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Drilling-Rig Sabotaged at Mainshill Woods

18-01-2010 11:59

In the early hours of January the 13th an Apex drilling rig at Mainshill Woods was sabotaged.

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Help Protect Nottingham's Bees

18-01-2010 11:53

A couple of people plan to plant wildflowers across the city to help protect Nottingham's bees. They are looking for some help with the project.

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Pre-Eviction Gathering! Sat 23rd to Tues 26th January

18-01-2010 10:53

A long weekend of action, workshops and defence-building in preparation for the eviction of the Mainshill Solidarity Camp

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Beware Of Obamaton Pod People On The Net!

17-01-2010 11:49

Re: the 'Chagos Islands Marine Reserve Petition' currently circulating UK alternative net communities and message boards.

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Sea Shepherd: Update from sea

15-01-2010 18:15

Southern Ocean, 4th January 2010

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Titnore Woods development meeting postponed

15-01-2010 12:27

Yes that's right! The meeting that could have given West Durrington Consortium the right to destroy a semi- ancient woodland has been postponed.

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Green Solutions, Not Nuclear Greenwash! - Demo at London Nuclear Conf, 26 Jan

14-01-2010 20:59

Green Solutions, Not Nuclear Greenwash! - Tues 26 Jan: Demonstrate at UK Nuclear New Build Conference, central London

Tuesday 26 January, 2010, 8.30am – 10.30am, Guoman Charing Cross Hotel, The Strand, London WC2N 5HX (next to Charing Cross railway station)

Map / directions:  http://tinyurl.com/GuomanMap

Nearest tube: Charing Cross / Embankment

Conference website:  http://c5nuclear.com

Dress code (optional): White overalls and gas mask / paper mask

 http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/01/green-solutions-not-nuclear-greenwash.html

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Boycotting KFC? Include Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's

12-01-2010 18:38

For maximum impact, all aspects of a boycotted corporation's parent
company should be avoided.

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Hands off Stonebridge City Farm

11-01-2010 14:14

Nottingham City Council want to take away part of the city farm to provide car parking space.

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saving the green space in shirehampton

10-01-2010 21:21

We are organising a peaceful protest and wassailling event for sunday 17th January at 2pm on shirehampton green with a peaceful march to the daisy field a green field under threat of building (yet another) the council are stripping away green areas and selling them off but not going ahead with building because they 'have no money'. We have lost the allotments, the horse field and now they are starting on the daisy field. The decision about this field which is next to the station has been moved forward to june which co incides with the local elections. We want the community to use it as a community open space or develop it into a community orchard or field site or apply to the countryside agency and make it into a doorstep green. Peaceful protesters are welcome to the event.

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Climate Camp Reader

09-01-2010 20:51

Dysophia and Shift Magazine have joined forces to put together a Climate Camp Reader, “Criticism without Critique”, published in January 2010. This reader hopes to encourage and faciliate debates at the next climate camp gatherings. To download it follow this link:
 http://dysophia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cca_reader.pdf
The editorial is posted below:

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Japanese whalers being sued for Piracy by Sea Shepherd in Dutch Court

09-01-2010 04:45

Sea Shepherd lodged on Friday writs to sue the crew of Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru 2 for piracy in the Dutch court system for threatening the lives of the six crew members of the Ady Gil and destroying their vessel. Conservation pirates suing pirates of profit and environmental slaughter and destruction.

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“Australians no longer need to hide their racism”

08-01-2010 23:32

Michael Anderson farms ancestral lands
Goodooga, northwest NSW, 8 January 2010 -- An Aboriginal activist, who was once engaged by the Australian government as a consultant on special race relations matters, says Australians are so racist that they cannot recognise it anymore because racism is so pronounced and active here. “Australians no longer have to be covert about racism, they show it publicly,” Michael Anderson, leader of the 3,000 Euahlayi of northwest NSW, writes in response to the recent murder of an Indian student in Melbourne.

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Help to mother earth: sabotage system

08-01-2010 15:09

Mother earth sabotage capitalism. Time for us to help to our mother earth. Climate summit is over, it is time to act.

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The Great Nuclear Power Debate - Mon 11 Jan, 7.30pm, London

08-01-2010 13:41

 http://www.bwtuc.org.uk/meetings.aspx?meetingID=42

The government are claiming that building nuclear power plants across the UK will help deal with the problems of climate change and unemployment.

But does nuclear power hold the answer to these problems or does it simply detract from developing other solutions for climate change?

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Danger! Bayer genetic modified rice! (by Latuff)

08-01-2010 13:14

Bayer GM rice
Free reproduction artwork for Coalition against BAYER-Dangers:  http://www.cbgnetwork.org/

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Lappersfort Callout For Eviction

07-01-2010 15:27

This morning (Thursday 7th), the police snipped open part of our fence and broke their way in to the forest

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Details of EF! Winter Moot announced

07-01-2010 15:05

The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the UK ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. We believe we can make a real difference by doing it ourselves rather than relying on leaders, governments or industry.

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Sleeping with the Enemy: TCKTCKTCK in bed with EDF, world’s leading nuclear corp

07-01-2010 10:04

 http://canadianclimateaction.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/eyes-wide-shut-tck-tck-tck-expose-from-activist-insider/

EYES WIDE SHUT | TckTckTck exposé from activist insider

The mainstream environmental movement no longer inspires nor leads society to an enlightened existence – it simply bows down to the status quo.

Who Really Deserves the Fossil Fool Award? TckTckTck or us?

The largest climate change campaign in the world is in bed with the world’s most powerful corporations.

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Sea Shepherd vows to continue campaign after whalers destroy Ady Gil

07-01-2010 04:14

Yesterday was a hectic day in Commonwealth Bay, near Antarctica, in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Ady Gil, while stationary, was puposefully rammed at speed by the Japanese whaling security vessel, the Shonan Maru 2. And the Japanese whaling fleet, and the world discovered Sea Shepherds surprise new conservation ship, the Bob Baker, an ex-Norwegian Antarctic ice-class whaling vessel that was bought in 2009 and secretly refitted in South Africa.