UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Subverting Glastonbury Festival

01-07-2009 23:34

At the corporately social Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, small-scale vandalism took place and various areas were subverted in support of anarchism, also known as total liberation:

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Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement has returned

01-07-2009 03:02

The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home.

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West Yorkshire Hunt Sabs - Back Up and Running

30-06-2009 14:31

Up the Anti!

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Drax29 - climate activists on trial

29-06-2009 14:16

Last June, 29 people stopped a train loaded with coal that was heading
for Drax power station. Today their trial began at Leeds Crown Court.

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all-out for support: Mainshill Solidarity Camp eviction granted!

29-06-2009 13:14

Come resist Scottish Coal and Lord Home, and defend communities and the climate!

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Demo against Notts Police & £700,000 bill for arresting 114 enviro activists

26-06-2009 01:10

on Wednesday June 24th at 9.30am at Nottinghamshire County Hall, Trent Bridge, Nottingham. A Demonstration against the Notts Police Authority meeting had been organised. The object, to demand that the Notts Police are Accountable for their recent actions.

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Solitaire Arrives in Rossport

25-06-2009 08:06

The Solitaire, the huge pip laying ship, that will lay the pipeline in Broadhaven Bay has arrived. If you were thinking of coming to Rossport this summer now is the time. Resistance continues whilst 200 Gardai and the Irish Navy are drafted in to facilitate Shell's project.

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Mainshill Solidarity Camp presented with eviction papers

24-06-2009 18:34

At 17:00 in the afternoon on Wednesday 24th of June occupiers of the Mainshill Solidarity Camp in south Lanarkshire were handed eviction papers by a sheriff officer. The Solidarity camp has been summoned to appear at Lanark sheriff court on Monday the 29th at 9:45 am.

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Kew Bridge Eco-Village - Photos

24-06-2009 16:31

Photographs of the Kew Bridge Eco-Village two weeks after the occupation.
Pictures Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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McDonalds McLibel Protest 2009 + Video

24-06-2009 15:27

McDonalds waste there cash on security while activists get the message out!

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Aviation biofuels protest targets Virgin Atlantic

24-06-2009 10:16

Activists from Plane Stupid and Action Against Agrofuels protested at Heathrow Terminal 3 outside the Virgin check-in about the proposed use of biofuels for aviation. Monday 22nd June was chosen as it was the 25th anniversary of Virgin Atlantic who plan to meet 5% of their 2015 aviation fuel quota from biofuels. Most of this will inevitably come from palm oil.

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Solitaire due in Broadhaven Bay, Mayo tomorrow

23-06-2009 18:25

If you’ve been waiting for the most important time to come to Mayo: this is it. The camp really needs people here to continue last year’s brilliant resistance. The Solitaire will be here any day, so we need you here now! This is a crucial stage in the campaign: the time frame for work is very limited by good weather and action now against the Solitaire can really help put a stop to Shell’s project!

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Direct Action; Italy, Mexico & USA

22-06-2009 18:58

16th-22nd June

ANIMAL TRANSPORT TRUCK DESTROYED (Italy)
CANARY FREED FROM CAGE (Mexico)
UNGAR FURS LOOKING WORSE THAN USUAL (USA)
GLUED LOCKS AND BROKEN WINDOWS IN ROME (Italy)
"BREAK WITH HLS" PAINTED AT NOVARTIS (Mexico)
MEAT MARKETS, TELMEX PHONES VANDALIZED (Mexico)
SABOTAGE IN MEMORY OF MAURI MORALES (Mexico)

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Mainshill Solidarity Camp Update: No eviction this morning, but drilling workers

22-06-2009 12:09

After a whole night of digging in and strengthening defences, the rumoured eviction this morning hasn't happened. However, the solidarity shown by the number of people who joined us over the weekend has been fantastic and allowed huge amounts of building work to happen, making the site well defendable.

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Bath Bomb #23 Out Now

22-06-2009 10:42

The new edition of Bath's monthly tabloid rantfest

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Urgent! Mainshill Eviction on Monday

21-06-2009 13:38

Mainshill Solidarity Camp, in South Lanarkhire, Scotland, is being evicted on Monday. Help is urgently needed to stop the imposition of an open cast coal mine.

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Mainshill Solidarity Camp solidifies as local support grows

20-06-2009 11:06

In its first full day of resistance Mainshill Solidarity Camp, in the Douglas Valley in South Lanarkshire, has grown as the site is set up. Tree-houses and other structures in the woodland have been put in place to show Scottish Coal that they are serious about preventing the opencast site from going ahead. The site will be continuously occupied.

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Mainshill Wood Occupied

19-06-2009 10:30

No Open Cast Here! Join the fight against open cast coal mining, climate chaos and community destruction! Come to the Solidarity Camp

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ALF, ELF & Luddites; Bomb Threat, Sabotage & Arson

17-06-2009 17:29

8th-15th June

BOMB THREAT AT WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (Netherlands)
ELF SABOTAGE DIGGER (Italy)
ARSON ATTACK AGAINST POLICE VEHICLE IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE IN PERU (Mexico)
DOZENS OF TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)

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London protests in solidarity with indigenous people of Peru's Amazonia?

17-06-2009 00:44

As far as i know, there haven't been any protests/demos in London in solidarity with indigenous people of Peru's Amazonia being massacred by Peruvian governement for their attempt to save the rainforest, their land and culture.