Category: Climate Chaos

Collection of Latest Radical Newsletters & Magazines available to download

All of the fol­low­ing are avail­able from here:

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All of the fol­low­ing are avail­able from here:

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Get down to your local rad­i­cal social cen­tre or book­shop for these newslet­ters — if they aren’t there then print them out / pho­to­copy and take down there. If your near­est social cen­tre isn’t that local, then you now know where you can get all the lat­est pub­li­ca­tions with­out hav­ing to trawl the net for them.

We are always look­ing for newsletters/ zines/ pamphlets/ magazines/ arti­cles to host on our down­load page (prefer­ably as ‘imposed’ ready to be print­ed PDF) email us if you are involved in a pub­li­ca­tion.

* SchNews Week­ly — from their web site

* Rough Music — Issue 18 — May/June 2008 — Local Brighton ‘trou­ble mak­ing, dirt dig­ging’ newslet­ter

* Work­ers Sol­i­dar­i­ty — Issue 103 — May/June 2008 — Irish Anar­chist News

* No Pasaran — Issue 1 — May 2008 — New Antifa UK Anti Fas­cist newslet­ter

* Infos­hop News — Issue 1 — May 2008 — New 40 page roundup of news from the Infos­hop anar­chist news site

* Earth First! Action Update — May 2008 — anoth­er great new issue — a quar­ter­ly roundup of eco­log­i­cal and oth­er direct action from Britain and beyond

* Mesho — April 2008 — spoof news­pa­per made for the inter­na­tion­al days of action for squats and autonomous spaces

* Cor­po­rate Watch — Issue 40 — April/May 2008 — Iraq Inc., Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank, Arab-British cham­ber of Com­merce, West Papua, Review of Klein’s ‘Shock Doc­trine’, Diary + More

* Gagged — Issue 23 — April/May 2008 — South Wales Anar­chist Newslet­ter

* Resis­tance — Issue 102 — April/May 2008 — month­ly newslet­ter of the Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion UK

* No Bor­ders — Issue 3 — Feb­ru­ary / March 2008 — No Bor­ders UK net­work newslet­ter

* Rup­ture — Feb­ru­ary 2008 — a great zine for and about free par­ties, squats and social cen­tres

* 325 — Issue 5 — Feb­ru­ary 2008 — an insur­gent mag­a­zine of social war and anar­chy

* Class War — Issue 93 — Win­ter 2007 — “Save the Plan­et — Get Rid of the Rich” get­ting straight to the point as always

* Organ­ise! — Issue 69 — Wnter 2007 — mag­a­zine of the Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion

* Fire to the Pris­ons — Issue 2 — Decem­ber 2007 — Excel­lent new newsletter/magazine 30 pages of insur­rec­tionary anti-pris­on/­dom­i­na­tion news and analy­sis and pris­on­er sup­port infor­ma­tion

* Cross­ing Bor­ders — Issue 4 — Novem­ber 2007 — a newslet­ter on move­ments and strug­gles of migra­tion (this issue focus­ing on the No Bor­ders camp in the Ukraine)

* Front­line — Issue 6 — June/August 2007 — Colom­bia Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign quar­ter­ly mag­a­zine

* Direct Action — Issue 39 — Sum­mer 2007 — mag of UK anar­cho-syn­da­cal­ist Sol­i­dar­i­ty Fed­er­a­tion

* War­rior Wind — Issue 3 — May 2007 — a newslet­ter in sup­port of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers

* Incen­dio — Issue 1 — Spring 2006 — a bilin­gual (english/spanish) mag­a­zine on Latin Amer­i­can strug­gles and sol­i­dar­i­ty

* Rolling Thun­der — Issue 1 — Sum­mer 2005 — ‘an anar­chist jour­nal of dan­ger­ous liv­ing’

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People Against Climate Change Deliver a Tonne of Coal, Ireland

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, Thus­day 08/05/08 PACC — Peo­ple Against Cli­mate Change — deliv­ered a tonne of coal to the Min­is­ter for Finance on his first day in office.

People Against Climate Change logoYes­ter­day morn­ing, Thus­day 08/05/08 PACC — Peo­ple Against Cli­mate Change — deliv­ered a tonne of coal to the Min­is­ter for Finance on his first day in office.

Press Release for this event is avail­able here:
http://www.pacc.ie/?p=6

Peo­ple Against Cli­mate Change
http://www.pacc.ie

Stuck for something to do!? Uninspired & lacklustre..? The all new singing dancing EF!AU is here to lift your spirits

As if putting the boot into the genet­ics indus­try, fill­ing emp­ty spaces with joy & cre­ativ­i­ty, and fool­ing the fos­sil-heads was­n’t enough, peo­ple have been busy wash­ing lumps of coal and cov­er­ing them­selves with paint…we kid you not…all in aid of halt­ing the trash­ing of the plan­et!

Par­lia­ments have been climbed, air­port ter­mi­nals flash(mobb)ed, fields & var­i­ous oth­er sites occu­pied, build­ing stormed & block­ad­ed, pipelines block­ad­ed & destroyed…

EF! crossed tools 1As if putting the boot into the genet­ics indus­try, fill­ing emp­ty spaces with joy & cre­ativ­i­ty, and fool­ing the fos­sil-heads was­n’t enough, peo­ple have been busy wash­ing lumps of coal and cov­er­ing them­selves with paint…we kid you not…all in aid of halt­ing the trash­ing of the plan­et!

Par­lia­ments have been climbed, air­port ter­mi­nals flash(mobb)ed, fields & var­i­ous oth­er sites occu­pied, build­ing stormed & block­ad­ed, pipelines block­ad­ed & destroyed…

Throw into the mix ye oldie Reclaim the Streets, the tried and test­ed eeeeevil Mr/Ms Sab­o­tage, the launch of a new cam­paign ‘Leave it in the Ground’, plus a sum­mer-full of dates, new con­tacts list, it’s a won­der we’ve fit­ted in a brand new sexy EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing poster (front & back). Down­load the lat­est EF!AU to share with oth­ers, sub­scribe or check out some past issues. The next issue will come out at the begin­ning of August.

And of course, this year’s EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing (or fol­low the link to the left) is from Wednes­day 27th August to Mon­day 1st Sep­tem­ber 2008, if you want to plot & plan, and laugh & chat with old friends & new.

Phew, what a scorcher!

Local residents protest blocking power plant supply (Kozani, Greece, 9/5/2008)

After a deci­sion of the Envi­ron­ment and Unem­ploy­ment Asso­ci­a­tion of Akri­ni, Kozani, dozens of res­i­dents occu­pied since 10 in the morn­ing, the north­ern gate of the Agios Dim­itrios Pow­er Plant, cut­ting the cin­der sup­ply of the belt-con­vey­er.

Kozani power plant blockadeAfter a deci­sion of the Envi­ron­ment and Unem­ploy­ment Asso­ci­a­tion of Akri­ni, Kozani, dozens of res­i­dents occu­pied since 10 in the morn­ing, the north­ern gate of the Agios Dim­itrios Pow­er Plant, cut­ting the cin­der sup­ply of the belt-con­vey­er. They protest against envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion and unem­ploy­ment, and for the translo­ca­tion of their vil­lage out­side the plan­t’s pol­lut­ed area. “Spar­takos” a Pub­lic Pow­er Com­pa­ny’s work­ers asso­ci­a­tion announced they sup­ports the protest.

Source:
http://www.prlogos.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3651&Itemid=27

Tara Vigil Camp Being Evicted

May 08, 2008; 10:30 am
HELP NEEDED NOW

About a half an hour ago 20 Gar­dai, 20 OPW and 10–15 MD Secu­ri­ty descend­ed on the Hill to evict the Vig­il Camp.

May 08, 2008; 10:30 am
HELP NEEDED NOW

About a half an hour ago 20 Gar­dai, 20 OPW and 10–15 MD Secu­ri­ty descend­ed on the Hill to evict the Vig­il Camp.

2 Loader lor­ries and 12 oth­er vehi­cles are cur­rent­ly there . The Tem­ple struc­ture has been dis­man­tled, chopped into pieces and removed. They are now dis­man­tling the A Chairde hut and the Tipi. The sev­en Vig­il Keep­ers on site were not giv­en time to remove their per­son­al items and there is no chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion open as the work­ers turn their backs. There is no nego­ti­a­tion.

The OPW Archae­ol­o­gist said that she would PERSONALLY put out the fire. She is refer­ring to the Vig­il Fire that has been burn­ing for the Val­ley since Sum­mer Sol­stice June 06.

URGENT

Phone cred­it is urgent­ly need­ed on the Vig­il phone. Also urgent is the need for cam­eras and wit­ness­es to doc­u­ment this. Please do what­ev­er you can NOW. Send cred­it, bring help.

VIGIL PH: 086 1758557
Relat­ed Link: http://www.tarapixie.net

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Vig­il keeps have man­aged to get some time.

The Gar­dai were not able to quote specif­i­cal­ly any law that would allow them to estin­guish the sacred fire, they have giv­en them a days grace to cer­e­mo­nous­ly remove the fire, but as it is specif­i­cal­ly the Hill of Tara sacred fire, it would have to be moved to anoth­er site on Tara!!!!! This in itself cre­ates a conun­drum.

No method state­ment has been pro­vid­ed.
Peo­ple are now allowed to remove per­son­al pos­ses­sions.
A recog­nised Fer­rovial employ­ee was assist­ing, but was wear­ing MD Secu­ri­ty cloth­ing. THIS IT OBVIOUSLY OUTRAGIOUS.

There is approx 20 vig­il keep­ers suround­ing the Tem­ple Ti-Pi/­Fire adamant that they have the right to con­tin­ue hold­ing the Vig­il.
There is a good atmos­phere, music + drums, kids and laugh­ter.
Ener­gy is high and spir­its are pos­i­tive.

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3pm update:

The OPW did not pro­duce any paper­work for this evic­tion. Noth­ing signed and dat­ed by a Judge.

The Pro­tec­tors are cur­rent­ly blockad­ing their vehi­cles and not allow­ing them to LEAVE the site. Short­ly after this hap­pened, the OPW agreed to nego­ti­a­tions and are now at a meet­ing with mem­bers of the Vig­il.

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Vig­il Press Release

Press Release on behalf of the Tara Sol­i­dar­i­ty Vig­il Camp
8th May 2008
At approx 10:30 this morn­ing, the Office of Pub­lic Works launched an evic­tion attempt on the Tara Sol­i­dar­i­ty Vig­il Camp, which is in situ on pub­lic land.

The Vig­il is “a non-hier­ar­chi­cal peo­ples’ sol­i­dar­i­ty vig­il, here in sup­port of local peo­ple and all indi­vid­u­als and groups in the cam­paigns to Save Tara. We are adamant in our non-affil­i­a­tion with any par­tic­u­lar polit­i­cal or reli­gious par­ties but wel­come any friends of Tara to the sacred Vig­il Fire, which has been burn­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly since the Sum­mer Sol­stice, 21st of June 2006”.

This morn­ing, 20 OPW employ­ees, up to 15 MD Secu­ri­ty Work­ers and 20 Gar­daí entered the camp and began to dis­man­tle tem­po­rary struc­tures which are used dai­ly by the Vig­il Keep­ers. The struc­tures include a Tem­ple, sev­er­al dwellings and meet­ing huts. The Tem­ple, which was made of wood, was des­e­crat­ed by chain­saw as the Keep­ers looked on in shock. Their pri­or­i­ty was to hold their ground pro­tect­ing the sacred flame with­in the Vig­il TiPi. To add insult to injury, hid­den with­in the group of MD Secu­ri­ty work­ers, wear­ing their logo was a known Fer­rovial employ­ee.

Fer­rovial Agro­man, a Span­ish com­pa­ny, are one of the com­pa­nies, in con­junc­tion with SIAC, who are con­tract­ed to build the con­tro­ver­sial M3 motor­way. This begs to fur­ther ques­tion the repeat­ed coop­er­a­tion between the Gar­daí and pri­vate secu­ri­ty for SIAC/ Fer­rovial Agro­man, on the back of the demo­li­tion of the Direct Action Protest Camp at Rath Lugh on 17th Apr2008.

The OPW Archae­ol­o­gist onsite stat­ed, and has been record­ed that she would “per­son­al­ly put out the fire”. Both the OPW onsite and the Gar­daí were ini­tial­ly refus­ing to acknowl­edge the sacred­ness of the fire and in doing so are not uphold­ing an individual’s right to reli­gious worship/practice. The OPW have also admit­ted on cam­era that this was not an offi­cial evic­tion, and that they didn’t even have the offi­cial doc­u­men­ta­tion or method state­ment to car­ry out the activ­i­ty.

When nego­ti­a­tions were final­ly pos­si­ble, the Gar­daí were not able to quote specif­i­cal­ly any law that would allow them to extin­guish this sacred fire. Talks since have pro­duce a guar­an­tee from Ms Fion­nu­la Par­nell, Archae­ol­o­gist from the Nation­al Mon­u­ments Depart­ment OPW, in the pres­ence of a Gar­dai, that no attempt to remove the fire, or the TiPi hous­ing it until the out­come of an agreed meet­ing on 19th May 2007. There are approx 30 vig­il keep­ers sur­round­ing the TiPi hous­ing the fire adamant that they have the right to con­tin­ue hold­ing the Vig­il and prac­tice their indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive beliefs. Sev­er­al of these peo­ple were assault­ed by the pri­vate­ly hired secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny in the pres­ence of Gar­dai, and will be fil­ing charges. Oth­er­wise, there is a great atmos­phere, music + drums, children’s laugh­ter in the air. Ener­gy is pos­i­tive and spir­its are high in the Sum­mer sun. This is why the Vig­il has attract­ed vis­i­tors from the 4 cor­ners of the world in the 23months of it’s exis­tence.

Ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has in the past fore­warned of dan­ger­ous trends in mod­ern soci­ety “So much of what is hap­pen­ing with­in our soci­ety and in the wider world is bound up with ques­tions of reli­gion, reli­gious iden­ti­ty and reli­gious belief,” he said, “that gov­ern­ments which refuse or fail to engage with reli­gious com­mu­ni­ties and reli­gious iden­ti­ties risk fail­ing in their fun­da­men­tal duties to their cit­i­zens.” The Irish Con­sti­tu­tion (Arti­cle 8) recog­nis­es that cit­i­zens have a right to “Free­dom of con­science and the free pro­fes­sion and prac­tice of reli­gion are, sub­ject to pub­lic order and moral­i­ty, guar­an­teed to every cit­i­zen, and no law may be made either direct­ly or indi­rect­ly to endow any reli­gion or pro­hib­it or restrict the free exer­cise there­of or give any pref­er­ence, or impose any dis­abil­i­ty on account of reli­gious belief or reli­gious sta­tus”. The Euro­pean Con­sti­tu­tion (Part II — The Char­ter of Fun­da­men­tal Rights of the Union) Arti­cle II-70 recog­nis­es ”Free­dom of thought, con­science and reli­gion: 1) Every­one has the right to free­dom of thought, con­science and reli­gion. This right includes free­dom to change reli­gion or belief and free­dom, either alone or in com­mu­ni­ty with oth­ers and in pub­lic or in pri­vate, to man­i­fest reli­gion or belief, in wor­ship, teach­ing, prac­tice and obser­vance”.

We, the Vig­il Keep­ers, call on Min­is­ter John Gorm­ley, as Min­is­ter of the Depart­ment of the Envi­ron­ment, Her­itage and Local Gov­ern­ment respon­si­ble for State Man­aged Vis­i­tor Ser­vices, to offi­cial­ly acknowl­edge the sacred Vig­il Fire on the Hill of Tara.

For ver­i­fi­ca­tion call Deb­bie Reil­ly on 086 175 8557

Issued on behalf of the Tara Sol­i­dar­i­ty Vig­il
Joanne Cor­bett 086 6030389 www.savetara.com

Leave it in the Ground: open-cast coal mass trespass, 26th May — poster to download added

A new open-cast coal mine site is about to get under­way in beau­ti­ful Der­byshire, unless we stop it now.

Lodge House site, which is east of the vil­lage of Smal­l­ey and spans either side of Bell Lane, is one of sev­en that UK Coal is to open-cast.

open CastA new open-cast coal mine site is about to get under­way in beau­ti­ful Der­byshire, unless we stop it now.

Lodge House site, which is east of the vil­lage of Smal­l­ey and spans either side of Bell Lane, is one of sev­en that UK Coal is to open-cast.

The area is about to be dev­as­tat­ed, despite objec­tions from local coun­cils, res­i­dents and local envi­ron­men­tal groups, but the Sec­re­tary of State grant­ed plan­ning per­mis­sion in 2007.

The 122 hectare site will have one mil­lion tonnes of coal ripped out over five years and ‘returned back to its nat­ur­al state’ accord­ing to UK Coal, how­ev­er res­i­dents fear there may be more to the plot, as they were exclud­ed from parts of the plan­ning meet­ing on grounds of com­mer­cial con­fi­den­tial­i­ty.

UK Coal are one of those com­pa­nies that looks to max­imise their prof­its by rap­ing the land and prof­it­ing from it any way they can — after coal extrac­tion, they return the area to busi­ness parks, hous­ing and indus­tri­al estates. In some cas­es they return it to farm­land and charge the farm­ers rent, or on low-grade land grow ener­gy crops accord­ing to their web­site. They are even into wind­pow­er, but as yet have still not erect­ed a tur­bine.

Coal is not clean ener­gy, and with the new onslaught of pro­posed pow­er sta­tions, UK Coal are look­ing to cash in on cli­mate dev­as­ta­tion and destruc­tion unless we stop them.

The area is rich with wildlife and backs onto Ship­ley Coun­try Park; some hous­es, (the sort of place you dream of liv­ing in) have been shut­tered up and items like toys, dog ken­nels and oth­er per­son­al bits remain, look­ing like some­thing from a hur­ried evac­u­a­tion from a war zone. UK Coal has stat­ed that the site will be returned to farm land, but they are able to expand beyond the 122 hectares with­out need­ing fur­ther per­mis­sion.

To com­bat open-cast min­ing, a new action group “Leave it in the Ground” has formed, sup­port­ed by Earth First! with an invite to a Pic­nic in the Park on 26th May for a mass tres­pass to see it before the destruc­tion starts, meet the locals and have fun. So come and Dis­cov­er Der­byshire!

Meet at the Vis­i­tors Cen­tre, Ship­ley Coun­try Park, Slack Lane, Heanor DE75 7GX at 12 noon on the 26th May.

For more info phone 07852 460871 or email derby@earthfirst.org.uk

Blog http://leaveitintheground.wordpress.com
Web­site http://leaveitintheground.org.uk/

Down­load the poster to put up on notice­boards & bring your friends

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 79, MAY 2008

CONTENTS:

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY ‘08
3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER & ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08

CONTENTS:

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY ‘08
3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER & ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08
5) CLIMATE CAMP SPEAKERS’ TRAINING — MANCHESTER, 17.5.08
6) MAKE A NOISE! — LONDON, 31.5.08
7) CLIMATE ACTION WITH A BITE! — NATIONAL, 3.6.08

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) ‘MAYDAY! MAYDAY! INVASION OF THE CLIMATE SNATCHERS’ — INTERNATIONAL, 1.5.08
2) M1 PUBLIC NUISANCE CASE DISMISSED — SHEFFIELD, 1.5.08
3) BANK OF AMERICA, DIRTY COAL PROTEST – CHARLOTTE (USA), 23.4.08
4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS PIE FRIEDMAN — NEW YORK, 21.4.08
5) ECO-RELATED ARSON IN GREECE — 21.4.08
6) KOORAGANG COMMUNITY WALK-IN — AUSTRALIA, 19.4.08
7) BELGIAN AGRO-GIANT BLOCKADE — 17.4.08
8) TARA UPDATES — IRELAND, APRIL 08
9) BIOFOOLS DAY — NATIONWIDE, 15.4.08
10) PLANE STUPID TAKE TO THE ROOF — EDINBURGH, 14.4.08
11) BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL! — TASMANIA, 14.4.08
12) COLLEGE GROVE UPDATES — AUSTRALIA, APRIL ‘08
13) CHEVRON TOXICO GOLDMAN AWARD — SAN FRANCISCO, 13.4.08
14) SUBVERTISING — NEW GROUP, APRIL ‘08
15) CARBON DETOX — NEW BOOK, APRIL ‘08
16) BRING CLIMATE CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
17) PROTEST WATCH — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
18) AIRPORTWATCH BULLETIN — APRIL ‘08
19) THE BATH BOMB — APRIL ‘08
20) LONDON CRITICAL MASS, 14TH ANNIVERSARY — APRIL 08

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LONDON, 10–11.5.08
Green­peace HQ, Canon­bury Vil­las, Lon­don, N1 2PN. 10am-6pm.
This sum­mer the Camp for Cli­mate Action will pitch its tents out­side Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent for a week of edu­ca­tion, sus­tain­able liv­ing and direct action. Every­one is invit­ed to the camp, which is now part of an inter­na­tion­al move­ment, with eight cli­mate camps on four con­ti­nents planned for this sum­mer. Togeth­er, we will show that the blind pur­suit of eco­nom­ic growth at any cost is sim­ply insane, and is
to blame for the CO2 emis­sions and ecosys­tem destruc­tion that are caus­ing cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change. Come to the gath­er­ing and get involved!
www.climatecamp.org.uk

2) SAVING ICELAND IN WALES AND SCOTLAND — 7th & 9th MAY 08
Alu­mini­um smelt­ing, even when pow­ered by geot­her­mal ener­gy, emits so much green­house gas emis­sions that Ice­land now pro­duces 18 tons of CO2 equiv­a­lent per capi­ta, com­pared to the Euro­pean aver­age of 11. May 7th at 8pm — Sav­ing Ice­land will give a pre­sen­ta­tion of these issues at The Tree­house, Bak­er St. Aberys­t­wyth, and will describe the inter­na­tion­al direct action cam­paign and plans for this sum­mer’s camp in July. (There will be a num­ber of vehi­cles going from the UK to the camp.) Come and see some of the most stun­ning places of beau­ty on earth, and help pro­tect them with direct action!
May 9th — Veg­an ban­quet with live music, bar and raf­fle! The Ban­quet starts at 7pm at Old St Pauls Hall, Edin­burgh. £5 (unwaged / low income) and £7 (waged). All prof­it will go to fund­ing the Scot­tish Sav­ing Ice­land Col­lec­tive.
Email; savingicelandscotland@riseup.net to reserve your tick­ets!
More info; http://www.savingiceland.org.

3) TURNING UP THE HEAT — LONDON, CARDIFF, MANCHESTER and ONLINE, 8/10/13.5.08
Can big busi­ness save the plan­et? A series of inter­ac­tive debates on cli­mate change and cor­po­rate pow­er. Attend the live events or watch online!
Thurs­day 8 May — Can the free mar­ket stop cli­mate change? 7:30–9:30pm at Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al Human Rights Action Cen­tre 17–25 New Inn Yard Lon­don EC2A 3EA.
10.5.08 – ‘Will bio­fu­els help com­bat cli­mate change?’ 2:30–4:30pm Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty, Main Build­ing, Shan­don The­atre, Park Place CF10 3AT.
13.5.08 – ‘Does cli­mate change mean we should restrict avi­a­tion & tourism?’ 7:30–9:30pm, Man­ches­ter Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, Cock­croft The­atre, Sackville Street M1 3BB.
To book your free place and to reg­is­ter to watch online please go to http://www.wdm.org.uk/heat or call 020 7820 4900 for more infor­ma­tion.

4) BIG BLETHER 6 — GLASGOW, 9–11.5.08
Talamh Life Cen­tre, Near Glas­gow.
BB is a meet­ing place for activists to bring and share ideas, infor­ma­tion and enthu­si­asm and to cre­ate action out of inspi­ra­tion. Every­one is wel­come to par­tic­i­pate and con­tribute — big or small. There will be work­shops on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, includ­ing every­thing from cli­mate change issues, cre­ative cam­paign­ing and tran­si­tion towns to nuclear resis­tance, yoga and wood­land crafts. BB is a non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion and entrance will be by dona­tion. www.bigblether.org.uk

5) CLIMATE CAMP SPEAKERS’ TRAINING — MANCHESTER, 17.5.08
If you would like to talk to peo­ple about the Cli­mate Camp and help inspire hun­dreds of peo­ple to come this year, then this train­ing is for you. The net­work­ing team in con­junc­tion with COIN (http://coinet.org.uk/) and TRAPESE (http://trapese.clearerchannel.org/) have designed a short presentation/ work­shop that any­one can give to groups inter­est­ed in com­ing to the camp.
10:30 till 5:30pm.
Con­tact; speakers@climatecamp.org.uk to book your place.

6) MAKE A NOISE! — LONDON, 31.5.08
An agen­da for colos­sal air­port expan­sion and colos­sal cli­mate change demands a colos­sal response. You’re invit­ed to a car­ni­val on Sat­ur­day 31st May, which will make its way from Hat­ton Cross Tube Sta­tion (Pic­cadil­ly Line, 12pm) to Sip­son, the vil­lage that will be wiped out if Heathrow expan­sion goes ahead. At the end, you’ll have the chance to help form a great big NO! spelt out by human bod­ies. Organ­is­ers hope to set a new world record for the biggest and loud­est NO! in the world.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/make-a-noise-20080408

7) CLIMATE ACTION WITH A BITE! — NATIONAL, 3.6.08
The food we eat con­tributes up to a third of the emis­sions poi­son­ing the plan­et. It’s time for a detox! Cli­mate action starts on your din­ner plate, at the super­mar­ket, on your allot­ment and in your back yard, at the food dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres, down on the farm, in your high street, at the air­port and the lor­ry park. What­ev­er your tastes, there’s some­thing for every­one on this action menu! Local food mar­kets, free food stalls, work­shops and film show­ings, street the­atre, info stalls, protests and direct action, cook­ing demon­stra­tions, allot­ment shows. Get cre­ative and get involved!
This Day of Action on Cli­mate Change has been called by the Net­work for Cli­mate Action in co-oper­a­tion with the Ris­ing Tide Net­work and the Camp for Cli­mate Action. It has been planned to coin­cide with The UN Con­fer­ence on World Food Secu­ri­ty and Cli­mate Change, which runs from 3rd to 5th June.
Please email; foodNO@SPAMdaysofclimateaction.org.uk for fur­ther info.

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) ‘MAYDAY! MAYDAY! INVASION OF THE CLIMATE SNATCHERS’ — INTERNATIONAL,
1.5.08
This day of action tar­get­ed false cap­i­tal­ist solu­tions to cli­mate chaos.
There were actions in Europe and Cana­da:
Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide vis­it­ed the E.on head­quar­ters in Coven­try to expose the truth behind its green­wash and show that car­bon cap­ture is a false solu­tion to the prob­lem of cli­mate change. Peo­ple arrived at 8am to hand fliers to the work­ers, while one pro­test­er occu­pied the roof of the build­ing. The day was a great suc­cess with a fes­tive vibe and no arrests. Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide got togeth­er with Earth First for a Crit­i­cal Mass to Sizewell nuclear pow­er sta­tion to high­light that nuclear is not a solu­tion to cli­mate change. In Lon­don, The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny launched their enter­prise with E.on; accord­ing to the chat­ty clean­ers, “There’s no mess too big! We make coal Fos­sil Fuel Fresh!” In York peo­ple from groups across the city and both Uni­ver­si­ties took part in a ban­ner protest out­side Roy­al Bank of Scot­land’s cen­tral branch in the city. Leaflets were hand­ed out sum­maris­ing RBS’s cli­mate crimes. Mean­while, mem­bers of the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front joined forces to car­ry out an action against unnec­es­sary urban devel­op­ment in the south-west. A JCB and oth­er vehi­cles were dam­aged on a road con­struc­tion site.
Green­wash fly­ers were hand­ed out at the Green Liv­ing Show in Toron­to Cana­da, while in Paris “Biofuel=Danger” was chalked on the side of the French Agri­cul­tur­al Research insti­tute.
http://www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk/
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/276

2) M1 PUBLIC NUISANCE CASE DISMISSED — SHEFFIELD, 1.5.08
Sev­en cli­mate camp activists opposed to the widen­ing of the M1 had the case against them dis­missed from Sheffield Crown Court. The Judge resound­ing­ly reject­ed the pros­e­cu­tion’s argu­ment that the hang­ing of ban­ners over the motor­way could con­sti­tute a pub­lic nui­sance.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20611

3) BANK OF AMERICA, DIRTY COAL PROTEST – CHARLOTTE (USA), 23.4.08
Activists with Asheville Ris­ing Tide, Rain­for­est Action Net­work, and Croatan Earth First! hit the streets of Char­lotte to protest at Bank of America’s annu­al share­hold­ers meet­ing. Bank of Amer­i­ca has seen an esca­lat­ing lev­el of protest in the past year for its fund­ing of the coal indus­try.
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/04/23/asheville-rising-tide-confronts-bank-of-america-shareholders/

4) GREENWASH GUERILLAS PIE FRIEDMAN — NEW YORK, 21.4.08
Thomas Fried­man, the author and NY Times colum­nist, was invit­ed to Brown Uni­ver­si­ty to give a keynote speech on Earth Day, before a packed audi­to­ri­um. His talk about how cor­po­rate envi­ron­men­tal­ism can restore Amer­i­ca to its “nat­ur­al place in the glob­al order” was inter­rupt­ed with a sur­prise vis­it from the Green­wash Guer­ril­las. After splat­ter­ing him with two green cream pies they threw leaflets to the crowd explain­ing their action.
http://greenwashguerrillas.wordpress.com/
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/04/22/greenwash-guerrillas-pie-thomas-friedman-on-earth-day/

5) ECO-RELATED ARSON IN GREECE — 21.4.08
Eco-relat­ed arson against the min­istry of devel­op­ment offices in Athens was car­ried out in protest against the plans to build new pow­er plants using coal. “When cap­i­tal­ism is self-declared envi­ron­ment friend­ly, it is only to mea­sure and man­age the symp­toms of the cri­sis it pro­duced itself.”
http://directactiongr.blogspot.com/

6) KOORAGANG COMMUNITY WALK-IN — AUSTRALIA, 19.4.08
A crowd of around 50 pro­test­ers walked onto the con­struc­tion site for a new coal ter­mi­nal on Koor­a­gang Island in New­cas­tle. They stopped work at the site in protest against the expan­sion of the coal indus­try and its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate change. Georgina Woods, spokesper­son for Ris­ing Tide New­cas­tle said, “His­tor­i­cal­ly, ordi­nary peo­ple have achieved extra­or­di­nary things by tak­ing direct action to pre­vent immoral or
unsup­port­able actions…Many of us here today have nev­er done any­thing like this before, but we are doing it now, because we may not get anoth­er chance.” 16 of the pro­test­ers were arrest­ed and charged with tres­pass. More com­mu­ni­ty direct action against coal exports will take place in July this year.
http://www.risingtide.org.au/communitywalkin

7) BELGIAN AGRO-GIANT BLOCKADE — 17.4.08
In Bel­guim thir­ty activists blocked the gates of the Cargill fac­to­ry in Ghent.
This action was tak­en to high­light the agro-giant’s involve­ment in every­thing from bio­fu­els to soy mono­cul­ture, GMO to pesticides…The action began at around 6h30 in the morn­ing and last­ed until after 5 p.m. Dur­ing all that time, not one truck with soy could enter or leave the firm.
http://www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=552&Itemid=211

8) TARA UPDATES — IRELAND, APRIL 08
On Thurs­day 17th April there was a peace­ful evic­tion of the Rath Lugh Camp. Four Pro­tec­tors who were on site were told by Gar­dai that they had to gath­er up their belong­ings and leave. This was not done in an aggres­sive man­ner and was com­plied with by the Pro­tec­tors.
http://www.tarapixie.net/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20557
Tara trip report — A group from Brighton went over to Ire­land recent­ly to sup­port the Irish pro­test­ers attempts to halt the work on the M3 Motor­way.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20502

9) BIOFOOLS DAY — NATIONWIDE, 15.4.08
From April 15th, all petrol fore­courts will be required by law to sell only fuel which is blend­ed with 2.5% agro­fu­el. Cor­po­ra­tions like Tesco are already jump­ing on the new “green” band­wag­on, speak­ing lit­tle of the greater emis­sions, dis­place­ment, pover­ty and hunger that will be left in its path. The only answer to the ener­gy cri­sis is a big shift in the way in which we live, trav­el and eat.
Nation­wide protest includ­ed; Aberdeen, Bolton, Chel­tenham, Leeds, Man­ches­ter, Not­ting­ham, Nor­wich and hun­dreds out­side Down­ing Street in Lon­don.
Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide and Espa­cio Bris­tol-Colom­bia were joined by oth­ers to inform the pub­lic about this issue at Tesco in East­ville, Bris­tol. A group of bio­fu­el activists made a colour­ful ban­ner and fly­er tour of Brighton city cen­tre and Sus­sex Uni­ver­si­ty. Agro-fuels pro­test­ers dis­abled the fuel pumps of two BP fill­ing sta­tions in Edin­burgh. Also in Scot­land, five mem­bers of the Edin­burgh Clown Army were detained for ques­tion­ing at a peace­ful and enter­tain­ing bio­fu­els protest in Brunts­field, and in Glas­gow a bio­fool ban­ner was hung.
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20546

10) PLANE STUPID TAKES TO THE ROOF — EDINBURGH, 14.4.08
Two envi­ron­men­tal activists from the cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid Scot­land, climbed onto the roof of the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment in Edin­burgh to protest against plans for expan­sion of Scot­tish air­ports. They unfurled a large ban­ner which car­ried a par­o­dy of the Trainspot­ting design, “Choose Life.” The ban­ner read, “Plane Stop­ping: Choose the future. Say no to air­port expan­sion.”
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-scotland-occupy-roof-scottish-parliament

11) BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL! — TASMANIA, 14.4.08
Activists from Still Wild Still Threat­ened have wel­comed a 6 metre tall Peter Gar­rett (MP and singer from Mid­night Oil) to the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley. Activists took the ‘giant Gar­rett’ on a tour of coupe FO42F which is due to be burnt in the imme­di­ate future to high­light their con­cerns about the con­tin­ued log­ging and burn­ing of some of Tasmania’s most car­bon dense forests.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20536

12) COLLEGE GROVE UPDATES — AUSTRALIA, APRIL 08
29 April 2008 — Activists have set up a new camp in the Col­lege Grove for­est area that is due to be destroyed in the next stage of devel­op­ment.
http://www.globalwarmingfg.com/
14 April 2008 — Col­lege Grove pro­test­ers stop machines for the day:
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20535
10 April — Police Vio­lence at treesit action in Col­lege Grove, Bun­bury, Aus­tralia. Two activists were arrest­ed with one tak­en to hos­pi­tal after a force­ful and vio­lent push by WA Police. A spokes for the Com­mu­ni­ty Inde­pen­dent Activists (CIA) group says it was the “most vio­lent dis­play by police in 15 years of for­est activism.”
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20531

13) CHEVRON TOXICO GOLDMAN AWARD — SAN FRANCISCO, 13.4.08
Two cam­paign­ers who have spear­head­ed a land­mark class-action law­suit against Chevron in Ecuador have been award­ed the Gold­man Prize, the world’s most pres­ti­gious envi­ron­men­tal hon­or, for their efforts to make the com­pa­ny clean up what experts believe is the world’s worst oil-relat­ed dis­as­ter. The Gold­man Prize Comes two weeks after these dam­ages were esti­mat­ed at up to $16 Bil­lion. Chevron Tox­i­co is the inter­na­tion­al cam­paign to hold Chevron­Tex­a­co account­able for its tox­ic con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the Ecuado­ri­an Ama­zon.
http://www.amazonwatch.org/

14) SUBVERTISING — NEW GROUP, APRIL ‘08
A new group want to set up a cli­mate-focused nation­al sub­ver­tis­ing net­work where every­one has a role and where peo­ple are well sup­port­ed. If you would like to get involved, see http://www.myspace.com/subvertising

15) CARBON DETOX — NEW BOOK, APRIL ‘08
A new book by George Mar­shall of COIN. Mark Lynas,author of Six Degrees, says:
“Buy this book and thrust it into the hands of some­one who still does­n’t believe in the cli­mate cri­sis. No oth­er book goes fur­ther in address­ing peo­ple’s denial and their resis­tance to change.”
http://www.carbondetox.org/

16) BRING CLIMATE CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
A cam­paign to estab­lish a legal process in the UK and abroad to facil­i­tate the crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion of Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters and key busi­ness lead­ers whose poli­cies and activ­i­ties con­tribute to the mass loss of life which cli­mate change is cer­tain to now cause.
www.climatecriminals.co.uk

17) PROTEST WATCH — WEBSITE, APRIL ‘08
A new site which aims to become a com­pre­hen­sive resource for any­body inter­est­ed in active­ly protest­ing in the UK.
http://www.protestwatch.org.uk/

18) AIRPORTWATCH BULLETIN — APRIL ‘08
Air­port­Watch updates for April. See;
http://www.aef.org.uk/downloads//AirportWatch_bulletin_April2008.pdf

19) ‘THE BATH BOMB’ — APRIL 08
Anti-copy­right: copy and dis­trib­ute! Issue #9 free/donation. See;
http://www.myspace.com/bathbomb

20) LONDON CRITICAL MASS, 14TH ANNIVERSARY — APRIL ‘08
For ride reports/info. see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20584
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/main.html

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Newcastle community green festival FREE 7/8 june

The uk’s largest free envi­ron­men­tal event, New­cas­tle com­mu­ni­ty green fes­ti­val 7/8 june 12pm till 6pm(after par­ties across the city). Come to beau­ti­ful leas­es park right in the cen­tre of New­cas­tle and enjoy two days of music, dance and green work­shops.

The uk’s largest free envi­ron­men­tal event, New­cas­tle com­mu­ni­ty green fes­ti­val 7/8 june 12pm till 6pm(after par­ties across the city). Come to beau­ti­ful leas­es park right in the cen­tre of New­cas­tle and enjoy two days of music, dance and green work­shops.

The event is non-cor­po­rate, car-free and fam­i­ly-friend­ly. Work­shops cov­er­ing low impact liv­ing, green trans­port, D.i.Y cul­ture, green gar­dens, bio­di­ver­si­ty, heal­ing area, kidz area’s, her­itage crafts, green pol­i­tics and debates, tree hug­ging, veg­an and veg­gie foods, plant sales, refugee rights and so much more…

Three stages show­cas­ing the best local music tal­ent with friends from across the coun­try.
The festie is FREE and run entir­ly by vol­un­teers for the love of it.
There is NO CAMPING on site sor­ry.

M1 Conspiracy Case Thrown Out

Sev­en cli­mate camp activists against the widen­ing of the M1 (1) had the case against them dis­missed from Sheffield Crown Court today (1.05.2008). Charged with con­spir­a­cy to cause a pub­lic nui­sance Judge Robin­son said that: “there was not a jot of evi­dence” for a jury to infer an endan­ger­ment of any mem­ber of the pub­lic.

Sev­en cli­mate camp activists against the widen­ing of the M1 (1) had the case against them dis­missed from Sheffield Crown Court today (1.05.2008). Charged with con­spir­a­cy to cause a pub­lic nui­sance Judge Robin­son said that: “there was not a jot of evi­dence” for a jury to infer an endan­ger­ment of any mem­ber of the pub­lic. Arrest­ed over a year ago the pro­test­ers had their hous­es raid­ed with prop­er­ty such as com­put­ers and phones tak­en and held for the dura­tion of the inves­ti­ga­tion.

This rul­ing in the midst of a crack down (2) on green protest sets a prece­dent for polic­ing of envi­ron­men­tal demon­stra­tions. The Judge resound­ing­ly reject­ed the pros­e­cu­tion’s argu­ment that the hang­ing of ban­ners over the motor­way would con­sti­tute a pub­lic nui­sance.

He went on to say: “that all of the avail­able mate­r­i­al (pre­sent­ed to the court) is con­sis­tent only with peace­ful protest.”

Cam­paign spokesper­son Dr Julie White, a GP from Sheffield, said: “this is vic­to­ry for the right to protest in the face of gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy of expand­ing roads, run­ways and coal-fired pow­er sta­tions in a time of cli­mate cri­sis.”

The activists say that the expe­ri­ence has not deterred them from tak­ing action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change and will be attend­ing the Camp for Cli­mate Action (3) at Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent this August.

Con­tact Julie White on 0779851073.

NOTES FOR EDITORS
1*) The Depart­ment of Trans­port have decid­ed against widen­ing the M1 any fur­ther: http://www.nowideningm1.org.uk/

2*) this month the Sun­day Her­ald report­ed that pro­tes­tors in Scot­land had been harassed by police after peace­ful demon­stra­tions:
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2210574.0.protesters_police_treated_us_like_terrorists.php

3*)The Camp for Cli­mate Action went to Heathrow last sum­mer over the build­ing of a third run­way this year it will pitch up at Kingsnorth over the poten­tial build­ing of the UK’s first new coal-fired pow­er sta­tion for 30 years:
www.climatecamp.org.uk

Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the climate snatchers…: day of climate action [updated again; video added]

1.5.2008
Lon­don: at 07.45 this morn­ing E.ON offices on Pall Mall were tar­get­ed by the new upstart Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny as part of a nation­al­ly co-ordi­nat­ed Day of Cli­mate Action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions.

Eon coal cleaning protest1.5.2008
Lon­don: at 07.45 this morn­ing E.ON offices on Pall Mall were tar­get­ed by the new upstart Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny as part of a nation­al­ly co-ordi­nat­ed Day of Cli­mate Action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

FOR ONSITE INTERVIEWS AND UPDATES CONTACT : 07790 430 620

The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny launched their enter­prise with E.ON as their first cus­tomer. Accord­ing to the chat­ty clean­ers, “There’s no mess too big! We make coal Fos­sil Fuel Fresh ™”.

The cli­mate activists tar­get­ed E.ON for their pro­mo­tion of ‘false cap­i­tal­ist solu­tions’ to cli­mate change. E.ON is exploit­ing the idea of a future Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age sys­tem to jus­ti­fy build­ing a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth — where the utopia of low-impact liv­ing // edu­ca­tion // high-impact direct action that is the Cli­mate Camp will spring up this August.

CCS requires up to 40% more coal per unit of elec­tric­i­ty than coal gen­er­a­tion with­out CCS. So more coal needs to be burnt; increas­ing the over­all pol­lu­tion caused. It also neglects to address the wider prob­lems of over con­sump­tion or deal with coal’s oth­er social and envi­ron­men­tal impacts.

The Coal Clean­ing Com­pa­ny can be con­tact­ed on 07790 430 620 for onsite inter­views and updates.

www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk 07880 937511 for nation­al updates

www.climatecamp.org.uk

Video: Coal Clean­ers at E.ON — video/mp4 29M
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RBS Ban­ner Protest in York

Peo­ple from groups across the city and both Uni­ver­si­ties took part in a ban­ner protest out­side Roy­al Bank of Scot­land’s cen­tral branch in the city. Leaflets were hand­ed out sumaris­ing RBS’s cli­mate crimes.

If the action was unim­pres­sive in and of itself, then the fact we’ve final­ly bro­ken the iner­tia around actions in York was prob­a­bly a suc­cess in itself. The rain man­aged to hold off (only just) and even the pass­ing cops had noth­ing what­so­ev­er to say on the mat­ter.

The action was held today because, well, its May­day and its the day of action against False Cap­i­tal­ist Solu­tions, of which invest­ment in new oil is per­haps the dimmest idea of the lot!

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Canada greenwash flier
Green Liv­ing show Inspect­ed in Cana­da

Green Liv­ing show inspect­ed and green­wash fly­ers hand­ed out yes­ter­day in Toron­to Cana­da.

For pic­tures of the stalls on dis­play with green­wash stick­ers, vis­it here

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Urban devel­op­ment sab­o­taged

The Earth and its inhab­i­tants are being raped of their nat­ur­al resources by the Cor­po­rate-State Com­plex. This is why for the Day of Cli­mate Action we sab­o­taged this smooth oper­a­tion in the ear­ly hours of April XX

Mem­bers of the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front joined forces to car­ry out an action against unnec­es­sary urban devel­op­ment in the south-west. Eco­teurs broke into the con­struc­tion site that is build­ing yet anoth­er bridge for the trans­port of motor­ized vehi­cles. A 4x4 was found, paintstripped, all sides com­plete­ly scarred, tyres dam­aged, whilst a truck and JCB had logos removed and sides stripped. The flawed con­cept of “build­ing our way out of con­ges­tion” will no longer be tol­er­at­ed at the expense of the rivers wildlife and £8 mil­lion of tax pay­ers mon­ey spent on this project.

No Com­pro­mise in Defence of Moth­er Earth.

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INRA — French agri­cul­tur­al research — chalked about bio­fu­els

The words AGRO-CARBURANTS = DANGER were chalked on the side of the French Agri­cul­tur­al Research insti­tute, as were var­i­ous cars through­out Paris.

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Sizewell May­day Crit­i­cal Mass

In sup­port of the May­day Cli­mate Action Day, some peo­ple from Ris­ing Tide and Earth First got togeth­er this Sat­ur­day for a Crit­i­cal Mass to Sizewell nuclear pow­er sta­tion to high­light that nuclear is not a solu­tion to cli­mate change.

We turned up at the meet­ing point – a train sta­tion in the tiny Suf­folk vil­lage of Sax­mund­ham – to be greet­ed by 15 police offi­cers includ­ing some FIT from Lon­don. As we set out on a love­ly sun­ny ride through the coun­try­side, the extent of the over-the-top police oper­a­tion became clear as we passed sev­er­al unmarked cars full of FIT pho­tog­ra­phers, the entrance to Sizewell guard­ed by anoth­er twen­ty cops, and a fur­ther ten con­gre­gat­ed at our end-point on Sizewell beach. All told we reck­on there were fifty cops on hand to police our fun fam­i­ly day out to Sizewell. It was a great crit­i­cal mass, a good time was had by all, and the local press seemed as bemused as we were by the ridicu­lous­ness of the police oper­a­tion. Won­der if there are any red faces in police intel­li­gence this week­end?

Why Sizewell on May­day week­end?
This demo was part of a nation­al week­end of action against false solu­tions to cli­mate change. As cli­mate change ris­es up the polit­i­cal agen­da, a huge num­ber of tech­no-fix­es are form­ing a new eco­nom­ic sec­tor: from bio­fu­els to nuclear pow­er, car­bon-trad­ing to hydro­gen fuel cells, dump­ing urine in the ocean to car­bon cap­ture and stor­age. Every­where cor­po­ra­tions are seek­ing the elu­sive elixir which allows us to con­tin­ue busi­ness as usu­al. All of these tech­nolo­gies are a dis­trac­tion from the real solu­tions: a mas­sive reduc­tion in our con­sump­tion and the end to eco­nom­ic growth.

Let’s chal­lenge these false solu­tions to cli­mate chaos and show the real solu­tion: far-reach­ing social change.

http://www.networkforclimateaction.org.uk

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E-on Coventry protest
On May 1st, Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide vis­it­ed the E.on head­quar­ters at West­wood Busi­ness Park in Coven­try to expose the truth behind E.on’s green­wash and show that car­bon cap­ture is a false solu­tion to the prob­lem of cli­mate change.

E.on are plan­ning to build a £1.5 bn exten­sion to their coal fired plant in Kingsnorth. They jus­ti­fy this on the grounds that it will be ‘car­bon cap­ture ready’ even though the tech­nol­o­gy for car­bon cap­ture has yet to be invent­ed and even when it does exist it will emit more pol­lu­tants try­ing to cap­ture and store the car­bon than if they just left the emis­sions unchecked. To protest against this, Leam­ing­ton Ris­ing Tide arrived at 8am to hand fliers to the work­ers.

Ban­ners were erect­ed read­ing “POLLUTE.ON NO MORE GREEN WASH”. There was jug­gling and a pic­nic out­side the doors of the build­ing as the pro­tes­tors wait­ed for a march of stu­dents from War­wick Uni­ver­si­ty Peo­ple and Plan­et to arrive at 1.30. The marchers came with a repli­ca mod­el of the coal pow­er sta­tion and a game of ‘catch the car­bon’ with bal­loons and nets. The pro­test­ers gath­ered out­side the build­ing and then the sign out­side was paint­ed green to sym­bol­ise the e.ons green­wash and one pro­test­er occu­pied the roof of the build­ing. The day was a great suc­cess with a pos­i­tive, fes­tive vibe and no arrests.