UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Noise Demo at UK Coal Head Office Protest

10-06-2008 12:42

UK Coal is about to devastate a beautiful part of the Derbyshire countryside by starting an open cast mine. So ‘Leave it in the Ground’ and Earth First! decided to make some noise over it with people from Derby, Nottingham Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Brighton as well as other places, all travelled to UK Coals Head office in Doncaster to make some noise.

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Let's shout about the price of oil

10-06-2008 12:35

Should we be complaining about increases in fuel prices or welcoming them as a help in addressing climate change and peak oil? This article suggests we should be shouting, not just for cuts in prices, but for responsible management of the world's resources. It is in our own self interest to do so.

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Transition City Brum - film screening and discussion

10-06-2008 10:02

Thursday 26th June, 7-9pm @ Dickens Room, Birmingham and Midland Institute. An evening of films and discussion on peak oil, climate change and the search for positive solutions in Birmingham.

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Protests against planned agrofuel power plant in Beckton

09-06-2008 12:46

On 31st May and 4th June, banner protests were held against plans to build the UK's first agrofuel power plant in Beckton, London. Around 500 local residents signed a petition against those plans, which was handed to the mayor on 2nd June (with around 100 further signatures having been added since then). The protests were organised by Biofuewatch and the London Food Not Fuel Group.

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Camp for climate action makes big news already!

09-06-2008 10:49

Here is an artcile from the local press in Kent about the forthcoming camp for climate action plannet for this August in the country.

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Climate Camp meet-up / film showing Thursday 12 June 6pm

08-06-2008 10:48

We will show a short film about last year's Climate Camp at Heathrow, have a Q&A for people who want to know more about the Camp, and then have our local planning meeting for this year's camp near Kingsnorth power station in Kent, Aug 3-11.

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At the Birmingham 'Climate Change festival'

07-06-2008 16:41

Anticapitalist climate activists visited the 'Climate Change Festival' in Birmingham this week to protest at the sponsorship of the event by E.On, the very company which this years climate camp will be targeting, and by Crest Nicholson, a major development company known for it's dodgy developments of cheap, and utterly environmentally aggressive build, and to raise awareness of Climate Camp.

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Campaign to raise awareness of 350ppm C02 target

06-06-2008 22:24

The implications of James Hansen and co's paper, Target CO2: Where should humanity aim?

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126 and it's supporting documentation,

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1135 are probably not yet well known, though it did make the front page of The Guardian,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions

A campaign has now been launched to raise awareness of this target -- currently we have over 380ppm of CO2 and it's going up faster than ever before --

http://www.350.org/

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Dissident Island Tonight...

06-06-2008 16:00

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Dick Cheney Made Millions with Saddam Hussein

05-06-2008 16:10

This story was never printed in the USA

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Reminder: Noise demo at UK Coal HQ next Monday 9th June

05-06-2008 09:23

Does the planet need us to burn more coal?
Is it acceptable to rip up open countryside to get at the coal?

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Day of Action on Food and Climate Change: food giveaway & anti-Tesco demo

04-06-2008 21:07

From 12-2pm on Tuesday 3rd June, There was a free vegan food giveaway & anti-Tesco demo. People gathered at Victoria Centre clocktower.

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Food & Climate Change Action - London

03-06-2008 22:26

For the Food & Climate Change day of action, Whitechapel Food Not Bombs and Brixton Reclaim Your Food teamed up to serve free vegan food in front of a Mac Donald's in Camberwell

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"Burn the Bosses, Not the Planet" - Workshop, Newcastle, 7 June 08

03-06-2008 20:00

Ecology and Class

Sheffield Anarchist Federation, a collective of class struggle anarchists affiliated to the national Anarchist Federation, facilitate a free and open debate on climate change, class and capitalism, 7 June at Newcastle Community Green Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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3rd June Food Climate Change Day of Action in Nottingham

03-06-2008 18:20

Climate change and animal rights activists joined together in Nottingham today to give away free vegan food, plants & skipped vegetables.

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Free Food and Guerrilla Gardening!

03-06-2008 12:12

Free vegan event organised by Manchester Animal Protection and Manchester Climate Action as part of the international day of climate action against the food industry..

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No Third Runway - the 'Human No' at Sipson, Sat 31 May, 2008

03-06-2008 11:07

Saturday saw another protest at Heathrow. Perhaps 4000 of us making our way from Hatton Cross to the doomed village of Sipson, where a few under 3000 made a giant human 'NO' on the grass of the recreation ground and then some of us listened to speeches. Pictures (C) 2008 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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