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		<title>Hiatus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, apologies for lack of recent posts, I&#8217;m working on a book at the moment which isn&#8217;t leaving much time for anything else!
Second, I&#8217;ve put togther a website for my local Friends of the Earth group in Stourbridge, including a Green Directory of ethical shops and businesses in the local area. You can visit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=558&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video shows police attack on man who died at G20 protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those involved in the G20 protests in London last week have been widely accused of aggressive, reckless and unlawful behaviour.
And I&#8217;m not just talking about the protesters. 
For anyone who hasn&#8217;t seen it yet, this video shows an apparently unprovoked police attack on Ian Tomlinson, the 47-year-old man who later died inside police cordons on Wednesday.

The 41 second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=501&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy at the G20 (smile for the camera)</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/anarchy-at-the-g20-smile-for-the-camera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading yesterday&#8217;s newspaper reports I was shocked to find how events at the G20 protests in central London had taken a turn for the worse shortly after I left. 
I was close to the front of the rally on Threadneedle Street when a few reckless &#8216;anarchists&#8217; started smashing their way into the Royal Bank of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=481&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G20 and climate camp update #2</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/g20-and-climate-camp-update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started as a day of peaceful demonstration, with police and protesters chatting amiably among the sea of colourful tents blockading a busy central London road. 
Many campaigners, who were aiming to raise the profile of climate change, planned to stay the night. 
But around midnight the police turfed the &#8220;climate campers&#8221; out of Bishopsgate and sent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=486&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G20 and climate camp update #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man has died behind the police cordon set up to hem thousands of G20 protestors inside central London.  
Police yesterday used the familiar tactic of &#8220;kettling&#8221;, with chains of police surrounding the streets outside the Bank of England to prevent the protest spreading into a wider area. 
The man, who apparently died of natural causes, collapsed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=468&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>G20 and Climate Camp protest photos</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/g20-slide-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<title>G20 Climate Campers vow to stay put</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/g20-climate-campers-vow-to-stay-put/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigners taking part in Climate Camp 2009 in London today have vowed to stay put despite police attempts to move them. 
Thousands of protesters stormed Bishopsgate, near Liverpool Street Station, at 12.30pm, blocking off a half-mile stretch of road and setting up a Climate Camp with thousands of tents, banners and bunting. 
The camp is part of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=448&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Camp</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/climate-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about to take the tube to the Square Mile for Climate Camp 2009!
I&#8217;ve trying something new so will be trying to update Twitter on my phone and I&#8217;m not v technically minded so we&#8217;ll see how it goes&#8230; but see Twitter feed on the right for latest climate camp gossip (if it works&#8230;)
You can sign up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=444&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lights out for Earth Hour 2009</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/save-the-world-with-the-flick-of-a-switch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Turn on, tune in, drop out,&#8221; the LSD-munching pop psychologist Timothy Leary once advised.
But &#8220;sign up, switch off, shut down&#8221; will be a more appropriate mantra tonight as cities across the globe turn out their lights as part of WWF&#8217;s Earth Hour.
Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower, Nelson&#8217;s Column and the London Eye are among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigailedge.wordpress.com&blog=5120948&post=405&subd=abigailedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RSPB give wind farms the go ahead</title>
		<link>http://abigailedge.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/rspb-give-wind-farms-the-go-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Edge</dc:creator>
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More wind farms will be built around the UK in coming years after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) announced today they will no longer object to plans for more turbines, so long as developers stay away from certain sites which are home to rare and important wildlife species.
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