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US Presidential Candidate Romney Bought Animal Research Corporation

15-11-2011 22:14

As the sole voting stock owner of Bain Capital for 15 years, Mitt Romney,
touted as the leading Republican candidate for US president, bought
vivisection company Behring of Germany, a company which had for 100 years
inflicted pain and captivity on dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc. Romney kept
brutal rodeos in the Salt Lake City rodeos, invested his company in animal
flesh mongers, vivisectors and other ecocidal ventures. His business partner
has been Goldman Sachs, itself invested in animal murder around the world.
The link is

http://www.petitiononline.com/lovepigs is related to the barbarism
of Romney's Bain Capital disc jockeys to animals.

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Information on the COP17 conference Durban 28 November - 8 December 2011

15-11-2011 12:55

UKZN to accommodate alternative COP17 civil society events
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has been identified as the site of this year’s COP17 alternative space, known as the ‘People’s Space’, where national and international civil society will come together around the global issue of climate change.

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(Italy) The militarisation of the Susa Valley: final act

12-11-2011 17:38

Berlusconi’s moribund government has finally managed to pass a decree – with the opposition’s approval – that formalises the current state of militarisation in the Susa Valley.

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Salvation Army Colludes With Cargill, World's Biggest Slaughterhouse Operator

10-11-2011 20:15

Christian food banks distributing toxic food

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Plane Justice - Banned In America

10-11-2011 04:08

Why don't you hear about the extra cancer deaths, & global warming impacts from airports? Because UK activists are prevented from speaking in the U.S. Hear British aviation activist John Stewart (campaigner of the year) & Dan Glass from aviationjustice.org Plus Debi Wagner from Seattle. She fought off SeaTac (2nd largest global warming polluter in Washington State), tells about horrible health impacts, & the battle to halt airport expansion (Chicago, NYC, and more).

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New Dan Glass Plane Stupid Interview

09-11-2011 07:42

Famous Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass, interviewed in Vancouver, Canada while on the Aviation Justice Tour to link up activism in the UK with expanding airports in North America. We talk climate change, health impacts, and suppression of civil rights by police and secret services. Bonus audio from Radio Ecoshock 111109 32 minutes.

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Seven Billion ... And Rising

08-11-2011 13:18

The world’s population surpassed 7 billion on October 31. But except for perhaps the anti-family planning lobby, this was a milestone that few were in a mood to celebrate.

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Words of solidarity with Conspiracy Cells of Fire from Russian FAI-IRF cells

04-11-2011 10:43

two letters in response to the open letter of the Imprisoned Members Cell of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire-Informal Anarchist Federation (Greece) by Informal Anarchist Federation \ International Revolutionary Front, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: Russian Cell and Earth Liberation Front (Russia) / Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front....

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UG#575 - From Oily Sands to Greasy Palms

03-11-2011 18:44

Focussing on Canada's Tar Sands this week, we examine the murky reality of 'free trade', and interference by the Canadian Government in the European Climate Change legislation. Who makes and enforces these agreements, and who benefits? We look at how the SPP is being revamped for re-introduction after concerted efforts to kill it by citizens' action groups.

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Natural Gas Drilling Rig Stormed by Anti-Fracking Protesters

02-11-2011 07:29

This morning nine people, from the national anti- fracking network from Frack Off, have halted work at Cuadrilla Resources drilling site in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire. They ran on to the Fracking site early this morning and scaled the drilling rig using climbing equipment. They aim to sit on top of the drilling rig for as long as possible to stop the drilling.

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Durban Conference of Polluters 1

01-11-2011 17:21

From South Africa, Professor Patrick Bond lays out the awful truth, where climate talks have gone into the dead zone. Will it be safe to protest in Durban? Bond is from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and director of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban. A wide-ranging interview on how UN talks became the "Conference of the Polluters" - and the world-wide climate justice movement pointing us in the direction of survival. From Radio Ecoshock 111102

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Titnore Under Threat Again!!

01-11-2011 11:25

Titnore Woods is again under threat of disappearing under 700+ houses...

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Frack Mob at Industry Greenwash Conference

25-10-2011 17:34

Action: Frack Mob
Target: Industry greenwashing conference
Date: Weds 2nd November
Time: 3-6pm
Location: Copthorne Tara Hotel, Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London

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Newly Launched Renewable Energy Consultation met by Activist Fury

23-10-2011 15:35

Members of Action Against Agrofuels, dressed in Orangutan suits, climbed 10m up trees above The Mall 200m from Buckingham Palace with a vast banner reading “Biomassacre: Don’t subsidise it” as the government consultation on renewable energy subsidies commences.

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Weekly blog roundup

23-10-2011 13:55

The following is drawn from a variety of local activist blogs

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News from Uganda

21-10-2011 20:09

A response to an article in Schnews 793 and informative information about the present situation in Uganda

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UG#571 - Mother Nature Knows Best (Masanobu Fukuoka, Helen & Scott Nearing)

21-10-2011 14:31

This week we hear about three people who, unimpressed by technological 'progress', quit city life to live successfully off the land - all three of them remained active into their 90's. Although travelling widely, they remained rooted to their homestead farms. In our first hour, Masanobu Fukuoka, who researched no-till farming in Japan for decades before Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word permaculture. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of a film on the life and death of US back-to-the-lander Helen Nearing, and her husband, Scott.

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Defend Grow Heathrow

21-10-2011 10:52

On Thursday 17th November 2011 Transition Heathrow's squatted community garden project 'Grow Heathrow' will be heading back to court. Despite no support from the local community, the local council and the local MP, the owners of the land at Grow Heathrow are going ahead with a third attempt to remove us from the site.

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Happy 7th Billion Birthday

20-10-2011 06:36

With peak oil and climate change, the 7 billionth human coming at the end of October will find things very different from the 6 billion world of 1999. Robert Walker from the Population Institute in D.C. explains, in this Radio Ecoshock interview 2011-10-19. 21 minutes.

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Greedy Lying Bastards - The Movie

17-10-2011 00:01

How do big oil companies frack the world? Let me count the ways in this interview with film-maker Craig Rosebraugh. For his new movie "Dirty Lying Bastards" Craig went to more than a dozen countries, filming the victims of oil spills, pollution, and poisoning. From the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf to Uganda and beyond. Cutting through the PR and the BS, a disturbing look at major oil companies behavior. From Radio Ecoshock Show 111012 21 min