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Eco-Warriors needed for Cat Hill protest at Middlesex University

15-12-2013 15:10

Hundreds of local residents at Cat Hill, protesting against the demolition of Middlesex University and five acres of ponds and woodlands with hundreds of 400-year-old oak trees and protected endangered species like bats, great crested newts, and dormice, are preparing to occupy the site and blockade the developers to stop them from destroying one of the finest and most beautiful natural wildlife habitats in Britain.

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UG#671 - The Nuclear Fuel Pool of Damocles (Fukushima, Chernobyl and PBDEs)

04-12-2013 01:06

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We hear a collection of speakers on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (which Wikipedia reports injured 39 and may result in anywhere from 0 to 1000 cancer deaths). We hear testimony that the real figures are many orders of magnitude higher, and that the crisis is far from over, with radiation leaks increasing and a pool containing over 400 tons of nuclear fuel suspended 100 foot in the air in a badly damaged building highly vulnerable to any further seismic disturbance.

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You Have Not Been Told the Truth About Global Warmin

03-12-2013 18:58

Official figures greatly underestimate global heating. Robert Way explains groundbreaking new paper. The EPA likewise low-balled methane emissions in the U.S. by half. Harvard's Scot Miller on new science. UK photojournalist Robert Leslie on "Stormbelt" - the decline of the southern states.

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Extreme warming "not compatible with human existence"

24-11-2013 07:25

Heat and human health expert Elizabeth Hanna (ANU) on current and developing costs of climate heating.

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Disney Corporation Promotes Treekilling

20-11-2013 16:25

ABC Disney is involved in propaganda for the treekilling industries.

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“Return Fire” PDF version (anarchist publication from the U.K.)

25-10-2013 09:54

The PDF version of “Return Fire” volume 1 is now hosted online by 325.nostate.net and volume 2 is in the works.

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Shell PR event shut down in Oxford

23-10-2013 11:55

the Shell booth
Yesterday a Shell recruitment/PR booth on Broad St (Oxford), was shut down by the combination of leafletting, disruption and damage.

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UG#667 - Community Successes (Restoring Our Connection To The Land)

23-10-2013 09:29

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A cheerier show this week than last week's look at the issue of violence. A range of voices, old and new inform us of successful local initiatives to reconnect with the land and rebuild community in their neighborhood.

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I Have A Confession to Make

20-10-2013 00:40

Emerging threats analyst and author Robert Marston Fanney on new frontiers of climate change. Plus Dr. Alex Rogers of Oxford: State of the Oceans 2013.

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Walk a mile in the shoes of a nation crying to end cyanide mining and political

19-10-2013 23:30

What’s worth more than gold? People? Water? Mountains? 10th protest called in London this Sunday, 20th of October, to stop Europe’s biggest gold mine poisoning Romania. Rosia Montana campaigners join global Fracking protest in Trafalgar Square on Sunday 20 Oct 2013 at 3pm. The protest will include a barefoot art performance with painter Teodora Czentye

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Anti-Fracking protests escalate in Canada

18-10-2013 01:11

Serious clashes in Canada between First Nations and the cops. Anti-Fracking protests have come to an escalation. Solidarity is needed.

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Italy, Seveso dioxine disaster July 10, 1976

16-10-2013 01:09

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The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 pm July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Milan in the Lombardy region in Italy.

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Why Having Children Should Be Illegal:

16-10-2013 00:21

Despite all the cultural and religious indoctrination (and presumption) to the contrary, to be born Homo sapiens onto this planet, even in these modern times of materialist comfort, is still far too much a curse. Of course no one will tell you you’ve been condemned to a life of questionable worth and meaning, albeit with plenty need to toil for one’s un-mitigating desires. Rather its expected you’ll inculcate the accepted lies, such as how precious life is, in general, as it is always presumed to be—and never question its ordained status or sacred value. Conditioned are you then to think you “should” be grateful for having been born into this human mess (more properly referred to as the insanity of humanity).

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The Hambach forest occupation is under direct threat of eviction

14-10-2013 21:31

The Hambach forest occupation is under direct threat of eviction. For the second time in one month the police has been attacking the camp. Guarded by riot cops a flying squat of RWE workers equipped with chainsaws and a bulldozer entered the protest site.

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Call for decentralised action for the first anniversary of ZAD evictions

14-10-2013 17:09

Re-ouccpation of the ZAD shortly after the evictions
Unedited translation:

# Press Release from the ZAD: 12th October ======================

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How Innocent Birds Are Treated In Many Factory Farms

13-10-2013 17:37

Birds Smashed At What Is Now Ohio Fresh Egg
9 birds to a 3x1 ft cage, deaths by roasting or freezing with power outages in metal sheds, tornado vulnerability, never spreading their wings pollution, toxins to workers, 6 month old eggs sold, etc

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London ‘March Against Monsanto’ 12th Oct 2013 - report/pics

13-10-2013 15:53

march against monsanto, london
Yesterday’s ‘March against Monsanto’ was organised by www.gmfreeze.org, and was part of a global action with events in around 400 cities around the world. The march from Temple station ended in a very informative rally outside Parliament in Old Palace Yard.

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Campesino strike in Colombia

08-10-2013 20:23

The struggle for recognition of the basic rights of the Colombian, rural population has reached what could be a point of no return as the consequences of recent free trade agreements signed by the Colombian government with the USA, Europe and South Korea among others, take their toll.

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Fracking off Cuadrilla

06-10-2013 23:36

This seems to have gone unreported here. Might be of interest to some...

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Save Rosia Montana – Romanian anti-mining protest in London

29-09-2013 23:01

Nearly 200 activists staged a colourful and noisy solidarity protest in London today as part of world-wide actions in solidarity with protests in Romania against government corruption and plans to poison the beautiful Western Transylvanian area with a vast cyanide-mined gold extraction project.