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Out Now! Toolkit for Climate Action

26-07-2007 11:27

Toolkit for Climate Action

Just in time for the 2007 Climate Camp - the Toolkit for Climate Action is now
ready. With this toolkit we hope to inspire you to take action - at home, at
school, at work, in your community. The toolkit has been put together by the Network for
Climate Action, which is has grown out of and is associated with the Climate Camp.

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Saving Iceland Blockades Hellisheidi Power Station

26-07-2007 09:56

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

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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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Social Action and independent paper, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, attacked by gunmen

25-07-2007 15:50

Gunmen numbering about 7 today (Wednesday, 25 July 2007) attacked the offices of Social Action in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The office also hosts National Point, an independent weekly newspaper published by activist journalists, and supported by Social Action. People injured, equipment taken....

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Tara’s Last Stand?

25-07-2007 10:14

violence on tara
7 arrests
court case today
urgent help needed

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Successful first test ride for cycling cinema

25-07-2007 08:16

And we're off...
On the night of Tuesday the 24th of July, the Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema had it first test run. Around twenty five pedalistos and well-wishers gathered at the shed behind the Portland Arms in Cambridge and watched a film about the Naked Bike Ride, generating the electricity required to run the sound and projection system by their own pedal power.

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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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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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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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Icelandic Embassy Targeted by Activists

20-07-2007 10:53

Copied from IMC Scotland: On the morning of 20th July, the Icelandic embassy on Queen St, Edinburgh was targeted by members of Saving Iceland(1). Paint was thrown on the building, the lock was glued and a message was affixed to the exterior reading “The Whole World is Watching”. “Iceland Bleeds” was also painted on the steps. The action served as response to recent acts of police brutality against Saving Iceland activists in Reykjavik who continue to oppose the assault on the Icelandic wilderness by heavy industry.

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Saving Iceland Blockades Century Smelter at Grundartangi

19-07-2007 15:35

News of Saving Iceland's latest action as part of the Summer of Resistance to the aluminium industry in Iceland.

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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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A612 Burton Joyce Motorists protest Burton Road Bus Plug

18-07-2007 07:00

On 17th July at 6.30pm, 150 motorists gathered on the A612 to protest that the building of the new A612 bypass had taken away their short cut creating a bus plug along Burton Road near Carlton Le Willows School. This article argues the bus plug provides a vital green lung with other benefits

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earth first! summer gathering location announced

17-07-2007 23:15

Location was announced a week ago - just looked myself before I set off.

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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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Anticivilization gathering 2007

16-07-2007 18:29

First draft of Programme for the 07 Anticivilization gathering

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What If...We All Stopped Breathing?

15-07-2007 21:46

Breathing might be the one form of carbon dioxide production humans carry out that is unavoidable, but that doesn't mean we all have to create the same emissions every time we do it.

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Everybody's Doing Media for the Camp for Climate Action

15-07-2007 18:18

“Everybody's doin' media!” said a recent message from the Camp for Climate Action Networking Group, and they invited everyone involved with the Camp to help publicise it by offering information to their local news media.

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The Childrens' Revolution at the Camp for Climate Action

15-07-2007 18:11

The Children of the Eco Warriors are likely to be holding another kids' bloc Childrens' Revolution at the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport from 14 to 21 August.

It is possible that they will lead another march with their banner “The Kids Are Revolting!” in the same way that they did at the Drax power station protest in 2006.

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Tesco Blockade

15-07-2007 08:30

Steffan Arrested
Tesco's store in Porthmadog was blockaded on Saturday and one protester was arrested for plastering posters announcing that the store was shut