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US Republican Mitt Romney Picks a Bowhunter as Running Mate

12-08-2012 16:54

Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's pick to run for the vice presidency of the US, advertises that he is a bowhunter. He has in the House engineered hundreds of billions at a time to kill people and animals illegally in other countries. He voted against legal protection for horses and against endangered species legislation.

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Tar Free Oxford Takes Off

10-08-2012 12:22

Tar Free Towns [

http://tarfreetowns.org/what-is-a-tar-free-town/ ] is an idea we had a little while ago, which originated from the desire to connect people in the UK with communities fighting tar sands in Canada, by supporting and encouraging hubs of tar sands activism to flourish in the UK.

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Protest against logging in Lenton

05-08-2012 20:55

Protests have begun against Nottingham City Council’s plans for extensive felling of trees in Lenton. On Friday a small demonstration against the logging was held which attracted the attention of City Council staff and PCSOs. The council is planning to cut down 84 lime trees because of “aphid mess, falling branches and loss of light”, but the protestors say it is really a money saving strategy. They are planning to meet at the entrance to Nottingham Castle at 8am on Monday for another demonstration.

Newswire: Lenton Tree Felling | Logging in Lenton

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Week 7, Runnymede Eco-Village.

03-08-2012 16:55

Its been 7 weeks since we arrived on the disused land at the ex-Brunel university, Runnymede Campus. Since then we have been busy building an eco-village community based on sustainable methods. This is our latest regular report.

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Take Back the Land! - short action film

02-08-2012 19:12

On the 12th July we squatted Scottish Coal's new opencast site in the Douglas Valley at Glentaggart East for a week-long action camp. Folk came from all over to stand in solidarity with local people and to stop the destruction and injustice of opencast coal mining. The film below documents a few of the actions that took place during the camp including a mass action that shut down Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site, a morning blockade of Broken Cross Open Cast Coal Site and the opencasting of landowner Lord Home's front garden.

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EF! summer gathering site phone

31-07-2012 19:55

The site phone number is 07758867265

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Diggers2012: Activities at Runnymede Eco Village this Saturday

26-07-2012 12:58

This saturday (28th) we are hosting a range of interesting activities including: wild food foraging, permaculture design, cobbing the Longhouse, a discussion on ‘Sustainability and Land’, plus much more

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Take Back the Land: Action Round-Up

26-07-2012 09:56

A week ago today the last of the camp was taken down and participants at Take Back the Land! (

http://takebacktheland.org.uk/) were saying goodbye for now to our site on the edge of 350ha of bog and wet heath moorland – the proposed new Glentaggart East site (

http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?page_id=2570). The camp was occupied on the evening of the 10th July and set up on the symbolic site of Scottish Coal’s new mine in the Douglas Valley, a beautiful part of the Southern Uplands. The occupation was the third in the area since 2009 and part of Coal Action Scotland’s four-year old direct action campaign against opencast coal mining in the Douglas Valley.

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Frankensteins Gather In NYC To Discuss Developing Contagious Flu Variants

24-07-2012 17:39

At the University of Wisconsin and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, bioterror scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC have been inflicting pain on ferrets as they developed highly contagious new strains of flu. Public exposure of their work has caused a moratorium. The week of July 30, these Frankensteins will meet to discuss their extralegal and highly lethal work.

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Toxins In Ocean Spray and Other Fruit Drinks

21-07-2012 14:32

Ocean Spray fruit drinks are distributed in the UK. Ocean Spray is to be praised for its cooperative agriculture based in Lakeville-Middleborough Massachusetts in the US and for its production of berries, cherries and grapefruit, which as fruits are nature’s most perfect foods not only for health but for Mother Earth's environment and nonviolence. But Ocean Spray's diet drinks have toxins.

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Reclaim the Fields Summer Gathering

21-07-2012 09:13

Next weekend is the Reclaim the Fields Summer Gathering!

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Gas Rig Occupiers Get Fracked

18-07-2012 20:12

After a 5 day trial at Preston Magistrates anti-fracking protestors are found guilty of all charges…

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Diggers2012: Permaculture Open Day @ Runnymede Eco Village this Saturday

18-07-2012 17:57

This Saturday, 21st July, the residents of Runnymede Eco Village, Windsor, warmly invite you to an open day of workshops, discussions and fun for all ages.

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Aristocrat landlord’s garden opencasted!

18-07-2012 12:39

Earlier today activists from Take Back the Land! visited Lord Home’s mansion in the Douglas Valley and opencasted his garden, hoping to bring the issues closer to home for him. Lord Home owns Mainshill and all of Glentaggart East which is currently being occupied by an action camp. Of course only some of the things that impact communities so much would have been felt because of this opencast, such as seeing a big mess. He won’t have to put up with the health impacts from dust and diesel fumes, the danger on the roads, the noise, contempt from South Lanarkshire Council – the list goes on.

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EF! Summer Gathering Workshop timetable

18-07-2012 10:32

The workshop timetable has been finalised.

We've got workshops on mobilizing for next years G8, the state of the anarchist movement in the UK, discussions around feminism, patriarchy, solidarity and community organising. As well as campaign presentations from Boycott Workfare, Frack off and Smash Edo. Plus much much more.

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Broken Cross Open Cast Site blockaded – police act as Scottish Coal security

16-07-2012 10:27

This morning Broken Cross opencast site in the Douglas Valley was blockaded for an hour and a half before Scottish Coal workers lifted three people in heavy concrete lock-ons out of the road, all overseen by Inspector Whip (photographed) of Strathclyde Police. This isn’t the first time that Inspector Whip has hurt people by lifting them out of the road. He’s reckless and deliberately put people’s safety at risk, all to protect the profits of Scottish Coal.

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Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site shut down!

14-07-2012 11:01

At 10:00 this morning a group of 45 activists invaded Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site near Douglas, South Lanarkshire, and are currently occupying machinery and preventing coaling operations on the site.

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Diggers2012: Runnymede Eco Village Lives On + Saturdays Workshops

13-07-2012 14:06

News of the land rights action in Runnymede, Windsor + workshops this saturday afternoon.

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Mass action against opencast coal tomorrow: 14th July

13-07-2012 11:33

With Take Back the Land! up and running and fully-functional, we’re looking ahead to tomorrow’s mass action against the devastation of opencast coal in the Douglas Valley.

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Earth First! Summer Gathering Update - programme, directions, website and more

12-07-2012 20:56

The EF! summer gathering website has full details up now.