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Posted by bex — 23 May 2008 at 9:00am
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Actor Rula Lenska and journalist Rosie Boycott join other celeb mums in a vigil against Heathrow expansion in Parliament Square
As the date for the government's decision on Heathrow's third runway hurtles towards us (they'll be deciding in June or July, we think), a whole gamut of voices has been speaking out against the agenda for airport expansion that will destroy our chances of slowing climate change.
At the risk of sounding like a bad joke, an actress and a bishop (OK then, an archbishop) have both joined the fray, along with several celebrity mums and the head of the Sustainable Development Commission. Eclectic, eh? They're all calling on the government to shelve its plans for airport expansion.
Posted by jamie — 8 April 2008 at 12:21pm
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We had Fossil Fool's Day last week with plenty
of action around the country to highlight the dangers posed by coal, but the
dreadful punning doesn't stop there. Continuing the theme, next Tuesday is
April Biofool's Day which admittedly falls on the 15th rather than
the 1st, but that's because the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
(RTFO) - which will overnight increase our consumption of biofuels - begins to
make its presence felt.
On the day, the good folks at Biofuelwatch and
the Campaign against Climate Change are organising a protest outside the home
of a certain Mr Gordon Brown, Number 10 Downing Street. You can join the crowds
outside Number 10 from 6pm and further details are on the websites of both
organisations. If you can't get there, you can still do something - write to
transport secretary Ruth Kelly with your concerns about this rush towards
biofuels.
Meanwhile, concerns about biofuels are rising
up the political ladder, as last week UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called
for a review on global biofuel policies. Our government currently has the
indirect impacts with biofuels under review but the results aren't due for some
time, and certainly not before Biofool's Day next week.
Posted by bex — 2 April 2008 at 12:23pm
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Thousands joined hands to surround Aldermaston base on Easter Monday
On the Easter weekend of 1958 - a few weeks after the birth of CND - thousands of people braved the icy weather and marched from London to the nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston in Berkshire to protest the building of nuclear bombs. The march marked the birth of the peace movement in Britain.
Sadly, 50 years on, the peace movement is needed as much as it ever was; last year, our government (which counts many former CND members among its numbers) voted to replace Trident, and to lock the world into at least another 50 years of nuclear bombs. Despite the rhetoric of Brown's recent national security strategy
(he wants "to free the world from
nuclear weapons", apparently), £5 billion is being poured into building new facilities at Aldermaston to design new nuclear bombs - most likely in contravention of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Posted by jossc — 5 March 2008 at 11:50am
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Kingsnorth in Kent is to be the main focus of this year's Camp for Climate Action. From 4th to 11th of August climate activists will gather at the site of E.On's proposed new coal-fired power station, the first to be built in the UK for 30 years.
Posted by bex — 26 February 2008 at 11:04am
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Posted by bex — 25 February 2008 at 2:48pm
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A few pictures from today's plane-top protest at Heathrow:
Hanging the banner on the tailfin
© Greenpeace
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