I know your thoughts are likely on the coming holiday, but we need your help now. Four of our activists face Christmas in jail over charges relating to a peaceful protest at the Heads of State dinner at the Copenhagen climate summit. We’re calling for the immediate release of the activists – please help...
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A group of French farmers have dumped piles of hay in front of the French presidential palace in protest of falling food prices and demanded more help from the government. Police used tear gas to push back about 100 demonstrators from the Young Farmers union who unfurled a large banner saying “angry farmers.” The...
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Sincerely sorry this wasn’t Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, David Blunkett, John Prescott, Alan Johnson or any of the other political scum in the UK who’ve murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people along with Berlusconi……..but Berlusconi’s a good start. Well done to Massimo Tartaglia whatever his reasons may have been, and here’s hoping Berlusconi is...
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A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen’s decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest. “It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful,” Guillaume Morand, who owns...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the center of Rome against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Saturday after an Internet call for a “No Berlusconi Day.” Most of them wore scarves, T-shirts or sweaters in various shades of violet after the group of bloggers who organized the protest chose it as the only...
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Published: Dec. 4, 2009 COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 4 (UPI) – A group of Danish prostitutes said they are offering free sex to delegates at a United Nations conference to protest officials discouraging potential patrons. The prostitutes said they are offering free sex to delegates at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to protest...
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While governments are busy throwing tax-payers money at banks and bankers and supporting multi-national companies who bleed farmers on an hourly basis, farmers across Spain like farmers right across the world who are losing the battle to make a living producing food have held two days of protest at plumeting prices forcing them into...
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Castration in pigs is not widely practiced in the UK and is prohibited under current Assured British Pigs Farm Assurance Standards. It is however standard practice in other parts of the EU and outside the EU. GAIA (Global Action in the Interests of Animals) Campaigners in Belgium recently delivered 20,000 pink balls to the headquarters of...
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Copenhagen Climate Conference campaign and protest plans are gathering pace In the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – as it was established after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 – a series of talks are held on an annual basis by the highest body of the Convention, the Conference...
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Ten years after Seattle ! Fight the Neoliberal Agenda ! International demonstration against the WTO and its policies Saturday 28th November 2009, 2p.m., Place Neuve, Geneva and week of action and debates during the WTO Ministerial Conference - Economic Crisis, Climate Crisis, Social Crisis: It’s Time to Change Course! - Endorsing organisations - 28th...
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