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BRACE! BRACE! BRACE! - Time for BAA to fasten its seatbelts...

30-09-2006 17:05

"There's turbulence ahead for the British Airports Authority", was the message from protesters gathering for an introduction to direct action today.

Years of letter writing and lobbying of MPs may have kept the deceitful, climate-wrecking actions of the air industry in the public eye, but the cosy relationship between BAA and the DoT means they get to do what they want anyway. That's ever more short haul flights, no tax on fuel, and new runways, terminals and access roads.

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Witness Appeal - Critical Mass London - Friday 29th September

30-09-2006 13:46

A member of Critical Mass was involved in a collision whilst riding home with a group of people and is requesting witnesses who saw the accident...

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Saints Arrested - Christian Witness and Climate Change

30-09-2006 12:31

The Reverend Malcolm Carroll, Baptist Minister, has been "doing a Saint Paul" this week, getting himself arrested to give his Christian witness to the atrocious rise in Carbon Dioxide emissions from air travel in the United Kingdom.

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Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 2

30-09-2006 12:24

Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 2

Friday 29th Sept @ 5.30pm

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm]

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Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 1

30-09-2006 12:18

Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 1

Friday 29th Sept @ 5.30pm

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm]

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critical mass manchester took the roads!

30-09-2006 11:49

manchester critical mass meet every last friday of the month at 6pm outside central library.

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People should not be afraid of their governments... Training for Sack Parliament

30-09-2006 09:11

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“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people”

A weekend of planning and training for ‘Sack Parliament’

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The flooding of Kárahnjúkar begins

28-09-2006 19:41

With tears in my eyes i write these words I never believed I would.

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Chunga Chunga

27-09-2006 22:53

Fundraiser for the People and Planet network.
EOCC Sat 30th Sept. from 8.30pm

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Calling on Support for Concert for Climate Action

27-09-2006 15:48

A local anti-climate change group in Wantage, Oxfordshire, is organising a big concert for climate action on the 2nd of December. It takes place in a tried and tested venue and is set to pull in hundreds of locals. The group aims to inspire them with our message about the need to tackle climate change. But we need support!

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Stop the Northern Coastal Reclamation Project in Indonesia!

27-09-2006 14:17

This is an urgent appeal from eco-activists in Indonesia. This appeal is about an environmentaly destructive development called 'Northern Coastal Reclamation Project'. Our campaign strategy will be to push the Dutch reclamation consultant to resign from this corporate-greed project, therefore we need solidarity from dutch activists (and also from all people everywhere else of course!)

The name of the consultant company is WitteveenBos.  http://www.witteveenbos.co.id/ -- It is the only consultant in Indonesian for this kind of project. The plan is threatening the lives of many poor people, and will wreck an ecologically sensitive area.

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Titnore Woods: Reprieve for 210 trees?/Mass Mobilisation on 7th Oct

27-09-2006 14:12

Despite being asked, Indymedia editors has decided not to promote this story to the front page of the UK Indymedia. Considering IMC was originally borne out of RTS and the Anti-roads movement/ecological struggle, this is a poor show guys...

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Shuttleworth should sell "open energy technology" plan to Branson

26-09-2006 18:50

Non-patentable shared "open energy technology" has the potential to have a profound impact on the reduction of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, in the same way that open source software has changed computers and the Internet.

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OutRage! :Green left Launch: 'Reds' should go Green !

25-09-2006 15:25

Peter Tatchell on the launch of the new Green Left organization...
(Stand by to repel old red waffle and er outrage)

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Climate activists shut airport in taxiway occupation

25-09-2006 11:03

Here is our press release from yesterday. 24 people are still in custody, held on suspicion of crimes under the Aviation and Security Act, Conspiracy to Cause Public Nuisance and Criminal Damage. They should all be out by midnight tonight. Fingers crossed.

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September 15, 2006 prison dispatch from Jeff "Free" Luers

24-09-2006 16:09

The last several weeks have been very intense. Many of you are familiar with my personal struggles at this time having lost my contact visits for the next year. But, that is a small story compared to what the last two weeks have been like at OSP.

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Climate Change Question Time - belated report with audio

24-09-2006 13:45

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On Friday 15th September, Swindon Climate Action Network held a climate change question time event, which was attended by around 100 members of the public. The panel consisted of the leader of Swindon Borough Council, the two Swindon MPs, author Mark Lynas and climate scientist prof Julia Slingo.

A write-up of most of the questions and answers, with audio.

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An Inconvenient Truth: Film & regional decision makers response at the Broadway

23-09-2006 22:41

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An Inconvenient Truth: Film Showing & regional decision makers response at the Broadway

On friday, the Broadway cinema screened 'An Inconvenient Truth'.

Following the screening a panel of local and regional decision makers respond to the film

and answered [or tried to :-))] questions about what's happening here in Nottingham and the

East Midlands already, and suggest how we can do more.

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The Problem With...Plastic

22-09-2006 23:14

There are few substances that provoke so much ire amongsts environmentalists as plastic, but is that a fair reputation for such a useful material, or does the problem go much deeper than just litter and landfill?
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