UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

GM killed my planet.... rampART tonight

26-07-2007 10:51

Tonight at the rampART social center in East London, the free weekly cinema presents films from the collective Serindipia from Spain and also the documentary 'Who Killed The Electric Car.

Films start 8pm

15-17 rampart street, E1 2LA

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Saving Iceland Blockades Hellisheidi Power Station

26-07-2007 09:56

Saving Iceland blockaded two roads to Hellisheidi Power Station in Iceland at 7am this morning.

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British Airports Authority running scared over Climate Camp

26-07-2007 08:53

"AIRPORT officials are attempting to legally block the heads of two campaign groups and their members from taking part in a week of protests against Heathrow.

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gathering anticivilization 2007

25-07-2007 21:33

FIRST DRAFT OF PROGRAMME FOR THE 2007 ANTICIVILIZACION GATHERING

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Cardiff Climate Camp Meeting, Sunday 28th July, 3pm

25-07-2007 14:16

Do you live in Cardiff or South Wales? Are you worried about climate change?
Are you interested in going to the Camp for Climate Action this August? Or do you just want to find out more about the Climate Camp?

Then come to an open meeting at the PAD Social Centre, 118 Clifton St, Adamsdown at 3pm on Sunday 28th July.

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Floods expose Labour's climate complacency

25-07-2007 13:33

On Friday 20 July, two months rain fell in 24 hours over the Midlands and southern England. More rains are forecast. Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire were the worst effected areas. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated, 45,000 homes are without electricity, 350,000 without clean water. This the latest disaster resulting from climate change. But what is the working class solution?

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13 arrested at Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter blockade

25-07-2007 01:01

ICELAND: Today about 20 protesters climbed cranes and blocked access to the Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter in Hafnarfjordur. 13 were arrested and one is still being held hostage by the police in Reykjavik. Saving Iceland has organized a 'summer of dissent' as a part of a campaign against the war-mongering aluminum industry and their subservient pets in Government. Beyond protesting against the devastating exploitation of Iceland's rivers and wilderness for cheap energy, the network is linked to groups with the same corporate enemies in Brazil, Trinidad, South Africa, and India. The struggle continues with Iceland's second Critical Mass this Friday.

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S.I. Activist Imprisoned by the Icelandic State

25-07-2007 01:01

24 July 2007

The Icelandic government and ALCOA have gained their first political prisoner with their repression of protest against the heavy industry policy.

A twenty three year old British Saving Iceland activist who was arrested today on the action against Rio Tinto-Alcan, has been imprisoned for eight days.

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No More Bull On Climate Change: Action this Saturday.

24-07-2007 15:16

PRESS RELEASE
NO MORE BULL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change campaigners to descend on Cornmarket Street

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Water Bowser Locations Gloucestershire etc - 24th july

24-07-2007 11:50

latest bowser location list - bottle water distro points being set up too

locations being published here:

http://www.stwater.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/07/23/flood_bowser_locations_feature.shtml

info on radio on:
104.7 FM and 1413 AM
95 FM Stroud and 95.8 FM in Cirencester

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Nice weather we're 'aving

23-07-2007 23:17

Climate change in one way or the other - and it gets tricky: jet stream; gulf stream; el nino; il nino - is to blame. The way out? 90% cut in co2 emissions within 10 years.

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Links and Updates to Tara Campaign

21-07-2007 13:53

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83495

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83475

The 7 protestors facing Jail for , amongst other things :
Incitement. Assault. Holding up multi-billion roadway are accepting supports.

http://www.savetara.com

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Comparing global cooling and warming

20-07-2007 12:27

The destructive effects of global cooling would be a bigger concern this year.

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Climate Camp welcome, say Heathrow villages

20-07-2007 00:25

"I've lived here twenty years, and at fifty years of age I've got to say I'd given up. I've said to my wife, what will happen will happen. But tonight you lot have changed my bloody mind!"

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Strange Weather Getting More Strange

18-07-2007 15:39

We can all remember in past years hearing of a large blizzard or a large storm that produced several tornadoes, or an area stricken by drought. Every year there was always one or two or three of these major weather occurrences. We were shocked but not unduly alarmed at the news.

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Critical mass-climate camp

17-07-2007 15:52

Cycle ride to climate camp.

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Green Party Supports Climate Camp and Accuses British Government

17-07-2007 12:41

Everyone concerned about the environment is urged by Dr Derek Wall the Green Party Principal Speaker, to spend their summer holiday with him at the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow from 14 to 21 August.

Dr Wall teaches economics at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and his most recent book "Babylon and Beyond" looks at alternatives to capitalism and corporate globalisation.
globalisation.

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New briefing from Corporate Watch on the UK nuclear industry

17-07-2007 09:55

New briefing from Corporate Watch on the UK nuclear industry

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Reykjavik Rave Against The Machine: Iceland's first Reclaim The Streets

17-07-2007 03:15

As an action in our struggle against the destruction of the Icelandic wilderness the first ever RTS has taken place in Reykjavik. Four people were arrested, and the level of police brutality was extreme by Icelandic standards. The action ended with a redecoration of the police station where the detainees were held.

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The human cost of the June floods in Britain

16-07-2007 16:07

The flooding disaster that struck villages, towns and cities all over Britain in June has been met with callous indifference by the Labour government of newly installed Prime Minister Gordon Brown and by the Environment Agency.