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Take Back the Land: site taken, Glentaggart East occupied!

11-07-2012 11:52

Yesterday evening we occupied Scottish Coal’s new opencast mine site in the Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire, for Take Back the Land! – a week of action against the destruction of opencast mining.

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Take Back the Land! Just days to go…

08-07-2012 17:49

There’s just days to go until a week of action against opencast coal in the Douglas Valley – a place where the ruling class is crushing communities for their own financial gain, where ecological destruction is taking place on a massive scale for the profits of big energy companies and where absentee fat-cat land-lords make millions off land that shouldn’t be theirs . Join us 12-18 July in the Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire, to build on 20 years of community struggle and four years of direct action against the UK’s biggest opencast mining company.

Read on for programme highlights, how you can get involved and direct action resources. We’re ready – but the question is: is Scottish Coal?

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BP Brand Piracy Action

06-07-2012 09:41

On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, activists targeted BP logos throughout London, highlighting the Greenwash of BP being the "Sustainability Partner" of the London Olympics. This is a short film of an action at a high-profile billboard.

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Insurrectionary action update (Global)

03-07-2012 13:48

[in no particular order, a few recent reports of anarchist attacks....] "Cell of Revolutionary Action for the Destruction of the State – Autonomous Cells for Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrero" (CAR-PGG) responsibility claim for explosive packages to Greek embassy (Mexico) // railroad sabotage in Montreal by "Invisible Committee for the End of Their History" against capitalist conference (Canada) // direct actions during the No Border camp in Stockholm (Sweden) // "Anarchist Revolutionary Group Antifascist Action" claims responsibility for bombing radio station Diavlos in Rodopi (Greece) // claim for attack on Nea Dimokratia offices in Athens (Greece) // explosive attacks on police station in Santiago (Chile) // bombs on the construction site of a new prison in Marche (Belgium) // Van loaded with explosives driven into Microsoft’s Athens HQ (Greece) // Communique for sabotage of Duke Energy trucks, Bloomington (USA) // insurrectionary news from Munich (Germany) // solidarity with the insurrection in Montreal (Canada) from Atlanta (USA) // Police cars attacked, Denman Island (Canada) // words of solidarity with the Cleveland 5 anarchists stung by the FBI (USA) // COUNTER INFO SOURCES = 325, ActForFreedomNow, WarOnSociety

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Keir Starmer QC invites Drax power station protesters to appeal

03-07-2012 12:30

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC said he had concerns about the safety of the convictions following the Drax power station protest in 2008.

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Pebble Mill Social Centre survives flash flooding

02-07-2012 14:39

Last Thursday 28th June the Birmingham Social Centre @ Pebble Mill had to be evacuated after a months worth of rain fell in less than an hour causing the nearby river to burst its banks, completely flooding the squatted social centre knee deep in water. A few days of hard work later however and the social centre is now open again

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New Health Risks and Opencast Mining

02-07-2012 12:48

The June Review of developments affecting Opencast Mining from the Loose Anti Opencast Network provides new evidence that Surface Mine workers in the USA contract 'Black Lung' disease. Secondly it reviews recent developments in Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK and lastly updates what the situation is on prospective and actual opencast sites in England.

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Two weeks to go: Take Back the Land! 12-18 July

28-06-2012 20:46

In two weeks we’ll be setting up for 6 days of resistance to corporate rule in the Douglas Valley. We’ll be taking on the UK’s largest opencast coal mining company, landlord-aristocrat-banker Lord Home and South Lanarkshire Council – together they conspire to make a few people very wealthy, whilst communities are left disempowered, disenfranchised and to suffer all the impacts that living next to opencast mines bring. The Douglas Valley is a sacrifice zone for the ruling class – but don’t despair! Scottish Coal are in big financial trouble and there’s been no better time to hit them where it hurts. In fact, its time to Take Back the Land!

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Just Do It - direct action doc now available online for free!

28-06-2012 15:16

Just Do It - a tale of modern-day outlaws, the bold and inspiring direct action documentary charting the escapades of Climate Camp, Climate Rush and Plane Stupid is now available to watch online!

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Earth First! Summer Gathering Update

28-06-2012 12:25

It’s only six weeks until the Earth First! Summer Gathering begins.
Five days of workshops, info sharing and learning new skills.

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Dirty Coal Plans Defeated: CONCH have won!

27-06-2012 14:10

Yesterday evening Ayrshire Power withdrew their plans for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston on Scotland’s west coast – a great victory against new coal. They are also withdrawing from the current CCS demonstration project funding competitions, and the Public Local Inquiry set to take place this Autumn for the plans will also not be going ahead. Ayrshire Power says it took the decision because of uncertainties around securing the necessary financial investment to build the power station in the current economic climate – but we say its down to all the hard and tireless work of campaigners who have fought the plans for three years. Well done Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston!

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Groups urge world leaders to reject “Green Economy” in Rio+20 summit

27-06-2012 13:11

MANILA, Philippines - Various cause-oriented groups warned the Philippine delegation and world leaders attending the three-day United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil not to fall into the trap of believing that the proposed "Green Economy" is "a tool and mechanism for sustainable development."

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KARI-OCA 2 DECLARATION

19-06-2012 18:39

“INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON RIO+20 AND MOTHER EARTH”
13 -22 June 2012

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Take Back the Land – less than a month to go!

18-06-2012 10:11

There’s just less than a month to go before Take Back the Land! – the Douglas Valley’s action camp against opencast coal – and the struggle against corporate greed, fat-cat landlords and corrupt local government is heating up.

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Frack Off: Activists Blockade Fracking Drill

18-06-2012 08:50

Anti-fracking group, Frack Off, is blockading the site of Cuadrilla Resource’s drilling rig. Twenty people descended on the site at 5am and are blockading the entrance. The site is owned by PR Marriot who is Cuadrilla’s lead drilling contractors.

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Romney's Abusive Record Re Cows, Sheep, Pigs, Horses, Cats, Dogs

13-06-2012 19:09

Please send this to animal rights groups

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'Fracking' - a protest song

11-06-2012 13:14

‘Fracking’ – a protest song.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vsa9f1rxdrxlbpr
‘Fracking’ is a song written in opposition to the industrial extraction of fossil-fuel shale gas by hydraulic fracturing, and aims to increase awareness of the many dangers that fracking presents. The protest song has a long tradition across all types of movements and struggles, and it is hoped that this recording can do its small bit to help build community resistance to fracking across the world.

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Technology Will Not Save US

10-06-2012 21:02

Michael Huesemann, co-author of "Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment" interviewed by The Extraenvironmentalist. Then "Alternative Radio" founder David Barsamian recorded in Vancouver: what should we do? Radio Ecoshock 120613

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Current Opposition to Opencast Mine Applications in England

08-06-2012 12:16

This, the 1st press release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network list 12 sites in England where there has been expressions of interest about opencast for coal on the site. The press release also indicates why this will be a continuing 'itch' in the English planning system as up to 97% of the surface mineable coal in England is located within 500m of where people live. England unlike Scotland or Wales does not operate a system where policy normally prohibits mining is such circumstances.

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Communities Reject Ecotourism Plans in the Lacandón

04-06-2012 09:57

** For the Zapatistas, the aim is to rob them of their lands

** Analysis by the investigator Alicia Gómez of UAM-Xochimilco

Sent by: Hermann Bellinghausen,

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, June 1, 2012