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END:CIV UK Tour

29-01-2012 21:48

END:CIV
Having attended over 110 screenings in America, Mexico, Canada and Japan
Franklin López will continue his world tour in the UK this April his
film END:CIV ( http://endciv.com)

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2012 Dirty Coal Infotour

27-01-2012 17:08

In the first few months of 2012 Coal Action Scotland will be touring the UK on the "Dirty Coal Infotour" to mobilise against new coal, and to build up to stopping Scottish Coal's new mine - Glentaggart East - in the Douglas Valley.

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Stratfor Intelligence Leaked by Anonymous that Reveals Spying on Occupy Movement

26-01-2012 23:36

Internet group Anonymous has leaked information from October and November 2011 suggesting that private intelligence firm STRATFOR has been working with Texas law enforcement to infiltrate the Occupy movement and spy on the Deep Green Resistance movement.

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The Echo of Silence

26-01-2012 09:32

This is a message to the uprising conservation activists in India from the karmic underground of a subcontinent which had to experience the prototypes of the current destruction in a thousand years of shadow. We speak for everyone who has chosen to live without the permanent terror of the police state, and for everyone who might nourish the sprout of such a decision in the prisons of their daily lives, so we speak for everyone able to agree or disagree for themselves. In this place, there is little left to conserve, and the fine thread of life connecting us with its timeless nature would be easily cut. We desire, envision and pursue the abolition of the regimes threatening to do so and the deconstruction of their inferior motivation of nuclear power. In the physics of the atom, we see human minds inspired by the Sun and the paths of the planets, trying to imagine what is not fully understood, captured in the metaphor of their own misunderstanding. Precisely this narrative is the core element of the police state that must be taken out to avoid catastrophe. And yet the condition of the universe this toxic legacy is part of suggests that no one carried such a monstrous aberration quite far, for otherwise it would already be just as looted as this Earth.

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Oil to Occupy: The Restless West Coast

25-01-2012 06:25

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 http://bit.ly/waNOYN "Oil Free Coast" 3 speakers against Tar Sands pipelines and tankers in Canada, including First Nations. Then on-scene audio from Occupy Wall St West in San Francisco Jan 20th. Awaiting arrest, and crowd microphones against corporate takeover.

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Earth First! Winter Moot, what to expect

22-01-2012 15:15

This years Earth First! Winter Moot takes place in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In a months time environmentalists from across the UK and beyond will converge to discuss and debate. Below is an update from the organising collective who are working on the program.

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Road building in Shropshire

20-01-2012 17:35

Telford & Wrekin Council in Shropshire have just announced plans to build a link road from the M54 to the M6 northbound and the M6 Toll.

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The Brutal Logic of Climate Change

20-01-2012 15:57

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 http://bit.ly/wulkTw "The future is impossible" says Dr. Kevin Anderson, former Director of UK's top climate research institute, the Tyndall Centre. Speech in London lays out our awful tilt toward an unlivable climate. Followed by discussion with Washington's Dr. William Calvin.

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Proposed new London airport: Boris’s idea will never fly

20-01-2012 14:45

Wednesdays announcement that the government will hold a consultation in the spring on a new airport in the Thames Estuary, dubbed 'Boris Island' sparked a long day of media hysteria.

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Johns Hopkins, 1 US University Cages 200,000 Mice and Rats

17-01-2012 03:21

US university, corporate, and pharmaceutical profiteers from animal torture
are upset about suggested new guidelines

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Demonstration in London in Solidarity with Bulgarian Anti-Fracking Protests

15-01-2012 13:23

Mass anti-shale gas protest in Sofia
Mass mobilisations against fracking in at least 12 cities in Bulgaria on Saturday brought thousands of people out onto the streets to protest against the plans to bring the practice of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas to the country. Solidarity demonstrations organised by Bulgarian expatriates were held in several other European cities including Paris, Copenhagen and London.

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SchNEWS: Not In My Frack Yard

13-01-2012 20:40

Caudrilla execs left quaking in their boots after angry fracking meeing

The week saw two large public meetings on the fracking – the process of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, one on either side of the Pond. The first took place in the old steel town of Youngstown, Ohio- held on Tuesday in the wake of a magnitude 4.0 earthquake, the latest in a series of 11 over the last 12 months. The earthquakes are linked to an injection well disposing of fracking fluid (a mix of groundwater and industrial chemicals). The second took place in the sleepy, extremely affluent commuter belt village of Balcombe, in Sussex, just north of the Ouse Valley Viaduct on the London to Brighton railway line. Cuadrilla Resources, made infamous by their earthquake producing facilities in Lancashire, have planning permission to drill a test well south of the village. The process has been compared to setting off a small nuclear bomb underground. Needless to say there are some ruffled feathers in well manicured lawns of this community.

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Climate May Force Human Evolution

10-01-2012 07:47

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We journey into the deep past, to find the future, with Dr. Andrew Glikson, former Principal Research Scientist, for the Australian Geological Survey Organization. He's an expert on past extinction events, climate, and asteroid hits. Full length interview. Then neurobiologist Dr. William Calvin from Washington University, author of "Global Fever, How to Treat Climate Change" plus remarks by Dr. Colin Campbell.

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Update: FOD Education Centre Occupation.

09-01-2012 00:36

We are actively looking for support from the local community, environmental activists, nature lovers, foresters, wilderness survival experts, sustainable skills educators, healers, crafty/arty types of all dispositions, gardeners, lecturers and anyone else wanting to offer their skills and knowledge to people willing to learn to come and be live-in volunteers at our recently reopened education centre!

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The not so occupy newcastle goes home

03-01-2012 17:54

Occupy newcastle today ceased and went home today occupy newcastle had turned into a joke full of druggies and homeless dossers.

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A short introduction to Reclaim the Fields

02-01-2012 12:36

Reclaim the Fields is a European network that takes an anti-capitalist / anti-authoritarian stance on peasant struggles. This article is selection of articles from activists within the network. To find out more check out the RTF bulletins ( http://www.reclaimthefields.org/content/bulletins). To get involved check out the U.K. constellation / branch on the website and join us at the next European assembly which will take place in Turino, Italy 29th of February till the 4th of March.

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Fukushima: The Big Lie

29-12-2011 01:34

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Japan declares a fake "cold shutdown" saying the Fukushima accident is "over". Arnie Gundersen interview plus world reaction. Then: did Fukushima radiation kill 14,000 Americans? Interview with study co-author Janette Sherman, plus comments from Joseph Mangano. Added clip from Japan-German speaker Kazuhiko Kobayash on the secret of Japanese power.

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Green Music

20-12-2011 06:28

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The annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won't find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Playlist at ecoshock.info. Plus 2 new Occupy songs ( Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.

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Cultural organisations continue to brown nose BP

19-12-2011 20:06

British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera House and Tate continue to accept dirty money.

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Council deceive community and approve Glentaggart East opencast

16-12-2011 16:28

Colin McDowall recomended approval to councillors - but who does he work for?
It’s been glaringly obvious for some time that South Lanarkshire Council will do anything to help Scottish Coal mine the Douglas Valley – but the way that they sneaked this latest application through defies belief. Every means possible was used to ensure that no one except the Council knew that the decision on the 4 million tonne Glentaggart East application was going in front of the planning committee. Following a recommendation for approval signed off by Colin McDowell on 5th December, South Lanarkshire Council Planning Committee voted on Tuesday to accept the application.