11-11-2006 12:19
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the old street shell petrol garage in london was closed down twice yesterday evening by protestors highlighting shell's repression of local people in county mayo, ireland, and linking it to the 11th anniversary of the murder of the ogoni 9 in nigeria, where shell is proven to have been involved in the killing of ken saro-wiwa.
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06-11-2006 15:14
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ACTIVISTS INVADE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OFFICES IN SHORT-HAUL FLIGHTS PROTEST
This morning a group of London Rising Tide activists, in the guise of bean
counting civil servants, gathered at inside the offices of the Civil
Aviation Authority, brandishing a massive cheque for £9.2bn made out to
the airline industry from the government regulator.
Read more >>06-11-2006 12:42
Anti-nuclear campaigners return to warhead factory ahead of government White Paper. Work on new laser in full swing - blockade on 13 November 2006. Join us!
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06-11-2006 03:35
Flightcentres in the city and west end have been closed as part of the day of action against short haul flights. ctivists superglued the locks, and hung 'CLOSED FOR A TOTAL RETHINK' posters.
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05-11-2006 10:17
The largest ever climate change protest march in Britain was just one of many that took place simultaneously around our threatened globe.
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04-11-2006 20:04
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between 10 and 40 thousand, depending on who you believe, marched across town and gathered in trafalgar square. guess they all felt better for it. not sure if it will have bush, blair or brown quaking in their jackboots. there was some nice music.
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03-11-2006 17:55
Environmental activists will on Monday protest in Britain’s first national day of action against short haul flights.
Read more >>03-11-2006 10:33
In the wake of the Stern Review, on the eve of critical international climate talks in Nairobi, and shortly before the Queen's Speech, young people will demonstrate that they will not sit back and wait for the catastrophic climate change predicted for our generation. Marching from Bloomsbury to Trafalgar Square, the Carnival looks set to be one of the most impressive student mobilisations in years.
Read more >>02-11-2006 22:39
Almost every Indymedia site in the world is right now publishing the message that the Children's Revolution kids' bloc might be leading the March for Global Climate Justice from the American embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, at 1 pm on 4 November.
Under the heading “Worldwide Children's Revolution to Try to Save the Human Race From Extinction?” the story says that the very existence of future generations may depend on urgent worldwide action to tackle global warming and climate change.
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02-11-2006 18:14
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12 protestors blockaded a Shell garage in Reading last night, effectively stopping business for an hour. This action was taken in solidarity with communities struggling against destruction caused by Shell in Rossport, Ireland and the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
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We were quite rude about this event last year (1), but perhaps we're mellowing with age so we'll give it a plug. This Saturday (4/11) sees a march and rally against climate change beginning at the US embassy at midday (2) and then heading down to Trafalgar Square for a rally with the usual (probably quite dull) speakers and a vague promise of some tunes. (3)
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CALL OUT FOR PROTEST AGAINST NANOTECH!
are you anti-war? are you anti-corporate technologies that destroy nature,
cause health-problems and all the rest?
JOIN US IN USING SCIENCE-FICTION TO HIGHLIGHT SCIENCE-FACT!
Read more >>28-10-2006 21:31
“A worldwide Children's Revolution to try to save the human race from extinction caused by global warming and climate change could start in London, England, on 4 November 2006.”
This is the introduction to a short news item posted by the Earth Aid Environmental Campaign with the Washington, DC Independent Media Center,
http://dc.indymedia.org on 28 October, 2006.
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27-10-2006 21:39
FUNERAL OF ICELAND AND TRINIDAD PROVOKES
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE FROM CONCERNED LONDONERS.
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26-10-2006 12:46
CALL OUT FOR PROTEST AGAINST NANOTECH!
Workers, consumers, non-human animals and nature are being exposed to nano-particles that have not been tested, all for the sake of the multi-billion dollar nanotech industry.
JOIN US IN USING SCIENCE-FICTION TO HIGHLIGHT SCIENCE-FACT!
Read more >>25-10-2006 23:12
A new action group the Swansea SA1 Snorkellers has used graffiti to highlight the fact that part of Swansea’s prestigious SA1 development on Trawler Road is being built on land that will flood unless Climate Change can be averted.
Read more >>23-10-2006 21:35
Join us on a theatrical and interactive funeral march to mark the murder of Karahnjukar, Iceland, and the impending murder of the Cedros Peninsula, Trinidad, at the bloody hands of Alcoa and heavy industry.
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22-10-2006 12:11
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Aviation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, the emissions from aviation are excluded from the Kyoto protocol and the government has a gargantuan plan of airport expansion over the coming decade. Its madness and we need to figure out what can we do to stop it!
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Guests arriving at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award opening ceremony tonight filed past a greenwashed oil executive, an angry orangutang, a languishing tiger and a wandering photography exhibition – all bent on ending Shell’s sponsorship deal with the Natural History Museum.
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