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ZAD, Commune, Metropolis

28-04-2013 18:16

(The following account was written by a media collective based in the UK and Montreal. Much has been changed in order to present a coherent picture. It was written after several months of travel. All errors are the fault of the authors.)

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Affirmative: Fracking Awareness North Somerset is go, go, GO!

28-04-2013 16:34

Fracking Awareness North Somerset (F.A.N.S) is a new organisation seeking to mobilize community based resistance against fracking. We aim to build a network of groups all over North Somerset to collectively struggle against the insidious threat posed by fracking to our local communities and landscape.

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Case shows up squalid cruelty and abuses in greyhound industry

27-04-2013 12:10

Hare and Greyhound alike are victims of coursing in Ireland...
Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below)

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Scottish Coal's Collapse : A Failure of the Planning System

25-04-2013 16:34

LAON's Press Release questions the role the Scottish Planning System has played in this tragic sequence of events. It draws attention to the fact that 18 opencast sites are affected, not just the six often mention in most news items on this story and suggests that some form of public inquiry is needed if trust is to be restored into the Scottish Planning System and lessons learned so that this situation can be avoided in the future.

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Scottish Coal ask courts to allow them to walk away from opencast sites

25-04-2013 09:58

Coal Action Scotland media release: for immediate use 24th April 2013
Media contact: Oliver Munnion at  media@coalactionscotland.org.uk or on 07917693337

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Philippine climate activists expose risks of dirty coal.

24-04-2013 12:06

300-strong climate activists and anti-coal advocates stormed the Department of Energy to voice out their opposition to coal mines and coal-fired power plants promoted by the government and to launch the group’s Campaign Against Dirty Energy and for People’s Access to Safe, Renewable and Democratic Energy Alternatives.

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Burying the Future: Pipelines, Arctic Melt, UK Weather

21-04-2013 19:43

Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith explains how the Arctic warming emergency is changing your weather. First, story of anti-pipeline media warrior, John Bolenbaugh. The leaks, scandals and deaths behind Tar Sands pipelines.

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TWO UK Nuclear Accidents in Just a Few Days

21-04-2013 11:32

TWO accidents at privatised UK nuclear plants in a few days

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Bayer, Monsanto, Syngenta, BASF, Dow: Biggest Bee Killers

19-04-2013 20:52

One of Trillions of Victims Of Major Corporations
Suggested action to take to ban insecticides which kill bees, 'the world's largest labor
force'.

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Resistance is Fertile- One Account From the Zad

18-04-2013 18:06

An extract from an article written by a Combatant at the Zad.

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Get tooled up in Bristol this Saturday!

18-04-2013 16:53

Thatcher may be dead but now we need to kill off her legacy. Come and dip into the activist toolbox this Saturday, for all the tools you'll need to join the struggle against capital and the state. Then let's go to work...bring on the north west European spring!

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Coping with Climate Despair: Rosemary Randall

15-04-2013 06:49

The climate has changed, we all know that. How can we face the unbearable weight of knowing we did it, forever in human terms. You are about to hear one of the best leaders in how to cope without falling into despair. From the UK it's psychotherapist Rosemary Randall in a Radio Ecoshock interview. 29 minutes.

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UG#630 - The 6th Mass Extinction (And What To Do About It)

13-04-2013 15:44

Audio
Did you know that the earth is currently experiencing the biggest mass extinction in the last 65 million years? That half the worlds' plants and animals may go extinct in the next 30 years? Or that extinctions are happening at an accelerating pace already around 1000 times the natural rate?

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Serial Climate Hacker Raided

12-04-2013 00:09

Serial climate hacker Russ George's office raided. Nick Saul takes food banks to a whole new level - feeding citizens during tough times. UC Berkeley political scientist Dr. Martha Campbell - how economists & women's advocates helped enable the next population explosion. Radio Ecoshock 130410 1 hour.

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BAYER Shareholder Meeting on April 26 in Cologne: Coalition introduces Countermo

11-04-2013 22:03

Hazardous drugs, pesticides, GM rice and election campaign donations under fire..

The Coalition against BAYER Dangers has introduced countermotions to BAYER´s Annual Shareholder Meeting on April 26. Environmental and social justice organizations announced to discuss the proposals within the meeting in Cologne. About 4,000 shareholders are expected to attend.

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Earth First Summer Gathering: 7th-11th August 2013

06-04-2013 10:00

This year's the Summer Gathering will be in the Hastings area near the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road campaign. It will run from the evening of Wednesday 7th August and finish on Sunday 11th August.

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Sheffield & Doncaster Sabs - End of Season Report 2013

03-04-2013 11:44

August 2012 - April 2013 sabbing news roundup

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Northern Vegan Festival

02-04-2013 17:25

The Northern Vegan Festival, which is the biggest ever vegan event in the North, is on Saturday April 13, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Sachas Hotel, 12, Tib St., Manchester city centre, M4 1SH. There is aftershow from 6 p.m. until late at the Thirsty Scholar vegan/vegetarian pub, 50, New Wakefield St., Manchester city centre, M1 5NP. More info about the Festival on the website and Facebook.

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Land.

01-04-2013 19:07

Southern Brazil
Do more, I continue, is at the heart of our proposal, putting under increasing national and citizen control all the vast and complex productive chains of agriculture and agro-industry of the XXI century, with invaluable impact on what we call productive intelligence per capita.

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Summer action camp against Shell

31-03-2013 21:00

Come over and stop Shell!
Come to Mayo on the 21st of June for a week of action against Shell.
Whether you've been to Rossport before or this is your first time, this is the week to come.
Check website for updates & more information.