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The Hidden Pollution Issue

22-05-2007 23:57

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we live, we are all contaminated with harmfull chemicals that threaten our health and that of our children.

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Colombians to speak out in Manchester - hear the truth about BP

22-05-2007 16:20

Meeting poster
Public Meeting

Monday 25 June, 7.30 pm
Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess St, Manchester

Speakers from Colombia:

-Edgar Mojica - Human Rights Commission of USO, the Oilworkers Union
-William Manuel Vega Vargas - president of COSPACC, the community alliance in Casanare (the region where BP operates)
-Adelso Gallo - representing the social organisations of Arauca
-Isaac Marín Lizarazo – a campesino leader for twenty years
-Luis Humberto Hernandez - researcher at Universidad Nacional

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CRTICAL MASS - friday - may be the biggest ever?

22-05-2007 07:55

police have won a high court appeal. it means that 'organisers' of the critical mass bike ride have to inform the police ahead of time and negotiate a fixed route. since there are really no organisers, the mass will have difficulty complying. it is simply a get-together of cyclists to go for an unorganised but synchronistic ride. a large turn-out will complicate the enforcement of this repressive decision.

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Earth First! summer gathering - 18-22 July - flyer downloadable/website updated

21-05-2007 11:40

What is the Earth First! Summer Gathering?

* Are you fed up with bare-faced lies from politicians, big business and the media?
* Have you had enough of a world where corporate profit comes before life and dignity?
* Do you want to see an end to mindless consumption>
* Then this Gathering is for you! Read on...

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Planning Steamroller Set To Roll

20-05-2007 20:16

Planning proposals due to be published this week by British Government will serve big business and disadvantage communities.

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Bollocks to Reading Borough Council! Community Garden opens on schedule.

20-05-2007 10:04

Stuff you, RBC, we open anyway.
Despite an injunction issued only two days before, the Common Ground Community Garden celebrated its opening on 19th May.

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Photos - "Napolimania, Politicians, Garbage Emergency, Garbage people"

20-05-2007 07:53

Photo 1
Naples, Italy - May 19, 2007

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What If...It Wasn't Our Fault

19-05-2007 21:46

Imagine a world where humans were not to blame for climate change.

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Activists target M1 - Press Release

18-05-2007 09:40

Here is a copy of a press release sent widely to the mainstream media - for info and interest.

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Food Up Front project

17-05-2007 22:36

Food Up Front is a permaculture project that grew from last autumn's Naturewise Design Course aimed at encouraging and inspiring city people to utilise the space around them for edible landscaping.

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Eviction & Injuction Against Squatted Garden? Reading Resists!

17-05-2007 17:26

Common Ground Occupied Community Garden in Katesgrove is threatened by Reading Borough Council already! Join the party, join the resistance!

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April Was Third Warmest Ever

17-05-2007 15:35

Yesterday NOAA reported that the global mean
temperature for April ranked as the 3rd warmest
in recorded history. This is in the trend for the
past 11 years.

March was the fifth warmest on record.
Dec. to Feb. was the warmest on record.
2006 was the warmest year on record.
2005 tied for the warmest year on record.
10 of the 11 warmest years on record have
occurred since 1995.

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Free Screening of The Lie of the Land

17-05-2007 15:23

Free Screening of Molly Dineen's Chanel 4 Documentary - The Lie of the Land - 6.30pm at the RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2 - Monday 21st May, 2007

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Will EU Funding be used in Ireland to destroy European heritage?

17-05-2007 08:41

Tara
Irish ancient royal site to be bulldozed using European taxpayers money?

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Cloud and weather modification:

16-05-2007 08:43

How they do it:
This article refers to secret experiments that were (perhaps still are?) conducted in the 1950's in the U.K by the Government of the time;

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Let Mark Lynas Speak! Response to Cardiff Council Leader

15-05-2007 17:01

Mark Lynas will (Rodney Berman's antics permitting) be introducing a talk and slide-show based on his latest book - Six Degrees - Our Future on a Hotter Planet at the Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University on Thursday 17 May at 7 pm.

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Haringey Critical Mass 2007

15-05-2007 15:01

Can't make it to Germany? Sick of the all those cars getting in your way on the autobahn! Don't despair...join us on Saturday 9th of June for the 2007 Haringey Critical Mass. A leisurely ride down the Green Lanes to reclaim our streets and send a breath of fresh air to those meeting in Germany.

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Food and Hospitals Not Bombs - April 28th

15-05-2007 14:53

hospitals not bombs
Workers publicising the campaign against local NHS cuts joined by Food Not Bombs, rebranded for a day.

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May Update on Liverpool Garden Festival Campaign

14-05-2007 20:11

It's been a busy month in the battle to save the former Garden Festival site from a fate worse than death: being turned into yet more luxury flats for yuppies.

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US Climate Science Reduced to a 'Pack o Lies'

14-05-2007 17:31

by Don Beck

"It seems more like Nazi Germany or the
Soviet Union than the United States" -
Dr. James Hansen, NASA climatologist

Keep the facts of global warming away from
the American people.....they can't handle the
truth. That is the message we are getting from
this Administration who have placed political
appointees to head key agencies in order to
filter and even alter the scientific facts.

In February, the leading climatologist at NASA,
Dr. James Hansen testified to a congressional
committee in a hearing looking into the Bush