UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

International day against Austrian repression & solidarity with prisoners

25-02-2010 00:00

March 2nd, actions are planned across the world. We call on all of you to organise as many actions as possible in front of Austrian embassies, consulates or other diplomatic missions. Additionally, demonstrations are to take place in Vienna on February 27 and in Wiener Neustadt on the day of the trials opening hearing on March 2nd.

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Sea Shepherd: The Battle Unfolds

24-02-2010 17:21

Southern Ocean, 2nd February 2010

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Tar Sands Oil-ympics – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 13 Feb 10

23-02-2010 16:21

Dateline: Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 12:00-13:30, Sat 13 Feb 10 – On the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Canada, around 50 folk mobilised by the UK Tar Sands Network and London Rising Tide partook of sporting events of a sharper, more satirical sort: The Canadian Tar Sands Oil-ympics. With Canada House as a backdrop, among the Canadian-state-funded ballyhoo of big screen live feeds and 5-ring ice sculptures, we staged tug-o-war, relay race and street curling events to help highlight the biggest single industrial climate crime on Earth: the Canadian-state-backed toxic rape of tar sands deposits in Alberta, and the consequent death wave decimating the boreal forest, its flora, fauna, water courses and indigenous First Nations people.

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Local Democracy Dumped! - Sizewell nuclear plant blockaded again

22-02-2010 09:22

As government ends flawed consultation on nuclear power, anti-nuclear power activists step up resistance and blockade Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, England.

Since 6.40am this morning, anti-nuclear power activists from the 'People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition' [1] have been blockading Sizewell power station in protest against the flawed government consultation on nuclear new build, which ends today, and the dumping of local democracy.

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The End of Obama’s Vision of a Nuke-Free World

20-02-2010 17:58

To secure America, a president must have the courage to dismantle what, in the past, has been proclaimed as the foundation of our survival, but in reality presents us with the seeds of our destruction—nuclear weapons.

Back in April 2009, in a speech delivered in Prague, US President Barack Obama articulated his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Since that time, however, the Obama administration has offered very little of substance to push this vision forward.

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Cardiff Million Green Jobs Campaign Launch

20-02-2010 14:19

Environmentalists and Trade Unions unite for Climate & Social Justice:
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7:30pm
O'Neills (Upstairs function room) 20, Trinity St, Central Cardiff
(near the Indoor Market)
With short fillms, speakers and discussion

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Rough Music #23 Out Now

20-02-2010 10:43

Yer Dirt Digging, Muck-Raking Rag (Feb/March) - Out Now on the streets of Brighton...

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Support the Local Campaign Against Bradley Proposed Open-cast

17-02-2010 19:16

This years EF! winter moot was held in Dipton Community Centre, which looks over the proposed site for an open-cast at Bradley. Members of the local campaign against the mine have asked if people who attended the moot, (as well as those who didn't) would write in their objection to the development.

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Sony, Nora Ephron, Julie Powell, and Others Teach Children to Kill Animals

17-02-2010 18:45

Desensitizing the public to animal slaughter is dovetailed
with desensitizing people to human slaughter

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Public Meeting: Is Clean Coal An Act Of Faith?

16-02-2010 12:42

Talk by Terry Fox and Jenny Patient about the promised new technology to save the world from climate chaos. Organised by Sheffield Humanist Society, all welcome.

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Peak soil

14-02-2010 22:14

"Dirt" (2008) by David Montgomery deals with the relation between soil erosion and civilization collapse. It is neither the first nor the only book that examines this subject. It is, however, written by a soil scientist, and it brings to a deeper level the understanding of how soil disappears and how this affects agriculture and, in turn, society.

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IWW 4 IWD Judi Bari Film Fri. 5th March Glasgow

14-02-2010 16:38

IWW Clydeside celebrates International Womens' Day with a screening of:
'The Forest For The Trees'
The amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First and IWW activist Judi
Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist by
the FBI.
Followed by talk by US IWW member Susan Dorazio.

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Activist Sentenced to Two Years for A.L.F. Mink Liberation

13-02-2010 02:31

Calling him a “terrorist” and following through on his threat to more than quadruple the recommended sentence, judge Dee Benson Thursday sentenced William Viehl to two years in federal prison. It is the first sentence handed down under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

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Bath Bomb #27 Out Now

12-02-2010 12:46

Yes, the new issue of the so-called 'monthly' Bath-based radical free sheet is once again ready for public perusal...

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Nuclear bomb opponents gear up for direct action at Aldermaston on Monday

12-02-2010 12:44

http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1592

http://blockawe.blogspot.com

Trident Ploughshares Press Release
Friday 12 February, 2010
For immediate release

Nuclear bomb opponents gear up for direct action as new warhead facility gets green light

Campaigners from Trident Ploughshares [1] have slammed the approval of a new enriched uranium facility, saying it gives added justification to their blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England next week. [2]

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Camden Animal Lab : [BLISS Lab] UKCMRI meeting joined by Peter Pan

11-02-2010 04:59

Residants at development control forum meeting to discuss the propsed BLISS Lab or UKCMRI projetc were stunned as a photo of a Peter Pan photo was used as background for the UKCMRI "big guns" including sir Paul Nurse of the Rockefeller Insititute, Sir Les head of the MRC, Camden council, John Cooper and a group of seriously angry Camden residents. Tempers flared at the meeting.

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New Earth First! Action Update is out!

09-02-2010 17:23

Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action - the new Earth First!
Action Update is out!

Get your quarterly round-up of ecological direct action from the UK and
beyond

To download for printing,

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10print.pdf

To download for on-screen reading,

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10.pdf

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Lost in Translation

08-02-2010 13:50

Debating radical political culture in Germany, the UK and beyond...

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Aldermaston Big Blockade, 15 February 2010 - Press Release

08-02-2010 12:58

Campaigners plan to shut down nuclear bomb factory as they call for disarmament of Trident and abolition of nuclear weapons

On Monday 15 February, from 7am, hundreds of campaigners from England, Scotland, Wales and other countries will aim to block access to every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England.[1] The blockade, initiated by Trident Ploughshares (TP) and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp(aign) (AWPC)[2] and other groups, aims to halt construction of multi-billion pound facilities for research and development of a new generation of nuclear warheads. [3, 4]

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Call-out for international week against biotechnologies

06-02-2010 18:42

Have received this call-out from Italy, read and support if you can/want