UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Direct Action: Spain, Sweden, UK, Czech & Italy

01-04-2008 22:20

30st March - 1st April

1000 MINK FREED (Spain)
STONES AND PAINT AGAINST ASTRAZENECA (Sweden)
EASTER BUNNY VS. NOVARTIS (UK)
FOUR LIVES SAVED (Czech Republic)
RABBIT RESCUED, TIRES SLASHED ON MEAT CO. VANS (Italy)

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EV-EON Unnaturally Carbonated Water : The Planet is Saved!

01-04-2008 21:08

EV-EON Unnaturally Carbonated Water was launched today on the streets of London. Using all new climate-saving technology we can save the day and keep burning coal for ever more. Well done Carbon Capture and Storage!

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Kenyan Green tear gassed

01-04-2008 19:35

Nobel laureate and all round eco-warrior and politician Wangari Maathai was tear gassed in Kenya!

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Fossil Fools Day action round up

01-04-2008 18:36

A round up of many of the fossil fools day actions so far worldwide. Pictures, more info on all these actions and updates at

http://www.fossilfoolsday.org

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Gigs, Gardens & Grub! Action for Squats & Autonomous Spaces - Events in Reading!

01-04-2008 18:22

As part of the global days of action for squats and autonomous spaces (see

http://april2008.squat.net or

http://www.indymedia.org.uk "upcoming coverage" in top left corner of home page) two (maybe three!) events will take place in Reading, Berks.

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Banner Hang for Fossil Fools in Wrexham

01-04-2008 16:01

Banner hang on Plas Coch roundabout in Wrexham for Fossil Fools Day:

http://www.fossilfoolsday.org

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Climate Change Activists Blockade Major Gas Terminal

01-04-2008 07:47

Earth First! UK activists today blockaded the UK's largest off shore gas terminal at Bacton in Norfolk. 40% of the UK's domestic gas comes ashore here, is processed and distributed by pipeline. Activists blockaded the main road outside the site at 6.30 am this morning, preventing construction workers and shift owrkers from arriving.

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Eastside Climate Action blockade E-on workers as part of Fossil Fools Day

01-04-2008 07:00

At 7:30 this morning 30 people blockaded the entrances to E-on's offices on Mount St, Nottingham City Centre. People covered in green paint to represent E-on's greenwash, locked onto the front entrance to E-on's office and stood in front of other entrances preventing E-on workers from getting to work.

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FFD:18 people shut down Ffof-y-fran Open case coal mine shut down in Wales

01-04-2008 06:57

As dawn breaks on Fossil Fools Day in the UK 18 people are currently shutting down operations at the Ffof-y-fran open cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.This includes a team that has climbed a rig in the mine and have hung a banner while another team is blockading the mine gates locking themselves down with with bicycle d-locks.

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Environmental Action at Football Association HQ in London

31-03-2008 21:55

Campaigners against sponsorship of FA by power station construction company

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Freeconomy Free For All in Wrexham

31-03-2008 19:24

Freeconomy Wrexham is having a 'Free for All' Bring and Take event at Acton Community Centre, Overton Way, Acton this Saturday 5th April from 9.30 am - 12.30 pm. Come along and find out how to make the world go round without money! Bring your unwanted items along and find something new (to you) to take home with you. Everything for free. Shoplifters will NOT be prosecuted.

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Grass roots struggle for ecology in Palestine

31-03-2008 16:41

This weeks Indy Global Reports was recorded in the village of Marda, in the middle of the West Bank International activists and environmentalists from across the world, Palestine and Israel came together to join a workshop which was originally to be led by Star Hawk, author and activist.
Star Hawk was denied entry to Israel and deported from Ben-Gurion airport last week. Local activists put out an emergency call for workshop leaders, and the course was able to take place. I went to Marda to speak with the participants and organisers.

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The Martians Are Coming...

31-03-2008 11:51

There are rumours that some of our descendants from Mars have returned from the future to save the human race from extinction caused by global warming.

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Canadian Coast Guard Rams Sea Shepherd Ship (twice)

31-03-2008 09:21

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers twice rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Farley Mowat today. The Sea Shepherd is present at the baby seal hunt to document the killings. Witnessing a seal being clubbed is a crime in Canada.

The Coast Guard had ordered the Farley Mowat to not approach the area where seals are being slaughtered. When the Farley Mowat did not comply, the Coast Guard rammed the vessel near the port aft stern area. After the Farley Mowat stopped in the ice, the Coast Guard rammed the ship a second time in the same area of the ship causing damage to the plates in that area.

The Coast Guard has demonstrated extreme recklessness with this move. The crew of the Farley Mowat were engaged in documenting the slaughter of seals. They were not interfering with the hunt. The annual slaughter of baby harp seals has started off the east coast of Canada in Newfoundland last week. The slaughter of over 325.000 baby seals has been widely condemned around the world, but the Canadian government is ademend in its continued support for it.

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Kerala Declaration on Irresponsible Tourism

31-03-2008 06:44

The Kerala tourism events last week can be considered as an important milestone in the Third World tourism debate as an alliance of local civic organizations and activists vigorously pointed out to participants of the Second International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Kochi the vast difference between theory and practice of `responsible tourism'. The Declaration of the official conference is posted at

http://www.responsibletourism2008.org/keraladeclaration.php.
This is the Declaration of the People's Declaration on Tourism adopted by the civil societygroups in parellel convension on Irresponsible Tourism

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Goldman Sachs White House: Latest Coupling of Capitalism With Slaughterhouse

30-03-2008 15:11

Long before J P Morgan was making his fortune selling filthy meat to the Union Army
in the Civil War, capitalism has been wed to slaughterhouse products.

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Action Needed In Solidarity With Melanesia Climate Refugees

30-03-2008 03:35

'Carteret Islanders are victims of climate change, we do not emit greenhouse
let alone drive cars on the island, do not
have an airstrip on the island, yet we have become victims of others doing'.

Probably get there by the end of next year on my yacht.

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Four seal hunters drown after boat capsizes

29-03-2008 15:06

Four seal hunters drown during hunt

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Mammoth Visitor's Center Temporarily Closed in Montana

28-03-2008 21:42

TWO WOMEN PROTEST BISON SLAUGHTER IN YELLOWSTONE PARK
March 26, 2008

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Interview With Nottingham Activist On Return From Whale Saving Mission

28-03-2008 12:21

A Nottingham resident who joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as part of their crew on the vessel Steve Irwin has returned home. Dan, who has volunteered with Sea Shepherd previously, rejoined in the middle of this year's anti-whaling mission against the continued Japanese whale hunting activities in the Southern Ocean. Named Operation Migaloo, after the only known albino humpback in the world, this was Sea Shepherd's fourth expedition to the remote southern waters off the coast of Antarctica and has been typically eventful.

In January, two Sea Shepherd volunteers were taken hostage by Japanese whalers. Then in March, several of the crew were injured when the Japanese military threw grenades onto the ship and opened fire on them. The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin covered a total of 20,090 nautical miles (37,205 kilometers) during Opertaion Migaloo and made 3 return trips from Melbourne, Australia to the coast of Antarctica in 3½ months. In total, the ship was at sea for 83 days between December 5, 2007 and March 15, 2008. It is estimated that due to continued harrasment by the Sea Shepherd, the Japanese have not managed to get even half their whale quota this hunting season.