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24th August 2007 | Issue 600 - CLIMATE OF FEAR
As cops clamp down on camper's right to protest at Heathrow.

(In this graphic the banner has been placed in the polices' hands, whereas originally it is from some rather verbose protesters whose message was 'We are armed... only with peered reviewed science'.)

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In the event police didn't arrive in numbers until over an hour later, giving the squatters time to get vital equipment on-site to begin camping. A perimeter was secured with fencing stakes and rope, and primed with Section 6 notices. Soon after, scores of police arrived and blocked Sipson Lane - preventing vehicle access and conducting random stop and searches under Section 44 of the terrorism act.

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27th July 2007 | Issue 598 - AIRBUSTED - Injunction taken out against Heathrow Camp For Climate Action - If you were in any doubt that the Camp for Climate Action is gonna have a big impact this year then check out Heathrow airport's reaction to having been chosen as the venue! This year the camp will be at the world's busiest airport which is a bigger source of CO2 emissions than most countries. Of course it's sheer lunacy in this time of ecological crisis but the aviation industry are pushing to almost double the airport's capacity by increasing flights and building a third runway. The battle to stop them will be one of the most important environmental battles in Western Europe.

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27th July 2007 | Issue 598 - GO - the international carbon emissions game.

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20th July 2007 | Issue 597 - EIRE WE GO AGAIN - Seven protesters against the motorway planned at the Hill Of Tara in Ireland (See SchNEWS 596) were arrested on Weds 18th trying to stop diggers from illegally destroying the important archaeological site at the proposed Blundlestown interchange in the Tara/Skryne Valley.

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20th July 2007 | Issue 597 - Blind Destruction as Cilla Black says 'Tara' to ancient Irish monuments at the Hill Of Tara.

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13th July 2007 | Issue 596 - SMOTHER EARTH - SchNEWS looks at some of the techno-fixes planned to combat climate change - as opposed to tackling the causes of it...

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13th July 2007 | Issue 596 - It's official – Holloway Road is the most spied-upon street in the most spied-upon country in Europe. The two-mile stretch of North London hosts 102 CCTV cameras and 7 speed cameras, each one a supposed deterrent to crime.

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6th July 2007 | Issue 595 - $HELLS ANGELS - as Rossport campaigners fight the building of a gas refinery in the west of Ireland...

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6th July 2007 | Issue 595 - The Home Office is seeking tips from the fashion designers when it comes to designing enforcement officer uniforms - so it's out with the navy blue and in with softer tones...

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29th June 2007 | Issue 594 - Blairite Neo-Labour hasn't gone, we've just sunk further into the brown stuff as Gordon takes over as Prime Minister...

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29th June 2007 | Issue 594 - The Blair Charge Sheet - As the Blair era ends, we look at his legacy of war crimes and deceit...

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22nd June 2007 | Issue 593 - As SchNEWS dusts off the wellington boots in preparation to become 'a drop of truth an ocean of mud - and commercial bullshit' at another Glastonbury Festival...

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15th June 2007 | Issue 592 - Crap Arrest Of The Week - Eric Montanez was nicked on 4th April for the heinous crime of giving homeless people free vegan food. He became the first person to be arrested in the US under new laws that criminalise compassionate citizens...

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8th June 2007 | Issue 591 - HEILIGENDAMM-BUSTERS - some reports back from the G8 Summit in Germany.

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1st June 2007 | Issue 590 - PIG IGNORANCE - Charges dropped as Oxford cops accidently tape themselves - Fourteen campaigners against the Oxford Animal lab, charged with various public order offences, walked free on May 30th after revelations of a police stitch-up. During the trial, a transcript of a dictaphone tape recorded by the cop's Tactical Advisor on the day was presented as evidence by the defence. The hour-long tape conclusively shows that Thames Valley Police are conspiring with Oxford University to smash the campaign.

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1st June 2007 | Issue 590 - ROSTOCK & TWO SMOKIN BARRELS - The G8 Summit starts in Germany next week, as the protests - and police repression - build up a head of steam

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25th May 2007 | Issue 589 - PREPARE FOR THE WURST - Heiligendamm-busters get ready for anti-G8 actions in Germany...

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18th May 2007 | Issue 588 - HOT AIR GUITAR - as rock stars are to fly around the world for Al Gore's 'Live Earth' climate-change mega-gigs across seven continents which will ifself use up the emissions of a small country's annual carbon output. NB - this event doesn't involved Elton John.

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11th May 2007 | Issue 587 - The SchINDEPENDENT - 'Iraqis tear down Blair statue after regime change is finally confirmed...'

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4th May 2007 | Issue 586 - As South London policeman Brian Paddick leaves the force... or was he pushed?

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27th April 2007 | Issue 585 - TARA! TARA! TARA! - SAs work begins on the M3 Motorway in Ireland, which will damage land in one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe at the Hill Of Tara...

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19th April 2007 | Issue 584

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13th April 2007 | Issue 583 - SPUD-U-HATE - Mutant foods are back! After the likes of Aventis, SynGenta and Bayer were forced to quit the UK back in 2003 (see SchNEWS 448) - after the most successful ecological grass-roots struggle in our history, BASF are trying again with farm-scale trials of GM spuds.

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March 30th 2007 | Issue 582 - SILI-CON JOB - Is there such a thing as a ‘fair trade’ computer or iPod? You'll probably find that yours was put together in dire sweatshop conditions somewhere in southern China...

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23rd March 2007 | Issue 581