Cross Posted from The Guardian Climate change protesters perched 91m (300ft) up two power station towers have repeated promises to stay for as long as possible, in spite of derisive criticism from the local Labour MP and police estimates that local taxpayers […]
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Greenpeace activists shut down 74 UK Shell petrol stations
Greenpeace activists shut down 74 Shell petrol stations in Edinburgh and London in a protest against the company’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic that saw 24 campaigners arrested on Monday. The campaigners are attempting to shut off petrol to […]
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 readingCars, Cops and Corporations feel the heat of British riots
By Panagioti, co-editor, Earth First! Journal There is plenty of news covering the riots in Britain. So we won’t go much into the details, except to say that racist cops shot and killed someone, and lied about it, again. It can be […]
Continue readingNews Roundup 5/23
Six activists locked down inside the border patrol’s lobby here in Tucson, and they all were cited and released. Just walked away, and felt damn good about it. They won the local news cycle, sending racist cops a strong message. But they […]
Continue readingNews Roundup 5/13
Skytruth estimates that, actually, 1.1 million gallons of oil per day are now spilling into the Gulf. The feds won’t reveal any actual information about the amount, because that would lead to cleanup costs billions of $ higher than the current estimate […]
Continue readingRising Tide UK blocks coal train (with hand-drawn pics!)
So this happened a couple of weeks ago. Seeing as we just got the newswire up and running, it’s worth re-posting here. 18 badasses were arrested for this action and are facing up to life in prison under an obscure law. Unlikely […]
Continue readingEarth First! Summer Gathering, 4th – 9th Aug 2010, Derbyshire
(re-posted from EF! Action Reports) What’s happening? Over 80 workshops, discussions, planning, strategy and ‘where next’ sessions: *Share and learn skills for kick-ass actions on land and water. Small boat handling and blockading using kayaks / Blockading – tripods, lock-ons/ Fences / […]
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