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Monitor rescues fox from hounds jaws

23-11-2012 10:06

FOX SNATCHED FROM THE SNAPPING JAWS OF THE OLD BERKS* HOUNDS

DRAMATIC RESCUE OF FOX CAPTURED ON FILM

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Japan! - Stop Whaling (email, phone, fax of Japanese embassies)

20-11-2012 11:54

Japanese whalers are again on their way to slaughter whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. To suppert Sea Shepherd which is there to stop them and to protest against these cruel and disgusting „business“ please contact Japanese embassies around the word.

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anti BP sponsorship flashmob at british museum - report & pics

18-11-2012 20:12

additional security
this afternoon, the 'reclaim shakespeare company' ran through some of their best performances in the great court hall of the british museum, cheered on by a flashmob of up to a hundred climate activists.

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Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe’s largest Postcapitalist lan

16-11-2012 21:26

Since the 16th of October the French state have attempted to evict Europe's largest postcapitalist land occupation - La ZAD - to build a new "green" airport. Farmers and activists have joined together to resist the project and the evictions have lit a fuse across France. KK immerses herself in this rural rebellion against economic growth and the climate catastrophe and discovers a utopia in resistance.(for version of text with image see -  http://labofii.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/rural-rebels-and-useless-airports-la-zad-europes-largest-postcapitalist-land-occupation/)

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Hambach Forest: Day 3 of Eviction / Do they need Uk Evict?

15-11-2012 15:14

Today is the third day of the eviction at the Hambach Forest, which is occupied against the biggest climate killer in Europe, the Rhenish brown coal-mining district (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier).

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Day 2 of eviction Hambach Forest / tunnel-system

14-11-2012 18:05

At the second day of eviction the cops evicted everybody from the trees. At the evening of the first day they evicted everybody in concrete-lock-ons. Now there's one activist in a blockade-tunnel rested. And police don't have any idea how to evict that. So it still can need some days.
Police that went down just said: "there's a huge tunnel-system, we don't know wich direction we have to go"
The occupation of the forest is against a coal open-cast-mine, that is together with two more of this, the biggest producer of CO2 in Europe. The dust of the pit is radioactiv.

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destroyed squat and wounded people after polish patriot march

14-11-2012 12:57

Green Technology Centre squat attacked by far right in Wroclaw, Poland

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Kevin Anderson: What They Won't Tell You About Climate Catastrophe

14-11-2012 03:19

Scientists and officials are not telling the public the awful truth: we are hurtling toward catastrophic climate change. A review, summary and critique of an earth-breaking speech by Dr. Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre in Britain. Speaking to the Cabot Institute in Bristol November 6th, Anderson told the sold-out crowd our future is not possible. Radio Ecoshock 12114

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The Big Rig Revolt - December 1st

13-11-2012 18:22

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A dark cloud is gathering. The threat of unconventional gas development hangs over us all. With almost 100 test wells permitted and the first production development threatening Scotland, the government’s dash for gas depends on the creeping sell off of the British Isles. This cabal of opportunistic extraction companies, government mandarins and political jokes think they are getting away with it. They are so FRACKING wrong.

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Sheffield's 2012 Transition Awards

10-11-2012 12:27

Join Transition Sheffield for a sparkling evening to celebrate groups who are creating more sustainable communities in Sheffield. With inspiring local artists, special celebrity guest and Chrystine Moon as compere.

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Blog on the biodiversity crisis

07-11-2012 20:40

Have a look at this new blog, "Into the Eremozoic", about the biodiversity crisis and the sixth mass extinction...

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Ravaging Tide or Renewable World?

05-11-2012 02:57

Can big cities like New York or Washington protect against storm surge and rising seas? Three interviews. Mike Tidwell, author of "The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities." Professor J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland, on city surge defenses around the world. Daphne Wysham interviews German Green Parliamentarian Hermann Ott: leading the way to renewables before climate collapse. Radio Ecoshock 121107 1 hour.

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Obama has been warned that Global Warming will cause Extinction of Humanity

01-11-2012 18:49

A warning that humanity faces extinction this century as a result of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and that America would be hit soon by more hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis was sent to the president of America Barack Obama on 17 October 2012, just 12 days before the earthquake and tsunami off the coast of British Columbia and the 10,000 square mile Frankenstorm Sandy which hit the United States.

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Tar sands ‘dirty oil’ could soon be coming to Pembrokeshire, UK

01-11-2012 13:04

US company Valero admits plans to import highly-polluting tar sands oil to UK, where locals vow to oppose it.

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Gas power station occupied by No Dash for Gas

30-10-2012 12:03

Climbing up to the top of chimney 2
West Burton gas power station in Nottinghamshire has been occupied and shut down by 16 No Dash for Gas activists who intend to stay on top of two of the chimneys for as long as their supplies allow.

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Storms in the Emergency Room - Sandy, Coal & Nukes

30-10-2012 07:25

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From D.C. as Hurricane Sandy hits, Earthbeat's Daphne Wysham on the climate connection. From Australia, Greenpeace's Georgina Woods on huge coal expansion. Then a Canadian plan to dump nuclear waste right next to Lake Huron & world's biggest running reactor. Radio Ecoshock 121031 1 hour

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[ZAD, France] Call : Face evictions, the nov. 17th, reoccupation demo !

29-10-2012 09:53

reoccup-demo
The struggle against the airport project of Notre-Dame des Landes kept on growing in the last years. Among other initiatives, an occupation movement has spread on the houses and farmland threatened. A year ago, facing increasing threats on the different houses, huts and gardens, inhabitants of the ZAD and solidarity collectives called for a mass demonstration of reoccupation in case of evictions.

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France: La ZAD prepares for another week of eviction NON A LA AEROPORT

28-10-2012 18:21

In La ZAD, a zone occupied to stop the construction of a new airport for Nantes, the eviction looks set to continue from tomorrow. La Saulce is now evictable and it is possible the police will also target some of the places that require special forces to evict treehouses and such. Callout for solidarity actions against VINCI, the company who will be constructing. Callout for people here to help. All means to increase awareness.

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South Africa: Clean energy protest lands activists in jail

24-10-2012 14:44

BOBBY Peek, former Wentworth resident, was among the 14 environmental activist arrested yesterday, October 23 while protesting at the Eskom Megawatt Park in Johannesburg.