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action against Bayer PLC

16-01-2004 18:18

Anti-GM protesters visit HC Starck's offices in Sheffiled as part of the 'bail out of GM' week of action.

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Industrial site on Green Belt land

16-01-2004 15:27

Since 1998 residents of an area in South Oxford that stretches from Wytham Street to Western Road have been fighting the development of green belt land by Railtrack, now Network Rail.

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YORKSHIRE GREEN DRINKS - an informal, self-organising network

16-01-2004 13:50

informan meetings once a month

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9 ladies protest camp - visits

15-01-2004 15:31

visit to 9 ladies protest camp

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P.R Company Burson Marsteller hired to promot a Catastrophe in Athens

13-01-2004 23:20

Global Monuments in danger
P.R Company Burson Marsteller hired to promot a Catastrophe in Athens.
With the excuse of Olympic Games the greek Ministry of Culture plans to destroy the surrounding protected area of Acropolis of Athens and valuable antiquities with a construction of a giant glass and metal building in Acropolis buffer zone,area that is protected from UNESCO.

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life after the oil crash

13-01-2004 16:02

click on the link-

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what kind of life can there be AFTER THE OIL CRASH?!

09-01-2004 13:39

IF YOU’RE LIKE 99% OF THE POPULATION, YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THE TERM "PEAK OIL". I HAD’T HEARD IT UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO. SINCE THEN, HOWEVER, MY WORLDVIEW AND BASIC ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MY OWN INDIVIDUAL FUTURE HAVE BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
WHETHER YOUR'E 25 OR 75, A LAWYER OR AN AUTO MECHANIC, WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ WILL SHAKE THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR LIFE.

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Licenses for German nuclear waste transports to Sellafield

08-01-2004 14:54

German nukes, Stade recently switched off.
The anti-nuclear transports group Aktionsbuendnis CASTOR-Widerstand Neckarwestheim reports that the “Federal Radiation Protection Agency” (BfS) has licensed another nuclear waste consignment from the Neckarwestheim power station (about 45 km north of Stuttgart) to the plutonium factory at Sellafield in northwest England. The group says the licence is for two Castor caskets containing a total of 14 spent fuel rods and is valid until 15 March. Also valid to that date is the transportation from the Krümmel nuke in northern Germany of eight caskets to Sellafield.

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Cyanide and government corruption

06-01-2004 20:14

200 000 tons of cyanide will be dumped at Rosia Montana (plus 30 other densely populated areas), by Canadian mining company Gold Corporation, in the water, with the collusion of a corrupted government. Translator notes at the end. Here is the translation of an amazing interview. Visit  http://www.rosiamontana.org for more.

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FreeCycle Sheffield

05-01-2004 01:01

FreeCycle.org is an international network comprising of local groups. Sheffield FreeCycle was the first FreeCycle group in the UK, and now there is also a group in Stoke-on-Trent

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Cambridge campaign aims to stop climate change

02-01-2004 12:36

The Cambridge Simultaneous Policy Adopters Group will be holding a public meeting with the title: "Achieving sustainable energy use" at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 7th January. Dr. Jonathan Köhler will present information on the problem of climate change - blamed in part for the freak weather experienced around the world in recent years - and ways to address it. John Bunzl, author and Director of the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, will discuss how campaigners can compel politicians to bring in the changes necessary to guarantee our future survival.

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Lord of the Rings: Philosophical Poison

31-12-2003 20:34

The righteous anger of the ancient Ents is unleashed upon Saruman's tower -- leafy Luddites who wreck machinery, kill workers, and wash away the blight. The message is hard to miss. It is right out of the Earth First! ideological handbook.

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Do Your Bit for the Environment and the Earth

27-12-2003 23:31

A new group has been created to share and learn new ideas for changes we can make in our every day lives to lessen our impact on the environment.

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Secret Poisoning of Cigs, OK...Smoking Them, Banned.

27-12-2003 21:20

Anyone interested at all in the "smoking" ban story, and how it is essentially an Evasion of Liabilities for the Cig Industry, ought Google terms such as 'Radiation Cigarettes', Pesticides Tobacco', 'DDT Tobacco', 'Dioxin Tobacco', 'POPs Tobacco', etc. But here are links to bits of integral info...that you will not find in the corporate media...or in your legislators' speeches.

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update on sherwood tree protest camp

27-12-2003 15:25

update on sherwood tree protest camp

-we stil urgently need pepole on site


-Eviction possible any time!

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Mad Cow USA

24-12-2003 12:42

Links to some Mad Cow stories over the past few years
the pages also contain links to other sources of information, including the excellent PRWatch site, interviews with them on their book Mad Cow USA which makes fascinating listening, as well as links to news stories that have been lurking behind the scenes for the last several years...

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EU-Ministers Propose Yet Another Loophole in EU CO2-Emission Reduction Market

23-12-2003 21:02

A majority of EU-ministers spoke out last weekend on the 2005 European emission reduction market, advocating an unlimited use of climate projects abroad by private companies. Then it will be much cheaper to comply with the Kyoto reduction-targets in Europe; by linking these projects with the EU-trading regime, the price of reducing emissions falls sharply. Real solutions are being postponed and the dependence on the fossil fuel economy will be broadened. Earlier at the Climate Conference in Milan, the UN agreed on using genetically modified trees to "absorb" greenhousegasses and accordingly to produce tradeable "carbon credits".

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ECUADORIAN GOVERNMENT ADOPTS ‘NEW’ OIL POLICY TO EXPAND DRILLING IN THE AMAZON R

21-12-2003 16:32

The Quichua people of the Sarayacu territory have been adamantly opposed to the oil companies entering their ancestral lands. Since November of 2002, the Ecuadorian military has occupied their lands to allow the oil companies to conduct seismic testing. In repsonse, the Sarayacu community has declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY.

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Feel like walking or writing for peace in Oz?

21-12-2003 15:07

The route.
An eight-month-long peace walk has begun across much of Australia by Aboriginal and white Australians and a prominent Japanese activist to protest against the nuclear industry. It will finish in Hiroshima. They want your legs or your letter!

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Bayer - Closed for Xmas

19-12-2003 23:34

Activists visited the offices of PBI Home & Garden, a Bayer owned company in Hertfordshire. They stuck up anti-GM posters, glued the locks to the front door and intercom and spray painted "NO GMO".
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