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Frontline Tara update

04-09-2007 00:04

5 Actions throughout day at Tara Valley Ireland

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The Hidden Cause of Climate Change

03-09-2007 23:29

Taking a look at an often-overlooked part of the environmental threat to our planet, this is an essential issue for all environmentalists.

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Tara week of action

03-09-2007 20:17

Action Stations Tara Sept 1-7th

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V3 Wind Turbine Workshops 2

03-09-2007 18:04

V3 Power build small wind turbines and run courses teaching people how to make their own turbines. They put a couple up at various events, to inspire folks to get involved with such alternatives.

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V3 Wind Turbine Workshops 1

03-09-2007 17:55

V3 Power build small wind turbines and run courses teaching people how to make their own turbines. They put a couple up at various events, to inspire folks to get involved with such alternatives.

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Hill Holt Woods Project 2

03-09-2007 13:08

Hill Holt Wood (HHW) is a 14 hectare deciduous woodland situated on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border, just off the A46.

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Hill Holt Woods Project 1

03-09-2007 13:03

Hill Holt Wood (HHW) is a 14 hectare deciduous woodland situated on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border, just off the A46.

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Australia: Coal Power Station shut down in APEC climate protest

03-09-2007 02:06

Activists have shut down power generation at the Loy Yang power station in Gippsland's Latrobe Valley in Victoria on Monday morning for five hours, as a protest against inaction on climate change by the Australian Government of John Howard, and policies that maintain the coal power industry and its contribution to climate change at the expense of developing renewable energy production. The action was undertaken to send a message to APEC leaders to take real action on Climate Change and the Kyoto protocol.

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Tara: March to Navan, 15/08/07

02-09-2007 23:38

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A short video of a march to Navan, the closest town to the Tara Valley, to drawn public awareness to the destruction of Irish National Heritage.

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New Orleans After 24 Months: 'They wanted them poor niggers out of there.'

02-09-2007 16:42

“They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain’t had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that’s just the bottom line.”

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Australia: Greenpeace activists stage APEC coal protest

02-09-2007 15:43

Greenpeace activists paint "Australia Pushing Export Coal"
Twelve Greenpeace activists have been arrested at the world's biggest coal port at Newcastle, 160km north of Sydney, after painting the message "Australia Pushing Export Coal" on the side of a coal ship, The Endeavour, and unfurling a large banner in Chinese calling on China to be cautious of John Howard and George Bush’s attempts to sabotage Kyoto. The protest comes at the start of the 2007 APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum meeting being hosted by Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Sydney 2-9 September 2007, and being attended by USA President George Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Pacific rim leaders.

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European Law backs Tara defence and outlaws construction.

01-09-2007 23:14

WORK on the controversial section of the M3 near the Hill of Tara must
now stop.

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Tara Poem: A Call to Action

01-09-2007 19:55

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A short video of a recorded poem by one Tara activist, a call to action in County Meath, Ireland, to halt the construction/destruction being caused by the new M3 motorway.

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Greece under attack by tourist-developer cartels.

31-08-2007 05:22

"Anarchists", Turks, Albanians? The Greek state has attributed the wildfires that have been ravaging Greece to all known scapegoats and then some. What was it that actually happened?

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Guarantee costs and prove likely harm and benefits for rail and air - Brown

30-08-2007 12:26

A new world is emerging: Ken Livingstone and Gordon Brown - Guarantee that your corrupt and harmful schemes for Crossrail and airport expansion will not cost taxpayers in excess of assumption based figures such as £10billion and prove they will not cause unnecessary harm to people and their homelife. Crossrail is backed by Adrian Montague, Bechtel the City, fat Digby Jones, the Labour cronies and corrupt London Council's - where do we begin Hackney, Tower Hamlets ...

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Oaxaca Declines to be “Governed”

30-08-2007 09:26

The Struggle Shifts from the City to Land and Water Issues
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
 http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2768.html

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New nuclear power plants to be announced soon!

29-08-2007 15:43

Goverment to reveal new energy plans which involve the continuation and growth of nuclear reactors as main power source.

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Christian Aid hostility at B`ham `Cut the Carbon` march

28-08-2007 18:24

Approx 40 members of the new group Midlands Vegan Campaigns, joined the Christian Aid `Cut the Carbon` march and rally in Birmingham on Monday 27th August.

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George Monbiot Updates His Global Warming Book

28-08-2007 15:15

Here is a portion of George Monbiot's speech at the Camp for Climate Change in London Aug. 18, '07. He has been studying and writing about global warming for over twenty years and is the Author of "Heat" which is about climate change and what needs to be done about it. He explains that because of recent scientific discoveries the book needs an extreme update.

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Audio Podcast on Climate Camp day of actions...

27-08-2007 19:53

Action podcast on 19th August: interviews with particpants, witnesses and legal observers.