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New Crymlyb Burrows Incinerator Bankrupt!!

29-10-2005 17:43 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Disater prone Incinerator goes bankrupt

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Action against ALCAN in Scotland in support of Saving Iceland

27-10-2005 12:21 | Ecology | Globalisation | Health | World

ALCAN FLAG
Protesters against Icelandic dams bring fight to Scotland

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Poetry Night in Neath ..benefit for Iraqi Children

26-10-2005 15:48 | Anti-militarism | Health | Social Struggles | World

Poetry night in Neath on friday 11th November.All welcome!

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When The Levee Breaks…

25-10-2005 18:29 | Culture | Free Spaces | Health | World

A full account of the Katrina/New Orleans crisis. From police murders, to the National Gaurd, to the flooded Ninth Ward, to Whiskey in the French Quarter.

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Spodden Valley asbestos - what is going on? ...

17-10-2005 12:08 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Rochdale Council meeting agenda and missing paragraphs from official answers:
• Urgent ‘secret’ council meeting to curb public rights to speak?
• The public deadline to ask council a question missed by a minute?
• Missing paragraphs in official answers?
• Still no ‘joined-up’ thinking?

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Bird Flu at the Door

14-10-2005 13:42 | Anti-militarism | Health | World

Bird Flu - Coming in from the cold

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Spodden Valley asbestos- a ‘hot potato’ that nobody wants to hold?

11-10-2005 09:47 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

The HSE, Env. Agency or the Council don't seem to know where these bags went to
There is still confusion over which government and council agencies have powers and responsibilities over the site of what was the world’s largest asbestos textile factory. A consortium headed by Countryside Properties wants to build 600 homes and a children’s nursery there.

Was the public’s chance to question the council- ‘Gone in 60 seconds’...?

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Cooperation with BAYER – Open Letter to Pittsburgh Filmmakers

06-10-2005 16:38 | Health | World

Dear Pittsburgh Filmmakers,

We read about the Environmental Film Festival you are organizing in cooperation with Bayer Corporation. We believe Bayer is not a good choice to partner with when pursuing environmental goals.

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The Sky is Falling!

06-10-2005 11:20 | Anti-militarism | Health | World

Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated

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Heat is on - climate change news round up

29-09-2005 11:17 | G8 2005 | Analysis | Ecology | Health | World

Here is a round up of some of the latest news on climate change. Look out for an audio version of this news on rampART radio...

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Spodden Valley asbestos: Indymedia coverage mentioned in European Parliament

27-09-2005 12:43 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Speaking in the European Parliament...
INDYMEDIA and other internet news archives have been mentioned in the European Parliament’s recent conference on asbestos that discussed a planning application to build 600+ homes and a children's nursery on the site of what was the world's largest asbestos textile factory- Spodden Valley, Rochdale in North West England..

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New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters

26-09-2005 04:05 | Analysis | Culture | Health | World

Flood waters in the jail had reached chest-level
These inmates, including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not evacuated until Thursday, September 1, four days after flood waters in the jail had reached chest-level.

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Spodden Valley asbestos - more EU support pledged...

19-09-2005 09:57 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Chris Davies MEP (right) and Paul Rowen MP (left) view destroyed woodland
The leader of the British Liberal Democrats in Europe, Chris Davies MEP has just visited the Spodden Valley of Rochdale where there is currently a controversial planning application for over 600 homes and a children’s nursery on the site of what was once the world’s largest asbestos textile factory.

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Hundreds attempt self-harm in detention

19-09-2005 03:30 | Anti-racism | Health | Repression | World

Figures are appalling
"After people have been in detention for extended periods of time, almost all people that I've come across have harmed themselves in some way."

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Spodden Valley: questions to Councillors...

15-09-2005 00:54 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Exposed asbestos photographed in January 2005...
Save Spodden Valley campaigners went to the Rochdale Council Township Public Forum last night. 3 questions were asked relating to public health and safety issues relevant for our town.

Here they are, together with some background information...

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Thoughts on New Orleans

11-09-2005 22:34 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Health | World

The terrible tragedy of the poor in New Orleans is very moving. Here are some thoughts and observations with links to related articles. 4 photos are attached.

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[earth2025] System Failure,,,,,they tried to walk out of the city and were stopp

10-09-2005 14:05 | Education | Health | Social Struggles | World

earth 2025- account from new orleans

reposted by request. see bellow

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Cross-party support from MEPs for Save Spodden Valley campaign...

07-09-2005 20:20 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

An Aerial view of the Spodden Valley, Rochdale UK
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have been invited to speak this month at an asbestos conference in the European Parliament buildings. Whilst in Brussels, campaigners are also taking the opportunity to meet with MEPs and European Commissioners to discuss the controversial planning application to build over 600 homes and a children’s nursery on the site of what was the world’s largest asbestos textile factory at Rochdale in the north west of England.

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Spodden Valley asbestos: the national health and safety debate heats up…

07-09-2005 10:53 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Protesting for a safe future...
Asbestos cancer: Are children up to 1000 times more at risk with HSE’s "acceptable" exposure levels?

Campaigners say an article just published by a national expert on health and safety has significance for the controversial Spodden Valley planning application.

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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

07-09-2005 05:45 | Culture | Health | Repression | World

The city I called home for ten years is dying
But one thing you said back then finally makes sense to me, in a way it never did before. In the battle to save the people of New Orleans, you are either with us, or against us. And it is crystal clear what side you're on.

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