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Support Eric McDavid

30-05-2008 18:49

45 second clip about Eric's case:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kgXvx94YjY

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MCR Critical Mass tonight!!!

30-05-2008 09:22

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CRITICAL MASS
Friday 30th May 6pm
Central Library Manchester

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Support the imprisoned activists & hunger strikers in Austria

29-05-2008 18:43

PRESS RELEASE: 14 persons charged, 10 arrested, 5 on hunger strike.
Dated: Thursday 29th May 2008

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Direct Action Mexico: Six Month Review

29-05-2008 15:47

Mexico City Leather Company Painted
multinationals vandalized, circuses sabotaged,
pharmacy locks glued, furriers redocorated,
restuarants sabotaged, grills dismantled,
butchers and markets painted,
puppies and doves liberated,
& meat suppliers torched...

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Noise demo against imminent open cast coal mine 9th June

29-05-2008 10:20

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A new open-cast coal mine site is about to get underway in beautiful Derbyshire, unless we stop it now. Help us send the message loud and clear to UK Coal to leave it in the ground!

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Tre Arrow reached a non-cooperation plea agreement

28-05-2008 22:20

American eco-activist, Tre Arrow, has reached a non-cooperation plea agreement with the authorities concerning the ELF charges against him. Below is a statement which his support campaign has circulated.

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Surviving Powercuts&/or conspiracies to end Gordon Brown - a "Q&A"

28-05-2008 21:43

The UK national grid has taken the blame for power cuts which left hundreds of thousands of Britons (& Scottish people) without electricity yesterday for more substantial reasons than being scared of violating their probation status by leaving their hovels with an electronic tag device around their ankle to stick their charge key in the meter.

The tone thus set, a simple "Q&A" for people who'd like to know how to make their own electricity so that dark hidden conspiracies to make Gordon Brown as unpopular as Harold Wilson affect not their households.

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Fur shops & foie gras supplier targeted

28-05-2008 17:14

FIVE FUR SHOPS CLOSED WITHIN A YEAR (Sweden)
FUR INDUSTRY UNDER ATTACK AS NEVER BEFORE (Norway)
FOIE GRAS SUPPLIER VANS PAINTED (UK)

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Leave it in the Ground’s Picnic in the Park trespass report

28-05-2008 15:33

Around 70 people had set of to travel on a bank holiday Monday which is no easy task as public transport has a natural tendency not to run or has a limited service on bank holidays, for a picnic in a remote part of Derbyshire. The weather reports had all predicted thundery showers for the day, which seems to be normal for a bank holiday outing.

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Film of anti-GM demo

27-05-2008 23:08

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This film shows the anti-GM demo at BASF.

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Fuelling the Fire

27-05-2008 16:32

Rising oil prices offer the best hope of curbing carbon emissions in the short term, but they also reflect our unquenchable thirst for the black gold. Just don’t mention the ‘R’ word…

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Mitrovica lead crisis: Romano Them asks for comprehensive information from UN

27-05-2008 14:00

A survey, which was produced by the Institute of Public Health in Kosovska Mitrovica at the request of the representatives of the IDP camps in Northern Mitrovica confirmed previous allegations, according to which the lead level in the blood of Romani children living in these camps has remained at an alarmingly high level.

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Please help to stop the UK's first vegetable oil power plant

27-05-2008 13:49

The company Blue NG has applied for planning permission to build the UK's first vegetable oil power plant in the UK, in Beckton, Newham. They plan a total of eight such plants overall. They specifically refer to burning palm oil, as well as rapeseed oil and jatropha oil in that plant. See below for details of forthcoming protests against those plans.

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Trespassers oppose coal mine plan

26-05-2008 22:44

The campaigners say the open cast mine will damage the environment

People who do not want a new opencast coal mine on land adjoining a country park in Derbyshire have held a protest.

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Midsummer Common Cows Protest – Go Veg!

26-05-2008 22:12

Protest held on the Saturday 24th May 08.

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The law and truckers on the same side

26-05-2008 19:34

The Met are as politically motivated as ever

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EarthFirst! Summer Gathering, Aug 27 - Sep 1, Norfolk

26-05-2008 13:58

Worried about how the planet is getting trashed? Wanna do something about it?
Five days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders. Meet people, learn skills, take action!

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Redditch Green Fair stallholders - 23 and counting...

26-05-2008 12:32

Sat 7 June - Redditch Green Fair. 10.30am - 3pm. FREE Admission.

The number of stallholders is growing all the time - the list below will be updated(on our website) as and when bookings are confirmed.

If you would like a stall yourself, or you would like to suggest a company/organisation that may like a stall, please contact us.  http://www.redditchgreenfair.org.uk

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Via Campesina protests at the Convention on Biological Diversity

25-05-2008 10:54

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During the current Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Bonn, Via Campesina and other social movements and activists have been organising a series of protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business". 22nd May saw a banner protest, with noise and leafletting during the official celebrations of Biodiversity and at an agribusiness industry lunch.

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An invitation for all to travel to Finland this summer: IANF 2008

24-05-2008 10:49

International Anti Nuclear Festival, 23-28 June 2008 is the first international activist gathering in Finland, on this summer. This is an open invitation for all activists of Europe and the World to come and join us - let's show the Finnish how good fun can activism be!