9th August: Day of Mass Action at the Camp for Climate Action!

JOIN WITH THOUSANDS IN MASS ACTION TO SHUT DOWN KINGSNORTH POWER STATION

CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE – LAND, SEA OR AIR

This sum­mer the Camp for Cli­mate Action will be locat­ed in Kent near Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion, where 10 mil­lion tonnes of car­bon diox­ide are pumped into the atmos­phere every year. On Sat­ur­day August 9th, the camp will cul­mi­nate in a spec­tac­u­lar mass action to shut down the pow­er sta­tion. Why Kingsnorth? While the pow­er sta­tion is sched­uled for demo­li­tion, its own­ers E.ON are plan­ning to build a brand new coal-fired plant in the same place – a ludi­crous response to the cli­mate cri­sis threat­en­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of lives around the world. The Camp for Cli­mate Action has oth­er ideas. Begin­ning on August 9th, we intend to shut down Kingsnorth – per­ma­nent­ly!

Those at the camp will be joined by thou­sands more from across the UK to con­verge on the pow­er sta­tion via land, sea and air. We are organ­is­ing our­selves into four dif­fer­ent groups, each using dif­fer­ent tac­tics. There’s some­thing for every­one (includ­ing a group acces­si­ble to par­ents and chil­dren).

The ‘Great Rebel Raft Regat­ta’ (GRRR) will be launch­ing an arma­da of rafts of every shape and size. From pirate ships to Viking boats, a mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ent themed rafts are being con­struct­ed out of recy­cled mate­ri­als and every bit of scrap imag­in­able (mate­ri­als will be avail­able at the camp for you to build your own rebel raft – for more info see www.thegrrr.net). Once on the riv­er, rafts will swarm towards Kingsnorth like a giant shoal of dis­obe­di­ent fish, all with a sin­gle aim – shut down the cli­mate crim­i­nal. Safe­ty is obvi­ous­ly of para­mount impor­tance and full safe­ty brief­in­gs and equip­ment will be pro­vid­ed.

If you’re a land­lub­ber, not to wor­ry, you can join the ‘Orange Pod’, who will be putting on their danc­ing shoes and head­ing straight for the main entrance in a colour­ful, musi­cal spec­ta­cle. And if you’re more of a fan of wild under­growth than end­less eco­nom­ic growth then the ‘Green Guer­ril­las’ will be approach­ing through the sur­round­ing fields and woods, look­ing for weak points in the perime­ter fence – up, under or through.. As for the aer­i­al approach – these plans are strict­ly under wraps, find out more at the camp!

If you can’t make it to the camp, join us just for the day. Trains run from cen­tral Lon­don to a pick up point near Kingsnorth every few min­utes and take less than an hour. If you have more time, come to the camp the night before, or for the full week (August 4th – 10th) where you can take part in over a hun­dred work­shops and expe­ri­ence sus­tain­able liv­ing in action, like 1,500 peo­ple did last year.

Times, trans­porta­tion infor­ma­tion and more details about the groups and their meet­ing points will be avail­able at www.climatecamp.org.uk/massaction

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For more infor­ma­tion about the camp, vis­it www.climatecamp.org.uk

Be there on August 9th. Shut­ting down this pow­er sta­tion promis­es to be a defin­ing moment in the glob­al strug­gle against cli­mate change!