The Scotland neighbourhood at the climate camp has united folk from glasgow, edinburgh, aberdeen, findhorn, faslane and bilston protest camp. The climate camp action has been a total success!! www.indymedia.org.uk for full reports.

FINDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL MISSION TO LEBANON: Filipina overseas workers in Lebanon are being treated like “modern-day slaves,� this was the main finding of Filipinos who had just arrived from Lebanon as part of an international civil society and parliamentary delegation.

Independence First, the Referendum campaign have launched a petition for a referendum on independence through the Scottish Parliament's E-petitioning system.

The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. These multinational vandals - willingly helped by the Icelandic government - are about to produce an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

by Leuren Moret