UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Students Stick it to Shell

31-10-2008 00:32

This evening 30th October, Shell, the notorious Oil Corporation undertook a corporate recruitment initiative at Nottingham University. Simultaneously a few students engaged in a little anti-corporate counter-recruitment initiative.

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BeyondTV international video activist festival 2008

29-10-2008 17:10

22-23rd November 2008
Radical environmental films, forums and masterclasses from the world of documentary filmmaking. This years festival will be focused upon the filmmakers. If you are a documentary maker please attend and forge links with other film-makers, music makers and animators.

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Bristol Uni Death Fair

29-10-2008 10:48

Today, Bristol University Students have been invited to a Engineering and IT Careers Fair. However, a brief look at the lists of companies and what they do to make their money, makes it seems like a list of who’s who of environmentally and socially destructive companies.

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Nottingham's Critical Mass is back!

29-10-2008 10:35

After a long break, Nottingham's critical mass will return to its usual slot: meet at 5pm in Market Square, on the last Friday of the month. This month's CM will take place this Friday (31st Oct).

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Shell/National Theatre spoof gathers momentum

28-10-2008 14:39

The spoof press release and leaflet claiming that the National Theatre is
seeking to use the opening of its Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus' to open a
debate on oil industry funding is gaining momentum. 'The Stage' has picked
up on it, people are approaching the NT about the situation and the NT
itself has written to Art Not Oil requesting that the spoof be withdrawn

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48hrs of Action against E.ON and New Coal

28-10-2008 13:26

The UK Government is calling for an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, we are calling for 48 hours of action against E.ON and new coal NOW.

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Shipley Bodge court case collapses

27-10-2008 20:36

The first court case arising from the eviction of Bodge House, Shipley, where protesters occupied the site of the proposed open cast coal mine from June until August, collapsed today. Case dismissed.

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Protestors stop work at Shipley open-cast

27-10-2008 19:45

Today protestors from Earth First! stopped work at an open-cast coal site for over
two hours – they ran onto the site and clambered on diggers & dumpers and held out
banners stopping the work safely. Some of the digger drivers were very friendly and
were glad to have a break as they work very long shifts, from 7am-6:30 with only
lunch & half hour breaks at 10 & 3. Today work had not been able to start till 10
as nature was fighting it's own corner, with rain drowning the site, and it was stopped again at 1 for 3 hours due to the protest.

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Sabotage Is Not An Option, It Is A Necessity

27-10-2008 17:55

We have been led to believe that the act of sabotage, all acts of sabotage, are inherently bad. This is because sabotage is a potential threat to everything civilization holds dear: it is perhaps the only thing that could stop the environmental crisis.

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Picnic in the Park - Photos Shipley Open Cast Site, Derbyshire

27-10-2008 00:30

Photos from the Picnic in the Park at Shipley Open Cast Site, Derbyshire

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Manchester students flashmob the RBS and E-On Recruitment Stalls

24-10-2008 20:08

Manchester students and residents dumped coal on the Royal Bank of Scotland and E-On recruitment stalls last Thursday 23rd October to protest against their ongoing finance and expansion of the fossil fuel economy.

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Exeter's first Critical Mass! Nov 1st 12.00

24-10-2008 19:31

Come and join Exeter Critical Mass, November 1st. First Saturday of every month, meet outside Exeter Cathedral

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Flash mob against RBS and E.ON at Manchester careers fair

24-10-2008 16:28

A busy careers fair at Manchester's GMex was intererrupted yesterday by several long whistle blasts. 30 or so protestors suddenly revealed their yellow 'Leave it in the Ground' t-shirts and surrounded the Royal Bank of Scotland stall, holding banners and chanting 'leave it in the ground!'.

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Climate, coal, mountain top removal and "obstruction of justice"

24-10-2008 10:56

The following article is the latest article from James E. Hansen on protests against coal strip mining in Appalachia, USA.

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Greenpeace in Stapleford today at 18:30

24-10-2008 10:34

Calling on all readers with an environmental conscience to attend this meeting to show your support to giving coal the boot.

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Urgent update - 'power through wind not weapons campaign' needs you to get involved

23-10-2008 10:04

About the planning application Rolls Royce Raynesway have in to rebuild the nuclear fuel manufacturing plant and nuclear test reactor on the same site which is on a zone 3a flood plain.

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E.ON Get's Fingered : NEIN KINGSNORTH

22-10-2008 12:15

British Climate Camp activists have taken their campaign to stop the building of a coal-fired power station in Kent, UK, to the Energy headquarters of E.ON in Munich, Germany.

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Friends Of The Earth To Merge With UK Government

22-10-2008 10:17

In a surprise move today, Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends Of The Earth UK, announced that the former environmental pressure group are to become an agency of the UK Government, working within the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Picnic In The Park - The Sequel

20-10-2008 20:08

A new open cast coal mine site is about to get underway in beautiful Derbyshire unless we stop it now.

To combat open cast mining "Leave it in the Ground" supported by Earth First! invites you to a second Picnic in the Park for a mass trespass to see it before the destruction starts, meet the locals and have fun. So come and Discover Derbyshire!

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The Power of Community in Birmingham - Film screening and discussions

20-10-2008 15:54

Transition City Birmingham will hold two events in the next few weeks, to raise the issues of how our communities can respond sustainable and democratically to the threats of peak oil and climate change.