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13-01-2011 22:44 | Climate Chaos | Culture | Ecology | Free Spaces | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | South Coast | World
Last week (see SchNEWS 753) we covered the protests against the sell-off of the Forest of Dean. But the implications of the Public Bodies Bill for the Forestry Commission go a lot further than that. Essentially the Tory’s are planning (in time-honoured fashion) to flog off the family silver and privatise forests up and down the country. The sale is intended to raise £2bn - less than half of one years tax avoidance by Vodafone.
Links: www.saveourforests.co.uk | www.facebook.com/Save-Britians-Forests | www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests | www.saveourforests.co.uk/map-of-forests-up-for-sale | www.handsoffourforest.org
Local campaigns we know about: Staffordshire | Exeter | Nottinghamshire | East Anglia | Gloucestershire
In SchNEWS:SchNEWS 753
11-11-2010 23:22 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Repression | Social Struggles | Technology | South Coast | World
Over 3,000 anti-nuclear protesters took part in the blockading of a shipment of nuclear waste into north-western Germany this week. After activists and local communities spent four days blocking them at every turn, the toxic containers finally arrived at their Gorleben destination on Tuesday (2nd).
09-06-2010 22:02 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Health | Ocean Defence | South Coast | World
In response to America's largest ever environmental disaster, Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, said, “I'd like my life back.” He seemed to have forgotten about the 11 workers who died on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, on 20th April 2010.
Links: ragingpelican.wordpress.com
13-05-2010 19:48 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Climate Chaos | Culture | Ecology | Education | Energy Crisis | Globalisation | Health | Iraq | Migration | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | South Coast | World
This Saturday (15th) people will be protesting at various places around central London to give the new 'stable, national interest' coalition a warm welcome.
SchNEWS gives a round-up of all the events taking place over the weekend to get your action-hungry teeth stuck into.
15-04-2010 08:01 | Tar Sands | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Cambridge | South Coast | World
This time last year, few people in the UK had even heard of the Alberta Tar Sands. Now they are moving rapidly up the public agenda, thanks largely to a growing grassroots campaign of resistance and international solidarity. The latest example of this has been the national “Fortnight of Shame” (April 1st- 15th 2010) to oppose BP's planned involvement in the tar sands, which came to a head on Saturday 10th with protests in London, Oxford, Brighton and Cambridge, including a Party at the Pumps in Sheperds Bush, and which culminated on Thursday 15th April with the BP + Tar Sands = Climate Crime protest outside the BP Shareholders AGM at the ExCel Conference Centre.
IMC UK Newswire articles: [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 ]
For further information: [ UK Tar Sands Network | UKTSN Blog | Rising Tide UK | Camp for Climate Action | Indigenous Environmental Network ]
IMC UK: Tar Sands Topic
20-12-2009 21:59 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | World
As the politicians and protesters disperse from Copenhagen , the COP15 climate talks were judged to have ended in a failure to produce any binding commitment to tackle climate change. On Saturday 12th, an estimated 100 000 joined a demo, to be met with repressive policing and mass arrests. The same style of policing continued for the duration of the summit, with hundreds of protestors detained for hours in degrading and inhumane conditions. Whilst the police demonstrated the limits of freedom and democracy on the streets, inside the convention centre western powers and corporations dominated the proceedings, imposing unfair conditions and watering down the already inadequate proposals that were on the table.
In London, the Climate Camp which was set up after the 'wave' demo on December 5th, remained in situ in Trafalgar Square throughout the summit, mounting a number of actions, including an action against Tar Sands at Canada House on Monday 14th, and a protest against the Danish police on Thursday 17th.
Links:
Time Line | Climate IMC | IMC Denmark | iCOP15 aggregated site.
06-03-2009 12:55 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World
Climate Rush activists gathered outside RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), Thursday 5th March to protest the incredible multi million pound pay out to Fred (the shred) Goodwin, former RBS Chief Executive, and more importantly, the banks continuing role in funding the climate changing industries of coal, gas and oil. Posting the largest losses in British corporate history, RBS lost £24.1 billion in 2008 and has since had billions of pounds of taxpayers' money pumped into it. Already the largest bailout to date, the government has agreed to inject a further £13 billion on top of the £20 billion already given, and to make a further £6 billion available. While the tax payer now owns at least 70% of its shares, the bank continues to operate as a private company,
On the same day as the Climate Rush demo outside RBS, the Bank of England reduced the base interest rate to 0.5% and announced the printing of £100 billion pounds of new cash to inject into the stalled economy. Next month, the G20 leaders (G22 to be more precise) will arrive in London to discuss further ways to get the poor to bail out the rich. Various groups are mobilizing to protest against the summit which the police are co-promoting as part of a 'summer of rage'.
The G20 Meltdown group say they're going to reclaim the City, 'thrusting into the very belly of the beast', with a four pronged assault on the Bank of England at noon on 1st April. That afternoon, as part of a series of actions leading up to the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen, the Camp for Climate Action aim to expose how the discredited market mechanisms are being sold as a solution to climate change and are planning a climate camp in the city close the the Carbon Trading Exchange.
Links : Climate Rush target RBS Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | LCAP occupies RBS | Quantitive Easing | Corporate Undead | Image From The Future | Bristol Dissent g20 Call Out | Climate Camp hits the city | Press Complaint over G20 article | RBS boss pension | Arrogance of Capitalism | Environmental silver lining? | Climate chaos meets economic chaos | Bash a Billionaire | Doubt of global financial crisis? | Origins of the Credit Crunch | Summer of rage? | Demand for energy falling | Climate Crimes Delayed | Dissident Island Economic Special | "Pro-Capitalist" Mobilisation Video
08-08-2008 23:37 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | World
Mass harrassment, terror tactics, theft, lies and propaganda, excessive force: the relentless campaign of intimidation by police at this years Climate Camp that started with raiding the camp and confiscating essential equipment, has also now included the premeditated political use of blanket stop and search, night-time terrorising of the climate camp site, confiscating pushbikes, blockading food supplies, and harrassment of media and legal observers.
Late Tuesday night/very early Wednesday morning police attempted to terrorise the camp with a low-flying helicopter and by storming the gates with sirens blaring and riot cops shouting. The same night police cut locks and took away bikes after telling people to leave their bikes in the car park. From the beginning the police used excessive force against climate campers (photos) including women, children and legal observers. See newswire post on police bullying.
Links: Climate Camp website | Full Climate Camp 2008 Coverage | the very latest: Climate Camp timeline
06-02-2007 03:37 | Climate Chaos | Culture | Ecology | World
Over the weekend of 3-4 Feb 2007, actions up and down the country and beyond targeted dangerous 'greenwash' being desperately pushed by corporations and politicians. The actions came in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Friday, which warned of world temperature rises of over 6C by the end of the century. The report indicated that a 4 degree rise would mean a 10% loss in global food production due to draught, flooding, water shortages. While the world slowly wakes up to the magnitude of climate chaos, Shell and Exxon Mobil last week announced record breaking profits. With the figures laid out so clearly, the nauseating hypocrisy spouted by corporations and politicians has spurred action from Paris to Aberdeen.
Links Press release for oil spill action | action report, photos & video | another video | Shell sponsorship background
Other actions Glasgow | Edinburgh | Plane Stupid | Greenpeace
Coming up Protest against ESSO, 9th Feb | Spring into Action
Climate Camp 2006 indymedia page | website | 2007 Camp 14-21st August | next organising meeting 17-18th Feb
Action to re-occupy the ZAD
06-02-2012 23:52
Fuel protesters storm British Gas headquarters
30-01-2012 10:46
Heavy Weather: SchNEWS ponders the climate of activism against extreme energy
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#OccupyOil
14-01-2012 02:46
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The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings
06-01-2012 23:30
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Solar powered cinema in running for national award
05-01-2012 10:40
Canada withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
13-12-2011 11:29
#COP17 : Capitalism is the Cause of Climate Change
04-12-2011 15:48
UK foreign aid money is being spent on providing electricity for Walmart in Mexi
04-12-2011 13:40
Gardai rendered powerless as campaigners blockade Shell’s compound
03-12-2011 23:19
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Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power
03-12-2011 14:47
463 Years After The Ketts Rebellion...
28-11-2011 15:16
A success: the tour America banned
28-11-2011 11:09
Occupy the Machine- Together we can halt the destruction of our only home
27-11-2011 07:08
One Week Left!!!
25-11-2011 16:07
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Shell's Peat Haulage Has Begun... And Been Disrupted !
25-11-2011 10:31
An Inconvenient Truth 2 - World premiere
22-11-2011 18:59
New Rising Tide International Political Statement
21-11-2011 20:48
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Q and A following UK Premiere of The Crisis Of Civilization
07-11-2011 21:38
Natural Gas Drilling Rig Stormed by Anti-Fracking Protesters
02-11-2011 07:29
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Anarchists Burn Car Show Room
28-10-2011 14:05
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Biofuels and biomass protest outside DECC
23-10-2011 09:41
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Countries with No Water
06-10-2011 07:39
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UK Activists at German Coal Blockade
30-08-2011 16:27
Polish nuclear program and the protests against it
19-08-2011 21:02
Politically motivated (presumably) supsension of Alaskan scientist
29-07-2011 14:08
Who Is Causing the 90 to 150 Degree Days? How To Cool Down the Earth?
28-07-2011 17:25
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Shell blockaded on the first day
25-07-2011 07:45
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Court Judgement: Mark Kennedy acted as an agent provocateur
20-07-2011 13:32
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Cairn obtains legal interdict: ‘Twitter ban’ and 'gagging order' for Greenpeace
20-07-2011 00:04
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Transition in Cities and the #SpanishRevolution
19-07-2011 19:45
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Breaking: Greenpeace Polar Bears occupy Cairn Energy HQ
18-07-2011 08:27
Court papers served on Huntington Lane protest site - eviction imminent
15-07-2011 13:37
Mobile Guerilla Garden
12-07-2011 17:17
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How the makers of Just Do It fought the law
06-07-2011 23:03
Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011
17-06-2011 15:16
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3 New Mark Kennedy Articles: The State Suppressed Key Evidence
08-06-2011 09:44
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Direct action against airport expansion in the United States
07-06-2011 12:24
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Forget shorter showers -- Why personal change does not equal political change!
01-06-2011 21:07
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Transition and activism: a response
30-05-2011 22:27
Mass Seedbombing - Brighton Mound
30-05-2011 10:08
Grand Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna speak about 2012 and our future
23-05-2011 22:18
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Rossport solidarity campers pull down Shell's fences
22-05-2011 14:00
Invasion of indigenous land in Bolivia. Interview with an indigenous leader.
19-05-2011 21:25
Belmullet Shell offices shut down by campaigners.
17-05-2011 22:36
Just Do It - World Premier - June the 9th - Sheffield
11-05-2011 17:05
Eco-Warriors Plan World's Greatest Environmental Project in London Area
08-05-2011 22:35
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Evo Morales plans to destroy rainforest and indian homelands for a highway
28-04-2011 20:43
Anti-nuclear camp / Chernobyl 25th anniversary at Sizewell - pics
26-04-2011 11:42
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Anti-nuclear campaigners set for weekend of seaside action
18-04-2011 11:55
7th May 2011 - Demo, occupation and much more in Nantes (France)
14-04-2011 00:24
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For the Attention of anyone contacted about Kennedy Documentary
06-04-2011 18:15
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Shell's Work Disrupted for 12 Hours in Aughoose Co. Mayo Ireland
04-04-2011 23:23
Century Films Mark Kennedy Documentary
04-04-2011 21:03
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Shells road torn up!!
03-04-2011 10:45
4 Actions against Shell in their first day of work in Rossport, Ireland
30-03-2011 13:32
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Legal challenge to nuclear power stations launched
29-03-2011 15:57
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Shells Work begins in Rossport!!
29-03-2011 12:08
Switch your lights ON for Earth Hour!
24-03-2011 11:14
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The Revolution in Britain Will Overthrow the Capitalist System For the Children
23-03-2011 18:03
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Shells Work Stopped for 4 hours
22-03-2011 22:21
Open Cast Miners arrested for fraud
22-03-2011 22:06
An anachronistic industry at its most dangerous.
16-03-2011 22:39
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Work Weekend at Rossport Solidarity Camp
16-03-2011 21:18
Safety of nuclear power and death of the nuclear renaissance
15-03-2011 21:50
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Japan earthquake: A timely reminder of the dangers of nuclear power
11-03-2011 21:04
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Extinction Event?
10-03-2011 15:03
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May Day! May Day! Rossport Solidarity Camp Summer Gathering Sat 30 April -Mon 2n
09-03-2011 11:00
Anti-Shell Non-violent direct action workshop
09-03-2011 10:58
Dissident Island Radio 4 March 2011
04-03-2011 10:58
Penny for the Guy Ropes
04-03-2011 00:53
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Shells survey work stopped agein
02-03-2011 16:03
why are the skies full of lines?
17-02-2011 19:52
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Undersea nuke stations!
16-02-2011 14:25
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Spying company, Vericola Ltd, uncovered after incompetence
14-02-2011 21:30
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Brazilian protesters criticise dam project
14-02-2011 19:41
Hello Hard Times
13-02-2011 07:12
Weather goes off the charts: is it climate change?
13-02-2011 02:53
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The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire
02-02-2011 14:59
John Pilger: Floods Australia‘s ‘Katrina’ moment
31-01-2011 13:46
Crisis of Civilisation: Trailer & Website Launched
26-01-2011 15:12
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GM Gathering Momentum day kicked off campaign
26-01-2011 11:02
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Campaigners demand action about enriched uranium at Hinkley
25-01-2011 00:59
We need you help to stop shell in rossport!
24-01-2011 17:43
Shell given permission to complete Gas pipeline in Mayo
20-01-2011 11:37
Exposure of police spy in UK sheds light on covert operations
19-01-2011 10:57
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Rising Tide 7 - Australia
17-01-2011 20:06
Kennedy/Stone talks to Mail on Sunday
15-01-2011 22:42
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I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists
11-01-2011 14:37
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Release the Kennedy Files
11-01-2011 01:13
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The Machines Change, the Work Remains the Same
10-01-2011 09:52
Ratcliffe trial collapses!
10-01-2011 02:36
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mass killings of penguins, manatees,dolphins,bats, pelicans, blackbirds, doves,
09-01-2011 05:43
Dissident Island Radio tonight!
07-01-2011 18:16
Judge sentences 18 of Ratcliffe defendants
05-01-2011 17:01
Biodiversity: Peak Nature?
04-01-2011 23:32
A neo-primitivist analysis of civilization
18-12-2010 17:44
Call out for actions ageinst SHELL
17-12-2010 17:59
Cancun Agreement stripped bare by Bolivia's dissent
17-12-2010 12:21
Solidarity from the South Pacific with UK climate justice activists
15-12-2010 22:58
Successful gathering including blockade at huntington lane protest site
15-12-2010 15:53
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WikiLeaks reveals the dirty diplomacy of climate change
15-12-2010 15:14
Statement from the defendants
14-12-2010 15:23
Activists found guilty in Ratcliffe coal climate trial
14-12-2010 14:14
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Machinery sabotaged at Huntington Lane SMS
08-12-2010 16:12
Gathering at Huntington Lane THIS WEEKEND
08-12-2010 15:43
Ratcliffe Trial: James Hansen says governments are lying on climate change
29-11-2010 18:39
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Climate Change: Avoiding Catastrophe
28-11-2010 14:37
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Action at Huntington Lane SMS
22-11-2010 14:24
Gathering at Huntington Lane anti-coal site
22-11-2010 13:41
A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it – A Review
17-11-2010 13:51
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Scandalous police repression against anti-nuclear activists in France
09-11-2010 20:04
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Royal Society Picket : Our Planet is not your experiment
08-11-2010 21:35
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The Green Bubble is about to Burst
05-11-2010 21:34
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chesterfield against incineratoin great victory
23-10-2010 19:01
ITALY: Rubbish tip riots rattle Terzigno town
23-10-2010 03:50
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Action against RPS group Glasgow in Solidarity with communities in Co. Mayo and
22-10-2010 11:03
Video: 16 Oct 2010: World Food Day - Kids Action @ Cargill Ghent
17-10-2010 12:09
Cumbrian Greenfield Nuclear Sites 'Removed'
14-10-2010 09:50
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Ratcliffe on Trial
13-10-2010 19:10
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