Pope Benedict XVI has been presented with a luxury electric car to use only within the private grounds of the Vatican and his summer home of Castel Gandolfo.
The customised white Kangoo was presented to the pontiff by French carmaker Renault.
The Pope used his new car on Wednesday to travel from the helipad at Castel Gandolfo through the gardens back to his palazzo, the Vatican said. Continue reading “Electric car takes Green Pope to his Helipad”
Barcelona — Psychologist Angels Corcoles recently taught a seminar about self-empowerment for women, and when she finished she got a check with her fee. The amount was in hours, not euros.
But Corcoles didn’t mind. Through a citywide credit network that allows people to trade services without money, the 10 hours Corcoles earned could be used to pay for a haircut, yoga classes or even carpentry work.
At a time when the future of the euro is in doubt and millions are unemployed or underemployed with little cash to spare, a parallel economy is springing up in parts of Spain, allowing people to live outside the single currency.
In the city of Malaga… Continue reading “Money-free haircuts, shops and veggy gardens”
Code Green cartoons against ecocide by Stephanie McMillanStephanie McMillan has now suspended her brilliant Code Green comics after readers failed to give her even a few cents to keep going. What a disgrace.. its time to ACT NOW to save our planet!
Stephanie is however continuing for now with her amazing Eco Resistance daily cartoon strip (see below) and many of the Code Green classics are available here http://stephaniemcmillan.org/
$6,761 Raised of $9,000 Goal 0 time left Continue reading “Cartoons against Ecocide by Stephanie McMillan”
here’s Ch 4..(every Friday) Linda, now Maxie, has escaped her disastrous family and awful school and is hiding out in Barney’s one room flat when ...
Act One Chapter Four
-‘You can trust me, you’re my sister.’-
Maxie narrating
I spent a lot of time in Barney’s bedsitter, mostly hanging about, listening to music and reading. He had loads of books and I started to read them all. I’ve always been a voracious reader. But I soon found this was impossible.. Continue reading “Serialization of’The Free’. sisters.. Ch4 Wonderful Maggie”
A Fight on the TilesWith the new squatting laws now in force, the first shot across the bows from Brighton Plod came this week when they waded into a London Road squat that had previously been empty for a year.
The first cops arrived around midday and the squatters explained that, since last week, no one was ‘living’ in the residential parts of the building and therefore no one was committing an offence. Unfortunately the police didn’t buy this explanation and eventually called in backup to smash down the door. While a jeering crowd of about 40 squatters, supporters and bemused passers-by watched, the police spent nearly ten minutes attacking the front door with a battering ram. Continue reading “Occupy the Roofs: Squatters Resist UK Evictions”
By Earth First Newswire
Wow! Its been a wild week, and we’ve gotten a bit behind on the news as several EF! Newswire contributors were tied up in Tampa at the RNC protests. But it looks like that blue moon may have gotten some people pretty riled up! Here’s a compilation of news from the front lines around the world to catch you up
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Continue reading “News Round-Up from Eco-Rebellion World Wide”
Paramilitary Spanish Civil Guards have evacuated this morning 83 immigrants who remained in the small island of land in the archipelago of Al Hoceima, and delivered to the Moroccan gendarmerie to most of them.
The eviction occurred this morning and concluded at 4:30, according to the sources, who have indicated that they are 73 
persons transferred to Morocco, which is a few meters from shore islet of Spanish sovereignty.
Spain, meanwhile, has arrested 10 immigrants, according to the agreement reached last night between the two countries for the evacuation of Earth Island and the distribution of its occupants, in two groups arrived there last week.
The eight children and two mothers who were in the Earth Island this morning have been moved to Melilla, where they received medical care. It is expected that most leave the hospital today to begin the process marked in the Aliens Act, and from there, the Temporary Centre for Immigrants Prison (CETI) Melilla or a shelter, in the case of minors who traveling alone. Continue reading “Spain: fortress Europe: immigrants storm fences, occupy islets”
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