Category: Climate Chaos

Spray Building ‘spring into action’ open for business

Here in Not­ting­ham, A ‘free space’ has been made avail­able and is now pre­pared for use. There will be many work­shops here and at the oth­er loca­tions around town.

Spring into Action EF bannerHere in Not­ting­ham, A ‘free space’ has been made avail­able and is now pre­pared for use. There will be many work­shops here and at the oth­er loca­tions around town.

Thu 5th — Wed 11th Apr, Spring into Action — A week of work­shops, events, music and action on cli­mate change hap­pen­ing at dif­fer­ent venues across Not­ting­ham. It is expect­ed that with­in this peri­od, there will be some work­days, were you will be able to turn up, and get involved in help­ing build the project

Spring Into Action — A week of events on Cli­mate Change, hap­pen­ing in Not­ting­ham

Thurs­day 5th — Wednes­day 11th April 2007

This is the ‘full’ Pro­gramme of Events, with dates, time, loca­tions .…. and every­thing

http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk/workshops/programme/

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

Please check Not­ting­hamshire Indy­media on the ‘Events’ col­umn [left hard side] for details of what when, how and where, near­er the time.

A week of work­shops, events, music and action on cli­mate change hap­pen­ing at dif­fer­ent venues across Not­ting­ham.

Cli­mate change is real and its hap­pen­ing now. Gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions dream of con­tin­ued eco­nom­ic growth — eco­nom­ic growth can’t solve this cri­sis, but we can. A mas­sive and con­cert­ed effort is need­ed on the scale of ‘Dig for Vic­to­ry’ or the ‘Home Front’: A war on cli­mate change.

We can’t con­tin­ue our cur­rent way of life — the oil on which it all depends is run­ning out too fast. A shift to a local­ly based econ­o­my will have to hap­pen, with food and ener­gy being pro­duced by the peo­ple that use it. The only ques­tion is when? We could start now, or we could wait for a future of war, famine, hur­ri­canes, droughts and floods. We need to gain the courage and change fast enough to cul­ti­vate a new world, before it’s too late.

‘Spring into Action’ is part of an emerg­ing grass­roots move­ment against cli­mate change. Born out of the Camp for Cli­mate Action (www.climatecamp.org.uk), ‘Spring into Action’ unites peo­ple across the east of Eng­land into mak­ing changes in our own lives, cre­at­ing small scale solu­tions in our com­mu­ni­ties and resist­ing those who still seek their own short term gain over a safe future for us all.

So get involved, come join a work­shop or run one your­self, come and help organ­ise the change that you want to expe­ri­ence in our world.

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

Climate Camp How to Deliver Direct Action Workshops Workshop in Oxford

We have space for some more peo­ple to attend a small week­end work­shop deliv­ered by Seeds for Change, on HOW TO DELIVER direct action train­ings for cli­mate activism. The idea is that peo­ple come to this, get trained up on how to give train­ings on direct action tac­tics, talk­ing to the media/cops, some legal stuff, quick con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing, maybe tri­pod usage etc… So that they can then go off and train peo­ple up in the run up to the Camp for Cli­mate Action (14–21 August).

We have space for some more peo­ple to attend a small week­end work­shop deliv­ered by Seeds for Change, on HOW TO DELIVER direct action train­ings for cli­mate activism. The idea is that peo­ple come to this, get trained up on how to give train­ings on direct action tac­tics, talk­ing to the media/cops, some legal stuff, quick con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing, maybe tri­pod usage etc… So that they can then go off and train peo­ple up in the run up to the Camp for Cli­mate Action (14–21 August).

This way we can max­imise the effec­tive­ness of our actions, and try to share the work­load.

Can you come? It’d be over the week­end of 14–15th April, at the Oxford Action Resource Cen­tre, Princes St, East Oxford.

( http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=452768&y=205877&z=1&sv=princes+st&st=6&tl=Princes+Street,+Oxford,+OX4&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf)

Crash space pro­vid­ed.
Let us know as soon as pos­si­ble at:
actionsupport@climatecamp.org.uk

Action Sup­port at Cli­mate Camp
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

Machinery occupied near anti-pipeline camp (plus camp directions, carnival footage, news of court ruling on terminal…)

2.04.2007

Activists have once again climbed on machin­ery to delay work on Nation­al Grid’s 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for sev­er­al hours on two con­sec­u­tive days.

2.04.2007

Activists have once again climbed on machin­ery to delay work on Nation­al Grid’s 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for sev­er­al hours on two con­sec­u­tive days.

Trees around the anti-pipeline tree camp in Pen­pont have been chopped down in recent days and heavy machin­ery has been brought in to enable work on the pipeline to start in the area. How­ev­er, the anti-pipeline camp has still not been evict­ed. More peo­ple are urgent­ly need­ed to take part in the grow­ing resis­tance to the pipeline, which is caus­ing huge destruc­tion to the envi­ron­ment and pos­es seri­ous safe­ty risks.

For more infor­ma­tion on the dam­ag­ing effects of the pipeline: fightthepipe.co.uk

DIRECTIONS to Pen­pont tree camp:

The protest camp is in ancient wood­land at Pen­pont, 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church. It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525. There is a bus going from Cardiff coach sta­tion to Bre­con town (X43, takes aprox 1hr, costs around £4). From the bus stop you get off at in Bre­con town (the only bus stop there) there is anoth­er bus that goes right past the camp (£1.60, aprox 10 mins- ask dri­ver for tree camp, you will prob­a­bly see ban­ners on the left).

DONATIONS:

Peo­ple on site are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, espe­cial­ly beams for build­ing, tarp, rope, nails, D‑locks, heavy chains, stuff for lock-ons (sand, cement, grav­el.), har­ness­es and oth­er climb­ing gear, scrap met­al, cud­dles etc etc etc.
We can use almost any tat…

Please come vis­it the camp before it’s too late!

Footage of Sat­ur­day 24th March Tre­banos car­ni­val against pipeline.

News of court rul­ing stop­ping work on ter­mi­nal — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6510957.stm

Spring into Action — Critical Mass

There will be a crit­i­cal mass ride celabrat­ing the joys of cycling and all car­bon free forms of Trans­port on the Fri­day of Spring into Action.

Fri­day 6th April 5:30pm Mar­ket Square.

Come join us and cel­e­brate all forms of car­bon free trans­port, cyclists, walk­ers, skaters all wel­come.

There will be a crit­i­cal mass ride celabrat­ing the joys of cycling and all car­bon free forms of Trans­port on the Fri­day of Spring into Action.

Fri­day 6th April 5:30pm Mar­ket Square.

Come join us and cel­e­brate all forms of car­bon free trans­port, cyclists, walk­ers, skaters all wel­come.

See you there

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

Latest on police appeal against London’s Critical Mass

What if the police win their appeal? Could it be the end of this Crit­i­cal Mass, after 12 years of month­ly rides, or the begin­ning of a strate­gic rebel­lion?

At the start of last night’s ride Des Kay, who orig­i­nal­ly took the Met police to court, report­ed on the progress of their appeal. He said it is not look­ing good as the police are using a high pow­ered lawyer. The police want the ride to be treat­ed as a reg­u­lar pub­lic protest with a fixed route and organ­is­ers. Of course, cyclists are not going to stand for this and Des asked for dis­cus­sions on pos­si­ble strate­gies in the event of the appeal suc­ceed­ing. The result of the appeal could be soon or take sev­er­al weeks more.

What if the police win their appeal? Could it be the end of this Crit­i­cal Mass, after 12 years of month­ly rides, or the begin­ning of a strate­gic rebel­lion?

At the start of last night’s ride Des Kay, who orig­i­nal­ly took the Met police to court, report­ed on the progress of their appeal. He said it is not look­ing good as the police are using a high pow­ered lawyer. The police want the ride to be treat­ed as a reg­u­lar pub­lic protest with a fixed route and organ­is­ers. Of course, cyclists are not going to stand for this and Des asked for dis­cus­sions on pos­si­ble strate­gies in the event of the appeal suc­ceed­ing. The result of the appeal could be soon or take sev­er­al weeks more.

Police are still warn­ing rid­ers with sound sys­tems not to play them with­in the SOCPA zone and are ask­ing for their names and address­es but take no action when this request is refused. They also video the sound sys­tem peo­ple.

Pre­vi­ous court deci­sion http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/2006/sedley.html

Web­site http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/

Legal com­ment below:

Its not unlaw­ful to go on a bike ride!

If a group of peo­ple decide to go for a bike ride for leisure pur­pos­es only, it is not unlaw­ful.

The bike ride can only be sub­ject to require­ments of writ­ten notice and pos­si­ble restric­tions if it falls with­in Sec­tion 11 of Part II of the Pub­lic Order Act 1986, which deals with pro­ces­sions and assem­blies. It states:

“11. Advance notice of pub­lic pro­ces­sions

(1) Writ­ten notice shall be giv­en in accor­dance with this sec­tion of any pro­pos­al to hold a
pub­lic pro­ces­sion intend­ed:

(a) to demon­strate sup­port for or oppo­si­tion to the views or actions of any per­son or body
of per­sons,

(b) to pub­li­cise a cause or cam­paign, or

© to mark or com­mem­o­rate an event,

unless it is not rea­son­ably prac­ti­ca­ble to give any advance notice of the pro­ces­sion.”

The police would have to show that there is a ‘col­lec­tive inten­tion’ to the bike ride which brings it with­in the cat­e­gories (a), (b) and © of Sec­tion 11 (1).

A reg­u­lar bike ride for ‘leisure pur­pos­es’ only, tak­ing a vari­able route, would not fall with­in those cat­e­gories. If an iso­lat­ed indi­vid­ual or num­ber of indi­vid­u­als decid­ed spon­ta­neous­ly and sep­a­rate­ly to dec­o­rate their bike or bod­ies to make any spe­cif­ic point falling with­in the above cat­e­gories, so long as it was not the ‘col­lec­tive inten­tion’ of the group as a whole to do so, the ride would not be brought with­in the require­ments of Sec­tion 11 (1).

So the ‘South Bank Cycling Club’ or who­ev­er, just needs to make it clear in any pub­lic­i­ty or in any com­mu­ni­ca­tion that the inten­tion of the ride is for leisure pur­pos­es and not for demon­stra­tion, pub­lic­i­ty or com­mem­o­ra­tive pur­pos­es.

Polar bear faces off against Bradford Climate Criminals

31.03.2007- Today Brad­ford wit­nessed the unusu­al sight of a plac­ard-wav­ing polar bear. The plac­ard, with the sim­ple mes­sage; “You fly, I die”, was aimed at the self­ish minor­i­ty who con­tin­ue to fly despite this being a major con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change – and the fastest ris­ing source of car­bon diox­ide emis­sions in West­ern Europe.

Bear and banner31.03.2007- Today Brad­ford wit­nessed the unusu­al sight of a plac­ard-wav­ing polar bear. The plac­ard, with the sim­ple mes­sage; “You fly, I die”, was aimed at the self­ish minor­i­ty who con­tin­ue to fly despite this being a major con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change – and the fastest ris­ing source of car­bon diox­ide emis­sions in West­ern Europe.

The bear and his human friends vis­it­ed a vari­ety of trav­el agents in the city cen­tre with a let­ter ask­ing that the cli­mate crim­i­nals stop destroy­ing the Arc­tic. After that, he made his way to the Tomas Cook call cen­tre on God­win Street, where sev­er­al local res­i­dents had erect­ed a ban­ner and were busy post­ing the win­dows with “You Fly, They Die” stick­ers (see http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/2283 for order­ing infor­ma­tion)

The local cit­i­zens – inspired by the excel­lent Camp For Cli­mate Action last sum­mer — were dis­mayed that the cli­mate crimes of this firm seem to be going unno­ticed. A spokes­woman for the group point­ed out that there were two great lies about fly­ing which need­ed to be chal­lenged. The first is that fly­ing is a small con­trib­u­tor to green house gas­es; the peo­ple who say this rely on fig­ures which don’t include return flights or flights to and from Britain made by for­eign­ers, and ignore the extra dam­age done by emit­ting pol­lu­tants high in the atmos­phere. The oth­er lie is that fly­ing is a com­mon activ­i­ty for ordi­nary peo­ple. Stud­ies clear­ly show that fly­ing is over­whelm­ing­ly an activ­i­ty for the rich to take part in, at great cost to the rest of us. The aver­age income of pas­sen­gers using Stanst­ed — sup­pos­ed­ly Britain’s “low cost” air­port – was recent­ly found to be £48,000!

With­out imme­di­ate action it is like­ly that sum­mer sea ice in the Arc­tic will be total­ly absent with­in 30 to 70 years – this would spell extinc­tion in the wild for the Polar Bear, which relies on sea ice for hunt­ing. The Arc­tic is already one of the fast­ed warm­ing parts of the world.

In the face of the reck­less, crim­i­nal and self­ish actions of a minor­i­ty of peo­ple that threat­en us all, sure­ly the time has come for sane and mod­er­ate peo­ple to stand up and say that enough is enough. The prof­it ter­ror­ists and cli­mate crim­i­nals must stop before they kill us all.

The police rather polite­ly asked who want­ed to be arrest­ed, and five peo­ple decid­ed to attempt to con­tin­ue their impor­tant pub­lic-spir­it­ed work through the courts. The bear went home for tea and bis­cuits.

———–

The text of the bear’s let­ter:

Dear Trav­el Indus­try peo­ple,

Air flights are the fastest grow­ing source of UK car­bon emis­sions, which lead to cli­mate change. When the unique­ly dam­ag­ing effects of emit­ting CO2 at high alti­tude are tak­en into account, the avi­a­tion indus­try already emits the equiv­a­lent of 10–15% of UK car­bon emis­sions, and the lev­el of pol­lu­tion increas­es with every pass­ing year. If avi­a­tion con­tin­ues to expand in line with gov­ern­ment plans to 2030, emis­sions from air­craft will increase by between 156% and 191% from a 2000 base­line. This growth would coun­ter­act CO2 reduc­tions made in oth­er sec­tors of the econ­o­my, and destroy any chance to avoid cat­a­stroph­ic glob­al warm­ing.

With­out urgent action it is like­ly that sum­mer sea ice in the Arc­tic will be total­ly absent with­in 30 to 70 years, and it will not just be us polar bears who feel the effects:-
The addi­tion of melt water to the ocean may have cat­a­stroph­ic con­se­quences for Britain, because it is slow­ing ocean cur­rents that have kept our cli­mate clement for thou­sands of years. Para­dox­i­cal­ly, glob­al warm­ing could make the UK cold­er, by “turn­ing off” the Gulf stream.
A three degree tem­per­a­ture rise over the next cen­tu­ry could lead to the col­lapse of the Green­land ice sheet, ulti­mate­ly result­ing in a 7 metre sea lev­el rise.

It is time for a big change. We are call­ing on you lot to act as respon­si­ble glob­al cit­i­zens by reduc­ing the num­ber of flights you sell, and switch­ing your busi­ness to con­cen­trate on less envi­ron­men­tal­ly dam­ag­ing forms of trans­port such as coach, fer­ry and rail. Instead of cook­ing the plan­et by encour­ag­ing peo­ple to take huge­ly pol­lut­ing long-dis­tance flights, we ask you to put more effort into pro­mot­ing the many attrac­tions of hol­i­days here in the UK.

Thanks for your help and co-oper­a­tion.

Sam Bear

Bath Climate Camp — info and wish list

Between late after­noon on thurs­day 19th of April and sun­day 22nd April, there is going to be a cli­mate camp just out­side of Bath focus­ing on Land and Marines offices (the com­pa­ny build­ing the gas pipeline smash­ing through Wales).

Between late after­noon on thurs­day 19th of April and sun­day 22nd April, there is going to be a cli­mate camp just out­side of Bath focus­ing on Land and Marines offices (the com­pa­ny build­ing the gas pipeline smash­ing through Wales).

The camp is shap­ing up to be a real­ly good event. We have most things up togeth­er such as bands, a veg­an field kitchen, a com­post toi­let, mar­quees etc, but there are a few things we could do with more of includ­ing

- Mate­ri­als for ban­ner mak­ing, car­ni­val props etc
— vegetables/spices/pulses — we have got food sort­ed out, but could always do with some more
— reclaimed wood for fires and con­struc­tion

Most impor­tant­ly, we need peo­ple to attend the camp, as this is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to take the fight over the pipeline to the front door of those build­ing it.

as well as bands, food, work­shops, DIY ses­sions and kids activ­i­ties, we have two demos planned -

*fri­day 20th of April — All day — Shut down Land and Marine — a day of autonomous actions against Land and Marines offices. Wether you want to block­ade, make music, ban­ner drop, leaflet, or any­thing else you can think of, all non vio­lent actions and all non-vio­lent peo­ple are very wel­come!

*Sat­ur­day 21st April — Par­ty against Petrol — Meet at 11 at Bath Cli­mate Camp or 12 at Bath Abbey — A col­or­ful, noisy car­ni­val against car cul­ture and fos­sil fuels, roam­ing around Bath and stop­ping to par­ty and high­light some local cli­mate crim­i­nals!

we hold week­ly plan­ning meet­ings on Thurs­days in the hob­gob­lin (47 st. James Parade) at 7.30 in the down­stairs room, all are wel­come.

For more info, to request posters/booklets etc or to ask any ques­tions, please e‑mail bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk or check out www.myspace.com/bathclimatecamp

See you in the fields!

bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/bathclimatecamp

EXPOSE EXXON DAY 5–6th April

24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ,
5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm Good Fri­day, April 6th.

Mass Action 2.00 pm Fri­day

esso logo 1 subvert24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ,
5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm Good Fri­day, April 6th.

Mass Action 2.00 pm Fri­day

FAT CAT’S PARTY
CLIMATE VICTIMS’ VIGIL

Music, Street The­atre, Work­shops, Speak­ers

Come and tar­get the ulti­mate Glob­al Warm­ing Vil­lain More info on Exxon here.

Exxon HQ is South of Lon­don on the North­ern out­skirts of Leather­head, about 20 min­utes walk from Leather­head Rail­way Sta­tion (45 min­utes by train from Water­loo). See map here or close-up here

Floor­space avail­able overnight (details here): if you would like acco­mo­da­tion overnight for the 5th-6th, it will help to email us at info@campaigncc.org with “OVERNIGHT EXXON” in the sub­ject line. Please indi­cate, also, whether you would like to vol­un­teer for a shift at the overnight vig­il out­side Exxon HQ. A minibus will pick peo­ple up from Exxon HQ on Thurs­day evening and take them to the acco­mo­da­tion (and back in the morn­ing).

Cycle against Exxon : a cycle protest will leave from under Water­loo bridge on the South Bank at 100.am, Fri­day (from there it is 20 miles to join the protest at Exxon­Mo­bil HQ).

»> Draft Sched­ule with more details here.

Local Residents Close Climate Criminal’s Yard

26.3.07 — Today, a group of local res­i­dents, inspired by last year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action at Drax pow­er sta­tion, but dis­mayed at plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1, have vis­it­ed Jack­son’s yard in Sut­ton in Ash­field, near Mans­field. The cit­i­zens locked the gates shut and hung a vari­ety of ban­ners giv­ing the clear mes­sage that Jack­son’s con­tri­bu­tion to a wors­en­ing envi­ron­ment was not wel­come.

A Slack Morning For Jacksons26.3.07 — Today, a group of local res­i­dents, inspired by last year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action at Drax pow­er sta­tion, but dis­mayed at plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1, have vis­it­ed Jack­son’s yard in Sut­ton in Ash­field, near Mans­field. The cit­i­zens locked the gates shut and hung a vari­ety of ban­ners giv­ing the clear mes­sage that Jack­son’s con­tri­bu­tion to a wors­en­ing envi­ron­ment was not wel­come.

Jack­sons are heav­i­ly impli­cat­ed in the ridicu­lous plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1 by widen­ing it into four lanes in each direc­tion — their main focus is the area around junc­tions 31 and 32. Until recent­ly, the yard, on Cox­moor Road, also housed a dodgy Scan­di­na­vian out­fit called Skan­s­ka. These clowns are even deep­er in the mire; in ass­co­ci­a­tion with Bal­for Beat­ie they are engaged in work from the M25 to Luton.

Giv­en that Blair’s gov­ern­ment is thor­ough­ly in the pock­et of big busi­ness, it should be no surpise to any­one that recent­ly, when Roads Min­is­ter Stephen Lady­man was churn­ing out the same old lies about road widen­ing for the Not­ting­ham Evening Post, he repeat­ed almost word for word parts of the Skan­s­ka web­site’s M1 page!

Clear­ly, the sen­si­ble response to traf­fic con­ges­tion would involve invest­ment in pub­lic trans­port and increased use of the rail­ways for frieght. How­ev­er, since these solu­tions are unlike­ly to make much prof­it for Blair’s friends in big busi­ness, we are all left chok­ing on the fumes gen­er­at­ed by a mas­sive­ly expen­sive white ele­phant. The Gov­ern­ment is
giv­ing your mon­ey to cli­mate crim­i­nals and prof­it ter­ror­ists, whilst claim­ing to take cli­mate change seri­ous­ly — the time has come for sane and mod­er­ate peo­ple every­where to take a stand against this mad­ness.

Maybe the Police are start­ing to get the idea too — they turned up, but then went away again, alleged­ly due to a staff short­age.

To get involved in the next Cli­mate Camp, vis­it www.climatecamp.org.uk