UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

The Khimki Hostages Need Your Solidarity!

19-09-2010 16:50

Russian activists are calling on their international comrades to secure the release of Maxim Solopov and Alexei Gaskarov, two Moscow antifascists arrested on July 29 for their alleged involvement in a demonstration the previous day against the abuse behavior of the local administration against activists and residents trying to save the local forest from logging to make way for a toll road. If convicted, Gaskarov and Solopov could face seven years in prison. In addition to fabricating a case against them, the police have used it as an excuse to crack down on the Moscow antifascist movement.

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Cardiff Meeting on Latin America with Hugo Blanco

18-09-2010 22:11

LATIN AMERICA: THE ECOSOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE -
Hugo Blanco Speaks!
Wednesday 13 October at 7pm
Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff (Opposite Student Union)

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Youtube, RAI TV Italian to En, translation of P.L. Ighina Rain Experiments

18-09-2010 16:58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95EESLdu_CA

From the RAI Report tv programme archives, Nov 1998
Reportage of Mr Pierluigi Ighina interviewed on his theories, and a display of one of his experiments with clouds is being filmed.

Followed by a comment by Physic Scientist Giuliano Preparata.

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Russian embassy picket defends antifascist Khimki hostages

18-09-2010 01:51

A picket of the Russian Embassy in London is to be held on Monday September 20th. The protest is part of a series of international actions in defence of the Khimki hostages. These are two grassroots antifascist activists (Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov) who are currently in custody in Moscow on fabricated charges facing the prospect of very heavy prison sentences.

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Decision to abandon "GM Dialogue" welcomed

17-09-2010 13:02

The Government has scrapped plans for a "GM Dialogue" project, which had been instigated by Nu Labour as a way to push pro-GM propaganda. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) continues to be a pro-industry, pro-GM and anti-organic Quango, which should also be scrapped...

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Happendon Wood Update - day six

17-09-2010 11:54

The newly occupied Happendon Wood Action Camp is still going strong on day six. After a police inspector and a superintendent visited the site on Tuesday and walked around site police have limited their response to regular drive pasts. There has still been no contact from Scottish Coal or Douglas and Angus estates, who lease the land.

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Peruvian killed in anti-dam protest

17-09-2010 06:29

ONE man was killed and many others injured in Peru during protests against a proposed dam.

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London nuclear conference demo calls for EDF boycott

16-09-2010 16:18

Delegates arriving at a nuclear suppliers’ conference taking place in central London on Monday morning (13 September) were greeted by ten anti-nuclear activists displaying banners calling for a boycott of energy giant Électricité de France (EDF), the organisers of the conference.

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Demo outside DECC against subsidies for agrofuels

16-09-2010 15:55

15th September

Activists outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change protest against government subsidies for agrofuel burning power stations.

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Demo against EDF's new nuclear plans at Hinkley - photos

16-09-2010 15:00

Images from the demo held on Sunday 12 September 2010 at Hinkley Point in Somerset against EDF's proposed new nuclear power stations, and the company's planned destruction of greenfield sites even before any planning application has been submitted for a new reactor.

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Noordkasteel Forest occupation videos in eng+info=spread&go

15-09-2010 07:16

links to videos+ info

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New Opencast Applications likely to be less successful ?

14-09-2010 15:18

This press release highlights the publication of our new Briefing Note which explains why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group believe that a change in Government Energy Policy makes a successful Minorca Surface Mine less likely.

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Happendon Wood Occupied! New Direct Action Camp Against Scottish Coal

12-09-2010 19:52

Early evening on Sunday 12th September a group of autonomous individuals successfully occupied a new site in Happendon Wood, South Lanarkshire. Coal Action Scotland are inviting people to join The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC) to help defend the wood from destruction by Scottish Coal, and to take action in solidarity with communities in the area resisting the expansion of the coal industry in the Douglas Valley.

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Victory for Queens Market!!

09-09-2010 19:54

After six years of local resistance, property developer finally throws in the towel with its plans to redevelop Queens Market in Newham, East London

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Solidarity needed for Russian anarchist forest defenders

09-09-2010 08:14

The Russian movement to defend the Khimki forest is a movement defending all forests. If corporations and politicians working in the interest of a global neoliberal and environmentally destructive model is able to exploit the Khimki forest and continue repressing the activists in spite of a historically broad and strong movement in Russia defending the forest, than it can be done anywhere.

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The stench of suffering on an industrial scale

08-09-2010 08:27

What do you think about factory farming?
Pigs giving birth in farrowing crates so cramped they can barely turn around?
Babies unable to reach their mothers?
Mutilations without anaesthetic to prevent fighting and self harm?
Breeding grounds for new strains of antibiotic resistant, zoonotic diseases?

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Medieval oligarch Prince Charles' 'Green' tour in nuke sponsored train

07-09-2010 23:27

Prince Charles was in Bristol today endorsing our new 'green' shopping centre.
And here is Bristol sax player and quaker David Mowat talking about Cabot Circus on the day it opened.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4151329869799703594

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Warhead Lab Plans Prompt Blockade of Nuclear Weapons Factory

07-09-2010 05:29

Around twenty members and supporters of Trident Ploughshares joined a blockade and protest at one of the gates to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire during this morning’s rush hour in protest at plans to build a new multi-million pound warhead testing facility at the site. Four of the activists chained themselves together with arm tubes and lay down in front of the gate for two hours, but released themselves without any of them being arrested at around 9.30am. Others stood close to them with banners, and sang songs. Many workers trying to enter the base were diverted away by Ministry of Defence police, who were in attendance; but traffic on the public highway appeared to be unaffected.

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The Minorca Application - will NWLDC recommend rejection?

06-09-2010 06:13

Our latest Press Release PR 76 "Protesters again face an uphill challenge to convince Councillors to reject the Minorca Application for a second time" has now been published. This press release outlines the content of a three minute speech Steve Leary will make on behalf of MOPG to the Planning Committee of NWLDC on Tuesday 7th September.

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Sheffield Green Film Festival

05-09-2010 20:10

Friends of the Earth Sheffield have organised a month long Green Film Festival starting from October 13. Please feel free to pop down and watch a film and invite your friends along too.