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European Commission Taken To Court For ‘Stifling Dissent’ Over EU-US Trade Deal

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/11/2014 - 2:33am

On Monday morning the Stop TTIP coalition, consisting of over 300 civil society groups from across Europe, are filing a lawsuit against the European Commission at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The lawsuit relates to a decision that was made by the Commission to block a ‘European Citizen’s Initiative’ (ECI) on the controversial EU-USA trade deal known as TTIP and a similar deal with Canada (CETA).

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Interview: Jan on why she's attending the G20 people's summit

Submitted by kimk on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 10:30pm

Climate change is not on the Australian G20 agenda. As the most pressing issue of our era, why not? Jan is a protestor at the G20 in Brisbane, Australia 2014. More info see http://briscan.net.au/

Download or listen online here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/77959

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Community groups set to take the gloss off the G20 in Brisbane

Submitted by kimk on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 12:28pm

From November 8 community groups will launch a range of actions and events against the economic rationalism, state repression and sheer ridiculous spending of the G20 event in Brisbane. While the police report over 20 groups they know of, the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy - BASE and BrisCan-G20 are organising a People's Convergence. There will be street marches through the week and a People's March on November 15.

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Some reasons why we need to protest at the G20 this week

Submitted by kimk on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 12:20pm

While the media has been in a feeding frenzy over anarchist plots and police powers, the real issues that the G20 will be discussing and the inequality it perpetuates has largely been ignored.

Social justice and environmental groups will be amongst many of the organisations protesting the policies of the G20 in Brisbane this week. This is what a few of them have to say:

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Renewable world by 2030

Submitted by radioecoshock on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 4:37am

Super-scientist Mark Jacobson from Stanford explains soot-causing warming - plus a way to run the world on clean energy by 2030. Yes, it can be done technically. But can we overcome the powers-that-be to do it socially?

We visit an Ultra-Mega coal power plant in India, ten times larger than U.S. stations. It's already killing people. Of course, India is buying coal from Australia and Indonesia. If the world's second-most populous country continues it's coal-building projects, we are all cooked.

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Revolutionary Kurds Resist ISIL

Submitted by Karun on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 1:03am

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Record sea surface temperatures in October says UK MetOffice data

Submitted by takver on Mon, 10/11/2014 - 1:25am

Oceans continue to warm with the latest data from the UK Metoffice HADSST3 showing October 2014 had record warm sea surface temperatures. Over 90 per cent of the heat of global warming is being absorbed by the oceans.

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