UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Eat the G8 in Iceland!

10-07-2008 00:12

The G8 summit will be held from July 7 to 9 of this year, at Toya-ko lake in Hokkaido (Japan). In solidarity with the worldwide plan of actions held against the kind of globalization promoted by G8 and the repression of Japanese police against activists, an action also took place in Reykjavik yesterday (5th July).

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Ilkley Moor Grouse Shoot - Update & Action Alert

09-07-2008 01:30

STOP GROUSE SHOOTING ON ILKLEY MOOR

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WMClimate Camp: Meeting and Screening

08-07-2008 03:51

The West Midlands Neighborhood of the Camp for Climate Action will be meeting this coming Thursday 10th July at the Spotted Dog, Alcester St, Digbeth, and screening a film about last years Camp.

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Badgers spared in England, but not Wales

07-07-2008 16:41

The Secretary of State for DEFRA, Hilary Benn, announced today that he has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle. The decision came after protest actions last month with a rally attended by over 300 supporters and the sabotaging of five offices owned by the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the Farmers Union of Wales (FUW). Mr Benn also has resounding public support for sparing badgers. A DEFRA public consultation on the issue received submissions from 47,000 respondents, ninety-five per cent of whom opposed a cull. Despite this, The Welsh Assembly has voted to allow badger culling to go ahead in Wales.

The government-appointed Independent Scientific Group announced in June 2007 - following a decade of research - that killing badgers would not significantly reduce bovine TB and could make matters worse. It also declared that TB probably first spreads from cattle to badgers, where it remains stable, provided the badgers are undisturbed. Research has demonstrated that culling causes massive disturbance and has the effect of increasing the incidence and spread of the disease. Benn has come under unrelenting pressure from the farming industry to give permission for the destruction of around 170,000 badgers - half the population.

Links: Viva | Animal Liberation Front (ALF) | Animal Aid | The Badger Trust

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Benn confirms Badgers saved in England

07-07-2008 16:16

The government will not issue licences to cull badgers to try and prevent cattle TB in England, Hilary Benn has confirmed. In a Commons statement, the environment secretary said that a large-scale cull could infact make the problem a lot worse.

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Pre-Trial Detention Extended for all 10 Austrian Prisoners

07-07-2008 15:17

Legal Support Press Release: 17th July 2008
Pre-Trial Detention Extended for all 10 Animal Rights Activists

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Sheffield Coach to the Climate Camp

07-07-2008 12:24

Get to the Climate Camp by coach: As well as making traveling easy, its also nice for people who are going alone to meet people on the way. We are sharing the coach with Leeds folk. Our bus to the camp is on Sunday 3rd, departing Sheffield at 11.30.

Our bus home again is on Sunday 10th, departs 3pm from the camp and we hope to have it arrive at around 8.30opm traffic permitting.

We are selling tickets for £15 single waged and £10 single unwaged. Please book your ticket as soon as possible, as we need to know numbers. Email

climatecamp2008@yahoo.co.uk and let us know if you want to come.

If the importance of Climate Camp hasn't struck home yet, read on! Please forward this to any groups or individuals who might be interested.

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Namibian Seal Hunt – Open Letter

07-07-2008 11:33

Open letter regarding the seal hunt in Namibia from Francois Hugo, Seal Alert-SA

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Climate Camp Publishes Inspiring Newspaper

07-07-2008 09:17

Last week 30,000 newspapers, beautifully designed in black and bright cyan and not looking anything like a boring political paper, came off the printing press and began their journey around the country. To inspire people to camp to this years Climate Camp which sets up at Kingsnorth in Kent in less than a month's time.

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Fur campaign kicks off in Portsmouth

06-07-2008 22:05

On Saturday 5th July SARC kicked off their campaign against Nauticalia in Portsmouth with a bright and vibrant demonstration against the company's sale of toys made from REAL fur.

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Wrexham Peace & Justice News Issue 25 out now

06-07-2008 18:24

Peace and Justice news for Wrexham, Wales and beyond.

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Waitrose Buyers not into telling you what ingredients their products contain

06-07-2008 09:01

It is interesting that Waitrose Buyers do not like to tell you what the cakes on their counters contain. Write them a letter and ask them and you will find they are quite reluctant. Secondly. you will be interested to know the Waitrose Leaf Mark is a lot of nonsense as they use human slurry and tried to claim the Soil Association use it - They do not.

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Quorn contain GM feed

06-07-2008 08:58

I was told that Quorn did not contain GM ingredients but when I probed the customer service department then I was told GM feed was used but there was no presence of it afterwards. Please remember all processed food unless organic is likely to contain GM ingredients.

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Badgers saved in England, but not in Wales

05-07-2008 19:17

Going against solid scientific advice the Welsh Assembly have voted to allow badger culling to go ahead in Wales, despite the leaked announced from DEFRA that badgers in England will be spared. This will be a wildlife massacre of an almost unprecedented scale - and for nothing. The largest report into bovine TB found that badger culling would actually make the situation worse by displacing surviving badgers.

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Charles River, fur & the Ilkley moor shoot targeted

05-07-2008 19:06

Communqiues from the 4th / 5th:

ALF CLAIMS ATTACK AT CHARLES RIVER LABS (France) **
ACTION REPORTS KEEP COMING IN (Norway)
UP ON THE MOORS (UK)
FUR SHOPS PAINTED, COVERED IN TAR (Sweden)

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Update: Austrian Prisoners - Solidarity Instead of Paranoia

05-07-2008 16:43

Solidarity Instead of Paranoia – We Are Still All §278a!
Press Release: 5th July 2008

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National Anti Fur March & Rally

04-07-2008 23:16

Saturday 27th September 2008, London.
Meet 12noon at Belgrave Square, SW1

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Climate Camp Jingle

04-07-2008 18:04

Here is a jingle produced by Riseup! Radio for the Climate Camp, to be held near Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent from 3 – 11 August. Please distribute and re-broadcast the jingle if you can. For more info about the camp check out

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

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Message from Austrian Prisoners; Felix, Elmar & Chris

04-07-2008 14:27

It has now been almost six weeks since we have had our companions by our side. We know from visits to the prisons that one of the most import things to the prisoners is the correspondence that they are receiving from around the world.

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Solidarity actions continue for Austrian activists

04-07-2008 14:12

The next evaluation of the detention for the animal rights activists in Austria will take place today in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna. There the decision will be made as to whether the activists will remain in remand custody. To inform the public and the media about the new evaluation and this Austrian Affair, activists spread the word for their freedom two days before, on the 2nd of July.

Here are some pictures and communiques leading upto and on the day of action...