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A Poem By Ken Saro-Wiwa, Poet, Writer, Hanged For Environmental Activism

15-09-2012 19:43

Ken Saro-Wiwa
(Nigeria's Ken Saro-Wiwa was a poet, writer and nonviolent environmental activist. Shell Oil pressured the Nigerian government to hang him and his fellow activists, those who worked to end the pollution of the Niger Delta and to keep Nigeria's resources for Nigeria.)

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Natalie Bennett is the wrong leader

13-09-2012 15:08

The new Green Party leader is unlikely to improve their electoral prospects. If Kate Hudson can win the Manchester Central by-election, Respect is more likely to bring about radical change.

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Recent Animal Liberation Front (ALF) actions in UK

12-09-2012 16:47

Open all cages, destroy all prisons, TOTAL LIBERATION!!! Below are recent communiques from ALF cells in the UK for actions of liberation of our furred and feathered kin.

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Stop the Road!

10-09-2012 21:27

A rally and camp to celebrate the beauty of Combe Haven Valley and develop resistance to the planned Bexhill-Hastings link road.

29 – 30 September, Combe Haven Valley

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Looking For An End - Ecoshock

09-09-2012 23:55

Ecoshock fall opener! Alex inteviews Gareth Renowden, co-host of New Zealand's "The Climate Show" on the big stories. From Beijing, Li Yan Greenpeace East Asia climate campaign co-ordinator on China's emissions & coal dependence. Plus "Tip of the Iceberg News" with blogs & audio you might have missed. Radio Ecoshock 120905 1 hr CD Quality 56 MB or Lo-Fi 14 MB. Blog with all the links here.

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Protect Chapetown Residents

07-09-2012 10:21

Cowley Residents Action Group are asking concerned people to write to Sheffield Council Planning Department asking them to reject the application for a coal washing plant on the Hesley Wood Tip Site. The planning application is expected to be heard at the beginning of October.

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Fracking on trial verdict

06-09-2012 14:43

An environmental activist who climbed a drilling rig in a protest against fracking in December last year was today found guilty under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act at Preston Magistrates Court. She was ordered to pay a £250 fine and £750 costs.

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Fracking on trial - again!

04-09-2012 10:16

The safety of fracking will be challenged at Preston Magistrates Court today, as 3 people go on trial following a protest at Cuadrilla’s Hesketh Bank site, Lancashire, in December last year. (1) The trial is expected to last until Thursday.

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Increased Risk of Exploitation of the English Counrtyside

02-09-2012 13:24

The 7th Press Release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network explains why a Planning Inspectors decision on an Opencast Site Planning Application in a remote part of England has implications for all mineral planning applications across the country and not just those 5 pending for opencast coal.

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WWW: World Wild Web

29-08-2012 15:51

Acquitaine from Borders series
Featuring: Paula Crutchlow & Helen Varley Jamieson, Andy Deck, Mary Flanagan, Genetic Moo, Dominic Smith, and Sarah Waterson

To be alive is to be wild. And we humans have a will that shapes the world with language, song, lust, labour and play. The artists in this exhibition work and play with living organisms and technical things, systems and language, to explore how our relation to the natural world is changing.

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US Agency Has Decided To Let Animals Burn Alive In Idaho Fires

25-08-2012 16:26

Deer Seek Refuge From Forest Fire
The lumber industry dominated US Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to let Idaho fires burn out for several weeks rather than fighting the fire

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insurrectionary news (global)

24-08-2012 10:36

aftermath of ccf/fai-mexico attack
fifth communique from "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI - Mexico" claiming responsibility for coordinated arson attacks in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and Puebla, State of Puebla, against Plásticos Viga company and the Museum of the Mexican Revolution // claim by "Friends of the Earth / FAI" for arson attack on FIAT car showroom in Buenos Aires, Argentina // "FAI/IRF - Unit: ‘Fire to sweatshops’" claim for arson of headquarters of Trastor real estate investment company, Athens, Greece // windows of olympic sponsors Lloyds TSB and Thomas Cook smashed in Bristol, Uk // many tires slashed in solidarity with Pacific North West (USA) grand jury resisters, Paris France // imprisoned eco-anarchist Marco Camenisch declares hunger strike, Swiss

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Urgent! Russian antifascist arrested in Madrid!!

24-08-2012 08:47

Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev is still arrested in Madrid. Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days!

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Is West Nile Virus In The US Really Mad Cow?

23-08-2012 20:32

Stanley Prusiner, Nobel winning discoverer of Mad Cow prions
Pictures are of Stanley Prusiner, Nobel winning discoverer of the prions in Mad Cow and of Howard Lyman, who was twice sued by the Texas cattle industry and twice won in court.
The article describes the conspiracy of silence in the US re Mad Cow, Mad Pig and the other spongiform encephalopathy diseases.

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Diggers2012: The Journey Continues…

22-08-2012 15:57

A Report on the Diggers2012 Action in Runnymede, Windsor.

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Open letter to Ecotricity regarding its meter reading contract with G4S

17-08-2012 13:45

Dear Ecotricity,

We are writing to you regarding your contract with G4S Utility Services, which provides you with meter reading services.

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In US, Centers For Disease Control Calls Mad Cow and Mad Pig West Nile Virus

16-08-2012 23:24

The US government conspiracy of silence about Mad Cow and Mad Pig Disease in the United States continues.

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Learn about community shares from record-breaking solar farm

16-08-2012 10:20

Westmill Solar Farm by Adrian Arbib
Community enterprises offered the chance to learn from Westmill Solar Co-op Ltd, which raised £4m through community shares in a record-breaking six weeks.

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A Scandal on the Moors

15-08-2012 15:51

A campaign recently launched - Ban the Burn! - highlights the degradation of peat bogs due to draining and burning on moors used for grouse shooting. As peat is burnt, a carbon sink becomes a carbon source. As mosses dry out and die, the moors stop acting as a sponge in heavy rainfall and localised flooding occurs. Taxpayers' money is being used to fund large estates who claim to be stewarding the land but are actually damaging it.

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Twisted Progeny Of Babylon

15-08-2012 11:45

"Private Corporations Feeding On The Nations, People On The Street Eating Chicken And Meat"
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