UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Towards climate action in Copenhagen 2009

23-05-2008 22:39

We invite you to join the 1st international planning meeting in Copenhagen from the 13-14th of September 2008. The meeting aims at preparing a large mobilisation for direct action against the root causes of climate change in Copenhagen and throughout the world during the UN Climate Conference (30 Nov-11 Dec 2009).

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Second Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes

23-05-2008 22:21

Your Invitation to the Second Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes. Feel free to forward/post/publish to all appropriate people and places/sites.

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Transition Towns Talks 27th May

23-05-2008 21:44

With oil hitting £135 its very pertinant that Rob Hopkins will be speaking about Transition Initiatives at the Mechanics Institute on Tues 27 the May

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ALF Foie gras actions (2007 - 2008)

22-05-2008 13:15

There are places that will not listen to reason, continue to support an industry illegal in the UK, and cause massive suffering to geese and ducks, and for a 'delicacy'.

It is clear that there are places that have no limits to what they will place on the menu.
They will not listen to protesters and campaigners, now they are having to deal with the Animal Liberation Front, as they are realising to their increasing cost.

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Mass death of bees in Germany: Pesticide approvals suspended

22-05-2008 07:50

The cause of mass bee deaths has been established: pesticide products from chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta. They have been removed from sale in Germany. We should now pressure Bayer and regulators to remove them from sale elsewhere...

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Raids And Arrests In Austria

21-05-2008 13:36

...since the early morning hours, houses, flats and storage rooms of austrian animal rights activists have been raided and some of them where arrested. The police forced some people with weapons and handcuffed others while searching the building and rooms.

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Leave it in the Ground! - 26th May open-cast coal mass trespass and picnic -

21-05-2008 02:11

Hi everyone, there is a public action against new open cast coal mining coming up. The people organising it are a new group and a hoping for lots of people to come, to start building a strong
resistance against the massive new coal mining plans in the UK and elsewhere. It'll be a fun day and a great start to the campaign.

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Saved from landfill or stolen? What do you think?

20-05-2008 17:29

A Wrexham woman is facing a possible criminal charge of theft under Section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 for allegedly taking four green plastic garden chairs out of the landfill skip at the local household 'recycling' centre.

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Free Kaff in Brighton

19-05-2008 21:10

Residents and supporters of 88 London Road, Brighton - the former Methodist church where a recent eviction attempt was successfully resisted - have been holding frequent free food stalls like this one on Sunday.

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Call for submissions against Shell pipeline- DEADLINE WED 25th JUNE

19-05-2008 13:55

Now Shell have applied for planning for their 'new' pipeline route, we must act swiftly to oppose it at every stage. Everyone can make submissions! This entire project has been the cause of untold misery, strife and unhappiness for our families and community. We will continue to resist Shell through every legal, political and campaigning means open to us, even though this could lead to more years of unnecessary conflict. Please support us!

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Shakespeare and Others on Calves, Deer, Flies, Beetles, Vivivsectors,

19-05-2008 11:38

Shakespeare, E Dickinson, J Hackett, F M Esfandiary, G B Shaw, Robert Burns, Wm Blake, Abe Lincoln, Edna St Vincent Millay, C. Salamone, Mao Tse Tung, P Levine,

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Direct Action: UK, USA & Sweden

17-05-2008 18:00

DOZENS OF HUNTING TOWERS SAWED INTO FIREWOOD (Sweden)
WINDOWS BROKEN, SLOGANS PAINTED AT KFC (USA)
64 CHICKENS LIBERATED FROM FARM (UK)
WARNING FOR HOTEL SERVING FOIE GRAS (UK)
CIRCUS VEHICLES VANDALIZED (UK)
MEAT BANNER DESTROYED AT SUPERMARKET (UK)

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Invitation For Workshop Offers At the Camp For Climate Action 2008

15-05-2008 23:11

The Camp for Climate Action is back. And we are planning a jam packed
programme of workshops. If this new movement for climate action has a
chance of winning, we are going to need knowledge, skills and the space to
forge a future where people and the environment come before profit.

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Call for action at UN Biodiversity Summit - Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May

15-05-2008 15:31

Call for action to protect biodiveristy, family farms & stop privatisation & the loss of more land to monoculture at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May.
Driving out small farmers and peasants, genetic manipulation, deforestation, use of pesticides ...it will all be at stake at this Summit.
Ref: www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=563&Itemid=1

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“The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review.

15-05-2008 11:49

The Rocky Road to a Real Transition: the transition towns movement and what it means for social change. Paul Chatterton & Alice Cutler. The Trapese Collective. A free download available here (warning: it is a huge file): 2008. 41pp.

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Oil Drilling permission

14-05-2008 19:02

planning pemission given to test drill for oil in south downs

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Douzens of Direct Actions in 3 Days

14-05-2008 15:54

12-14th May 2008

MORE TROUBLE FOR STAPLES (USA)
CHICKENS GIVEN NEW HOME IN OPEN RESCUE (Finland)
FOIE GRAS SUPPLIER HIT (UK)
RABBIT BREEDER EMPTIED (Sweden)
TARGET: STAPLES - HLS SUPPLIER (USA)
MEAT MARKETS ATTACKED (Mexico)
PIGLETS SAVED FROM SLAUGHTER (UK)
25 HENS LIBERATED (Netherlands)
ANIMALS RELEASED FROM WILDLIFE PARK (Germany)
CIRCUS PROPAGANDA DESTROYED (Sweden)
RABBITS RESCUED, FUR SHOP PAINTED, ZOO PROTESTED (Italy)
DOGS RESCUED FROM BREEDER (Germany)
RESTAURANTS SABOTAGED (Mexico)

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Foie gras nationwide day of action, Friday 16th May

13-05-2008 17:17

A nationwide day of action has been called for Friday 16th May against these establishments continuing to support foie gras. This is a limited list of contact details, please look up more easily accessible details relating to these supporters of the cruel trade, and duly inform them of the hell these geese and ducks go through for no more than a delicacy.

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Bush regime criminalizing animal rights movement

13-05-2008 03:13

A barking dog in a room full of mirrors sees only enemies,
said Sathya Narayana... the FBI's leadership with its pawn judges
and prosecutors projects violence
onto gentle people who seek to make the world
safe for animals through education, lawsuits, and
other conscience motivated nonviolence.

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Greenpeace claims success on bottom trawling but what about enforcement?

12-05-2008 21:22

According to Greenpeace Ocean's campaign, The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), whose members include Canada, the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Russia and the US, has announced plans to regulate the activities of its fleets in line with a 2006 United Nations resolution. The resolution calls for urgent action to protect deep-sea corals and other vulnerable ecosystems from the impacts of bottom trawling on the high seas. The UN originally set a deadline for all regional fisheries treaty organizations to fully implement its plans by December 2008.