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Rushmoor fortnightly bin collection

17-11-2006 16:48

The proposed fortnightly bin collection in the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has nothing to do with recycling, everything to do with cutting services, cutting corners and making bin men redundant.

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Melbourne: Businesses Targeted by G20 Protests

17-11-2006 16:07

The G20 meeting of Finance Ministers, the World Bank and the IMF is appearing in Melbourne, Australia over the weekend of 18-19 November. They are being welcomed by a series of conferences, creative protests and festivals by a wide variety of anti-globalisation activists.

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Office Occupation at Oricas Head Office in Melbourne

17-11-2006 10:06

Demands
Close to one hundred protesters occupied Oricas chemical services department in Melbourne early this afternoon. The protesters gathered due to concerns over Oricas track record s in transportation blunders of dangerous chemicals and their involvement with the Barricks, Lake Cowal Gold Project.

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One two three four take a hike? from g20 today

17-11-2006 08:34

Embassy
Falun Dafa stole the show, but I missed the action at Orica - though there were enough cameras around that somebody ought to be able to report?

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More nuclear waste reached Gorleben amid protests

16-11-2006 01:20

After a rail and truck run of 58 hours through France and Germany another load of returning German nuclear waste has reached a storage hall in the northern village of Gorleben. The tenth consignment was protested and delayed many times in both countries by anti-nuclear activists and guarded by 16,000 German police with horses, dogs, helicopters and water cannon.

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next mcr critical mass is on friday 24th november

15-11-2006 21:59

thats not this friday but the one after..

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Directions to pipeline protest & Update

15-11-2006 21:49

Despite lots of bluff and bluster, police finally left the site today! more support is needed to keep the protest site going!

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Victory! Deer Cull Refused Permission

15-11-2006 19:47

Many of you were following the story about a deer cull planned for the Kirkstall Valley, just 5 minutes away from Leeds City Centre, after a farmer complained that deer were eating his crops.

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Protestors stop gas pipeline work

13-11-2006 21:19

Today protestors halted National Grid's work on the new 115 mile gas pipeline running from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire.

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Work on the controversial LNG Pipeline has been stopped in South West Wales

13-11-2006 19:59

A section of the LNG pipeline has been blockaded at Trebanos, in the Swansea Valley by over a dozen activists. All work on that whole area of the project has been stopped.

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Alternate Bin Collections

13-11-2006 16:46

Across the country under the guise of recycling many local authorities are only collecting rubbish once a fortnight. There is a hidden agenda at work, and it has nothing to do with recycling.

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film of old street shell garage blockade

12-11-2006 23:17

Video
6' 25" video of the old street shell garage action on friday evening, where activists blockaded the garage and stopped business twice during the course of the evening.

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Climate Chaos Camp - Trebanos

12-11-2006 22:23

Campaigners get together in protest on Climate Change and Enviromental Rape by National Quid

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Stop the Kirkstall Deer Cull

12-11-2006 18:47

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
Stop the deer cull!

A farmer in Kirkstall Valley, Leeds, has been complaining to the council about deer
destroying his crops and allegedly driving him out of business.

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Attack on anti-castor camp thrown back

12-11-2006 18:18

burning hay bales are blocking the street
The Castor, a transport of nuclear waste, is going through Germany again. Several thousand people are protesting all over Germany. Near the route of the transport a protest camp is set up in Metzingen. Last night a street blockade with burning hay bales was set up.

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Shell Disrupted & Protested Again in Reading

11-11-2006 17:21

Inspired by last weeks action, and by the struggles of the people of Rossport and Niger, activists have again targetted Shell with protest and direct-action in Reading.

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shell garage closed twice by protest in london

11-11-2006 12:19

garage enjoys calm b4 the storm
the old street shell petrol garage in london was closed down twice yesterday evening by protestors highlighting shell's repression of local people in county mayo, ireland, and linking it to the 11th anniversary of the murder of the ogoni 9 in nigeria, where shell is proven to have been involved in the killing of ken saro-wiwa.

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Police endanger demonstration of high school students.

10-11-2006 14:40

students march in Lüchow
Wendland, Germany -- Police endanger demonstration of high school students, neglecting traffic regulations during anti-nuclear waste transport demonstrations.

The Castor, a train transporting nuclear waste is supposed to start from France during the evening of Friday, 10. November. Protests are already taking place at the destination of the trains, the Wendland in Germany.

Translation of a report on Indymedia Germany  http://de.indymedia.org/2006/11/161562.shtml

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Shell Protest in Newcastle only one arrest!

10-11-2006 12:58

Recycled and updated Banner from 1995
Rush hour protest at largest Shell station in Newcastle November 10th

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Emergency Call Out Nottingham Shell action

10-11-2006 11:35

A protester was run down by a car at a Shell petrol station in Nottingham just an hour ago. We think this story should get out there to national press and activists around the country. Any witnesses please contact us so we can get the details to the press.