09-03-2009 21:45
French police attack on refugees affects Portsmouth children
Tear gas sprayed on refugees in a truck in France has ended up harming children in Portsmouth when they played on a new slide which had been in the truck that was sprayed with the tear gas.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
20-02-2009 16:41
This global week of action will focus entirely on Huntingdon Life Sciences' financials - Shareholders, and the NYSE who are the only stock exchange in the world allowing HLS (LSR) to trade shares. The week starts with a day of action against HLS & NYSE shareholders and will end with activists marching in the city of London to protest against the financial institutions that keep HLS killing animals.
SHAC Financial Week of Action: 23-27 Feb
This global week of action will focus entirely on Huntingdon Life Sciences' financials - Shareholders, and the NYSE who are the only stock exchange in the world allowing HLS (LSR) to trade shares. The week starts with a day of action against HLS & NYSE shareholders and will end with activists marching in the city of London to protest against the financial institutions that keep HLS killing animals.
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19-02-2009 21:55
LAMBETH UNISON RAISES OVER £2000 IN SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA
The Lambeth Branch of UNISON, the second largest trade union in the UK, has raised over £2000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians through a fundraising drive throughout the Borough’s workplaces. Nationally, UNISON has committed to send a donation of £10,000 to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and Lambeth Branch activists collected a further £2020.43 for MAP’s Emergency Appeal for Gaza through a series of collections amongst Lambeth’s workers.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
18-02-2009 17:45
Here at last were people of courage and moral backbone... a dying breed in Britain, I had thought. How easily they put our leaders to shame.
'Salt of the Earth' Sends Aid Convoy to Gaza
Unable to attend the Viva Palestina convoy send-off in London, I watched video footage of the occasion with tears in my eyes.Here at last were people of courage and moral backbone... a dying breed in Britain, I had thought. How easily they put our leaders to shame.
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07-02-2009 13:24
Ben Goldacre receives legal warning
You may enjoy Ben Goldacre's column in The Guardian. The Press Gazette reports: Medical journalist Ben Goldacre has been hit with a legal warning from London radio station LBC after he published an audio clip of an ‘irresponsible’ MMR phone-in on his website.[Full Story | 1 addition | 7 comments ]
05-02-2009 12:18
Christian Voice Loses ASA Case
A week after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled in favour of the Atheist Bus Campaign adverts rather than the complainants (who included Christian Voice), they have stated that Christian Voice is no longer allowed to run adverts making unsubstantiated claims against the HPV vaccine, which protects young girls from cervical cancer.[Full Story ]
04-02-2009 21:27
Healthcare is a Right!
On a rainy November 13th evening in NYC a large group of people gathered in Times Square, and then marched to the headquarters of GHI, a non-profit health insurance company which faces privatization. The marchers were demonstrating in support of the passage of HR 676, a bill for national single-payer healthcare, and against the proposed privatization of GHI/HIP.[Full Story ]
29-01-2009 23:06
Now that Pfizer owns Wveth after a buy out, we had to send our wishes, SHAC style.
Pfizer Acquires Wyeth & Double Amount of Demos
Now that Pfizer owns Wveth after a buy out, we had to send our wishes, SHAC style.
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27-01-2009 22:20
HLS UK customers continue to have protests
Bayer Day of Action in West London / Hampshire
Monday, 26th JanuaryHLS UK customers continue to have protests
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26-01-2009 18:34
Campaign for High Welfare Chicken - Channel 4 Tonight
Don’t forget to watch Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too in Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. This programme will reveal what happened when Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall attempted to change Tesco’s policies of selling intensively reared chicken.[Full Story | 4 comments ]
Tuesday, 20th January
19-01-2009 20:01
On Monday 19th of January SHAC Hants took an early morning trip to the outskirts of Southampton to pay a flying visit to Promega, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park one of the newest found suppliers to HLS. We showed up around half nine, just as the workers were settling in to another long week of making money out of animal torture.
UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Southampton
On Monday 19th of January SHAC Hants took an early morning trip to the outskirts of Southampton to pay a flying visit to Promega, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park one of the newest found suppliers to HLS. We showed up around half nine, just as the workers were settling in to another long week of making money out of animal torture.
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18-01-2009 15:15
Last Tuesday outside Novartis in Horsham, we managed to create an awful lot of noise for the two hours we were there and got more support from the passers-by.
Novartis Protests Continue in Sussex
Last Tuesday outside Novartis in Horsham, we managed to create an awful lot of noise for the two hours we were there and got more support from the passers-by.
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11-01-2009 12:22
Rock wool, whilst sold as an eco-friendly product, is a dirty thing to make. In the USA, Erin Brokovich is investigating claims that a now-closed Rockwool Group factory is responsible for the high rate of cancer locally. Meanwhile, the residents of the municipality of Pican, Croatia are protesting against a new factory which was built illegally. The factory regularly floods the valley with thick smoke. Read their press release below:
Rockwool factory destroying beautiful area in Croatia
Rock wool, whilst sold as an eco-friendly product, is a dirty thing to make. In the USA, Erin Brokovich is investigating claims that a now-closed Rockwool Group factory is responsible for the high rate of cancer locally. Meanwhile, the residents of the municipality of Pican, Croatia are protesting against a new factory which was built illegally. The factory regularly floods the valley with thick smoke. Read their press release below:
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10-01-2009 16:46
BE: Dungeness N station on a possible 'C' station
British Energy are holding several 'public meetings' in the local area (Kent-Romney Marsh) to tell all about their wonderous new plans for a third nuclear station at the site.[Full Story ]
08-01-2009 13:44
essential reading for anyone who has an interest in this issue. 'The reader is taken along on an eight year travel, and will be shown the story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.'
http://www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com Extracts below.
The Romanian ‘orphans’, for whom ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) are now fundrais
Roelie Post’s book "For Export Only; the untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’" isessential reading for anyone who has an interest in this issue. 'The reader is taken along on an eight year travel, and will be shown the story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.'
http://www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com Extracts below. [Full Story | 2 comments ]
27-11-2008 00:39
Tuesday, 25th November
Shactivists go mobile across the south
Tuesday, 25th November
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24-11-2008 15:24
Pro-market. Anti-capitalist. What to do?
On the day that capitalisms greatest current asset- that of Citigroup- has had to be nationalized by the US government, the following is a backgrounder on such current events that finishes with a request for answers to an important question.[Full Story | 2 comments ]
22-11-2008 15:10
Net closing in on fugitive family
The net appears to be closing in yet again on Natalie Bracht and her five daughters who have been on the run since May in attempt to avoid having their family torn apart by social workers.[Full Story | 5 comments ]
29-10-2008 19:08
“I will let the prime minister have it on your behalf.” Words of some comfort spoken by the doorman at 10 Downing Street, but will the injustice and corporate bullying done to the evicted Shalom Family from Wales, continue to be ignored by Government? Their appeal asking for answers from Gordon Brown, was delivered upon the fifth anniversary of their immoral houseboat eviction by Crest Nicholson.
Prime Minister’s Question Time Evicted Houseboat Family Petition Downing Street
“I will let the prime minister have it on your behalf.” Words of some comfort spoken by the doorman at 10 Downing Street, but will the injustice and corporate bullying done to the evicted Shalom Family from Wales, continue to be ignored by Government? Their appeal asking for answers from Gordon Brown, was delivered upon the fifth anniversary of their immoral houseboat eviction by Crest Nicholson.
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