Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Full article

Unimportant Incidents

15-03-2006 02:05

A view of what life was like in the Magnox Reprocessing Plants at Sellafield, once upon a time?

Full article

Anti-Shell call at St Patrick's Day event!

15-03-2006 00:40

Last Sunday, activists from Rhythms of Resistance samba band and London Rising Tide headed down to the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square, on a mission to raise awareness of the struggles in County Mayo, Ireland, against the giant Shell-led consortium and its lackey, the Irish government.

Full article

Biosafety Meeting in Curitiba: Towards a strict GMO labelling?

14-03-2006 12:01

On Monday, 13 March the Third Conference on the Biosafety Protocol (MOP3) started in Curitiba, Brazil. The Biosafety Protocol is the only international treaty that sets obligatory rules for the trade with GMOs. Main issue of this meeting is the question how GMOs have to be labelled (Article 18). GMO producers favour the very vague label that something "may contain" GMOs, while most countries want a clear description of which GMO is contained in a shipment. (background of COP8/MOP3 meeting ).

Full article

THE END OF OIL FILM NIGHTS

14-03-2006 09:41

Flyer
The week of films nights at the Basement Social Centre, Manchester on life in a world without oil continues this Wednesday...

Full article

Call for Weekend of Resistance Against the "Green Scare" June 9 - 11, 2006

14-03-2006 03:13

For the past few years the weekend of June 11 was typically a time when we reflected on Jeff Free Luers' 22.5 year sentence and held events to recognize the anniversary of his incarceration. This year Jeff writes below that he wishes this year to focus on the Green Scare co-defendants. Please plan an event now! It's only 3 months away. And keep reading...

Full article

Round up on recent anti-Shell Resistance in Mayo

13-03-2006 23:03

Details of various events which have taken place in the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland in January, February and early March of this year.

Full article

Shepton Mallet 2nd eviction coming!!!!

13-03-2006 21:05

The second Shepton Mallet, anti tescos, anti corperations, pro trees protest site is still going strong! But the word about town is the eviction will take place if not Tuesday 14th then definatly Wednesday 15th. We need people!!!!!!!

Full article | 1 comment

Climate Emergency ! Public Meeting Thurs March16th at 7 pm

13-03-2006 20:02

Is nuclear power the solution? Public Meeting to be addressed by Michael Meacher writer, MP and Peter Bunyard One of the founders of “The Ecologist” magazine, writer and campaigner on environmental issues. THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, at 7 pm prompt, Chaucer Lecture Theatre 1, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street.

Full article | 1 comment

Changing Course: No New Nuclear Power Plants!

13-03-2006 18:54

Offensive wars, normalization of war, militarization of foreign policy, exploding inequality, privatization, political corruption and nuclear power plants as panaceas bring us to the brink of ruin. Changing course and accepting new priorities could help create a human-friendly future beyond short-term capital gains

Full article

Last chance to save 100 year old copper beech tree

13-03-2006 00:30

Threatened copper beech tree in full bloom
Oxford City Council will meet on 20th March to decide the fate of a historic copper beech tree which has stood in Oxford University's science area for well over one hundred years. The meeting comes after a long battle to save the tree from being felled to make way for a new biochemistry building.

Full article

Cruelty Free Food Tasting Evening

12-03-2006 15:01

Do you want to improve your health, the environment and reduce animal cruelty? Come along on 7th April to find about becoming vegan. For only £1 there will be free vegan tasters, an informative talk and cookery demo, info stalls, and goodies to buy.

Full article

Latest News on the Struggle Against Shell in Mayo, plus details of contractors

12-03-2006 11:22

Regular readers of Indymedia UK and certainly of Indymedia Ireland will be aware of the staunch resistance meeting Shell in the West of Ireland.
This article is an update on recent events. A backgrounder on what is going on can be found here:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/333920.html

Full article | 1 addition | 10 comments

Greenpeace target 4 x 4s in Cambridge

11-03-2006 17:35

Greenpeace activists today targetted gas guzzling 4 x 4's as part of their campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Full article | 2 comments

Systematic destruction of Ecology and Culture in Shepton Mallet, UK

11-03-2006 16:34

These tall majestic trees stand to tell the stories of our past, present and future. To fell is to erase the memory of our identities.

People and Earth Defend

Full article | 7 comments

straw bale foundation making

11-03-2006 14:31

tyres laid out
A few photos showing a low inpact way of making foundations for a straw bale building.

Full article

Saving Iceland Activists visit Rossport; report, interview & photos

11-03-2006 14:27

Saving Icelanders at the Bellanaboy the gas refinery site
Four activists from the Saving Iceland campaign visited Rossport this week meet with Shell to Sea campaigners from the area and the solidarity camp.

Full article | 1 addition

Shepton mallet update!!!!

10-03-2006 18:38

Still going!!

Full article | 1 comment

Youth Against Heavy Industry invade offices of Icelandic National Power Compnay

10-03-2006 14:23

DOWN WITH BOGUS "GREEN" ENERGY!!
The Reykjavík offices of the much loathed Landsvirkjun, the Icelandic National Power Company, were gatecrashed yesterday by over thirty angry young people who banged drums, shouted and blew whistles in defiance against Landsvirkjun, heavy industry and ecocidal dams in the Icelandic highlands.

Full article | 4 comments

Designing and building the multi-person powered thingy - Nottm's Rinky-Dink

10-03-2006 01:18

The idea was to build a multi-person contraption, partly inspired by the famous Rinky-Dink. It is expected that it will bike about with Critical Mass and similar matters ....

Full article | 1 comment

Last chance to contribute to the 'public consultation' on the mass badger cull

09-03-2006 19:25

DEFRA public consultation stops at 5pm 10/03/06
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.