World Ecology Newswire Archive

As part of the campaign to stop commercial growing of GM crops, actions have been taken against Bayer Cropscience.

The Greens and their allies remind me of another globally ambitious movement with committed cadres: Communists. And like the Reds in their day, the "Green-Grays" are inspired by visions of a better world. If the free traders are to resist such a coup, they must study the tactics of the anti-traders.

ITOIZ DAM EVICTIONS AND RESISTANCE, NAVARRA
On Monday 15th September the second wave of evictions and demolitions will begin around the Itoiz Dam. Below is a communique from Solidari@s con Itoiz. For more information about the Itoiz Dam go to www.sositoiz.com, and keep watching Indymedia for news updates on the resitance that is taking place.

Over the next few months the government is expected to reach a decision on whether to allow the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, which could begin as early as next spring. The environment and our health is under threat.

When asked about the 19the Century laissez-faire economics that Charles Dickens portrayed as "dirty, filthy, child-labor", Nobel Prize Economist and Libertarian Milton Friedman contends that it wasn't Disraeli and the child labor laws that made things better but "the progress of private enterprise"

"We have had free market capitalism for the better part of the last century. How has the third world been improved? Basically, they have been depleted and starved, and their resources have been expropriated"

The (very) long awaited issue 10 of radical ecological journal Do or Die is out now.

Do or Die is an occasional journal crammed with reports and analysis from the world-wide ecological frontlines. These are the voices not of outsiders, journalists or academics, but of those involved in the struggles themselves. In these times of concrete alienation these voices shine hope from movements that take action to defend nature, create revolution and re-wild humanity.

Changing Climate on the Sahara brings flooding in countries along Southern Border, with more torrential rains in the forecast...satellite images reveal the view from space

Bayer CropSciences gets targetted as government and industry decide whether they can get away with commercialising GM crops in the UK.

Sci Alliance publishes report on Farmers markets. What's their hiddden Agenda?

Two of the activists carrying disarmament tools arrested by armed Ghurkas inside USAF Fairford during the war, will appear in Cheltenham Court this week.

www.greengloves.org

After five years of massive public opposition to GM and a nationwide public debate, Tony Blair will decide in October whether to allow commercial growing of GM crops.

Some catastrophes are ongoing in the name of the Olympics Games in Athens.
Article by dr. Dorothy King at the archaeological magazine Minerva and related stories.

TV news on all channels in the last couple of days has featured interviews with Weather Action, the work of one man who thinks that global warming is natural.

The Celtic Confederation is mainly a cultural confederation for the Celtic Rim of Europe. However, economic cooperation and developments and international lobbies, mostly at the European (Union), are part of the tasks of the confederation together with education and science policy development. Ireland as only sovereign state within this confederation shall sign treaties with the United Kingdom and France to assure their territorial integrity. With this treaty, the UK and France are assured that the confederation is no threat to their territorial integrity. If both nations refuse to sign such a treaty another measure has to be taken to satisfy their anxieties. One is that the Confederation becomes an Irish Foundation with independent Foundations from the Celtic regions in the UK and France.

The New World is in initiative for a New World community, based on Pacifism, Socialism, and Environmentalism. Heiko de Graaf and Erik van Luxzenburg have created it at December the 12, 1996 after a medium period of discussing how a New World order has to look like with additions of Ronald Visser. At December the 12 1996, Erik van Luxzenburg completed this report. He also made this translation at February 29 2000. Now it is a years old project of Peacefull Young Idealists from the Netherlands. though created in 1996 it is stil a valid dream. The New World tries to give a general philosophy based on socialist, anarchist and partly kibbuts ideals to create autarkic communities and the ways these communities co-operate as parrallel societies next to the nowadays society.

An update is necessary to invent communities based on this philosophy living in cities or urbanised areas there the original philosophy was based on "empty" areas in Asia

Renowned international Trident Ploughshares activist, Ulla Roder, who was arrested on March 10th for disarming a Tornado jet at RAF Leuchars, has been released from prison on unconditional bail.

largest representation and gathering of architectural students in Europe are petitioning George Bush to change US energy policy and support the Kyoto agreement

remembering again that life is strange,
in the new AGORA

July 29, 2003
Rising Waters Due to Massive Dam in NW India Threatens Indigenous Peoples; Villages, Cattle, Standing Crops Submerged; Police Destroy Property, Arrest Villagers, Activists

see:
 http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/07/58566.shtml