Camp for Climate Action: mass action promo video, Heathrow conference & newspaper

CLIMATE CAMP MASS ACTION PROMO VIDEO

How to take down the fences at Kingsnorth & have fun while you’re at it! Watch it & for­ward to your mates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVaUYVF-Cfk

CLIMATE CAMP MASS ACTION PROMO VIDEO

How to take down the fences at Kingsnorth & have fun while you’re at it! Watch it & for­ward to your mates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVaUYVF-Cfk

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Cli­mate Camp goes back to Heathrow
Heathrow Con­fer­ence
Sat­ur­day 26th July, 12 noon — 5pm,
Har­ling­ton Bap­tist Church,
High St, Har­ling­ton

All Wel­come

Last August thou­sands of peo­ple spent a week camp­ing in a field in the vil­lage of Sip­son, which would be destroyed if Heathrow expan­sion went ahead, to draw atten­tion to the threat of cli­mate change. The event trans­formed Heathrow expan­sion into a nation­al and even inter­na­tion­al debate on how we respond to cli­mate change.

While this year we are con­cen­trat­ing our efforts at Kingsnorth where ener­gy giant E.ON the Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing to build a new coal-fired pow­er sta­tion, we have not for­got­ten Heathrow. So, we decid­ed to organ­ise a con­fer­ence to dis­cuss with local res­i­dents and envi­ron­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions the next steps in the cam­paign to stop Heathrow expan­sion, titled:

“What do we do if the worst comes to the worst and the Gov­ern­ment says ‘yes’?

The con­fer­ence brings togeth­er the Camp for Cli­mate Action, local cam­paign groups HACAN and NoTRAG (No Third Run­way Action Group), and Green­peace to dis­cuss a broad strat­e­gy against expan­sion. This is the first time that local cam­paign groups and inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions have teamed up with the Camp for Cli­mate Action to stage an event. We see this cross-fer­til­i­sa­tion of ideas and expe­ri­ence as essen­tial parts of Cli­mate Camp strat­e­gy to devel­op a diverse social move­ment against cli­mate change and for social jus­tice.

The con­fer­ence will focus on fus­ing our dif­fer­ent ideas on how to stop expan­sion, from polit­i­cal lob­by­ing to mass direct action, so we can all sup­port each oth­ers efforts. More than that, we hope that we can learn from each oth­er and devel­op new ideas that can have broad appeal.

The day will begin at 12 noon with short intro­duc­to­ry talks on the lat­est state of play, on the impli­ca­tions of expan­sion for noise, cli­mate change and com­mu­ni­ty destruc­tion, and around ideas for effec­tive cam­paign­ing. After lunch, the bulk of the day will involve more struc­tured dis­cus­sions around mov­ing for­ward togeth­er, fol­lowed by a final ple­nary ses­sion.

We’ve had con­for­ma­tion that in addi­tion to many cli­mate campers and local res­i­dents, politi­cians and trade union­ists will be attend­ing, so it looks like being an excit­ing event!

The fol­low­ing day Camp for Cli­mate Action will set off in ‘a cli­mate car­a­van’ on their jour­ney to Kingsnorth in Kent where this year’s camp will be held.

Direc­tions to the Con­fer­ence are:

Heathrow Con­fer­ence
Har­ling­ton Bap­tist Church,
High St, Har­ling­ton

About 8 min­utes walk from Bath Road.
Take the 90 bus from Feltham, Hat­ton Cross or Hayes and Har­ling­ton Sta­tion;
Or take the 140 from Heathrow or Hayes and Har­ling­ton Sta­tion
Or the H98 from Houn­slow, Cran­ford or Hayes and Har­ling­ton Sta­tion.- all stop out­side the church.

NB there is only lim­it­ed park­ing avail­able.

The event is free but small dona­tions on the day towards lunch and venue hire will be wel­come!

Feel free to just turn up but it would be ide­al if you could let us know before if you will be com­ing. Email info@hacan.org.uk or call John Stew­art on 020 7737 6641

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Cli­mate camp news­pa­per [5.3MB] at http://climatecamp.org.uk/themes/ccamptheme/files/paper.pdf