CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 74, DECEMBER 2007

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07
3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07
4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07
5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07
6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08
7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08
8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08
9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008
10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07
11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07
2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07
3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07
4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07
5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07
6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07
7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07
8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07
9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07
10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07
11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RT ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY, April 1st 2008
Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival, but the fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with gov­ern­ments the will­ing court jesters at their side. They would have us believe that we can escape cli­mate change with tech­no-fix­es, mar­ket mech­a­nisms and off­set schemes – all tech­no­crat­ic acro­bat­ics that dis­tract us from the truth: the only real solu­tion to cli­mate change is to keep fos­sil fuels in the ground.

Find a local fos­sil fool – the coal-min­ing clown, the off­set con­tor­tion­ist, the avi­a­tor trip­ping on the high wire, the super­mar­ket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any oth­er fool that deserves your atten­tion – and join with thou­sands around the world in tak­ing one step clos­er to dis­man­tling the fos­sil fuel indus­try.

www.fossilfoolsday.org.uk /
www.risingtide.org.uk http://www.risingtide.org.uk/>

2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH & BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS FOR GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

As the UN cli­mate talks take place in Bali, join peo­ple all around the world to demand urgent action to pre­vent cat­a­stroph­ic desta­bil­i­sa­tion of glob­al cli­mate.
In Lon­don, assem­ble 12 noon Mill­bank for main march. [West­min­ster Tube].
The Anti-Avi­a­tion (inc. No Run­way 3 at Heathrow) bloc meets in Vic­to­ria Gar­dens at 12

Ral­ly at US embassy 2.30pm. http://www.campaigncc.org

The Shell’s Wild Lie exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture at the Lon­don demo after-par­ty at the Syn­er­gy Cen­tre:
www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=109,
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/41/2/

This will be one of many glob­al cli­mate demon­stra­tions tak­ing place on the 8th. There are actions planned in 80 coun­tries.
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org

One of the events planned in the UK is a cycle-relay of mes­sages from Tran­si­tion Towns and Cli­mate Friend­ly Vil­lages in Corn­wall to Par­lia­ment.
http://www.transitionfalmouth.org.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29

Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide are hav­ing a Cycle Cir­cus — Join a colour­ful crit­i­cal mass of peo­ple and ped­dlers of all shapes and sizes and let our cycling cir­cus upstage and reveal Bris­tol’s cli­mate crim­i­nals. Meet: Col­lege
Green, 1pm.
http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol

3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07

Bath Activist Net­work are hav­ing a demo/party high­light­ing rad­i­cal alter­na­tives to envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion.

Meet at Abbey Court­yard at 11.30 am, then mov­ing through Bath say­ing hel­lo to some of our favourite plan­et trash­ers, play­ing music, shar­ing food, play­ing games and mak­ing mis­chief!
http://www.myspace.com/bathactivistnetwork

4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07

The annu­al award for decep­tive, manip­u­la­tive and uneth­i­cal lob­by­ing. This year there is a spe­cial Green­wash Prize. The win­ners will be announced at a cer­e­mo­ny in Brus­sels on 4th Decem­ber.
http://www.worstlobby.eu http://www.worstlobby.eu/>

5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07

The case involves the arrest of Pen­ny, who glued her­self to the gates of the Cli­mate Camp to pre­vent re-entry by police offi­cers after mass action had per­suad­ed them to leave. Sol­i­dar­i­ty is urgent­ly request­ed for this court appear­ance. The tri­al is sched­uled to begin at Uxbridge mag­is­trates court, 10am on the 8th Jan­u­ary.
There will be a pop up cli­mate camp out­side court, more vol­un­teers are need­ed. Crash space is being organ­ised for the night before.
www.climatecamp.org.uk

6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08

The Cli­mate Camp on its own did­n’t stop cli­mate change — but it’s part of a grow­ing social move­ment that can! Come and take the next steps for­ward at the upcom­ing UK-wide meet­ing on Jan 26–27 in Leeds. Every­one is wel­come, whether you came to the camp, or were sim­ply inspired by it.
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/nextmeeting.php

7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08

This exhi­bi­tion address­es the envi­ron­men­tal, polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges of ris­ing sea lev­els caused by cli­mate change. The cen­tral fea­ture will be a mul­ti­me­dia video pro­jec­tion onto a giant relief mod­el of main­land Britain, where the ris­ing waters are seen to redraw the coast­line.
http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/tour/

8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08

Come and learn tech­niques and be inspired by pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion, share new skills and talk about how we can expand rad­i­cal edu­ca­tion net­works in UK and beyond.
http://www.trapese.org/

9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008

Low impact small­hold­ing / How to make biodiesel / Heat­ing with wood / Prun­ing & care of old fruit trees. For more details, see:
http://www.lowimpact.org/
http://www.lowimpact.org/course_outline_pruning_and_care_of_fruit_trees.htm>

10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07

Whilst Nation­al and local gov­ern­ment have pushed for a destruc­tive Bypass to the A628 trunk road, Wood­head remains shut and alter­na­tives shut out. The own­ers of the Tun­nel, Nation­al Grid, are mov­ing to close it for good and
destroy any hope of future alter­na­tives to the car mon­ster.

A walk/bike ride is planned for Decem­ber 8th, to coin­cide with the nation­al cli­mate march, but oth­er ideas for action are most wel­come.
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-goodbye-to-woodhead.html
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/or>

11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008

Get involved in the cam­paign to pro­tect Tas­ma­ni­a’s old growth forests.

Don’t fly but still want to help? Then please con­sid­er hold­ing a film night or fund-rais­er, or become a mem­ber of the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre.
http://www.huon.org/

12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION

Sol­i­dar­i­ty would be huge­ly appre­ci­at­ed as Indi­a’s Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of British min­ing cor­po­ra­tion Vedan­ta to be able to mine the Niyami­giri Hills in Oris­sa. This could lead to the death
of thou­sands of peo­ple and will set a prece­dent for the min­ing of all of Indi­a’s forests.

25,000 farm­ers are to form a human chain around one of the worlds largest dams in protest against this devel­op­ment.

Feel like con­tact­ing Vedan­ta to tell them how you feel?

By email; investorrelations@vedantaresources.com

By post; Vedan­ta Resources plc
16 Berke­ley Street
Lon­don W1J 8DZ

http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6348

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07

Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide marked Buy Noth­ing Day with a rat race. Activists cre­at­ed a mobile rat race that stopped off at the city’s busiest malls and high streets.
Peo­ple in rat cos­tumes scur­ried hith­er and thith­er through a maze built from plac­ards read­ing; Work Hard­er, Earn More Mon­ey, Buy More Things, Keep Going… Mean­while Fat Cats advised that hap­pi­ness was just around the cor­ner if the rats would only keep shop­ping!
A thou­sand leaflets were hand­ed out and many passers-by expressed their sup­port.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/237
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html

For reports of Buy Noth­ing Day in Leeds, Lon­don, Edin­burgh and Man­ches­ter see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17851

2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07

On Novem­ber 21st Lon­don Ris­ing Tide inter­rupt­ed del­e­gates at the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit, held at Sel­f­ridges Hotel, cen­tral Lon­don. Free shares for pre-Emis­sions Trad­ing Scheme atmos­phere were giv­en out to each
del­e­gate at the con­fer­ence.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>The pro­test­ers were high­light­ing the huge risk of accel­er­at­ed cli­mate change through flights.

The ETS scheme will allow the indus­try to claim envi­ron­men­tal cre­den­tials when in fact stop­ping air­port expan­sion and reduc­ing flights is what is required. The fact that these per­mits will be auc­tioned at a bar­gain price will fur­ther add to the lack of impact that this scheme will have on the avi­a­tion indus­try.
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/399

3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07

Ris­ing Tide activists block­ad­ed a coal train on its way into the world’s biggest coal export port, at Koor­a­gang Island in New­cas­tle Har­bour. No trains are able to enter Koor­a­gang Coal Ter­mi­nal because of the block­ade.
“When faced with an over­whelm­ing prob­lem and a Gov­ern­ment unwill­ing or unable to take action to solve the prob­lem, it is the duty of all cit­i­zens to take action on the community’s behalf…There is no way Aus­tralia can con­tin­ue pass­ing the buck on cli­mate change. We are the biggest per capi­ta emit­ter of green­house gas­es and the biggest coal exporter in the world.”
(spokesper­son for Ris­ing Tide, Georgina Woods)
http://www.risingtide.org.au/coaltrainblockade

4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07

Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­test­ers from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.
The team of pro­test­ers, wear­ing t‑shirts embla­zoned with No Third Run­way, hand­ed out copies of the Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-disrupt-parliamentary-committee-future-baa

5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07

Green­peace activists occu­pied the Mun­morah coal-fired pow­er sta­tion today. A Green­peace activist pushed the but­ton to stop the con­vey­or belt. Now it’s time to push the emer­gency switch on all coal pow­er plants.
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/coal-kills-shut-down
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>

6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07

On Sat­ur­day 24 Novem­ber, protests were held at 36 Total petrol sta­tions across the UK. The protests called upon Total Oil to pull out of Bur­ma and stop financ­ing the Burmese mil­i­tary regime. Protest loca­tions includ­ed Brad­ford, Brighton, Chatham, Cardiff, Guernsey, Lon­don, Man­ches­ter, Oxford and Vir­gina Water. Some sta­tions were block­ad­ed and all the protests received great sup­port from the motor­ing and pedes­tri­an pub­lic.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17852

Also on the 13th Novem­ber, cam­paign­ers block­ad­ed a Total garage on Oxford Road, Man­ches­ter. http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17820

7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07

In the ear­ly hours of a Sun­day morn­ing, cli­mate activists made a bold state­ment about glob­al warm­ing with a ban­ner drop from a four-storey build­ing.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6352

8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07

While the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to flare gas in Nige­ria claim­ing lack of funds, peo­ple are tak­ing action…

On the 9th, sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against Shell demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has unleashed on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17808

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Ross­port and Nige­ria, the Shell petrol sta­tion on Dal­ry Road, Edin­burgh was block­ad­ed for 2 hours on the 11th by 20 peo­ple includ­ing mem­bers of the Clown Army. The Comis­ton Shell Petrol
Sta­tion was sub­ject­ed to a night-time redec­o­ra­tion.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17805
Ross­port: Anoth­er Sea­son of Resis­tance is an excel­lent indy­media update.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386253.html

Also in the news; The Adver­tis­ing Stan­dards Agency (ASA) has upheld a com­plaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil com­pa­ny’s claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flow­ers.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/shell_advert_is_ruled_misl_01112007.html

9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07

BP’s hopes of draw­ing a line under its prob­lems in the US after agree­ing a $380m (£184m) set­tle­ment with the author­i­ties have been dealt a blow by a legal chal­lenge over the fatal explo­sion at its Texas City refin­ery. An
attor­ney for vic­tims of the blast, has asked a fed­er­al judge to reject the set­tle­ment, say­ing it is “shock­ing­ly lenient”.
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/42/2/

10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07

Novem­ber ebul­letin from the Per­ma­cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion (Britain).
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php

11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

For a report on the grass-roots Tri­bunal into Cli­mate Jus­tice in Bogotá, see;
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26987&search_text=colombia

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