Please Tell Smithfield No More Pig Gestation Crates
Pig Rights , 22-02-2011 - 22:47

While the world's biggest pigkiller, Smithfield Foods of Virginia, has gestation
crates for pigs which have been outlawed in the EU, its crates continue
in the US and 3 states in Mexico.
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more 'tar sands' crooks join the Advanced Manufacturing Park
boycott this now , 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
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Transition - The West Coast Scene - Really!
Alex Smith , 20-02-2011 - 19:05

What started with Rob Hopkins in the village of Totnes, UK, evolves differently in North America. Michael Brownlee from Transition Boulder, Joanne Poyourow from Transition L.A., Vandy Savage from Vancouver, plus recording of a Village Vancouver meet-up, Ann Pacey and Ross Moster. Full of ideas for your own action plan.
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Victory Against Open-cast Co. Durham
Coal Action Network , 18-02-2011 - 14:46

On Tuesday 15th February Durham county councillors voted unanimously to reject the application by UK: Coal to extract 530,000 tonnes of coal from the site known as Bradley.

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Population Overload
Alex Smith , 16-02-2011 - 20:03

Three voices with solutions for the population crisis. Lisa Hymas, co-founder and Senior Editor of Grist.org on GINKs, Green-Inclined, No Kids. Clinical psychologist Dr. Ellen L. Walker - the good and the bad of going childfree. Plus the grand-daddy of the whole population movement, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. His 1968 book "The Population Bomb" woke us up. Now he's got a surprising new tool that could help us survive the multiple crisis we face.
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Three BP petrol stations shutdown in Birmingham
Earth First! , 16-02-2011 - 17:18

Today three BP petrol stations in the Quinton, Longbridge and Selly Park areas of Birmingham were shutdown.
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beware the Nuclear Rennaisance in doncaster
no nuclear no way , 16-02-2011 - 11:46

PROTEST AGAINST THE 'Nuclear Rennaissance' event

This thurs 17th at Doncaster Racecourse 9am onwards
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Anti- GM Protestors Target Oxford Tesco
Granwith Hulatberry , 15-02-2011 - 12:40

[Oxford] This morning, as part of a nationwide day of action on genetically modified (GM) products in UK supermarkets, two groups of protesters entered Tesco’s on Cowley Road in Oxford to warn customers who might be unwittingly buying GM products.
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Woman facing trial in Essex for rescuing food from becoming landfill!
AJ , 14-02-2011 - 22:05

As reported by the Essex Chronicle, The Telegraph and Daily Mail (hmm..); A girl in Essex is facing court on the 16th after being threatened with the use of a battering ram at her house, being handcuffed and led away and having her house searched. Many of us are aware of the horrendous amount of food getting thrown away each day. Now is the time to speak up!
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Guerrillas Of love & Saint Valentine
Guerrilla Of Love , 14-02-2011 - 15:18

Guerrillas Of Love & Saint Valentine
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Scottish Coal threatens Council with job cuts – but will they fall for it?
Danny , 13-02-2011 - 13:36

Last week Scottish Coal bosses sprung the news of up to 200 job cuts on their employees, calling a mass meeting of workers at the Broken Cross site in South Lanarkshire. That’s a fifth of their entire workforce in Scotland. Up to 50 employees could lose their jobs in the Douglas Valley with 30 going at Glentaggart as the mine comes to a close. Where the others are to go isn’t clear.

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Hello Hard Times
Alex Smith , 13-02-2011 - 07:12

Starts with a rant welcoming the new business Master of Washington. Then to Greenpeace Brazil, interview with Kiko Brito on the climate floods there. Feature interview with Nafeez Ahmed, author of "A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization." Ends with a speck of hope. Radio Ecoshock 110128
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Weather goes off the charts: is it climate change?
Ben Courtice , 13-02-2011 - 02:53

In the space of a few weeks, Australia and the world have been rocked by devastating weather events, from huge snowstorms across the US to flash flooding and cyclones in Australia. Many of these events have not just been catastrophic, but have set new records for weather.
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Anarcho-Bicyclist Conference Manchester April 2011
I Bike MCR , 12-02-2011 - 21:22

A weekend of discussions, workshops, rides and activities from Friday 8th April to Sunday 10th April, 2011. We invite people to share skills, information and ideas.

Open to both individuals and people from grassroots and anarchist bike projects from everywhere in the UK.
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Fruitarian Diet: Most Nonviolent, Healthiest, Highest Acreage Yield,Reforesting
Fruitarian Network , 12-02-2011 - 20:15

Nut groves, olive orchards, grape vines can yield 450,000 pounds of food per acre.
Slaughterhouses filled with the shrieks of terrorized animals yield a maximum 1000 lbs
per acre.
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The Real Facts Regarding Mark Kennedy’s Infiltration of Saving Iceland
Saving Iceland Collective , 11-02-2011 - 17:14

Kennedy had no role in the birth of Icelandic environmentalism

Kennedy did not provide training to Icelandic protesters and did not play an important role in actions

Kennedy was never a key decision-maker in Saving Iceland

Kennedy did act as an agent-provocateur

Illegal Icelandic collaboration with British services?
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Related? Front.org.s? "Forum of the Future"
Adam Cont , 11-02-2011 - 01:41

In a recent cable on Wikileaks, a NGO is mentioned: "Forum of the Future", which I didn't know, but saw a wesite in the US, but also one in the UK, Bristol region.
 http://www.forumforthefuture.org/about-us
 http://www.forumforthefuture.org/masters-course
 http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/article/702756
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Loss of a protestor
Bilston road protest site , 10-02-2011 - 19:18

As many are now becoming aware a fellow protestor has died in a tragic accident
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Nuclear resistance teach-in and skills-share weekend, 19-20 Feb, near London
Kick Nuclear , 10-02-2011 - 13:27

A chance to learn and share info about why we urgently need to resist new nuclear build and promote sustainable alternatives, and develop skills to help us do it.

*REGISTER BY SAT 12 FEB*
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Sheffield Humanist Society meeting: Population 101
Sheffield Humanist Society , 10-02-2011 - 12:19

The next Sheffield Humanist Society meeting will be "Population 101 - An introduction to global population dynamics" with Mike Freedman, director of the documentary Critical Mass (  http://www.criticalmassfilm.com/ ). You will also be hearing soon about the Sheffield Humanist Society campaign for Census 2011 and the April meeting on Secularism with Terry Sanderson from the National Secular Society.

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