Category: Aviation and Roads

All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

The UK’s only Hum­mer deal­er­ship, Bauer Mil­lett, was also locked shut with a D‑lock.

Stick­ers have also start­ed appear­ing all over Man­ches­ter with “The Tide is Ris­ing” and a blue line…see ear­li­er post about a ban­ner drop, http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17886

Earth First!

Women Climate Activists Blockade the Department for Transport

7.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

Women blockade DfTWomen blockade DfT 27.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

This protest is part of a grow­ing direct action move­ment against cli­mate change inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action (1). On Wednes­day over 30 cli­mate activists includ­ing the colum­nist George Mon­biot invad­ed and occu­pied Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. On 28th Novem­ber, 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 in protest at the Heathrow expan­sion plans. This week­end thou­sands of peo­ple will march on the streets of Lon­don to protest about cli­mate change. This protest is a call to all to stand up and take action against the gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions who are fuel­ing cli­mate chaos.

Why the DfT?

Trans­port is the fastest grow­ing source of cli­mate change gas­es in the UK, now account­ing for 26% of emis­sions (2). In a time when we des­per­ate­ly need to reduce emis­sions, the DfT plans to build more roads and more air­ports encour­ag­ing us to dri­ve and fly more. The DfT was tar­get­ted dur­ing the Camp for Cli­mate Action in August, and women have returned today to re-empha­sise the role of our gov­ern­ment in dan­ger­ous trans­port expan­sion plans. Groups will con­tin­ue to return to the DfT until the gov­ern­ment reviews its poli­cies.

Why women?

Women have act­ed today in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the res­i­dents of Sip­son, espe­cial­ly the women who con­tin­ue to cam­paign to pro­tect their homes, despite bul­ly­ing and pres­sure from BAA, and the women all over the world who fight every­day to sur­vive in the face of increas­ing cli­mate chaos.

NO 3rd run­way at Heathrow

Avi­a­tion is already the fastest grow­ing source of UK car­bon diox­ide emis­sions (3), and these emis­sions are released high in the atmos­phere mean­ing we feel their effects imme­di­ate­ly. Heathrow is already the busiest air­port in the world. Build­ing a third run­way will lead to even more flights and more pol­lu­tion. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty recent­ly con­clud­ed that it will be impos­si­ble to meet the gov­ern­men­t’s own tar­get for a 60 per cent car­bon reduc­tion by 2050 with­out curb­ing avi­a­tion growth (4)

NO M1 Widen­ing

The DfT is build­ing a £5 bil­lion 115 mile long expan­sion of the M1 with an increase of 186,092 tonnes of CO2 every year (5). Is this tak­ing cli­mate change seri­ous­ly? We call for a scrap­ping of the cur­rent and pro­posed schemes up and down the length of the M1.

NO green wash

We call for a reduc­tion in trans­port, and reject dan­ger­ous green wash such as ‘bio­fu­els’ and car­bon off­set­ting. We can­not con­tin­ue with relent­less growth on a finite plan­et. We all need to reduce con­sump­tion, and our car­bon emis­sions. (6)

Jane Wil­son, on the protest says, “The gov­ern­ment does not like to admit it , but we can­not sus­tain our cur­rent lev­els of con­sump­tion or the growth econ­o­my and stop cli­mate change. Its time to stop tin­ker­ing at the edges and wake up to the real­i­ty of the threat & take seri­ous and dras­tic action. We have to cre­ate a soci­ety that is less depen­dent on ener­gy, and that is more local­ly self-suf­fi­cient.”

Notes for Edi­tors:

1 The Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 (www.climatecamp.org.uk) was a large protest and edu­ca­tion­al event at Heathrow this year, high­light­ing the link between the avi­a­tion indus­try and cli­mate change.

2 The Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port (www.bettertransport.org.uk)

3 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

4 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

5 Bio­fu­el­watch (www.biofuelwatch.org.uk)

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Update and out­come

In the end: Hav­ing shut the DFT for over two hours, eight women who were locked or glued to the doors of the DFT were arrest­ed, held all day in Bel­gravia Police Sta­tion and then released on bail.

They are all charged with offences under SOCPA (seri­ous organ­ised crime and police act). At least one more was sum­moned to appear under SOCPA, although not arrest­ed.

Total amount of women involved was around twen­ty. They’re all ace and of course this is only the begin­ning of women pitch­ing in to stop cli­mate chaos on their own terms.

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One of these women, hav­ing been released on bail for SOCPA, was rear­rest­ed at the Dec 8 March in Lon­don, for being in the SOCPA zone!!

She was held until Mon­day 10th when the court saw her and threw out the bail-breach on the grounds that she should nev­er had had such bail con­di­tions.

Anoth­er exam­ple of the MET endear­ing them­selves to us then.

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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Plane Stupid Disrupt Parliamentary Committee In Commons

28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors 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.

3rd runway parliamentary committee disrupted28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors 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 pro­tes­tors wore t‑shirts embla­zoned with “No Third Run­way” inter­rupt­ed the inquiry into “The future of BAA” and hand­ed out copies of a Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.

Plane Stu­pid accuse the Gov­ern­ment of pre-judg­ing the deci­sion on the Third Run­way and ignor­ing recent sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence about the impacts air­port expan­sion would bring upon cli­mate change.

Activist for Plane Stu­pid, Richard George, said:

“The Gov­ern­ment are spin­ning that they want an open and thor­ough con­sul­ta­tion on expand­ing Heathrow but they’re ignor­ing mass oppo­si­tion and sci­en­tists’ warn­ings and are col­lud­ing with BAA to con­crete over pub­lic debate.”

He added:

“Despite over­whelm­ing evi­dence of the impact of car­bon emis­sions from avi­a­tion — the gov­ern­ment are delib­er­ate­ly ignor­ing con­cerns about cli­mate change. The plan for a third run­way flies in the face of the sci­ence and were it approved it would pol­lute more than the whole of Kenya!”

MORE INFORMATION/INTERVIEWS:

www.planestupid.com
press@planestupid.com

You can watch the action at:
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/VideoPlayer.aspx?meetingId=488&rel=ok

Protesters invade the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit 2007

22.11.2007
For imme­di­ate release:
Pro­test­ers invade the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit 2007.

Aviation Emissions Trading Summit
22.11.2007
For imme­di­ate release:
Pro­test­ers invade the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit 2007.

— video and pho­tos to fol­low lat­er today.

Lon­don Ris­ing Tide today inter­rupt­ed del­e­gates at the , held at Sel­f­ridges Hotel, cen­tral Lon­don. They inter­rupt­ed pro­ceed­ings with an impromp­tu speech and pre­sen­ta­tion, of a box of atmos­phere. Free shares for pre Emis­sions Trad­ing Scheme atmos­phere were also giv­en out to each del­e­gate at the con­fer­ence.

Pro­test­ers from Lon­don Ris­ing Tide were at the con­fer­ence today to high­light the huge risk of accel­er­at­ed cli­mate change through flights.

This 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.

ETS is an easy way for the super pol­lut­ing avi­a­tion indus­try to cov­er them­selves with green­wash.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/
07708 794665

The back of the shares to the atmos­phere read:
We here­by grant you the right to make great per­son­al prof­it from the destruc­tion of the human race of which you are a part and from who’s exis­tence and mis­for­tune you have ben­e­fit­ed great­ly.

We grant you the right to own the air that we breath and to fill it with car­cino­gens and green house gasses.

If our gov­ern­ment does not sub­sidise you with a suf­fi­cient vol­ume of the air in which to store your pol­lu­tants, we grant you the right to buy farm­ing land and nat­ur­al for­est habi­tats from less for­tu­nate peo­ples, to evict them from their homes and to replace them with mono­cul­ture plan­ta­tions of euca­lyp­tus and man­go. We grant you the good for­tune to be too busy mak­ing mon­ey to find out about the con­se­quences of your actions for your fel­low human beings.

We grant you the right to avoid at all costs the invest­ment of your hard earned mon­ey into tech­nolo­gies free from fos­sil fuels. We rec­om­mend you spend lav­ish­ly to lob­by gov­ern­ment and do not get ahead of the game and out­smart your peers instead by devel­op­ing safe, car­bon-free meth­ods of trans­port.

May you for­ev­er con­tin­ue to blame your peers, your share­hold­ers, the pas­sen­gers, for the deci­sions you play your part in enact­ing. May you nev­er think to reduce your flights, to take a pos­i­tive action, to play your part in avert­ing dis­as­ter for your fel­low beings.

Car­bon Trad­ing. Not a way to tack­le cli­mate change.

www.risingtide.org.uk

Climate Action News Sheet, 73 November 2007

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) WILD LIE EXHIBITION PURSUES SHELL TO ABERYSTWYTH — 10–17.11.07

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) WILD LIE EXHIBITION PURSUES SHELL TO ABERYSTWYTH — 10–17.11.07
2) FREE FILM SCREENING OF ‘THE WARNING’ — LONDON, 12.11.07
3) TOTTERDOWN ART TRAIL — BRISTOL, 16–18.11.07
4) OXFORDSHIRE ECO-HOUSE OPEN DAYS — 24–25.11.07
5) BANNER PROTEST AT BIOFUELS CONFERENCE — LONDON, 27.11.07
6) CRITICAL MASS DATES AND UPDATES – OCT/NOV 2007
7) CLIMATE CHANGE BIKE RIDE / NATIONAL MARCH — LONDON, 8.12.07
8) BEYONDTV FESTIVAL — SWANSEA, 28.11.07–2.12.07
9) CLIMATE CAMP EXHIBITION ON TOUR — WINTER 2007
10) LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES — WINTER 2007
11) PLYMOUTH ENVIRONMENT CENTRE ART EXHIBITION – NOV/DEC 2007
12) EARTHFIRST MOOT / NEW ACTION UPDATE — WINTER 2007
13) FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) SONGS OF FREEDOM AT OPENING OF SHELL’S WILD LIE EXHIBITION — 27.10.07
2) NATIONAL DAY OF LOCAL ACTION VS. ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND — 15.10.07
3) PEOPLE’S BLOCKADE OF WORLD’S BIGGEST COAL PORT — AUSTRALIA, 3.11.07
4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS DISRUPT “CARBON TRAITORS” IN NEW YORK — 30.10.07
5) BP EXECUTIVE PIED AT EUROPE’S LARGEST BIOFUELS EVENT — 17.10.07
6) CAMP HOPE, GLOUCESTER — 20–21.10.07
7) PLANE STUPID AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT — 8.10.2007
8) GREENPEACE PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN POWER PLANT — 8.10.07
9) TOTAL BLOCKADES — OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2007
10) NUFFGLOBAL FILMS — NOVEMBER 2007
11) ESCALATING DEFLATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST 4X4S IN SWEDEN – OCT ‘07
12) DIRECT ACTION NEWS FROM GREECE — 7–15.10.07
13) BATH BOMB, ISSUE 4 — NOVEMBER 2007

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) WILD LIE EXHIBITION PURSUES SHELL TO ABERYSTWYTH — 10–17.11.07
Imme­di­ate­ly after host­ing the 2006 Shell Wildlife Pho­tog­ra­ph­er exhi­bi­tion (organ­ised by the Nat­ur­al His­to­ry Muse­um and BBC Wildlife mag­a­zine) Aberys­t­wyth Arts Cen­tre is show­ing our counter-exhi­bi­tion; ‘Shel­l’s Wild Lie’. http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/whatson/exhibitions/
‘Shel­l’s Wild Lie’, has been put togeth­er as part of Lon­don Ris­ing Tide’s ‘Art Not Oil’ cam­paign, and fea­tures pho­tographs and illus­tra­tions that we con­sid­er give a truer snap­shot of the dis­as­trous effects that Shell and the whole fos­sil fuel indus­try have on our plan­et:
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/gallery/v/Shell/
Book it your­self, and tell the Muse­um and BBC Wildlife what you think:
m.dixon@nhm.ac.uk, cc’ing to feedback@nhm.ac.uk,
wildlifeletters@bbcmagazinesbristol.com & info@artnotoil.org.uk

2) FREE FILM SCREENING, THE WARNING — LONDON, 12.11.07
The first UK screen­ing of the award-win­ning film “The Warn­ing” will be on 12th Novem­ber, 8pm at Pass­ing Clouds Works in Dal­ston, east Lon­don. This doc­u­men­tary charts the strug­gle of Siber­ian com­mu­ni­ties to pro­tect their sacred lands from preda­to­ry oil com­pa­nies. Pass­ing Clouds is behind ‘Uncle Sam’s’, which is on 438 Kings­land Road. Get there from Shored­itch /Old Street on the 242, 243, 67 or 149 bus­es.

3) TOTTERDOWN ART TRAIL — BRISTOL, 16–18.11.07
Includ­ing art, films and exhi­bi­tions con­nect­ed with cli­mate change and peak oil. www.frontroom.org.uk

4) OXFORDSHIRE ECO-HOUSE OPEN DAYS — 24–25.11.07
Are you plan­ning to ren­o­vate your house in the most envi­ron­men­tal way pos­si­ble? Do you want to slash ener­gy bills and make your house warmer and health­i­er? Are you sell­ing your house and want to improve its poor ener­gy rat­ing? Do you want to pre­pare for life in the cli­mate change cen­tu­ry? 18 eco-hous­es in Oxford­shire are open­ing their doors to the pub­lic to share the tech­niques, prod­ucts and pos­si­bil­i­ties of eco-ren­o­va­tion. This is a superb oppor­tu­ni­ty to see a wide range of approach­es and talk to the house own­ers direct­ly about their expe­ri­ences.
www.ecovation.org.uk
www.coinet.org.uk

5) BANNER PROTEST AT BIOFUELS CONFERENCE — LONDON, 27.11.07
This will take place out­side the Bio­fu­el Finance and Invest­ment World Con­fer­ence at Roy­al Gar­den Hotel, Kens­ing­ton High Street (near High Street Kens­ing­ton tube sta­tion) on Tues­day, 27th Novem­ber, 12 noon to 2pm.
Bio­fu­el invest­ment means more glob­al warm­ing, more defor­esta­tion, more peo­ple going hun­gry because of high­er food prices and food short­ages, and more human rights abus­es and refugees as agribusi­ness­es take con­trol over ever larg­er areas of land.
www.biofuelwatch.org.uk

6) CRITICAL MASS DATES AND UPDATES — OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2007
Sheffield; last Fri­day of the month, 5:30pm at the Uni­ver­si­ty Con­course.
Lon­don; last Fri­day of the month, 6:00pm under Water­loo Bridge by the NFT, South Bank. Next ride Novem­ber 23rd 2007.
http://criticalmasslondon.org.uk/main.html
For reports on the Octo­ber rides see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6274

7) CLIMATE CHANGE BIKE RIDE / NATIONAL MARCH — LONDON, 8.12.07
Sat­ur­day 8 Decem­ber, Cyclists assem­ble 10am Lin­col­n’s Inn Fields. Cycling to Par­lia­ment Square to link up with main march to US Embassy, (timed to coin­cide with the UN cli­mate talks in Bali). Marchers assem­ble 12 noon Mill­bank for main march. [West­min­ster Tube]
2.30 pm Ral­ly at US embassy. Speak­ers include Chris Huhne MP, Michael Meach­er MP, Car­o­line Lucas MEP, Zac Gold­smith, George Mon­biot. The Nation­al Demo in Lon­don will be one of many glob­al cli­mate demon­stra­tions tak­ing place on the 8th.
http://www.campaigncc.org

8) BEYONDTV FESTIVAL — SWANSEA, 28.11.07–2.12.07
Under­cur­rents will host the 8th annu­al BEYONDTV fes­ti­val of polit­i­cal doc­u­men­taries, ani­ma­tions and music videos from inspir­ing media direc­tors. All films will have a theme of social or envi­ron­men­tal activism. Host­ed in the very heart of Swansea, BeyondTV promis­es to be an enter­tain­ing week with all pro­ceeds going to to sup­port the char­i­ty work of under­cur­rents.
http://beyondtvfestival.clearerchannel.org/whatisbtv

9) CLIMATE CAMP EXHIBITION ON TOUR — WINTER 2007
The Cli­mate Camp exhi­bi­tion doc­u­ments in sound, words, instal­la­tions and images the life, work­shops and direct action of those ten busy days in August. It exam­ines the issues and think­ing of peo­ple who seek to stop the world sleep­walk­ing into a dis­as­ter that is man­i­fest­ly pre­ventable, but huge­ly prof­itable for a pow­er­ful few. This exhi­bi­tion will be tour­ing UK cities threat­ened by region­al air­port expan­sion.
Work­shops, talks and film screen­ings will appear at http://www.minimouse.me.uk/show as they are con­firmed.
Pho­tographs from the show are a selec­tion from those to be seen at
http://www.minimouse.me.uk/photographers.html

10) LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES — WINTER 2007
LILI will be run­ning 10 cours­es at a new venue called Unstone Grange (nr. Sheffield) and 28 one day cours­es at Hack­ney City Farm in Lon­don. For the full range of cours­es for 2007–2008, see;
http://www.lowimpact.org/courses.htm

11) PLYMOUTH ENVIRONMENT CENTRE ART EXHIBITION – NOV-DEC 2007
Ply­mouth Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre is hold­ing a fund-rais­ing art exhi­bi­tion and auc­tion at the B‑bar in the Bar­bi­can The­atre, Ply­mouth.
Exhi­bi­tion — Fri­day 23rd Novem­ber to Thurs­day 13th Decem­ber 2007
Auc­tion — Thurs­day 13th Decem­ber 2007 start­ing at 7pm
http://plymouthenvironmentcentre.org.uk/art_auction.php

12) EARTHFIRST MOOT / NEW ACTION UPDATE — WINTER 2007
To down­load the EF! Action Update and for advance notice of the Win­ter Moot (Feb­ru­ary gath­er­ing of eco-activists) see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6347

13) FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
The site is now run­ning and will be fill­ing up with images, ideas, graph­ics, posters, links…
Check for updates on what promis­es to be a mem­o­rable day of action.
http://www.fossilfoolsday.org

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) SONGS OF FREEDOM AT OPENING OF SHELL’S WILD LIE EXHIBITION — 27.10.07
15 or so folk from all over Car­bon Town gath­ered today to sing a new hymn of hope to an oil-free future in the co-opt­ed cathe­dral that is the Unnat­ur­al His­to­ry Muse­um, where the heart­break­ing­ly beau­ti­ful Shell Wildlife Pho­tog­ra­ph­er of the Year exhi­bi­tion has just opened. Grad­u­al­ly the singers were removed, gath­er­ing again on the pave­ment out­side with
images from the Shel­l’s Wild Lie exhi­bi­tion and more songs. Spir­its were high, and respons­es from the pub­lic love­ly and heart-warm­ing. No police were present. It still looks as if the cam­paign to get Shell kicked out as spon­sor might bear fruit — we’ll find out very soon if its 2 year con­tract will be renewed. Let’s keep the pres­sure up!
For a full report and what you can do to help, see;
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/231
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/39/1/
For a short film of the action, see;
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/384607.html

2) NATIONAL DAY OF LOCAL ACTION VS. ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND — 15.10.07
From Edin­burgh to Corn­wall, block­ades to invis­i­ble the­atre, polar bears to trea­cle tarts; RBS felt the sting today. All in all there were 32 actions across the coun­try includ­ing firsts for sev­er­al groups. Every­one is delight­ed with the phe­nom­e­nal response to the day of action…except RBS of course! The actions high­light­ed their role as one of the world’s
largest fun­ders of cli­mate-wreck­ing oil and gas extrac­tion. For full reports on the var­i­ous fan­tas­tic protests see;
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/230
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/383812.html
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/5176

3) THE PEOPLE’S BLOCKADE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST COAL PORT — AUSTRALIA,
3.11.07
Ris­ing Tide Aus­tralia esti­mate that about 400 peo­ple came to Horse­shoe Beach, New­cas­tle and that about 250 entered the ship­ping chan­nel to block­ade the world’s biggest coal port with canoes, kayaks and inner tubes. This was a fan­tas­tic show of com­mu­ni­ty deter­mi­na­tion to take action against Aus­trali­a’s biggest con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate change, despite
resis­tance from gov­ern­ment and indus­try. As well as being a pow­er­ful and sym­bol­ic action, the protest suc­ceed­ed in dis­rupt­ing coal exports from New­cas­tle Har­bour.
http://www.risingtide.org.au/peoplesblockadereport

4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS DISRUPT “CARBON TRAITORS” IN NEW YORK — 30.10.07
Ris­ing Tide North America’s Green­wash Guer­ril­las paid a sur­prise Hal­loween vis­it to the Car­bon Mar­ket Insights con­fer­ence in New York City. Pos­ing as del­e­gates, two pro­test­ers took the stage at the exclu­sive event and pre­sent­ed the 700 atten­dees with a “Deed to the Atmos­phere” denounc­ing Car­bon Trad­ing as a sham approach to the fos­sil fuels cri­sis. The action was the first in the US to tar­get the grow­ing Car­bon Trad­ing indus­try.
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/front-page/

5) BP EXECUTIVE PIED AT EUROPE’S LARGEST BIOFUELS EVENT — 17.10.07
A stunned audi­ence gasped as a cream-pie was launched at BP Bio­fu­els’ Europe & Africa Direc­tor Oliv­er Mace, while activists swarmed the stage and hand­ed out leaflets to atten­dees. One of the pro­test­ers D‑locked him­self to the podi­um, telling del­e­gates “we need to reduce our con­sump­tion now – tech­no­log­i­cal fix­es are not the answer.” Pan­ic alarms
were then set off around the room and the con­fer­ence was halt­ed.
There was also a demo out­side the event and a lock on block­ade at a D1 refin­ery. D1 are one of the biggest traders in bio­fu­el spe­cif­ic crops.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/384123.html
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/5205
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/expoprotests.php

6) CAMP HOPE, GLOUCESTER — 20–21.10.07
Camp Hope took place in a field oppo­site the entrance to Glouces­ter­shire Air­port on the week­end of 20/21 Octo­ber 2007. Activists set up the camp in protest at the pro­posed expan­sion and increased avi­a­tion at Staver­ton in Glouces­ter. Work­shops and dis­cus­sions includ­ed those giv­en by; Bicy­col­o­gy, Plane Stu­pid, Seeds For Change, Stop Bris­tol Air­port Expan­sion and Bio­fu­el­watch.
http://www.myspace.com/campofhope

7) PLANE STUPID AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT — 8.10.2007
Activists from Man­ches­ter Cli­mate Action and Man­ches­ter Plane Stu­pid block­ad­ed the secu­ri­ty check-in of ter­mi­nal 3 of Man­ches­ter Air­port. Pas­sen­gers were denied access to the depar­ture lounge by sev­en activists locked togeth­er using arm-tube devices. Leaflets and train timeta­bles were hand­ed out. Two ban­ners were unfurled read­ing, Man­ches­ter City Council…supporting cli­mate chaos and Domes­tic flights cost the Earth. The action was inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/climate-change-activists-blockade-domestic-flights

8) GREENPEACE PROTESTORS SHUT DOWN POWER PLANT — 8.10.07
Green­peace cam­paign­ers staged a dawn raid at a pow­er plant which could be the site of Britain’s first new coal-fired sta­tion for 20 years. More than 50 activists said they want­ed Prime Min­is­ter Gor­don Brown to reject the pro­pos­al for the Kingsnorth site, on the Hoo Penin­su­la, in Kent. After enter­ing the site, one team locked on to con­vey­or belts while anoth­er team climbed to the top of the chim­ney.
http://greenpeace.org.uk/tags/kingsnorth

9) TOTAL BLOCKADES — OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2007
A wave of demon­stra­tions against the oil giant Total and its role in sup­port­ing the bru­tal regime in Bur­ma have tak­en place in Lon­don, Brad­ford, Cardiff and Oxford. While not strict­ly cli­mate-based, these protests keep the spot­light on crim­i­nals like Total. Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democ­ra­cy leader, said that “Total has become the main sup­port­er of the Burmese mil­i­tary regime.” She told the French week­ly Le Nou­v­el Obser­va­teur that “Total knew what it was doing when it invest­ed mas­sive­ly in Bur­ma while oth­ers with­drew from the mar­ket for eth­i­cal rea­sons”.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/5122 & 5137, 5204, 5207 & 6346

10) NUFFGLOBAL FILMS — NOVEMBER 2007
NUF­F­glob­al film fes­ti­val sup­port­ed a project to pro­duce 25 short films on dif­fer­ent aspects of cli­mate change made by young film-mak­ers from around the world. For more info and to watch the clips online see;
http://nuffglobal.net/

11) ESCALATING DEFLATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST 4X4S IN SWEDEN – OCT ‘07
One thou­sand 4x4s have now been dis­armed by The Indi­ans of the Con­crete Jun­gle! The cam­paign is spread­ing like wild­fire, prompt­ing nation­al debate and furi­ous aggres­sion among SUV-own­ers.
http://asfaltsdjungelnsindianer.wordpress.com/

12) DIRECT ACTION NEWS FROM GREECE — 7–15 OCTOBER 2007
http://directactiongr.blogspot.com

13) BATH BOMB, ISSUE 4 — NOVEMBER 2007
For the 4th edi­tion of Bath’s pre­miere rad­i­cal tabloid see; http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/385124.html

Com­piled and sent out by Ris­ing Tide UK: info at risingtide.org.uk
To receive this News Sheet month­ly, email news-sub­scribe at risingtide.org.uk
with the sub­ject line ‘sub­scribe’ (with­out the quotes).

Autumn EF! Action Update out — and advance notice of the Winter Moot, 22–24 February (gathering of eco-activists), Nottingham

The lat­est issue of the quar­ter­ly EF!AU was dished up at the Anar­chist Book­fair — burst­ing at the seams, it had to be turned into a bumper issue, with a round-up of the actions around the time of the Camp for Cli­mate Action, plus loads of action reports from around the world since then — from pieing oil exec­u­tives, blockad­ing garages & air­ports, polar bears lock­ing-on, sab­o­tage, pris­on­ers, occu­pied spaces, dig­ger-div­ing, GM crop-trash­ing, to cake and the cun­ning use of mung beans (oh, and of course, much much more).

The lat­est issue of the quar­ter­ly EF!AU was dished up at the Anar­chist Book­fair — burst­ing at the seams, it had to be turned into a bumper issue, with a round-up of the actions around the time of the Camp for Cli­mate Action, plus loads of action reports from around the world since then — from pieing oil exec­u­tives, blockad­ing garages & air­ports, polar bears lock­ing-on, sab­o­tage, pris­on­ers, occu­pied spaces, dig­ger-div­ing, GM crop-trash­ing, to cake and the cun­ning use of mung beans (oh, and of course, much much more).

Down­load it to print out and share here. Do get in touch with the edi­to­r­i­al col­lec­tive to let them know if you’re dish­ing it up round your way, or need paper copies, or want to give them one of the rar­er ingre­di­ents, dosh (to send it to pris­on­ers, protest camps and far beyond) — their con­tact details and more are here

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The EF! Win­ter Moot will hap­pen from 22nd — 24th Feb­ru­ary 2008, in Not­ting­ham — more details near­er the time, as this is just advance notice.

It’s a gath­er­ing for envi­ron­men­tal activists — in the past, it’s been a chance for peo­ple involved in all kinds of eco­log­i­cal direct action to get togeth­er for a week­end indoors to chat about where things are at in the UK, and so improve all aspects of how we work togeth­er, in order to take direct action in defence of the earth.

Con­tact 0845–0223 5254 for more info

Activists set up “Camp Hope” at Gloucester Airport

Activists have set up Camp Hope at Glouces­ter Air­port in a protest over pro­posed expan­sion and increased avi­a­tion at Staver­ton in Glouces­ter

Camp Hope 1Camp Hope 2Activists have set up Camp Hope at Glouces­ter Air­port in a protest over pro­posed expan­sion and increased avi­a­tion at Staver­ton in Glouces­ter

Peace­ful protest against the air­port’s impacts on noise, the envi­ron­ment, and the area’s image

The air­port claims “only a small minor­i­ty are opposed to the devel­op­ment,” Come and show them that you are not part of a small minor­i­ty by mak­ing your voice heard.

This cam­paign is about more than an air­port. It is about our resolve to adapt to cli­mate change.

You can come and camp for the week­end, or just come for the Sat­ur­day or Sun­day.

For more infor­ma­tion email CampForTheFuture@btinternet.com

Take Action at Camp Hope 20th/21st Octo­ber. A Cli­mate Camp @ Staver­ton Air­port, Glouces­ter­shire.

Camp Hope 20th/21st Octo­ber, Staver­ton Air­port, Glouces­ter­shire Air­port

At a loca­tion close to the air­port, see

http://www.myspace.com/campofhope

http://CampForHopeAtStaverton.blogspot.com/

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and on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/radical_images/sets/72157602561523510/

Activist Film Festival is seeking submissions

Under­cur­rents is call­ing for sub­mis­sions of short videos and ani­ma­tions on the theme of the fes­ti­val: social jus­tice and envi­ron­men­tal action.

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Sub­ject: Polit­i­cal Activist videos want­ed
From: under­cur­rents

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF FILMS

FOR BEYONDTV FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 2007

What is BEYONDTV?
From Novem­ber 28 to Decem­ber 2, 2007, Rad­i­cal media char­i­ty, Under­cur­rents will host the 8th annu­al BEYONDTV fes­ti­val of polit­i­cal doc­u­men­taries, ani­ma­tions and music videos from inspir­ing media direc­tors.

Under­cur­rents is call­ing for sub­mis­sions of short videos and ani­ma­tions on the theme of the fes­ti­val: social jus­tice and envi­ron­men­tal action.

Impor­tant Note: We do not screen dra­mas using actors

BEYONDTV will be host­ed at the Dylan Thomas Cen­tre and Tal­iesin Cin­e­ma Swansea from Novem­ber 28 — Decem­ber 2, 2007

More details at http://www.beyondtvfestival.info
beyondtv@undercurrents.org

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Swansea
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UK

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE DOMESTIC FLIGHTS IN MANCHESTER AIRPORT PROTEST

8.10.2007
Activists from Man­ches­ter Cli­mate Action and Man­ches­ter Plane Stu­pid have block­ad­ed the secu­ri­ty check-in of ter­mi­nal 3 of Man­ches­ter Air­port. Pas­sen­gers are being denied access to the depar­ture lounge by sev­en activists locked togeth­er using arm-tube devices. Two ban­ners have been unfurled read­ing, “Man­ches­ter City Council…supporting cli­mate chaos” and “Domes­tic flights cost the Earth”. Oth­er pro­test­ers are leaflet­ing pas­sen­gers with infor­ma­tion about avi­a­tion and cli­mate change as well as hand­ing out train timeta­bles for route des­ti­na­tions.

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MCR airport action 58.10.2007
Activists from Man­ches­ter Cli­mate Action and Man­ches­ter Plane Stu­pid have block­ad­ed the secu­ri­ty check-in of ter­mi­nal 3 of Man­ches­ter Air­port. Pas­sen­gers are being denied access to the depar­ture lounge by sev­en activists locked togeth­er using arm-tube devices. Two ban­ners have been unfurled read­ing, “Man­ches­ter City Council…supporting cli­mate chaos” and “Domes­tic flights cost the Earth”. Oth­er pro­test­ers are leaflet­ing pas­sen­gers with infor­ma­tion about avi­a­tion and cli­mate change as well as hand­ing out train timeta­bles for route des­ti­na­tions.

Avi­a­tion is the fastest grow­ing source of green house gas­es and accord­ing to the gov­ern­ment is respon­si­ble for 13% of the UK’s glob­al warm­ing con­tri­bu­tion [1]. The over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of flights from ter­mi­nal 3 are to domes­tic UK des­ti­na­tions such as Lon­don Heathrow. These are the most unnec­es­sary flights. The group are call­ing for an end to all domes­tic and short-haul flights and for inter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion to be includ­ed in the Cli­mate Change Bill.

The pro­test­ers are also high­light­ing the con­tra­dic­tion between Man­ches­ter City Coun­cil’s ‘Green City’ ini­tia­tive and their 55% own­er­ship of Man­ches­ter air­port . The air­port intends to expand its annu­al pas­sen­ger num­bers from 22 mil­lion in 2005, to 39 mil­lion by 2015, to 50 mil­lion by 2030. [2]

Green Par­ty Coun­cil­lor Vanes­sa Hall, who is tak­ing part in the block­ade said, “Man­ches­ter Coun­cil say we need the income from the air­port to fight pover­ty. The Air­port costs the peo­ple of Man­ches­ter in tax breaks and sub­si­dies – this mon­ey should be invest­ed direct­ly into green indus­tries direct­ly cre­at­ing jobs and reliev­ing pover­ty. Cli­mate Change will have a mas­sive impact on our econ­o­my, health and
well-being. It is envi­ron­men­tal and eco­nom­ic luna­cy to con­sid­er any expan­sion of avi­a­tion. We can’t be a Green City with an expand­ing Air­port. I am blockad­ing domes­tic flights to high­light the true cost of fly­ing and to call the coun­cil to account for their hypocrisy.”

The action today was inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action which saw around 2000 pro­test­ers gath­er next to Heathrow air­port in Lon­don this sum­mer.

Rob­bie Gillett, also present at the protest said, “It is no longer social­ly accept­able to fly from Man­ches­ter to Lon­don giv­en what we know about cli­mate change. It’s absurd when there are train alter­na­tives read­i­ly avail­able. The mon­ey ear­marked for the expan­sion of British air­ports needs to be redi­rect­ed towards improv­ing our rail infra­struc­ture. We’re the last gen­er­a­tion who can stop cli­mate change and time is run­ning out.”

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Notes to Edi­tors
[ 1 ]. Source : www.aef.org.uk/campaigns/detail.php?art_id=579
[ 2 ] Source: ‘Man­ches­ter Air­port Draft Mas­ter Plan to 2030’. page 39

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A Greater Man­ches­ter Police spokesman said: “Just after 7.30am police were called to Ter­mi­nal Three at Man­ches­ter Air­port fol­low­ing reports of a protest.

“Offi­cers arrived at the entrance to the depar­tures lounge, where up to 12 pro­test­ers were pre­vent­ing pas­sen­gers from get­ting through.

“Police are cur­rent­ly work­ing with air­port staff to arrange alter­na­tive ways for pas­sen­gers to get into the depar­ture lounge, and con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion.”

A spokesman for the air­port said the pro­test­ers had not passed through secu­ri­ty checks.

“At the moment, pas­sen­gers can­not get through to secu­ri­ty, but we do have alter­na­tive ways of get­ting pas­sen­gers through,” he said.

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Video show­ing the begin­ning of the block­ade of Man­ches­ter Air­port Ter­mi­nal 3’s domes­tic secu­ri­ty check­ing zone. Pas­sen­gers are being denied access to the depar­ture lounge by sev­en activists locked togeth­er using arm-tube devices.

Video (mpg1) of Man­ches­ter air­port block­ade — video/mpeg 18M

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