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Support AirportWatch - demand a rethink! of aviation policy

25-07-2006 13:58

The Government is publishing a 'progress report' this year on an aviation policy that would wreck the UK's climate targets, inflict more noise and traffic on more and more people and concrete over acres of countryside. Demand a rethink of this crazy policy at www.rethink.airportwatch.org.uk

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M74 Extension: Demolition and Deception in Glasgow

24-07-2006 20:35

Demolition at DWP building, Pollokshaws Road
At the end of April a "car park" appeared at Eglinton Toll in Glasgow, on the route of the M74 Extension. Now the building it was supposed to serve is being (partly?) demolished and the "car park" signs have been carefully altered. What's going on?

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Climate Action Network Nottinghamshire Website launched

24-07-2006 19:51

CANN is a coalition of local voluntary and community organisations - environment and development groups, faith groups, humanitarian organisations, women's groups, trade unions and others - working together to achieve more effective action on climate change.

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urgent call to help resist eviction- titnore woods in court on thursday

24-07-2006 14:54

the camp in titnore woods near worthing (near brighton) is sending out an urgent call-out for people to come and resist eviction.

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Atkins Report welcomed by Rochdale MP!

24-07-2006 12:03

The publication today (24th July 2006) of the Atkins Report by Rochdale Council into asbestos and non-asbestos contamination at the former TBA site at Spodden Valley has been welcomed by Rochdale MP Paul Rowen.


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Dreadlocked Campaigner vows to shave head to protest against Shell in Ireland

24-07-2006 01:26

Eoin Ó Broin, noted environmental and political campaigner, and one of the founders of the Shell to Sea campaign, has vowed to cut off his dreadlocks to raise money for the Rossport Solidarity Camp.

If he reaches his target of €2,000, his hair will be publicly cut on Grafton Street in Dublin on July 29th. People can donate money at pledgebank www.pledgebank.com/cutthedreadsoff (€10) or  http://www.pledgebank.com/cutthedreads (€25)

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Counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit! Oct. 3-4 in Mexico City: CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW!

23-07-2006 23:03

On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. They will be joined by Energy and Environment Ministers from the five "emerging" countries of Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico.

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Up next: G8 PLUS FIVE CLIMATE SUMMIT! October 3-4, Mexico!

23-07-2006 22:54

Please communicate urgently to g8(AT)risingtidenorthamerica.org (English) OR justiciaclimatica06(AT)gmail.com (Español) to help mobilize grassroots international action for climate justice countering the first G8 + 5 Summit on Climate Change: October 3-4 in Mexico!

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Interview with Belgrade park campaigners

21-07-2006 11:40

The current state of the park

In June 2005, a corporation called Crnotravac cut down all the trees in Peti Park, a small park in Belgrade, with the aim to build a five storage high commercial centre. The neighbourhood doesn't accept this, and has started an impressive struggle to safe the park.

On July 15, the neighbours of Peti Park organised a street event to show their determination to keep defending their park. The event was supported by the Art and Activism Caravan. Dragan Djurosinovic, Jasmina Dobric and Mirjana Zupunski, neighbours of the park, explain about the fight for the park.

Links: Peti Parkic campaign website | AA Caravan Indymedia

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Worldwide Protests Slam G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil

21-07-2006 01:33

The protests included large "banner drops" in multiple cities, protests of coal and oil companies, and rallies at the U.S. embassy in London and the Washington, DC home of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. On Friday, protestors showed up at Bodman's home, demanding that the United States and the G8 abandon the focus on nuclear, coal, and on oil wars as "energy security." They chanted "No Coal, No Nukes, G-8 shut it down!" No arrests took place.

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UK Government GM consultation slammed

20-07-2006 11:13

The UK government is attempting to introduce GM crops by the back door, by putting in place plans for "coexistence".

The real answer is to prevent GM crops from being planted at all.

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Land Roots and NAAN at the Polish Centre

19-07-2006 23:45

Land Roots
Land Roots / NAAN present an Up Tempo benefit evening, Polish Centre, Thursday July 20th 2006 (8pm - 2am). Playing will be Mas Y Mas, Wholesome Fish, The Last Pedestrians, DJ Earthpipe, DJ Roberto, Freida mai and the Seagulls, Haiki Loki, Sweet Potato, jugglers, diablos. Come and enjoy a cold beer with us!

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As London swelters and electricity prices go through the roof...

19-07-2006 13:49

As the 5th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion taking place in Italy this week, Peter Gerling of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Germant, presented his controversial outline of Coal being the prime energy of the future....

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Chronicle of global resistance against the 2006 G8 Summit!

19-07-2006 10:50

July 14, 2006 was a Global Day of Action against the G8. July 15, 2006 was an International Day of Action for Climate Justice, and against Climate Change and the G8. Below is a partial list of anti-G8 actions that happened on these days around the world, and on other days in St. Petersburg and elsewhere during the past week. A number of actions against climate change (including many Critical Mass bike rides) also occurred on July 14. We continue to receive information about additional actions -- stay tuned to www.rtc.revolt.org and int.ru.indymedia.org for updates! Contact  g8@risingtidenorthamerica.org if you have an action to report!

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Rings around Tara

18-07-2006 23:33

International volunteers, support and Assistance are required for a protest camp that has been established at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, to prevent the construction of the M3 motorway beside Tara. Additional Camps can be established, the more the better!!!

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Don't walk to work, when you can fly instead!

18-07-2006 20:22

Here's a BBC story you really should respond to:

"Fed up with over-priced cities and overcrowded trains? The new breed of commuters are going to fly into work from their homes in Spain and eastern Europe, claims a trendspotting report.
When you think of the commuter belt around London you don't immediately think of Barcelona, Marrakech and Tallinn.

But a future-gazing report suggests that we could see a new type of commuting - where large numbers of people work in the UK but live overseas".

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Chronicle of global resistance against the 2006 G8 Summit!

17-07-2006 22:54

July 14, 2006 was a Global Day of Action against the G8. July 15, 2006 was an International Day of Action for Climate Justice, and against Climate Change and the G8. Below is a partial list of anti-G8 actions that happened on these days around the world, and on other days in St. Petersburg and elsewhere during the past week.

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Pictures of Camp Titnore open day

17-07-2006 13:13

some creative signposting
This is a follow up to the original article with some pictures of the activity the day

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Bully tactics fail to spoil Camp Titnore open day

16-07-2006 17:28

TITNORE Woods landowner Clem Somerset employed private security guards with video cameras to try and scare visitors away from the protest camp's open day on Saturday (July 15).

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Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

16-07-2006 01:22

Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe.