Biketour update for 2010-08-28

Biketour cycled its last day this year to arrive in Cologne yesterday to join the newly-formed critical mass here we doubled the numbers! # Video of protest biketour joined in Brussels: http://www.dewereldmorgen.be/video/2010/08/19/klimaatactivisten-protesteren-voor-deense-ambassade #

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Biketour update for 2010-08-24

dear cyclists At the end of this years tour we will have a party to celebrate the 20th birthday of the tour – and u all are warmly welcome # http://twitvid.com/AHCTV RT @ Ecotopia bike tour onderweg! # I uploaded a YouTube video – 20100823 ecobike tour Internet http://youtu.be/yRs-O249i-g?a # In the Netherlands & on Limburg TV highlighting some ridiculous highway plans: http://bit.ly/9LecVp & more info: http://ping.fm/7jaa3 # Groenfront and Stop-AWACS # Buitenring Parkstad # Biketour update for 2010-08-23 #

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Groenfront and Stop-AWACS

Groenfront and Stop-AWACS campaign at the forests of Schinveld The Association STOP awacs is a dutch organisation of about 450 local members from eastern South-Limburg that fights against the noise nuisance caused by AWACS surveillance aircraft. For 26 years the Association STOP awacs, in collaboration with other groups, has been organising actions against the presence of the 17 AWACS surveillance planes (a derivative of Boeing 707 civil airplanes) that are stationed at the NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen in Germany, very close to the Dutch border. The NATO uses this base solely as a training site. to train pilots. That means…

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Buitenring Parkstad

Buitenring Parkstad: the unnecessary and destructive plan of a 4-lane highway While population is decreasing and newborn business parks in the area are barely getting into use, politicians don’t seem to stop thinking in terms of growth and hold on to prestigious constructions plans… for, it seems, whatever might be the costs.

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Biketour update for 2010-08-13

Hiding from the rain right now before we cross the border into Belgium, staying tonight in Keiem, West Flanders # Spent a few days in Calais meeting migrants & activists there – shocked at the situation,Had a critical mass for solidarity for sans-papiers # We left Wales 4 weeks ago but @campcymru09 is starting today! Sorry we couldn't be there now but today we arrive in Belgium… #

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