UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Climate Camp Have Occupied Gogarburn RBS HQ
18-08-2010 22:23
Message from climate camp @10:00pm:
At 9.15PM tonight Climate Camp took the site on RBS HQ. Get on site as fast as you can! Defence help urgently needed. Come to RBS Gogarburn Gardens, off Gogar Station Rd. More info later. x
At 9.15PM today ClimateCamp took the site at RBS HQ.
18-08-2010 21:57
Climate Camp 2010 We can now tell you is 2 RBS Gogarburn gardens, come via Gogar Station Rd. Very close to Edinburgh Centre.Beat The Boreholes Continues to Disrupt Shell's Plans
18-08-2010 20:35
Rossport Solidarity Campers interrupt Shell's drilling programme yet again the day after Niall Harnett's release from prisonYesterday lunchtime, nine kayakers from Rossport Solidarity Camp, with their team of volunteers and local campaigners in support roles on dry land, successfully interrupted Shell's borehole survey drilling programme in Sruth Fhada Conn for several hours yesterday.
Opposed by twelve assorted Garda and Shell security boats
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Close Dalston Army Showroom, Resist War on Afghanistan
18-08-2010 18:25
Palestine Today 08 18 2010
18-08-2010 16:48
Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, August 18th, 2010.
Palestine Today 08 17 2010
17-08-2010 16:19
Climate Campers invade Nant Helen Opencast Mine
17-08-2010 14:52
Activists from the relocated Climate Camp Cymru invaded the Nant Helen opencast coal mine in South Wales earlier today.Protest camp starts at Highgate Farm
16-08-2010 21:31
Highgate Farm is an animal lab breeder in Lincolnshire which has been exposed to breed rabbits and ferrets in dirty, barren conditions for the vivisection industry. There was a protest camp there last year, so activists decided it was time for another one!Palestine Today 08 16 2010
16-08-2010 17:26
‘Conditions in Youth Prisons’
14-08-2010 23:45
In this article, social prisoner John Bowden exposes the violent control methods carried against young people in UK prison. The prison guards who act out their brutal fantasies on young people are not isolated ‘bad’ individuals but part of a de-humanising authoritarian system of exploitation and power. This situation is not simply a case for the United Kingdom, young people are imprisoned in disgusting conditions everywhere, and all these prisons must be torn to the ground with the guards scattered. Fire to the Prisons.Climate Camp Cymru eviction shows need for action
14-08-2010 23:30
Climate Camp Cymru has been evicted
14-08-2010 22:22
Climate Camp Cymru has been evicted. No arrests as far as we know. Watch here for updates.This just goes to show the priorities of the current government, who are more interested in protecting climate criminals like Celtic Energy and in repressing those taking action on climate change, than on actually tackling the climate crisis themselves.
Zionists and EDL Unite for counter-demo at Ahava
14-08-2010 20:11
In celebration of the recent court victory which saw four campaigners acquitted for blockading the Ahava shop in Covent Garden during 2009, approximately 60 protestors gathered outside its doors in Monmouth Street, central London, to celebrate and continue promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Israeli occupation. While demonstrators were met by the usual Zionist counter-demonstrators, on this occasion they arrived flanked by the openly racist English Defence League.[video]
EdF to dynamite and bulldoze Hinkley 400 acre greenfield site
13-08-2010 21:22
EdF plans to dynamite and bulldoze much of a 435 acre greenfield site at Hinkley, even before they get full planning permission to build two giant reactors.Some of the work is expected to start as early as this autumn with special licences, including removing twenty one badger groups and demolishing three historic barns thought to be the habitats for bats. Meanwhile they plan apply to the local council to raze the land early next year. Legal advice we have received tells us this 'salami-slicing' of the planning process may well be illegal.
Consent to build two massive nuclear reactors must be sought from the Infrastructure Planning Commission but the application for consent is not expected till December this year at the earliest and the case will take a year to decide. EdF may not make the application in December as the planning 'blueprint', the National Policy Statement has recently been delayed till spring next year. The reactor designs have not yet been approved and this is not expected till June next year and may be highly conditional.
Jim Duffy, spokesman for Stop Hinkley said: "Trashing this huge greenfield site is extremely premature as none of the major consents are anywhere near being in place. EdF hope to get the nod from the local authority to keep up the momentum of their juggernaut plan but if it's not illegal it's certainly immoral"
What EdF’s Hinkley C “Preparatory Works” will mean:
Removal of the majority of trees, hedges and habitats, including ancient woodlands;
Closure of existing footpaths and bridlepaths including the coast path;
Security fencing round an area of more than 400 acres;
Stripping topsoil and vegetation to make terraced area for the proposed nuclear reactors - English Heritage says this could destroy artifacts from ancient inhabitants and the whole plan is premature;
New roads built across the site;
Streams re-routed underground;
The excavation of more than 3.2 million cubic metres of soil, sub-soil and rocks. This is more than has been excavated to prepare the site for the 2012 London Olympic Games;
The demolition of three historic agricultural barns;
Noise from up to 12,000 vehicle movements per month;
EdF says it will “restore” the site to its original state if it does not receive planning permission for the power station. This is impossible – you cannot recreate a landscape that has taken hundreds of years to mature.
Protected Areas and Wildlife Under Threat:
The coastline bordering the Hinkley C site is part of the Bridgwater Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI);
Bridgwater Bay’s shallow waters are a sanctuary for thousands of waders, ducks and other sea birds, especially in winter;
The site is also bordered by Special Protection Areas, Special Areas of Conservation and a National Nature Reserve;
Bridgwater Bay is designated a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention;
Bird species found on land in the area include skylark, lesser whitethroat, Cetti’s warbler and nightingale;
Twelve species of bat frequent the site, including the relatively rare greater and lesser horseshoe varieties.
*Final, revised* letter to my MP concerning the attack on Ian Tomlinson
13-08-2010 20:26
Head(s) must rollFfos y fran coal train verdict + action snaps
13-08-2010 20:22
13 of us were in court today to be sentenced for blockading the railway at Ffos y fran mine back in April, when several people locked on to the tracks in order to stop a train carrying coal to Aberthaw, the dirtiest power station in Wales.We received conditional discharges and restraining orders away from the mine and the power station. Four people were ordered to pay compensation costs to Miller Argent, the company who owns the mine, The judge acknowledged that the action had been carried out carefully to ensure there would be no danger to anyone.
With their hands in the pockets of corporations, it's not surprising that governments failed us at the Copenhagen climate summit. We can't rely on their false solutions anymore. It's up to ordinary people taking direct action to stop climate chaos. Fossil fuel extraction devastates communities and is being resisted around the world, from opencast mining in Merthyr to tar sands oil in Alberta, Canada.
Meanwhile, Climate Camp Cymru set up camp today near Nant Helen and Seler opencast mines, elsewhere in south Wales.
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Coal Train Blockaders Get Their Day In Court
13-08-2010 20:07
Welsh Climate Camp Is GO!
13-08-2010 19:22
climatecampcymru.orgThe Site of Climate Camp Cymru 2010 has been taken and is situated near Dyffryn Cellwen, North of Glyn-Neath for five days of sustainable living, workshops and direct action on climate change.
Within easy reach are the controversial open-cast coal mines of Nant Helen and Selar, as well as processing plants and a coal washery. Why not stop by the camp for more information on the local attractions?
Structures are going up, the sun is shining on this beautiful site and there’s a good atmosphere. However, this is a crucial time, we really need the numbers to help establish the site. Please come down tonight if you can.
The nearest train station is Aberdare, with regular connections from Cardiff.
Transport is available from the station to the camp. Call 07040 909 147 to be picked up.
See you at the camp!
Please watch this space for more detail.
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Drill huggers stop Shell's drilling work
13-08-2010 18:33
Hadiklaim in the Jordan Valley
13-08-2010 18:21
Hadiklaim is an Israeli date growers cooperative which deals with several major supermarkets in the UK, including Sainsburys, Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose (although the Co Op and Marks and Spencer maintain that they only stock Hadiklaim products from 1948 Israel). The company boasts that it exports to 30 countries (see
http://www.hadiklaim.com/company_customers.asp). Tesco and Marks and Spencer branded dates are Hadiklaim produce.
