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June 11th Punk show benefit for American Political Prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers

17-05-2005 22:09

June 10-12 graphic
This event is part of the June 10-12 Weekend of Resistance for American Political Prisoner Jeff Luers. There are events in Brighton and Edinburgh that day as well as many cities in the US and around the world. Events list at
 http://www.freefreenow.org/june2005events.html

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Critical Mass to return to Southampton

17-05-2005 16:28

In solidarity with protests around the world coinciding with the G8 conference in Scotland, Southampton activists are calling out for a return of critical mass to Southampton

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Anti-nuclear activists declare Drake's Island nuclear free state

17-05-2005 15:17

Anti Nuclear Action - Sarah Lasenby from Oxford has helped occupy the nuclear free state of Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound

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Video footage of the Birmingham G7 protests May 1998

17-05-2005 12:07

Reclaim the Streets Flyer
May 1998 saw a global street party take place in Birmingham to coincide with the G7 summit being hosted in the city. The following downloadable films contain footage of the street party.

"Reclaim the Streets - Birmingham, UK. An organised street party erupts during the G8 summit." April 1997 (20mb/5'28min)

 http://www.kinokast.net/video/birmingham1998.mov

 http://www.kinokast.net/video/birmingham1998.wmv

Reclaim the Streets - the film!

"May 1995, London, England. A small group of people decide to organise an illegal street party in Camden, a part of the city renowned for its consumerism and incessant traffic. The final location is kept secret, because they know that the state and business will not be amused. Reclaim the Streets! is born, a cocktail of raging love, revolutionary carnival, art and anarchy. Since then, clandestine street parties have erupted all over the world. From Hull to Sidney, Lyon to Tel Aviv, Vancouver to Valencia, people are taking back their streets. And this is only beginning."

Download the Reclaim the Streets film here - it's got footage of the Birmingham G7 street party.

 http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/385

792.75 Mb mpeg

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Linslade anti-bypass protestors acquitted

17-05-2005 10:47

Two women arrested for chaining themselves to a digger in protest at the start of work on the controversial Linslade bypass have been acquitted.

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Cannabis March & Rally Video

17-05-2005 10:02

London May 15th: In beautiful sunshine, a 'cannabis education march' hit central London Sunday May 15th, as over 2000 people marched, danced and even floated their way through crowded streets to a rally of up to 5000 in Trafalgar Square.

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GREENPEACE SHUT DOWN LAND ROVER FACTORY

16-05-2005 08:08

35 Greenpeace activists have locked on to a land rover production line in an SUV factory in Solihull.

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Anniversary is woodland destruction - their answer is to ban public access!!!

14-05-2005 22:31

This Sunday 15th May at 2pm Spodden Valley campaigners are to meet at the concrete blocks on Dell Rd/Woodlands Rd in the Spodden Valley, Rochdale.

Thieaim is to walk the short distacnce on the public path ans cycle path of Woodlands Rd to where woodland was destroyed a year ago to the day.

To find out more about the environmental corporate vandalism that happened on 15/16th May 2004 go to

www.Spodden-Valley.co.uk/beforeandafter.htm

This might be the last chance to people may have to walk and cycle there for years…

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Drake's Island occupied - declared nuclear free state

14-05-2005 15:24

On 13 May 12 anti-nuclear weapons protestors from the Plymouth Trident Ploughshares (Tamarians) along with supporters, squatted Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound. A peace camp has been set up and the island declared a nuclear free state. The protest highlights the UK’s breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which is now being reviewed at an important at the UN in New York. The refit of the UK’s nuclear armed and nuclear powered Trident submarines in Devonport Dockyard plays a large part in Britan’s violation of this international treaty.

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Manchester: nuclear waste management training on 23- 27 May

11-05-2005 19:00

A five day training for nuclear waste management takes place on 23 - 27 May im Manchester. If you look at the last and all the other accidents in Sellafield you will get the impression, that all these nuclear waste managers had only trained five days for there Jobs. Let us protest against such dangerous training which occupies the future over thousands of years with dangerous radioactivty.

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Gulf Stream shutting down, BBC ignores?

11-05-2005 03:07

A recent Cambridge University study has found evidence that a glacier ice-formation mechanism that brings the Gulf Stream north, keeping Europe warm, is ALREADY LOSING STRENGTH. CNN in the US is reporting this (sort of), but the BBC website has barely mentioned it.

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Earth First! Action Update

10-05-2005 15:48

The Earth First Action Update is gearing up to go to press.

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Deep Ecology

10-05-2005 08:39


Persephone's Notes from
Facing Climate Change and Other Great Adventures
Joanna Macy's talk on 9th May 2005

Full transcript of talk plus audio/visual material to be published within two weeks.

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Accident in Sellafield

09-05-2005 15:44

According to Radio Z, quoting The Guardian and The Times a part of the Sellafield nuclear plant had to be shut down after a acident.
200 t of highly deadly plutonium have leaked out of a pipeline.
The level for plutonium to be deadly is said to be in the area of milligrams.
Tis news come at a time when the British government is planing to expand the nuclear programm.

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Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline about to be opened

08-05-2005 18:54

Within the next few weeks, oil from the Caspian will start flowing into a 1,762 kilometres long pipeline.

The pipeline will run from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, via near Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and across eastern Turkey to the port of Ceyhan, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is being built by a consortium of companies led by energy giant BP.

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Woodhouse Community Clean Up Saturday May 21st

06-05-2005 18:59

flier
Clean-up and Social
Saturday May 21st

We are residents of Woodhouse and we want to make the area a cleaner, friendlier place to live and get to know our neighbours. We have organised a clean up of a neglected part of our area.

Come and join in. All welcome.

Meet us outside the Chemic Tavern pub, Woodhouse Street at 12pm or join us later over the road next to the taxi rank on Leslie Terrace at the clean up site.

There will be a social at the Chemic afterwards at 2pm with free food and drink for helpers.

Cleaning materials, gloves and bins will be provided.

For more information ring: 07952 513190

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INVITATION TO THE DEVONPORT DISARMAMENT CAMP 19-22 MAY AND BASE BLOCKADE 20 MAY!

06-05-2005 16:27

Devonport water action 2004
With one of the UK's nuclear armed submarines, HMS Victorious, sitting in the dockyard down here in Plymouth being refitted, we need your blockading skills, your affinity groups and your disarmament energy to BLOCK THE BASE from 6.30 a.m. onwards on the 20 May 2005!!!

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Parkwood Landfill Site Photos

06-05-2005 09:59

Local residents with petitions against the expansion plans
Sheffield Council are to decide whether the Parkwood Landfill site should be expanded and include a gas utilisation plant and leacheate treatement plant.

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Redditch Council Tree Massacre

05-05-2005 21:12

Redditch Borough Council are waging a war against the towns urban trees, and local residents are campaigning to stop the tree massacre.

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Successful Critical Mass in Worthing

05-05-2005 20:57


WORTHING'S Critical Mass against the G8 and Climate Change on Saturday April 30 turned out to be a big success in several ways.