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Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit

June 16, 2012 10:00

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Taking place at the central London Universities - SOAS, the Institute of Education (IOE) and University College London (UCL). Opening plenary in IOE, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, Russell Square Tube.

#OccupyOil Climate Rush activists target Shell HQ

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Eco-activist group, Climate Rush, has covered the pavement outside Shell’s UK headquarters with anti-oil slogans. Written in molasses, the stencils read: ‘£18bn profits last year, £0 spent on renewables. You can be sure of hell.’

 

BHP Billiton - Dirty Energy protests - pics

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Campaigners from London Mining Network, Kick Nuclear, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, London Rising Tide, Occupy London and other groups gathered outside and inside Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton's central London AGM to protest the company's record of environmental damage and forced displacement of indigenous communities in Colombia, Australia, Indonesian Borneo and elsewhere, due to its…

Metamorphosis: A statement from the CCA

Metamorphosis: A statement from the Camp for Climate Action



The near-collapse of the financial system; droughts in the Amazon, floods in Pakistan; a new government in the UK; a violent programme of unprecedented cuts; food prices rising and real incomes eroding; revolutions across the Middle East… This is all very different from 2005 when the Camp for Climate Action first met to spark radical act…

london old street shell garage blockade last night

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after the remains of the irish government gave approval last week for the shell high-pressure gas pipeline and refinery in county mayo, activists have been staging blockades, actions and protests against shell in solidarity with the residents and activists of rossport. in london, tonight's garage blockade was also called as a memorial to long-time climate activist val jones, who lost a long strugg…

report from coryton oil refinery and more pics

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several hundred activists managed to blockade the oil refinery near stanford-le-hope for several hours this afternoon. they stopped more than 50 tankers during the course of their protest. police were caught off guard by the elaborate and brilliantly organised strategies of the groups involved, and the event passed off with no arrests.

‘Sow the seed’ for a fair deal on climate change

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Growing cress in pots - something fun you remember doing as a kid? Now musicians The Magic Numbers and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly have joined Oxfam to give this small fun task a big new meaning.

This Saturday, 16th October is World Food Day and the musicians will be joining hundreds of people around the UK, growing cress in yoghurt pots, to support Oxfam's call to UK MP's to ‘Sow the Seed' needed to …

breaking news - shell garage closed near elephant

protestors in solidarity with rossport have just layed siege to a shell garage near elephant and castle in south london (sat evening 17:00)

if anyone is in the area and wants to come and take pics or join them, please do!

Artopia - Create a vision of a greener future

August 03, 2010 10:00

LEB Building. 225 - 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 0EL

Oil Spill at the British Museum

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Three members of the art activist group Culture Beyond Oil poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the museum. Emily James, Director of Just Do It, happened to be there and captured the action.

Following similar actions at the Tate Modern, Tate Britain and National Portrait Galllery in recent weeks, …

party at the pumps - pics and report

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the shell garage on upper street in islington was closed for several hours this afternoon by more than a hundred protestors

CaCC 3rd TU Conference – Pix-&-Vidz, Sat 13 Mar 10

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Dateline: South Camden Community School, London, UK, 10:30-16:30, Sat 13 Mar 10 – Scores of trade unionists and climate change activists converged in Camden to explore the consequences of The Great COP-15 Cop-Out, taking the destiny of our civilisation and ecosphere into our own hands, and just how we go about putting solving the capitalist-created catastrophic climate chaos crisis at the heart of…

: Edie: BNP leader to attend COP15

"The British National Party leader Nick Griffin has said he will go the Copenhagen climate talks in his role as a Member of the European Parliament."

Yet another attempt of right wing douchebags to hop onto the train of a social movement. Lets tell them evil wankers to fuck off.

The Wave

December 05, 2009 12:00

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  • Assemble: 12pm, Grosvenor Square
  • Climax: 3pm Encircling of Parliament
  • After Party: 4.30pm, LSE, more details to come
  • Dress code: Blue!

The Great Global Warm-Up

November 28, 2009 11:00

When: Saturday 28 November, 11am-5.30pm

Where: SOAS, (G2, FG07, FG08)

Nearest tube: Russell Square

Cost: Free (donations welcome)

Climate Migrant Camp arrives at Millennium Bridge

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Hundreds of miniature refugee tents lie scattered across the Millennium Bridge, highlighting the fact that millions are being displaced by climate change, and millions more will be in future if we don't act to stop it.

Climate Campers Escalate Action Against Eon

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Last wednesday (3rd September), as the Camp for Climate Action finished up clearing the site of this years climate camp, a group of activists pitched a tent within the grounds of E-on owed Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire. The tent was emblazoned with the words “Climate Camp is coming” in reference to their plans to shut down the power station in October.

Pix-&-Vidz of Mili-Band – Sat 04 Jul 09

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Dateline: Kingsnorth Power Station, North Kent, UK, 11:00-15:00, Sat 04 Jul 09 – How can we convince a pro-business “New” Labour government...

• that capitalism’s ecological crisis means business-as-usual cannot continue? 

• that the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December is humanity’s last best chance to urgently and drastically constrain its greenhous…

The Department for Transport Windows Smashed

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Climate Suffragettes smashed glass front doors at The Department for Transport early this morning in protest against the government's decision to expand Heathrow [See Video] Meanwhile the UK's Camp for Climate Action has pledged action over the go ahead to the 3rd runaway construction.

For background information see the IMC-UK feature Airport Expansion Plans Anger Campaigners.

Pix-&-Vidz: Santas Against Excessive Consumpti

Five brave counterculture warriors don Santa Suits, sing anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist Xmas carols, and leaflet for more mindful attention to love, gifts, and catastrophic climate change – in Oxford Street, in the heart of the shopping district of Old London Town, on the busiest shopping day of the year: Sat 13 Dec 08.