UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Work restarts at Mainshill, resistance needed!

15-09-2009 13:53

Forestry Commission workers this morning re-started clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine. When the clear-felling started in June, Mainshill solidarity camp was set up to stop work on the site and occupy it, preventing any further felling and preventing any of the wood being removed from the site. Support is needed to prevent this destruction.

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Miliband Face to Face with Climate Critics

15-09-2009 10:42

The Climate Chaos Coalition held a protest on Monday 14 Sept outside the DECC in Whitehall to urge Ed Miliband to abandon the use of "climate-wrecking dirty coal power." To their surprise he came out to meet and talk with the demonstrators, trying to answer their criticisms and urging them to keep up their protests. Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Exposing the Health Impacts of Open Cast: Public Meeting in Douglas

15-09-2009 08:39

Wednesday 23rd September, 19:00, St. Brides Centre, Douglas, South Lanarkshire

with Dr. Dick Van Steenis & unveiling the results of the Coal Health Study

Since the Camp for Climate Action in Mainshill Wood, community activists have been working hard to expose the real and devastating health impacts to local communities of open cast coal mining. Since a vastly inadequate amount of research has been done into these impacts, the campaign has done it itself.

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For A Unitied General Election Campaign

15-09-2009 07:27

There is nothing to lose, and perhaps a great deal to be gained for the anti-capitalist movement to put forward candidates in elections.

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Switch Off Hazelwood

14-09-2009 13:17

Direct action to shut down Hazelwood coal-fired power station, the largest producer of carbon emissions in Australia, one of the dirtiest industrial plants in the world.

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Transition Town Worthing announces The End of Suburbia film event

14-09-2009 13:11

Transition Town Worthing will be screening the critically-acclaimed documentary The End of Suburbia at the Sidney Walter Centre on Sunday 27th September, at 7.30pm. This hard-hitting film explores what the end of cheap oil means for “the American dream” - and the rest of us.

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Australian activists breach fence of power plant - now lets shut down Ratcliffe!

14-09-2009 11:46

http://www.switchoffhazelwood.org/

http://indymedia.org.au/2009/09/09/switch-off-hazelwood-coverage

"Approximately five hundred people took part in today's historic action at the Hazelwood coal power station, while 22 people managed to get themselves arrested while attempting to slap a 'Community Decommission Order' on Hazelwood.

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Cardiff - Fight For Jobs/Fight For The Planet

14-09-2009 11:39

Thursday, 17 September 2009, 17:00 - 18:30, Nye Bevan Statue
End of Queen St, Cardiff

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Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival

13-09-2009 12:23

Nottingham communities prepare for this year’s urban harvest
What will we do with this year’s bumper crop?
The festival is part of ‘Season Nottingham’ – a year round programme of events promoting positive, local and seasonal solutions to the ecological and economic challenges we face in Nottingham as we try to feed ourselves and our families.

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Clear-felling to resume at Mainshill Wood

13-09-2009 10:52

The Mainshill Solidarity Camp has learned from Forestry Commission workers that the land owner at Mainshill Wood in South Lanarkshire, Lord Home, intends to continuing clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine.

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2nd Landslide Win Against Biofuel Power At Newport, South Wales

13-09-2009 08:52

A second win, 8:1 against the madness of burning food for fuel. This time against Vogen’s biofuel power station application at Newport was achieved on Sept 9th. Residents and campaigners walked out in protest at the Chair’s attempts to manipulate councillors with talk of lost capital for hospitals & schools + shouts of “shame” to those promoting industry interests before residents. One councillor described the behaviour of Vogen in their so-called ‘public meeting’ of 2 weeks ago as "tyrannical".

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Bath Bomb #25 Out Now

11-09-2009 19:47

Well, we've had a month's hiatus and put our feet up, but now Bath's monthly radical freesheet is back in the press, typos and all...

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Declaration of the Africa People's Movement on Climate Change

11-09-2009 14:23

Confronting the climate crisis: Preparing for Copenhagen and beyond

Nairobi, Kenya, August 30, 2009 -- We, the leaders of various people's movements, community-based groups, academia, NGOs and civil cociety organisations, met in Nairobi under the banner of the People's Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) to discuss strategies to confront the climate change crisis for Copenhagen and beyond from August 27 to 28 , 2009.

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We’ve become our own predators….

11-09-2009 02:03

In People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck wrote a compelling argument that narcissistic people, who lack the capacity to empathize and are pathologically self-centered, are evil. What could be more narcissistic than a species of beings that believes that the planet on which they reside and the fellow creatures with whom they share that planet exist for them to use and abuse as they see fit?

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Call for anti-capitalist analyses of the COP15

10-09-2009 20:25

Call for anti-capitalist analyses of the COP15 - linking what´s going on in the COP-process with other dimensions of the capitalist system.

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Climate Rush: Celebration of Community Resistance

10-09-2009 11:51

The Climate Rush 'suffragettes' continued their tour of Southern England on Saturday 5 September with another day of events around Sipson, one of several villages threatened with destruction by plans to build a Third runway at London's Heathrow airport. The day included activists from around the country in a 'Celebration of Community Resistance.' Photos Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Vestas Blade Blockade Steps Up The Pressure By Setting Up A Tripod at Sunsrise

10-09-2009 09:27

On the morning of Thursday 10 September a tripod has now successfully been erected at the marine gate preventing blades from leaving the factory. A worker from the original occupation is currently standing at the top of the tripod as the blockade prepares for an increase in activity on both sides.

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Bristol Bookfair and Co-Mutiny

10-09-2009 09:06

The Bristol anarchist bookfair 2009 sweeps into the city centre on 12 September. Bringing together local and national groups, networks, individuals and distros, the bookfair provides absolutely anything you have ever wanted to know about anarchism, and much more. It is also, this year, the opening event for the Bristol CoMutiny Convergence – details at

http://comutiny.wordpress.com/

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Van Jones

09-09-2009 20:18

An advisor to Obama has just been forced to resign due to a smear campaign by Rupert Murdochs' Glen Beck on Fox News. This may seem irrelevant to IM-UK but have a look at his 'crimes'.

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Contact Eldelman Managment (STOP KINGSNORTH)

09-09-2009 16:10

Edelmen UK are trying to get public support for E-On's new coal powered poer station at Kingsnorth. They are also manipulatig the media (not that they would have to try too hard!) to try and get positive articles in the press relating to the proposed new power station.
Remember Its not built yet and it never will be if we stand up in defence of the earth! Contact them and ask the to stop helping E-On!