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Sizewell Camp Against Nuclear Power - Chernobyl Weekend - pics

30-04-2010 18:31

Images from the Stop Nuclear Power Network's Camp Against Nuclear New Build, held on the beach by Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations in Suffolk, England on Chernobyl Weekend, 23-26 April 2010.

More details here:
 http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/04/sizewell-campers-mark-chernobyl.html

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Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe

30-04-2010 14:52

"According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig lacked a device called an acoustic switch that could have shut off the flow of oil. The remote controlled device sends acoustic impulses through the water that can trigger an underwater valve to shut down the well.

All offshore rigs have one main switch to shut off the flow of oil by closing a valve located on the ocean floor. There is also supposed to be a backup, a so-called “dead man,” that will shut down the well in the event of a catastrophe on the rig. Apparently neither of these devices worked on the Deepwater Horizon rig. The crewmembers who would have been closest to the shutoff switch are among those missing and presumed dead.

With an acoustic trigger a crew can shut down a well even if the rig is damaged or evacuated. However, BP, which reported profits of $5.598 billion for the first quarter of 2010, vigorously resisted changes to US regulations that would have required acoustic triggers on deep sea rigs, citing effectiveness and costs, about $500,000 per unit. Compliant US regulators agreed, saying other backup plans were sufficient. They called the acoustic triggers unreliable and prone to causing unnecessary shutdowns."

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Sheffield: International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day

29-04-2010 20:52

May 1st is International Sunflower Guerrilla Day, where people all over the world (well, probably the northern hemisphere) go out and plant sunflower seeds in places around where they live.

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Know Your Airport! Biodiversity Walk - Sun 9th May

29-04-2010 14:33

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Join us for this family-friendly walk around the areas earmarked for
destruction by Manchester Airport's expansion plans. We'll begin at Hasty Lane and walk round the affected areas to the south. We'll hear from local experts about the different wildlife affected.

Bring your friends and family, binoculars, a picnic, a frisbee/skipping rope/games, and appreciation for what's currently being destroyed by Airport expansion.

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Anti-nuclear protests in Germany – "We'll be wherever they don't want us to be"

27-04-2010 11:09

After long years of agony, the anti-nuclear movement has reported back with full force. At Germany's largest anti-nuclear protests ever, some 150.000 people demonstrated last Saturday against the plans of the conservative-led German administration to revoke the nuclear phase-out compromise. Wherever parties didn't dominate the picture, the claims went much further – the call for demonstration in Biblis in southern Hesse demanded an immediate exit. Also, the close connection between nuclear energy and our capitalist society was addressed.

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Party At The Pumps Part 2... This Time It's SHELL!

27-04-2010 10:06

MASS ACTION CALL OUT

• When: Saturday, 15th May
• Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
• Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
» Oxford Circus meeting point map –  http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap
» Facebook event –  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187
» IMC UK calendar event –  http://www.protest.net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1702679

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Sizewell Campers Mark Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster

26-04-2010 14:14

Monday, 26 April 2010

Around twenty activists from the Stop Nuclear Power Network [1] have held a ceremony on the beach in front of Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk (England) this afternoon to mark the 24th anniversary of the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster, at Chernobyl (Ukraine). [2] They are looking to highlight the risk of a similar catastrophe happening in Suffolk, due to a reactor meltdown [3,4] or major radioactive waste incident.

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Bristol and Bath Rising Tide Stop Coal Train

26-04-2010 12:02

Today, people involved in the Rising Tide Network have literally puts their necks on the line by chaining themselves to the rails in order to block the rail link to the Ffoss y Fran Open Cast Coal mine near Merthyr Tydfil. They are currently blocking the movement of coal trains from the mine to Aberthaw Power Station.

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Jus' Take up Your Tools - Bristol Ecovillage is Born - Urban Center for Alt Tech

26-04-2010 11:54

On 17th April 2010 around 45 people occupied a piece of unused land in Bristol, England to set up Bristol Ecovillage, a Center for Alternative Technology. By the end of the day they had established themselves and even had built raised planting beds. This film tells the story of this day.

Watch the video at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci0eZqC0P60

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Revolutionary Peoples' Party

25-04-2010 12:55

Why lots of people should occupy Parliament Square from Mayday and inspire others to get out on the streets on election day

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Audio: What way out of the economic and ecological crises?

24-04-2010 20:48

Audio
Attached are recordings from a meeting organised to discuss and debate the origins of the global economic and ecological crises, and progressive policies to address them, which was held in Sheffield on 24th April 2010 and was organised by the Sheffield Workers Educational Association (WEA).

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Emergency Callout - Bristol Eco Village Facing ILLEGAL Eviction Tomorrow Morning

20-04-2010 16:15

There will be an illegal eviction attempt on the Bristol Eco Village tomorrow morning at about 11, just 5 days after site was set up. This will be resisted. We need as many people as possible down there to witness the illegal attempt and help resist. For practical reasons there must be no violence or even abusive behaviour.

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Rossport Solidarity Night

20-04-2010 11:32

MAY 19th at THE CUBE CINEMA, BRISTOL

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Farnborough Airport breaches no fly ban

19-04-2010 13:14

Profit comes before people and planet.

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Shell gas terminal, Bacton, Norfolk, UK blockaded!

19-04-2010 06:40

Solidary with Pat O'Donnell and against Shell on Earth! Gas terminal access blockaded in both directions at 7am April 19th

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Oil, Violence and Social Movements in Colombia

15-04-2010 21:55

Key Guest: Bruno Federico.
Bruno is part of COSPACC*, a Colombian collective that works with
communities in the region where BP operate for oil.
He will explore questions around energy sovereignty, control of natural
resources and what this might look like practically for the environmental
movement in the North-West, in the context of global climate change.

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Peat Bog Extraction halted in Greater Manchester

15-04-2010 13:02

Activists shut down extraction on a Peat Bog extraction site by locking onto a lorry and a digger. Work was still halted at the time of writing.

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The bank loan that could break SA's back

15-04-2010 11:25

The World Bank's poisoned 'gift' of $3.75bn to Eskom spells disaster for
the climate, the poor and our fragile democracy

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'Activists Target BP’s Investment in Tar Sands with Roof Occupation'

15-04-2010 10:43

Climate Campaigners have occupied the Roof of a BP garage today in protest
about the company’s involvement in tar sands, the increasingly
controversial oil extraction industry.

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Party at the Pumps – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 10 Apr 10

14-04-2010 12:00

A1. "All your base are belong to us!"
Dateline: Party at the Pumps, Shepherd's Bush Green BP Petrol Station, London, UK, 13:00-17:00, Sat 10 Apr 10 – Hundreds of people descend upon the BP petrol station on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Common for a four hour long 'Party at the Pumps'. Dancing to live music from the Rhythms of Resistance samba band and the Green Kite Midnight ceilidh band, plus MP3s piped through the Bicycology sound system, we rocked the forecourt, left peacefully and there were no arrests. But why? This was the London direct action component of an International Day of Action on the Canadian Tar Sands – the single most dirty, toxic and dangerous climate crime atrocity on Earth; and the centrepiece of the 'BP Fortnight of Shame', culminating in a vote at the BP shareholder's AGM in London on Thursday 15 April 2010 to keep BP out of the planet-trashing Canadian Tar Sands (protest details below).