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Saving Iceland Blockades Century Aluminum Smelter and Elkem Steel Factory

21-07-2008 23:18

Saving Iceland, July 21st 2008
Press Release
GRUNDARTANGI – Today 20 activists from Saving Iceland blockaded the single supply road to Century Aluminum’s smelter on Hvalfjordur and Elkem – Icelandic Alloys steel factory. They have chained themselves to each other using arm tubes to form a human blockade as well as using tripod for the first time in Icelandic history.

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Pressure grows to stop the Welsh badger cull

20-07-2008 20:39

A group of MPs have launched a campaign to stop the cull of badgers planned for Wales. They have been signing a Commons early day motion congratulating Environment Secretary Hilary Benn on his principled stance in rejecting calls for a widespread cull in England.

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Letter from Austrian Prisoner: Christoph

20-07-2008 18:22

Open letter from Christoph, July 7th 2008
More info  http://austriasolidarity.com

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Letter of Request from Tre Arrow

20-07-2008 16:44

Below is Tre's request for letters of support. His attorney, Paul Loney, needs the letters ASAP. If you can write a letter please do so immediately.

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Operation Stop The Monkey Business

20-07-2008 14:31

The final action alert from the international week of action against Nepal's plans to export rhesus monkeys to vivisection labs...Today we contact the Embassies and Consulates.

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Free for All in Wrexham and Penycae

19-07-2008 21:35

Choosing books
Freeconomy Wrexham has held two more Free for All bring and take events in Penycae and Wrexham. Free for All is exactly what it says - free for all.

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Saving Iceland Stops Work at Century Aluminium Construction Site

19-07-2008 18:57

Locked on! Work stopped for the whole day!
HELGUVIK (ICELAND) – Early this morning 40 activists from over 10 countries occupied the construction site where Century Aluminum are preparing to build their Helguvík aluminium smelter, and chained themselves to machinery and cranes. The protest is aimed at damage to geothermal areas in southwest Iceland and Century’s environmental and human rights abuses in Jamaica and Africa.

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Bodge House - Eviction Alert!

19-07-2008 17:13

Eviction alert for the Derbyshire open cast coal mine squat.

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Eviction gets go ahead - Bodge House

19-07-2008 14:07

Activists fortify Bodge House against UK Coal open cast mine and the eviction squad

The group of direct activists occupying Lodge House opencast site since 18th June have declared that they are ready to resist eviction.

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Climate Camp goes back to Heathrow: Conference Sat 26th July

19-07-2008 11:19

A conference organsied by the Camp for Climate Action, local residents groups NoTRAG and HACA and Greenpeace to answer the question:

“What do we do if the worst comes to the worst and the Government says ‘yes’ to Heathrow expansion?

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Operation Stop The Monkey Business: Day 6

19-07-2008 11:16

The action alert from day 6 of the week of action to stop Nepalese monkeys being sent to American vivisection labs...If we want to stop primate experiments the easiest way is to cut off the supply at source!

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Briana Waters' snitch gets 1 year less

18-07-2008 22:05

Briana Waters; a caring mother and environmentalist
Briana gets 6 years with 3 years probation, her snitch - Jennifer Kolar - gets to serve a year less and pay $7.1 million to the University of Washington.

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Merseyside Peace & Ecology Festival 2008

18-07-2008 20:55

IT'S BACK! BIGGER AND BETTER ON SATURDAY JULY 26th 2008
DATE: Saturday 26th July 2008
TIME: 11am - 7pm
LOCATION: St.Luke's Church (bombed out one) top of Bold Street, Liverpool City Centre

ORGANISED BY: Merseyside CND

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Traps & Enclosures Sabotaged - Ilkley Moor

18-07-2008 17:32

Grouse Liberation Front Communique:
Reported 18th July

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Operation Stop The Monkey Business: Day 5

18-07-2008 13:57

The action alert from Day 5 of the week of action against Nepal for their plans to export rhesus monkeys to vivisection labs!

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Gentrifying Brightons buses

18-07-2008 13:14

Todays Argus led with the story of dangerous sticks of rock on sale in Brightons shops whilst completely ignoring the real story behind the latest round of increases in Brighton and Hoves bus fares.

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32 SUVs disabled across Oxford

18-07-2008 11:10

Up to 32 SUV owners awoke this morning to discover that their destructive vehicles had been disabled.

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Saving Iceland Camp 2008 Begun

17-07-2008 22:25

Map of planned heavy industry and energy projects
The 4th Saving Iceland action camp has now begun in a beautiful threatened geothermal valley beside Hellisheiðisvirkjun in the Hengill area, where it will target the expansion of the geothermal power station for the Grundartangi plant and other Southwestern heavy industry projects.

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Operation Stop The Monkey Business: Day 4

17-07-2008 17:27

Day 4 of the action alerts for the week of action against Nepal's exports of monkeys for vivisection!
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