UK Indymedia

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.

Berkeley's Bayer Bee Killers Stung by Critics

22-05-2012 16:14

.  This West Berkeley park was the staging ground for a self-declared human "Bee-in at Bayer." The goal: to call attention to the chemical maker's role in producing a pesticide linked to "Colony Collapse Disorder," a mysterious syndrome that suddenly turns once-healthy hives into empty shells devoid of bees.

GM Crop Trashing: If I Stay There Will Be Stubble

21-05-2012 18:49

Story with links

http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/IF-I-STAY-THERE-WILL-BE-STUBBLE/

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Take the flour back - final details

19-05-2012 09:00

Take the flour back!
Sunday 27th May, Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts.

Stop the open-air release of GM Wheat that contains genes ‘most similar to that of a cow’

Take the Flour Back defend Direct Action on Newsnight

18-05-2012 02:18

Jyoti of Take the Flour Back defends the role of direct action in defending farmers and our food system.... and cuts through all that GM 2.0 nonsense.

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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

more attacks from the Informal Anarchist Federation & others (Global)

15-05-2012 10:32

claim for shooting of Ansaldo Nuclear CEO Roberto Adinolfi by "Olga Cell FAI/IRF", Genoa (Italy) // "Network of Wisconsin Snapper Turtles" sabotage ATMs and smash windows of Chase Bank in Milwaukee (USA) // communiques from "Anarquistas Nihilistas" for actions in Barcelona (Spain) // claim for sabotage of ATMs in Murcia (Spain) // claim by "Cell of Conspirators for the Spread of Chaos / FAI" for bombing of European Union headquarters in Buenos Aires (Argentina) // communiques from "Autonomous Fraction of Rebel Thieves - FAI/IRF" for sabotage of Hipermaxi supermarkets and arson of an ATM in Cochabamba (Bolivia)

Take the flour back! Transport details

15-05-2012 09:37

Take the flour back! 27th May, 12 noon, Harpenden, Herts.

Stop the open-air release of GM Wheat that contains genes ‘most similar to that of a cow’

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CCF - on the shooting of Ansaldo Nucleare CEO Roberto Adinolfi

14-05-2012 11:42

communique from Imprisoned Members Cell of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire/FAI & revolutionary anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos from Greek prison system about the shooting of Roberto Adinolfi, CEO-magister of the nuclear energy company Ansaldo Nucleare, in Genoa (Italy) by the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)–International Revolutionary Front (FRI)

Protestors say NO to Boris Island!

13-05-2012 19:39

Wide representation of groups demonstrate at City Hall

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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.

Location for Bicycology Car Park Occupation Coventry in Solidarity with M12

11-05-2012 22:05

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, Bicycology will be occupying the Poolmedow Bus Station / Cox Street Car Park in central Coventry on Saturday 12th May, and reclaiming them for positive uses
The Car Park is on Fairfax / Cox street. The nearest postcode is CV1 5RY.

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.

Pesticides leak sparks fears over new homes. Hauxton

11-05-2012 18:59

The clean-up of contaminated land earmarked for 380 homes at Hauxton in South Cambridgeshire has been watered down, fuelling fears over the potential health impacts of toxic chemicals underground. The site formerly belonged to Bayer CropScience.

“A Vaguely Useful Thing?”- An Event Report from the Big Six Energy Bash

11-05-2012 18:46

HENRY DAVIS takes a look at the recent Big Six Energy Bash and see’s whether it stands up to the aims the Climate Justice Collective set themselves.

Latest FOI reports from Ireland's State Wildlife Service exposes hare coursing

11-05-2012 14:55

Latest FOI reports from NPWS reveal terror and suffering inflicted on hares at coursing events in eleven counties in Ireland. Irish animal protection groups are renewing our call for a total ban on live hare coursing following the latest series of shocking reports on coursing events compiled by State appointed wildlife rangers

Badger Protection Fundraiser - Sheffield

11-05-2012 10:35

Please come to this gig and help raise some funds for the South Yorkshire Badger Group (see link below), starting with folk, ending hardcore punk!

@ Nelson Rockbar, Furnival Gate, Sheffield, S1 4QR

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Seitanic Feast Fundraiser for Sheff & Donny Hunt Sabs

11-05-2012 10:31

A vegan meal of seitan ribs, chips, mushy peas & chocolate pudd for £5.

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)

BP oil despersant chemical severely neurotoxic

11-05-2012 09:16

yet more scandals from the bastards of the earth

Video footage of GM wheat at Rothamsted

10-05-2012 11:48

Rothamsted Research have planted a field of GM wheat in Harpenden, Herts.

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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Brazil: great President, Congress bad.

08-05-2012 18:35

While Dilma Roussef hits each day more, "pulling" the leveling of interest of the Brazilian public debt to international levels and begins to devise an industrial policy firmly grounded in a serious exchange rate policy and in science and technology, in addition to important tax cuts, Congress is the scene of successive corruption scandals, all them originated in the corporate funding of campaigns and in "not very corporate" funding of campaigns, and approves, with a rapporteur funded by the agro-business, apocalyptic Forest Code: A million square KM to the devastation.

No Boris Island! - demo Friday 11th May

07-05-2012 19:26

Boris Island, your runway to runaway climate change!