Category: Climate Chaos

Shell Targeted across Edinburgh

11 Nov 2007
In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Ross­port and Nige­ria, the Shell petrol sta­tion on Dal­ry Road was block­ad­ed for 2 hours on Sat­ur­day by 20 peo­ple includ­ing mem­bers of the Clown Army. The Comis­ton Shell Petrol Sta­tion was sub­ject­ed to a night­time redec­o­ra­tion.

Shell Edinburgh blockade11 Nov 2007
In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Ross­port and Nige­ria, the Shell petrol sta­tion on Dal­ry Road was block­ad­ed for 2 hours on Sat­ur­day by 20 peo­ple includ­ing mem­bers of the Clown Army. The Comis­ton Shell Petrol Sta­tion was sub­ject­ed to a night­time redec­o­ra­tion.
‘From Ogani­land to Ross­port’ was the mes­sage of anti-Shell pro­test­ers blockad­ing Shell
Petrol Sta­tion in Dal­ry Road, Edin­burgh, this morn­ing (Sat­ur­day 10 Novem­ber).

The group of around twen­ty pro­test­ers shut off the petrol sta­tion by block­ing entrances and hoist­ing signs. The pro­test­ers aimed to edu­cate and enter­tain those pre­vent­ed
from access­ing the sta­tion, bring­ing with them an array of musi­cal instru­ments and games
as well as infor­ma­tion about Shell.

An activist explained. ‘This action is not only a protest against Shel­l’s atro­cious envi­ron­men­tal record in the Niger Delta and Ross­port, Coun­ty Mayo, but also a ges­ture of sol­i­dar­i­ty with those who have already suf­fered so much at the hands of Shell. Today marks the twelfth anniver­sary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa who was exe­cut­ed by the
Niger­ian gov­ern­ment for his attempts to pro­tect the lands of his peo­ple, the Ogani com­mu­ni­ty. In addi­tion this time last year the Irish Gar­da police baton charged a peace­ful block­ade of the Shell refin­ery in Ross­port, injur­ing unarmed mem­bers of the Ross­port com­mu­ni­ty who were peace­ful­ly try­ing to pro­tect their homes from com­mer­cial exploita­tion. We stand in sup­port of these brave peo­ple and aim to draw atten­tion to the world­wide issue of Shel­l’s vio­la­tion of both human rights and the health of our plan­et in
pur­suit of prof­it’

Also attend­ing the block­ade was a gag­gle of clowns from the Clan­des­tine Insur­gent Rebel Clown Army, who brought a sense of com­ic fes­tiv­i­ty to the oth­er­wise somber anniver­sary.

Sergeant Toast explained: ‘We clowns rep­re­sent the sane in an insane world, where the prof­it of multi­na­tion­al com­pa­nies comes before the rights and lives of com­mu­ni­ties. Even the likes of Shell and their actions in the world can­not quell our sense of the joy­ous­ness and beau­ty of life and our deter­mi­na­tion to replace these com­mer­cial val­ues
with out own-those of play­ful­ness, free­dom and love. Join the Clan­des­tine Insur­gent Rebel
Clown Army and help us pro­tect our world and free­doms!’

The Ross­port com­mu­ni­ty of Coun­ty Mayo, Ire­land, have since 2000 waged an ongo­ing resis­tance to the attempts of Shell to turn their coast-land into the site of a tox­ic refin­ery with a high pres­sure gas pipeline which will cut through the com­mu­ni­ty, in same cas­es run­ning just 70metres from peo­ples homes. The ‘Ross­port 5’-farmers who refused to
obey a com­pul­so­ry pur­chase order to seize their land-were impris­oned in 2005, and their
efforts are sup­port­ed by the whole com­mu­ni­ty, wor­thy of nation wide and inter­na­tion­al
sup­port for the strug­gle they are brave­ly main­tain­ing. (www.struggle.ws/rsc, www.shelltosea.com)

Nige­ria-On Novem­ber 10th 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogo­ni col­leagues were exe­cut­ed by the Niger­ian state for cam­paign­ing against the dev­as­ta­tion of the Niger Delta by oil com­pa­nies, espe­cial­ly Shell and Chevron. (www.remembersarowiwa.com)

In an unre­lat­ed inci­dent the Shell petrol sta­tion at Comis­ton was tar­get­ed in a night time attack. Mes­sages were spray paint­ed, locks were glued and the petrol pump dials ren­dered unread­able. (see http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1802622007)

Ogoni 9 Day — Rossport Endures to Prevail; Today Smelt Like Victory (photos)

Novem­ber 9th 2007
Not in our name !

Mayo Ogoni solidarity 1

Mayo Ogoni solidarity 3Novem­ber 9th 2007
Not in our name !

Today, to com­mem­o­rate Shel­l’s judi­cial mur­der of the Ogo­ni 9 and a look back in anger at the Gar­da baton-fest a year ago, some 400 activists jour­neyed from all reach­es of Ire­land to voice our out­rage out­side and inside Shel­l’s Bel­lan­aboy site, I was with the sec­tion of pro­tes­tors that first manned the front line at Bel­lan­aboy bridge at 6AM at the request of S2S when it was right­ly sur­mised that Shell and the Guards would attempt to steal a march by bring­ing the work­ers in ear­ly — for a while, before Gar­da weight of num­bers pre­vailed, we were effec­tive in blockad­ing and pre­vent­ing them from earn­ing their 30 pieces of Mam­mon sil­ver inside.

After being pre­vent­ed from join­ing the main group by a two deep line of Guards, we suc­cess­ful­ly scaled the gates of the refin­ery to be greet­ed inside with wan­ton vio­lence and rough han­dling by Shel­l’s thugs dressed in secu­ri­ty uni­forms.

What stim­u­lat­ed the title was an encounter with a Ger­man from Riegen and a cou­ple from the UK Mid­lands who had spent the pre­vi­ous 48 hours trav­el­ling over­land from main­land Europe and Eng­land just to attend today’s protest, what com­mit­ment?, even so, the peo­ple of Erris match it and, fur­ther afield, activists, who with a gran­ite sense of con­science turn up again and again in Bel­lan­aboy to bear wit­ness against a rogue cor­po­ra­tion and their shoe shine boys in gov­ern­ment who pave and grease their way?

Updates received via Text Mes­sage from Pro­tes­tors

6.47: Gate 2 blocked since 6am

7.10: Sit­u­a­tion tense for a group from Cork hemmed in near Gate 2 (gate near­est the bridge). On the road but the guards have half of it.

7.35: The refin­ery site has been occu­pied. One group of 30 peo­ple have entered and are now occu­py­ing the site com­pound. Mean­while on the road between the bridge and Gate 2, a group of 90 pro­test­ers pre­vent­ed a truck from from enter­ing the site for about 20 min­utes. The truck drove over one per­son­’s foot and an ambu­lance is on its way. One of the block­aders was arrest­ed around the same time.

8:08: The same truck that drove over the pro­test­er’s foot is still being block­ad­ed from enter­ing the quar­ry (around 40 min­utes at this stage).

8:35: There are cur­rent­ly two dif­fer­ent groups on the build­ing site and anoth­er two groups of block­aders at Gate 1 and Gate 2.

The pro­test­er whose foot was dri­ven over has been tak­en to hos­pi­tal. Guards were report­ed as being very rough while remov­ing peo­ple from the road at Gate 2 — stand­ing on peo­ple’s arms and chests and pulling them off the road by their necks. Local, John Mon­aghan had his cam­era pulled off him and thrown into the ditch by gar­dai.

8:57: The truck has since got past the block­ade of Gate 2 (leav­ing it blocked for just over an hour). 30/40 local peo­ple were active­ly involved in the block­ade. Guards report­ed as vio­lent­ly drag­ging peo­ple away — punch­ing peo­ple in back and stom­ach. Many guards report­ed as not wear­ing their iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­bers.

The block­aders have now joined the group at the main gate to the site and there is a line of gar­dai (now includ­ing the pub­lic order unit) between them and the com­pound gate. Two oth­er arrests have been con­firmed aside from the pro­test­er blockad­ing Gate 2. Fur­ther details on these two arrests to be con­firmed.

9:05: One group of about 20 pro­test­ers on the site attempt­ed to get past the inner gate (with spikes on top) to the site but suf­fered minor injuries (cut hands) as well as ripped and torn cloth­ing as the site secu­ri­ty pre­vent­ed them from get­ting across by push­ing them back against the spikes at the top of the gate. Two of the peo­ple who suc­ceed­ed in get­ting to the inner site were eject­ed from the site by site secu­ri­ty need­ed first aid but are now on their way up to join the group on the road by the main gate.

10:26: Six peo­ple have been escort­ed out of the com­pound after breach­ing it via a back entrance. The group man­aged to breach the inner perime­ter and stop work tem­porar­i­ly. There were minor scuf­fles but secu­ri­ty were ‘gen­er­al­ly nice’.

14:56: 16 peo­ple are cur­rent­ly on site. There are secu­ri­ty present but no gar­dai as of yet. The group is a mix of locals and sup­port­ers.

15:01: “Secu­ri­ty guards assault­ing pro­test­ers, grab­bing cam­eras, work con­tin­u­ing”

Shell Gas Offices plagued in Derbyshire

9.11.2007
Sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against shell have demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field this morn­ing with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has begun on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.

9.11.2007
Sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against shell have demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field this morn­ing with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has begun on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.

Today’s demon­stra­tion was in sol­i­dar­i­ty of an inter­na­tion­al day of action all over the world with the Irish and Ogo­ni com­mu­ni­ties Novem­ber the 10th is the first anniver­sary of the gar­dai (police) baton charge against the peo­ple in Erris. It is also the 12th anniver­sary of the exe­cu­tion of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 oth­er Ogo­ni peo­ple who were lead­ers in the move­ment against Shell in Nige­ria. As in Nige­ria in the ear­ly nineties, state vio­lence is being used on the local peo­ple of Mayo to pro­tect cor­po­rate prof­its.

Work­ers at the Duck­man­ton office seemed some­what sur­prised this morn­ing with the demon­stra­tion and they didn’t get much sup­port from their neigh­bours either who also stat­ed “they hate them”

The refin­ery is to be built in a Spe­cial Area of con­ser­va­tion under EU reg­u­la­tions. Shell’s own study found that the bay is a breed­ing and rear­ing area for whales and dol­phins record­ing over 220 sight­ings of sev­en whale and dol­phin species, two seal species, bask­ing sharks and sea tur­tle. Tox­ic waste is to be pumped into Broad­haven Bay from the refin­ery, includ­ing lead, nick­el, mag­ne­sium, phos­pho­rous, chromi­um, arsenic, mer­cury and radioac­tive gas radon.

Shell are respon­si­ble for the site relat­ed health prob­lems, spills, tox­ic releas­es and mur­der of local peo­ples around their plants in Nige­ria, South Africa, Texas, Louisiana, The Philip­pines, Cura­cao, Brazil

Act Now! Help local peo­ple stop Shell’s Hell

More infor­ma­tion
http://www.indymedia.ie http://www.corribsos.com
http://www.corporatewatch.org http:// www.shellfacts.com
images www.radical-images.co.uk

City Indians spread to Copenhagen: 4x4 drivers be warned

7th Novem­ber 2007

For sev­er­al months “City Indi­ans” have been active­ly resist­ing the spread of gas gus­sling jeeps in Swedish cities. Now they have moved to Copen­hagen.

Sev­er­al groups of mil­i­tant envi­ron­men­tal activists known as “City Indi­ans” have been active­ly resist­ing the wide spread use of so-called “city jeeps” in Swedish cities.

7th Novem­ber 2007

For sev­er­al months “City Indi­ans” have been active­ly resist­ing the spread of gas gus­sling jeeps in Swedish cities. Now they have moved to Copen­hagen.

Sev­er­al groups of mil­i­tant envi­ron­men­tal activists known as “City Indi­ans” have been active­ly resist­ing the wide spread use of so-called “city jeeps” in Swedish cities.

Their tac­tics are sim­ply to have groups of activists roam­ing the streets, let­ting the air out of the tires on the big, gas-gus­sling jeeps. Wher­ev­er they go they leave a note for the car own­ers, explain­ing the impact the cars and their exhausts are hav­ing on the envi­ron­ment and encour­ag­ing them to use pub­lic trans­porta­tion in stead.

The actions have result­ed in car own­ers organ­is­ing in vig­i­lante groups threat­en­ing to kill the activists caught.

Now this phe­nom­e­na has crossed to Den­mark, where a new group of Indi­ans have been on the prowl. The notes left behind are word­ed exact­ly like those in Swe­den and so far the tac­tics have been very sim­i­lar.

25,000 blockade world’s longest dam in India

Sol­i­dar­i­ty would be huge­ly appre­ci­at­ed as Indi­a’s Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of min­ing cor­po­ra­tion Vedan­ta to be able to mine the Niyami­giri Hills in Oris­sa, which will mean the death of thou­sands of peo­ple and will set a prece­dent for the min­ing of all of Indi­a’s forests.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty would be huge­ly appre­ci­at­ed as Indi­a’s Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of min­ing cor­po­ra­tion Vedan­ta to be able to mine the Niyami­giri Hills in Oris­sa, which will mean the death of thou­sands of peo­ple and will set a prece­dent for the min­ing of all of Indi­a’s forests.

25,000 farm­ers are to form a human chain around one of the worlds largest dams in protest against devel­op­ment by British min­ing cor­po­ra­tion Vedan­ta Resources PLC. Cen­tral to the con­flict are issues over water allo­ca­tion to the alu­mini­um indus­try and a baux­ite min­ing project whose effects Indi­a’s Supreme Court have been warned by its own inves­ti­ga­to­ry com­mit­tee would lead to “cul­tur­al geno­cide.” [1]

Farm­ers in Indi­a’s poor­est state, Oris­sa, have grad­u­al­ly been los­ing the right to water from the Hirakud dam since it began to irri­gate and pro­duce ener­gy for the region in 1947. Whilst they claim that today only 25% of their fields receive any irri­ga­tion, allo­ca­tion of water to heavy indus­try has increased by over 27 times with­in the past ten years. [2] The major bene­fac­tor of this is the alu­mini­um indus­try, Hin­dal­co and Vedan­ta, present in Oris­sa due to its rich baux­ite deposits [alu­mini­um ore] and the huge amount of water avail­able from the Hirakud dam. [3]

Vedan­ta is cur­rent­ly on the crux of win­ning a legal bat­tle grant­i­ng it the right to mine three mil­lion tonnes of baux­ite from the most bio­di­verse for­est region in Oris­sa, the Niyam­giri hills. The min­ing threat­ens many rare species of ani­mals and plants which inhab­it the region, as well as the exis­tence of an entire trib­al pop­u­la­tion, the Don­garia Kondhs.

Today is the lat­est con­fronta­tion between dif­fer­ent inter­est groups in a ‘water war’ which reflects grow­ing glob­al con­flicts over water short­ages in a dry­ing plan­et. Police have fired on and killed demon­stra­tors in pre­vi­ous mass protests in Oris­sa and it is like­ly that fol­low­ing the recent con­tentious pro-Vedan­ta deci­sions of Indi­a’s Supreme Court, con­flicts may well become more heat­ed.

Feel like ring­ing up Vedan­ta to tell them to screw them­selves? Good!

investorrelations@vedantaresources.com

Sumanth Cidambi
Asso­ciate Direc­tor Investor Rela­tions
Tele­phone: +91 22 6646 1444

Vedan­ta Resources plc
16 Berke­ley Street
Lon­don W1J 8DZ

Robin Walk­er & Faeth Birch

Fins­bury Com­mu­ni­ca­tions
52–58 Taber­na­cle Street
Lon­don
EC2A 4NJ

Tele­phone: +44 (0) 20 7251 3801

tak­en from http://www.vedantaresources.com/contactus.htm

Tara — Transport minister has transport problems

Novem­ber 2nd 2007

Dig­gers dived and Dempsey done

“trans­port prob­lems for dept of trans­ports noel dempsey”

Con­ser­va­tion­ists angry at what they call,‘The des­e­cra­tion of Ire­land’s cul­tur­al her­itage’ laid siege to a Trim hotel (Fri­day 2nd nov) where trans­port min­is­ter Noel Dempsey cel­e­brat­ed anoth­er gov­ern­ment decen­tral­i­sa­tion project.

Novem­ber 2nd 2007

Dig­gers dived and Dempsey done

“trans­port prob­lems for dept of trans­ports noel dempsey”

Con­ser­va­tion­ists angry at what they call,‘The des­e­cra­tion of Ire­land’s cul­tur­al her­itage’ laid siege to a Trim hotel (Fri­day 2nd nov) where trans­port min­is­ter Noel Dempsey cel­e­brat­ed anoth­er gov­ern­ment decen­tral­i­sa­tion project.

Fol­low­ing a morn­ing of suc­ces­ful dig­ger div­ing by 2 crews at Col­lier­stown and sol­diers hill,where 1 activist was arrest­ed for not giv­ing his name,then released an hour lat­er.

Some of the 40 Tara M3 pro­tes­tors dodged secu­ri­ty to enter the rear of the Knights­brook Hotel and golf resort where the recep­tion was tak­ing place,

At one point cater­ing staff — some Pol­ish — were sent to con­front them.

Ear­li­er, 10 con­ser­va­tion­ists harangued the vet­er­an politi­cian as he left the con­struc­tion site for the new Office of Pub­lic Works, where he had turned the first sod.

His day was fur­ther spoiled when it was dis­cov­ered that two tyres of his min­is­te­r­i­al Mere­cedes had been let down.

A spokesman for Tara Sol­i­dar­i­ty Vig­il said: “The graves of the ancient Fian­na have been bull­dozed, the bones dug up and the remains are still await­ing re-inter­ment to their orig­i­nal rest­ing place.

“It is bla­tant grave rob­bery and Irish peo­ple should be dis­gust­ed,

“Imag­ine if Glas­nevin (Dublin) had a pro­posed motor­way going right through it in 2000 years time.

“The aim was not to scare Mr Dempsey but to have a chance to com­mu­ni­cate our con­cern at his lack of inter­est in an alter­na­tive, cheap­er M3 route avoid­ing the Tara Skyrne Val­ley where there is poten­tial for a rail line and for valu­able tourism for gen­er­a­tions to come.

“This pro­posed UNESCO World Her­itage Park will thus be an asset to the peo­ple of Ire­land.”

Resis­tance is grow­ing from Ross­port to Tara, and our actions are increas­ing in their effectiveness,as is evi­dent from the gov­ern­ment cen­sor­ing www.tarapixie.net on pub­lic access inter­net ter­mi­nals. This means we are win­ning some­where and have raised major con­cerns with­in the halls of pow­er. As song,poetry and music were once again heard in the halls of Tara over Samhain. We hope all Irish and inter­na­tion­al net­works will ral­ly to the sup­port of the Tara Valley.Activists urgent­ly need­ed now num­bers are low after the Samhain celebration.As activists dig in for the win­ter support,food,warm gear and peo­ple needed.Hear the call.

http://www.tarapixie.net

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

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

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

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

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

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

Con­tact 0845–0223 5254 for more info

Protest shackles Total Oil petrol station (& 7th November action call-out)

On 1st Novem­ber pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the 24-hour Total petrol sta­tion on Maryle­bone Road in cen­tral Lon­don. They were call­ing for Total Oil to pull out of Bur­ma due to their fund­ing of the Burmese mil­i­tary regime. The protest began at 5pm to coin­cide with rush hour.

London Total shackled protestOn 1st Novem­ber pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the 24-hour Total petrol sta­tion on Maryle­bone Road in cen­tral Lon­don. They were call­ing for Total Oil to pull out of Bur­ma due to their fund­ing of the Burmese mil­i­tary regime. The protest began at 5pm to coin­cide with rush hour.

The protest con­sist­ed of ban­ners, plac­ards, leaflets and a peti­tion. One pro­tes­tor wore shack­les to sig­ni­fy the oppres­sion of the Burmese peo­ple.

With­in 10 min­utes of the protest begin­ning staff closed the sta­tion, block­ing off the fore­court and switch­ing off the lights. Even the accom­pa­ny­ing shop was shut. When it became appar­ent that the protest was con­tin­u­ing the police were con­tact­ed. One offi­cer arrived and after con­sult­ing the staff told the demon­stra­tors that there were not allowed onto the fore­court and risked arrest if they “inter­fered” with the busi­ness’s trade by block­ing the entrance or lock­ing onto any of the pumps. (It should be not­ed that none of the pro­tes­tors had entered the fore­court or caused any “inter­fer­ence”.)

After an hour the sta­tion re-opened. The protest con­tin­ued until 7.00pm.

http://www.totaloutofburma.blogspot.com

A world­wide day of action against French oil giant Total’s invest­ment in Bur­ma has been called for Wednes­day 7th Novem­ber, the day the com­pa­ny’s quar­ter­ly results are pub­lished. Total’s con­tin­ued involve­ment in the oper­a­tion of the Yadana gas pipeline in the south of the coun­try, in part­ner­ship with Chevron-Tex­a­co, is opposed by the coun­try’s demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly-elect­ed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest or deten­tion for 12 years. The pipeline earns the regime hun­dreds of mil­lions of pounds in rev­enue every year, with only a tiny frac­tion reach­ing the Burmese peo­ple. The main cus­tomer for the pipeline is Thai­land.

Critical Mass reports (October) — Sheffield, London

A pleas­ant ride across Sheffield with a num­ber of cycling enthu­si­asts on Fri­day 26 Octo­ber. Also accom­pa­nied by 2 police bike offi­cers and a patrol car.

Come along on the next one.. last Fri­day of the month, 5:30pm at the Uni­ver­si­ty Con­course

A pleas­ant ride across Sheffield with a num­ber of cycling enthu­si­asts on Fri­day 26 Octo­ber. Also accom­pa­nied by 2 police bike offi­cers and a patrol car.

Come along on the next one.. last Fri­day of the month, 5:30pm at the Uni­ver­si­ty Con­course

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FIT on bikes at Lon­don Crit­i­cal Mass

At least one offi­cer from the FIT (For­wards Intel­li­gence Team) were spot­ted on the crit­i­cal mass with­out their usu­al blue-shoul­der uni­forms on and on bikes!

Sergeant CW 36 seen here at Cli­mate Camp was seen on a bike with the reg­u­lar bike cops on the Crit­i­cal Mass. Have they decid­ed to give up their cli­mate killing cars and use ped­dle pow­er to con­tin­ue their agen­da of intim­i­da­tion? Have recent FIT­watch actions made them think twice about being so open? Is this just one cop decid­ing to be a bike cop for a change?

Either way peo­ple should be aware that just because they can’t see FIT it does­n’t mean that the cops they see about them aren’t also gath­er­ing intel­li­gence.

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A fair­ly smooth Hal­loween style ride with few if any police has­sles.

There were a good num­bers com­pared to the pre­vi­ous month. Sev­er­al sound sys­tems. No block­ing junc­tions this time. Some Lon­don land­marks are high­light­ed in the video.

Video: http://www.archive.org/details/cm26-10–07

http://criticalmasslondon.org.uk

Activists set up “Camp Hope” at Gloucester Airport

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more infor­ma­tion email CampForTheFuture@btinternet.com

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

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

At a loca­tion close to the air­port, see

http://www.myspace.com/campofhope

http://CampForHopeAtStaverton.blogspot.com/

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