UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Big Vegan Fair in Brum City Centre, Sat 6th July

26-06-2013 21:23

A vegan paradise is coming to Birmingham City Centre, for one day only! On Saturday 6th July, Carrs Lane Church Centre will be filled with nearly 50 vegan stalls, top vegan caterers, inspiring talks, mouth-watering cookery demos and much more! Open from 10.30am - 4pm. Admission is FREE.

http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk

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Sabotage Against Shell’s Pipeline in Erris, Ireland

23-06-2013 16:07

Yesterday morning around 50 Shell to Sea campaigners kicked off the Week of Action against Shell’s experimental high pressure gas pipe in Erris by tearing up the bog road Shell has laid as part of its attempt to finish the pipeline. They also destroyed the sandbag dam that Shell were attempting to build across part of the estuary in order to be able to work on the pipeline route regardless of the tides. This was accomplished in full view of about 15 security from IRMS – the security company hired by Shell to repress protest.

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Help Stop Opencast Coal Mine in Northumberland

16-06-2013 14:43

After many delays Northumberland Council will decide whether mining at Whittonstall will be allowed on the 2nd July. Whittonstall Action Group are asking that concerned people write a letter of objection to this application. If you do not live in the area your comments are still valid as tourism is very important to the local economy. For more details about what to include please see

http://www.whittonstallactiongroup.co.uk/letter.php

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FLF (food liberation front) action last friday - some pics and words

16-06-2013 12:31

a small protest specifically against asda and more generally against global food policies, corporations, monsanto, GMOs, G8 and austerity, was characterised again by massive overpolicing in a week of repressive crackdown on anti-G8 protests in london.

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'they owe us' - canary wharf - J14 - pics and words

15-06-2013 23:26

on friday, as part of the london week of action prior to the G8 in northern ireland, a few hundred people protested in the belly of the capitalist beast, canary wharf. in some ways a victory, in many ways a disappointment.

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Audio: Sheffield - Building our Response to the Climate Challenge

15-06-2013 14:28

Attached are audio recordings and slides from the "Building our Response to the Climate Challenge" public meeting which was co-organised by Sheffield Climate Alliance and Sheffield City Council on 13th June 2013.

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Roads to Nowhere - National Rally against Roadbuilding July 13

12-06-2013 08:42

Nationally, there are plans afoot to build hundreds of miles of new roads, at a cost of at least £30bn. Catastrophic climate change, devastating species loss and huge cuts in public spending notwithstanding, George Osborne is determined that these roads must be built.
Come to the beautiful Combe Valley in East Sussex on Saturday July 13, site of the proposed Bexhill Hastings Link Road - the 'first and worst' of the new roads - to say NO to this destruction.
Rally, route walks and a chance to meet others who are determined to stop this madness. Organised by Campaign for Better Transport, Combe Haven Defenders and Hastings Alliance, supported by Greenpeace, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), CPRE Sussex, RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and Bexhill Link Road Resistance (Blinkrr).

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Bradley Manning Solidarity at Hambacher Forst

10-06-2013 16:13

In the context of the military trial concerning the publication of the war logs on Wikileaks, environmental activists protesting against the coal mine at Hambach Forest have installed a solidarity banner for Bradley Manning in front of the American military presence in the neighbourhood of our resistance camp. Since last week, an excavation of the remains of a military pilot who crashed in WWII is taking place in the area because RWE's annihilation of the landscape for the open cast mine seems to be perceived as a threat there as well.

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Stop G8 Convergence Space Going Well

09-06-2013 09:32

Bringing Anarchism back to Soho! The Convergence Space has kicked off well - but more people needed!

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vigil at EDFenergy HQ in victoria tonight - pics and report

06-06-2013 22:52

several dozen supporters held a noisy vigil at the london offices of EDF this evening after a nottingham court passed down non-custodial sentences today to 21 activists who had been involved in protesting at an EDF power station last october.

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Will Humans Go Extinct Soon?

06-06-2013 06:10

Investigating claims of near-term extinction for humans. Clips from Guy McPherson, John D. Cox, Dr. David Archer. Interview w. John Michael Greer. Analysis of predictions by Malcolm Light of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG). Radio Ecoshock 130605

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Demonstration against UK Coal at High court

05-06-2013 15:25

Social Justice and Environmental Campaigners demonstrated at the High Court of Justice, London.

Today desperate Coal Company - UK Coal sought to over-rule the community, Durham Council and the Secretary of State’s Inspectors to be allowed to mine over half a million tonnes of coal from rural County Durham.

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Marie Vesco – 5th anniversary ride

28-05-2013 18:46

In Marie’s memory, and as a tribute to her, we have arranged a bike ride and hope to draw to the attention of the British authorities the lack of safety for cyclists and vulnerable road users in the UK. The ride will take place on 4 – 5 June 2013, from Hickstead to Portsmouth, along the route that Marie was cycling when she was killed.

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Tornado Over A Mile Wide And 200 MPH Hit Moore Oklahoma In US

21-05-2013 23:12

Tornado Alley in the US is a group of states with extensive cattle operations and virtually no trees.

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Facebook Bans Message to Peter Jackson About Filming Bilderberg Protests

20-05-2013 11:57

Eco-warriors and other anti-capitalist protesters are preparing for massive protests against the Bilderberg Conference at the Grove hotel at Watford England from 5 to 9 June 2013 where presidents and prime ministers will secretly meet the bankers and corporate leaders who illegally employ them just one week before the G8 summit in Ireland.
Most of the mainstream media is refusing to publish or broadcast any news about the protests against the secret world government of the Bilderberg Group and even Facebook has banned a message to Peter Jackson proposing the filming of the reality TV show for the children about the imminent extinction of the human race by global warming as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

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LAON's April Review of English Opencast Sites

09-05-2013 14:40

This review updates information on planning developments affecting new English Opencast sites. In addition, it has information on the sites that would be affected if UK Mine Holdings / UK Coal Operations were, as recent press stories indicate, to go into administration. In addition it has news on the the land slip at Hatfield Colliery, latest developments over the Helsley Wood Tip and opencast mining on the Canobie Coalfield.

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UK ready? Fracking Sacrifice Zones in U.S. West

05-05-2013 18:52

Fracking: Sacrifice Zones of the American West. What can the UK expect? Four voices from the Bakken shale lands. Polluting oil & gas extraction impacts in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana & North Dakota. The dark side of the fracking boom.

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The Age of Super Fires

30-04-2013 05:41

The new age of super fires in N. America, Europe, Australia, Asia. Silviculturalist John Betts explains strange unstoppable forest fires. Then Nicole Rycroft, Exec Dir of enviro group "Canopy". Why they quit talks with industry, as logging ravages the Canadian Boreal forest. Plus MD Donald B. Louria says loss of faith in the future can kill. Radio Ecoshock 130501 1 hour.

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Affirmative: Fracking Awareness North Somerset is go, go, GO!

28-04-2013 16:34

Fracking Awareness North Somerset (F.A.N.S) is a new organisation seeking to mobilize community based resistance against fracking. We aim to build a network of groups all over North Somerset to collectively struggle against the insidious threat posed by fracking to our local communities and landscape.

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Scottish Coal's Collapse : A Failure of the Planning System

25-04-2013 16:34

LAON's Press Release questions the role the Scottish Planning System has played in this tragic sequence of events. It draws attention to the fact that 18 opencast sites are affected, not just the six often mention in most news items on this story and suggests that some form of public inquiry is needed if trust is to be restored into the Scottish Planning System and lessons learned so that this situation can be avoided in the future.