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Totalitarian Oil get out of Burma protest in Chiswick

15-12-2007 18:21

On Thursday 13th December, eight protesters campaigned at the Total Oil
station at 137 Chiswick High Road against Total's funding of the repressive
regime in Burma.

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US Intransigence Waters Down Climate Change Road map Agreement

15-12-2007 18:01

Forest For Rent
Climate Talks concluded in Bali with the United States caving in under pressure of the European Union and the developing world and agreeing to a substantially watered down compromise text in the preamble of "Deep cuts in global emissions will be required" to avoid dangerous climate change. The guideline that rich countries should cut emissions by 25-40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 as recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was moved to a footnote at the US delegation's insistence.

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Subversive Singing Santas Spread Seasonal Sanity

15-12-2007 17:50

Subversive Santas at the Mall
Today, on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, activists from Norwich Rising Tide dressed up as Santas and visited Chapelfield Mall to sing a different tune to the usual buy, buy, buy madness of the holiday season.

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Police Wage Dirty War Against Animal Rights Activists & USe Smear Campaigns.

15-12-2007 16:15

Police are waging a dirty war against animal rights activists. They are using smear campaigns and underhand tactics. Some of this was secretly recorded and read out in court. Informers have alsobeen encouraged to approach activists while wearing furs / bringing fur clad girlfriends up to AR / SHAC /SPEAK stalls in Camden and the West End of London. [Where they were ignored!]

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Brian Haw's alternative Christmas message

15-12-2007 14:20

Brian (The Brave)
Check out Brian's message to the world at Christmas.
The Queen's speech.... Blah! This is the one that matters!!

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Pictures from Foie-Gras Free Christmas Demo

15-12-2007 13:39

Placards are held up, leaflets handed out, and petitions signed
A handful of protesters braving the cold, watched over by as many police from the comfort of their SUV, kept up the pressure on Midsummer House, who still have imported foie-gras on the menu, even though it is illegal to produce it in this country.

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National Day Of Action in Holland Fighting Anti-Squatting Legislation (timeline)

15-12-2007 12:41

Eviction in Amsterdam, October 2007

Squatting groups across the Netherlands are up in arms about newly proposed anti-squatting legislation. The 'ban on squatting' would make an end to the country's long and rich tradition of the creation of free spaces. This is the english version of the timeline of the actions today (Saturday 15th December).

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Climate change protest Newquay airport - Risingtide

15-12-2007 11:59

PRESS RELEASE

Climate Activists Spotlight Newquay Airport

Climate activists from Rising Tide[1] have occupied Newquay airport today. The demonstrators are calling for an immediate halt to expansion of the airport[2] and a public debate on its future. With banners, leaflets and costumes - the peaceful protest calls attention to the airport as an obstacle to sustainable development in the County.

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Omaha mall killer Robert Hawkins HAD taken ritalin and ZOLOFT in the past:

15-12-2007 03:10



'Rodriguez said her son's life had been a challenge from the start. She divorced Hawkins' father when the boy was 3-years-old, she said, and by 5 he was taking prescription Ritalin and Zoloft. She said she watched, feeling helpless the way a parent can, as raw anger took root inside her son. '
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Heathrow: more lies emerge

15-12-2007 00:45

Heathrow 3rd runway consultation prospectus exposed over number of threatened homes and cost attributed to CO2 emissions

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g8-genova: [press release] In any case, no regret.

15-12-2007 00:36

The sentence of the trial against the 25 demonstrators for the Genoa g8 riots has fixed the price to pay for expressing our own ideas and going against the actual state of things: 110 years of jail.

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Mel Broughton remanded...was he set up? [www.vpsg.org/] SPEAK

15-12-2007 00:21

Mel Broughton from SPEAK has been arrested and remanded on charges of arson, conspiracy to blackmail and possession of explosives.
Thames Valley police have carried out a dirty war against SPEAK. [As was proven in court when a secret recording was played].

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Video and audio from climate change rally, London, 8 Dec 2007

14-12-2007 23:50

Audio
Video and audio clips of most of the speeches and some of the songs performed at the Campaign Against Climate Change rally held outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, on 8th December 2007.

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Peter Power doorstepped by We Are Change

14-12-2007 23:14

Peter Power, organiser of the 7/7 exercise which posited the'precise same bombs in the precise same tube stations' gets buttonholed by campaigners and does a runner.

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European Union treaty signed at Lisbon: A constitution in all but name

14-12-2007 22:19

The embarrassing efforts by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to downplay the significance of his signing the new European Union Treaty were more revealing than other European leaders, that clearly relished his discomfort, would like to admit.

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Tara latest Ancient Souterains bulldozed

14-12-2007 20:37

Destruction of ancient chambers and passages continues

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Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change

14-12-2007 20:36

As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.

Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself.

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Urgent Call-in: Stop attack on Uhuru Movement

14-12-2007 19:52

Boley is a private company that gets government funding to provide housing assistance based on poverty statistics of the black community in several Florida counties. They recently notified four members of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, that their housing assistance has been terminated.

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Karen Reissman strike suspended

14-12-2007 19:38

150 NHS mental health workers in Manchester who have been on strike since the beginning of November following the sacking of Karen Reissman are to return to work on Monday 17th December, without having secured her reinstatement.