Environmental activists have built a climate camp near a power station in Kingsnorth, south-east England, to protest against plans for a new coal-fired plant. Yet Britain’s energy infrastructure is heading rapidly for obsolescence, and the British authorities need to start building coal-fired plants now if we are to avoid a shortfall in energy supply. That […]
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Kingsnorth: a camp of uncritical conformity
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
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The G8’s effect on UK Activism
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Let me take you back to summer 2005. It was the G8 summit in Gleneagles Scotland and UK activists were suddenly very busy after years of being badly organised. During this time, three important things happened which has affected the UK activist scene ever since.
There was a campsite set up in Stirling which […]