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Activists deflate tyres of 100 4x4s in Manchester area

23-05-2009 11:51

Eco-activists are suspected of letting down the tyres on over 100 4x4 SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles) in the South Manchester area. Leaflets have been left on the windscreens accusing the owners of damaging the environment.

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Direct Action; Afghanistan, UK, Mexico & Switzerland

22-05-2009 21:56

Video
19th-22nd May

SOLDIERS STOP DOG FIGHT (Afghanistan)
SMEAR CAMPAIGN TARGETS NOVARTIS VIVISECTORS (UK)
SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS BY MEANS OF HAMMERS, PAINT AND FIRE (Mexico)
ARSON DESTROYS EARTH-DESTROYING TRUCK (Mexico)
WINDOWS SMASHED AT BUTCHERS, VEHICLES PAINTED AT FISH FARM (Switzerland)

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Veggie Pride UK, Birmingham, 16th May 2009

21-05-2009 21:56

Compere Rakhee Thakrar
Birmingham played host to the UK's first Veggie Pride event, which celebrated an animal cruelty free lifestyle and promoted Vegetarian and Vegan food. The organizers cited the City’s central location, and the historic link Birmingham has played in the progress of Vegetarianism over the last century and a half, as the reason for location choice

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Eco-Village Occupation, near Hammersmith, London, June 6th.

20-05-2009 15:14

Pure Genius1
you may be aware of the eco-village occupation which is being planned for
Saturday June 6th (see deatils below). The idea is to occupy a disused urban site in SW London
near Hammersmith and to start an eco-village community based on sustainable
methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets the works. Come and be a part of it.

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Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant [Food for the Future]

19-05-2009 00:52

Folks have been beavering away in the Sumac Yard Garden.

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Direct Action; France, Mexico, Belgium, Finland, USA, Chile & Spain

18-05-2009 15:49

14th-18th May

ARSON ATTACK ON NOVARTIS CLUBHOUSE (France)
5 LITERS OF GASOLINE + ONE BUTCHER SHOP (Mexico)
HLS CUSTOMERS TARGETED (Belgium)
ALF KNOCK-AND-RUN (Belgium)
ATTACKS AGAINST NYSE EURONEXT (France)
WINDOWS BROKEN, PAINT THROWN AT CRUEL RETAILER, FUR SHOPS (Finland)
LOCKS GLUED, WINDOWS SMASHED IN SAN FRANCISCO (USA)
BROKEN GLASS AT PROPERTY OF COCKFIGHTER (Mexico)
LOCKS DAMAGED AT ANIMAL MARKET (Chile)
TELMEX TELEPHONES SEALED UP (Mexico)
EXCAVATOR, POLITICAL PARTY HQ VANDALIZED (Spain)

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Rossport Solidarity Camp Gathering - May/June bank holiday

15-05-2009 20:00

From Friday 29th May till Monday 1st June there will be will be a Rossport Camp Gathering combining info sharing, direct action training, music and fun.

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Direct Action; Switzerland, UK, France, Mexico, Australia, Chile & Italy

14-05-2009 23:50

Video
5th-13th May

HOME VISITS FOR NOVARTIS SCUM, AND DEER RUNNING FREE (Switzerland)
LAMBS LIBERATED, BIRD FREED (UK)
SLOGANS PAINTED AT HOME OF FURRIER (France)
MCDONALDS ATTACKED IN GUADALAJARA (Mexico)
BUTCHERS WINDOW AND CCTV SMASHED (UK)
CIRCUS SIGNS VANDALIZED (UK)
ALF TARGETS MEAT EXPORTER (Australia)
MCDONALDS SET ON FIRE (Mexico)
WINDOW SMASHED AT BARCLAYS BANK (UK)
ARSON ATTACK ON SALMON FARMING INDUSTRY ASSOC. HEADQUARTERS (Chile)
PHEASANT PENS DESTROYED (UK)
30 TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)
HUNTING CENTER SMASHED INTO PIECES (Italy)
PIGLET SAVED FROM SLAUGHTER (UK)
MORE TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)
EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINE CLEANSED BY FIRE (Mexico)
TELMEX PHONE LINES SABOTAGED (Mexico)

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Orangutan attempts zoo escape

13-05-2009 22:13

Video Karta the orangutan attempts escape from Adelaide Zoo, Australia
An ingenious 62 kilogram orangutan short circuited electrical wires and climbed a fence using a makeshift ladder in an aborted escape attempt from Adelaide Zoo today.

The elaborate plot by 27-year-old Karta got her to within metres of the public, and resulted in the closure of the zoo on one of its busiest days of the year.

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Clean green war machine

13-05-2009 16:31

Most world class planet and people trashers, including Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Peabody Coal, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Barrick Gold, Monsanto, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Eison, and, Halliburton, have by now added the Green Brand to their corporate image, as have Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and the Pentagon.

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Age of Stupid - Nottingham Indie Screening

13-05-2009 00:31

Flier to print and display
Following the Nottingham premiere of The Age of Stupid, and the Nottingham Not Stupid Festival at Broadway in April, the first Indie Screening of 'The Age of Stupid' in Nottingham is announced.

This film is not about 'the climate', it is about oil, war, politics, consumerism and human stupidity. It is about the future of life on earth.

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The Philippine Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is not safe.

08-05-2009 01:55

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is not safe, not economically sound, not insurable, not sustainable. It is tainted with corruption.

Statement Calling for Rejection of the Proposal to Recommission the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

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Spoof stickers against rising fares on Leeds Buses.

06-05-2009 15:46

Those pests have struck again.

After their spoof of the local paper was so well received the people behind the Yorkshire Evening Pest have responded to yet another rise in the fares on First buses by producing stickers which helpfully inform passengers of both the rise in prices and what the company really thinks of them.

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Direct Action; Germany, Mexico, Italy & Switzerland

04-05-2009 23:47

1st-4th May

PAINT AND PETROL FOR HLS CUSTOMERS (Germany)
MESSAGE SENT TO BULLFIGHT SUPPLIER (Mexico)
CARS SET ON FIRE AT HOME OF FUR FARMER (Italy)
BANKS, MEAT MARKETS, LUXURY CARS TARGETED IN NIGHT OF ACTION (Mexico)
NOVARTIS WORKER VISITED AT HOME (Germany)
BUTCHERS PAINTED RED (Switzerland)

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Time's Up! Read it now for free.

03-05-2009 22:47

There is a book I would like you all to read, and you don't have to pay a single penny for it, if you don't want to; but it could change the way you see the world and live your life, entirely.

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Eleven Bridges by Which Flu and Other Pig Diseases Can Walk Fly Or Swim To Human

02-05-2009 20:49

exposing the Roche Glaxo World Health Organization disinformation
campaign which attempts to obscure the disease generation of factory
farms

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Bristol Coach to Veggie Pride - Saturday 16th May

01-05-2009 16:12

There are still some places left on the coach from Bristol to Veggie Pride:  http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/veggiepride/

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Direct Action; Mexico, USA, Italy & Poland

30-04-2009 13:43

26th-29th April

TELMEX PHONE BOOTH "INFECTED" (Mexico)
GAME FARM RAIDED (USA)
TELMEX VAN TORCHED (Mexico)
DOG RESCUED, HUNTING CENTER VANDALIZED (Italy)
CIRCUS TARP DESTROYED (Poland)
HOAX BOMB AT FAST FOOD RESTAURANT (Mexico)
20 TELMEX BOOTHS SABOTAGED (Mexico)

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Pataxte,(Theobroma Bicolor): Real White Chocolate Of The Guatemala Maya ?

30-04-2009 01:50

Pataxte habitat appears to have been marginalized on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala in the last decades of the 20th century by large scale agricultural mono-culture, especially cotton and sugar cane and cattle.Paradoxically many cacao growers do not even have pataxte growing on their land and providing shade and soil protection and biological diversity as was once the tradition.