UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

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Peace and Ecology Festival, Liverpool, 16 July. Free event.

05-07-2011 05:51

The 2011 Merseyside CND Peace and Ecology Festival will be held on Sat 16 July from noon until 6pm at St Luke's Church (top of Bold Street, City Centre).

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Countering the GM come back summer camp

04-07-2011 11:16

Bring your stove and tent for an anti-GM weekend. Fri 22nd pm: Camping available. Sat 23rd: Delivering a trailer load of organic spuds to the doors of the John Innes Centre in protest at GM potato trials there. Sun 24th: a day-long planning session: GM is coming back – we’ll be ready. See below for more information.

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Italy: civil war in Valsusa – Repression against NO TAV movement

03-07-2011 20:37

After a crowded torchlight march on the night between June 26th and 27th, the Free Republic of the Maddalena in Piedmont was brutally assaulted by a full-scale military operation performed by around 2000 forces that turned the place into a battle site: teargas thrown at eye level, bulldozers and heavy vehicles used to evict the camp, water jets against protesters, beatings, tents and equipment smashed up. In the nearby town of Venaria, a riot police vehicle on its way to the site ran over and killed “by mistake” an elderly woman.

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De-Growth - the Alternative to Collapse

29-06-2011 20:34

As oil and other commodities run out; climate and species crash - politicians keep promising more growth. It's an insane mantra of old economics. Two experts explain the new economy of "de-growth" at a conference June 3rd, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Conrad Schmidt, founder of the "Work Less Party", and Dr. Bill Rees, co-inventor of the ecological footprint.

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3 Nuclear Scares in the U.S. and Fukushima Bankruptcy

29-06-2011 20:27

Coverage of flooding of Fort Calhoun and Coopers Point Reactors in Nebraska, plus fire approaches Los Alamos nuke weapons lab. Nuke tech no longer safe as climate shifts. Then why U.S. downplays radiation from Japan: is it because they fear Japan will sell off $700 billion in Treasuries to pay cleanup costs? Reality of radioactive Tokyo and 290,000 people living nuclear experiment in Fukushima City.

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The Spuds don't work - Stop GM Rally 23rd July

29-06-2011 15:39

Join us for a mass rally against ongoing blight-resistant GM potato trials.
Gather for organic chips before travelling by bike, tractor or coach to the John Innes Research Centre to deliver to them our tried and tested non-GM blight-resistant spuds. Meet 12 noon, The Forum, Norwich, Saturday
23rd July 2011.

info@stopgm.org.uk or to book coach seats / accommodation ring 07595506673.

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Camp Frack - Weekend of 17th-18th September

29-06-2011 14:26

Join the resistance to the “fracking” invasion! Stop the massive expansion of shale gas extraction in the UK! We need renewables and powerdown - not another source of fossil fuel!

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Wrexham stall: Cut nuclear weapons and nuclear power, not public services

29-06-2011 11:56

Wrexham Peace & Justice Forum held another anti- nuclear stall on Tuesday 28 June in Wrexham town centre, highlighting the amount of public money committed to nuclear weapons at a time of savage public spending cuts as well as the many hazards threatening life on earth, both from nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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After The Apocalypse: Screening on 5th of July

25-06-2011 18:56

'After The Apocalypse', is showing at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield on Tuesday 5th of July at 18.30.

It's a 65 minute documentary about a pregnant woman's battle to keep her unborn baby against the wishes of a hostile medical profession, in Kazakhstan.

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American Fukushima

24-06-2011 08:23

"American Fukushima" finds 3 sources saying the Nuclear Regulatory Commision has weakened and not enforced safety rules for American reactors for years, decades. The exact date and names of interference from Congress, on behalf of the nuclear industry operators, shows when regulation stopped. Plus revelations of dangerous defects in dozens of U.S. reactors.

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Scientists Expect Mass Extinction in Oceans

24-06-2011 08:16

A new report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean, or IPSO, written by 27 top experts on the oceans. They warn the oceans are in a state of dying from multiple causes, all of them human. Climate change is not coming. It is here. Carbon is not only flooding the atmosphere but the deep sea. Two clips, interview with paleoclimatologist Dr. Peter Ward, and new climate song.

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BBC pro nuke disgraceful editing

23-06-2011 22:07

On a day that the BBC reports of the confirmed 8 sites for nuklear new build. The editor responsible for the comments, 'editor's picks', exposes themself.

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Twelve animal rights activists arrested in man hunt in Spain

23-06-2011 08:28

by the Spanish police, in a series of raids sanctioned by the judge from the Magistrate's court, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Arrests and house searches of activists from the organisations Igualdad Animal/Animal Equality and Equanimal took place in the regions of Madrid, Asturias, Vizcaya and Galicia. The detained activists were then taken to Santiago de Compostela court, where they were accused of offences against the environment, public disorder, and criminal association.

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Carbon Capture and Storage - An act of Faith?

19-06-2011 12:29

New article on Carbon Capture and Storage on the Coal Action Network Website

‘Is Clean Coal an Act of Faith?’ by Anne Harris is a write up of a talk given to The Sheffield Humanist Society 3rd March 2010. A recording the presentation from the opposition, Terry Fox (TUC Clean Coal Task Force), this talk and contributions from the floor are available from

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/40349 and

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/03/446931.html

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The spuds don't work. GM potato trial, Norwich, 23 July

19-06-2011 09:43

*Norwich, noon, 23rd July 2011.*

British trials of genetically modified blight resistant spuds have been failing for the last ten years. But a conventionally bred variety of blight resistant potatoes has been available for 3 years. So why are we
still paying for their dangerous experiment?

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Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011

17-06-2011 15:16

This year's Earth First Summer Gathering takes place in East Anglia this year, starting on the 10th of August and running for five days. With six workshops tents we have space for over 100 discussions, presentations and workshops. The spaces are filling up fast, but there is still time to book a spot. So if you've got an idea you wish to highlight, whether it's related to ecological defence or social resistance here is your chance. The gathering is attended by hundreds of individuals interested and participating in struggles around the UK and Europe.

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Rising To The Challenge

16-06-2011 00:07

Why are so many bad things happening at once? Handling the converging crisis with author Ellen Laconte. Then, the next threat to both climate and oceans: Cairn Energy drills deep for oil off Greenland in "Iceberg Alley". Greenpeace climate campaigner Vicky Wyatt call them out. Then we interview scientists on heat tolerance in small species. Will some be pushed into extinction by global warming?

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Glos Guerilla Gardening meet-up

15-06-2011 16:49

I've been talking to lots of people interested in starting some form of guerilla gardening group in gloucestershire, and I'm sure there are many more of you out there...

So lets get gardening!

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Mass blockade of Hinkley nuclear power station announced

15-06-2011 11:43

With Italy being the latest European country to reject nuclear power, a coalition of anti-nuclear groups in Britain has announced plans to hold a mass non-violent blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station on 3rd October. The plant, near Bridgwater in Somerset, is expected to be the site of the first new nuclear power station, if current plans go ahead.

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Indian, Iran, Cuba have banned cow slaughter,and 8 other animal rights stories

14-06-2011 18:45

Netherlands... expected to ban slaughter without anesthesia or stunning
Korean activists protest fur show
S Africa village stones monkey to death
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