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Photos - Oil Spill to save wildlife ?

03-02-2007 23:37

Shortly after midday on Saturday the 3rd Feb, environmental activists defaced a Shell Oil sponsored photo exhibition and called on the Natural History Museum to drop it's greenwashing deal with the oil giant.

While a banner was dropped in the main hall and 600 leaflets handed out to members of the public, an oil like substance was sprayed over the wildlife photos in the Shell sponsored exhibition. There were a large number of security personnel present and some of the protesters were assaulted by panicking museum staff and members of the public but there were no arrests.

The action follows the publication of Shell's 2006 record breaking financial figures and the release of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth report which yet again suggests that climate change is happening faster then previously predicted.


See press release at  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361416.html

Other coverage :
 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/6406/Wildlife_%91snappers%92_to_highlight_harm_done_by_Shell.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6328049.stm

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ATTEMPTED MURDER AT PIPELINE PROTEST

03-02-2007 22:46

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Here is an earlier segment from the film released 2 weeks ago of a protester up a crane in Alltwen, near Trebanos in the Swwnsea Valley.

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Hunt moitors attacked at Old Surrey & Burstow

03-02-2007 20:31

Violent unprovoked attack launched on hunt monitors - 999 call made
One left with broken arm and vehicle badly damaged.

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Anti-Starbucks picket in Cardiff

03-02-2007 17:52

Local anarchists give out Zapatista coffee and anarchist literature outside Starbucks on Queens Street.

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Simclar workers occupy Kilwinning factory

03-02-2007 15:59

Members of Community trade union employed by the Simclar (Ayrshire) electronic components manufacturer have this morning occupied the company's factory in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, to protest against the way they have been treated by the Company. This follows the announcement on Monday by the parent Simclar Group that the Irvine and Kilwinning factories would be closing immediately with the loss if 420 jobs.

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Oil spill at the Natural History Museum

03-02-2007 14:03

Climate activists splatter oil across photo exhibition in outrage at Shell greenwash tactics.

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No Starbucks in Stokey: Update

03-02-2007 09:51

As people may be aware the newly occupied Vortex Social Centre in Stoke Newington, London are campaigning to keep it open as a community based radical project.

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German Arrest Warrants for CIA Kidnapping

03-02-2007 02:54

Extraordinary Rendition
German Arrest Warrants for CIA Kidnapping, Torture of Khaled El-Masri Come as US Extraordinary Rendition Scrutinized Around the Globe

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SOCPA - full court report - banned from the zone!

03-02-2007 01:41

barbara arrest 24th jan (photo: brian haw) 1
barbara tucker has for the moment given up her daily protest in parliament square. she was forced into this decision through ill health caused by more than a year of police victimisation and harassment, and by a court threat that if she breaks bail conditions imposed today she will be imprisoned. having been detained overnight by police on a dubious charge of breach of bail, steve jago has now regained his unconditional bail and is free.

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Solidarity Demo with Greek Hunger Strikers this Monday

03-02-2007 00:52

Two Greek political prisoners are in the midst of a hunger strike. On Monday, one of them will be on his 67th day. They have been held in prison for over 8 months for participating in a demonstration at the European Social Forum. It is entirely possible that the Greek state will watch them die. It is time for London to stand up.

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Storm Troopers

02-02-2007 23:26

Police seal off two streets and search every home.

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New Year Destruction at the Hill of Tara in Ireland

02-02-2007 22:31

In flagrant contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.

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Germany: another 1,000 tonnes of nuclear waste headed to Russia - PROTESTS!

02-02-2007 21:31

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Gronau, Germany, 1 February - - Another 1,000 tonnes of depleted uranium have left an enrichment plant here on a secret train, headed for Russia.

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Environment minister pied as he tried to GreenWash the governments destructive e

02-02-2007 18:13

On 2 Febuary at around 3pm, a group of people under the guise of fictional company 'Greenwash & Co', did a satirical performance at a talk being given by the current UK minister for the environment, David Miliband, at Edinburgh University. The minister was then pied in the face by a lone pie-bearer in an unrelated incident.

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“Milk is Murder” in red paint stunt

02-02-2007 18:06

Today animal rights protesters covered dairy products and beef with red paint in the ASDA supermarket in Cambridge. The action was in designed to highlight the link between live exports and the milk industry. According to a spokesperson for campaigners “when consumers buy milk products they are supporting the inhumane export of young male calves from the milk industry to other European countries, the animals, if they get there alive may be subject to conditions so inhumane they are illegal in the UK” . According to the protesters, they are exported in order to be raised in veal crates for their 'meat'. "This trade causes suffering and distress to both the baby calves and the mother cows, who have their babies taken at a few days old."

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Terrorist Charge Ridicules New Laws.

02-02-2007 17:40

Eight non-violent peace activists at Mildenhall police station have today been charged under anti-terrorist laws, SOCPA 128,which is the result of an action last October, when the activists entered USAF Lakenheth nuclear base and chained themselves to secure the gates of a munitions storage area to stop the movement of cluster bombs.

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SOCPA - bail act used to ban protest

02-02-2007 17:16

barbara tucker has been temporarily beaten in court. on the latest farcical charge against her (supposedly assaulting a police officer), she has been given conditional bail for five months till trial and warned she will be jailed if she enters the socpa protest zone for any reason before then.
the harrassment of the past few days has taken its toll on her health and she has decided to take a rest for a short while before deciding what to do next.

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Vortex Social Centre Eviction update

02-02-2007 14:53

Vortex Social Centre was supposed to in court today, (Friday 2nd feb) to clarify the legal status of the private bailiff company and their right to carried out evictions.

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Ombudsman Green Light for Burying Complaints

02-02-2007 13:05

To All Concerned Indviduals, Parties, Allies and Ministers in UK, EU and Global World

This will impact on all disabled people, families and carers who complain about their care and social care and other professionals.

As I said the Disabled People's, Mental Health Survivors, NeuroDiversity, Independent and Inclusive Living, Wellness and Recovery, UN DisabilityConvention, Indymedia movements and networks and all other concerned individuals, parties and allies all need to 'join-forces' with Local Government OmbudsmanWatch to 'speak-out' out on this urgently.

The United Kingdom Disabled People's Council (formely BCODP) need to act on this information immediately, because it's disabled people and their 'behaviour' that will be targeted for continued 'Disablism' and 'Victimisation' by The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO)

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