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Grouse Shoots Sabbed in the Holme Valley

31-08-2008 15:03

West & South Yorkshire Hunt Sabs joined forces yesterday to stop grouse shoots in the Holme Valley, near Holmfirth.

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Activists Demo Council Over Ilkley Grouse Shoot Plans

31-08-2008 14:53

On Friday, 15 activists held a visual and noisey demo outside Bradford Council’s Head Office, Jacob’s Well, because of their plans to allow grouse shooting to return to Ilkley Moor.

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Rossport Picket Account

31-08-2008 12:12

Report from yesterdays picket at Glengad where Gardai attacked protesters at Shell's Compound

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Save Titnore Woods!

31-08-2008 10:42

WHEN is a wood not a wood? When it has a road running right through it!

The "new" planning application for the West Durrington development in Worthing, West Sussex, is being sold to the Worthing public as a "response to public opinion" that will spare many of the Titnore trees.

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Direct Action; Denmark, Mexico, USA, Australia & Spain

29-08-2008 20:10

CAGES EMPTIED AT FUR FARM (Denmark)
DAYLIGHT RESCUE OF RABBIT (Mexico)
TOILETS CLOGGED AT FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS (USA)
MELBOURNE ZOO VANDALIZED (Australia)
REPEAT VISIT TO FUR SHOP (Mexico)
15 FUR SHOPS SABOTAGED IN BARCELONA (Spain)
MEAT MARKET REDECORATED (Mexico)
PAINTED PROTESTS AGAINST PET STORE, GE CORN (Mexico)

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Anti-Fur Action Alert: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

29-08-2008 17:32

On July 5th, SARC kicked off their campaign against the Portsmouth Dockyard letting real fur be sold in their gift shops.

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Candidate John McCain picks prowar huntress as his running mate

29-08-2008 16:44

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, guts the moose
she murders herself, wants polar bears removed
from the endangered species list, owned
a commercial fisheries company
McCain picks huntress as running mate.

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Vegan BBQ this Sunday in Brum

28-08-2008 22:59

Transition City Birmingham are staging a vegan BBQ at Martineau Gardens this coming Sunday(details below). Midlands Vegan Campaigns will have a stall in order to promote the West Midlands Vegan Festival.  http://www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk
Hope to see you all there! :)

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Rossport update 26.08.08 21.54

26-08-2008 22:14

Shell to Sea week of action extended... update on current situation
Rossport Solidarity Camp Returns to Glengad with a Fresh Call Out for Action.
… And the Shell to Sea ‘Week of Action’ (announced last week) is extended indefinitely until Solitaire pipeline work is stopped.

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Urgent Call For Actions Against Shell & Allseas

26-08-2008 18:55

NOW IS THE TIME- Support Shell to Sea, Ireland. ANY DAY NOW the biggest pipe laying ship in the world, the Solitaire, is due to arrive. The ship is owned by ALLSEAS. Shell are attempting to illegally construct the offshore section of the high pressure raw gas pipeline. Our community are determined to resist Shell here in Mayo, Ireland...but we need your help!

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Common Ground Community Garden Celebrates Success with Party!

26-08-2008 17:58

Flyer 1 Front
After a year and half of green-fingered, community-spirited direct-action, we - the organisers of Common Ground Community Garden - are celebrating success … and we invite all our friends, neighbours and supporters to join in the fun!

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How the Falcon can hear the Falconer. Protest @ Tara.

25-08-2008 12:17

Call to Arms

Yesterday the campaigners of five years at Tara were visited and supported
by Ireland's Poet Laureate , Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon (Pulitzer Prize
Winner) :

To Protest the desecration of the Tara Complex by the current and Previous
Irish government.

This was presented in the Progressive Democrat Edited Irish Times as the
Poet marks Government Sponsored Heritage week- which is a crime of Ommission.

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Titnore Woods Victory

24-08-2008 10:55

Further success for the inspiring Titnore Woods campaigners reported in todays press

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Agrofuels blockaders ‘unconditionally discharged’

22-08-2008 21:01

Yesterday (21st August), four protesters were convicted of ‘willfully obstructing a public highway’ and sentenced with an ‘unconditional discharge’ under the Highways Act (1) in Gray’s Magistrate’s Court’s, Essex.

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Direct Action from Mexico & USA

22-08-2008 18:39

ACTIVISTS TARGET VIVISECTION BREEDER (Mexico)
HUNDREDS OF MINK RELEASED FROM CAGES (USA)
LOCKS GLUED AT 10 MEAT MARKETS (Mexico)
BUTCHER SHOPS, EGG DISTRIBUTOR PAINTED (Mexico)

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Road building costs increase by up to £4 billion

22-08-2008 11:32

Campaign for Better Transport reveals the spiralling cost of environmentally damaging new roads.

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Ken Livingstone - Thames Water scandal

22-08-2008 10:23

Ken Livingstone tried to do over water usage in London, he blamed ordinary people and lectured them that they should stop leaving the tap on while brushing or having a long shower meanwhile Thames was losing 915 million litres a day, the regulator, the idiots paid to tell us what they are doing and then do nothing said - enough to fill 366 Olympic-sized swimming pools. He did not do anything about Thames Water and what he did do is a scandal, in London, most of the Victorian pipes in central and East London were bone dry and the problems were with North London, which cannot be fixed with plastic pipes. Thames Water replaced perfectly good cast iron pipes with plastic pipes and they do not even know their shelf life, some people predict 30 years. So you take out something that is perfectly OK, why? apparently

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Shifting The Burden Of Proof Changes Nothing In The GM Debate

22-08-2008 10:09

Imagine the scene: you walk into a bar and someone immediately faces you up, brandishing their fists, red with pent-up aggression clearly eager to send you on to the floor or worse. He screams into your face, spittle flecks flying across your nose and lips, “Prove to me that you deserve not to be punched repeatedly in the face!”

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Climate Camp - Selected photos

22-08-2008 08:30

Better late than never! A mixed bag of photos from the Climate Camp 2008. (All are copyright, but may be used for any sort of activism publicity.)
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