UK Tar Sands Newswire Archive
‘Guerilla Ballet’ disrupts BP-sponsored opera event in Trafalgar Square
13-07-2011 23:21
Charlie Byers, who played the prince, explained: “The tar sands are one of the biggest threats to the future of our climate [5]; they are also destroying local communities and wildlife, trampling indigenous rights, and running Canada out of water and natural gas. It is a key time to pressure BP to withdraw, as the corporation has already substantially invested in the tar sands but will not start profiting for years to come.”
BP portrait award demo
19-06-2011 13:16
Taking on Tarmageddon trailer
15-06-2011 21:35
Flash Mob Photos
17-04-2011 18:55
Couple of photo sets from today are here:Synchronise Watches …
15-04-2011 18:03
Effective Direct Action against Barclays
14-04-2011 19:39
A true story. A brief reminder for all anarchists with Barclays Bank accounts ("I would change it but it's all too difficult").BP Flash Mob
11-04-2011 18:09
Sunday 17 April 2011, 2PM at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
The Great BP-sponsored Sleep-in Flash Mob
07-04-2011 14:57
Sunday 17 April 2011, 2PM at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG.To mark the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, join us for ‘The great BP-sponsored sleep-in’, a 4-minute flashmob art installation inside Tate Modern. Imagine the turbine hall of this former power station filled with BP-branded sleeping figures, who will soon wake from their BP-sponsored coma to sound the climate alarm.
BP and Culture: Time To Break It Off!
01-04-2011 13:22
A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spacesmore 'tar sands' crooks join the Advanced Manufacturing Park
22-02-2011 09:19
Swiss company joins ‘united nations of advanced manufacturing’One of the world's leading crooked manufacturers of construction machinery is the latest international company to sign up at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham.
Liebherr-Great Britain Limited is part of the Swiss based Liebherr-International AG company, which in addition to its production of heavy construction machinery such as the trucks used on the tar sands is also an acknowledged in numerous other fields, including commercial refrigeration, aerospace and rail vehicles.
http://www.attheamp.com/featured_news/swiss-company-joins-united-nations-of-advanced-manufacturing
Manchester students vote to boycott RBS
22-10-2010 15:36
Climate Action Film Night
01-09-2010 21:26
industry, hosted by London Rising Tide.
Climate Camp parks its tanks on RBS's lawn!
19-08-2010 20:13
The camp is in an amazing site, literally an - ahem - stone's throw from RBS' global HQ near Edinburgh Airport: my tent is already closer to this year's target than I actually got to BAA on the 2007 day of action.Cheap as Minibus and Veggie-oil coaches going to Edinburgh Climate Camp/Fring
12-08-2010 19:11
Greenwash spill at the BP-sponsored National Portrait Gallery
24-06-2010 08:00
The new EF! Action Update - full of of action news and analysis
26-05-2010 10:09
In the new summer edition of the EF! Action Update, read about coal trains blockaded, peat bogs defended, and gas terminals shut down. Find out about the dangers of nanotech, current state of nuclear GM trials in the UK, Tesco uprisings, golf course trashing, tar sands action and much more.Canadian anarchists torch bank
20-05-2010 17:47
ANARCHISTS claimed responsibility yesterday for a firebomb attack on a Royal Bank of Canada branch in the nation's capital and warned of more chaos at G8 and G20 summits in Toronto next month, reports AFP.Critical Mass at Party at the Pumps 2
03-05-2010 12:22
Critical Mass meeting point: 1PM at Marble Arch
Bring: a bike, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Marble Arch meeting point map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=marble%20arch%20 (Meeting point for those without bikes – Oxford Circus, 1PM.)
Party at the Pumps 2... the Video
28-04-2010 12:27
When: Saturday, 15th May
Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus