Category: Climate Chaos

Demo against E.ON, 16th July, London

Join the Green­wash Guer­ril­las to show that E.ON’S green­wash won’t wash!
Wednes­day, 16th July, 8.15 AM, Lon­don

Greenwash Guerillas logoJoin the Green­wash Guer­ril­las to show that E.ON’S green­wash won’t wash!
Wednes­day, 16th July, 8.15 AM, Lon­don

With two weeks to go before the Camp for Cli­mate Action at Kingsnorth, E.ON are spon­sor­ing a cli­mate sum­mit designed to help indus­try lead­ers ‘keep stake­hold­ers engaged’. Just like their plans for ‘clean coal’ at Kingsnorth, this is green­wash of the high­est tox­i­c­i­ty: a laugh­able-if-it-weren’t-so-trag­ic attempt to dis­tract us from the fact that E.ON are plan­ning to build the first coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in the UK for over thir­ty years. And that, in a time of unprece­dent­ed cli­mate cri­sis, is an unac­cept­able insan­i­ty.

This hot-air-fest can­not pass with­out a vis­it from… the Green­wash Guer­ril­las!

Don a white painter’s suit and come on down to the Busi­ness Design Cen­tre in Isling­ton to join a crack team of green­wash detec­tors. We will be cor­don­ing off the area and warn­ing sum­mit del­e­gates about the high lev­els of tox­ic green­wash leak­ing from the build­ing. (We sus­pect its source to be E.ON Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Bob Tay­lor, who’s got a top spot on the pan­el.) To get a sense of what the demo will be like, check out the Green­wash Guer­ril­las in action here: www.risingtide.org.uk/node/250

This should be a fun, sub­ver­sive demo, with the Camp for Cli­mate Action, Ris­ing Tide, Peo­ple and Plan­et, Earth First! and WDM all help­ing to spread the word. Join us and help show E.ON that our actions won’t be con­fined to Kingsnorth this August. Cli­mate Campers will go wher­ev­er we need to and do what­ev­er it takes to shut down Kingsnorth – per­ma­nent­ly.

Where: Busi­ness Design Cen­tre, 52 Upper St, Lon­don N1 0QH

When: Wednes­day, 16th July, meet 8.15AM in front of the Busi­ness Design Cen­tre

Bring if you can: a white painter’s/boiler suit and any home-made green­wash detect­ing devices you can think up (eg. part of an old hoover, a remote con­trol, a hair dry­er paint­ed green – get cre­ative!) If you can’t bring these things, not to wor­ry, extras will be on hand.

More info: info@climatecamp.org.uk / 07961 917 535
(Get in touch if you’re com­ing from out of town and need accom­mo­da­tion the night before)

Help spread the word — fly­ers (4 fit per piece of A4 — great on green paper) and poster avail­able at

»GGs Leaflet — Front
»GGs Leaflet — Back
»GGs Poster

www.climatecamp.org.uk
www.greenwashguerrillas.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk
www.stopkingsnorth.org.uk
www.peopleandplanet.org.uk
www.earthfirst.org.uk

The Long Good Friday — coal train protest eventually evicted — final update

5am, Sat­ur­day 14th June 2008
Police con­firmed all pro­test­ers had been removed from the train, and arrests went “into dou­ble fig­ures”.

Coal train eviction 1Coal train eviction 25am, Sat­ur­day 14th June 2008
Police con­firmed all pro­test­ers had been removed from the train, and arrests went “into dou­ble fig­ures”.

Twen­ty-nine cli­mate cam­paign­ers halt­ed a train tak­ing fuel to Drax pow­er sta­tion in North York­shire on Fri­day.

Those arrest­ed face pos­si­ble charges of con­spir­a­cy to obstruct trains, obstruct­ing trains and rail­way tres­pass, police said.

The train remains where it stopped, close to the vil­lage of Carl­ton, near Goole, ahead of an inspec­tion.

Up to 100 police offi­cers, some in riot gear, board­ed the wag­ons of the train in the oper­a­tion to remove the activists.

Supt Ter­ry Nichol­son of British Trans­port Police said: “It’s been a lengthy oper­a­tion but our pri­or­i­ty has been the safe­ty of the pub­lic and our offi­cers.

“We have been deal­ing with the pro­test­ers in a safe and pro­fes­sion­al man­ner and we have been arrest­ing peo­ple for obstruct­ing the rail­way.”

One of the par­ty of demon­stra­tors said they had chained them­selves to the train and would need to be cut free if police want­ed to remove them.

Speak­ing from the train, one of the pro­test­ers, called Natal­ie, said: “The police have moved into the hop­pers. They’ve start­ed tak­ing stuff. There must be about 10 of them on the train but loads more around it.”

Some of the pro­test­ers could be seen mov­ing on to the top of the steel arch of the bridge over the Riv­er Aire where the train is parked, a few miles from the vil­lage of Carl­ton.

The train was stopped in Raw­cliffe, on the bor­der of North and East York­shire, appar­ent­ly by a pro­test­er wav­ing a red flag.

The envi­ron­men­tal cam­paign­ers used an iron gird­er bridge and climb­ing equip­ment to scale the 12ft high truck.

“This was a com­plex oper­a­tion as many of those arrest­ed had to be cut free hav­ing attached them­selves to rail vehi­cles and the over­bridge,” the BTP state­ment added.

The pro­test­ers had hoped to stay on the train for sev­er­al days and had with them food and water as well as a portable lava­to­ry.

See orig­i­nal sto­ry at http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20894

Video of start of evic­tion attempt

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Update:
At 12pm on Fri­day evening the last three coal train block­aders where evict­ed from the bridge above the block­ad­ed train. The occu­pa­tion had last­ed 16 hours and occu­piers had shov­elled around 30 tons of coal onto the tracks. 20 peo­ple where cut out of arm tube lock­ons and 9 were tak­en of the bridge, 29 were arrest­ed and charged with con­spir­cy to com­mit Unlaw­ful and mali­cious obstruc­tion of trains. Every­one was out of the police cells and account­ed for by 10pm Sat­ur­day evening. Every­one is bailed to return… you guessed it on the 31st of July and 4th 5th and 6th of August. The fires at Drax are still burn­ing but the move­ment to stop coal is grow­ing fast.

Protesters end blockade of Brazil mining railroad

Jun 13, 2008
SAO PAULO — Hun­dreds of Brazil­ian pro­test­ers end­ed a block­ade of a rail­way line that trans­ports iron ore for min­ing com­pa­ny Vale, the com­pa­ny said late on Thurs­day.

It was the lat­est in a series of protests this week, some of them vio­lent, by land­less peas­ant groups tar­get­ing large com­pa­nies and multi­na­tion­als in Brazil.

Jun 13, 2008
SAO PAULO — Hun­dreds of Brazil­ian pro­test­ers end­ed a block­ade of a rail­way line that trans­ports iron ore for min­ing com­pa­ny Vale, the com­pa­ny said late on Thurs­day.

It was the lat­est in a series of protests this week, some of them vio­lent, by land­less peas­ant groups tar­get­ing large com­pa­nies and multi­na­tion­als in Brazil.

Pro­test­ers left peace­ful­ly after the Minas Gerais state’s jus­tice depart­ment ordered them to leave the tracks ear­li­er on Thurs­day or risk being removed by police or fined 30,000 reais ($18,000) for every day they remained, Vale said in a note.

“It start­ed around 6 a.m. this morn­ing,” a Vale spokes­woman said, adding more than 30 trains were delayed in the 10 hours that pro­test­ers had stopped traf­fic on the rail­way.

Trains on the line each car­ry around 14,000 tonnes of ore from the com­pa­ny’s net­work of mines in the state to ports but Vale could not imme­di­ate­ly con­firm how many were trans­port­ing the com­mod­i­ty. It said around 70 trains a day car­ry iron ore and oth­er car­go down the line.

One pas­sen­ger train was stopped by the protest as well as trains car­ry­ing goods for oth­er firms, Vale said.

The Via Campesina peas­ant move­ment said about 1,500 peo­ple were occu­py­ing the rail­way to pres­sure Vale to nego­ti­ate with 500 fam­i­lies who will be dis­lodged by the con­struc­tion of a hydro-elec­tric dam in which the com­pa­ny is involved.

Pro­test­ers occu­pied prop­er­ties of indus­tri­al con­glom­er­ate Votoran­tim and a super­mar­ket belong­ing to the Wal-Mart group on Wednes­day.

The peas­ant groups are demon­strat­ing against the advance of one-crop farms they say harm the envi­ron­ment and small farm­ers. They are also protest­ing high food prices, the grow­ing use of bio­fu­els and the influ­ence of multi­na­tion­al com­pa­nies in Brazil.

Via Campesina said in a state­ment it was hold­ing anoth­er protest in front of Goias state’s elec­tric­i­ty com­pa­ny over price increas­es.

Protest halts Drax coal train as summer of discontent against coal continues…

Media — Inter­views are avail­able with pro­tes­tors: call 07944 367755 Pho­tos from the protest at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sitefeed/ Pro­tes­tors have halt­ed a coal train car­ry­ing fuel for Drax pow­er sta­tion in York­shire, the sin­gle biggest source of CO2 in the UK. The protest comes six weeks before the 2008 Camp for Cli­mate Action at Kingsnorth pow­er sta­tion … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Protest halts Drax coal train as sum­mer of dis­con­tent against coal con­tin­ues…”

Coal train stopped over river
Coal train banner
Coal train climber
Coal train stopped
Media — Inter­views are avail­able with pro­tes­tors: call 07944 367755
Pho­tos from the protest at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sitefeed/

Pro­tes­tors have halt­ed a coal train car­ry­ing fuel for Drax pow­er sta­tion in York­shire, the sin­gle biggest source of CO2 in the UK. The protest comes six weeks before the 2008 Camp for Cli­mate Action at Kingsnorth pow­er sta­tion — which will also high­light how using coal to sup­ply ener­gy will be a dis­as­ter for the plan­et.

Dressed in white over­alls and canary out­fits, they used safe­ty sig­nals to stop the train on a bridge over­look­ing the pow­er sta­tion, before climb­ing on board and dump­ing coal off onto the tracks.

The train has been stopped on a branch line used exclu­sive­ly for deliv­er­ing coal to Drax. Pro­tes­tors have used a net­work of climb­ing ropes to sus­pend them­selves under the bridge from the train — mean­ing any move­ment while the protest con­tin­ues is impos­si­ble.

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Updates at http://thecoalhole.org/

To find out what hap­pened next, go to http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20903

9th June Noise Demo at UK Coal Head Office Protest — next one 14th July

UK Coal is about to dev­as­tate a beau­ti­ful part of the Der­byshire coun­try­side by start­ing an open cast mine. So ‘Leave it in the Ground’ and Earth First! decid­ed to make some noise over it with peo­ple from Der­by, Not­ting­ham Leeds, Sheffield, Man­ches­ter and Brighton as well as oth­er places, all trav­elled to UK Coals Head office in Don­cast­er to make some noise.

UK Coal 1st noise demo 1UK Coal 1st noise demo 2UK Coal is about to dev­as­tate a beau­ti­ful part of the Der­byshire coun­try­side by start­ing an open cast mine. So ‘Leave it in the Ground’ and Earth First! decid­ed to make some noise over it with peo­ple from Der­by, Not­ting­ham Leeds, Sheffield, Man­ches­ter and Brighton as well as oth­er places, all trav­elled to UK Coals Head office in Don­cast­er to make some noise.

On arrival the police were there as expect­ed, but did lit­tle to engage us and a lit­tle lat­er in the day a 2 police officer’s with a cam­era and a video did appear in a daft attempt to intim­i­date us. UK Coal had there own secu­ri­ty at the gate who just stood there more bored than the police.

The day was hot and very sun­ny at the bleak entrance of UK coals Head Office, a soul less place with noth­ing that said they were very proud of their com­pa­ny, no ornate plants, flow­ers or trees, just a big main­tained hedge for their pri­va­cy. It is no won­der they are hap­py to destroy beau­ti­ful coun­try­side for the dirty coal.

Every one was in high spir­its and chilled as we all made noise for the after­noon in the sun. The plod just looked bored and there faces were get­ting red­der by the hour under the fluro’ jack­ets and hel­mets.

We were fine of course, as we occu­pied the UK Coals sign for the only bit of shade while the plod kept roast­ing; we also sat around eat­ing cake, pasties and sausage roles all from Veg­gies in a take out form, while still mak­ing a din.

At times the noise sound­ed good and they delib­er­ate­ly had to try and play bad­ly just so it was annoy­ing, after all it was no pic­nic. Ban­ners were also hung and a police offi­cer told us we could tie them to a lamp post, not that we need­ed his per­mis­sion. Dri­vers com­ing in or out were also leaflet­ed and many motorists pass­ing the entrance beeped in sup­port (prob­a­bly ex min­ers who hate open cast­ing with a pas­sion)

It’s not just the local open cast, peo­ple are oppos­ing of course but also the UK pol­i­cy on coal that is now out­dat­ed as cli­mate change looms in front of our eyes. Burn­ing coal is threat­en­ing the glob­al envi­ron­ment and all our futures and UK coal are cash­ing in on cli­mate dev­as­ta­tion and destruc­tion. The Lodge House site in Der­byshire is just one of 7 sites and Lodge house will have 1 mil­lion tonnes of coal ripped out of a 122 hectare area in 5 years

Local media had turned out and radio inter­views were done over the phone and there is more stuff to fol­low check http://leaveitintheground.org.uk and http://leaveitintheground.wordpress.com for the lat­est infor­ma­tion

derby@earthfirst.org.uk

Next event: noise demo out­side UK Coal on Mon­day 14th July 2008 — meet 3:30 at Don­cast­er train sta­tion, or 4pm at UK Coal

GroenFront! blocks E.ON Benelux HQ

June 3rd, Groen­Front! occu­pied the Benelux head­quar­ters of E.ON in Rot­ter­dam. The office was closed shut down from 6 AM — 1 PM, when police spe­cial­ists final­ly man­aged to remove some tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced lock-ons. Groen­Front! is demand­ing an imme­di­ate halt to the con­struc­tion of an E.ON coal pow­er plant on the Maasvlak­te, part of the port of Rot­ter­dam. The action is part of GroenFront!‘s “shrink or drown” cam­paign, which aims at bring­ing down the size of the Dutch econ­o­my to more man­age­able pro­por­tions. Sev­en pro­tes­tors were arrest­ed for refus­ing police orders or refus­ing to show an ID. They were released around mid­night.

EOn Rotterdam lock-onJune 3rd, Groen­Front! occu­pied the Benelux head­quar­ters of E.ON in Rot­ter­dam. The office was closed shut down from 6 AM — 1 PM, when police spe­cial­ists final­ly man­aged to remove some tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced lock-ons. Groen­Front! is demand­ing an imme­di­ate halt to the con­struc­tion of an E.ON coal pow­er plant on the Maasvlak­te, part of the port of Rot­ter­dam. The action is part of GroenFront!‘s “shrink or drown” cam­paign, which aims at bring­ing down the size of the Dutch econ­o­my to more man­age­able pro­por­tions. Sev­en pro­tes­tors were arrest­ed for refus­ing police orders or refus­ing to show an ID. They were released around mid­night.

The E.ON plant is said to be CO2 cap­ture-ready, but in a leaked email con­ver­sa­tion between E.ON man­agers at the British Dept. of Indus­try, it appears E.ON itself has no faith in this tech­nol­o­gy at all and is not expect­ing it to work. Groen­Front! and clown army activists had ear­li­er tried to put a lit­er­al ‘cork’ on an exist­ing E.ON plant in Hol­land to illus­trate this point.

July 19th a bicy­cle protest and pic­nic are being organ­ised by locals from the area and GroenFront!-ers.

Anoth­er coal pow­er plant is being planned only 1 km from E.ON’s con­struc­tion site, by the Bel­gian com­pa­ny Elec­tra­bel, and there are also plans by NUON and RWE for new coal pow­er plants that Groen­Front! says it will oppose by direct action.

Groen­Front! was start­ed in 1996 as the Dutch and Bel­gian branch of Earth­First.

More info: http://www.groenfront.nl

Video of the action

World Naked Bike Ride UK

A peace­ful, imag­i­na­tive and fun protest against oil depen­den­cy and car cul­ture. A cel­e­bra­tion of the bicy­cle and also a cel­e­bra­tion of the pow­er and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty of the human body. A sym­bol of the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of the cyclist in traf­fic.

World Naked Bike Ride logoA peace­ful, imag­i­na­tive and fun protest against oil depen­den­cy and car cul­ture. A cel­e­bra­tion of the bicy­cle and also a cel­e­bra­tion of the pow­er and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty of the human body. A sym­bol of the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of the cyclist in traf­fic. The world’s biggest naked protest: 50+ cities and thou­sands of rid­ers par­tic­i­pate world­wide, includ­ing more than 1500 in the UK in 2007.

http://worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/

To check any details of rides below, see http://nakedwiki.org/wiki/UK

# Southamp­ton: Fri 6 June, 6pm
# Brighton & Hove: Sat 7 June, 11am
# York: Sat 7 June, 4pm
# Sheffield: Sun 8 June, 2pm
# Man­ches­ter: Fri 13 June, 6pm
# Cardiff: Sat 14 June, (time is still being finalised)
# Lon­don: Sat 14 June, 3pm
# Edin­burgh: 28 or 29 June — TBC

# There is dis­cus­sion about pos­si­ble rides in Cam­bridge, Belfast, Glas­gow, Oxford, or even a Bris­tol to Bath ride.

3rd June Food & Climate Change Day of Action — more actions, in Nottingham, London x3, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool & Amsterdam

Actions co-incid­ing with the UN Con­fer­ence on World Food Secu­ri­ty and Cli­mate Change got off to an ear­ly start, with Sun­day see­ing the first of an out­break of veg­an food give-aways, in Man­ches­ter, with a spot of guer­ril­la gar­den­ing; the rash spread on Mon­day with GM labs occu­pied. The Ready Steady Skip web­site tried to soothe, but on the day, the action con­ta­gion spread…

Actions co-incid­ing with the UN Con­fer­ence on World Food Secu­ri­ty and Cli­mate Change got off to an ear­ly start, with Sun­day see­ing the first of an out­break of veg­an food give-aways, in Man­ches­ter, with a spot of guer­ril­la gar­den­ing; the rash spread on Mon­day with GM labs occu­pied. The Ready Steady Skip web­site tried to soothe, but on the day, the action con­ta­gion spread…Nottingham Food & Climate day 1Nottingham Food & Climate day 2
Cli­mate change and ani­mal rights activists joined togeth­er in Not­ting­ham today to give away free veg­an food, plants & skipped veg­eta­bles.

Pass­er-bys were enticed to our stall by the offers of free chips, veg­an pasties and toma­to plants. We hand­ed out leaflets about cli­mate change & food and had lots of chats with peo­ple about the world food cri­sis & our solu­tions of eat­ing a local, organ­ic & veg­an diet. An amaz­ing num­ber of peo­ple already grew there own food & lots more were encour­aged to give it a go. We had a real­ly pos­i­tive response from the pub­lic and peo­ple seemed gen­uine­ly inter­est­ed in the infor­ma­tion leaflets we hand­ed out.

More pho­tos.

The next free veg­an food give­away in Not­ting­ham is going to be on the 4th July.

A hand­ful of us then vis­it­ed Fresh & Ecoworks com­mu­ni­ty gar­den based at St Ann’s allot­ments. We had a tour of the amaz­ing gar­dens & saw a bril­liant exam­ple of local, organ­ic food being pro­duced in the city. See
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348168.html
and
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/10/382929.html

We tod­dled off home in the rain, chilli plants in hand, inspired to grow our own.

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London Food not Bombs climate food day
Food & Cli­mate Change Action — Lon­don

For the Food & Cli­mate Change day of action, Whitechapel Food Not Bombs and Brix­ton Reclaim Your Food teamed up to serve free veg­an food in front of a Mac Don­ald’s in Cam­ber­well.

The groups had a stall right in front of a Mac Don­ald in Cam­ber­well for two hours, serv­ing out fresh­ly skipped, lov­ing­ly cooked free veg­an food to passers by, and engag­ing peo­ple in con­ver­sa­tion about the link between the food they eat and cli­mate change. For good mea­sure, the group was accom­pa­nied by a bicy­cle sound sys­tem, to liv­en up the atmos­phere.

All in all, over a hun­dred serv­ings were giv­en out, count­less more peo­ple saw the stall and were giv­en leaflets high­light­ing some of the links between food and cli­mate change on the fol­low­ing top­ics : waste ; veg­an­ism ; organ­ic food ; local­ly pro­duced food.

The menu includ­ed a spicy mash, a cur­ry, a pump­kin soup, a sal­ad, some gua­camole, some stuffed aubergines, some veg­gies burg­ers, an apple cake, a fruit sal­ad and more.

Unsur­pris­ing­ly, the Mac Don­ald’s man­agers weren’t too hap­py about peo­ple giv­ing out free food in front of their win­dow shop — but the police seemed to decide oth­er­wise. The groups were asked to remove a ban­ner from the Mac Don­ald win­dow shop, but were oth­er­wise per­mit­ted to stay there as long as there was­n’t too much obstruc­tion.

londonfnb@lists.riseup.net
http://www.londonfnb.org

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25 pro­test­ers organ­ised by Bio­fu­el­watch and Food Not Fuel, Lon­don came togeth­er for a protest out­side Newham town hall in East Ham on Sat­ur­day to raise pub­lic aware­ness of the plan­ning appli­ca­tion for the UK’s first bio­fu­el-fired pow­er plant to be built, in Beck­ton. Ban­ners and plac­ards quot­ed many sta­tis­tics such as the num­ber of peo­ple going hun­gry because of agro­fu­els and the num­ber of peo­ple who could be fed with one tank of bio­fu­el. Over 500 sig­na­tures object­ing to the plant were collected…it appears that Beck­ton, one of the most pol­lut­ed Lon­don bor­oughs, is pre­pared to fight back.

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In Lon­don, veg­an cam­paign­ers we took to the streets of Chancery Lane to
treat the city work­ers to some veg­an food sam­ples. The response was good,
with a range of inter­est­ed peo­ple com­ing to taste the food. We gave away
hun­dreds of recipe book­lets, and leaflets for this year’s Lon­don Veg­an
Fes­ti­val.

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Bristol biofuels on food & climate day
Bris­tol Protest Over Tesco’s Bio­fu­els Claim

Bio­fu­els far from the panacea to petrol prices and cli­mate change, have added to the glob­al food price hike by tak­ing land pre­vi­ous­ly occu­pied by food crops. A study by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta found that grow­ing bio­fu­el on con­vert­ed rain­forests, peat lands, savan­nas or grass­lands cre­at­ed up to 420 times more car­bon diox­ide than it saved.

Wheat Prices have dou­bled in the UK over the past year, and con­sumers and retail­ers have so far man­aged to absorb this. But else­where in the world, peo­ple are going with­out wheat (and oth­er sta­ples) and bak­ers are going out of busi­ness.

To illus­trate this issue, a dozens bak­ers (rather than a bak­ers dozen!) will be fol­low­ing up Bris­tol Ris­ing Tides demo in April of this year to illus­trate the true cost of Agro-fuels. They will be at Tesco, East­ville between 4.30pm and 7pm

Ms Bread of Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide said:

“The ques­tion is do we want do feed our cars or feed our­selves?”

Tesco has made false claims about the source of the fuel sold at its ser­vice sta­tions, accord­ing to an inves­ti­ga­tion that found that the chain sold the most envi­ron­men­tal­ly dam­ag­ing types of biodiesel ‑Palm Oil — whilst claim­ing that it ‘s bio­fu­el was sourced from rel­a­tive­ly sus­tain­able UK-plant­ed rape seed oil.[2]

Mr A.Baker of Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide said:

“Its now clear that we leave big busi­ness to deal with cli­mate change, this is the kind of thing that will hap­pen — a bloody dis­as­ter”

At this years Cli­mate Camp (3rd — 10th August) there will be a nation­al day of action against Agro­fu­els.

[1] Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide is part of the Inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide for Cli­mate Jus­tice net­work
www.risingtide.org.uk
[2] The Times,April 14, 2008 “Tesco green fuel ‘adds to cli­mate change”

Leaflet

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Taste the Waste
Wait­ing for (social) Change!

4/06/2008
Today in the Char­ing Cross area of Glas­gow a group of wait­ers invit­ed passers-by to ‘Taste the waste’ and sam­ple their free food. The menu was made up entire­ly out of skipped goods from super­mar­ket bins and includ­ed such delights as: home­made veg­an fre­quent fly­er banana cake, skipped chip, res­cued roast veg. and binned beans. This was part of the call to action on Food and Cli­mate Change by the Net­work for Cli­mate Action (http://networkforclimateaction.org.uk).

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Liv­er­pool host­ed a free veg­an food fair at its social cen­tre ‘Next to
Nowhere’. Around 50 peo­ple attend­ed and loads of food and infor­ma­tion was giv­en out. The event allowed for a lot of infor­mal dis­cus­sion, with a social area cre­at­ed for this pur­pose. Peo­ple were delight­ed to hear that they can come back for veg­an food every Sat­ur­day after­noon 1–5pm.

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Amsterdam on food & climate change day 1Amsterdam on food & climate change day 2
Pigs say: If you care about cli­mate change, eat less meat, milk and eggs

On Tues­day June 3rd, a group of pigs made a small action for a more veg­an Ams­ter­dam. They hand­ed out veg­an snacks to encour­age peo­ple not to buy that ham for din­ner. It may look like the pigs act­ed out of self-inter­est, but today their mes­sage was that meat pro­duc­tion is a major cause of cli­mate change. While the UN is con­fer­ring in Rome on World Food Secu­ri­ty and Cli­mate change, the pigs put a focus on that aver­age Euro­peans have a diet of dis­as­ter. Rais­ing ani­mals for food gen­er­ates more green­house gas­es than all the cars and trucks in the world com­bined.

Quite some peo­ple in front of the Albert Hei­jn on Joden­breestraat were hap­py to taste the organ­ic, veg­an falafel and choco­late cake and many said they are veg­e­tar­i­ans already. Peo­ple were sur­prised to hear that pro­duc­ing one kilo of cheese cause as much green­house gas emis­sions as dri­ving a car for 60 km. A Brazil­ian woman had wit­nessed the expand­ing soy fields used for feed­ing ani­mal indus­try.

“Con­sumers can make a huge improve­ment by avoid­ing ani­mal prod­ucts and imports, and by sup­port­ing local, organ­ic farm­ers instead. But humans need to organ­ise them­selves fast against the dom­i­nant cul­ture if they want to save them­selves from cli­mate chaos” the pig­gies stat­ed after all the food had been hand­ed out.

Tonight, Wednes­day June 4 from 19 there will be a film night in Plan­tage Dok­laan 12, with organ­ic veg­an food and ideas on how to com­bat cli­mate change. (See pro­gramme on the web­site)

Web­site: http://www.howtocookaplanet.net

Ready Steady Skip: Trailer and website launched!

Ready Steady Skip — the game show where need­less­ly wast­ed food is recov­ered from the bin and turned into deli­cious dish­es before your very eyes!

Ready Steady Skip — the game show where need­less­ly wast­ed food is recov­ered from the bin and turned into deli­cious dish­es before your very eyes!

And now, the moment you’ve all been wait­ing for: http://www.readysteadyskip.org.uk/

Ready Steady Skip is a bit like “Scrapheap Chal­lenge” meets “Ready Steady Cook” — skip­ping for food and whip­ping up some tasty dish­es, with plen­ty of hilar­i­ty (and peo­ple div­ing into skips).

Every year over 17 mil­lion tons of food are put straight into land­fill sites, yet over 4 mil­lion tons of this is per­fect­ly edi­ble and still well with­in it’s sell-by date. A whop­ping 5 mil­lion tons of food are wast­ed annu­al­ly by con­sumers alone: that is, more than a quar­ter of all food we buy goes into the bin. It’s high time this insan­i­ty stopped!

Skip­ping (aka. “Free­gan­ism” or “Dump­ster Div­ing”) is all about reclaim­ing per­fect­ly edi­ble food “waste” from the jaws of an insane sys­tem found­ed on greed, and mak­ing good use of it.

We’ve launched the Ready Steady Skip trail­er and web­site to coin­cide with the Days Of Cli­mate Action food day (3rd June 2008), which is high­light­ing the fact that the food we eat con­tributes up to a third of the emis­sions that are poi­son­ing the plan­et. When you con­sid­er the amount of food that is just thrown away, it brings home how need­less this luna­cy is. Nobody ever need go hun­gry — yet peo­ple still starve every day.

The pro­gramme was shot here in Not­ting­ham at the begin­ning of March, and the full episode will be released online in July 2008. We’re also try­ing to organ­ise a screen­ing (and pos­si­bly even anoth­er con­test) at the Cli­mate Camp.

Keep an eye on our web­site for updates!

Pre­vi­ous Notts Indy­media piece: Ready, Steady, Skip!! — The Pic­tures 1

info@readysteadyskip.org.uk
http://www.readysteadyskip.org.uk/

Free Food Event and Guerrilla Gardening to herald Food & Climate Change day of action

FREE VEGAN FOOD EVENT!
On Sun­day 1st Man­ches­ter Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion and Man­ches­ter Cli­mate Action held a free veg­an pic­nic in Pic­cadil­ly gar­dens..

We gave away lots of deli­cious food, and seedlings, includ­ing aubergine plants and pep­pers! Much of the food was donat­ed, some of it was skipped. We hung ban­ners and had plac­ards…

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On Sun­day 1st Man­ches­ter Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion and Man­ches­ter Cli­mate Action held a free veg­an pic­nic in Pic­cadil­ly gar­dens..

We gave away lots of deli­cious food, and seedlings, includ­ing aubergine plants and pep­pers! Much of the food was donat­ed, some of it was skipped. We hung ban­ners and had plac­ards…

The over­all response was real­ly pos­i­tive, despite the rain! Lots of peo­ple came and talked to us for a long time, and the coun­cil even sam­pled some of our tasty snacks!

We did some guer­ril­la gar­den­ing in Pic­cadil­ly gar­dens, an area which is increas­ing­ly less like a gar­dens every; plant­i­ng every­thing from cour­gettes to rose­bush­es!

We also took our snacks into Burg­er King, Star­bucks and Cafe Nero, offer­ing cus­tomers free cake (and pro­pa­gan­da!)..

Sim­i­lar events hap­pened across the north in cities like Liv­er­pool and Sheffield.

This event was organ­ised as part of the day of action on food and cli­mate change, which is hap­pen­ing tomor­row (3rd June)…actions and events are hap­pen­ing over the next few days…more to fol­low soon!

To get involved in events like this in the future, email this address..

If you took pho­tos, please also email them in!

Hope­ful­ly it will be the start of more com­bined events with MAP/MCA!

manchester@climatecamp.org.uk
http://www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk/food.html