Weekend of Action and Workshops at Mainshill Solidarity Camp

RESIST new coal! Stop cli­mate chaos!

Sat 28th Nov — Tues 1st Dec

RESIST new coal! Stop cli­mate chaos!

Sat 28th Nov — Tues 1st Dec

While politi­cians are set to add more air to the cli­mate pres­sure cook­er in Copen­hagen, the UK gov­ern­ment is push­ing ahead with dou­bling the num­ber of open­cast coal mines in the coun­try. In the past 18 months 14 com­pa­nies have applied to dig near­ly 60 mil­lion tonnes of coal from 58 new or enlarged open­cast mines. With our cli­mate under immi­nent threat, this is just insane and needs to be stopped. So what bet­ter place than Main­shill for kick­ing off a Decem­ber of direct action against cli­mate crim­i­nals at home and abroad?

The Main­shill camp is occu­py­ing the site of a new open cast coal mine in Lanark­shire with lots of local sup­port and seri­ous­ly delay­ing work with dig­ger div­ing, drill rig occu­pa­tions and sab­o­tage actions.

Join us for our open week­end Sat 28 Nov — Tues 1st Dec. There’ll be direct action work­shops, legal brief­in­gs and a guid­ed tour of the site on Sat and Sun, plus what­ev­er actions peo­ple are up for. Or come up any time!

There’s lots and lots to do — not only are con­trac­tors busy felling trees on site, there are also four open­cast coal mines with­in spit­ting dis­tance of Main­shill, as well as the Raven­struther coal rail depot.

From jump­ing on machin­ery and build­ing momen­tum and sup­port in the com­mu­ni­ty, to chop­ping wood and clean­ing out the com­post loos — there’s some­thing for every­one!

A brochure of coal tar­gets in Scot­land plus Dig­ger Div­ing for Begin­ners
can be found at http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=10

WHAT TO BRING:
*warm clothes, boots and water­proofs, a tent, sleep­ing bag and mat *tools for build­ing work and action mate­ri­als if you can *Most impor­tant­ly bring your­self and friends.

FOOD:
There’ll be com­mu­nal veg­an food for a dona­tion, so come pre­pared to help with chop­ping veg.

GETTING THERE:
The camp is right next to junc­tion 12 of the M74, which runs from Carlisle
to Glas­gow. The near­est train sta­tions are Lanark and Hamil­ton and there
are fre­quent direct busses to the site.
Email us if you need a lift from the train sta­tion.

Detailed trav­el direc­tions:
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=415

MORE INFO AND CONTACT:
info@leaveitintheground.org.uk
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=827

Please note: Peo­ple arrest­ed at Main­shill are held overnight, then tak­en to the Sher­if­f’s Court in Lanark­shire on the next day before being released. If you are plan­ning to take action, make sure you’ve got the next day off too.