UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Shell recruitment event disrupted (video)

05-11-2009 00:30

A couple of weeks ago mischief-makers disrupted a Shell careers talk in Oxford, in solidarity with those around the world affected by their operations. This is the video of the action...

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Veggies News & Events, inc Lincoln Vegan Fair & ARC Meeting

05-11-2009 00:10

Having recovered from the 25th Anniversary Weekend, Veggies Catering Campaign has plenty more events coming up supporting vegan, climate action, anti-militarism and animal rights campaigns. We know these are all inter-related and urge others to make the links and give mutual support too.

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Mainshill Camp Gathering round-up: workshops, walks, sabotage and lock-ons

04-11-2009 23:54

The past weekend saw numbers swell at the Mainshill Solidarity Camp, with people traveling from far and wide to support the ongoing struggle to stop Scottish Coal opencasting Mainshill Wood. The number of people occupying the site reached numbers seen at Mainshill when the Camp for Climate Action set up on the site in August, showing how this issue is not going away.

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Nottingham plans for COP 15

04-11-2009 21:31

Do you want to shout about Climate Change, but can't make it to Copenhagen? A group from Nottingham will be travelling to Copenhagen for the COP 15 summit. To support them and show solidarity for the protests happening in Copenhagen in December, we are hopeing to organise events closer to home.

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Blockade of UN's Climate Change Conference in Barcelona

04-11-2009 17:33

Wednesday 4th November in the morning - Eco Activists block for one hour the main entrance to the UN's Climate Change Conference taking place in Barcelona.

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Will mass tourism on CRUISE SHIPS sink VENICE?

03-11-2009 17:28

An average three to four of these floating hotels, each carrying about 3,000 passengers plus 1,000-crew, navigate through the Venetian lagoon and the city center every day. They pass along Saint Mark’s Square where the ocean-graph on the central Campanile (tower) oscillates madly as it registers a small underground tsunami with each passage.

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London Critical Mass Halloween ride.

03-11-2009 12:27

Another good ride, apart from a few impatient drivers.

Video

http://www.archive.org/details/CM30-10-09

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apple action at the earth centre

02-11-2009 22:08

Earlier today a group of activists took apple action and liberated a haul of delicious fruits from the abundant forest gardens at the derelict earth centre. Weeks of meaningless promises and blatant lies from Doncaster Council led the group of harvesters to take action.

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Work Stopped Again at Mainshill Wood

02-11-2009 14:36

lock-on stops work all morning

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Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?

02-11-2009 06:15

Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?

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The 300-350 Show: Our climate is not your business

01-11-2009 18:51

In the wake of International 350 Day and direct actions in the US & Europe we ask, isn’t it time that we stopped business putting the brakes on climate action? In a break from our usual format we weave recent highlights from the independent media landscape into a corporate-critical narrative.

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The 300-350 Show: Forests & Copenhagen pt.2

01-11-2009 14:47

As Europe stands accused of blocking the protection of intact natural forests and introducing logging-friendly language into the UN draft climate deal, we take a look at some of the key components that should be in an effective deal for saving the world’s forests. As Nathaniel Dyer of the Rainforest Foundation UK explains, saving forests is about a lot more than simply throwing money at the problem. Land rights, governance and demand management are also critical. And payment for forest protection should come from public funds rather than carbon markets.

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Wind turbines on buildings

31-10-2009 14:16

Wind turbines on apartments. Cosmetic window dressing, an exercise in futility, as functional they are not.

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26/10/09: A day to remember in the fight against coal

30-10-2009 20:35

We defeated E.On’s plans to build the first coal-fired power station in over 30 years, which is definitely something to be proud of. But, as this week’s actions have shown, the fight against coal is far from over and concerned individuals are showing no sign in slowing down their activities.

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protest march against incinerators being built in uk .any groups interested

30-10-2009 13:24

uk are building incinerators that are a danger to health and the climate .we must stop them being built prottest now before its 2 late

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One month till 10th anniversary of Seattle N30

29-10-2009 14:44

With one month to go till the 10th anniversary of the seattle/euston/worldwide demonstration/protests/riots that successfully disrupted the WTO (and began a process whereby that organisation continues to struggle to get a new round of trade talks going...) and highlighted the growing anti-capitalist, alter-globalist movement of movements, it's time to start planning anniversary actions... Climate Justice Action are organising an N30 Climate Day Of Action

http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/09/17/n30-climate-day-of-action/#at . Below is some more info on that, and then some info on what happened in the UK/world 10 years ago.

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November is Vegan Month!

29-10-2009 10:57

Vegan Month aims to encourage people to find out about the benefits of an animal-free diet.

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The Biggest Social Eco site to hit the world wide web since Facebook/Twitter

28-10-2009 23:21

A social eco site for the protection of the planet and its biodiversity.
It is Free to join and its totally Free to use.

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Radiation Tax proposed to protect DNA ?

28-10-2009 22:31

No.

But a Carbon Tax has been proposed to protect the Nuclear Industry.

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Day of the Dead Samhain Celebration REEL NEWS Benefit Sat 31 Oct Brum

28-10-2009 20:43

Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - not just in this country, but across the world. Initially we are doing this through producing a monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings.