Invitation to the Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth Power Station: August 3–11 2008

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Invi­ta­tion to the Camp for Cli­mate Action at Kingsnorth Pow­er Sta­tion

Day of Mass Action at Kingsnorth: Sat­ur­day August 9th, 2008

www.climatecamp.org.uk
Low-impact liv­ing // edu­ca­tion // high-impact direct action

This sum­mer the Camp for Cli­mate Action will pitch its tents out­side
Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent for a week of edu­ca­tion,
sus­tain­able liv­ing and direct action. Every­one is invit­ed to the camp,
which is now part of an inter­na­tion­al move­ment, with eight cli­mate camps
on four con­ti­nents planned for this sum­mer. Togeth­er, we will show that
the blind pur­suit of eco­nom­ic growth at any cost is sim­ply insane, and
is to blame for the CO2 emis­sions and ecosys­tem destruc­tion that are
caus­ing cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change.

Get out the diary, here’s the plan:

In late July this year’s camp will begin with a one-day event at
Heathrow, which will con­tin­ue the fight against air­port expan­sion and
sup­port the peo­ple who wel­comed us into their com­mu­ni­ties last year.

Next, every­one is invit­ed to trav­el togeth­er over a num­ber of days
across Lon­don to Kingsnorth in Kent (around 50 miles in total).
March­ing through Lon­don high­lights the polit­i­cal links between avi­a­tion,
coal and agro­fu­els: Cen­tral Lon­don’s investors, indus­try lob­by­ists and
PR com­pa­nies all deter­mine what gets built and what gets passed off as
‘solu­tions’.

The camp will con­verge on Kingsnorth pow­er sta­tion where own­ers E.ON
plan to build the UK’s first coal-fired plant in 30 years. The sci­ence
shows that expand­ing the fos­sil fuel econ­o­my must stop. Yet, with­out a
force­ful cam­paign against this mad­ness, gov­ern­ment and busi­ness are set to
build a pow­er sta­tion that will burn the dirt­i­est of all fos­sil fuels.

The camp will bring togeth­er thou­sands of peo­ple for a week of
work­shops, dis­cus­sion and direct action. Run with­out lead­ers by every­one
who comes along, the camp will be a work­ing eco­log­i­cal vil­lage using
renew­able ener­gy, com­post­ing waste and sourc­ing food local­ly.

Cli­mate campers will not only high­light pos­i­tive solu­tions, but will
also take direct action against two dri­vers of cli­mate change:

Wednes­day August 6th: Day of Action against Agro­fu­els. Agro­fu­els are
fast replac­ing rain­forests and agri­cul­ture for food pro­duc­tion, mean­ing
more hunger, CO2 emis­sions, and bio­di­ver­si­ty loss. They must be stopped.
Join us on this day of action, details to fol­low.

Sat­ur­day August 9th: Day of Mass Action against Kingsnorth coal-fired
pow­er sta­tion. The pow­er sta­tion must not and will not be built! This
promis­es to be an epic moment in the bat­tle against cli­mate change. If
you can only make it for the day, not to wor­ry: trains run from Cen­tral
Lon­don to Kingsnorth, every few min­utes and take less than an hour.

Too much to man­age? They said that last year, and look what we pulled
off. We say — we must be auda­cious; the Camp for Cli­mate Action is just
warm­ing up! We are the last gen­er­a­tion that can avert cat­a­stroph­ic
cli­mate change, so come and play your part!

For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.climatecamp.org.uk and join our email
list at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/climatecamp

***Impor­tant dates***

Late July: Heathrow event and trav­el to Kingsnorth. Details soon…
Sun­day August 3th: Camp set up. We’ll all make the camp hap­pen togeth­er.
Mon­day August 4th-10th: Work­shops, net­work­ing and action train­ing.
Wednes­day August 6th: Day of Action against Agro­fu­els
Sat­ur­day August 9th: Day of Mass Action against Kingsnorth coal-fired
pow­er sta­tion
Mon­day August 11th: Help return the camp­ing field back to nature.