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Rally to support Vestas Workers, Oxford

12-08-2009 10:16

Rally to support Vestas Workers called by Oxford & District Trades Union Council,
Wednesday 12 August, 12 noon, Bonn Square, Oxford City Centre

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It’s… National Day of Solidarity with Vestas Workers!

12-08-2009 06:22

It’s… National Day of Solidarity with #Vestas Workers! Posted by: vickim57 Aug12, 09

http://bit.ly/1TY9Jo #savevestas

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Climate Rush & Yes Men Barricade Mandy's Home in Support of Vestas Protests

10-08-2009 09:51

Welcome home Mandy! At 6am this morning, two climate suffragettes and the Yes Men barricaded Peter Mandleson's Regent's Park home in support of the Vestas workers and wind power in the UK. The climate suffragettes, chained to his gate, unfurled a banner reading 'Mandy, Put Some Wind in Vestas' Sales' while the Yes Men inflated their 'survivor balls' in preparation for the worst effects of climate change...

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The Rally To Save Vestas Wind Turbine Factory

10-08-2009 08:58

OXFORD AND DISTRICT TRADES COUNCIL CALLS ON ALL TO SUPPORT THE RALLY TO SAVE VESTAS WIND TURBINE FACTORY

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Climate Camps 2009 on Resonance Radio

08-08-2009 12:50

56-minute special featuring the voices of Climate Camp activists from London and around the globe

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Vestas Roof-Top Occupation – Wed 05 Aug 09 – Pix-&-Vidz

06-08-2009 13:48

Dateline: Roof-Top Occupation, Vestas Venture Quays Workshop, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, Wed 05 Aug 09 – Before Vestas Wind Systems were handed an eviction order against the 15-day-old Newport turbine blade factory occupation, five climate activists, including an RMT member, occupied the roof of Vestas’ harbour-side facility. With tents set up, plenty of food, and an uninterrupted supply-line to supporters and well-wishers, this solidarity occupation is set to run indefinitely. The London Workers’ Climate Action crew stopped off on their journey home to resupply, cheer on and photograph our climbing-savvy comrades.

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Vestas action video - Fish and Chips Day 11

05-08-2009 19:56

A video - Activist collaborate with local supporters to get the Vestas occupiers a hot meal.

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Is your electricity generated from meat?

05-08-2009 16:52

Tesco has admitted that it sells 5,000 tonnes of meat for the national grid to turn into electricity.

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Vestas Occuption Mass Court Protest – Tue 04 Aug 09 – Pix-&-Vidz

04-08-2009 21:51

Dateline: Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, UK, Tue 04 Aug 09 – Despite hundreds of Vestas Workers, their families, friends, and supporters from across the UK marching in the rain to the Court House, Judge White grants an eviction order to Vestas Wind Systems bosses against the “Boys On the Balcony”, in the 15th day of their factory occupation against 625 green energy jobs cuts and the shutting down of England’s only wind turbine blade factories. But at 04:00, five Climate Campers begin an indefinite roof-top occupation of Vestas’ Venture Quays workshop building in East Cowes, dropping a huge banner reading, “Vestas workers. Solidarity in occupation, fighting for green jobs.” It ain’t over, not by a long chalk!

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Bristol Solidarity With Vesta Occupation

04-08-2009 19:32

A wide selection of people: Bristol Rising Tide, Respect Party, Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, FBU, UNITE, Decommissioners and Bristol Co-Mutiny took part in a Solidarity Demo Outside the Environment Agency, today, Tuesday.

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Villagers stage Oldbury anti-nuclear protest

04-08-2009 08:57

Direct action by local residents against new E.On / RWE npower nuclear power plant planned in Oldbury, Gloucestershire.

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“Save Vestas” 4th Plinth Protest, London – Pix-&-Vidz

31-07-2009 13:15

Dateline: 4th Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 05:00-06:00, Fri 31 Jul 09 – Gerry Byrne makes best use of her one hour stint on the 4th Plinth, as a part of Antony Gormley's One & Other art project, by staging a one woman “Save Vestas – Save Jobs – Save the World” protest, coping as best she can with a bunch drunk, abusive, foul-mouthed, profoundly ignorant, laddish twenty-somethings that comprised the majority of her audience.

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Dodging the Evidence - Leukemias and Nuclear Power Plants

31-07-2009 10:39

One of the many issues concerning nuclear power that the British government, the nuclear industry and their agents would rather ignore: the irrefutable evidence of an increased rate of leukaemia in children living close to nuclear power plants.

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Birmingham Vestas Solidarity Protest, 29th July

30-07-2009 19:34

A good sized crowd (considering the weather) gathered outside the IET at Austin Court where Ed Milliband was promoting his new eco-business strategy, to show their solidarity with workers occupying the Vestas factory. Buoyed by the recent court victory they tried to convince passing attendees to push the advantage.

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Big Green Gathering cancelled

30-07-2009 18:33

Another nail has been driven into the coffin of freedom in the UK and another step towards an increasingly powerful police state has been taken.

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Daring Action Gets Supplies To Vestas Workers Occupation

30-07-2009 15:53

A group of twenty people successfully brought vital supplies into the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight this afternoon, to the whoops and cheers of the occupying workers.

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Flotilla / vigil against nuclear power, Bradwell, Essex - Sun 9 August

29-07-2009 08:44

From:

http://www.banng.org.uk/page_1246466074069.html

Sunday, 9th August 2009 - from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
join a peaceful summer vigil in the Blackwater Estuary

The future of the Blackwater Estuary should concern everyone. Any despoiling of this unique facility will take away the opportunity for its enjoyment for many generations to come.

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2nd London Vestas Occupation Solidarity Demo – Pix-&-Vidz

29-07-2009 08:32

Dateline: Vestas Occupation Solidarity Demo No.2, Department of Energy & Climate Change, London, UK, 18:30, Tue 28 Jul 09 – On the eve of Danish wind energy corporation Vestas seeking an eviction order at Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, to turf out the Workers Factory Occupation which is opposing 625 green job redundancies, hundreds of people protested against the pathetic shoulder-shrugging inaction of Climate Change minister Ed Miliband.

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Vestas - The Fight Continues!

28-07-2009 10:42

The Vestas occupation continues - DEMONSTRATE in London TONIGHT, 6pm outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change, off Whitehall.

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Eight Hinkley nuclear workers contaminated after radiation incident

27-07-2009 11:37

Press reports state that eight workers at Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset had to receive radiation decontamination treatment last week following an incident.

http://www.stophinkley.org/NewsPages/News090723.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8166557.stm