27/05/2010   New government, same old sewage

Make sure your summer holiday will be happy, not crappy, as the government’s Planning Inspectorate continues to allow the water companies to ignore Environment Agency regulation on combined sewer overflows polluting the UK’s beaches and rivers.

 24/05/2010   World Cup allegations not investigated

Why weren’t Triesman’s bribery allegations followed up? asks investigative jounalist Andrew Jennings. “If Russia is guilty of bribing Spanish referees, that’s a story. Instead of going after that, they punished the source. Nobody wants to touch the real story. Russia want the World Cup in 2018, but the benefits are greatly exaggerated. South Africa don’t need a 90,000-seat stadium when people in the townships can’t afford the bus ride to get there.”

 17/05/2010   Giving Shell Hell

Shell’s Shareholders will be confronted by the reality of what they’ve invested in on their way to Shell’s AGM on Tuesday 18th May. Amnesty International have placed ads in the national press, paid for by AI supporters, shaming Shell for the hell it has visited on the Niger Delta.
11/05/2010   End criminalization of peace and human rights activism in Israel

Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO, Ittijah, has been arrested by the Israeli Shin Bet and detained without any reason being given for his arrest. His home was ransacked, and he has not been able to consult with a lawyer.

 10/05/2010   Take Back Parliament!

Demand a fair voting system so that we have a Parliament which properly represents the British people. Join together in a new fight for democracy and political equality. Take Back Parliament is calling for a Citizens Convention to decide on a new voting system to be put to the people in a referendum.

 07/05/2010   Global Ad proves Peru's uncontacted tribes are not 'invented'

An ad supporting Peru’s last uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through their land. The ad, created by Survival International, has appeared in publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the USA and the UK.
04/05/2010   Rivers and wildlife at risk

The new government must take strong leadership to work with regulators, water companies and local communities to stop our rivers from drying out and protect our native wildlife. A new WWF report on chalk streams under threat from over-abstraction and out of date licensing rules tells the riverbank tales of the Itchen in Hampshire, the upper Kennet in Wiltshire and the tributary rivers of the Upper Lee – the Mimram and the Beane in Hertfordshire – which offer lessons for rivers around the country.