London Ecology Newswire Archive

31-03-2004 22:22

JOIN LONDON RISING TIDE VS BP AT ITS AGM, OIL FESTY HALL, 15.4.04

Last year, London Rising Tide 'celebrated' BP's Annual General Meeting (AGM) by holding a Carnival Against Oil Wars and Climate Chaos and alternative AGM outside. Several concerned members of the public also entered the meeting in order to make absolutely sure their concerns hadn't been swamped by the mile high tide of greenwash that had engulfed the Oil Festival Hall (OFH) for the day.

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29-03-2004 21:26

RMGC Gold mine project update: Minus 110 Drilling Results

Public consultation will be restarted because of illegalities commited by authorities.
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http://www.rosiamontana.org Read more >>

29-03-2004 20:10

blackwood protest continues

please continue your support of blackwood protest as there are still trees on route. Read more >>

29-03-2004 15:06

KILLERCOKE factsheet

Boycott Coca-Cola! A useful fact sheet exposing the truth and lies behind Coca-Cola, in support of the international boycott campaign called by Colombia trade union activist".
by Karen Cocq and Marcia Chandra Read more >>

23-03-2004 09:20

Eviction At Blackwood Is Happening NOW!

Blackwood Eviction Is Happening NOW! Read more >>

22-03-2004 14:15

Code Pink UK Action at M20 Anti war demo London, Part1: Pics

6 Pics of Code Pink Action in London Anti War March 20.03.04 - enjoy. Movie file to follow in part 2. Read more >>

21-03-2004 20:30

Help Save Alaska's wolves from eradication

The Alaska Wildlife Alliance has launched an online petition to send the democratic voice to our politicians in Alaska. Read more >>

18-03-2004 15:55

ACT TODAY! We need your help to REACH for a toxics-free future!

Please tell your MEPs that you want hazardous chemicals to be substituted and
replaced with safer alternatives and that you want a right to know what
chemicals are in products you buy. Read more >>

18-03-2004 14:08

Stop Canada's Seal Hunt

The Canadian government has already announced plans to kill nearly ONE MILLION seal pups in the next three years despite evidence of widespread cruelty and grave threats to the population. This is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world, and it will not end unless caring people like you take action now!
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10-03-2004 14:12

London Rising Tide pickets BP Tangguh gas greenwash meeting, London, 10.4.02

A deep-frozen London Rising Tide were on hand to meet and greet those NGOs and 'socially responsible' imvestors attending a meeting organised by BP and the 'Tangguh Independent Advisory Panel' (TIAP). TIAP is made up of Senator George Mitchell, (Chairman of TIAP and now also of Disney!), Lord David Hannay, Reverend Herman Saud and Ambassador Sabam Siagian, all of whom are on the BP payroll. Read more >>

09-03-2004 10:11

£15bn a year cost of supermarket packaging

Supermarket shoppers are spending £470 a year - a sixth of their food budget - on packaging, a report suggests.

The Liberal Democrats spoke to the UK's nine biggest supermarket chains about packaging, waste, and energy use.

They found customers spent £15bn on packaging each year and that delivery lorries travel the equivalent of two return trips to the moon every day.

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09-03-2004 00:36

Critical Mass London 10 years old in April

Critical Mass cycle party, ten years of the most fun you can have on a bike! Read more >>

25-02-2004 22:19

NGOs cross London Rising Tide picket line to attend BP greenwash meeting

Police ringed the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Stratton Street, London, on the morning of February 24th as inside, BP prepared to meet and greet specifically invited non-governmental organisations (or NGOs). Read more >>

25-02-2004 17:02

Licensed taxi drivers want rickshaws banned…

From www.ltda.co.uk:

BAN! DON'T LICENSE
As unbelievable as it seems, in London in the 21st Century there is a major problem with Rickshaws. Whilst the third world is doing all it can to lose the last of these degrading pedal powered contraptions, some unscrupulous operators are clogging up the streets of the Metropolis with the same slow, traffic halting bikes.
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23-02-2004 18:11

Animals Defeat Bush-Cheney

animals canned hunts factory farms
feedlots endangered species
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23-02-2004 11:53

Boycott BP's Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Greenwash Meeting, Feb 24th, London

Here below is the text of the leaflet we'll be handing out at tomorrow's BP-organised meeting on the Baku Cyehan pipeline, to which they have invited compliant/complicit NGOs and investors. Feel free to come along and join us from 9.30-10.30 outside the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Stratton Street, London. Bring confetti.
It's followed by 'Can BP Keep NGOs Talking?', written by Strategic Forecasting Inc.,. in which LRT is mentioned. Read more >>

18-02-2004 23:44

Call to boycott and/or take action at BP Baku-Ceyhan pipeline greenwash meeting

On February 24th 2004, BP has invited NGOs and 'socially responsible' investors to a meeting on the highly controversial Baku Ceyhan oil pipeline. It's set to take place at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Stratton Street, London.

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16-02-2004 23:55 | 1 addition

Tenth anniversary of the siege of Wanstonia M11 link rd

Ten years ago hundreds of anti-road protesters were evicted from a row of houses in Wanstead by an army of 600 police, security guards and bailiffs. The houses were flattened to make way for the infamous M11 link road through East London. This and many of the following protests were to define the way for increasingly diverse direct action for years to come.
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13-02-2004 11:31

BLACKWOOD EVICTION UNDERWAY NOW!!!! PEOPLE GET DOWN THERE!!!!

BLACKWOOD ANTI-ROAD CAMP IS BEING EVICTED NOW!!!! NETWORK IT AND GET BODIES DOWN THERE!!! Read more >>

11-02-2004 15:44

East Grinstead 'Relief Road'

A housing development of 2500 homes is planned on a Greenfield site in East Grinstead, West Sussex, for 2006 Read more >>