UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Privatizing water in Greece

10-07-2013 15:48

Despite the fact that international exprerience shows that water privatization is harmful to the interests of citizens, the Greek government is pushing ahead with privatizing water supply and sewerage companies. In this report for UNFOLLOW magazine, Christos Avramidis and Antonis Galanopoulos present several sides of the issue, including a much debated attempt to claim the Thessaloniki water supply company for the people of the city.

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National Rally against UK Road Building Schemes

10-07-2013 10:20

July 13th join us for rally against UK road building schemes.

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Coal companies failing. UK Coal taken over by The PPF

07-07-2013 10:02

Coal miners and local residents left in the lurch.
Failing coal company UK Coal have been taken over by the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF)in order to prevent miners at the Daw Mill Colliery loosing all of their pensions.
The deal will see miners from Daw Mill loose 20% of their pensions1presumably the bosses wont be loosing their investments.

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Battersea Against Biofuels PUBLIC MEETING - Wednesday 10 July

05-07-2013 10:25

Aim: to share information and build a campaign to stop a biofueled power plant in the new development at Battersea Power Station that will damage the climate, destroy rainforests, biodiversity, habitats (including the Orangutans) and POLLUTE LOCAL PEOPLE.

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UG#651 - Deep Green Resistance (Earth At Risk Conference)

02-07-2013 22:48

A trio of speakers this time, two of whom have been regular contributors to the show. We listen in on a conference that happened in California in 2011 entitled Earth At Risk. While they outline contrasting approaches to resistance, the speakers are united in their conviction that the culture of capitalist golobalisation has no mechanism for self-regulation and so Direct Action is necessary to stop its ongoing ecocide.

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Rob Hopkins: The Power of Just Doing Stuff

29-06-2013 22:10

Rob Hopkins from the Transition Network,

http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ spoke at a meeting in Sheffield on 27th June about the "Power of Just Doing Stuff".

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UG#650 - Fighting Nature To The Last Drop

25-06-2013 16:28

Following last week's observations on the destructiveness of the money system in general, we look this week at two specific examples of devastaed communities and ecosystems. Firstly, an account by Arundhati Roy of the oppression of Indian communities by a government determined to extract resources. Secondly, a radio adaptation of "To The Last Drop", a film about the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada.

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US Comic TV Satire Of Iowa Congressman Trying To Make Battery Hen Cages Smaller

24-06-2013 18:40

US TV comic Stephen Colbert has an hilarious satire on US Iowa congressman Steve King, who wants battery hen cages smaller.

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Sabotage Against Shell’s Pipeline in Erris, Ireland

23-06-2013 16:07

Yesterday morning around 50 Shell to Sea campaigners kicked off the Week of Action against Shell’s experimental high pressure gas pipe in Erris by tearing up the bog road Shell has laid as part of its attempt to finish the pipeline. They also destroyed the sandbag dam that Shell were attempting to build across part of the estuary in order to be able to work on the pipeline route regardless of the tides. This was accomplished in full view of about 15 security from IRMS – the security company hired by Shell to repress protest.

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Police agent provocateur implicated in McLibel trial.

21-06-2013 16:39

Bob Lambert, alis Bob Robinson, an undercover cop who joined London Greenpeace, co-authored the leaflet which led McDonalds to sue other activists. His Stasi handlers ommitted to tell the court he had done so.

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Canada: Native struggles against dangerous tar sands oil continues

18-06-2013 11:12

On the 1st June, there was a 60,000 barrel spill of toxic industrial waste water in NW Alberta. 9.5 million litres, soaked into wetlands, and tributaries near Zama City in Northwestern Alberta. The spill was first spotted on June 1. But not until Wednesday 12th did Houston-based Apache Corp. release estimates of its size, which exceeds all of the major recent spills in North America. A recent Global TV investigative report said Alberta averages 2-spills everyday.

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Congo: Oil exploration in Virunga National Park condemned

18-06-2013 10:54

Located in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Virunga is Africa’s oldest national park, is one of the continent’s first World Heritage Sites and is home to more species than any other place in the continent. The World Heritage Committee - the body that oversee World Heritage Sites - today requested the cancellation of oil exploration permits in Virunga, some of which are currently held by international petroleum conglomerates, including UK-based Soco International PLC and French oil giant Total SA.

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A Brief History of the West: Gold, Land, Autonomy, and Rebellion

17-06-2013 18:36

A exposition on struggles in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, and Athens

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Help Stop Opencast Coal Mine in Northumberland

16-06-2013 14:43

After many delays Northumberland Council will decide whether mining at Whittonstall will be allowed on the 2nd July. Whittonstall Action Group are asking that concerned people write a letter of objection to this application. If you do not live in the area your comments are still valid as tourism is very important to the local economy. For more details about what to include please see

http://www.whittonstallactiongroup.co.uk/letter.php

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WORLD PREMIERE: Grasp The Nettle (21/6/13)

13-06-2013 23:52

Special first chance to watch this urban land reclamation documentary adventure film; about the rise and fall of 'Kew Bridge Eco Village' and Parliament Square's 'Democracy Village.' Also featuring a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (the Guardian), including Maria Gallastegui from Peace Strike and other activists from the film.

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Why I Don't Eat Meat

13-06-2013 17:24

Owen Parrett MD describes his odyssey to a vegetarian diet and why

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Roads to Nowhere - National Rally against Roadbuilding July 13

12-06-2013 08:42

Nationally, there are plans afoot to build hundreds of miles of new roads, at a cost of at least £30bn. Catastrophic climate change, devastating species loss and huge cuts in public spending notwithstanding, George Osborne is determined that these roads must be built.
Come to the beautiful Combe Valley in East Sussex on Saturday July 13, site of the proposed Bexhill Hastings Link Road - the 'first and worst' of the new roads - to say NO to this destruction.
Rally, route walks and a chance to meet others who are determined to stop this madness. Organised by Campaign for Better Transport, Combe Haven Defenders and Hastings Alliance, supported by Greenpeace, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), CPRE Sussex, RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and Bexhill Link Road Resistance (Blinkrr).

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Bradley Manning Solidarity at Hambacher Forst

10-06-2013 16:13

In the context of the military trial concerning the publication of the war logs on Wikileaks, environmental activists protesting against the coal mine at Hambach Forest have installed a solidarity banner for Bradley Manning in front of the American military presence in the neighbourhood of our resistance camp. Since last week, an excavation of the remains of a military pilot who crashed in WWII is taking place in the area because RWE's annihilation of the landscape for the open cast mine seems to be perceived as a threat there as well.

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UG#646 - Much Is Learned By Being Lazy (Knowing Who We Are, Life in Monongahela)

08-06-2013 20:54

Another philosophical episode this week, featuring a range of reflections from the wise on what life has taught them, and how (and why) the world has changed since their youth. Our main readings are books by Wendell Berry, John Taylor Gatto and Henry David Thoreau.

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Revolution in Gezi Park

08-06-2013 09:16

Prime Minister Erdoğan is back in Turkey after a visit to North Africa, sternly demanding that the demonstrators leave Gezi Park. The idea of their voluntary dispersal at the moment seems inconceivable. Who knows what may happen next? But in the meantime, long live the Occupation!