice the existence of many properties, and have also counted groups of properties as one (for example Bosworth Grange is counted as one, rather than four individual houses), this figure is misleading. There is in fact a minimum of 93 properties within 500m.”
MOPG detail comments on a number of the photographs submitted by Wardle Armstrong and why we disagree
Whereas Wardle Armstrong’s comments referred to only 19 properties views being temporarily affected and none of the experiences being severe, MOPG state for the 93 properties within 500 meters:
“The conclusion to be drawn from this is that some occupiers would have their views completely obscured should the proposal be permitted, some would have them severely curtailed and all the occupiers of the 93 properties within 500m of the site would be effected when approaching and leaving their homes.
LCC Landscape Officer (in paragraph 2.36) correctly commented that WA‘s photoviews only focus on the existing views rather than the changes that would be brought about by the proposals. The clear reason for this (and the lack of photomontages to demonstrate the case) is that the changes would be so severe that all one would see on a photomontage would be a soil mound in an unrecognisable position - all the local characteristics would be obscured.
As far as restoration is concerned MOPG does not consider that UK Coal or their Agents have in any way allayed fears that restoration would be guaranteed. Our comments about the lack of restoration at Lounge Site have not been addressed. The situation there is still unresolved.”
Steve Leary, speaking for MOPG said
“The argument of Wardle Armstrong is that these earth banks are a necessary evil to hide an even greater evil – the actual working of an opencast mine. However this is only part of their role. They will be as high and intrusive as necessary to deaden sound as well.
And when will we get our views back if planning permission is granted? The simple answer is that we do not know. We know more coal lies adjacent to the site and that it much more likely that UK Coal will be granted permission to extend the site rather than have to go to a new site if they subsequently applied for an extension. UK Coal have not, in this case given any assurance that they will not seek such permission.
Then the argument will be put that not enough people objected the first time round and that they have put up with it for now that a few more years loss of seeing the local landscape will not matter at all.
This would mean that for part of the site, especially the part nearest to Measham where the Coal Processing Facility will be sited, that this area could wait years before restoration begins. Even then, if UK Coal has designs on applying to develop all or part the site once the coal is out because of its close proximity to the A42 we are potentially looking at another Lounge issue. There because of a disagreement over UK Coal’s plans for the site and Leicestershire County Council’s requirement that this site, close to Ashby, should be restored, the site has been in a derelict state for the last four years.
Even if this did not happen it would take years for the landscape to be restored and look mature – well beyond the life time of some of those currently protesting whose last memory looking across from Measham to Swepstone may be of a high earthen bank blotting out the view”
MOPG’s information is that with the demand for coal for power generation purposes likely soon to be in steep decline, that ripping up this agriculturally productive land in order to get out what is, in the great scheme of things, a relatively small amount of coal is asking our countryside to pay far too high a cost and for us as witnesses to this destruction, too much to pay as well in denying us the right to enjoy our own little bit of England in peace.”
MOPG have so far published four other sets of objections which cover the following:
Traffic Assessment
Economic Viability and Salability Assessment
Air Quality and Dust Assessment
Socio – Economic Assessment.
These four objections and the one just published are available to download from this web site:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/mopgs-2010-set-of-objections-to.html
This application for an opencast mine was due to be heard on Friday October 15th but the Determination Date has now been postponed. No new date for the meeting has yet been set.
END END END END END
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
STEVE LEARY, SPOKESPERSON, MOPG
tel 05601 767981,
email steve46leary@googlemail.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MOPG PLEASE GO TO:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/minorca-protest.html
The Minorca Opencast Mine: A Blot on the Landscape
12-10-2010 10:23
PR 83 'The Minorca Opencast Mine experience is likely to be a longer term' blot on the landscape' says MOPG' accompanies the publication of our 5th set of objections to the Minorca Surface Mine Application on the effect this application would have on the local landscape and gives some of the detail contained in the submission as well as suggesting why the effect may be longer lasting.It also announces the postponement of the Determination Date
Rising Tide banner drop, Avonmouth
12-10-2010 10:22
Avonmouth targeted for international day of climate action
[12/10/2010]
Avonmouth targeted for international day of climate action
This morning activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide dropped a
banner reading 'Import Coal: Export Poverty' from Avonmouth bridge near
the docks, as part of a global week of action for climate and
environmental justice.
The Royal Portbury Docks contains one of the largest coal import terminals
in the UK. There are currently plans to build several new coal power
stations in the UK, and 71% of coal used in Britain is imported.
Tracy Jones from Rising Tide said “Fossil fuel extraction devastates
communities, from villages destroyed by floods in Pakistan to land grabs
in Colombia, and is being resisted around the world. The failure of the
Copenhagen climate summit shows that governments have their hands in the
pockets of corporations and cannot be trusted. It's up to ordinary people
to take direct action to stop climate chaos.”
October 12 – 16 is the Global Minga in Defence of Mother Earth, an
international week of action for climate and environmental justice called
by indigenous peoples from the Americas, social movements and allies
around the world. Further actions are happening in London this Saturday at the Crude Awakening (4), which
people from Bristol will be attending.
EDL & Terrace Culture
12-10-2010 10:02
Unpleasant though it may be, it is important to understand the racist attitudes of the EDL in comparison with the BNP and to examine the terrace culture from whence it came.