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The Earth Centre is FOR SALE

26-10-2010 19:42

The Earth Centre is FOR SALE email

thereismore2lifefolks@yahoo.co.uk or

jason.smith@doncaster.gov.uk for the sales particulars and tender form.

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Photos: Oxford Reclaim The Night 2010

26-10-2010 19:10

Photos from the Oxford Reclaim the Night Rally held on 2010-10-22

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Why 9-11 Truth has won - The coming of the flood

26-10-2010 18:48

I recently wrote in MWC News arguing the case for Why 9-11 Truth Has Won, due primarily to the weight of irrefutable scientific proof of the two key elements that evidence controlled demolition of the three WTC Towers – free fall collapse and the presence of thermite, explaining the total absence of structural resistance. For this and for other reasons the successful demand by the 9-11 Truth Movement and others for a new, wider, proper investigation is only a matter of time. The flood would come. The recent political squabble in Australia represents further breaching of the dam wall that will bring that flood.

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Palestine Today 10 26 2010

26-10-2010 17:32

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

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Home Demo's Hit Beyond Retro's Owners

26-10-2010 17:24

Anti-fur activists in Ottawa, Canada, held a demonstration at the home of
Steven and Helene Bethell (Carter) the owners of Beyond Retro, a fashion
chain with shops in England and Sweden.

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Life Is Too Short to be Controlled

26-10-2010 16:22

London Indymedia got London No Borders to tell us about the up coming action 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' at last weekends Anarchist Bookfair. 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' takes place this Saturday afternoon, 30th October, at Picadilly Circus at 3pm.

Read the Part 1's report here

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Peace oil or taking the piss?

26-10-2010 15:26

Peace Oil sold and promoted by Card Aid does not appear to be quite what is claimed.

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'Grow Heathrow' Autum Celebration 14.10.10

26-10-2010 14:26

Community day at squatted permaculture garden in Sipson

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Cuts & the Environment

26-10-2010 13:43

Analysis and call-out in response to government cuts- linking labour and environmental struggles to capitalism

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October 23rd Photographs

26-10-2010 13:22

Images from the Anti Cuts March.
"No If's, No But's"
Please click the link for a slide show of the March.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmccrum/sets/72157625224...show/

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London’s Gay Art Festival GFEST Held ‘SAME – SEX KISS’ In Trafalgar Square

26-10-2010 13:13

London’s gay art festival GFEST – Gaywise FESTival had a public art video & photo-shoot installation ‘The 15 Minutes of SAME-SEX Kiss’ in Trafalgar Square on Monday the 25 October 2010 at 11 am.

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MPs condemn Teenager’s death as Moroccan forces open fire on Saharawi protestors

26-10-2010 10:44

British MPs condemn the actions of the Moroccan security forces as they open fire on 14 year old protestor. Tensions are mounting in Western Sahara following mass exodus as thousands of Saharawi establish protest camp in response to the discrimination and human rights abuses as a result of the Moroccan occupation. Fears of further Moroccan violence continue.

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Tesco or Community – Keyworth decides

26-10-2010 10:23

Tesco’s contempt for the people of Keyworth is further highlighted by their recent planning activities. By contrast, positive actions by the people of the village build on the sense of community and show what ‘local’ really means.

Tesco want to build a large supermarket in the centre of Keyworth village on a site which has detailed planning permission for sheltered housing. Tesco were given the option to buy the land by William Davies, a large building company based in Loughborough, who realised there was potentially more money to be made from selling to Tesco than from housing the elderly and vulnerable.

Despite a local survey showing the overwhelming majority of residents did not want another supermarket, Tesco have submitted a planning application and have been lobbying hard. Their response to the local objections is to assert that it is mostly the older people of Keyworth who are objecting because they do not like change!

Well, there many reasons why Tesco is being opposed. Some of these are the structural changes they plan for the village which Keyworth people really don’t like. Such as their plan to narrow the footpath beside the church, meaning that hearses and wedding cars can no longer pull up outside. The prospect of brides having to hitch up their wedding dresses and run, or pall bearers dashing across the road to the church with the coffin, while dodging Tesco delivery lorries is not one the villagers forward to.

Further along the lane Tesco propose to widen the pavement, which will make the road too narrow for buses, which already find this a difficult road to manoeuvre and would mean re-routing.

The County Council Highways Dept and Community Dept are objecting as have the Parish Council, all local Borough Councillors and huge numbers of individuals. What part of ‘You are not wanted’ do they not understand?

Rushcliffe Borough Council planners will make a recommendation soon on whether to accept or reject Tesco’s application. Tesco's agents have been playing hardball with the Borough Council recently, and they have been trying every trick to try to overcome objections to the application.

Let’s hope that RBC resist the corporate pressure and reflect the wishes of the people of the community. We should know in the next three weeks, but even this will only be round 1. Tesco have the right of appeal (the opposers don’t).

In contrast the people of Keyworth have been organising activities that help build community.

This year the Abundance project was started by a dedicated and hardworking group of volunteers involved in Transition Keyworth. A lot of organisation and graft resulted in loads of apples being collected from village gardens. No they were not scrumping; the apples were donated by people who had more than they needed. Stalls were run in the village square over several Saturdays where the apples were distributed for free.

Abundance then had a stall at Keyworth’s first Farmers Market, giving away apples and samples of a wide range of delicious apple based goodies. The recipes for these were also available and are on the Transition Keyworth website.

The Farmer’s Market, which was a proposal coming from the village plan survey, was all that a Tesco store would not be. A wide range of truly local produce, and hugely popular, judging by the number of people shopping at the stalls.

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Film: Beyond Labels

26-10-2010 10:22

A FREE screening for Black History Month!
What does it mean to be Black and gay in the UK?
Jaime Sylla's new film explores the life experiences of a group of men who all too often have been rendered invisible in history and stigmatised by their own communities because of their sexuality and race. Focusing on a range of Black gay men of different ages and cultural backgrounds, Beyond Labels looks at how racism and homophobia can impact upon the construction of a healthy Black and gay identity. The 60min documentary will be followed by a Q/A session. Everybody welcome!

Sunday 31st October, 7.30pm. Free entry - info on 0117 924 4512 or info@pieriancentre.com. Screening takes place at the Pierian Centre, 27 Portland Square, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8SA.

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The Better food Co

26-10-2010 09:22

7pm
Tonights freeskilling session will an exploration of Bach Flower remedies for your pets!

Learn more about the Bach Flower Remedies and how you can use them to help your pets with emotional problems such as fear of fireworks, anxieties, bullying, grief, and re-homing. With holistic vet Holly Mash

Held at the Better Food co, Sevier St, Bristol at 7pm. See you there!

We're taking a break next week but we'll be back with a bang November 9th, back by popular demand.....Life Drawing
An informal life drawing session with a clothed model. Please bring paper or sketch books, something to lean on and a selection of pens, pencils or charcoal. With local artist Clodagh Scott.

The freeskilling team x

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Future Survivor

26-10-2010 07:23

A 21st century demand for representation by responsable workforce opens up our lip service

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The Big Shift

26-10-2010 07:22

A one-day event aiming to provoke discussion and inspire informed individual community action towards a healthy, productive and sustainable city for the future.
9.30am to 5.00pm
at The Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR

Cost £14/£8 concessions on the door.

SPEAKERS

Shaun Chamberlin, author of Transition Timelines speaking about the latest information on Peak Oil and Climate Change and the inspirational work of Transition Towns in responding to these twin problems at a local level.

Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth, is an ecologist and head of Holistic Science at Schumacher College. Speaking about the earth and all its inhabitants (including us) as a living system.

Scilla Elworthy has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct. Speaking on the internal shift that is necessary to make the Big Shift possible.

WORKSHOPS

Community-owned renewable energy with The Bristol Energy Network. Trevor Haughton, energy and climate change researcher and consultant, explores ways we can own the production of local renewable energy, reinvesting in our communities and creating energy security.

Permaculture with Mike Feingold, international permaculture teacher and founder member of the Bristol Permaculture Group. Permaculture is a simple, commonsense design for growing and living sustainably. Mike looks at how we can create systems that regenerate rather than degrade the environment we live in.

Collective land buying with Land Roots. Sharon Pollit explains how, by pooling our resources, we can buy land to be developed as a showcase for permaculture design, good stewardship and sustainable community as a legacy for future generations.

Agroforestry. Patrick Whitefield, permaculture teacher and consultant and author of The Earthcare Manual and The Living Landscape looks at combining farming with trees for more productive, biodiverse and resilient land use.

Who feeds Bristol? Joy Carey has been commissioned by Bristol Green Capital Momentum Group to develop a resilient food plan for the city. Looking at where our food comes from and what we need to do to future proof our food supply.

The Bristol Pound with The Bristol and Bath Local Currency Scheme. Ciaran Mundy looks at the importance of a local currency in promoting the relocalisation of trade, production and exchange and at the possibility of Bristol havingits own Pound in the near future.

Community Supported Agriculture with Simms Hill Shared Harvest. Bobby Sunderland and Tim Laurence explore the benefits of community run farms dedicated to feeding the local community. An approach that puts the farmer and the consumer back in touch with eachother and the land. Find out how far Simms Hill have got in setting up a CSA for Bristol.

Grass, Our Most Bio-diverse Crop. Simon Fairlie, author of Low Impact Development and Meat: A Benign Eztravogance and editor of The Land magazine examines the complex issues around the use of animals in the food system. He argues that our society needs to reorientate itself back to the land and explains why an agriculture that is most readily able to achieve this is one that includes a measure of livestock farming with a less industrial and more humane approach.

The Work That Reconnects with Jenni Horsfal, Jenny Smith and Jewls Wingfield, An experiential workshop based on the work of Joanna Macy that invites us to connect with our concerns for the planet and turn our fears into positive action.

Community-Led Local Transport Plans with Transition Stroud’s Tripswitch initiative. Helen Royall explains what can be achieved when local groups and transport campaigns work collaboratively with the council, bus companies and other organistions on developing a sustainable vision for local transport.

Local, natural healthcare with Max Drake, founder of The Urban Fringe Dispensary. Max looks at the role of locally sourced and grown herbs in a relocalised health care system that puts the knowledge and skills needed to stay healthy back in our own hands and gardens.

Plus an OPEN SPACE session where you can put forward ideas for everyone to discuss in groups.

STALLS
from Eco-logic Books and The Bristol Green Store , Source Magazine and information stalls plus a chance to buy the brand new book Bristol- A Guide to Good Living at a discount price.

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Anyone up for filming the Free Vegan Food Fair on Saturday?

25-10-2010 22:22

We're looking for someone who can do some filming on Saturday 30th Oct at the Free Vegan Food Fair (outreach event aimed at non-vegans). We have an interviewer and people lined up to be interviewed, and no-one at present to do the filming (due to completely unforeseen circumstances for the person we had lined up to do it).

Let us know if you fancy giving it a go!

Our original film guy is still able to do the editing.

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Reclaiming the Oxford Night

25-10-2010 20:55

Friday saw the return of Reclaim the Night in Oxford.

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Autonomous Community Oaxaca Demo Mexican Embassy London Mon. Nov. 1st - 3pm

25-10-2010 20:27

Day of the Dead Demo Altar

Protest for San Juan Copala at the Mexican Embassy – For Autonomy and against Impunity

1st November 2010 from 3pm

Demo-Altar outside the Mexican Embassy,

16 St. George Street, London, W1s 1LX