UK Ocean Defence Newswire Archive
Stopping Shells Survey Work
25-02-2011 18:04
Japan suspends whale hunt due to Sea Shepherd
17-02-2011 00:36
Japan has suspended its annual Southern Ocean whale hunt after persistent disruption by Sea Shepherd activistsMajor Victory: Japanese whalers suspend Antarctic hunt
16-02-2011 10:47
Japanese whalers have suspended their Antarctic hunt, citing harassment by environmentalists, and are considering ending their annual mission early, a fisheries agency official says.Admissibility of WikiLeaks Cable to be tested on Sri Lanka massacres of 2009
29-01-2011 09:18
This has significant impact on UK wide legal attempts to indict the perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes in Sri Lanka, 2009 - many residing in the UK if not frequent visitors.
WikiLeaks and Whaling: Paul Watson Interview
05-01-2011 01:59
A live interview with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Captain Paul Watson, on the bridge of the "Stephen Irwin," in the Southern Sea between New Zealand and Antarctica. SSCS is blocking the harpoons of Japanese whalers -- on the occasion of WikiLeaks' revelation of a 9 Nov 2009 State Department cable collaborating with Japanese fisheries and urging revocation of Sea Shepherd's tax-exemption.
ALSO,
WikiLeaks cable(s) on US and multinational oil interests in Nigeria, and indigineous suppression, including a "Making Contact" documentary on Nigeria from the national Radio Project.
Oxford - Bradford : 'Freedom of Speech'
28-12-2010 13:15
Praveen Swami, of Pakistan Security Research Unit based at University of Bradford, writes as Diplomatic Editor in the The Telegraph today that recent events at Oxford denied 'freedom of speech' and that Dr. Liam Fox should visit Sri Lanka, soon.What exactly is going on inside Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, since its inception in 2007?
Call out for Direct Action against Shell
19-12-2010 11:58
Please organise actions within your communities that will target Shell economically. The decision is expected to be annouced sometime between late December or early January, so be ready!Who is in charge: the Foreign office, Defence ministry or the Oxford Union ?
17-12-2010 06:19
Questions have been raised in UK parliament on the content of the 'private' meeting the Defence secretary had with Mahinda Rajapakse in the Oliver Messel Suite of the Dorchester Hotel in London, 1st December 2010.
Dumping dead fish in the sea
07-12-2010 01:36
Developments out of Oxford 'Tamil' Protest
04-12-2010 11:34
Serious allegations are leveled against the Oxford Union following their own twisted cover up following the hurried flight of President Mahinda Rajapakse and his entourage as court proceedings of most serious nature were underway in London. As WikiLeak staff [2] organise US diplomatic cables International Bar Association has raised the issue to one of Crime Against Humanity.Lame excuses and explanations by the Oxford Union is to be questioned. Further possible protest action is planned with an aim of exposing the involvement of the defence secretary's action 'in a private capacity' and that of Bell Pottinger.
Arresting the War Criminals in UK
02-12-2010 23:57
He and many of his war criminal entourage seem to be hiding in Sri Lankan embassy.
How they got transported there or when is unknown.
If he is in there then the only thing that matters is how they escape to airport.
Big Gathering already in and around Hyde Park - Demo 3pm
02-12-2010 12:39
European Tamils who travelled to the now cancelled event that was going to arrest President Rajapakse of Sri Lanka are already converging on Hyde Park.Permission has been granted for the demo today at 3pm.
Miliband and London Tamil Protests of 2009 - WikiLeak
02-12-2010 11:48
Amidst the various activity the WikiLeak cable of a US embassy communication 09LONDON1082 2009-05-07 14:02 2010-12-01 23:11 CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN Embassy Londonshould not be missed
Greater London Action for Animals Formed
01-12-2010 22:43
Wednesday 1st December 2010BACKGROUND
London being the capital city of England holds all the main focuses and lobby groups for industries which use and exploit animals in their day-to-day business; be it the vivisection industry, meat trade, fur being peddled as part of the major fashion cities, those associated with bloodsports, head offices for many of the racing companies and is the centre of power in terms of making progress. For this reason, the city needs a radical presence of activists using a diverse method of grassroots tactics to focus on these companies, show them the opposition to the wrongs they are involved in and effectively push for change.
Our Planet is Not your Experiment
07-11-2010 18:20
Grassroots activists have come together to oppose dangerous Geoengineering experiments proposed by scientists and OECD governments. Proposals include creating an artificial volcano effect to black out the sky or changing the oceans to increase plankton blooms.Japan Continues Murdering Dolphins and Whales... Canada Has Not Ended Seal Murd
12-10-2010 14:17
turning the blue seas purple with the red blood of dolphinsActivists from The Black Fish cut nets to free dolphins in Japan
29-09-2010 11:04
Campaign Success: Münster dolphinarium to release dolphins
11-09-2010 09:19
The Black Fish, WDSF and ProWal which have all campaigned for the closure of a dolphinarium in Münster, Germany, are celebrating today after the announcement that the four dolphins in the facility will be re-homed at the latest by the end of 2012. It is still to be decided where the animals will go to but The Black Fish activist Wietse van der Werf is hopeful on a positive outcome: "We will find a respectful and acceptable solution for the future of these four bottlenose dolphins. Transferring them to another concrete prison is not one of them."
A week of Hell for Shell
28-08-2010 17:49
German activists take on Dolphinarium
25-08-2010 21:08
"We will not leave Münster until this dolphinarium, in which the dolphins are kept in conditions that do not allow for even their basic needs, is closed," say activists of The Black Fish, an environmental and animal conservation organization. The activists, some of whom recently returned from a high-profile campaign to protect the whales against Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, says that they moved to Münster specifically to coordinate the campaign against the dolphinarium.