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North Pole ice thinner than ever

18-08-2007 05:44

The ice layers on the North Pole are thinner than ever before. The melting is going far more rapidly than foreseen by the researchers, head of the Norwegian Cicero Center for International Climate and Environmental Research says.

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SOCPA - report and film of yesterday's raid on parliament square

18-08-2007 03:18

the greater london authority and uniformed police mounted another expensive and unilateral raid on peace protestors in parliament square yesterday morning. they were there to enforce bye-laws but there are serious questions about the legality of the raid both in terms of jurisdiction and also in arbitrariness of conditions.

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Defend Meanwhile Gardens

18-08-2007 02:47

David Cameron is piggy in the middle as local community gardens come under attack from local authority.

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Videos summarising Workshops at the Climate camp

17-08-2007 23:27

There are an incredible amount of workshops happening at the Climate Camp. Here are some summaries of some of the workshops that have been given this week.

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Video of a summary of a workshop given by Mark Lynas on the 2 degree tipping poi

17-08-2007 23:20

Video of a summary of a workshop given by Mark Lynas on the 2 degree tipping point describing the vicious circle of the effects of global warming.

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How to set up a grey water recycling system using bath tubs and straw.

17-08-2007 23:16

How to set up a grey water recycling system using bath tubs and straw.

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SOCPA - assaults and arrests tonight at parliament square

17-08-2007 22:48

aqil shaer, a long-standing supporter of brian was viciously assaulted and arrested by the known thuggish parliamentary policeman nicknamed 'fatgut'. another unknown man was arrested by police after assaulting brian's supporter 'barbara tucker'.

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Witness/photographs/videos of FIT at camp needed

17-08-2007 21:48

During the last few days there has been lots of people who have witnessed and documented the actions of the FIT Teams and FIT Watch, mainly around the entrance to camp, whose evidence could help court cases.

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countering rubbish about the camp!

17-08-2007 19:03

20 inspired climate activists, inspired by the initiative of the Scottish Barrio, surreptitiously made their way out the camp main gate this morning, towing wheeling bins and wielding loads of recycling bags...

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Police on PeeWatch at Climate Camp

17-08-2007 18:15

A first timer at Climate Camp discovers that eco loos aren't safe from the zoom lens of an overbearing and intimidating police operation

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This Week In Palestine – Week 33 2007

17-08-2007 17:55

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for August 11th through August 17th, 2007.

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Talk in the Main Marquee thursday night.

17-08-2007 17:23

Talk on "Ways to two Degrees"

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Leaving on a Jet Plane video of a Plane Stupid performance

17-08-2007 16:43

This is a song sung to the arriving mainstream journos and climate campers. Complete with drunk pilot the performers are rocking it out here in a retro jet style.

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Polar Bear on the Climate Camp site

17-08-2007 16:37

It's a polar bear on the climate camp. Check out the short video.

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Funny video of mainstream media at the Climate Camp

17-08-2007 16:31

This video shows a video activist talking to the mainstream media at the Climate Camp. But it looks like there's a bit of lost paperwork!

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Campaigners Occupy XL Airways Offices in Crawley

17-08-2007 15:49

16:30 Friday 17th August 2007

Ten campaigners have just occupied the offices of XL Airways, a private charter company based in Crawley. One person is locked on inside the building and others are inside leafleting workers.

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Pics of Biggin Hill blockade

17-08-2007 14:57

Pics from the blockade of Biggin Hill airport - thursday 16th august 2007

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SOCPA - pics of this morning's parliament square raid

17-08-2007 14:54

when brown seized power he promised a lifting of socpa conditions on the right to protest near parliament. today, in preparation for the visit of nelson mandela, his henchmen helped ken livingston's henchmen to crack down even more on brian haw's protest, forcing their support tents into an impossibly small area in another expensive police operation.

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WMD in Aldermaston, not Iraq: Protest at East London Court

17-08-2007 14:45

Peace campaigners demonstrated outside Stratford Magistrates’ Court in east London on Thursday 16th August as a local activist surrendered to a no bail arrest warrant received two weeks previously.

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Local Scouts visit Climate Camp + other photos

17-08-2007 14:38

Today, Friday 17th August, several local groups toured the climate camp, along with several local residents who moved onto the site to camp.

One group was a local scout group with some of them doing their environment badge. They came for a tour around the infrastructure including the solar showers, compost toilets, solar panels, wind generators and power providers, the indymedia computer tent and rinky dink the pedal powered bicycle sound system. Living locally their homes are under threat from the Heathrow airport expansion.