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This Weeks SchNEWS - Ready? Charge! - Surviving The Day After Tomorrow

25-08-2006 10:50

How many media articles does it take to change to an energy saving lightbulb?
The double-whammy of peak oil and climate change have recently become much more mainstream, but the (if you’ll pardon the expression) ‘roadmap’ to a sustainable future is still very sketchy. Of course our governments are still too focussed on unsustainable growth of an oil-based economy to do anything much about either issue. But there’s little point in waiting for them to sort it out, when there’s so many positive ideas and capacity for real change to be found at the community and grassroots level.

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1 SEPTEMBER - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE ICELANDIC STATE AND ALCOA

25-08-2006 01:35

The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. These multinational vandals - willingly helped by the Icelandic government - are about to produce an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

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The Problem With...Tourism

24-08-2006 22:11

The human race is a race of travellers; we have imagined, discovered, explored, charted and opened up almost all of the Earth's land surface, and are rarely content to stop moving. Given the time and (usually) money, we have an instinctive urge to travel; whether this be to feed our imaginations, stimulate our senses or satisfy some less clear urge that we do not fully understand, we travel. Six and a half billion humans with itchy feet is not something we should take lightly.

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An American dream

24-08-2006 19:26

Amerikan dream
Expansionism and a good life for all?

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ALTERNATIVES TO THE COLLAPSED WTO DOHA ROUND TALKS

24-08-2006 12:00

ALTERNATIVES TO THE FAILED WTO WORLD TRADE MODEL

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GM - Back on the agenda?

23-08-2006 18:32

A chemical company has asked for permission to grow the first trial crop of genetically modified (GM) potatoes in the UK.

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Archbishop Fiorenza, Assassination & the Houston 911-2B

23-08-2006 16:50

Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell, a member of the mysterious cyber-intelligence group, Ghost Troop, recently became a worldwide figure of interest with the mainstream publication of the Army's reaction to his "911 heresey." He failed to uphold the official line of 19 Arabs with boxcutters doing the 911 attacks, and for that is now a target. There's a deeper, more sinister story of just how far the Army went to try to silence its best know dissident, and how little Catholic Church officials who knew of his predicament were willing to do to defend him.

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Angry Palestinian workers storm Jordanian banks

20-08-2006 17:04

Jordanian banks in Gaza and the West Bank on Saturday came under attack for the second time in three months as Palestinian military personnel and civil servants vented their anger at having loan repayments deducted from partial salary payments.

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AIDS MY ARSE !

20-08-2006 09:15

trying to create a moral outrage by suggesting that people will die if you don't do what we tell you - AND NOW - the war on AIDS!

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The Edukators @ Everything4Everyone

19-08-2006 11:33

Next weeks E4e Cinema screening at Everything4Everyone will be The Edukators.

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Introducing Ghost Troop to the Army Inspector General

19-08-2006 00:58

The strange near-death of an active Army Ghost Troop seems more than suspicious, as the unit leader, Captain May, explains in this most revealing report to the Army Inspector General. Are Ghost Troops, who serve on a mission of conscience to spread the word about the 911 set up -- and prevent future ones -- on the Bush League hit list?

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Delegation to Mexico Border Social Forum

18-08-2006 16:45

Border Social Forum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
October 13-15 2006

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Tesco - Every little hurts

18-08-2006 16:33

Is Tesco above the law? It would appear so on planning matters.

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UPDATE-- Petition: We Demand an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel

18-08-2006 03:19

This Petition demands that The United Nations General Assembly immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and Israel’s other top generals and war criminals for their infliction of international war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine.

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Biggest victory yet over WTO

17-08-2006 22:15

Biggest victory yet over WTO and « free » trade. Celebrate it!

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Bradford IWWs Defend Fired Starbucks Union Organizer

17-08-2006 19:35

IWW Bradford in northern England leafletted two Starbucks stores on 12 August in support of union organizer Daniel Gross, who was the latest IWW fired in New York the Saturday before. The Starbucks Union has called for a boycott of Starbucks until all four organizers fired are re-hired.

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The Radley Lakes - An environmental Cause Celebre

17-08-2006 16:02

RWE NPower, the German-owed Power Company that runs the ageing Didcot "A" coal-fired power station is adamantly detrmined to destroy a beautiful lake in the Oxfordshire Green Belt by turning it into a Waste Dump for pulverised fuel ash (PFA) despite the existence of better alternatives. The Company has refused to look at recycling options, preferring instead to pay the paltry £2.00 per tonne landfill tax. The Station Manager has so often said "We are in the business of generating electricity, not selling Ash". So, because coal is cheap, Didcot burns more and more instead of gas, and generates more waste, more profits for its shareholders, and leaves a noxious legacy for future generations by its failure to address recycling alternatives, which other Power Stations have done.

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VENEZUELA LEADING THE RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT

17-08-2006 11:16

VENEZUELA AHEAD IN RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT

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Heilingendamm demo, Germany

16-08-2006 23:54

On Friday August 11 2006, several hundred demonstrators visited the Kempinski Hotel complex in Heilingendamm, North-Eastern Germany, where the G8 Summit will be meeting in June 2007.

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Saving Iceland

16-08-2006 07:35

First camp at Snaefell
The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. Join the protest camp.