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Global Warming from Soil Denudation

27-08-2008 22:47 | Climate Chaos | World

Increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is undoubtedly increasing climate warmth. However I suspect that an even greater affect on warmth is the baring of soil by increase in annual crop acreage, roads, buildings, grazing, and desertification. You may see an article that discusses this in more detail in

http://charles_w.tripod.com/climate.html

Animal Liberation and Social Revolution - PDF

27-08-2008 16:52 | Stop Sequani Animal Testing | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

"a vegan perspective on anarchism
or
an anarchist perspective on veganism"

This is a good read for anyone looking to learn the basics of direct action, animal/total liberation, anarchy and social justice. With the self-managed Carnival Against Vivisection next saturday, it might be a good time to look into it all :-)

Palestine Today 082708

27-08-2008 15:47 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday August 27th, 2008.

Police permission granted for the Carnival Against Vivisection!

"Police say demonstrators will be allowed to march from The Homend and back, providing there are “no significant issues” beforehand." - although nobody asked for permission from any authorities!

Promoters: 1 Police: 0

Thousands Freed at Canadian Mink Farm & Seafood Company Targeted

27-08-2008 13:58 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

anonymous communique:

This historical ACT of vandalism must be avenged.

27-08-2008 11:37 | Sheffield | World

GOING…going…eventually gone! Sheffield’s world famous Tinsley cooling towers have been demolished – after a spectacular but botched first attempt. A substantial part of the North tower – about a third of it - was left standing, like a giant finger pointing skywards above the M1 motorway section.

Bush's expansionism has hit a snag in Georgia (by Latuff)

27-08-2008 08:02 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Rossport update 26.08.08 21.54

26-08-2008 22:14 | Ecology | Ocean Defence | Social Struggles | World

Shell to Sea week of action extended... update on current situation
Rossport Solidarity Camp Returns to Glengad with a Fresh Call Out for Action.
… And the Shell to Sea ‘Week of Action’ (announced last week) is extended indefinitely until Solitaire pipeline work is stopped.

Palestine Today 082608

26-08-2008 15:23 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday August 26th, 2008.

Support Portuguese anti-GM activists.

26-08-2008 11:50 | Bio-technology | World

All over Europe, citizens engage into civil disobedience and direct action in resistance against cultivation of genetically modified crops. Only in Portugal, people that have applied this strategy are officially labeled as terrorists. Please help pulling the Portuguese activists out of their isolated position and express your solidarity by signing the petition!

The Giri Raja Chicken

26-08-2008 10:50 | Animal Liberation | World

Can a new breed of chicken help break the stranglehold of industrial farming?

Tensions Begin on Eve of DNC

25-08-2008 22:01 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Anti-capitalists reclaim the streets of downtown Denver to kick off DNC Protests, met by police in stand-off

Two pink tanks blasting raucous music and masked protesters carrying signs such as “It’s the $y$tem, Stupid”, “No HOPE in Capitalism,” and “Riot for Peace” took over the downtown of the Mile High City on Sunday on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

Pesticides cause mass death of bees

25-08-2008 15:40 | Health | World

The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world.

Palestine Today 082508

25-08-2008 15:27 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday August 25th, 2008.

ALF Target; Barclays, Glaxo, McDonalds, Burger King & Hens Liberated

25-08-2008 15:18 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | South Coast | World

23rd-25th August

104 HENS LIBERATED FROM INTENSIVE FARM (UK)
SMALL ACTIONS FOR ANIMAL LIBERATION (USA)
GLAXO VENDING MACHINE GLUED (UK)
MORE BARCLAYS ATMS SABOTAGED (UK)
BARCLAYS ATM GLUED UP (UK)

Leaked US State Department Presentation: AR Activists

25-08-2008 13:43 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Repression | World

State Department PowerPoint on Animal Rights Activism
A PowerPoint presentation, leaked from a division of the State Department, reveals that the government is briefing corporations about animal rights activists and offering “countermeasures” to protect corporate profits.

How the Falcon can hear the Falconer. Protest @ Tara.

25-08-2008 12:17 | Culture | Ecology | Repression | World

Yesterday the campaigners of five years at Tara were visited and supported
by Ireland's Poet Laureate , Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon (Pulitzer Prize
Winner) :

To Protest the desecration of the Tara Complex by the current and Previous
Irish government.

This was presented in the Progressive Democrat Edited Irish Times as the
Poet marks Government Sponsored Heritage week- which is a crime of Ommission.

Hamburg ahoi! A summary of the Anti-racism and Climate Camp in Germany

25-08-2008 11:35 | Anti-racism | Climate Chaos | Migration | World

From 15 to 24th August anti-racists and environmentalists pitched their tents in Hamburg, in a joint camp with shared infrastructure, spaces and time. Both in the camp itself and during actions the attempts were also to stand together and build alliances – the action high points of the camps included the blockade of the deportation airport Fuhlsbüttel, the occupation of the Moorburg coal power plant and destruction in a foreigners office

The new Michael Meiring? The curious case of Kenneth Haywood andindia bombings

25-08-2008 02:24 | Social Struggles | World

People may recall the curious case of Michael Meiring, who in 2002 was found to have had a bomb in his hotel room in Mindanao Philippines. It blew up and he was sent to hopsital before being spirited away by the FBI.
Now meet Kenneth Haywood

Did US embassy pressure indian authorities to help him leave?