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Earth First! - 20 years of ecological protest & resistance

15-12-2011 13:53

- looking forward to more digger-diving, machine-sabbing, locking-on radical direct action

Let's get out there and active, day and night

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Climate Down in Durban

12-12-2011 09:45

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Spineless politicians have sold out our grand kids future at Durban. Hear Prufal Badwai, Indian analyst on why failure was a better option than the window-dressing we got at the UN COP17 Climate conference. A few clips of new James Hansen at the AGU 2011 in San Francisco. Good call on Durban empty promises by Janet Redman of Institute for Policy Studies. Ends with more carbon science interview with Dr. Michael Raupach, CISRO Australia (the national science agency) re increases in emissions and the path we're on. Radio Ecoshock 111214

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Cruelty-Free Xmas Fair in Birmingham, Sat 17 Dec

10-12-2011 23:51

There's just one week to go until our fantastic Cruelty-Free Christmas Fair in Kings Heath, Birmingham! Please read on for details or see our website  http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/events/kingsheath11.html

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14 International Animal Rights Stories: Netherlands, Russia, Malaysia, Canada,

08-12-2011 04:07

200 bears shot in 1 day in New Jersey, Quebec strengthens
animal protetion laws, How vegans unwittingly cause animal suffering
etc

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Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening

07-12-2011 19:57

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As hard times close in, learn how to grow veggies even in UK winter. We'll also need an edible landscape instead of ornamentals and crappy lawns. Tips from Guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson to plant public and private spaces.

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Oppose the disgusting fur trade in Hereford

07-12-2011 17:29

Suit u in Hereford are back at it again profitting from the misery and suffering of animals that are murdered for the fur trade. Plenty of real fur was recently found in their Hereford shop.

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No Shale Gas in Kent!

01-12-2011 21:28

Leafleting in Deal High Street
Representatives from Deal With It and other environmental groups in Kent are calling on Kent County Council (KCC) to throw out the planning application for Shale Gas Exploration at Woodnesborough near Sandwich when it goes to its planning committee on Tuesday 6th December.

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Climate Solution: Air to Soil

01-12-2011 17:58

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Alex interviews Allan Savory of the Savory Institute. His project to capture carbon into the soil, using intelligent herd management in Zimbabwe, is on the short-list for the Virgin Earth Challenge. We follow up with Abe Collins, a carbon farming leader in Vermont, USA. Plus organizing for local food in North Carolina (even in hard times) - Aaron Newton at ASPO 2011.

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Bristol anti- Fracking protesters shut down the country’s only hydrolic fracturi

01-12-2011 09:10

The Rig
Activists settle in for long-term occupation of toxic new industry which threatens the West Country. The controversial proposed Fracking site in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire was shut down this morning as 8 Bristol cyclists stormed the drilling rig. Three of the climate justice campaigners from Bristol Rising Tide scaled the Cuadrilla Resources equipment with supplies and have declared their intention to stop work for several days.

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DIVE! Living off America's Waste - next film from OARC this Sunday

29-11-2011 18:22

On Sunday 4th December starting at 7.30pm, we’ll be screening DIVE! Living Off America’s Waste. Inspired by the curiosity about the US’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the film follows Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angels’ supermarkets.

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Shell's Peat Haulage Has Begun... And Been Disrupted !

25-11-2011 10:31

Shell is removing peat bog from the tunnelling compound in Aughoose, Co. Mayo, Ireland, and replacing it with stone and gravel from nearby quarries. The increased truck movements has not gone unchallenged.

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Yorkshire Hunt Sabs Half Season Report

24-11-2011 13:38

News from Sheffield, West Yorkshire & Doncaster Sabs

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Bayer's top-selling pesticides continue to cause bee deaths worldwide

23-11-2011 18:29

Bayer's accountability in the phenomenon known as the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is among the cases to be heard at the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs), a landmark international opinion tribunal that will try the six largest agrochemical TNCs for various human rights violations, to be held from December 3 to 6, 2011.
 http://www.agricorporateaccountability.net/en/post/media-resources/43

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Fracking Gas = Climate Crash

23-11-2011 04:52

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Shale gas emissions as bad as coal. New science from Cornell University Professor Robert Howarth and team: a speech at Peak Oil And Gas conference in Washington; plus a follow-up interview with Howarth by Alex Smith. Then the billion dollar climate gas fraud. Samuel Labudde of the Environmental Investigation Agency explains how European ratepayers are being blackmailed by China and India - for nothing.

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An Inconvenient Truth 2 - World premiere

22-11-2011 18:59

Video Filming in Sweden
Three-part series starts 7 December 8.30pm on Community Channel

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Demonstrate Againt Koch Brothers

22-11-2011 11:14

Monday 28th is the opening day of the Durban Climate talks. Who's really responsible for blocking progress on a workable treaty for global action on climate ? More than anyone else its the American hard right and their big-money backers! Outside the offices of Koch International, Fountain House, 130 Fenchurch Street, City of London - Monument or Bank Tube. Demonstrate Against Koch Brothers.

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Occupy the Machine – Stop the 1%, Literally

21-11-2011 23:44

We invite you to imagine, as many of you already probably have, if thousands of people occupied local refineries, roads, ports, oil and mining extraction sites, etc. – in other words, imagine if people occupied the locations where the 1% destroy the land and exploit humans, all for profit.

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New Rising Tide International Political Statement

21-11-2011 20:48

Just in time for the 17th UNFCC Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, the international Rising Tide network is putting out an updated version of the Rising Tide Political Statement. This defines our view on a wide range of issues to do with climate change, and is what binds the network together. This statement has been agreed and signed by all Rising Tide groups around the world.

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Canada Fur Trade In Numbers.. Including Those Caught In Steel Jaw Leghold Traps

18-11-2011 18:14

Canada still allows the brutal steel jaw leghold trap... and allows the murder of
seals,
badger, bear, beaver, cougar, coyote, ermine, fisher,
fox, lyns, marten, mink, muskrat, otter, rabbit, raccoons, skunk, squirrel,
bobcat, wolf, wolverine. Numbers DO NOT include harp seals on Canada's east
coast, or other seal products; Note that provinces and territories vary
enormously in size and amount of suitable habitat).

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5 Years to Climate Hell

17-11-2011 16:56

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We have 5 years to move away from fossil fuels. After that climate catastrophe is unavoidable. Who says? The International Energy Agency, conservative voice of 28 countries. Interview with Diana Bronson, ETCgroup, on geoengineering & climate genes. Press teleconference clips with Lester Brown of Earth Policy Institute, saying U.S. emissions are falling. Interview with Emily James, maker of new film on climate activism in the UK "Just Do It". Ends with clip of Occupy movement song "We Are the Many" by Hawaiian singer Makana, played at the APEC Summit dinner.