Category: Climate Chaos

Shell due to restart work in Ireland soon

Shell will attempt to lay the off­shore pipe this Spring and prepa­ra­tion work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are deter­mined to stop this prepa­ra­tion work and so peo­ple are need­ed from mid-March — May.
We expect Shell to begin putting up secu­ri­ty fences and build­ing the com­pound very soon, pos­si­bly in the next few weeks…

Don't let Shell destroy this!Rossport Solidarity Camp logoShell will attempt to lay the off­shore pipe this Spring and prepa­ra­tion work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are deter­mined to stop this prepa­ra­tion work and so peo­ple are need­ed from mid-March — May.
We expect Shell to begin putting up secu­ri­ty fences and build­ing the com­pound very soon, pos­si­bly in the next few weeks…
get on our call out list: rossportsolidaritycamp-subscribe@lists.riseup.net and check www.indymedia.ie/mayo for updates

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp always wel­comes com­mit­ted & moti­vat­ed peo­ple to get more involved in the cam­paign, what­ev­er your expe­ri­ence or skills.
Come over & help out with actions, sup­port, house­keep­ing, equip­ment main­te­nance, PR, office work, media work, gar­den­ing etc

Please con­sid­er doing one of the fol­low­ing:
•Come vis­it Mayo:
You would be more than wel­come to stay at the camp. Find direc­tions here: http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com/directions.html
There are jobs for every­one to do from mak­ing ban­ners, doing actions or start­ing this year’s gar­den. There real­ly was a good vibe at the camp last autumn and we’re hop­ing for more of the same this time round. Con­tact the camp if you’re com­ing or if you have any ques­tions.

•Take action at Home
There’s a load than can be done from wher­ev­er you are. See http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com/support.html for some sug­ges­tions.
sol­i­dar­i­ty actions, info stalls, show­ing the cam­paign films, donate to the cam­paign, think of ideas for actions, put on a fundrais­er…
If you are inter­est­ed in help­ing to do research work about the new onshore pipeline appli­ca­tion please email us.

Win­ter update
Dur­ing the win­ter many court cas­es have been pro­ceed­ing against those who object local­ly, for a vari­ety of charges, from traf­fic offences, pub­lic order breach­es to Gar­da assaults. It goes with­out say­ing that no Gar­dai have been pros­e­cut­ed for their vicious assaults to date. While some fines and sus­pend­ed sen­tences have been hand­ed down, and Gar­dai have per­jured them­selves on the stand and the judges have lapped it up, no one has been found guilty of Gar­da assault to date (some cas­es had to be appealed to secure this). There are still many Shell to Sea cas­es before the courts, from local peo­ple refus­ing to bend to the cor­rupt will of Shell and the state. They need help to con­tin­ue resist­ing!

Shell have recent­ly put in plan­ning appli­ca­tions for the onshore sec­tion of the pipeline which can be seen here www.corribgaspipeline.com

The eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion has utter­ly changed and most peo­ple in the coun­try are seri­ous­ly ques­tion­ing cor­po­rate pow­er and gov­ern­ment sub­servience to that pow­er. Recent­ly even the Gar­daí took to the streets to oppose gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy (and no one threw them off the road!!!).
We are in a lot more favourable times to try to get our mes­sage and points across than this time last year.
We can win but we need your sup­port!

For trav­el direc­tions, leaflets, more info about the cam­paign pls check out:
http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com

Final update: Climate Camp in London’s Square Mile, April 1 2009.

Final update at bot­tom of sto­ry — Because nature does­n’t do bailouts.

G20 CCA logo
Final update at bot­tom of sto­ry — Because nature does­n’t do bailouts.

April 1 in the evening… the sun has gone down, the sky is clear and stars are on view… instead of going home we get fire­wood from our back­packs, make tea and cof­fee on rock­et stoves and then, just as the hunger pangs start, jack­et pota­toes!

Yes, we are actu­al­ly going to camp in the city…

The G20 meet­ing is com­ing up fast, as are our plans to shut down car­bon mar­kets and be camp­ing in Lon­don’s Square Mile as the 20 heads of state arrive. Below we’ve includ­ed more infor­ma­tion and the lat­est update.

You can check out http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20 as we get clos­er to Finan­cial and Fos­sil Fools Day — April 1st.

In the mean­time, we all need to get the word out. Basi­cal­ly the suc­cess of the Camp in the City is a game of get­ting as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to the City on April 1.

**The call­out can be for­ward­ed to your friends and email lists- it is here: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

**Invite your friends to the face­book event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49600653225

**For­ward this update to your mates, any rel­e­vant lists you are on, and post it on web­sites.

**Hold a local group meet­ing to dis­cuss the G20

**Down­load the post­card ver­sion for pho­to­copy­ing and get it out:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/files/G20PostcardB_4onA4.pdf

**Stick­ers and colour post­cards are avail­able — email g20 at climatecamp.org.uk to get them.

Below you’ll find:

1) THE CLIMATE CAMP IN 2009
2) PRACTICAL INFORMATION
3) INFORMATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOODS AND AUTONOMOUS GROUPS
4) CALL OUT FOR WORKSHOPS
5) CALL FOR LEGAL OBSERVERS
6) FOOD AT THE G20 CAMP, MESSAGE FROM THE FOOD GROUP
7) DETAILS OF NEXT MEETING — NOTTINGAM MARCH 7/8

This infor­ma­tion is also avail­able at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20-practicalities.

1) THE CLIMATE CAMP IN 2009

The Cli­mate Camp new year nation­al gath­er­ing made huge progress, con­ceiv­ing a strate­gic deci­sion to focus on the failed eco­nom­ic sys­tem, and devel­op­ing four ambi­tious and excit­ing projects stem­ming from this. If you weren’t at the gath­er­ing, or haven’t yet had a chance to look over the deci­sions made, check them out: http://climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/501

The most urgent project going ahead is “Cli­mate Camp hits the City”, a one day and night camp in the square mile of Lon­don tak­ing place on April 1st, the eve of the G20. Cli­mate Camp has nev­er organ­ised an action at such a fast pace, and so every­one is encour­aged to get net­work­ing local­ly across the UK to make Cli­mate Camp first event of 2009 an enor­mous suc­cess! To find out more about the details of the G20, go to http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

2) PRACTICAL INFORMATION

CONVERGE. There will be a con­ver­gence cen­tre from Sat­ur­day the 28th April, so you can go to the ‘Put Peo­ple First’ march by the big NGO’s and Unions, and stay in Lon­don until the Wednes­day 1st April, and camp­ing in the City.
There will be plen­ty of work to do over those last days! See www.climatecamp.org.uk near­er the time for the exact loca­tion.

ARRIVE. Come for the day, or if pos­si­ble come for the day and night! The adven­ture will begin at noon, April 1st, Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW. More details near­er the time. For some back­ground on car­bon mar­kets, and why we’re shut­ting down the exchange, vis­it http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20-why

LOOK AFTER EVERYONE. Although we hope to pro­vide some food, and shel­ter for those who want to sleep, please try to arrive as self-suf­fi­cient as pos­si­ble — when you are camp­ing in the heart of the finan­cial dis­trict, there are no guar­an­tees that we’ll be able to have much infra­struc­ture!
Bring water, warm clothes, a pop-up tent if you’ve got one, sleep­ing bag, and if you can, some blan­kets and tarp. Car­ry­ing your own food to share and water will also put less strain on our kitchen, and please arrive well fed.

TRANSFORM. We also want to trans­form the finan­cial dis­trict, both sym­bol­i­cal­ly and visu­al­ly into a phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tion of our desired worlds. Doing that is up to all of us. We want our space to look beau­ti­ful. So come with your own plans, cos­tumes, the­ater, enter­tain­ment and spec­ta­cle. Wind tur­bines, mobile cin­e­mas, action plans — what­ev­er you think you can pull off.

Let’s imag­ine anoth­er world or two or three.…

3) INFORMATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOODS AND AUTONOMOUS GROUPS

If you are part of a Cli­mate Camp neigh­bour­hood, or would like to be part of one, con­tact your local group: http://climatecamp.org.uk/node/40.

If you are in a local group, give the Process Group (process@climatecamp.org.uk) your details for the Cli­mate Camp web­site.

With an excit­ing process up and run­ning again, peo­ple are hope­ful­ly look­ing to get involved. How­ev­er, our Local Group page is out of date.

There­fore, if you are a local Cli­mate Camp group (whether or not you were a neigh­bour­hood at the Camp ’08), give us some text about the basic details (when and where you meet, con­tact details, a bit about your­selves) and we’ll get it on the web­site. We can also arrange for your local group to have an @climatecamp.org.uk email address.

If groups arrive sort­ed, that will put less strain on every­one. Think about how you would like to trans­form our space, and come with the mate­ri­als you need to do so. We are also urg­ing all groups to have back up plans and actions. There is no Plan­et B, but every­one should have a Plan B…

4) WORKSHOPS AT CLIMATE CAMP PART 1

The camp is look­ing for work­shops for the day. We would love to hear from you if you can offer a work­shop, espe­cial­ly (but not lim­it­ed to) work­shops on car­bon trad­ing, mar­ket solu­tions to cli­mate change, and the eco­nom­ic cri­sis. We are also real­ly keen to hear from you if you can offer music, street the­atre or any­thing else which will make the day inspir­ing and edu­ca­tion­al!

Please let us know if you would be able to offer a work­shop. Con­tact: at g20workshops at riseup.net

5) LEGAL OBSERVERS FOR CLIMATE CAMP PART 1

Want to be a trained legal observ­er? If so we real­ly want lots of legal obser­va­tion for the G20 camp on the 1st April. There will be a train­ing event on 31st March. Remem­ber we need peo­ple for both the 1st and 2nd of April. Email: legal at climatecamp.org.uk.

6) FOOD AT THE G20 CAMP, MESSAGE FROM THE FOOD GROUP

First. Bring plen­ty of fresh WATER; Bring Food; Bring a bog roll!; Bring bin lin­ers to take away rub­bish; bring a bowl, cup and fork.

Sec­ond. Do NOT bring propane bot­tles or sharp knives.

Third. If you can bring a Rock­et Stove — it would be won­der­ful — it’s prop­er camp­ing and visu­al­ly cool.

Fourth. There is a food and kitchens group who will work hard in col­lab­o­ra­tion with local groups to pre-pre­pare SUPPLEMENTARY veg­an food through­out the 24 hours of action — some in the loca­tion and in oth­er places. This could include a light din­ner on the 1st April and pos­si­bly hot break­fast on April 2nd. Dona­tions of £2–3 per head will be request­ed to fund this pro­vi­sion.

Fifth. Join the food group and help to make and dis­trib­ute food. Email tum­my­filler at riseup.net

7) NEXT MEETING — NOTTINGAM MARCH 7/8

The next nation­al Camp for Cli­mate Action gath­er­ing is going to be in Not­ting­ham, from the 7th to 8th of March. The Venue is the won­der­ful Sumac Cen­tre, details of which can be found on their web­site at:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/sumac/welcome.html

The Gath­er­ing will run from 10.30am on the Sat­ur­day till 5pm on the Sun­day, so get book­ing your trains and coach­es. We’ll not only be dis­cus­sion the G20, but also, oth­er cli­mate camp projects.

——

Update (25th March):

The G20 Swoop & cru­cial infor­ma­tion for the Cli­mate Camp in the City of Lon­don!

April 1st is only a week away! Below is the cru­cial infor­ma­tion you will need for camp­ing in the square mile dur­ing the G20.

Please for­ward this to your friends, any groups you are a part of, and post it on web­sites. Check out http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20 for updates. Once again, our list goes to 11.

(1) THE SWOOP & OVER-POLICING
(2) TEXT ALERTS & COMMUNICATION
(3) THE MAP
(4) INFOPOINTS & BRIEFINGS
(5) SLEEPING SPACE
(6) THINGS TO BRING
(7) AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS & MEDIA
(8) LEGAL
(9) WORKSHOPS & CEILIDH
(10) PUT PEOPLE FIRST MARCH
(11) IT’S A NUMBERS GAME

(1) THE SWOOP & OVER-POLICING

To be suc­cess­ful, we must all arrive at the Cli­mate Exchange at the same time. We must swoop in from dif­fer­ent direc­tions, using dif­fer­ent means to arrive with­in a minute or two of each oth­er. Its a good idea to meet up with your friends ear­ly, and some­where with­in easy reach of the Cli­mate Exchange. Then, at the appro­pri­ate moment, leave quick­ly, to arrive at exact­ly 12:30. You may even want to prac­tice before­hand.

Be aware that in light of cur­rent over-polic­ing tac­tics, if you miss the swoop, you may be unable to join the camp. In places where our num­bers are too low, the police may attempt to stop and search indi­vid­u­als, and con­fis­cate items to pre­vent us from set­ting up the camp safe­ly. We can avoid this by mov­ing con­fi­dent­ly and togeth­er. The police may also attempt to sur­round peo­ple to pre­vent us from mov­ing (some­times called a “ket­tle”). Near­by tube sta­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly Liv­er­pool Sta­tion, as well as the Bank (where the G20-melt­down protest is occur­ring at noon), are pos­si­ble loca­tions where the police may try to ket­tle peo­ple. If you see a ket­tle form­ing and don’t want to be stuck for the day in one, move and help oth­ers move out of it before it clos­es.

You are like­ly to have greater free­dom of move­ment if you’ve planned your swoop and know the area. Because things may change on the day, please take copies of our map with grid ref­er­ence points, and have a per­son in your group sub­scribed to the text alerts.

(2) TEXT ALERTS & COMMUNICATION

Things may change on the day, per­haps sig­nif­i­cant­ly. There is a text mes­sage news ser­vice which will be avail­able in advance and dur­ing the G20 Lead­ers meet­ing. We strong­ly rec­om­mend that peo­ple sub­scribe to it. It is pos­si­ble, even like­ly, that the place that we final­ly set up camp will not be the Cli­mate Exchange.

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/text-updates

We also use Twit­ter http://twitter.co /ClimateCamp but please note that twit­ter does not reach mobile phone num­bers and is now a web-ser­vice, so on the day this will only be use­ful for those with web-enabled phones or those with friends at home ready to call.

You may want to also exchange phone num­bers with your friends and peo­ple in oth­er groups so that our com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­work is as decen­tralised as pos­si­ble.

(3) THE MAP

A map of the city, with grid ref­er­ence points will be released at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/map in the com­ing days. Please print copies for you and your friends. It will be used on the day when the text alert gives the loca­tion of the camp, or any oth­er infor­ma­tion through­out the day.

Var­i­ous car­bon off-set com­pa­nies, car­bon trad­ing firms, green­wash­ing firms, and oth­er cli­mate-crim­i­nals will also be high­light­ed on the map. If the police pre­vent us from safe­ly set­ting up the camp, groups are espe­cial­ly encour­aged to do an action at one of these loca­tions, or any oth­er loca­tion they have researched. It can also aid com­mu­ni­ca­tion between you and your mates. Los­ing your friends in a crowd real­ly sucks!

(4) INFOPOINTS & BRIEFINGS

From Thurs­day March 26th until Thurs­day April 2nd ram­pARTS will be a G20 info­point, open to drop by from 2–10 pm. The Camp for Cli­mate Action will have infor­ma­tion there dur­ing this peri­od.

On Sat­ur­day March 28th at 5 pm, and on Sun­day March 29th at 2 pm, the camp will be serv­ing tea and cake for those who want to meet up and share infor­ma­tion, or make some ban­ners and props.

On Tues­day March 31st at 7 pm, there will be a brief­ing at ram­pART, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on new peo­ple who need infor­ma­tion about the April 1st camp.

ram­pART is locat­ed at 15 ‑17 Ram­part Street, Lon­don E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Com­mer­cial Rd). rampart[at]mutualaid.org, 07050 618445
http://therampart.wordpress.com/location-contact/

(5) SLEEPING SPACE

If you are com­ing from out of town, places are avail­able to stay! Please con­tact us ear­ly so that we can reserve you a place. Email iwanttocrashinasquatfortheg20@hushmail.com to let them know how many peo­ple will be stay­ing, and the dates you need.

(6) THINGS TO BRING

If you’re stay­ing for the full 24 hours, please check out http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/what-to-bring for what to bring.

(7) AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS AND MEDIA

Are you plan­ning an autonomous action and would you like to try and get media there as soon as it hap­pens? You can chat to the cli­mate camp media crew about it before­hand who can point the media your way, or can help you get your press release out. You don’t have to give them the details before­hand, but do get in touch with press@climatecamp.org.uk or call 07040 900905 to arrange some­thing.

(8) LEGAL

Our legal team have pre­pared a handy crib sheet of infor­ma­tion about your legal rights and what to do if some­thing goes wrong. These will be hand­ed out on the day, but there’s no guar­an­tee you’ll get one before encoun­ter­ing the police, so we advise you to print a copy to bring along.
Check it out at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/legal

(9) WORKSHOPS & CEILIDH

Work­shops and music are on! Work­shops will include: Trad­ing our way into trou­ble, the Fos­sil Fuel Econ­o­my, A his­to­ry of Direct Action, Tech­no fix­es, Tran­si­tion to a low car­bon econ­o­my, the lat­est cli­mate sci­ence from Copen­hagen, Mobil­is­ing for Copen­hagen, Debt and Cli­mate Change, Car­bon Trad­ing and Copen­hagen, Sus­tain­able Activism, Sam­ba, Poet­ry vs Cli­mate Change … and more!

Check out http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/events for the lat­est sched­ule

We also need more musi­cians to play at the ceilidh. More musi­cians and sound sys­tems are wel­come!

(10) PUT PEOPLE FIRST MARCH AND LEAFLETING

A Camp for Cli­mate Action block for the Put Peo­ple First March on Sat­ur­day the 28th of March will be meet­ing at 11 am out­side Char­ing Cross Nation­al Rail Sta­tion, on the strand. We need help hand­ing out leaflets dur­ing the march. 07534 598733 for more info.

(11) IT’S A NUMBERS GAME

The only way we can win this is through a mass mobil­i­sa­tion of peo­ple. With a week to go we can still get peo­ple to join us for the camp. Talk to your friends and bring them along; change your sta­tus and pro­file pic­ture on social net­works, and invite your con­tacts to our face­book event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49600653225 . On the day, make sure you let the peo­ple back home know how the camp is going, and how they can dis­sem­i­nate our mes­sage. If each of us brings some­one along, we dou­ble our num­bers and our strength.

——

Final update (31st March):

Hi campers, not long to go before we join each to set up camp in the city on April 1st! This is the final update, please read it care­ful­ly and for­ward it to all your friends who are com­ing…

WHAT TO BRING:

We hope many of us will be stay­ing overnight, please bring a pop­up tent, food, 4 litres of water, warm clothes, hand clean­ing gel (for hygiene, we might not get water) and what­ev­er you might need for 24 hours of rebel camp­ing adven­ture. (a full list is here http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/what-to-bring)

HOW TO DO IT:

1) SYNCHRONIZE YOUR WATCHES: It is impor­tant that we swoop at exact­ly the same time, and those arriv­ing too late or too ear­ly might not make it in. You can use the speak­ing clock or this: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com

2) PLUG IN: Sign up to text mes­sages here: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/text-updates You will only get text mes­sages if there is a change of plan.

3) PREPARE: Print out the map from http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/map and if you still need some­where to sleep the night before check http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/sleepspace Remem­ber that there may be lim­it­ed toi­let facil­i­ties so don’t arrive with burst­ing bow­els !!!

3) SWOOP DOWN: Arrive at 62 Bish­op’s Gate, the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange at 12:30 on the dot. Swoop swift­ly and stealth­ily from a loca­tion of your choice. It might be good to avoid Bank and Liv­er­pool Street sta­tions where oth­er protest groups are meet­ing at 11.00am as you may be unable to leave due to police Ket­tles (when police sur­round a crowd). Avoid ket­tles at all costs and if when you get to the Cli­mate Exchange the police invite you into a protest pen, say “no thanks, we’ll camp else­where”, keep mov­ing and wait for text mes­sages.

4) SPREAD INSPIRATION: You can use your phone to send reports, pic­tures, audio etc from the streets to Indy­media. Its very easy – see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/425262.html for num­bers and details.

If you are cov­er­ing the action using twit­ter, please include the hash­tags #g20cc or both #g20 and #protest so we can pull tweets into one sin­gle feed of the event.

5) AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST — ENJOY: The next few days will be extra­or­di­nary days for extra­or­di­nary times…

Plane Stupid Scotland shuts Aberdeen airport — updated

protest end­ed update — see below main arti­cle ::: 3rd March — Nine young pro­test­ers from the cli­mate action group Plane Stu­pid Scot­land have this morn­ing shut down Aberdeen air­port by set­ting up a golf course on the taxi­way. They have sur­round­ed them­selves with for­ti­fied secu­ri­ty fenc­ing whilst anoth­er group are occu­py­ing the roof of the ter­mi­nal build­ing and have unfurled a ban­ner read­ing, “Nae Trump Games with Cli­mate Change”.

Aberdeen airport fence cuttingPlane Stupid Scotland shuts Aberdeen airportprotest end­ed update — see below main arti­cle ::: 3rd March — Nine young pro­test­ers from the cli­mate action group Plane Stu­pid Scot­land have this morn­ing shut down Aberdeen air­port by set­ting up a golf course on the taxi­way. They have sur­round­ed them­selves with for­ti­fied secu­ri­ty fenc­ing whilst anoth­er group are occu­py­ing the roof of the ter­mi­nal build­ing and have unfurled a ban­ner read­ing, “Nae Trump Games with Cli­mate Change”.

The peace­ful protest began at 02.15am this morn­ing whilst the run­way was closed. Plane Stu­pid aims to pre­vent the sched­uled reopen­ing of the run­way at 5am. The group intends to main­tain its block­ade for as long as pos­si­ble to pre­vent the release of thou­sands of tonnes of green­house gas emis­sions into the atmos­phere.

Pho­tos avail­able for down­load and media on our Flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/planestupid. All pho­tos licensed under Cre­ative Com­mons.

The activists entered the run­way by cut­ting the fence and scaled the roof climb­ing lad­ders. Dressed as Don­ald Trump, sport­ing wigs and golf­ing attire, with crazy golf clubs and balls, the group are ‘putting’ on the tar­mac. The ban­ner on the fenc­ing erect­ed by the group reads “Plane Stu­pid Scot­land Golf Open 2009”.

Don­ald Trump is sup­port­ing the expan­sion of Aberdeen air­port where his super-rich friends will arrive to play golf on his con­tro­ver­sial golf course. BAA Aberdeen said they wel­come Don­ald Trump’s Golf Course. Like Alex Salmond, Trump wants to bull­doze over demo­c­ra­t­ic oppo­si­tion to envi­ron­men­tal­ly dam­ag­ing projects like air­port expan­sion. Both Trump and BAA’s plans face fierce local oppo­si­tion.

One of the activists on the taxi­way, Jon­ny Agnew, 22, from Edin­burgh, said:

“We have been failed by the gen­er­a­tion of Don­ald Trump and Alex Salmond. Despite a cat­a­logue of sci­en­tif­ic reports warn­ing them that they can’t keep on with avi­a­tion growth – even if that hin­ders their abil­i­ty to jet in for a week­end of golf – they con­tin­ue with dis­re­gard for all of us, who will end up deal­ing with the impacts of the cli­mate cri­sis.”

He added:

“The real­i­ty is that our generation’s future is van­ish­ing so that peo­ple like Don­ald Trump and his super-rich friends can jet into Aberdeen for a round of golf. The expan­sion of this air­port just can­not go ahead.”

Anoth­er, 24 year old Tilly Gif­ford, a social work­er from Glas­gow, said:

“Alex Salmond wants to let the Span­ish share­hold­ers of BAA, Don­ald Trump and his super-rich Amer­i­can friends con­crete over Scot­land and its efforts to stop run­away cli­mate change.”

She added:

“Arc­tic ice is melt­ing, the sea is already ris­ing and experts warn the world’s rain­forests could col­lapse. Our gen­er­a­tion is already start­ing to feel these impacts as the warm­ing kicks in so it’s obvi­ous that it’s going to need to be us that urgent­ly puts the brakes on expand­ing unnec­es­sary air­ports.”

The cam­paign­ers chose to close Aberdeen after the Scot­tish gov­ern­ment gave its back­ing to the expan­sion of capac­i­ty at the air­port by 1.5 mil­lion pas­sen­gers by 2015. Avi­a­tion is Britain’s fastest grow­ing source of emis­sions, already amount­ing to at least 13% of the UK’s cli­mate emis­sions.

With plans in the Scot­tish government’s ‘Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work’ for growth at Scot­tish air­ports includ­ing Glas­gow, Edin­burgh and Aberdeen — as well as Heathrow and Stanst­ed — experts from the Tyn­dall Cen­tre for cli­mate research say avi­a­tion pol­i­cy alone will scup­per any chance the UK has of hit­ting its cli­mate tar­gets.

25 year old Dan Glass, a com­mu­ni­ty work­er from Glas­gow, said:

“We’re here to say it can­not hap­pen, and our gen­er­a­tion won’t let it hap­pen. The sci­en­tists tell us we’ve got sev­en years to make emis­sions peak then drop, and if we fail, the peo­ple on this run­way and their entire gen­er­a­tion, and our chil­dren, willl live with the con­se­quences. That’s why we’re doing this.”

For more information/interviews:

Dan on 07507085963
Katie on 07786381674

For pho­tos – www.flickr.com/photos/planestupid

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Sev­en mem­bers of the cam­paign group Plane Stu­pid were detained at about 0820 GMT after releas­ing them­selves.

Two oth­er pro­test­ers, who remained on the roof of the main ter­mi­nal build­ing, were detained lat­er.

The protest began at about 0300 GMT. There were no flights to or from the air­port until after 0900 GMT.

BBC video
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At 09.30am Plane Stu­pid Scot­land’s protest at Aberdeen air­port has come to a close after six hours. The eleven peo­ple, includ­ing local res­i­dents that this morn­ing breached the air­port fence have now been arrest­ed.

The pro­test­ers were told by police to dis­man­tle their peace­ful protest because the taxi­way they were secured to was need­ed by an emer­gency heli­copter. A baby appar­ent­ly required urgent treat­ment, and any oth­er approach would cause delays. Obvi­ous­ly the safe­ty of the pub­lic was of para­mount con­cern to the activists and so they duly removed them­selves.

Plane Stu­pid has sub­se­quent­ly spo­ken to both the Acci­dent and Emer­gency unit of Aberdeen hos­pi­tal, and its press depart­ment. They were unaware of any trans­fers request­ed by air this morn­ing. Not only that, but spokesper­son Les­ley Mid­dle­ton said:

“We have our own heli­pad which we use in emer­gen­cies. Of course you can’t antic­i­pate what may hap­pen, but in all my years of work­ing here I can’t think of a time when we’ve used Aberdeen air­port. The only cir­cum­stances I can imag­ine where we’d need to get access to the area would be if there was an acci­dent at the air­port.”

The pro­test­ers are now look­ing into the con­duct of the police and are con­sid­er­ing mak­ing a com­plaint.

Plane Stu­pid Scot­land has, dur­ing the last week of Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work con­sul­ta­tion, effec­tive­ly shed light on the illog­i­cal expan­sion plans. At a time of eco­nom­ic reces­sion and loom­ing cli­mate cri­sis Scot­land has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to be at the fore­front of a secure and sus­tain­able future and to take a strong posi­tion to tack­le cli­mate change. They also linked the plans for air­port expan­sion with the cur­rent devel­op­men­t’s of Don­ald Trump’s Golf Course in Aberdeen­shire.

Katie Mor­ri­son, from the group Plane Stu­pid Scot­land said:

“It is unnec­es­sary to expand Aberdeen air­port as 58% of flights are domes­tic and could be replaced with high speed rail link. We ask that the gov­ern­ment stop play­ing around with big busi­ness and start win­ning the race against run­away cli­mate change. Trump’s golf course and our gov­ern­ments planned expan­sion will con­crete over Scot­tish democ­ra­cy.”

The activists were in high spir­its as they removed them­selves from the air­port but gen­er­al feel­ing was of annoy­ance at the under­hand­ed tac­tics used by the police which lured the pro­test­ers in and took advan­tage of their car­ing nature.

The activists are cur­rent­ly being held in cus­tody in Inverurie and are being charged with breach of the peace. It is like­ly that they will be appear­ing in court tomor­row morn­ing, all sup­port is wel­come and will be great­ly appre­ci­at­ed.

We will inform you of any updates as they hap­pen. Good work Plane Stu­pid Scot­land, time to cel­e­brate anoth­er suc­cess­ful action.

Anti-Coal Protesters Blockade Washington Power Station (U$A)

2nd March 2009
Thou­sands of demon­stra­tors braved icy winds and snow to march on the US capi­tol’s coal-fired pow­er plant on Mon­day to demand a more sane approach to ener­gy pol­i­cy. Orga­nized by Capi­tol Cli­mate Action thou­sand block­ade the five main gates to the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant in south-east Wash­ing­ton, not far from Capi­tol Hill.

Capitol coal power station blocked2nd March 2009
Thou­sands of demon­stra­tors braved icy winds and snow to march on the US capi­tol’s coal-fired pow­er plant on Mon­day to demand a more sane approach to ener­gy pol­i­cy. Orga­nized by Capi­tol Cli­mate Action thou­sand block­ade the five main gates to the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant in south-east Wash­ing­ton, not far from Capi­tol Hill.

The block­ade last­ed near­ly four hours, form­ing what orga­niz­ers called the largest dis­play of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence on the cli­mate cri­sis in U.S. his­to­ry. Police were out in force, but no one was arrest­ed.

The 99-year-old coal fired pow­er sta­tion is respon­si­ble for an esti­mat­ed one-third of the leg­isla­tive branch’s green­house gas emis­sions. It is no longer even used to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty but instead acts as a glo­ri­fied boil­er pro­vid­ing steam for heat­ing and chilled water for cool­ing build­ings for the leg­isla­tive build­ings of the Capi­tol Com­plex.

Envi­ron­men­tal and cli­mate celebri­ties led the protest action, includ­ing NASA cli­ma­tol­o­gist Dr. James Hansen, who released a video on You Tube in Feb­ru­ary urg­ing peo­ple to join him March 2 at the demon­stra­tion to send a mes­sage to Con­gress and the Pres­i­dent that, “We want them to take the actions that are need­ed to pre­serve cli­mate for young peo­ple and future gen­er­a­tions and all life on the plan­et.”

“What has become clear from the sci­ence is that we can­not burn all of the fos­sil fuels with­out cre­at­ing a very dif­fer­ent plan­et,” Hansen said. “The only prac­ti­cal way to solve the prob­lem is to phase out the biggest source of car­bon and that is coal.”

Con­gres­sion­al Democ­rats have already moved to con­vert the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant to clean­er-burn­ing nat­ur­al gas. On Thurs­day, House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi and Sen­ate Leader Har­ry Reid released a let­ter ask­ing the Capi­tol Archi­tect to switch the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant from coal to 100 per­cent nat­ur­al gas by the end of 2009.

“The switch to nat­ur­al gas will allow the CPP to dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduce car­bon and cri­te­ria pol­lu­tant emis­sions, elim­i­nat­ing more than 95 per­cent of sul­phur oxides and at least 50 per­cent of car­bon monox­ide,” wrote Pelosi and Reid in their let­ter to Act­ing Archi­tect of the Capi­tol Stephen Ayers.

“We strong­ly encour­age you to move for­ward aggres­sive­ly with us on a com­pre­hen­sive set of poli­cies for the entire Capi­tol com­plex and the entire Leg­isla­tive Branch to quick­ly reduce emis­sions and petro­le­um con­sump­tion through ener­gy effi­cien­cy, renew­able ener­gy, and clean alter­na­tive fuels,” they wrote.

“While the costs asso­ci­at­ed with pur­chas­ing addi­tion­al nat­ur­al gas will cer­tain­ly be high­er, the invest­ment will far out­weigh its cost,” wrote Pelosi and Reid. “The con­ver­sion will also reduce the cost of stor­ing and trans­port­ing coal as well as the costs asso­ci­at­ed with clean­ing up the fly ash and waste.”

“Elim­i­nat­ing coal from the fuel mix­ture should also assist the City of Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in meet­ing and com­ply­ing with nation­al air qual­i­ty stan­dards, and demon­strate that Con­gress can be a good and con­sci­en­tious neigh­bour by mit­i­gat­ing health con­cerns for res­i­dents and work­ers around Capi­tol Hill,” the lead­ers wrote.

“We’ve been fight­ing to clean up the Capi­tol for years — it’s an impor­tant sym­bol for the whole nation,” said Friends of the Earth Pres­i­dent Brent Black­welder on Thurs­day.

Last week, Black­welder and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Earth­jus­tice and the Sier­ra Club sent let­ters to Reid and Pelosi ask­ing that they stop using coal at the Capi­tol pow­er plant.

“Dirty coal plants all over the coun­try con­tin­ue to release heat-trap­ping gas­es and pol­lute the air we breathe, so there remains much work to be done, but today’s announce­ment is a sig­nal of a major change in direc­tion,” Black­welder said.

“Peo­ple in D.C. have been fight­ing against the plant for years, it is very dirty and locat­ed in a poor neigh­bour­hood. They haven’t had much suc­cess until now,” said Adri­an Wil­son, a San Fran­cis­co-based envi­ron­men­tal orga­niz­er with the Capi­tol Cli­mate Action coali­tion. “The fact that three days before the action, Nan­cy Pelosi and Har­ry Reid wrote let­ter for plant to be switched from coal to nat­ur­al gas shows the pow­er of direct action to make change quick­ly.”

Bruce Nilles, direc­tor of the Sier­ra Club’s Beyond Coal Cam­paign, said, “Stop­ping the use of coal at the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant will help local res­i­dents breathe eas­i­er, but the pos­i­tive impacts will stretch far beyond the Dis­trict. Bold mea­sures are need­ed right now to reduce glob­al warm­ing emis­sions and we look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to work with Con­gress and the new admin­is­tra­tion to send a clear sig­nal to cities and states across the coun­try that after eight long years, Amer­i­ca is seri­ous about clean ener­gy and green jobs.”

The Capi­tol Pow­er Plant demon­stra­tion was part of a larg­er move­ment in the nation’s cap­i­tal on the week­end that last­ed through this evening — Pow­er Shift 2009. Some 12,000 col­lege and high school stu­dents trav­elled to DC for the sec­ond Pow­er Shift con­fer­ence, a meet­ing of stu­dents con­fronting cli­mate change, and busi­ness-as-usu­al atti­tudes in Wash­ing­ton.

Ener­gy Action, a coali­tion of 50 envi­ron­men­tal groups, orga­nized the Pow­er Shift week­end con­fer­ence and lob­by day. For three days, stu­dents attend­ed sem­i­nars on the his­to­ries of coal pow­er, direct action and ura­ni­um min­ing, media and lead­er­ship train­ing ses­sions, grass­roots orga­niz­ing and anti-oppres­sion work­shops.

For video, links to lots of pho­tos and more, http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/

Fossil Fools Day 2009, 1st April — actions & resources

FFD is only five weeks away! We know of var­i­ous affin­i­ty group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspi­ra­tional pub­lic actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area.

PUBLIC ACTIONS

12 Noon

FFD 09FFD is only five weeks away! We know of var­i­ous affin­i­ty group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspi­ra­tional pub­lic actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area.

PUBLIC ACTIONS

12 Noon

Help build a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the City of London.Stopping car­bon mar­kets — because nature does­n’t do bailouts. Meet at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW. Bring a pop-up tent, sleep­ing bag, wind tur­bine, mobile cin­e­ma, action plans and ideas … let’s imag­ine anoth­er world. Don’t let the finan­cial and fos­sil fools make the rules!

For more details vis­it — http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

6PM — *** POSTPONED by BP fol­low­ing police advice. ***

For rea­sons unfath­omable yet deeply pleas­ing, BP* has cho­sen Fos­sil Fools Day to cel­e­brate its cen­te­nary. This will take place at the British Muse­um, where the not-so-great and the far-from-good will quaff cock­tails, snaf­fle canapes and watch a cel­e­bra­to­ry film. And Ris­ing Tide and Art Not Oil will be there too, between 6–7pm, to say ‘Your Par­ty’s Over!’ Bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments, a sense of cli­mate jus­tice and a non­sense of fool­ery. Meet at 6pm at the British Muse­um’s Gt. Rus­sell St. gate. * BP = Burn­ing Plan­et, British Plun­der, Bloody Prof­its, Bro­ken Promises,Boring Par­ties, Breath­tak­ing Protests and..? Send your unrav­elled acronyms to info@artnotoil.org.uk

RESOURCES

Media — Ris­ing Tide has pro­duced an 11 page Media Q&A for Fos­sil Fools Day. If you think you’ll be talk­ing to the media on the day and want a few tips for tricky ques­tions send us an email (info@risingtide.org.uk) and we’ll email you a copy.

Action Ideas — For a short guide on why and how to take direct action against the fos­sil fuel indus­try … includ­ing plan­ning tips, tar­get loca­tions, exam­ples of suc­cess­ful actions and much more vis­it the RT Resources page were you can down­load ‘15 Actions to Top­ple the Fos­sil Fuel Empire’.

FFD is only 5 weeks away so whether you’ve been look­ing for a chance to dip a toe into the grow­ing cli­mate action move­ment, or have had your kick-ass action planned since last year, now is the time to do it — what­ev­er it is. On April 1st, join the glob­al day of resis­tance and pull a prank that packs a punch.

http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday2009

Climate Rush at UK Coal HQ & coal awards — Doncaster & London — and next one 5th March at RBS

North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­it to UK coal head­quar­ters

UK Coal rush 1UK Coal rush 2North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­it to UK coal head­quar­ters

Around 15 cli­mate activists from the North of Eng­land vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of UK Coal near Don­cast­er yes­ter­day, 26th Feb­ru­ary, in a protest against new coal and call­ing for tougher mea­sures to con­trol CO2 emis­sions.

Two peo­ple climbed up lam­posts to sus­pend a 6m ban­ner read­ing ‘Leave it in the Ground’, while on the ground below the pro­tes­tors played a bit of sam­ba, danced, and had a pic­nic. The pro­tes­tors wore Edwar­dian themed dress includ­ing red sash­es with the words ‘No New Coal’ writ­ten across them.

UK Coal is the UK’s largest coal com­pa­ny. The Don­cast­er protest was timed to coin­cide with the Cli­mate Rush at the UK Coal Awards, host­ed by UK coal, in Lon­don.

The police reac­tion was fair­ly low-key and non-obstruc­tive, although they did take an awful lot of pho­tos (I sup­pose they had noth­ing else to do). A van dri­ver was has­sled by cops, had his details checked and was told he was not insured to dri­ve the vehi­cle (which was not the case).

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Thurs­day 26th Feb­ru­ary 2009
PRESS RELEASE: North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­its UK Coal head­quar­ters

Cli­mate activists from the North vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of UK Coal near Don­cast­er today in a protest against new coal and call­ing for tougher mea­sures to con­trol CO2 emis­sions. The protest coin­cid­ed with the ‘Cli­mate Rush’ in Lon­don where peo­ple intend­ed to gate­crash the Coal UK Con­fer­ence and Awards 2009 at the Land­mark Hotel in Regents Park. How­ev­er, the Lon­don pro­test­ers arrived to find the Con­fer­ence had moved venue at the last minute. Around 200 pro­test­ers in Lon­don occu­pied the lob­by of the Land­mark and dropped ban­ners. They asked that the hotel to refrain from host­ing any future events with fos­sil fuel indus­tries such as UK Coal, to which the man­age­ment agreed.

The pro­tes­tors of both demon­stra­tions wore Edwar­dian themed dress includ­ing red sash­es with the words ‘No New Coal’ writ­ten across them. In Don­cast­er two female pro­test­ers scaled lamp-posts to hang a ban­ner read­ing ‘Leave it in the ground’ across the entrance to the UK coal head­quar­ters.

Coal is the dirt­i­est form of ener­gy pro­duc­tion yet the gov­ern­ment has plans to expand the coal indus­try, includ­ing a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent. UK Coal are respon­si­ble for oper­at­ing sev­er­al open cast mines across the UK. Open cast coal min­ing is par­tic­u­lar­ly dam­ag­ing to the local envi­ron­ment since it involves scalp­ing the land­scape and typ­i­cal­ly pro­vides an aver­age of only 40 jobs per site, for a hand­ful of years only.

Vanes­sa Hall, spokes­woman for the North­ern Cli­mate Rush said, “It is essen­tial that we take cli­mate change seri­ous­ly and move away from dirty fos­sil fuels like coal. There is no way we can avoid run­away cli­mate change if we con­tin­ue to burn coal.”

Megan Beech, 24, said, “The coal indus­try talk about Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age (CCS) as the mag­ic bul­let that will allow us to keep burn­ing coal. How­ev­er CCS is as yet an unproven tech­nol­o­gy. You don’t start a fire on the promise that one day we”ll invent a fire extin­guish­er with which to put it out.”

ENDS

Notes to Edi­tors

This is the third major ‘Cli­mate Rush’ event, fol­low­ing from the first in Par­lia­ment square in Octo­ber 2008 on the cen­te­nary of the Suf­fragette rush on Par­lia­ment. Pro­test­ers demand­ed ‘Deeds Not Words’ on cli­mate change, includ­ing an end to air­port expan­sion and no new coal. The sec­ond was at Heathrow and Man­ches­ter air­ports to draw atten­tion to the threat of avi­a­tion and cli­mate change.

The North­ern Cli­mate Rush is made up of cam­paign­ers from Man­ches­ter, Leeds, Hud­der­s­field, Brad­ford and Liv­er­pool.

www.climaterush.co.uk
www.northernclimaterush.wordpress.com

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'Coal: so last century' banner
Coal canary climate rush
Cli­mate Rush host­ed cock­tail par­ty for the coal indus­try out­side of the Land­mark Hotel on Maryle­bone Road, Lon­don.

Coal UK planed to pre­sent­ed cel­e­bra­to­ry awards to the most dam­ag­ing com­pa­nies in the coal indus­try. Cli­mate Rush offered an alter­na­tive awards based on the eco­log­i­cal dam­age that the coal indus­try is inflict­ing on the envi­ron­ment.

How­ev­er after sev­er­al tries at rush­ing the hotel peo­ple dis­cov­ered that the award din­ner had been can­celled.

Brochure for the awards din­ner:
http://conf.mccloskeycoal.com/journals/McCloskey/Conferences/Conferences/attachments/Coal%20UK%20Brochure%20web.pdf

Cli­mate Rush calls for:

1. No new coal to avoid run­away cli­mate change

Coal is the dirt­i­est fos­sil fuel, and by far the dirt­i­est way to pro­duce elec­tric­i­ty. We must leave coal in the ground and not build any new coal fired pow­er sta­tions if we want to avoid run­away cli­mate change. CCS is an unproven tech­nol­o­gy that may nev­er be a viable option. Cli­mate change is hap­pen­ing now and we must act now to stop it.

2. We can’t have infi­nite growth on a finite plan­et

At this out­dat­ed and fos­silized awards cer­e­mo­ny UK Coal is cel­e­brat­ing the worst excess­es of our fail­ing eco­nom­ic sys­tem. Just like over­paid bankers these heads of cor­po­ra­tions are receiv­ing plau­dits for plun­der­ing the plan­et.

3. A tran­si­tion to a low car­bon soci­ety with sus­tain­able jobs

We must coun­ter­act any jobs loss­es from the coal indus­try with a major re-skilling pro­gram in sus­tain­able trades. Many more jobs will be cre­at­ed by a huge retro­fitting pro­gram of old hous­ing stock and in the new renew­able ener­gies sec­tor than in new coal. The Ger­man clean ener­gy rev­o­lu­tion has seen the cre­ation of 250,000 new jobs.

More pho­tos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/filkaler/tags/climaterush/

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Land­mark Deci­sion Against Coal Indus­try
For imme­di­ate release: 26 Feb­ru­ary 2009

LANDMARK DECISION

A top class Lon­don hotel has vowed com­pa­nies and organ­i­sa­tions which con­tribute to cli­mate chaos will no longer be wel­come to use their facil­i­ties for cor­po­rate pro­mo­tion and enter­tain­ment

The move fol­lows a Cli­mate Rush action on the Land­mark Hotel in Maryle­bone, where hun­dreds of pro­test­ers con­verged on Thurs­day to halt a coal indus­try awards cer­e­mo­ny.

Coal is acknowl­edged among sci­en­tists and cli­mate change activists as the world’s worst con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change in the form of CO2 emis­sions.*

The coal indus­try under the ban­ner of UK Coal were booked into the Land­mark to host an awards cer­e­mo­ny with five star food and drink where they planned to hand out gongs for UK coal per­son­al­i­ty of the year and the best open cast min­ers among oth­er cat­e­gories.

Pro­test­ers dropped ban­ners and staged a peace­ful sit-in to speak out at the hotel’s sup­port and the coal industry’s insis­tence of “busi­ness as usu­al” in the face of evi­dent esca­lat­ing cli­mate chaos.

The Landmark’s land­mark deci­sion has been applaud­ed by activists. “At Last! For too long prof­i­teer­ing from cli­mate change has been sold to the pub­lic as a neces­si­ty of ‘busi­ness as usu­al’. But with glob­al tem­per­a­tures ris­ing and cli­mate chaos run­ning riot in the form of drought (Africa and Aus­tralia) and flood­ing (low lying lands all over), we all need to work togeth­er.

“ We applaud the Land­mark for their good sense and the vision to say ‘enough is enough’. They right­ly don’t want to be asso­ci­at­ed with the cor­rupt sys­tem that needs over­turn­ing. We wel­come the Land­mark to play their role in the new way of doing things so need­ed.”

The Land­mark now plans to deny com­pa­nies such as the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land (the biggest sin­gle investor in coal and oil indus­tries) and oil com­pa­nies, such as ESSO, BP and Shell, as well as the coal indus­try from using their ball­rooms and ban­quet halls to pro­mote their cause.

The hotel has also pledge to com­mu­ni­cate with the 24 oth­er five star hotels in its’ group to sug­gest they do the same.

Cli­mate Rush has pledged to work with the Land­mark Hotel to ensure the right com­pa­nies are blocked, to send a clear mes­sage to pol­luters: they’re not wel­come.

ENDS
Notes and foot­notes to Edi­tors

Coal is respon­si­ble for 50 % of the cli­mate change gas­es in the atmos­phere caused by human activ­i­ty.

Cli­mate Rush is a cut­ting edge move­ment of car­bon cut­ting indi­vid­u­als who have seen the light and want to spread the word through their remit: Deeds not words, based on the clar­i­on call of the suf­fragettes

For high qual­i­ty pho­tos and fur­ther com­ments please ring 075 2839 8441 or email media@climaterush.co.uk

For com­ments from the land­mark hotel please ring Fran­cis T Green 0207 631 8000

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UK No New Coal Awards

Cli­mate Rush is delight­ed to announce that it will be pre­sent­ing the fol­low­ing “Canary in the Coalmine” awards:

Sci­ence Fic­tion award
goes to the most unbe­liev­able tech­nol­o­gy not yet avail­able to stop CO2 emis­sions, Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age.

Finan­cial Fool award
goes to the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land, for help­ing to raise $16 bil­lion in loans to finance the world­wide coal indus­try over the past two years.

Life­time Achieve­ment award
goes to Drax coal fired pow­er sta­tion, for the Great­est Emis­sions in the UK, equiv­a­lent to that of the 54 poor­est coun­tries in the world.

Best Sup­port­ing Role
goes to the biggest Cli­mate Cow­ard, Gor­don Brown, for his use­less lead­er­ship over Cli­mate Change.

Best New­com­er
goes to the next like­ly “fac­to­ry of death”, Kingsnorth coal fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent.

and final­ly…

UK Coal Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year
goes to Paul Gol­by, CEO of ener­gy com­pa­ny E.ON, for out­stand­ing ser­vices to Green­wash (whilst plot­ting to build Kingsnorth)

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CLIMATE RUSH: THURSDAY 5TH MARCH, 1PM, RBS HQ

GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK and STOP TRASHING THE PLANET

Roy­al Bank of Scot­land: £33 bil­lion in bail outs SO FAR!

Using OUR MONEY!

RBS boss 50-year-old Sir Fred: retires ear­ly with a whop­ping £16 mil­lion pen­sion fund.

Using OUR MONEY!

OUR bank: arranges £16 bil­lion in loans to the coal indus­try in just two years.

RBS: the BIGGEST investor in cli­mate chaos.

FOR THE LOVE OF OUR MONEY, WHAT PLANET ARE THEY ON?

Grab your mates, bring some lunch and get down to the bank to demand OUR mon­ey back.

Roy­al Bank of Scot­land HQ

Thurs­day 5th March

1.OOPM PROMPT: think flash­mob…

280 Bish­ops­gate, near Liv­er­pool Street Sta­tion

ANGRY? You bet­ter believe it: Let’s rush!

See what they’re say­ing about the RBS Cli­mate Rush in the Guardian here

Face­book invite here: invite ALL your friends

Please help spread the word by down­load­ing the poster as a pdf here to print out and stick up wher­ev­er you go!

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Work Stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site

26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Shipley soul bannerShipley soul security26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Work was stopped for one hour and a half. The pro­tes­tors left when the police turned up.

The police entered into dis­cus­sion with UK Coal about cre­at­ing a more per­me­nant space for peo­ple to protest at, the police sug­gest­ed some kind of shel­ter. UK Coal declined, stat­ing that they were wor­ried the pro­tes­tors would turn the shel­ter into a “con­crete lock-on”.

No arrests were made.

Same ban­ner; dif­fer­ent protest.

Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Mine Site

23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

Rosewell coal mine action23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

They climbed onto dig­ging machin­ery to pre­vent works and climbed onto trucks to pre­vent coal from leav­ing the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morn­ing. Then police arrived but no-one were arrest­ed.

One activist said “the burn­ing of coal to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty is one of the most pol­lut­ing and destruc­tive of all human activ­i­ties. We can­not deal with cli­mate change while com­pa­nies like Scot­tish coal con­tin­ue to prof­it from coal exploita­tion.”

A local res­i­dent said “With a gov­ern­ment com­mit­ted to expand­ing open­cast, deep mine and new coal pow­er gen­er­a­tion across Scot­land, ask­ing politi­cians will achieve noth­ing. Peace­ful direct action is the only way peo­ple are going to stop coal expan­sion.”

Anoth­er said. “We are opposed to this cli­mate dis­as­ter of an ener­gy pol­i­cy and to the scar­ring of scot­land’s coun­try­side with these hor­ri­ble open-cast coal mines, Rosewell and Scot­tish Coal’s oth­er oper­a­tions have and will con­tin­ue to be met by resis­tance from local peo­ple tak­ing direct action.”

This action was done by indi­vid­u­als who are not affil­i­at­ed to any par­tic­u­lar group.

This is anoth­er exam­ple of the grow­ing resis­tance to new coal in scot­land. For more gen­er­al info on how peo­ple are stop­ping new coal in Scot­land, check out www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 86, February 2009

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09
4. Earth First! & Treespon­si­bil­i­ty Tree Plant­i­ng week­end – Heb­den Bridge – 13–15.03.09
5. Peo­ple’s Block­ade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port – New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia — 21.03.09
6. Direct action and car­bon trad­ing edu­ca­tion week­end – Lon­don and Brighton – 21–22.03.09
7. Fos­sil Fools Day – all over – 01.04.09
8. Coal Car­a­van – Mid­lands, York­shire and North East – 24.04.09–04.05.09

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1. Bio­fu­elled attacks in Suma­tra, Indone­sia – 18.12.08
2. Plane Stu­pid turns Southamp­ton air­port into a refugee camp — 17.01.09
3. Cli­mate Rush activists lock on to Par­lia­ment — 20.01.01
4. E.On Ref Off! – 24.01.09
5. A not-so-Roy­al wel­come for the nuclear indus­try — 09.02.09
6. Man­ches­ter RBS branch roof occu­pa­tion — 11.02.09
7. Occu­pa­tion of Kel­ster­back For­est, Frank­furt Air­port, Ger­many — Ongo­ing
8. New report – Cater­ing for the Coal Indus­try

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
Includ­ing an Art Exhi­bi­tion, Music & Voic­es in Exile, Peace Choir, Images from the Smash EDO cam­paign and the world events that inspired the resis­tance to Brighton’s local bomb builders. Events include Guy Small­man, inter­na­tion­al pho­to-jour­nal­ist; on the ground pho­tog­ra­phy from Israel’s inva­sion of Lebanon in 2006; the clas­sic draw­ings of John Catt, vet­er­an anti-war activist; pho­tog­ra­phy by Medyan Dairieh, Al-Jazeera jour­nal­ist; ‘On the Verge’ the film they tried to ban; Clan­des­tine Rebel Clown Train­ing; Rad­i­cal Cheer­lead­ing: make pom-poms, write cheers and prac­tice your moves; car­ni­val cre­ations and mask mak­ing; and Ben­e­fit Finale at the Albert Pub.
www.smashedo.org.uk

2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
Cli­mate Rush cor­dial­ly invites you to an awards cer­e­mo­ny for the coal indus­try, to hon­our the world’s great­est emit­ters of CO2, on THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY at THE LANDMARK HOTEL. Dress for­mal­ly for cock­tails in the Win­ter Gar­den at 6.30 prompt.
www.climaterush.co.uk

And in Man­ches­ter, North­ern Cli­mate Rush will be pay­ing a vis­it to the UK’s largest coal com­pa­ny – UK Coal. Meet in front of the Stu­dent Union build­ing at 1pm.
www.northernclimaterush.wordpress.com

3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09
With the G20, cli­mate crim­i­nals and COP 15 in mind, be part of the gath­er­ing – inspi­ra­tion, action and sol­i­dar­i­ty guar­an­teed.
www.climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/468

4. Earth First & Treespon­si­bil­i­ty Tree Plant­i­ng week­end – Heb­den Bridge – 13–15.03.09
The annu­al and socia­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty to plant thou­sands of native trees on a eco­log­i­cal­ly degrad­ed hill­side is hap­pen­ing in March. Organ­ised by Earth First! activists in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Calderdale com­mu­ni­ty group Treespon­si­bil­i­ty. Based in Heb­den Bridge in Calderdale. A week­end of hard but sat­is­fy­ing work plant­i­ng native wood­land com­bined with good food and social­is­ing.
More info: treesponsibility@yahoo.co.uk or 07983743894

5. Peo­ple’s Block­ade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port – New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia — 21.03.09
Coal exports are Aus­trali­a’s sin­gle biggest con­tri­bu­tion to glob­al cli­mate change, and the fastest grow­ing. In New­cas­tle, the world’s biggest coal port, com­mu­ni­ty groups have been cam­paign­ing against the dou­bling of coal exports from New­cas­tle Har­bour. There have been three com­mu­ni­ty block­ades of New­cas­tle Har­bour now, and each of them has man­aged to keep coal ships from enter­ing or leav­ing for most of the day. The next one is on Sat­ur­day 21 March 2009.
www.risingtide.org.au

6. Direct action and car­bon trad­ing edu­ca­tion week­end – Lon­don and Brighton – 21–22.03.09
Cli­mate Camp Car­bon Trad­ing Edu­ca­tion Week­end, Lon­don. With Cli­mate Camp tar­get­ing car­bon mar­kets this year, find out every­thing you ever want­ed to know about car­bon trad­ing and more but were afraid to ask! More info:international@climatecamp.org.uk

Also this week­end, a two-day direct action train­ing at the Cow­ley Club, Brighton. 10 AM start.
www.cowleyclub.org.uk

7. Fos­sil Fools Day – all over – 01.04.09
Cli­mate Camp at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, fol­lowed by a “cel­e­bra­tion” of BP’s cen­te­nary at the British Muse­um; inter­spersed with local actions all over the coun­try and the world!

Cli­mate camp hits the city: stop­ping car­bon mar­kets // because nature doesn’t do bailouts
On April 1st the G20 lead­ers arrive in Lon­don. At a time of cli­mate cri­sis their response to the mar­ket melt­down is emer­gency loans to car man­u­fac­tur­ers, increased spend­ing to encour­age con­sump­tion, and bailouts for the very peo­ple who got us into this mess — just the thing that will make the cli­mate cri­sis worse. Don’t let them get away with it: join our camp in the Square Mile! Gath­er at noon, April 1st, at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW.
www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

“Cel­e­brate” BP’s cen­te­nary: Tell them the party’s over!
For rea­sons unfath­omable yet deeply pleas­ing, BP has cho­sen Fos­sil Fools to cel­e­brate its cen­te­nary. This will take place at the British Muse­um, where the not-so-great and the far-from-good will quaff cock­tails, snaf­fle canapes and watch a cel­e­bra­to­ry film. Join us between 6–7pm, to say ‘Your party’s over!’ Bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments, a sense of cli­mate jus­tice and a non­sense of fool­ery. Meet at 6pm at the British Museum’s Gt. Rus­sell St. gate.
www.fossilfoolsday.org
www.artnotoil.org.uk

8. Coal Car­a­van – Mid­lands, York­shire and North East – 24.04.09–04.05.09
The fab­u­lous cli­mate car­a­van lives on, as the COAL CARAVAN, walk­ing and cycling between the sites for pro­posed open cast mines and new pow­er sta­tions in the Mid­lands, York­shire and North East. On our route we’ll be talk­ing to local peo­ple, organ­is­ing bicy­cled pow­er films and events, hold­ing pub­lic dis­cus­sions and dis­plays, and link­ing groups from dif­fer­ent areas to help strength­en iso­lat­ed cam­paigns. For route details see:
www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/21915
More info or to get involved: caravan@climatecamp.org.uk.

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1. Bio­fu­elled attacks in Suma­tra, Indone­sia – 18.12.08
In the rush to clear sub­sis­tence farms and for­est for agro-fuel plan­ta­tion, local vil­lages in the glob­al South are suf­fer­ing. On 18th Decem­ber 2008 the vil­lage of Suluk Bongkal in Suma­tra, Indone­sia was attacked by hun­dreds of armed police and para­mil­i­taries with fire-arms and tear­gas and was also fire-bombed from a heli­copter. Hun­dreds of hous­es were burned down and lat­er bull­dozed. Most of the vil­lagers fled into the forests and oth­ers were arrest­ed. The attack is linked to a sub­sidiary com­pa­ny of Sinar Mas, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) which is clear­ing land for pulp and paper tree plan­ta­tions. Sinar Mas is one of the biggest own­ers of palm oil and pulp and paper plan­ta­tions in Indone­sia. A protest let­ter is col­lect­ing sig­na­to­ries to send to the Indone­sian author­i­ties.
To sign and for more info: www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/index.php

2. Plane Stu­pid turns Southamp­ton air­port into a refugee camp — 17.01.09
Activists chained them­selves to the entrance of Southamp­ton air­port and erect­ed tents at the main entrance in a bid turn the region­al air­port into a cli­mate refugee camp. In addi­tion to set­ting up camp, activists for­mal­ly sub­mit­ted a plan­ning appli­ca­tion with East­leigh Bor­ough Coun­cil to turn the air­port into refugee hous­ing.
www.planestupid.com

3. Cli­mate Rush activists lock on to Par­lia­ment — 20.01.01
On the day that Par­lia­ment vot­ed about the third run­way, nine Cli­mate Rush activists high­light­ed the high farce that is UK democ­ra­cy by chain­ing them­selves to the gates of Par­lia­ment. Despite stay­ing for hours and enter­tain­ing tourists and the press, when the police final­ly cut them out, the activists walked away scot free.
www.climaterush.co.uk

4. E.On Ref Off! – 24.01.09
On Sat­ur­day 24th Jan­u­ary a group of Lon­don Cli­mate Camp activists turned up at Stam­ford Bridge dressed as foot­ball ref­er­ees to show E.ON the red card. Over 40,000 Chelsea and Ipswich fans arriv­ing for the game heard us blow­ing the whis­tle on E.ON’s dirty FA Cup spon­sor­ship mon­ey, and thou­sands of them were per­son­al­ly hand­ed an “E.ON F.OFF” red card explain­ing how the com­pa­ny is mak­ing foul prof­its from the cli­mate cri­sis. It was all good fun and reac­tions were pret­ty pos­i­tive — E.ON them­selves would have paid tens of thou­sands to get the oppo­site pub­lic­i­ty for their brand!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/420346.html

5. A not-so-Roy­al wel­come for the nuclear indus­try — 09.02.09
Hun­dreds of tourists, vis­it­ing the Palace for the Chang­ing of the Guard, were amused to see “nuclear guards” tak­ing their place at the gates. They held up a large ban­ner read­ing “Nuclear Pow­er is Not the Answer to Cli­mate Chaos!” and a plac­ard read­ing “Roy­al Nuclear Fam­i­ly? No Thanks!”, draw­ing atten­tion to the fact that Prince Andrew, the UK’s Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Inter­na­tion­al Trade and Invest­ment, was host­ing a gala lunch at the Palace for the nuclear indus­try, pre­sum­ably to plot how best to pro­mote their tox­ic green­wash agen­da at home and abroad.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421693.html

6. Man­ches­ter RBS branch roof occu­pa­tion — 11.02.09
Around 35 stu­dents held a cli­mate change ‘Evic­tion Demon­stra­tion’ out­side (and on top of) a Roy­al Bank of Scot­land branch at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter Stu­dents Union. The group from Peo­ple and Plan­et also sub­mit­ted a motion to the Union Gen­er­al Meet­ing propos­ing that the Union does not renew the lease for RBS’ branch when it expires in Jan­u­ary 2010. Stu­dents climbed up on to the roof of the branch, and dropped ban­ners adver­tis­ing RBS’ fos­sil fuel invest­ments. Oth­ers engaged in ‘rapid infor­ma­tion dessim­i­na­tion’, rac­ing off to speak to as many peo­ple as they could in 20 min­utes before return­ing back to the RBS branch to com­pare scores.
http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22169

7. Occu­pa­tion of Kel­ster­back For­est, Frank­furt Air­port, Ger­many — Ongo­ing The occu­pa­tion of the threat­ened Kel­ster­back For­est con­tin­ues. This is a large and beau­ti­ful for­est that has already been encroached upon for exist­ing air­port infra­struc­ture and is “in the way” of a planned, addi­tion­al run­way.
http://waldbesetzung.blogsport.de

8. New report – Cater­ing for the Coal Indus­try A per­son­al account from an activist on the ground in Columbia,documenting resis­tance to exploita­tion in Columbia’s’ coal industry.The report is focused on the lives of those who pre­pare and serve the food nec­es­sary for the mine to func­tion. They want peo­ple out­side of La Loma to hear of their inhu­mane, dan­ger­ous and humil­i­at­ing work­ing con­di­tions. Read­ing and shar­ing this report helps to break the invis­i­bil­i­ty of the exploita­tion with­in the glob­al coal infra­struc­ture.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419675.html

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Upcoming action dates, activist gatherings, & the official meetings en route to the Copenhagen climate summit, 2009 — updated

‘Offi­cial’ meet­ings on the Road to Copen­hagen:

31 March to 8 April 2009
First Post-Kyoto Cli­mate Nego­ti­a­tions (UNFCCC Inter­ces­sion­al Meet­ing), Bonn, Ger­many

‘Offi­cial’ meet­ings on the Road to Copen­hagen:

31 March to 8 April 2009
First Post-Kyoto Cli­mate Nego­ti­a­tions (UNFCCC Inter­ces­sion­al Meet­ing), Bonn, Ger­many
The first meet­ing on the “road to Copen­hagen” and first inter­na­tion­al cli­mate meet­ing for the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion. Expect­ed Out­come: Broad dis­cus­sions on respec­tive mit­i­ga­tion goals for devel­oped and devel­op­ing coun­tries. How­ev­er, it is unclear whether Pres­i­dent Oba­ma will have a cli­mate nego­tia­tor and under sec­re­tary in place at this time so there will real “nego­ti­at­ing” at this meet­ing. http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/2654.php

2 April 2009
G20 Meet­ing, Lon­don, Eng­land
This will like­ly be Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s first large-scale meet­ing with oth­er world lead­ers. The agen­da will like­ly look to tack­le the finan­cial cri­sis, but the G20 web­site men­tions the need to “make progress on long-term issues such as cli­mate change and inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment.” Expect­ed Out­come: Devel­op a com­mit­ment that the glob­al eco­nom­ic recov­ery will fac­tor in car­bon emis­sions. http://www.g20.org/

24–26 May 2009
World Busi­ness Sum­mit on Cli­mate Change, Copen­hagen, Den­mark
The Copen­hagen Cli­mate Coun­cil is orga­niz­ing the World Busi­ness Sum­mit on Cli­mate Change, which will bring togeth­er the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, top sci­en­tists, econ­o­mists and oth­er lead­ing thinkers. Expect­ed Out­come: Issue rec­om­men­da­tions for the next inter­na­tion­al glob­al warm­ing agree­ment. http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/

1–12 June 2009
Sec­ond Post-Kyoto Cli­mate Nego­ti­a­tions (UNFCCC Inter­ces­sion­al Meet­ing), Bonn, Ger­many
Draft nego­ti­at­ing text is expect­ed to be issued before or dur­ing this meet­ing and will like­ly be very gen­er­al with all the con­tentious items placed in brack­ets, but it will be the basis for actu­al nego­ti­a­tions. Expect­ed Out­come: Draft nego­ti­at­ing text. http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/2654.php

8–10 July 2009
G8 Sum­mit, La Mad­dale­na, Italy
The host, Ital­ian Prime Min­is­ter Sil­vio Berlus­coni, does not share the com­mit­ment to address­ing cli­mate change of pre­vi­ous G8 hosts. Address­ing cli­mate at this meet­ing will be crit­i­cal for keep­ing momen­tum toward Copen­hagen. Expect­ed Out­come: G8 Agree­ment set­ting the stage for Copen­hagen
http://www.g8italia2009.it/G8/G8-G8_Layout_locale-1199882116809_Home.htm

31 August – 4 Sep­tem­ber 2009
World Cli­mate Con­fer­ence Three, Gene­va, Switzer­land
The World Cli­mate Con­fer­ences (WCC) is the major “sci­en­tif­ic” meet­ing for 2009 and is the third in a series of inter­na­tion­al meet­ings, orga­nized by the World Mete­o­ro­log­i­cal Orga­ni­za­tion
about glob­al cli­mate issues. The sec­ond WCC in 1979 result­ed in the cre­ation of the U.N.‘s Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change. http://www.wmo.int/pages/world_climate_conference/index_en.html Expect­ed Out­come: Group will address cli­mate pre­dic­tion, dis­as­ter risk reduc­tion and adap­ta­tion to cli­mate change.

August 2009 (date not set)
Third Post-Kyoto Cli­mate Nego­ti­a­tions (UNFCCC Inter­ces­sion­al Meet­ing), Bangkok, Thai­land
This is the third meet­ing on the “road to Copen­hagen” and, by this point, par­i­ties should have set their nego­ti­at­ing posi­tions so the frame­work for the next inter­na­tion­al treaty can start to be craft­ed. Expect­ed Out­come: Nation’s set nego­ti­at­ing posi­tions. http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/2654.php

21–25 Sep­tem­ber 2009
Unit­ed Nations Gen­er­al Assem­bly Cli­mate Sum­mit, Copen­hagen
New York, New York — *UN Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Bon Ki Moon has indi­cat­ed that he plans to hold a spe­cial ses­sion with heads of state to address cli­mate change. Expect­ed Out­come: Indi­ca­tions of nation’s nego­ti­at­ing posi­tion for

Octo­ber 2009 (date not set)
Fourth Post-Kyoto Cli­mate Nego­ti­a­tions (UNFCCC Inter­ces­sion­al Meeting/Minister’s Meet­ing), Loca­tion to be deter­mined
Expect­ed Out­come: Final draft text agreed to. This is the final nego­ti­at­ing ses­sion before Copen­hagen and may be attend­ed only by envi­ron­ment min­is­ters mak­ing it a closed door meet­ing designed to set the stage for COP 15.

7–18 Decem­ber 2009
UNFCCC Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties 15, Copen­hagen, Den­mark
If there is to be no gap between the Kyoto Pro­to­col and a new agree­ment, a frame­work must be agreed to at this meet­ing. Expect­ed Out­come: New inter­na­tion­al glob­al warm­ing treaty. http://www.cop15.dk/en

2010 (dates uncon­firmed)
UNFCCC Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties 16, Jamaica

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Old dates from this cal­en­dar:

Com­piled at the recent EF! Win­ter Moot (scroll down for your sum­mer of fun — dates up until Decem­ber ’09):

21–22 Feb­ru­ary 2009
No Bor­ders UK gath­er­ing, Bris­tol

26 Feb­ru­ary 2009
Demon­stra­tions at UK Coal Awards (www.climaterush.co.uk) & at UK Coal HQ (www.northernclimaterush.wordpress.com)

5 March 2009
Next Cli­mate Rush, Lon­don
> http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22254

13–15 March 2009
EF! Treeplant­i­ng, Heb­den Bridge
(trees@riseup.net > www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22158)

13–15 March 2009
COP15 Inter­na­tion­al Mobil­i­sa­tion Net­work meet­ing, Copen­hagen, Den­mark (www.climateaction09.org)

14–15 March
Nation­al squat meet­up, Bris­tol
(www.squatmeet09.wordpress.com)

21–22 March 2009
Cli­mate Camp Car­bon Trad­ing Edu­ca­tion Week­end, Lon­don
(international@climatecamp.org.uk)

21–22 March 2009
Direct Action train­ing, 10am at Cow­ley Club, Brighton
(www.cowleyclub.org.uk)

1 April 2009 Fossil/Financial Fools Day
G20 Protests + Events List + Loca­tions Map
Squar­ing up to the Square Mile: the Lon­don G20 map

Cli­mate Camp in the City, Lon­don (www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20)
G20 Melt­down at the Bank of Eng­land (www.g20meltdown.org)
Fos­sil Fools’ Day, every­where (www.risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday2009)
Times & resource links > http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22258

* G20 Crit­i­cal Mass
9:00 AM Meet at Bank Junc­tion (Bank tube sta­tion) EC2

* Finan­cial Fools Day Street Par­ty
Assem­ble at Can­non Street, Moor­gate, Liv­er­pool Street or Lon­don Bridge sta­tions 11am to form four march­ing blocks head­ing towards the Bank of Eng­land for 12-noon, in the ‘Square Mile’ of the City of Lon­don.
See: http://www.g‑20meltdown.org/
Bring a portable radio!

* Cli­mate Camp in the City
The cli­mate camp are camp­ing in the Euro­pean Car­bon Exchange, Hasil­wood house, City of Lon­don 12-noon.
See: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20
Final update on what to bring and what to do where at http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22291

* Fos­sil Fools Day: ‘Your Par­ty’s Over!’ *** POSTPONED by BP fol­low­ing police advice. ***
Cli­mate Crim­i­nal BP is cel­e­brat­ing its cen­te­nary with cock­tails and canapes at the British Musem. And we will be there too, between 6–7pm, to say ‘Your party’s over!’
Meet at 6pm at the British Museum’s Gt. Rus­sell St. gate
See: http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org
Bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments, a sense of cli­mate jus­tice and a non­sense of fool­ery.

2 April 2009
* Crash the Stock Exchange
Eat cap­i­tal­ism for break­fast. Dis­rupt the traders whose finan­cial ego­ma­nia per­pet­u­ates glob­al injus­tice: let’s shut­down trad­ing for the day.
Meet out­side the Lon­don Stock Exchange, 10 Pater­nos­ter Square, City of Lon­don, Lon­don EC4M. 7am (traders arrive at 7am, trad­ing com­menc­ing 8am). Near­est tube: St Pauls — have a pleas­ant jour­ney in… tubes might be busy.
* Excel Cen­tre
Direct action all day against the Excel Cen­tre, Can­ning Town where the G20 will be meet­ing
ExCeL Lon­don, One West­ern Gate­way, Roy­al Vic­to­ria Dock, Lon­don, E16 1XL
A coali­tion of groups includ­ing: The Pales­tine Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign, Stop the War Coali­tion, The British Mus­lim Ini­tia­tive, and CND have called two protests at the G20; a march and ral­ly in cen­tral Lon­don on the after­noon of April 1st, and a protest to the con­fer­ence itself on April 2nd.

3–5 April 2009
Demon­stra­tions at NATO 60TH Anniver­sary Sum­mit, Baden-Baden, Ger­many & Stras­bourg, France
http://dissent.fr/taxonomy/term/165

24 April‑5 May 2009
Coal Car­a­van, cycling from Not­ting­ham, through Der­byshire, York­shire & .
Stop­ping off at a vari­ety of open-cast sites, pow­er sta­tions and oth­er beau­ti­ful places! Full details of how to book, itin­er­ary for where to join.
(caravan@climatecamp.org.uk > www.coalcaravan.org.uk)

25/26th April 2009
Sizewell anti-nuclear Camp and Demo

2–3rd May 2009
Anti-mil­i­tarist con­fer­ence, Brighton
(http://antimilitaristnetwork.noflag.org.uk)

4th May 2009
Smash EDO May­day! May­day! Street par­ty against war and greed, Brighton.
(http://www.smashedo.org.uk)

6 May 2009
A Wake for BP at the oil behe­moth­’s cen­te­nary par­ty

29 May‑1 June
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp sum­mer gath­er­ing

1 June
Cli­mate Rush Ped­al Pow­er
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22611

6 June 2009
Eco-vil­lage occu­pa­tion, SW Lon­don
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22593

6–7 June 2009
Nation­al Anar­chist Gath­er­ing, Lon­don
www.conference09.org.uk

11–14 June 2009
Scot­tish Cli­mate Camp Con­ver­gence
(http://climatecampscotland.org.uk)

23th-29th June 2009
Calais No Bor­ders Camp
(http://calaisnoborder.eu.org/)

3–5 July
For­est Cir­cus fes­ti­val, Lap­pers­fort, Bel­gium

8–10 July 2009
Demon­stra­tions at G8 Sum­mit, La Mad­dale­na, Italy

11–12 July 2009
Anti-Mil­i­tarist Net­work Gath­er­ing, Not­ting­ham
(http://www.antimilitaristnetwork.org.uk)

11–19 July 2009
Dan­ish Cli­mate Camp, near Copen­hagen
(http://camp09.dk/)

12–19 July 2009
Das Kli­ma Work­shop Festival/Le camp cli­ma­tique, near Berne, Switzer­land
(http://www.netzwerkzeug.org/)

18th-? July
Sav­ing Ice­land Sum­mer Mobil­i­sa­tion 2009
(www.savingiceland.org)

20–26 July 2009
NO to Ura­ni­um Pow­er — Anti­nu­clear Cli­mate Camp, Ter­vola, Fin­land
(http://www.hyokyaalto.org/category/english)

23rd-27th July 2009, Oxford­shire.
You are invit­ed to Peace News’ first ever sum­mer camp.
(http://www.peacenewscamp.info)

3–9 August 2009
French Camp Action Cli­mat, Notre Dame des Lan­des, Nantes
(www.campclimat.org)

3–9 August 2009
Dutch/Belgian Cli­mate Camp
(www.klimaatactiekamp.org)

3–10 August 2009
Scot­tish Camp for Cli­mate Action
(http://climatecampscotland.org.uk)

13–16 August 2009
Cli­mate Camp Cym­ru, Near Merthyr Tyd­fil, South Wales
(http://climatecampcymru.org)

15–23 August 2009
Irish Cli­mate Camp
(http://www.climatecamp.ie)

18–24 August 2009
Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, Cum­bria
(www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk)

20–23 August 2009 IN SALENTO, NUCLEAR CLIMATE CAMP, Italy – Lec­ce
More info

21–23 August 2009
Beyond Bor­ders week­end, Not­ting­ham
A week­end of skill­shar­ing and dis­cus­sion about fight­ing bor­der con­trols and show­ing sol­i­dar­i­ty with migrants
(http://beyondbordersweekend.wordpress.com)

27 August‑2 Sep­tem­ber 2009
UK Camp for Cli­mate Action — con­ver­gence with­in the M25/London (www.climatecamp.org.uk)

Sep­tem­ber 2009 (dates uncon­firmed)
Cli­mate Camp, South Aus­tralia
(http://climatecampsa.org)

North Amer­i­can action camps sum­mer 2009
inter­na­tion­al list of Con­ver­gences for Cli­mate Action

12–20 Sep­tem­ber 2009
Bris­tol Co-Mutiny

18–19 Sep­tem­ber 2009
squats and autonomous spaces — 2 days of direct action around hous­ing and the cre­ation of more autonomous spaces at this time of cri­sis. See link

10–11 Octo­ber
Work­ers’ Cli­mate Action con­fer­ence, Lon­don

12–16 Octo­ber 2009
Glob­al Mobil­i­sa­tion in Defence of Moth­er Earth and the Peo­ples
called by the 4th Con­ti­nen­tal Sum­mit of Indige­nous Peo­ples Abya Yala (”Amer­i­ca”)
More info/resources

16–18 Octo­ber 2009
COP15 Inter­na­tion­al Mobil­i­sa­tion Net­work meet­ing
(www.climateaction09.org)

17–18 Octo­ber 2009
The Great Cli­mate Swoop, clos­ing down Rat­cliffe-on-Soar coal-fired pow­er sta­tion
More info

24 Octo­ber 2009
Lon­don Anar­chist Book­fair
(http://www.anarchistbookfair.org)

24 Octo­ber 2009
Inter­na­tion­al Day of Cli­mate Action
http://www.350.org/

31 October‑1 Novem­ber
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/23245

31 Oct‑1 Nov 2009
Gath­er­ing Against the Prison Soci­ety, Brighton
Dis­cus­sions & pre­sen­ta­tions about the strug­gle for lib­er­a­tion, inside and out­side of the prison walls
More info

21–22 Novem­ber 2009
No New Nuclear. Plan­ning to win strate­gis­ing week­end, Lon­don

28 November‑1 Decem­ber 2009
Week­end of Action and Work­shops at Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp

5 Decem­ber 2009
COP15 OUT, a secret plan to take a space in the City of Lon­don away from and after the Wave. It’s time to show our ‘lead­ers’ how we’re going to take action to reduce emis­sions our­selves.

3–9 Decem­ber 2009
Social and Cli­mate Jus­tice Car­a­van from the WTO Min­is­te­r­i­al in Gene­va to the COP15 sum­mit in Copen­hagen.
http://www.climatecaravan.org

7–18 Decem­ber 2009
Demon­stra­tions at COP15 Sum­mit, Copen­hagen, Den­mark
(www.climateaction09.org)
See this arti­cle for back­ground & links to Action Guide & Map

7–18 Decem­ber 2009
Kli­mafo­rum: Peo­ple’s Cli­mate Sum­mit
http://www.klimaforum09.org

11 Decem­ber 2009
* Our Cli­mate! Not Your Busi­ness! (organ­ised direct action to stop Cor­po­ra­tions tak­ing part in COP process)
http://notyourbusiness.hacklab.dk/

12 Decem­ber 2009
* Flood for Cli­mate Jus­tice (demon­stra­tion by FoE)
http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/un-climate-talks/global/2009/the-flood-is-coming
* Glob­al day of Action
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
* March for Cli­mate Jus­tice (includ­ing sys­tem change, not cli­mate change bloc)
* Don’t Nuke the Cli­mate! Inter­na­tion­al Day of Action
http://www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org/index.php?lang=en

13 Decem­ber 2009
Hit the Pro­duc­tion of Cli­mate Chaos
http://htp.noblogs.org/
* Farm­ers action (Via Campesina against agro-indus­try)

14 Decem­ber 2009
* No Bor­ders, No Cli­mate Refugees! (Day of action in Copen­hagen. Call to action to inter­na­tion­al no bor­ders groups dur­ing the COP 15 in Copen­hagen)
http://info.interactivist.net/node/13135
* Repa­ra­tions for Cli­mate Debt

15 Decem­ber 2009
* Resis­tance is Ripe! Agri­cul­ture Action Day (Change the food sys­tem not the cli­mate)
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/agriculture-action-day/

16 Decem­ber 2009
* RECLAIM POWER! — Push­ing for Cli­mate Jus­tice! (Mass action to enter the COP15 con­fer­ence area and dis­rupt the ses­sions in order to hold a Peo­ple’s Sum­mit for Cli­mate Jus­tice. Con­fronta­tion­al civ­il dis­obe­di­ence)
http://www.climate-justice-action.org

18 Decem­ber 2009
* (last offi­cial day of the sum­mit) — “Nev­er Trust a COP” actions through­out the city
http://www.nevertrustacop.org/