15-06-2008 14:54
Join the Greenwash Guerrillas to show that E.ON’S greenwash won’t wash!
Wednesday, 16th July, 8.15 AM, London
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Images from the London naked bike ride, an event organised as a protest against car / petrol culture and as a celebration of the human body and the bicycle.
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10-06-2008 11:56
The Board of the Vegan Society is deeply concerned about the arrest and detention without charge on 21st May 2008 of members of our sister organisation the Austrian Vegan Society and similar groups.
We understand that those arrested have now been interned for a further four weeks, see article -
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400469.html
Read more >>09-06-2008 12:46
On 31st May and 4th June, banner protests were held against plans to build the UK's first agrofuel power plant in Beckton, London. Around 500 local residents signed a petition against those plans, which was handed to the mayor on 2nd June (with around 100 further signatures having been added since then). The protests were organised by Biofuewatch and the London Food Not Fuel Group.
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04-06-2008 00:18
Global warming. Overexploited natural resources. Deforestation. Wasted land. Water and air pollution. The most serious environmental problems of our time are all directly linked to eating meat.
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03-06-2008 12:26
Take one major museum, a childrens exhibition about the environment and add three sponsors who between them represent three of the most environmentally destructive industries on Earth, and you have The Science Of Survival...
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29-05-2008 18:43
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PRESS RELEASE: 14 persons charged, 10 arrested, 5 on hunger strike.
Dated: Thursday 29th May 2008
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The company Blue NG has applied for planning permission to build the UK's first vegetable oil power plant in the UK, in Beckton, Newham. They plan a total of eight such plants overall. They specifically refer to burning palm oil, as well as rapeseed oil and jatropha oil in that plant. See below for details of forthcoming protests against those plans.
Read more >>15-05-2008 23:11
The Camp for Climate Action is back. And we are planning a jam packed
programme of workshops. If this new movement for climate action has a
chance of winning, we are going to need knowledge, skills and the space to
forge a future where people and the environment come before profit.
Read more >>07-05-2008 14:38
Blackfire, political Native American (Dine') rock/punk from Arizona, U$A. First ever shows in the UK, with discussions on Indigenous rights struggles in the U$. Select shows with traditional Dine' (Navajo) dances by their group, The Jones Benally Family, and documentary screenings about sacred sites protection.
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07-05-2008 14:02
Mapuche woman Moira Millan is currently giving talks in UK as part of a tour in fight against dams and orther corporate projects in Patagonia
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06-05-2008 15:31
In just a few weeks British MPs will decide whether to allow scientists to start research on the ultimate step in genetic engineering: the creation of GM ‘designer’ human beings. In the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, now going through Parliament, the Government wants to allow the creation of GM human embryos, as the first step towards developing "safe" technology for creating GM babies. The creation of GM babies is not just a hypothetical scenario: leading British scientists, such as Robert Winston and Ian Wilmut, have already patented techniques for doing this, including patenting human semen and embryos.
If you care about the impact of GM on food and the environment it makes no sense to be quiet about this.
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03-05-2008 09:51
If "God" doesnt play poker or dice, he hates russian roulette,
CERN is clever dumb, a suicidal experimental oxymoron,
IS the quest for knowledge worth threatening our entire life system,
Will bureacrats in Brussels& NewYork pull their heads from their jackseyes?
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Greenpeace folk dressed as Orang-utans have climbed all over Unilever's London HQ and Merseyside factory to tell the company to stop destroying rainforests for palm oil. Palm oil is used in products like Dove and Persil, and the companies Unilever buys from are destroying valuable rainforest and peatland areas - bad news not only for the millions of people who depend on them for their way of life and endangered species such as the orang-utan, but also for the global climate.
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16-04-2008 18:15
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A third nationwide day of action has been called for Friday 18th April against these establishments continuing to support foie gras. This is a limited list of contact details, please look up more easily accessible details relating to these supporters of the cruel trade, and duly inform them of the hell these geese and ducks go through for no more than a delicacy.
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Ceremony to mark Chernobyl Day will kick off London to Geneva anti-nuclear walk
You are warmly invited to join Footprints for Peace on Saturday 26 April for the start of their three-month, 1500km International Peace Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future, from London to Geneva, through France, in collaboration with the main French anti-nuclear coalition Sortir du Nucleaire.
Also, London screening of documentary of last year's walk from Dublin to London on Thursday 24 April (read on for details).
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14-04-2008 20:01
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On Sat 12th April, actions took place across the world in defence of squats and free spaces. In Reading, anti-capitalists managed to re-open Common Ground squatted community garden for the day, with a community BBQ and music show, despite a year of struggle with the authorities for control of the space.
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13-04-2008 23:30
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CIPO-RFM in Oaxaca have documented to date 517 detentions and tortured people, 103 police and paramilitary incursions into their communities, 81 prison orders, 229 penal, civil and commercial processes, 263 people assaulted, 37 death threats and 27 murders.
This article follows the money trail of those profiting from the lumber extraction in Oaxaca State.
Read more >>10-04-2008 14:37
Ceremony to mark Chernobyl Day will kick off London to Geneva anti-nuclear walk
You are warmly invited to join Footprints for Peace on Saturday 26 April for the start of their three-month, 1500km International Peace Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future, from London to Geneva through France, in conjunction with the main French anti-nuclear coalition Sortir du Nucleaire.
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