Author: earthfirst

The Passion for Freedom knows no borders

26.9.10

Lon­don, Fri­day 24 Sep­tem­ber: around 2pm. a num­ber of anar­chists and sym­pa­thiz­ers from var­i­ous parts of the metrop­o­lis con­verged on the shop­ping cen­tre in the mid­dle of the busy inter­sec­tion Ele­phant and Cas­tle, cho­sen because of the thou­sands of peo­ple from Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries liv­ing in the area.

26.9.10

Lon­don, Fri­day 24 Sep­tem­ber: around 2pm. a num­ber of anar­chists and sym­pa­thiz­ers from var­i­ous parts of the metrop­o­lis con­verged on the shop­ping cen­tre in the mid­dle of the busy inter­sec­tion Ele­phant and Cas­tle, cho­sen because of the thou­sands of peo­ple from Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries liv­ing in the area.

After drop­ping ban­ners over the main entrance in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Mapuche hunger strik­ers and the 14 anar­chists arrest­ed in Chile, they dis­persed into and around the shop­ping cen­tre and local mar­ket giv­ing out hun­dreds of leaflets in Eng­lish and Span­ish.

Unno­ticed by the State and pri­vate secu­ri­ty who were too intent on defend­ing the boss­es’ wares, the ban­ners stayed in place for hours in full view of hun­dreds of bus pas­sen­gers from almost every coun­try on the plan­et on their way to and from their places of exploita­tion.

Today’s out­ing, cho­sen to coin­cide with the inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty date for our Chilean com­rades, rather than being a fait accom­pli is a call to action every­where, with­out delay.

SDL and BNP: Smashed out of Glasgow!

22.9.10

A last minute mobil­i­sa­tion of anti-fas­cists on Sun­day saw off both the BNP and the Scot­tish Defence League, who both attempt­ed to hold sep­a­rate pub­lic activ­i­ty in Glas­gow city cen­tre.

22.9.10

A last minute mobil­i­sa­tion of anti-fas­cists on Sun­day saw off both the BNP and the Scot­tish Defence League, who both attempt­ed to hold sep­a­rate pub­lic activ­i­ty in Glas­gow city cen­tre.

With fears that the SDL were attempt­ing a ‘flash-mob’ style protest, in the vein of what the EDL organ­ised in Old­ham last week­end, SAFA activists were already keep­ing an eye on the city cen­tre, when they came across the BNP set­ting up a stall around 1pm.

SAFA activists – plus peo­ple from left-wing stalls else­where in the city cen­tre – were able to quick­ly mobilise to con­front the BNP. Around 1.45pm, a large num­ber of anti-fas­cists descend­ed on the stall, which was kicked over and the con­tents of it torn up or seized. With a large crowd now gath­ered around, the BNP were left stand­ing beside the ruins of their stall as up to 100 onlook­ers and anti-fas­cists chant­ed at them. The police showed up around 15 min­utes lat­er and attempt­ed to gain con­trol of the sit­u­a­tion, but in the end were forced to remove the BNP mem­bers for their own safe­ty.

Mean­while, the SDL were begin­ning to gath­er in The Goose pub on Union Street. They indi­cat­ed that they would head­ing to George Square at 5.30pm, for an assem­bly at the Ceno­taph – their full inten­tions were unclear. By the time the 15 SDL sup­port­ers showed up, around 100 anti-fas­cists and local youth were gath­ered in the square. A brief con­fronta­tion ensued, with one SDL sup­port­er arrest­ed, along­side a 14 year old, who alleged­ly threw a punch in the direc­tion of the SDL.

The SDL were denied the use of the Ceno­taph, and the police were again forced to step in to remove the fas­cists from our streets.

All in all, a huge­ly suc­cess­ful day of direct action against fas­cism – let’s hope they got the mes­sage and don’t return any time soon.

Appalachia Rising: end mountaintop removal mining!

22.9.10

Appalachia Ris­ing is a mass mobi­liza­tion in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Sep­tem­ber 25–27, 2010, call­ing for an end to the dev­as­tat­ing prac­tice of moun­tain­top removal min­ing.

22.9.10

Appalachia Ris­ing is a mass mobi­liza­tion in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Sep­tem­ber 25–27, 2010, call­ing for an end to the dev­as­tat­ing prac­tice of moun­tain­top removal min­ing.

Moun­tain­top removal has already destroyed over 500 of the world’s old­est moun­tains and more than 2,000 miles of streams, and has con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed our nation’s waters. Togeth­er, we will bring Appalachia’s cry to our nation’s cap­i­tal: We must end moun­tain­top removal and trans­form the economies of Appalachia away from destruc­tive min­ing prac­tices and toward clean-ener­gy jobs and a sus­tain­able and healthy future.

The week­end includes two full days of strate­giz­ing work­shops, learn­ing, fea­tured speak­er pan­els and dis­cus­sions, cul­tur­al events, and enter­tain­ment. On Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 27, we will march, ral­ly, and sup­port indi­vid­u­als tak­ing part in dig­ni­fied non-vio­lent civ­il dis­obe­di­ence against moun­tain­top removal min­ing.

Join thou­sands of Appalachi­an and nation­al lead­ers, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, coal­field res­i­dents and min­ers, con­cerned cit­i­zens, activists, moun­tain groups, envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice orga­ni­za­tions, and Amer­i­cans from coast to coast for this momen­tous move­ment-build­ing sum­mit, gath­er­ing, and call to action. Hear the voic­es of those most impact­ed by moun­tain­top removal coal min­ing, and let your voice be heard in this move­ment to offer Amer­i­ca hope for a bet­ter future.

Shell to Sea campaigners target Shell executives in Ireland

The folks in suits final­ly got a taste of the con­flict they’ve been orches­trat­ing in Co. Mayo, Ire­land for the past decade.

The folks in suits final­ly got a taste of the con­flict they’ve been orches­trat­ing in Co. Mayo, Ire­land for the past decade. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Shell and their team of expert wit­ness­es who are pre­sent­ing the plan­ning appli­ca­tion for the Cor­rib Gas onshore pipeline to the Irish plan­ning board were pre­vent­ed from leav­ing the oral hear­ing Thurs­day night by pro­test­ers from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp.

Thurs­day was a long day for Shel­l’s expert wit­ness­es, boss­es, and exec­u­tives. The plan­ning board­’s oral hear­ing into the Cor­rib Gas pipeline has been ongo­ing in Co. Mayo for the past four weeks, and local res­i­dents have been ques­tion­ing Shell experts on details sur­round­ing the pro­posed onshore pipeline.

At 10pm, exhaust­ed and with long jour­neys ahead of them Shell del­e­gates exit­ed the front doors of the hotel to dis­cov­er that pro­test­ers had board­ed their bus, hold­ing plac­ards and ban­ners with mes­sages read­ing “Ener­gy should­n’t cost the earth”and “Shell: destroy­ing the world, one com­mu­ni­ty at a time.”

At one stage when four high up Shell peo­ple tried to leave in a car, two pro­test­ers met them at the road and blocked their car with a ban­ner read­ing “Shel­l’s lies cost lives.” The annoyed dri­ver attempt­ed to dri­ve through the ban­ner and in the process ran over one per­son­’s foot. No seri­ous injury was sus­tained and the dri­ver refused to make any apolo­gies for his actions.

After delay­ing the Shell suits for over an hour, one mem­ber of the protest explained that “it was so sat­is­fy­ing to final­ly see these peo­ple at the top, who are nev­er held account­able sud­den­ly be con­front­ed with their own respon­si­bil­i­ty for this project and the dev­as­ta­tion it has caused to the com­mu­ni­ty”

The Crude Awakening: Mass Action- 16.10.10

Mass Action in Lon­don to switch off oil

Mass Action in Lon­don to switch off oil

Floods in Pak­istan – Drought in Rus­sia – Huge glac­i­ers break­ing up in Green­land

Our cli­mate sys­tem is rapid­ly slid­ing into cri­sis, as oil com­pa­nies destroy people’s lives and the envi­ron­ment to keep suck­ing up their prof­its. Oil sat­u­rates every aspect of our lives. Oil prof­its lubri­cate the finan­cial mar­kets and its spon­sor­ship clings like a bad smell to our cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions. It flows through pipelines to the pumps, air­ports and fac­to­ries of our cities.

The fail­ure of the UN COP15 process showed us – if there was ever any doubt – that gov­ern­ment and indus­try can’t tack­le cli­mate change. It’s up to us and it’s time to up the ante. As a move­ment, our actions against coal and avi­a­tion have made a real dif­fer­ence. Now oil’s time is up.

Togeth­er, on Octo­ber 16, let’s give the oil indus­try a real­ly Crude Awak­en­ing.

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Resistance to ‘Factory of Death’ continues

On Mon­day sev­er­al actions took place against the gov­ern­men­t’s nuclear weapons and their plans to devel­op new ones. The focus was AWE Alder­mas­ton, the mil­i­tary base near Read­ing where these weapons are devel­oped and main­tained.

On Mon­day sev­er­al actions took place against the gov­ern­men­t’s nuclear weapons and their plans to devel­op new ones. The focus was AWE Alder­mas­ton, the mil­i­tary base near Read­ing where these weapons are devel­oped and main­tained.

Activists from Tri­dent Ploughshares had been hold­ing an “Alder­mas­ton Sum­mer Gath­er­ing” for sev­er­al days shar­ing infor­ma­tion and leaflet­ting near­by vil­lages. Co-incid­ing with this, folks from the Catholic Work­er move­ment were hold­ing a “Faith and Resis­tance” retreat in Oxford cel­e­brat­ing the 30th anniver­sary of the first Ploughshares action.

As the day began around twen­ty TP folks block­ad­ed one of the main gates into the base, includ­ing four who “locked-on” with arm tubes. They left with­out any arrests after suc­cess­ful­ly blockad­ing for two hours.

Soon after­wards, 3 of the Catholic Work­ers cut through the perime­ter fence and broke into the base, “open­ing it for dis­ar­ma­ment”, while oth­ers car­ried out a vig­il at the gates of the base. They were arrest­ed, held until evening, charged with crim­i­nal dam­age, and may also face SOCPA charges.

Friends Of The Earth Cymru information stall against the Monster Incinerator at Ffos-y-fran

Friends Of The Earth CYMRU are hav­ing an infor­ma­tion stall in Merthyr precinct this Fri­day.
Join the Face­book page “No Mon­ster Incin­er­a­tor in Merthyr Tyd­fil” for a pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tion on the Health Impact of incin­er­a­tors by world renown expert Prof Paul Con­nett!

Friends Of The Earth CYMRU are hav­ing an infor­ma­tion stall in Merthyr precinct this Fri­day.
Join the Face­book page “No Mon­ster Incin­er­a­tor in Merthyr Tyd­fil” for a pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tion on the Health Impact of incin­er­a­tors by world renown expert Prof Paul Con­nett!
It looks as if Cov­an­ta are going for­ward with sub­mit­ting plan­ning appli­ca­tion on Novem­ber 1st — Direct Action and Aware­ness needs to be ramped up as much of the com­mu­ni­ty of Merthyr Tyd­fil are bliss­ful­ly igno­rant of the sci­en­tif­ic facts on the impact of diox­ins, nano-par­tic­u­lates and oth­er very nasty shit such as “Fly Ash”!

Successful Hinkley Demo

Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010
Pro­tes­tors blocked the Hink­ley Point main gates for almost an hour this liunch-time as they demon­strat­ed against the pre­ma­ture destruc­tion of upto 435 acres of open land and wildlife habi­tats before major con­sents are approved for the two giant reac­tors pro­posed by EdF.

Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010
Pro­tes­tors blocked the Hink­ley Point main gates for almost an hour this liunch-time as they demon­strat­ed against the pre­ma­ture destruc­tion of upto 435 acres of open land and wildlife habi­tats before major con­sents are approved for the two giant reac­tors pro­posed by EdF.

A large group of cam­paign­ers, togeth­er with local res­i­dents includ­ing chil­dren, held ban­ners and plac­ards in front of Hink­ley Point, pre­vent­ing any traf­fic move­ments. The Hink­ley main gates were forced to shut from 11.45 to 12.45pm and no traf­fic entered or left dur­ing that time. Some of the pro­tes­tors wore face paint images of sun­flow­ers, the Stop Hink­ley logo and anti-nuclear signs. Oth­ers dressed as nuclear ‘boffins’ and with a loud­hail­er led a march through the ear-marked green­field site.

The ‘nuclear boffins’ high­light­ed bad­ger setts which had been cement­ed over or had been cov­ered with met­al grills, beau­ti­ful old wood­lands and indi­vid­ual trees des­tined to be bull­dozed and they walked down some of the scores of sunken lanes criss-cross­ing the fields lined by ancient hedgerows brim­ming with wildlife.

At the coast the tour-guides showed where the so-called ‘tem­po­rary’ jet­ty will be built over the 200 mil­lion year old fos­sil-filled rocky beach.

At the beach des­ti­na­tion of the march, one cam­paign­er read aloud a poem on the need to respect nature and its part in glob­al ecol­o­gy.

Crispin Aubrey, spokesman for Stop Hink­ley who mar­shalled the demon­stra­tion, said: “There is obvi­ous strong feel­ing against destroy­ing this beau­ti­ful area. Despite being close to the exist­ing pow­er sta­tions there are large expans­es of beau­ty and tran­quil­i­ty. It’s wrong for EdF to jump the gun by trash­ing the area such a long time before it receives major con­sents for the two reac­tors.”

The protest was part of a two day Action Week­end. Yes­ter­day a series of talks and work­shops took place in Bridg­wa­ter for cam­paign­ers around the region. Three nation­al-lev­el speak­ers gave talks:

Green­peace

Ben Ayliffe, nuclear cam­paign­er for Green­peace said: “Green­peace is opposed to new nuclear pow­er sta­tions because they would make a min­i­mal con­tri­bu­tion towards reduc­ing green­house gas emis­sions, they have mul­ti­ple dan­gers from long-lived radioac­tive waste through to nuclear pro­lif­er­a­tion, and they are a dis­trac­tion from real solu­tions such as renew­able ener­gy.”

“In par­tic­u­lar we see two major prob­lems — waste dis­pos­al and eco­nom­ics – both could sink the pro­pos­al for Hink­ley C,” he said.

“The coali­tion gov­ern­ment has said that there will be no sub­si­dies for new nuclear plant. Eco­nom­ics could be the thing that makes it impos­si­ble for Hink­ley C to go ahead. No nuclear pow­er sta­tion has ever been built with­out pub­lic sub­sidy.”

On waste he said that the amount EDF were being asked to pay for dis­pos­ing of the radioac­tive lega­cy from Hink­ley C was not enough to cov­er the true cost. “It amounts to a £1 bil­lion sub­sidy to the com­pa­ny per year, accord­ing to our cal­cu­la­tions,” he said.

He also referred to delays and cost over-runs on sim­i­lar projects in both Fin­land and France, where the first reac­tors like the one pro­posed for Hink­ley C are being built.

The Green­peace strat­e­gy was to chal­lenge the process of approv­ing new nuclear pow­er sta­tions all the way. This includ­ed expos­ing the risky eco­nom­ics, pro­mot­ing the alter­na­tives and legal chal­lenges.

Health

Pro­fes­sor Chris Bus­by talked about stud­ies that he, and Som­er­set Health author­i­ty in the eight­ies, had shown that there was a high­er inci­dence of can­cers round Hink­ley Point and oth­er nuclear pow­er sta­tions. He said the inter­na­tion­al mod­el used by reg­u­la­tors to esti­mate the effects of radi­a­tion on human health is being wide­ly chal­lenged, and a for­mer head of the inter­na­tion­al radi­a­tion com­mis­sion accept­ed that their mod­el did not stand up in the case of a seri­ous acci­dent.

“Our stud­ies have shown raised lev­els of can­cer along the down­wind coast from Hink­ley to Burn­ham-on-Sea. Health offi­cials have object­ed to our find­ings on spu­ri­ous grounds includ­ing ran­dom clus­ters in oth­er areas but year on year we keep find­ing an entrenched prob­lem near Hink­ley. The offi­cials have got it wrong.”

Alter­na­tives

Neil Crump­ton, for­mer Friends of the Earth ener­gy cam­paign­er, pre­sent­ed an alter­na­tive vision of the UK’s elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply in which nuclear pow­er was mar­gin­alised and new sources of renew­able ener­gy, such as con­cen­trat­ed solar pow­er import­ed from North Africa, were devel­oped on a large scale. He also dis­missed the sug­ges­tion that the lights would go out with­out nuclear, list­ing the many oth­er options, includ­ing gas-fired plants, which were queue­ing up to fill any gap in sup­ply.

“Friends of the Earth and oth­er organ­i­sa­tions are con­fi­dent we can put for­ward a rea­son­able low car­bon ener­gy net­work based on cur­rent tech­nol­o­gy. More than that we can very soon tap resources like Clean Coal Tech­nol­o­gy and solar-pow­er from the Sahara to boost our own abun­dant nat­ur­al ele­ments of wind, tide and wave dri­ven elec­tric­i­ty.”

Jim Duffy

Stop Hink­ley Coor­di­na­tor

www.stophinkley.org

07798 666756

Quotes from Crispin Aubrey who coor­di­nat­ed the Action week­end: 01278 732921 / 07920 523673

Pro­fes­sion­al pho­tographs for the media avail­able imme­di­ate­ly from

Simon Chap­man: 07889 747916

http://www.stophinkley.org

Happendon Wood Occupied! New Direct Action Camp Against Scottish Coal

Ear­ly evening on Sun­day 12th Sep­tem­ber a group of autonomous indi­vid­u­als suc­cess­ful­ly occu­pied a new site in Hap­pen­don Wood, South Lanark­shire!

Ear­ly evening on Sun­day 12th Sep­tem­ber a group of autonomous indi­vid­u­als suc­cess­ful­ly occu­pied a new site in Hap­pen­don Wood, South Lanark­shire!

Coal Action Scot­land are invit­ing peo­ple to join The Hap­pen­don Wood Action Camp (THWAC) to help defend the wood from destruc­tion by Scot­tish Coal, and to take action in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties in the area resist­ing the expan­sion of the coal indus­try in the Dou­glas Val­ley.

You can find out more about the camp at http://happendon.coalactionscotland.org.uk — and more infor­ma­tion about why we’re at Hap­pen­don and what we’re doing there will be com­ing very soon.

In the mean­time, check our press advi­so­ry, for imme­di­ate release, below:

Con­tact:
Sam Mac­don­ald (Off-site Con­tact: Infor­ma­tion and Pho­tos) 07984706188
Jo Reed (On-site Con­tact: Vis­its and Inter­views) 07806926040
media@coalactionscotland.org.uk

Scot­tish Coal’s
Hap­pen­don Wood Occu­pied

Last night (12/9/10) a group of peo­ple occu­pied areas with­in Hap­pen­don Wood, South Lanark­shire (1) to defend it from destruc­tion by Scot­tish Coal, part of the Scot­tish Resources Group. They have begun to build shel­ters and defences on the site, with large ban­ners hung from trees at the front of the site that say: “Defend­ing the Dou­glas Val­ley” and “No Open­cast Here”. The Hap­pen­don Wood Action Camp has come out of a long-term strug­gle by the local com­mu­ni­ty and Coal Action Scot­land (2) to halt coal expan­sion in the Dou­glas Val­ley which is already one of the most heav­i­ly mined areas in Europe.

The Scot­tish Resources Group have applied for plan­ning per­mis­sion for a mixed use devel­op­ment (3) on this land (which is in an area of Great Land­scape Val­ue) in the Dou­glas Val­ley, but they intend to open­cast the area first. The South Lanark­shire min­er­als plan high­lights areas with­in the new devel­op­ment as hav­ing recov­er­able coal deposits that can be exca­vat­ed dur­ing the cur­rent local plan. Scot­tish Coal actu­al­ly wouldn’t be allowed to build on the land with­out open cast­ing it first, oth­er­wise this would be “ster­il­is­ing the nations asset” and there­fore ille­gal. (4)

Scot­tish Coal have not yet pub­licly declared their inter­ests in open­cast­ing Hap­pen­don Wood but many mem­bers of the local com­mu­ni­ty have expressed deep con­cerns that they will be blight­ed with yet anoth­er open­cast coal mine. In a recent meet­ing about the devel­op­ment, MSP for Clydes­dale Karen Gillon told local res­i­dents that she did not doubt that they would remove the coal, in spite of the fact that the area that SRG wish to devel­op takes in the open­cast work­ings at Poniel, which are cur­rent­ly due to be restored. Local res­i­dent and Dou­glas and Gle­spin Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil Chair­per­son Lind­say Addi­son is enraged by the behav­iour of Scot­tish Coal in South Lanark­shire:

“We have seri­ous con­cerns that this is an excuse for anoth­er open­cast. We do not want this devel­op­ment, let alone anoth­er mine. We will fight it all the way and sup­port the efforts of the wider com­mu­ni­ty in its oppo­si­tion to new coal in the Dou­glas Val­ley.”

SRG’s appli­ca­tion for plan­ning per­mis­sion for this devel­op­ment is ongo­ing; the deci­sion by the coun­cil will like­ly be made in the com­ing months. Ques­tions have been raised about the close rela­tion­ship between Scot­tish Coal and South Lanark­shire Coun­cil (SLC) result­ing in SLC issu­ing each mem­ber of the Dou­glas and Gle­spin Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil legal notices stat­ing that pro­ceed­ings against them are to begin at Lanark Sher­iff Court over alleged libel claims. This move is seen by the com­mu­ni­ty as an attack on their free­dom of speech. (5)

Notes to Edi­tors:

1. Loca­tion: In South Lanark­shire, about 30 miles south of Glas­gow, Hap­pen­don Wood is an area just off the B7078, sur­round­ing the Dew­ers ware­house site and Poniel Open­cast work­ings. To reach the site, dri­ving south along the B7078 from Les­ma­hagow (run­ning along­side the M74), take the first left after Hap­pen­don Ser­vices onto the C‑road; the site front is on your left after about half a mile. A map is avail­able at http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?page_id=1974#Where

2. Work­ing with and sup­port­ing com­mu­ni­ties across Scot­land, the Coal Action Scot­land col­lec­tive exists to chal­lenge the advance­ment of coal as an ener­gy source by inform­ing peo­ple about the dan­gers posed by new coal, pro­mot­ing alter­na­tives, work­ing with those involved, and direct­ly chal­leng­ing new coal exploita­tion from source to point of use. Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp was set up just along the road from Hap­pen­don Woods last year where peo­ple stayed for over sev­en months, end­ing in a five day evic­tion and a total of 45 arrests. See: http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/

3. This appli­ca­tion is Poniel / Hap­pen­don Mixed Use Devel­op­ment appli­ca­tion from the Scot­tish Resources Group (Scot­tish Coal). It is for “Mixed use devel­op­ment com­pris­ing indus­tri­al and stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion ware­hous­ing, busi­ness units/office accom­mo­da­tion, hotel with con­fer­ence and com­mer­cial leisure facil­i­ties, retail/restaurant floor­space, land­scap­ing, open space and asso­ci­at­ed infra­struc­ture (plan­ning per­mis­sion in prin­ci­ple)”, but it is expect­ed that once they get per­mis­sion for this they will actu­al­ly be bound to open­cast the area for coal. The plan­ning ref­er­ence for the appli­ca­tion is: CL/10/0180.

4. The Coal Author­i­ty issue licences to coal com­pa­nies. The fol­low­ing was dis­cov­ered in cor­re­spon­dence between them and Scot­tish Coal:
‘Where devel­op­ment is pro­posed over areas of coal and past coal work­ings at shal­low depth, The Coal Author­i­ty is of the opin­ion that appli­cants should con­sid­er wher­ev­er pos­si­ble remov­ing the rem­nant shal­low coal. This will enable the land to be sta­bilised and treat­ed by a more sus­tain­able method; rather than by attempt­ing to grout fill any voids and con­se­quent­ly unnec­es­sar­i­ly ster­il­is­ing the nation’s asset.’

5. For arti­cles and quo­ta­tions on the legal threats to the Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil see:
http://www.lanarkgazette.co.uk/news/South-Lanarkshire-Council-copyright-threat.6526004.jp
http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=1966
http://www.jonathanmitchell.info/2010/09/02/whats-wrong-with-south-lanarkshire/

Stop Nuclear Power Network UK Gathering

Date for your diaries:

Sat­ur­day 23rd and Sun­day 24th Octo­ber

Bris­tol
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Meet peo­ple from your region that are tak­ing action, make plans togeth­er and build sol­i­dar­i­ty with peo­ple who live next door to Hink­ley.
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Sol­i­dar­i­ty with Stop Hink­ley

Date for your diaries:

Sat­ur­day 23rd and Sun­day 24th Octo­ber

Bris­tol
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Meet peo­ple from your region that are tak­ing action, make plans togeth­er and build sol­i­dar­i­ty with peo­ple who live next door to Hink­ley.
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Sol­i­dar­i­ty with Stop Hink­ley
Hink­ley C in Som­er­set near Bris­tol, could become the first nuclear pow­er sta­tion built in Britain for 20 years, Stop Hink­ley is a com­mu­ni­ty cam­paign to stop dead­ly nuclear sites being built near their homes.www.stophinkley.org

Action against EdF
EDF is one of the largest elec­tric­i­ty com­pa­nies and ful­ly owned by the French state. In Britain, EDF is push­ing hard for nuclear new build, and wants new reac­tors at four sites, the first being Hink­ley C. www.boycottedf.org.uk

Cam­paign against the rerere-CON­sul­ta­tion
The gov­ern­ment is tak­ing its pro-nuclear pro­pa­gan­da on tour around the UK for the third time this Autumn in an attempt to escape legal chal­lenges to its nuclear ambi­tions. We plan to be there, let­ting every­one know the Green­washed, prof­it dri­ven agen­da they are spew­ing out.

More info com­ing soon.

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