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El Desierto Verde - The Green Desert (Biofuels in Colombia)

27-07-2009 00:29

An account of taking part in an international mission of verification about biofuels in Colombia 1st-11th July 2009 - a week in Valle de Cauca and the north of Cauca where sugar cane is grown extensively and processed into ethanol for use as a biofuel.

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SchNEWS 685 = Big Green Gather Inc.

26-07-2009 17:49

Can Big Green Gathering – on next week – survive with it's radical politics intact after being bought out but US-funded venture capitalists? plus, clampdown in Calais on migrants trying to get to Britain, redundant workers at the Vestas wind turbine factory on Isle Of Wight occupy workplace in protest, repression in Iran continues, with protesters being killed by security forces and thousands detained, Liverpool BNP activist Peter Tierney is in court for violently attacking anti-fascist protesters, and more...

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Action at Vestas - TOMORROW

24-07-2009 20:27

Non-violent direct action at the Vestas plant - callout for as many activists as can make it, TOMORROW.

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Poet who blew whistle on Sellafield dies.

23-07-2009 21:13

Talented poet and former nuclear foreman Duncan Ball died on July 17th aged 49. He was a man who tried repeatedly to blow the whistle on unsafe practices in the Magnox plant at Sellafield where he was employed as a foreman. His subsequent experience followed the same route as the dissident scientists who were sacked from Sellafield after expressing doubts about nuclearsafety in the 70’s (NEW STATESMAN July 1983)

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Save Vestas Blades - London Rally Report

23-07-2009 09:38

A protest was held on Wednesday Evening, 22 July 2009, outside the offices of the Department of Energy & Climate Change in Whitehall Place calling for the Government to take action to preserve green jobs at Vestas Blades, manufacturers of wind turbine blades based on the Isle of Wight.
Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Pix-&-Vidz of Vestas Occupation Solidarity Demo - Wed 22 Jul 09

22-07-2009 23:47

Dateline: ‘Victory to the Vestas Workers Occupation’ Solidarity Demonstration, Department of Energy and Climate Change, No.3 Whitehall Place, London, UK, 18:00, Wed 22 Jul 09 – Scores of sane people protest against the insanity of the UK’s first ever Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband spouting pious promises on greenhouse gas emissions reductions in Parliament while allowing the UK’s only wind turbine factories to be scrapped on a bosses’ bean-counting whim.

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Vestas situation update - two arrests; mass walk-in gets food to occupiers

22-07-2009 14:41

A mass walk-in by the protestors outside the Vestas plant got food to the 20 workers occupying the upper storey. Two climate activists have been arrested on dubious grounds related to the effort to get past the police blockade set up to prevent protestors taking food to the occupiers.

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cyclamax planning to build hazardous waste incinerator in spondon derby .

21-07-2009 21:54

we need support to stop it children at risk please object help needed

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Vestas Workers Speak Out

21-07-2009 12:23

A statement released by the workers in occupation at the Vestas wind turbine blade factory in Newport, on the Isle of Wight.

Demo outside the factory 5pm today!

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VESTAS Plant Occupied- they need you

21-07-2009 09:44

URGENT! Vestas plant occupied

Around 150 have occupied the Vestas plant on the Isle of Wight. Their brave stand needs urgent support now. All 600 workers at the factory face redundancy. The factory is the largest employer on the island.

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Urgent - support the Vestas occupation NOW

20-07-2009 23:37

HELP THE VESTAS FACTORY OCCUPATION NOW

TELL THE GOVERNMENT WE NEED THOSE GREEN JOBS

Workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.

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Support the Vestas factory occupation - what you can do

20-07-2009 22:07

Workers at the Vestas wind turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight have occupied their factory in Newport in an attempt to prevent its closure, which was scheduled for the end of this month. Their brave fight in is an example of what workers can do when they get together and take militant action to save jobs and sustainable industries.

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Forget Shorter Showers

20-07-2009 16:00

Forget Shorter Showers
Why personal change does not equal political change
by Derrick Jensen

WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

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Demonstration to save Vestas Wind Turbine factory

20-07-2009 12:49

Demonstration to save Vestas Wind Turbine factory

Wednesday 22nd July , 6.00 pm

Outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change, No 3 Whitehall Place
(off Whitehall, Charing Cross tube)

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Whistleblowers denied role in Sizewell nuclear leaks investigation

20-07-2009 12:28

Press statement from the Shut Down Sizewell Campaign about the 22 July Special Meeting of Sizewell A & B Stakeholders Group to investigate the Cooling Pond Leak at Sizewell A nuclear reactor on 7 January 2007.

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Solidarity with Vestas Workers from Climate Camp UK

20-07-2009 08:21

Dateline: Climate Camp UK National Gathering, London, UK, 18:00 Sun 19 Jul 09 – At the end of an intensive weekend of planning for the forthcoming Climate Camp in Greater London, campers express their solidarity with the 600 wind turbine manufacturing workers threatened with factory closures by Vestas on the Isle of Wight.

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Farnborough Airport to double the number of flights?

16-07-2009 11:28

TAG Aviation has recently submitted a planning application to double the number of flights at Farnborough Airport.

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Climate Camp Cymru 13 - 16 August

14-07-2009 19:34

- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

Climate activists plan Wales’ first Climate Camp

Direct action camp to open near Merthyr, 13-16th August

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Afghanistan, Troops Out Now Protest. London, UK. 13/07/2009.

13-07-2009 21:50

Just days after British military forces experience the highest casualty rate yet in Afghanistan, the Stop The War Coalition hold a protest outside Downing Street calling for the return of British forces to the UK.

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