Camp Bling announces emergency relaunch/new website on third anniversary.

Press release:

Camp Bling ‘Save Pri­o­ry Park!’ road cam­paign

Wednes­day 17th Sep­tem­ber 2008

Con­tact Camp Bling direct­ly on 07866 967601

Or e‑mail camp.bling@yahoo.co.uk

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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Camp Bling announces emer­gency relaunch on third anniver­sary.

‘The glob­al sit­u­a­tion has changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly since the protest site was first set up specif­i­cal­ly to stop the road — both in terms of the over­all envi­ron­men­tal impacts and accel­er­at­ing pace.’ (www.campbling.org)

Pro­test­ers and sup­port­ers at Camp Bling will mark a third full year of occu­pa­tion to stop the con­tro­ver­sial Pri­o­ry Cres­cent road widen­ing on Tues­day 23rd Sep­tem­ber 2008 with an emer­gency relaunch to address envi­ron­men­tal cat­a­stro­phe as it unfolds and accel­er­ates around the world.

The camp are set to go live with new web­site: http://www.campbling.org on the anniver­sary date, to sup­port their objec­tive to stop the road widen­ing, whilst at the same time tak­ing a dra­mat­ic new turn to dis­cuss crit­i­cal issues such as con­sumer cul­ture, peak oil pro­duc­tion, mass extinc­tion, and the appro­pri­ate response to these and oth­er crises. (1)

Res­i­dent Gavin said, ‘we could not have pre­dict­ed how quick­ly the world was going to change when we first set up Camp Bling three years ago. Now we feel com­pelled to address the fun­da­men­tal need for lifestyle change dur­ing the com­ing crash, as west­ern soci­ety over­shoots the eco­log­i­cal lim­its of the earth.’

Lat­est mem­ber Paul added, ‘fund­ing towards the £13.5m Pri­o­ry Cres­cent scheme is unlike­ly to be grant­ed to the Coun­cil before 2011. A fur­ther three years defend­ing the site will pro­vide ample oppor­tu­ni­ty for us to begin to push a far more rad­i­cal agen­da. We have always walked the walk — now is the time for us to start talk­ing all about it.’ (2)

Peo­ple are invit­ed to vis­it both the vir­tu­al world of the new web­site, plus the real one of the road protest as the Blingers dig in for a fourth win­ter, with a com­pre­hen­sive revamp and ongo­ing build­ing work planned, and sup­port there­fore still very much required from the local com­mu­ni­ty.

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ENDS.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

1) See ‘Tip­ping points’ page at http://www.campbling.org/ for lat­est back­ground data and def­i­n­i­tion of peak oil the­o­ry.

2) Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil lat­est Pri­o­ry Cres­cent cost esti­mate of £11.5m pre­sent­ed to Depart­ment for Trans­port does not include £2m already spent to date.