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"Why we should end domestic flights" public meeting

12-07-2010 14:54

Public meeting in the build up to the End Domestic Flights demo.

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Warning over Nuclear Industry Freshwater Use

10-07-2010 09:52

A Pictorial View of the Lakes Nuclear Sacrifice Zone - from Coniston Old Man
While Cumbrians face the prospect of £1000 fine for using a hosepipe during
the drought - Sellafield uses the equivalent of Millom, Barrow and
Ulverston's fresh water put together every day. Over 4 million gallons
are abstracted daily from Wastwater, Britain's favourite view, in order to prevent the high level liquid wastes from boiling.

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Bath Bomb #31 Out Now

08-07-2010 23:17

The newest edition of Bath's monthly radical tabloid rag is now ready for hungry eyes: featuring rants about cuts, privatisation, the budget, lions, vegan fayres, climate camps, and nefarious plotting...

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West Midlands Vegan Festival 2010

08-07-2010 20:33

People from across the UK are expected to flock to Wolverhampton on Saturday 30th October 2010 for the 3rd West Midlands Vegan Festival.

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Peat Bog protesters found not guilty

07-07-2010 01:05

The two defendants outside court with supporters
Two environmental activists who chained themselves to machinery at a peat bog extraction site at Chat Moss, Salford, Greater Manchester were acquitted by Salford magistrates court last Monday 5th July 2010.

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End Domestic Flights Now!

06-07-2010 12:13

Start: 04 Sep 2010, 11:00 am

Demonstrations in London and Manchester, Saturday 4th September

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Campaign against agrofuel power station in Ealing successful

05-07-2010 13:17

Ealing London Borough Council's rejection of a proposed agrofuel power station in Southall has been upheld by the Secretary of State, following a planning appeal and public enquiry. More than 1,000 people, mostly from Southall, had objected to the planning application, both because of concerns over further increasing the demand for agrofuels, and over air quality impacts in a heavily polluted urban area.

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An appeal for publicity to help Phoenix get his video footage returned to him

03-07-2010 01:14

Phoenix has lost his video camera with all the footage of the Democracy Village campaign and this is an appeal to help him get publicity to get the video tapes back to him as soon as possible.
Following is the message that Phoenix has just posted on Facebook and it is quite clear that this is a big loss to him.

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Climate Justice? Climate Refugee? Capitalism, Nationalism and Migration

02-07-2010 11:21

The term ‘climate refugee’ is used by more and more activists to connect environmental and anti-racist politics. Here, STEPH DAVIES argues that the term isn’t as unproblematic as it seems.

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350.org - Circle this Date: 10/10/10

02-07-2010 10:01

Dear World,

It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; in Asia some of the highest temperatures ever recorded; in the Arctic, the fastest melting of sea ice ever seen; in Latin America, record rainfalls washing away whole mountainsides.

So we’re having a party.

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Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

01-07-2010 17:20

An MP through a Private Members Bill is aiming to restrict further the possibility of opencast mining in England

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Last Call for Workshops at EF! Summer Gathering

01-07-2010 15:54

The Earth First! Summer Gathering are looking for workshops on all sorts of topics, whether it is about a campaign you are involved in, environmental justice, building sustainable alternatives, green and anarchist theory or perhaps you have a skill you want to pass on.

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Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

01-07-2010 10:14

A Bill that will lessen the environmental and climate change damage caused by opencast mining has just been introduced into the House of Commons

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After the oil rush: BP news

01-07-2010 05:37

Audio
Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill damage the climate, as much as the oceans? Alex wraps up the big picture - including record heat, extreme floods, record Arctic ice melt, & the dying economy.

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Lewes Road Community Garden V Tesco

01-07-2010 00:37

Gardeners and residents on Brighton's Lewes Road Community Garden face the bailiffs in the next few days. THE GARDEN IS OPEN despite sub-contractors Terrins locking up the front gates today (June 30).
More bodies the better over next few days. Gardens By The Community For The Community - Fuck the Corporates...








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The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

30-06-2010 19:05

We live amidst multiple crises -- economic and political, cultural and ecological -- that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.

There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some experience of dread, depression, distress.

To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse.

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Italian company ICOP applying for tunnel tender

30-06-2010 13:38

Italian company ICOP are currently applying for the tender to build the tunnel for the Shell onshore high pressure raw gas pipeline. The local community have been resisting Shell for the last 10 years and are fighting to protect their health, safety and environment.

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Licence to Spill – FULL REPORT - LIBERATE TATE COMMUNIQUE #2

30-06-2010 05:46

Anti BP early action
It was us and it was art!

Last night (28 June), as the Tate celebrated 20 years of BP ‘support’ for British Art with a Summer Party, Liberate Tate disrupted the proceedings inside and out by pouring hundreds of litres of ‘oil’(molasses) and scattering thousands of feathers as the UK’s celebrity glitterati watched on in fascination.

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Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

29-06-2010 20:01

A Member of Parliament is about to introduce a Private Members Bill, which if successful, would significantly reduce the amount of opencast coal produced in England. It will also reduce impacts on local communities by bringing policies in England into line with those operating in Scotland and Wales by introducing the need for 500 metre Buffer zones between opencast sites and areas of settlement.

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Proposed Law would make Minorca type applications History.

29-06-2010 19:52

Andrew Bridgen MP for North West Leicestershire is to introduce a Bill into the House of Commons that would introduce 500 metre buffer zones between areas of opencast mining and areas of settlement in England as already exists in Wales and Scotland