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BP Gulf of Mexico Spill Special

06-05-2010 18:11

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The Gulf of Mexico "spill" is really a man-made underwater volcano of oil. This accident taps a primeval fear in the human mind. Something dark and uncontrollable rushes out of the Earth, poisoning the global oceans. Could that really happen? Richard Heinberg, Anita Burke, Riki Ott, Antonia Juhasz, and new song "Corporate Catastrophe".

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Notts County Council Pension Fund invests in BP

06-05-2010 09:59

The pension fund run by Notts CC and including several other major employers in the region invests in BP. As supplies of easily obtainable oil dwindle, companies are investing in more high risk methods of getting oil. One of these is tar sands in Canada.

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South Africa:

03-05-2010 11:50

The sight of people, mostly women or children, walking kilometres over dusty roads to haul wood back to their homes for cooking, heat and light is not uncommon in South Africa’s rural areas. Likewise, every winter, fires rampage through the thousands of shanty towns that dot the urban landscape because people are forced to use dangerous sources of energy like coal and paraffin.

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Sizewell Camp Against Nuclear Power - Chernobyl Weekend - pics

30-04-2010 18:31

Images from the Stop Nuclear Power Network's Camp Against Nuclear New Build, held on the beach by Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations in Suffolk, England on Chernobyl Weekend, 23-26 April 2010.

More details here:
 http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/04/sizewell-campers-mark-chernobyl.html

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Keeping the Lights On in South Yorkshire: Is Our Future Nuclear Free or Nuclear?

28-04-2010 23:52

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Attached is a recording of a meeting held in 28th April 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University titled, Keeping the Lights On in South Yorkshire: Is Our Future Nuclear Free or Nuclear?

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Climate Protesters Face Potential Life Sentences

28-04-2010 14:37

18 people from Bristol and Bath, have been charged under the Malicious
Damages Act of 1861 after they blockaded the railtrack which carries coal between the controversial Open cast Mine at Fros y Fran, near Merthyr Tydfil and Aberthaw Power Station on Monday, 26th April.

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Anti-nuclear protests in Germany – "We'll be wherever they don't want us to be"

27-04-2010 11:09

After long years of agony, the anti-nuclear movement has reported back with full force. At Germany's largest anti-nuclear protests ever, some 150.000 people demonstrated last Saturday against the plans of the conservative-led German administration to revoke the nuclear phase-out compromise. Wherever parties didn't dominate the picture, the claims went much further – the call for demonstration in Biblis in southern Hesse demanded an immediate exit. Also, the close connection between nuclear energy and our capitalist society was addressed.

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Party At The Pumps Part 2... This Time It's SHELL!

27-04-2010 10:06

MASS ACTION CALL OUT

• When: Saturday, 15th May
• Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
• Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
» Oxford Circus meeting point map –  http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap
» Facebook event –  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187
» IMC UK calendar event –  http://www.protest.net/imcuk/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=1702679

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Sizewell Campers Mark Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster

26-04-2010 14:14

Monday, 26 April 2010

Around twenty activists from the Stop Nuclear Power Network [1] have held a ceremony on the beach in front of Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk (England) this afternoon to mark the 24th anniversary of the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster, at Chernobyl (Ukraine). [2] They are looking to highlight the risk of a similar catastrophe happening in Suffolk, due to a reactor meltdown [3,4] or major radioactive waste incident.

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benefit night tonight 7pm onwards

23-04-2010 10:01

benefit night at next to nowhere

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Goldman Sachs in Eskom Privatisation Scam

21-04-2010 12:40

In the latest edition of Finweek, Sikonathi Mantshantsha reports that
Eskom has asked international mergers and acquisitions teams of
financial giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to advise it on a ­proposed
restructuring.

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The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society - Making Good Society

18-04-2010 12:14

Civil society is on the cusp of remarkable change. The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland believes that civil society activity has the power to radically alter the way we live and plays a central role in responding to the challenges of our time.

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Bloody Oil - My people are dying, and we believe British companies are responsib

18-04-2010 00:19

"My people are dying, and we believe British companies are responsible. My community, Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, is situated at the heart of the vast toxic moonscape that is the tar sands development. We live in a beautiful area, but unfortunately, we find ourselves upstream from the largest fossil fuel development on earth.

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BP + Tar Sands = Climate Crime – Thu 15 Apr 10

16-04-2010 17:58

A1. More in Common with Indigenous First Nations Folks than British Bosses
Dateline: BP Shareholders Annual General Meeting, ExCel Conference Centre, London, Thu 15 Apr 10 – At the apex of the 'BP Fortnight of Shame', at the entrance to the BP AGM, climate chaos and human rights activists persuade BP shareholders to vote for the FairPensions anti-Tar-Sands motion. Mobilised by the UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide and Climate Camp, we let BP shareholders know, in no uncertain terms, that BP + TAR SANDS = CLIMATE CRIME.

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MOPG PR 53) Minorca Opencast Decision now postponed until the Summer

16-04-2010 12:11

This press release give details of the new July date for Leicestershire County Council to decide on the Minorca application and some initial reactions to the postponement.from the Minorca Opencast Protest Group

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Oil, Violence and Social Movements in Colombia

15-04-2010 21:55

Key Guest: Bruno Federico.
Bruno is part of COSPACC*, a Colombian collective that works with
communities in the region where BP operate for oil.
He will explore questions around energy sovereignty, control of natural
resources and what this might look like practically for the environmental
movement in the North-West, in the context of global climate change.

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The bank loan that could break SA's back

15-04-2010 11:25

The World Bank's poisoned 'gift' of $3.75bn to Eskom spells disaster for
the climate, the poor and our fragile democracy

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'Activists Target BP’s Investment in Tar Sands with Roof Occupation'

15-04-2010 10:43

Climate Campaigners have occupied the Roof of a BP garage today in protest
about the company’s involvement in tar sands, the increasingly
controversial oil extraction industry.

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Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela? A Response

14-04-2010 14:21

"A judge should not get a cosier cell just because of her socio-economic class."
"In his April 3rd article for the New York Times, Romero manipulated and distorted the facts about Afiuni’s case to fit the Times’s agenda of impeding honest news and discussion about Venezuela, driving forward the informational sabotage against the Chavez government that is widespread in the mainstream international media.

Romero asserted that Judge Afiuni and Eligio Cedeño were political prisoners. This is clearly inaccurate, especially since no evidence was presented that they were politically active. His piece also implied, by omission of sufficient context, that the Chavez government is the primary cause of the problems in the judicial system. This is also inaccurate and disingenuous. Romero even went so far as to implicitly compare Afiuni to the Dalai Lama at the end of his article, confirming the Times’s lack of seriousness when addressing these issues.

Romero’s article is an insult to the real political prisoners of Latin America – past and present – who have been tortured, murdered, and disappeared by dictators and neo-liberal regimes that used the justice system as a repressive tool to eliminate opponents. And, Romero’s article distracts his international audience from any constructive discourse about the problems in Venezuela’s justice system and how to overcome them, in the context of this gruesome history."

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Party at the Pumps – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 10 Apr 10

14-04-2010 12:00

A1. "All your base are belong to us!"
Dateline: Party at the Pumps, Shepherd's Bush Green BP Petrol Station, London, UK, 13:00-17:00, Sat 10 Apr 10 – Hundreds of people descend upon the BP petrol station on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Common for a four hour long 'Party at the Pumps'. Dancing to live music from the Rhythms of Resistance samba band and the Green Kite Midnight ceilidh band, plus MP3s piped through the Bicycology sound system, we rocked the forecourt, left peacefully and there were no arrests. But why? This was the London direct action component of an International Day of Action on the Canadian Tar Sands – the single most dirty, toxic and dangerous climate crime atrocity on Earth; and the centrepiece of the 'BP Fortnight of Shame', culminating in a vote at the BP shareholder's AGM in London on Thursday 15 April 2010 to keep BP out of the planet-trashing Canadian Tar Sands (protest details below).