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21-04-2008 16:28

Orang-utans protest at Unilever's HQ and Factory

Greenpeace folk dressed as Orang-utans have climbed all over Unilever's London HQ and Merseyside factory to tell the company to stop destroying rainforests for palm oil. Palm oil is used in products like Dove and Persil, and the companies Unilever buys from are destroying valuable rainforest and peatland areas - bad news not only for the millions of people who depend on them for their way of life and endangered species such as the orang-utan, but also for the global climate. Read more >>

04-09-2007 19:50 | 2 additions

Indymedia Oaxaca Tour In The UK, Second Stage

A second round of Indymedia Oaxaca infonite in the UK is starting, focussing on the experiences and struggless the people of Oaxaca's rebellion. The tour will begin in Cardiff at the PAD social centre on the 9th where it will also visit people who are fighting the Brecon Beacons gas pipeline. In London it will take part in the Disarm DSEi mobilisations, as well as a planned infonite at the LARC on the 12th. Then it will visit Nottingham on Friday the 14th at the Sumac Centre to continue to Liverpool on the 16th to join in the celebration of the new social centre Next To Nowhere, the Common Ground Community Garden in Reading on the 18th, and it will end at the No Border Camp in Gatwick on the 21st.

There will be talks and discussions with our compañero from Indymedia Oaxaca as well as the presentation of 'True To My Pledge', a video made by MALDEOJOTV to rise funds in support of the women made widows in Oaxaca due to state repression. Click at the Full article link for background information, and see IMC-UK Oaxaca topic page for reports on the Oaxaca Uprising.

Reports: Nottingham (with audio) | Liverpool

21-03-2007 14:13

Illegal Tree Felling By Developers at Garden Festival Site

Langtree McLean, the developers who want to build on the old garden festival site, have cut down more than 1000 trees already. But they don't have planning permission yet! If they get their way, the site will be almost completely clear-felled.

They are destroying semi-mature trees, including oaks, from the original plantings for the Garden Festival in the early 1980s. The tree-felling is also devastating for the birdlife established on the site, as birds commence their breeding activities at this time of year.

Indymedia articles:

15/5/2007 - save festival site: lobby of council
14/5/2007 - May Update on Liverpool Garden Festival Campaign
Liverpool Festival Site Plan 'Will Ruin Prom Landscape'
Garden Festival Fayre This Sunday!'
6/4/2007 - Help Save The Liverpool Garden Festival Site!
22/3/2007 - Take Action Against Illegal Tree Felling in Liverpool!
15/3/2007 - Large-Scale Tree Felling at the Old Garden Festival Site
12/10/2005 - Developers present their plans for festival site

11-01-2007 07:05 | 4 comments

Now Look Here, Sonae!

Only two players have been produced by the Liverpool FC youth academy since they moved to Kirkby in 1998. That's a shocking record! It can't just be a coincidence that the academy is near to a chipboard factory that pumps out tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals every year. A school, public playing fields and houses are also easily within range of Sonae's pollution. The company have been in and out of Huyton Magistrates Court, but tiny fines and official indifference have left them free to cause all the disease and death they like. Read more >>

12-10-2005 11:19 | 5 comments

Garden Festival - Glossy plans, but what lies beneath remains unknown

The new owners of the old Liverpool Garden Festival Site, Langtree McLean, present their ideas for the former landfill site. Read more >>

18-07-2004 00:00 | 49 comments

Save Newsham Park

Whilst I am not directly involved in this campaign I felt it necessary to highlight it as it is something that has been misreported in the local press but is a fine example of how local people can join together to fight for what's right. Read more >>

24-11-2003 01:00 | 2 comments

Nook Off !

Following the destruction of the woodland at Park Nook in Toxteth last Tuesday, a determined group of local campaigners gathered at the site for a show of defiance.
They pledged to try and prosecute the developers for their illegal behaviour on the day of destruction. They also decided to campaign to create a new space to replace the lost wildlife area. Read more >>

26-09-2003 12:59 | 2 comments

ANTI-GM CAMPAIGNERS RAISE FLAG AT BAYER CROPSCIENCE, WIDNES

A group of protesters yesterday raised their own anti-GM flag at the Bayer CropScience factory in Widnes, to hammer home the message given by the British public in the government’s recent consultation – NO to GM crops in the UK! Read more >>

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