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Hit the Animal Supply - EcoTox Breeders

30-09-2010 18:49

Hit the Animal Supply - EcoTox Breeders

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Stop Nuclear Power UK gathering

30-09-2010 17:36

- Meet, make plans, take action -

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New Aldermaston nuclear W.M.D. facility rubber-stamped

30-09-2010 11:00

West Berkshire Council has approved another multi-million pound nuclear warhead facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, England despite 1331 objections from members of the public. The new hydronamics facility, or 'Project Hydrus', will form an integral part of the £5bn+ ongoing modernisation of AWE designed to equip it for producing a new generation of nuclear warheads, with no public consultation or parliamentary scrutiny or debate.

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Risk of another Chernobyl disaster with new EPR nuclear reactor design

30-09-2010 10:38

The French Nuclear Phase-Out Network (Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire) has received new confidential internal documents belonging to French utility EDF that show that flaws in the Areva EPR nuclear reactor design, the same type due to be built by EDF at Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk, could lead to a Chernobyl-type disaster.

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Another Set of Objections ignored by UK Coal

30-09-2010 10:02

This press release explains MOPG's 4th set of Objections which criticises UK Coal's assessment of the alleged economic and social benefits associated with the proposed Minorca Surface Mines and makes the claim that our campaign has extracted an extra £1m of proposed local 'benefits'. This represents the price UK is willing to pay rather than answer our objections.

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Devonport Big Blockade, Plymouth - 1st November 2010

29-09-2010 13:06

Aldermaston blockade, Feb 2010 (D. Viesnik)
On Monday 1st November, join Trident Ploughshares for the Big Blockade of the Devonport nuclear submarine base in Plymouth, Devon.

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Native Spirit Film Festival

27-09-2010 17:21

The full programme for the Native Spirit Film Festival in London October 12th to 22nd has been released.

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Coal Dust will be a problem if Minorca goes ahead say Protestors

27-09-2010 15:20

This Press Release describes why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) believe that visible black coal dust will affect the daily life of local people as MOPG publish its 3rd objection.

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Green Granny Life Sentence?

26-09-2010 17:53

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Betty Krawczyk is at least 81. She has a long history of standing up to logging in the woods, or massive construction through the last urban green. She has been arrested many times. Now Canadian prosecutors call for a LIFE SENTENCE for her non-violent protests. No criminal code was broken. No jury ever heard her story. Travesty of justice in British Columbia, Canada.

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Shadows of Doubt

26-09-2010 17:42

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A conspiracy to create doubt about climate change, documented by Dr. Naomi Oreskes in "Merchants of Doubt".

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Anti-Badger Cull demo EXETER WED 29TH SEPT

24-09-2010 22:11

Anti-badger Cull demonstration @Exeter Livestock Centre hosted by National Beef Association on Wednesday 29th Sept, time tbc.

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How the police support unlawful hunting

24-09-2010 09:35

Sorry this is a bit long. To precis Operation Rumble, Thames Valley police arrested me for trying to film a hunt who were hunting a wild mammal. I was convicted and unable to appeal because it would appear that it is not a defence to say that the legal activity you are accused of interferring with is not in fact legal!

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Brow Well - Supporting Animal Abuse & Eco-Destruction

23-09-2010 19:38

TELEPHONE, EMAIL, DEMO!

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Gathering at The Happendon Wood Action Camp - Weekend of action and skill-sharin

23-09-2010 19:37

Friday 1st - Monday 4th October

After spirited resistance to Scottish Coal’s plans to mine Mainshill, the site of their next mine in South Lanarkshire has been occupied! The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC) has squatted a beautiful part of Happendon Wood to serve as a base from which to organise in surrounding communities and to take action from, as well as dig in for the long-haul and inevitable attempt to open cast the area. With corporate rule taking over the Douglas Valley and legal threats to communities from the council and fat-cat land owner, action is needed now more than ever.

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Video & Pix of the first (gmo) Field Liberation Meeting in Brussels

23-09-2010 19:22

Nice video of the meeting and workshop 'how to destroy a gmo field', with field liberators from six different European countries present.

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Shell to Sea Occupy Shell's Drill Rig For 12 Hours

23-09-2010 15:04

As a continuation of Rossport's Beat the Boreholes campaign, this Monday 20 September two protesters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm.

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UK Coal fails to respond to two more Minorca Opencast Objections

23-09-2010 11:22

This press release outlines why MOPG are still mounting objections to the Minorca Application on economic grounds.

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Enjoy your harvest

21-09-2010 11:59

The annual Barracks Lane Community Garden Harvest Festival will take place this Saturday. Activities during the day include the Great Fruit and Vegetable Swap, making fresh apple juice and vegetable print-making for children.

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Minorca Application lacks a through Traffic Assessment

21-09-2010 10:40

As the Minorca Opencast Protest Group prepares to put it's case to Leicestershire County Council on why UK Coal's Minorca Surface Mine Application should be rejected it has begun to publish it's detailed objections. This Press Release out lines the first of these.

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Shell Executives Targeted by Protesters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp

19-09-2010 18:02

"What do you mean they're on OUR bus!?"
The folks in suits finally got a taste of the conflict they've been orchestrating in County Mayo, Ireland for the past decade. Representatives from Shell and their team of expert witnesses who are presenting Shell's planning application for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline to the Irish planning board were prevented from leaving the planning board's oral hearing Thursday night by protesters.