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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 05:52 by Solidarity
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Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth was blockaded on the morning of 1 November in an action called by the Plymouth-based Trident Ploughshares (TP) group, The Tamarians. Devonport Dockyard refits, maintains, and upgrades the submarines which carry Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system, which has been declared illegal under international law. The yard is also increasingly becoming the dumping ground for old and out of service nuclear submarines, posing a further radioactive contamination hazard to the quarter of a million people who live nearby. The aim of the blockade was to close all gates to the shipyard from 6am. Fourteen people were arrested during the action. Article continued.... http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/467165.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 17:51 by Ajax
Michael Mann writes about the ongoing campaign by the climate Change deniers to not just deny Global Warming. Some, funded by Oil companies like Shell, have a broader agenda of repealing environmental measures such as fuel efficiency for vehicles. Full article at url. I'd like to say I was surprised when news broke a year ago that emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK, had been hacked into and leaked, and that scientists' personal emails were being quoted out of context to disingenuously imply impropriety on their part. But I wasn't. Books such as Merchants of Doubt by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have detailed how front groups for the fossil-fuel industry have been waging an orchestrated, well-funded campaign against climate science and climate scientists for more than two decades. Hacking into the CRU's email was simply the latest skirmish in this war against science, timed to forestall any progress towards lowering carbon emissions at the Copenhagen climate conference being held about a month later. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 13:24 by IT Reader
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Article in Irish Times by RBB ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 01, 2010 - 20:56 by ¡Venceremos!
Urgent appeal to sign the petition for the granting of asylum to the Iranian hunger strikers in Athens, Greece. The aforementioned petition is addressed to the defaulting government of The Hellenic Republic: It is requested that it should comply with peremptory norms of International Law--in accordance with the European Union's Regulations and Directives, and the Statement by the Head of the Office of The United Nations High Commission for the Refugees in Greece--and grant asylum to the hunger strikers, who have already manifested alarming effects on their health due to the prolonged hunger strike. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 30, 2010 - 22:11 by Anti Fascist
Now available to buy from www.beatingthefascists.org ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 29, 2010 - 09:51 by Catholic Worker
The U.S. System of Punishment: an expanding balloon of wealth, racism and greed by Jenny Truax on October 28, 2010 (Jenny Truax has been a member of the Karen House Catholic Worker community in St. Louis for thirteen years) ... read full story / add a comment |
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