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Fossil Darkness Flourishes

22-05-2012 21:01

The BP Gulf oil spill coverup continues. Josh Tickell Director of new film "The Big Fix". Protests at giant Tata Mundra coal plant construction in NW India. S. Dutta reports. Plus more propaganda in the toxic legacy of the Canadian Tar Sands - scientist David Schindler.

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The Caravan for Climate Jobs is in Sheffield

18-05-2012 13:05

The Climate Caravan and supporters from Sheffield set up displays and collected petitions in Tudor Square in Sheffield on 18th May 2012. The attached audio includes interviews with Sheffield Renewables,

http://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/ the driver of the van, Solar Active,

http://new.solar-active.com/ and the Sheffield Campaign Against Climate Change

https://sites.google.com/site/scaccweb/

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Redditch Green Fair, Sat 2nd June

17-05-2012 15:42

The 7th annual, independent Redditch Green Fair is just over 2 weeks away!

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(Mad) nuke store proposal on Romney Marsh,Kent

17-05-2012 13:20

A nuclear waste storage proposal has been suggested for Romney Marsh, Kent

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RIP Shell

17-05-2012 12:52

The road to SHELL is paved with bad intentions....... BLOODY MONEY, Tar Sands, Rossport, Niger Delta

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Protestors say NO to Boris Island!

13-05-2012 19:39

Wide representation of groups demonstrate at City Hall

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Anti Opencast Coal Meeting Derbyshire

13-05-2012 13:31

Anti opencast meeting

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Why Are Forests Dying?

13-05-2012 05:17

Whole forests around the world are dying from insects, fungus, drought, heat. Drivers are climate change & ozone pollution. New Jersey activist Gail Zawacki on ozone damage to trees, crops & our lungs. University of Illinois scientist Lisa Ainsworth on FACE CO2 impacts study.

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Wicked Work Weekend in Co. Mayo, Ireland

11-05-2012 21:04

Stopping Shell, moving camp & dragging pallets!

Friday 4th May Day of Solidarity successfully stopped all Shell haulage for the day. Once folks were satisfied that Shell wasn’t going to try and do any haulage, they went to the Rossport Solidarity Camp to start taking down structures and move the camp.

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In solidarity with Occupy GlobalMay M12: Bicycology to reclaim Coventry CarPark

11-05-2012 09:40

As part of their mini-tour of Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester 10th -14th May to raise questions about whether cars are the best way to organise transport in the 21st century, and in Solidarity with the Occupy Global May M12 Day of Action, Bicycology will be occupying some car parking spaces in central Coventry on Saturday 12th May, and reclaiming them for positive uses.
The location is within the Coventry Ring Road - but won't be announced until the day. Text 07583 497887 after 9am on Saturday 12th for location (we'll try to post it here too)

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Parking the Car... for Good!

08-05-2012 22:33

Radical cycling collective Bicycology is heading to the midlands this week on a journey by bicycle exposing the dark side of our obsession with cars and investigating better ways of living and getting around. Come along to our events in Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester!

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Is It Too Late for Environmentalism?

08-05-2012 22:23

Alternative energy expert Robert Rapier explains the oil crisis, & why climate will hit us like a hurricane. Seth Moser-Katz and Justin Ritchie interview law Professor & Greenpeace icon Professor Michael M'Gonigle on "exit environmentalism". Are we leaving Green, or leaving the system?

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A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?

08-05-2012 20:28

The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won’t come quickly -- it could prove a significant moment in American history.

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No Boris Island! - demo Friday 11th May

07-05-2012 19:26

Boris Island, your runway to runaway climate change!

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Hundreds vote with their feet by disrupting UK Energy Summit

03-05-2012 15:45

Today hundreds of people took part in the Big 6 Bash, an action targeting the UK Energy Summit.

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Arrests as climate activists and anti-cuts protesters disrupt UK Energy Summit

03-05-2012 11:42

Today is the Big 6 Energy Bash- an action against the Big 6 energy companies and the government raking in billions of pounds while people suffer from fuel poverty, climate change and the cuts.

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If Grow Heathrow faces eviction I will be there to defend it

03-05-2012 10:21

On the 18th & 19th June when most people will be thinking about their upcoming summer holidays – members of Transition Heathrow and the local community down by Heathrow Airport are headed for Central London County Court for a two day hearing.

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Take Back the Land! 12-18 July Douglas Valley action camp

02-05-2012 22:18

Opencast coal mining in the Douglas Valley is about the ruling class destroying communities for their own financial gain. Its about ecological destruction on a massive scale for capitalism’s unquenchable thirst for cheap energy. Its about absentee fat-cat land-lords making millions off land that shouldn’t be theirs. Its about morally corrupt local (and national) government putting profit before people. Join us 12-18 July in the Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire, to build on 20 years of community struggle and four years of direct action against the UK’s biggest opencast mining company. It’s time to Take Back the Land!

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It's Wrong to Wreck the World

02-05-2012 16:41

From the University of Oregon, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work & original songs by Libby Roderick and Australia's Tempting Eve. Radio Ecoshock 120502 1 hour.

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