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Activists stop work at Ffos y Fran coal mine

24-09-2009 09:10

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Climate activists stop work at Ffos-y-fran coal mine.

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Butane bomb left at Novartis & MaxMara painted

23-09-2009 19:03

September 23, 2009 - Mexico
BUTANE BOMB AT NOVARTIS

September 22, 2009 - Italy
MAXMARA PAINTED RED

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Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?

23-09-2009 07:48

Protesting Vancouver Peace Summit and Spiritual Dream Team

Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?

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fotos and report from titnore woods picnic

22-09-2009 22:25

the gates of hell
The family picnic was a very sociable day, blessed by amazing weather. Here's a report from the action bit...

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Direct Action; UK, Germany, Italy, Spain & Mexico

22-09-2009 02:33

17th-21st September

ALF WELCOME ANDREW BAKER TO TOWN (UK)
CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Germany)
RABBIT FARM ADVERT TORN DOWN (Italy)
MEAT TRUCK COVERED IN PAINT (Spain)
HUNTING PLATFORM DESTROYED (UK)
MEAT SHOPS GLUED (Mexico)
LETTERS SENT TO HLS-LOVING SCUM (UK)
MEAT COMPANY VAN DESTROYED (Italy)
ROOSTER LIBERATED (Mexico)
TWO FUR FARMS FOUND ABANDONED (Italy)
EMPTY CAGES AT FUR FARMS (Germany)

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Global Minga in Defence of Mother Earth and her Peoples: Oct 12 - 16

21-09-2009 14:50

In defense of Mother Earth and her Peoples against the commercialization of life, pollution and the criminalization of Indigenous and social movements...Marking the day Christopher Columbus first set foot on Abya Yala, 518 years ago. The mobilization will begin on Oct 12.

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Rupert Murdoch's Times Prints British Butcher Propaganda

21-09-2009 13:38

Downed Cow forklift-pushed into fence

As the UN's environmentalists won a Nobel Prize for focusing
on animal agriculture genocide as a cause of global heating,
the London Times and the IDS sought to continue their
promotion of further famine and drought in Africa and Asia

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Mr. Manure

20-09-2009 13:28

Mr. Manure
The BBC motor journalist Mr. Jeremy Clarkson, JM, often presents his views on motoring, cars and similar matters in the conservative Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende: and it’s clear to anyone that JM is in favour of big and petrol consummating motors. No doubt there, he is loyal to his real employers. But the position of the BBC is some what difficult to comprehend. Why on the polluted earth want the BBC to promote the exceedingly climate dangerous viewpoints and positions of JM? In other relations the BBC appears as a public service organisation that is intelli-gent and understands the danger of human driven emissions etc.

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Climate activists pay Jeremy Clarkson a visit

17-09-2009 15:04

This morning seven activists from Climate Rush on the Run decided to pay Jeremy Clarkson a visit.

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Direct Action; Luxembourg, Mexico, UK, Uruguay, Germany & Italy

17-09-2009 01:01

EXPLOSIVE ATTACK AT MAXMARA STORE (Mexico)
11th-16th September

FIRES AT HOMES OF HLS LENDERS (Luxembourg)
EXPLOSIVE ATTACK AT MAXMARA STORE (Mexico)
PHEASANT PENS TRASHED (UK)
GRAFFITI AND PAINT AGAINST ANIMAL EXHIBIT (Uruguay)
CROW RELEASED FROM LARSEN TRAP (UK)
PROTESTS AGAINST PHARMACEUTICAL LAB HEAT UP HANNOVER (Germany)
TRACTOR BURNED AT PHEASANT FARM (Italy)
CONSTRUCTION SITE SABOTAGED (UK)
PHEASANT FARM PAINT BOMBED, CROW LIBERATED (Italy)

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Work restarts at Mainshill, resistance needed!

15-09-2009 13:53

Forestry Commission workers this morning re-started clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine. When the clear-felling started in June, Mainshill solidarity camp was set up to stop work on the site and occupy it, preventing any further felling and preventing any of the wood being removed from the site. Support is needed to prevent this destruction.

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Construction site sabotaged

14-09-2009 18:38

To kick start Bristol co-mutiny three vehicles were sabotaged at a Somerset site constructing unaffordable housing (urban sprawl for the middle class).

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Transition Town Worthing announces The End of Suburbia film event

14-09-2009 13:11

Transition Town Worthing will be screening the critically-acclaimed documentary The End of Suburbia at the Sidney Walter Centre on Sunday 27th September, at 7.30pm. This hard-hitting film explores what the end of cheap oil means for “the American dream” - and the rest of us.

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Australian activists breach fence of power plant - now lets shut down Ratcliffe!

14-09-2009 11:46

 http://www.switchoffhazelwood.org/
 http://indymedia.org.au/2009/09/09/switch-off-hazelwood-coverage

"Approximately five hundred people took part in today's historic action at the Hazelwood coal power station, while 22 people managed to get themselves arrested while attempting to slap a 'Community Decommission Order' on Hazelwood.

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Cardiff - Fight For Jobs/Fight For The Planet

14-09-2009 11:39

Thursday, 17 September 2009, 17:00 - 18:30, Nye Bevan Statue
End of Queen St, Cardiff

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Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, dies

13-09-2009 20:37

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8253005.stm Story here and elsewhere about Norman Borlaug who was central to the so-called "Green Revolution" in the 1960s. It was about breeding high-yield crops (by natural cross-breeding, not genetic modification) to stave off famines caused by population explosion. I'm not really interested in celebrities like this in themselves, but I would like to know whether Indymedia readers think the Green Revolution was a good or a bad thing, in general.

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Clear-felling to resume at Mainshill Wood

13-09-2009 10:52

Trees felled in June
The Mainshill Solidarity Camp has learned from Forestry Commission workers that the land owner at Mainshill Wood in South Lanarkshire, Lord Home, intends to continuing clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine.

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2nd Landslide Win Against Biofuel Power At Newport, South Wales

13-09-2009 08:52

A second win, 8:1 against the madness of burning food for fuel. This time against Vogen’s biofuel power station application at Newport was achieved on Sept 9th. Residents and campaigners walked out in protest at the Chair’s attempts to manipulate councillors with talk of lost capital for hospitals & schools + shouts of “shame” to those promoting industry interests before residents. One councillor described the behaviour of Vogen in their so-called ‘public meeting’ of 2 weeks ago as "tyrannical".

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Open rescue of 13 hens, Czech Republic

12-09-2009 17:53

open rescue:  http://michalkolesar.net/

"13 hens rescued from meaningless suffering and meaningless death. They were moved to a new, safe home, where they will live in grass and sun, will be able to stretch their wings and run and the weaker will be able to escape the stronger."

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Pirate For the Sea London Screening

11-09-2009 10:00

8.30pm 28th September 2009, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS. This evening will be the first screening in the UK of 'A Pirate for the Sea' a documentary on the life of Paul Watson, founder and Captain of Sea Shepherd. The Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for Sea Shepherd UK, will be introducing the film and holding an audience Q&A afterwards.