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Save Our Skatepark/Southbank/Society! + No Dash For Gas campers + Anti-Fas

20-08-2013 13:28

Check out the latest Dissident Island Radio show episode 124...

I'm proud to be an "enemy of progress"

20-08-2013 09:44

As the media ramps up the hysteria against "Luddites" and "eco-loonies" opposing fracking, one activists declares himself proud to be an "enemy of progress".

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Anti-fracking camp at Balcombe - report & pics

17-08-2013 14:23

The Balcombe camps align a strange and inspiring mix of locals and climate activists, posing serious questions about the future energy policy of this country and beyond.

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South London film night on Fracking

12-08-2013 07:47

3 short films (2 from Balcombe, 1 from the desolate North East) and a discussion with a Balcombe resident and speakers from Frack Off, No Dash For Gas & activist.

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Call out for support for forest occupation in Belgium

11-08-2013 14:37

Since the first of Juli we (an action group from the Dutch Earth First!) have occupied a forest in Wilrijk. So far there’s been no great risk of eviction but this is about to change. We expect the chance of eviction will be the greatest from September 12th till September 20th.

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2014 Northern Vegan Festival

08-08-2013 11:01

The follow up to the 2500 people 2013 Northern Vegan Festival in Manchester, will be much bigger, with over 150 stalls at a far bigger venue, and a separate green fair in another area of the same venue.

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No Names, No Frack Drill

29-07-2013 20:43

Day 5 of Balcombe village's struggle against Frack Attack (Update)

Update - Day 5 - Monday 29th July - for continual updates head to http://frack-off.org.uk/

After a relatively quiet day on Sunday, today Monday, saw many vehicles arriving on site. Each delivery was met with heavy resistance. A heavily pregnant woman attempted to stop one of the trucks but was forced away as things got dodgy and dangerous. At the same time a man was arrested and brutally wrestled to the ground with a suspected broken arm.

For the rest of the afternoon more deliveries regularly turned up but only got through with police marching in front of each HGV and clashing with protesters attempting to stop them. A later delivery of office furniture saw a sit-down protest that resulted in a more significant delay and yet another arrest.

Perhaps as a sign of the struggle ahead the police have installed a mobile office on site and a casual conversation with one cop made it obvious that the police think they are there for the long haul. Some protesters thought it might pay to also set up a solicitor's office and branch of Infinity Foods alongside.

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Action Report: Rebel Clowns Target Fracking in Scotland

27-07-2013 13:28

Yesterday morning a hoard of clowns descended on the government Directorate for Planning and Environmental Affairs to deliver a special anti-fracking message to the powers that be.

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Ongoing Blockade Of Fracking Site In Sussex

25-07-2013 12:47

Photos of evolving blockade at Cuadrilla Resources fracking site in Balcombe, Sussex. Around 250 people, truck immobilised outside site, seems to have mysteriously developed fault with brakes. Gazebos up, legal briefing for locals, another truck stopped in village. Another 15 more trucks were due today. Now seems unlikely any will get on. Cuadrilla had wanted to be up and drilling by weekend.

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UK Coal win the battle but not the war... campaigners fight on

19-07-2013 20:35

Today (Friday 19th July 2013) it has been announced that UK Coal will be allowed to have a re-run of the Inspector’s inquiry into the bitterly disputed application to mine at Bradley, Co. Durham. Last time round the Inspector's Inquiry took three weeks. Local residents still don't know the fate of the valley they love. Campaigners await new inquiry dates.

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Reclaim the Power: Action Camp: 16 – 21st August

19-07-2013 12:05

We want a clean and fair energy future where people come before profit. Join us for a four day camp at West Burton gas fired power station nr Retford, Notts.

Come to share your ideas. Create, imagine, resist. We are facing climate crisis, economic crisis and social crisis. Join us to Reclaim the Power!

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121 - Hackney Renters, ZAD - Klaxon Radio, 52 Commercial Road, DJ Al

16-07-2013 17:54

Episode 121 was broadcast on July 5th 2013 from LARC in London -

http://www.dissidentisland.org/show/dissidentislandradio-05-july-2013-episode-121/?layout=player

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Iceclimb: when the Arctic is threatened, so is our civilisation

14-07-2013 18:55

When people do awesome things to highlight vast global problems, sometimes it’s easier to talk about what they did than why they did it. So it is with the six Greenpeace climbers who scaled the Shard this week. It is impossible not to be overawed by their skill. It is incomprehensible how they could complete such a feat.

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Activists in the U.S. Call for Anti-Fracking Solidarity Actions!

10-07-2013 20:33

“We are here to send a message to the oil and gas industries: we will not stand idly by as you destroy this land, or any other, for your personal profit. Respect existence, or expect resistance,” said an Earth First! activist.

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The Rescue of UK Coal could be a Threat to Communities

10-07-2013 13:21

This press release reveals why certain communities across the UK are not jumping up and down with joy over the rescue of UK Coal. They are now threatened with the prospect of more opencast mining, just when the UK Coal's consumption is due to drop significantly

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Coal companies failing. UK Coal taken over by The PPF

07-07-2013 10:02

Coal miners and local residents left in the lurch.
Failing coal company UK Coal have been taken over by the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF)in order to prevent miners at the Daw Mill Colliery loosing all of their pensions.
The deal will see miners from Daw Mill loose 20% of their pensions1presumably the bosses wont be loosing their investments.

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Battersea Against Biofuels PUBLIC MEETING - Wednesday 10 July

05-07-2013 10:25

Aim: to share information and build a campaign to stop a biofueled power plant in the new development at Battersea Power Station that will damage the climate, destroy rainforests, biodiversity, habitats (including the Orangutans) and POLLUTE LOCAL PEOPLE.

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