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Shell to Sea stop early pipeline work (late october)

13-11-2007 19:38

accounts posted on Irish indymedia several weeks ago.

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Nuclear Warhead Convoy Blockaded in Scotland

13-11-2007 16:31

Warhead convoy passing through Balloch at night
Activists from Faslane Peace Camp stopped a nuclear convoy near Balloch for half an hour whilst it was en route from RNAD Coulport to AWE Burghfield.

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Freecycle threaten to sue community group!

13-11-2007 12:32

A Slough community-arts festival, FennerFest, included a "Freecycle: bring & take!" night, to celebrate the sharing & waste reduction ethos of the Freecyle movement - little did they know Freecycle is actually a private American company with trademarks, who turn the lawyers on anyone they don't like (eg us), and are also sponsored by a large American waste company!

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Climate Action News Sheet, 73 November 2007

11-11-2007 22:46

Compiled and sent out by Rising Tide UK: info at risingtide.org.uk
To receive this News Sheet monthly, email news-subscribe at risingtide.org.uk
with the subject line 'subscribe' (without the quotes).

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New 10-minute film on Shell in County Mayo

11-11-2007 21:27

Stills from the film: Broadhaven Bay, the pipeline route
A new ten-minute film has been released tonight on Current TV called Policing The Pollution: "Don't Mention The Water."

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From the ashes of despair, the seeds of solidarity might spring?

10-11-2007 12:06

Faced with the pervasive onslaught and destruction of the ecosystems, the natural ecology, the social ecology, and the psychological ecology, by the way of the world as it is today, I express my frustration and impotence with traditional forms of protest and in the naked vulnerability of my lack of ability to positively influence the flow of events, I ask for input and hope to plant the seeds of solidarity.

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save pinsey wood from paintballers

09-11-2007 09:08

save pinsey wood from paintballers ending public access and threatening ecology

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the Great Aviation Debate- Manchester 15th November

08-11-2007 23:22

On Thursday 15th November representatives from Manchester Airport and Manchester Plane Stupid will be among six panellists debating the future of aviation in Manchester. The meeting, which is free to attend, is at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, starting at 7.30 sharp.

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Climate campaigners oppose meddling with the oceans

08-11-2007 11:49

On Monday 5th November climate change campaigners from Camp for Climate Action, Rising Tide and BioFuel Watch took action against geo-engineering (deliberate modification of Earth's environment on a large scale) companies who are hoping to make a great deal of money from carbon credits by encouraging the growth of phytoplankton in the oceans . They claim this will 'sequester' carbon dioxide, a technology known as 'ocean seeding'.

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Ding - Rooley Moor, valuing our South Pennine habitats and biodiversity

07-11-2007 17:09

mosses on old rackfaces
Campaigners challenging the reopening of Ding Quarry are investigating the ecological importance of Rooley Moor.
To some it appears a bleak, perhaps barren hinterland. However, there is far more to this area of the South Pennines than meets the eye:

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Public Meeting: The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

07-11-2007 12:46

The Hidden Holocaust
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
20th November 2007, 6pm

LT1, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Imperial College
London
Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London, SW7 2AZ

2007: global food shortages cause riots (FAO)

2008: global banking collapse (Arlington Institute)

2011: world oil reserves critically depleted (Independent)

2015: climate change point-of-no-return (Guardian)

2025: two-thirds of world in water shortage (BBC)

2100: Earth uninhabitable (UN)

The crisis of the planet Earth is so profound that all of our lives will be caught up in it.

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Dismayed by the the lack of hemp on this site

07-11-2007 11:31

this is regarding the serious lack of hemp in the environmental movement. although it would also help just about every other grassroots movement. i would have thought that being alternative media, there'd be something on hemp. i was especially surprised by the sister site  http://climateimc.org/
which throws up 1 article in a search for "hemp". a search on greenpeace is similarly depressing. www.foe.co.uk is a little better. it seems there's more in the mainstream. eg. www.theecologist.org

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New warhead facility at AWE Burghfield: just three days left to object

06-11-2007 21:26

DEADLINE for planning objections to new warhead components facility at Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield, Berkshire is **FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER**. Please don't miss this opportunity to put a spanner in the works of Britain's WMD renewal programme (sample email/letter provided).

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25,000 blockade worlds longest dam in India

06-11-2007 04:29

Sorry but Its late and im too tired to write this up fresh for indymedia, this is still a corporate media press release. I'll post updates from this blockade later on today.

Solidarity would be hugely appreciated as India's Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of mining corporation Vedanta to be able to mine the Niyamigiri Hills in Orissa, which will mean the death of thousands of people and will set a precedent for the mining of all of India's forests.

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Preston Public Meeting To Debate Ribble Barrage and Floodplain Housing Threat

05-11-2007 22:30

Come to voice your opinion about the Riverworks Ribble Barrage and Floodplain housing plans.

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Sneintons' Saturday 'Bike About' (a not critical mass)

04-11-2007 12:26

Frustrated at the lack of cycling provision in Sneinton (and everywhere else), people gathered at Belvoir Hill, near Greens Windmill, on Saturday afternoon. The group wasn't very large but that didn't stop the determined cyclists from having a good time! It was the first such event and everyone agreed it should continue at 4pm on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month. So, on yer bikes, see you on 17th November, 4pm, at Belvoir Hill, near Greens Windmill to join us for a lovely bikeride with music..

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Save Tasmania’s Forests - Protest in London 16 November

03-11-2007 22:11

Protest in London to coincide with Australian elections - tell Australia's politicians that the proposed new pulp mill in Northern Tasmania will be disastrous for the environment.

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Remembering Rooley Moor’s “Cotton Famine Road”

03-11-2007 08:59

The "Cotton Famine" Road
Abraham Lincoln and Lancashire cotton workers:

Ongoing research by Ding Quarry protestors is confirming the historic importance of the upper sections Rooley Moor Road above the Spodden Valley, known for generations as the “Cotton Road” or “Cotton Famine Road”.

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New Bumper EF! Action Update now out - and advance notice of the Feb Winter Moot

02-11-2007 22:28

The latest issue of the quarterly EF!AU was dished up at the Anarchist Bookfair - bursting at the seams, it had to be turned into a bumper issue, with a round-up of the actions around the time of the Camp for Climate Action, plus loads of action reports from around the world since then - from pieing oil executives, blockading garages & airports, polar bears locking-on, sabotage, prisoners, occupied spaces, digger-diving, GM crop-trashing, to cake and the cunning use of mung beans (oh, and of course, much much more).