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Protestors meet for Tree Dressing event

05-02-2006 16:35

Campaigners make a start with the decoration
On Sunday 5th February, campaign supporters gathered on Lumb Lane, Hollingworth, to decorate the trees and hedges overlooking the line of the proposed A628 Mottram-Tintwistle bypass.

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Demo against Iceland Dam - Wednesday 8th Feb

05-02-2006 15:03

Please join our demo against a company involved in massive ecological destruction in Iceland.

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UNISON Make Poverty History claims - a success or failure YOU DECIDE

05-02-2006 10:38

UNISON claim joining the Make Poverty History campaign was a success - joining a coalition of organisations that allowed the distribution of white wrist bands produced by sweat shop workers in China, the agreement not to mention the war and the removal of natural resources through liberalisation and privatisation policies making it impossible for poor to access water.

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Stop Red Ice: End Planned Murder of 300,000 Canadian Seals In March

05-02-2006 00:50

Killing Fields
Canada is a leader in the abolition and antiwar movements.
Please stop a tiny number of fishermen and international furriers who
are keeping Canadian seal clubbing going long after
it has ended in the UK, US and elsewhere.

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Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris

04-02-2006 14:18

Are you veggie for the animals ?

Come to the Veggie Pride !

 http://www.veggiepride.org/en/

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Apocalypse NOW

03-02-2006 10:58

Permaculture, Permaculture, Permaculture, do it now, learn, build.
Find local public spaces and plant seeds, any seeds, just do it.

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Are we running out of oil or not?

03-02-2006 09:51

Anyone who has been reading up on the issue of peak oil will know the question is not whether we are running out of oil but rather when we will find that extraction levels start to decline and we can no-longer extract oil fast enough to meet growing demand. In response to Bush juniors pathetic state of the union address yesterday, Royal Dutch Shell have claimed that the world was nowhere near to running out of oil. At the same time, Shell, the world's third biggest oil and gas company, announced record profits for any British company, nearly £13billion ($23billion). Their profits are up 30% thanks to inflated oil prices and compare well to $22billion forecast for BP next week.

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Capitalism or a Habitable Planet

03-02-2006 00:37

This article is about the topic raised by Robert Newman in "Capitalism or a Habitable Planet" - is it possible to avoid climate chaos by radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions while we still have the dominant system of capitalist democracy?

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Learn to Fix Your Bike

02-02-2006 15:26

11am - 4pm Sunday 5th February 2006 at Matilda Social Centre, on Matilda Street, Sheffield

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Gortons and Whaling

02-02-2006 06:57

Greenpeace, along with Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society, revealed the link between the whaling in the Southern Ocean and Gortons. We revealed that the Japanese parent company that wholly owns Gortons, Nippon Suissan, also partly owns the whaling fleet whose boats depart every year to hunt whales in Antarctica.

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Nottingham's January Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures

01-02-2006 16:46

Nottingham's January Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm] 'twas a dark, wet and oh so very cold. But a fair few turned up to take part .....

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call to stop all airport expansions across the uk!

01-02-2006 11:53

Airport expansion is nearly on us, and we have to get networks running in order to defeat these multi billion pounds projects! cutting through our country side, building new roads to supply them, and of course, CLIMATE CHANGE!
hit them where it hurts! the pocket!!!!

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Nottingham No to the M1 widening campaign launch

01-02-2006 11:22

no roads
We will be launching our opposition to the M1 widening campaign on Monday 6th Feb, meeting outside the tourist information office in Nottingham city centre at 12-30. Please come along and get involved with the campaign.
We will do a public information stall at this time, then at 2-30 we will hand in a letter of objection to Arup who are working on the first stage of the widening project.

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~~~CAMP BLING~~~

31-01-2006 18:27

Call out for site crew

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Indiginous Resistance in Venezuala: films and speaker

31-01-2006 17:39

We have a guest speaker coming to S.C.R.O.A.T cinema next week (Wednesday 8th February). Having recently returned from Venezuela, a UK activist will talk on indigenous people resisting big business in the rural north west of Venezuela. The talk will include two films: 'Bolivarian Venezuela: people and the struggle of the fourth world war' and a short film about a new libertarian social centre in Caracas.

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critical mass this friday!

31-01-2006 15:13

Brum Critical Mass will be taking place this Friday 3rd Febuary.

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Park Authority halts quarrying at Backdale in the Peak District

30-01-2006 16:25

Peak Park have served a stop notice, effective today 30 Jan, on Merriman who are quarrying at Backdale. National Park minister Jim Knight has visited the site today and pledged his support. Merriman have threatened to open two more sites if stopped at Backdale.

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AGAINST BECHTEL AND CROSSRAIL - PLEA TO SHARE INFORMATION

29-01-2006 15:09

Bechtel will use a money making transport scheme Crossrail causing social, financial and environmental harm to communities in the East End of London. Please share information on Bechtel and Crossrail. Original story on  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332456.html?c=on#c140623

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Sea Shepherd ship held in South Africa: Payback begins

29-01-2006 05:00

The Farley Mowat and Crew, Antarctica 2006
The anti-whaling protest ship 'Farley Mowat' has been detained indefinitely at Cape Town after seven weeks at sea

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Where is Nottingham Critical Mass heading?

28-01-2006 20:12

Having attended the Critical Mass rides in Nottingham for the last year, I really started wondering what it is all about after the ride this last Friday. I find the rides choatic, stressful and dangerous. It's dark, wet and friday night and I don't think Critical Mass should just be about blocking traffic for the sake of it. People in the ride should stick together and we should make sure everyone's ok. At the moment the route is unclear. At each junction people in the front of the ride argue and shout at each other and it all just feels like hard work and not really enjoyable. Why do we continue to go down the widest roads where we continue having the same kind of accidents, month after month? If we were enough that would be great. But I don't think we are.