Environmental protesters opposed to Shell’s Arctic oil drilling plans stacked a wall of ice blocks in front of an entrance to the company’s London headquarters yesterday. Some 15 activists from the group Climate Justice Collective participated in the action against Shell, saying […]
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News Round-Up from Eco-Rebellion World Wide
Wow! Its been a wild week, and we’ve gotten a bit behind on the news as several EF! Newswire contributors were tied up in Tampa at the RNC protests. But it looks like that blue moon may have gotten some people pretty […]
Continue readingCritical Mass versus Olympic Games
Friday’s Critical Mass, a monthly mass bike ride through central London, was the focus of a huge police operation on Stratford High Street, with 182 arrests made. The Met [police] attempted to limit the ride under provisions in section 12 of the […]
Continue readingClimate Activists Disrupt UK Energy Summit
cross posted from IndyMedia UK On May 3rd, hundreds of protesters from climate and anti-cuts groups across the country teamed up to block the UK Energy Summit in the City of London. [1] They descended on the conference venue at 11.45 am, […]
Continue readingBhopal Survivors Blockade Railway on 27th Anniversary of Disaster
To mark the anniversary, thousands gathered in Bhopal to call on the Indian government to boycott the 2012 Olympic Games in London because Dow Chemical is an official sponsor. Activists also blocked railway tracks to protest the ongoing denial of compensation payments […]
Continue readingRossport Solidarity Camp celebrating a decade of resistance to Shell in Ireland
By Earth First! Journal For a decade, local residents of Rossport and international solidarity activists have been fighting and organizing against a disastrous proposal by Shell, the Corrib gas project (Irish: Ghás Aiceanta na Coiribe), which entails the extraction of a natural […]
Continue readingRiot in the streets of London!
Watch a video of the event: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUYrIr_l8UA&feature=player_embedded]
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