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Climate Activists Cheer 'Two Down, One To Go', As Great Climate Swoop Looms

11-10-2009 18:00

Climate activists have been celebrating a double victory this week, while
continuing plans to take control of a second power station this weekend.

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Easy Jet Event to Encourage Israeli Tourism Picketed by Pro-Palestine Demonstrators

11-10-2009 17:33

Pro-Palestine Supporters picketed the start of a 5 day Israeli Tourism event held in Spitalfields market, East London. Despite efforts by Israeli security to get demonstrators to move, police made no efforts to move them on to the frstration of the Pro-Israel organisers.

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The 300-350 Show: Forests in the Copenhagen Deal

11-10-2009 16:35

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Yesterday Europe blocked the protection of natural forests at the Bangkok Climate Talks. Is the Prince of Wales Rainforest Project (PRP) Emergency Package a viable alternative solution for forests? We speak to Tony Juniper, special advisor to PRP and former director of Friends of the Earth.

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Greenpeace activists take parliament roof

11-10-2009 16:21

Fifty-five Greenpeace volunteers have scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and are now occupying the roof to call for for a new style of politics in Britain, one capable of rising to meet the challenge of climate change.

Tomorrow MPs return from their summer break and the government's own Committee on Climate Change will publish a progress report on UK carbon emissions. They make it clear that Britain is not doing enough to meet its commitments, and insist that a "step change" in emissions cuts is needed. With just 60 days go until the critical climate summit in Copenhagen - which faces a very real chance of failure as things stand - Britain has yet to show true commitment to making the process a success. We need politicians who are thinking about the next generation, not just the next election.

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Poor Turnout for the English Defence League Demo

11-10-2009 14:41

Considering it was meant to be a NATIONAL demonstration, The English Defence League's rally in the centre of Manchester on Saturday was unimpressive. If this motley collection of fascists and football hooligans thought they were going to spread their idea of 'English culture', they were sadly disappointed.

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Newcastle March and Rally against Vivisection report

11-10-2009 01:47

newcastle march and rally against vivisection

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Sabotage and digger-diving – work stopped twice in two days at Mainshill Wood

10-10-2009 23:06

Harvesting machinery
For the past two weeks Scottish Woodlands and others contracted by Scottish Coal have been devastating parts of Mainshill Wood, those beyond the Solidarity Camp. Plantation forest is being felled at an alarming rate, with massive harvesting machines and JCBs tearing up more of Scotland’s countryside. Scottish Coal is establishing its own site, south of the Solidarity Camp and right in the middle of Mainshill Wood. Your solidarity is urgently needed – this work must be stopped.

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Third Demo this Week for Next One Leather

10-10-2009 21:47

Seven activists today held a demonstration at Next One Leather and their backers for the third time this week.

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Gude Cause Anniversary March In Edinburgh

10-10-2009 21:27

Here are 20 photos from the `GUDE CAUSE` march in Edinburgh which commemmorated the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Procession along Princes Street in 1909.

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SchNEWS 694 - SWOOPER TROOPERS

10-10-2009 10:57

The Great Climate Swoop descends next week on the coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-On-Soar near Nottingham... plus, the brutal eviction of refugees from camps in Calais continues, the racist English Defence League are marching against this weekend, this time in Manchester, with two marches in Wales later in the month, the IMF and World Bank meet this week in Istanbul as riots break out on the streets, and more...

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Reports from the Brighton Tubas Solidarity Group - Update From Bil In

09-10-2009 21:28

A delegation from Brighton are in Palestine. They will be reporting on the numberous resistance projects in the Jordan Valley, where local Bedouins and other Palestinians are coming together to challenge the occupation by constructing schools, health clinics, homes, playgrounds, roads and water pipes in defiance of Israeli military restrictions Read their blog att www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 41 2009

09-10-2009 17:54

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Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 3rd to 9th, 2009

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Calais quick update

09-10-2009 15:34

Destruction of migrants' camp and squats continues

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10 Northumberland Road Eviction Hearing Date

09-10-2009 11:51

Front Page of trespass hearing notice
Yesterday, at around 5pm, notices were served at 10 Northumberland which state that a trespass hearing is due to take place at Sheffield County Court at 10:30am on Wednesday 14th October.

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The Great Climate Swoop - 10 days to go!

08-10-2009 19:25

At 1pm on Sat 17th October four fabulous blocs of fertile resistance will descend upon the Nottingham-based, E.ON-owned, coal-fired power station - Ratcliffe on Soar. We will swoop from all directions and take it over for 24 hours!!!

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Palestine Today 100809

08-10-2009 18:12

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday October 8, 2009.



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Activists Back at Next One Leather

08-10-2009 17:21

ACTIVISTS DEMO NEXT ONE LEATHER FOR THE 2ND TIME THIS WEEK

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Sheffield Star Coverage of Pisghah House eviction

08-10-2009 15:50

Page4 of Sheffield Star
Sheffield star has an article about Pisgah house.

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Sheffield Social Centre now at 10 Northumberland Road

08-10-2009 12:05

Some photos of the building that the Sheffield Social Centre has relocated to after the eviction from Pisgah House.

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Surpise announcement - EON fucked off!

08-10-2009 00:07

Tonight the German energy giant Eon issued a statement which effectively takes them out of the picture for the governments gift of one billion pounds of public money to build a new coal-fired power station with the controversial carbon capture and storage technology, and means that (for now at least) the aging Kingsnorth power station will not be replaced.

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