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The True Cost of Coal - Sheffield date

11-03-2012 12:18

Bees
2012 Dirty Coal Infotour is coming to Sheffield on Tuesday 20th March.

From 7.30pm. Seminar Room F35 Hicks Building, Sheffield University
Main Campus. Hounsfield Road.

The Beehive Collective's huge portable mural illustrations and an engaging
narrative, “The True Cost of Coal” will take you on an interactive tour

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Fukushima 1 year on: Hinkley Point to be surrounded and blockaded

10-03-2012 14:55

Leading environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and Caroline Lucas MP will join demonstrators at Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster - and to call for a halt to the development of Hinkley C

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Death & Devil

10-03-2012 12:01

This is a message to everybody and nobody from no one in particular. I am writing because you need to know that I have no voice, no face and no identity. I only have a presence. But this includes all the world, even these who continue to abuse it. My past has been stolen from me, since I was looking at the future without an experience of abuse. Now history itself is revisionist because everything in the present is a lie in the flow of time. Any truth has become a target for evil, and the closest thing to evil on Earth, the regime, has attacked the closest thing to truth here, the human yearning. This means you because only you can abolish the regime, clear its legacies and rehabilitate the targeted. You have to decide upon what is to be done and how this can be successfully prevented in the future. Just like there already is a first amendment to the categorical imperative, you can add another one.

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Roadblock stops Shell in Co. Mayo, Ireland for over 5 hours

08-03-2012 20:46

Lock-on blocking Shell's haulage route
Despite heavy sentencing in Belmullet district court two weeks ago, people continue blocking roads to halt Shell's Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo, Ireland.

At 7.30am on Thursday 8th March, a group of people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp blocked Shell's haulage route between Ballinaboy refinery and Shell's tunneling compound in Aughoose. They set up a concrete lock-on which two people inserted their arms into, making it very difficult for police to remove them.

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Is Stratfor spying on you? Wikileaks.

07-03-2012 16:59

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Private American spy agency Stratfor outed by Wikileaks. Audio of Julian Assange, Yes Men, Bhopal charities, Spanish & Italian Press reveal privatization of government docs for sale to corporations, spying on charities & NGO's, and more. Are you being spied on by this American company? Best of press conference London Feb 27th, 2012. Radio Ecoshock show 120307

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Latest Updates from Protect the Wilderness & Reclaim the Fields

06-03-2012 20:18

The Protect the Wilderness campaign attended a court hearing on Monday 5th brought by Gloucestershire County Council. This morning, the Judge gave possession to the council. An eviction is very likely in the immediate days.

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Urgent support needed!tomorrow 2PMGlos CountyCourt.ProtectThe Wilderness

04-03-2012 19:07

Tomorrow, Monday 5th @2pm Gloucester county council are taking Protect the Wilderness to their courthouse (near the docks) with the intention of being granted an IMMEDIATE, and ILLEGAL eviction order for the Wilderness centre. This is a desperate attempt to prevent the reclaim the fields gathering from happening later in the week.

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ProtectTheWilderness Next Public meeting 8th @the Wilderness during RTF

03-03-2012 22:12


Following the Protect The Wilderness Public meeting held at the Miners Welfare Hall on Thursday 1st.

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Forest of Dean Wilderness Centre requires urgent suport

02-03-2012 14:29

The Protect the Wilderness Centre campaign faces the courts on Monday 5th March against Gloucester Council. We are under immediate threat of eviction. Please help.

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Super Quarry Sabotaged

02-03-2012 11:13

Towards the end of last year the super quarry at Bardon Hill in Leictershire was sabotaged. This is the flagship quarry of Bardon Aggrigates, subsiduary of Aggrigate Industries, the company removing mountain tops for roadstone in Glensanda Scotland.

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Anti Shell, Greenwash Flash MOB

29-02-2012 22:26

Anti Shell/Greenwash action tomorrow evening 1st March 5pm

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Free the Climate Scientists!

29-02-2012 18:51

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Dr. John Mashey investigates the right-wing billionaires & corporations who pay alleged "charities", bloggers, and old weathermen to deny climate science. Then Canadian journalist Margaret Munro on government muzzling scientists, plus an update from Union of Concerned Scientists Francesca Grifo on science freedom in U.S.

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Reclaim the Fields Gathering, Wilderness Centre, Forest of Dean, Glos!

27-02-2012 16:21

Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering
@ The Wilderness Centre, Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GL17 0HA

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Schmallenberg or Nuclear iceberg.

27-02-2012 12:27

Birth abnormalities and stillbirths are well known in the world of Nuclear Power, not forgetting Leukaemia and various other cancers.

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BP’s Olympic branding defaced throughout London

26-02-2012 13:13

King's Cross
23rd February – For Immediate Release
Today hundreds of BP signs across London were targeted by activists protesting against the company’s role as ‘Sustainability Partner’ of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Around the capital, protesters hit petrol stations, advertising hoardings, and BP-sponsored cultural institutions[1], disfiguring hundreds of the famous BP ‘sunflower’ logo. Advertisements with the company’s Olympic strapline ‘fuelling the future’ were altered with the addition of three asterisks to make ‘f***ing the future’.

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Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering 2012 - details & updates

24-02-2012 22:11

The first Reclaim the Fields Gathering of the year will be taking place this March 9th- 11th at the Wilderness Centre in the Forest of Dean.

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Historical moment for the welfare of fish

24-02-2012 18:18

International organisations merge to tackle issues of fish sentience and cruelty

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Hinkley Barnstormers need you!!

24-02-2012 17:28

Image credit: D. Viesnik
Apparently, the Occupy Hinkley Barnstormers could be evicted as soon as next Tuesday, after which EDF Energy and its contractors could begin their massive land trash in earnest at any time!!

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Rare habitat under attack, Forest of Dean.

24-02-2012 13:22

Rare habitat under attack, Forest of Dean.
Join us for a nature walk, Saturday 25th from the Wilderness Centre Car park!

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AAAS Hot science (and anti-science)

23-02-2012 05:29

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NASA's Dr. James Hansen: we are heading into a new climate age, not seen for millions of years. Author/science writer Chris Mooney explains the brain and psychology of climate deniers, and the Right in general. No, they are not like us. 2 great talks recorded at the American Academy Advancement of Science meeting 2012.