UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Stop the Great Nuclear Rip Off! - Demo 15 June, London

08-06-2010 10:07

Join us as we demonstrate outside the Nuclear Industry Forum in central London to send a clear message to the industry and the Government that we don’t buy the greenwash and we reject false solutions like nuclear power.

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Cardiff Demo Against the Badger Killers

08-06-2010 09:55

Thomson Ecology is the company responsible for surveying badgers and sett locations prior to the Welsh Assembly badger killing due to start any day now, i.e. these people are finding out where the badgers are and where best to trap them, then passing the information directly onto the badger killers at WAG who will cage trap them and shoot them. Thomson Ecology may as well be pulling the trigger!

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Break open Breaky Bottom!

07-06-2010 18:32

'BREAK open Breaky Bottom!' is the rallying cry for a protest walk on the South Downs in East Sussex this weekend.

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Community garden celebrates keeping chickens

07-06-2010 10:31

As keeping chickens increases in popularity, Barracks Lane Community Garden in Cowley/ East Oxford is holding a Chicken Day, this Saturday 12th June, with the aim to give local people information about keeping chickens on your allotment or at home in your garden.

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Demand resignation of BP Chairman and CEO

06-06-2010 11:31

The BP Chairman and CEO must go now!

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video madrid-merthyr2mayo caravan solidarity event shells prisoners Castlerae

05-06-2010 15:27

the bike caravan stops by castlerae prison in ireland where 2 protestors, pat and neill serve their time for daring to opose Shell and the government.

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Media Activism: The Yes Men

03-06-2010 04:42

How the Yes Men saved Copenhagen! Funny speech by Andy Bichlbaum, professor and professional hoaxster, who befuddled Canada and the world at Copenhagen, announcing an end to the Tar Sands. Also how they pushed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce into climate change.

Recorded by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock at the annual dinner for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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BP Protests Oil Activism

03-06-2010 04:33

Round up of anti-BP protests in U.S., plus drilling halted in U.S. and Canada. Ideas and songs for your activism. Threats of the next spill, from East to West and up to the Arctic.

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Life grows on at the Earth Centre

01-06-2010 22:21

Guerilla gardeners jumped the fence and took action to reclaim herbs and cuttings from the closed and wasted Earth Centre google welovetheearthcentre blog for images of the swoop and the abundant plant and wildlife

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Is Humanity Unsustainable?

31-05-2010 05:55

Are we too stupid to survive? Co-inventor of "the ecological footprint" now calls for a planned contraction of the economy, to save the biosphere and promote world fairness. Speech by Canadian biologist Dr. Bill Rees.

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Canada's Bloody Seal Hunt Extended To May 31 By Harper and Shea

29-05-2010 14:52

Please boycott Canadian tourism and restaurants elsewhere serving
Canadian suffocated fishes ... until Harper stops the sealhunt

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Kew Bridge Eco Village was EVICTED this morning at 8am

27-05-2010 12:15

I am sorry to tell you all that the baliffs came and evicted us from Kew Bridge Eco Village this morning at 8am! It was fairly peaceful and we managed to resist for a good 3 hours whilst Sev sat ontop of one of the structures and refused to come down! Check youtube for videos soon!

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Badger Cull delayed by concerned locals/landowners/farmers

27-05-2010 10:15

The people support the badger cull are going masked up, walking over peoples back garden and are getting th epolice to arrest people who are filming them. The people are being arrested for being on their own land and filming! The actions of these locals to save the badgers has delayed the cull.

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The new EF! Action Update - full of of action news and analysis

26-05-2010 10:09

In the new summer edition of the EF! Action Update, read about coal trains blockaded, peat bogs defended, and gas terminals shut down. Find out about the dangers of nanotech, current state of nuclear GM trials in the UK, Tesco uprisings, golf course trashing, tar sands action and much more.

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International bike ride links communities in resistance: Merthyr to Mayo cyclist

22-05-2010 08:23

Today, a 50-strong international bike ride begins the 400 mile journey from a community resisting Britain’s largest open cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to County Mayo, Ireland, where local people have spent the last ten years fighting a Shell-led gas development. We aim to offer direct support to these two local campaigns resisting the fossil fuel industry.

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Cellphone Antenna Sabotaged with Fire, Bristol

21-05-2010 18:17

FOR SELF-ORGANISATION & ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE

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Canadian anarchists torch bank

20-05-2010 17:47

ANARCHISTS claimed responsibility yesterday for a firebomb attack on a Royal Bank of Canada branch in the nation's capital and warned of more chaos at G8 and G20 summits in Toronto next month, reports AFP.

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A big green weekend, and more

20-05-2010 17:40

Highlights from the Sumac Diary:

SkillShare; Green Festival; Survival Tales; Vegan Free Food Giveaway and much more!

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Giant Elephant attacks Manchester Council meeting

20-05-2010 14:02

…...well sort of. New councillors were reminded yesterday that Manchester Airport is still the 'elephant in the room' when it comes to the local Climate Change Action Plan – since the Council have refused to include the flight emissions from the Airport in their carbon reduction targets. The 9ft inflatable elephant highlighted that the Council's much-lauded plans are totally undermined by the omission of the Airport– especially considering that Manchester City Council own 55% of Manchester Airports Group.

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Battle for Parliament Square - Come, Resist

18-05-2010 20:24

In my life time there has never been a time so pregnant with revolutionary possibility in Europe. The 1st window of opportunity to add to take advantage in the UK may be about to pass, as state functionaries prepare Parliament Square for the Queen's state opening of parliament next Tuesday. Sanitation is not free speech! Come support Democracy Village and ask your friends and every other progressive radical group you know too - the times are a calling for revolution. Let's try and keep the square in the hands of the people!