Category: Climate Chaos

The Bristol Alliance Against Urban 4x4s celebrated its launch on Saturday

30.01.2007

Cam­paign­ers gath­ered on Col­lege Green, after spend­ing the morn­ing issu­ing over 1,000 mock park­ing tick­ets to 4x4s in areas of cen­tral Bris­tol includ­ing Red­land, Clifton and Broad­mead. The paper tick­ets, which are placed harm­less­ly under the wind­screen wipers of parked vehi­cles, are titled ‘Poor Vehi­cle Choice’ and chal­lenge the need to own and dri­ve a 4x4 vehi­cle in town.

Bristol anti-urban 4x4 launch30.01.2007

Cam­paign­ers gath­ered on Col­lege Green, after spend­ing the morn­ing issu­ing over 1,000 mock park­ing tick­ets to 4x4s in areas of cen­tral Bris­tol includ­ing Red­land, Clifton and Broad­mead. The paper tick­ets, which are placed harm­less­ly under the wind­screen wipers of parked vehi­cles, are titled ‘Poor Vehi­cle Choice’ and chal­lenge the need to own and dri­ve a 4x4 vehi­cle in town.
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The depen­dent media were inter­est­ed in the launch of the cam­paign. HTV shot a TV news item. Mem­bers of the group were inter­viewed by BBC Radio Bris­tol / GWR and Star. Sto­ries appeared in the Bris­tol Evening Post and BBC Online. The Alliance aims to use peace­ful and humor­ous means to raise aware­ness of the prob­lems asso­ci­at­ed with 4x4 usage in cities like Bris­tol, led by con­cerns over road safe­ty, road space and cli­mate change. Although 4x4s are mar­ket­ed as being safer than small­er cars – and many dri­vers buy them on this assump­tion – a series of expert reports warns this is not the case. Euro-NCAP crash tests and acci­dent fig­ures show that the greater weight and height of 4x4s increas­es the risk of rollover and makes them more dan­ger­ous in acci­dents with small­er vehi­cles, cyclists and pedes­tri­ans. The British Med­ical Jour­nal has run arti­cles call­ing for ‘health warn­ings’ on 4x4s due to their increased injury risk, and a recent study in the US found the like­li­hood of a pedes­tri­an fatal­i­ty is near­ly dou­bled in the event of a col­li­sion with a large 4x4 com­pared with a pas­sen­ger car. There is also evi­dence that 4x4s pose extra dan­gers to the dri­vers of oth­er cars – the Trans­port Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry has found that in a crash, the per­son dri­ving a small­er car is 12 times more like­ly to be killed than the per­son in the 4x4. 4x4s also pro­duce far more car­bon diox­ide – the main gas asso­ci­at­ed with cli­mate change – per kilo­me­tre than small­er cars. A large 4x4 such as the Range Rover Dis­cov­ery 4.4 pro­duces 354g CO2/km – more than three times that of a Ford Fies­ta, Peu­geot 206 or Renault Clio (diesel mod­els). TV pre­sen­ter David Atten­bor­ough has said that dri­ving a 4x4 is “moral­ly wrong” and the ener­gy min­is­ter Mal­colm Wicks has crit­i­cised the “crass irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty” of those who dri­ve large 4x4s around the sub­urbs. The Alliance has received offers of help from over 100 Bris­tol res­i­dents so far, and sent out over 3,000 spoof park­ing tick­ets for dis­tri­b­u­tion. On Mon­day we received a huge num­ber of email orders for spoof park­ing tick­ets from con­cerned Bris­tol res­i­dents. Many new mem­bers have joined and are enthu­si­as­tic to start local groups in Red­land and Bish­op­ton. They plan to stage humor­ous direct actions against the 4x4s in Bris­tol that endan­ger the lives of peo­ple and the future of the plan­et. Thanks to every­one who helped organ­ise our suc­cess­ful launch and came to Col­lege Green on Sat­ur­day and thanks to Claire for the inspi­ra­tion.

bristol4x4alliance at yahoo.co.uk for more infor­ma­tion on how you can be part of this cam­paign.

Foe of the 4x4
e‑mail: bristol4x4alliance at yahoo dot co dot uk
Home­page: http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk/

Protests at Irish embassy in London against Shell’s hell in north west Ireland

30.01.2007

At mid­day today, while a sam­ba band played below, a man who wished to be known as “G” climed the Irish embassy. This was in protest over the Irish gov­ern­ments col­lu­sioin with Shel­l’s activ­i­ties in North West Ire­land where they are con­struct­ing a pipeline and refin­ery. Many cam­paign­ers claim this pipeline and refin­ery pose as seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal risk. While there have been wide­spread protests in Ire­land itself many claim that the gov­ern­ment of Ire­land has giv­en Shell sus­pi­cious­ly favourable busi­ness terms on the deal. “G” was arrest­ed for on sus­pi­cion of crim­i­nal dam­age though there was no dam­age vis­i­ble from ground lev­el. For fur­ther details see the cor­po­rate watch web­site.

30.01.2007

At mid­day today, while a sam­ba band played below, a man who wished to be known as “G” climed the Irish embassy. This was in protest over the Irish gov­ern­ments col­lu­sioin with Shel­l’s activ­i­ties in North West Ire­land where they are con­struct­ing a pipeline and refin­ery. Many cam­paign­ers claim this pipeline and refin­ery pose as seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal risk. While there have been wide­spread protests in Ire­land itself many claim that the gov­ern­ment of Ire­land has giv­en Shell sus­pi­cious­ly favourable busi­ness terms on the deal. “G” was arrest­ed for on sus­pi­cion of crim­i­nal dam­age though there was no dam­age vis­i­ble from ground lev­el. For fur­ther details see the cor­po­rate watch web­site.

301007_Irish_Embassy_Shell_Hell — video/x‑ms-wmv 5.4M

Press Release

Today, sup­port­ers for the Anti-Shell Cam­paign took their protest to the Irish Embassy. The action was to tar­get the Irish State; Shell; Sta­toil and Marathon who are attempt­ing to con­struct a dan­ger­ous and exper­i­men­tal onshore raw gas pipeline and refin­ery in Coun­ty Mayo; a beau­ti­ful remote part of North West Ire­land.

There is mas­sive oppo­si­tion to this pro­posed pipeline by the local com­mu­ni­ty, Ire­land and inter­na­tion­al­ly. A cam­paign of direct action against this plan has been ongo­ing since 2005.

The action at the Embassy today is to demon­strate that this pol­lut­ing project will not just affect the area in which it is to be built, but will con­tribute to the ongo­ing organ­ised destruc­tion of the plan­et by Shell. The action is in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple direct­ly affect­ed by this unprece­dent­ed raw gas pipeline, which has been con­demned as pos­ing an unac­cept­able risk to health and safe­ty.

The Irish State active­ly encour­ages the Shell led con­sor­tium – Nor­we­gian owned Sta­toil and U.S. owned Marathon — by facil­i­tat­ing stages of the con­struc­tion project, includ­ing the chang­ing of laws to allow the project go ahead. These com­pa­nies are tax exempt, thus there is no finan­cial ben­e­fit to the Irish peo­ple. Shell are also deploy­ing hun­dreds of police, who dai­ly intim­i­date peo­ple and use vio­lence to deter them, espe­cial­ly at recent demon­stra­tions.

The action at the Embassy today is to show the con­cern which many peo­ple share about the cor­rup­tion and com­plic­i­ty of the Irish Dáil, using its pow­er to sell out the inter­ests of the Irish peo­ple, putting per­son­al prof­it before pub­lic inter­est, safe­ty and health.

New Rising Tide Group Starting Up in Norwich

Tired of watch­ing politi­cians and cor­po­ra­tions screw up the plan­et? Think that end­less eco­nom­ic growth is at the heart of the cli­mate cri­sis? Unin­spired by send­ing £3 to Char­i­ty X, but not sure where to put your ener­gy? Want to help build just, sus­tain­able solu­tions here and now? Then come to the first meet­ing of Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide!

Tired of watch­ing politi­cians and cor­po­ra­tions screw up the plan­et? Think that end­less eco­nom­ic growth is at the heart of the cli­mate cri­sis? Unin­spired by send­ing £3 to Char­i­ty X, but not sure where to put your ener­gy? Want to help build just, sus­tain­able solu­tions here and now? Then come to the first meet­ing of Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide!

Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide — Tak­ing Action to Stop the Fos­sil-Fuelled Mad­ness!

Be part of a nation­al net­work com­mit­ted to tak­ing cre­ative direct action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change, and pro­mot­ing local, com­mu­ni­ty-run solu­tions to our ener­gy needs. For five years, Ris­ing Tide groups around the coun­try have tak­en action to pre­vent air­port expan­sion, end oil com­pa­ny spon­sor­ship of the arts, stop con­struc­tion of dodgy BP and Shell pipelines, start con­struc­tion of urban com­mu­ni­ty gar­dens and much, much more – see www.risingtide.org.uk.

We all know it’s time to act, so come along to kick-start an ener­getic new group that can help bring about the rad­i­cal change that’s need­ed.

First Meet­ing:
When — Tues­day 27th Feb­ru­ary, 7.30 — 9.30pm
Where — The Green­house, 42–46 Bethel Street, Nor­wich, NR2

More Info -
www.risingtide.org.uk/norwich
07961 917535

Be part of a Ris­ing Tide for Cli­mate Action!

norwich@risingtide.org.uk
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/norwich

Some Jan Critical Mass reports — London, Leeds, Manchester (& I Bike Mcr festival)

You nev­er know what the police are going to do next on the Lon­don ride. They clamp down on some things and relax on oth­ers from one month to the next and from one part of the ride to anoth­er. ‘Sham­bol­ic’ is per­haps the word that best describes their behav­iour. They seem at times to behave more like Anar­chists than the rid­ers. You would think with their radios they could at least arrive at some sort of a con­sen­sus. In addi­tion to our usu­al police overkill the For­ward Intel­li­gence Team were also in atten­dance at the South Bank, pok­ing their cam­eras in peo­ple’s faces. All this just because of a bike ride!

You nev­er know what the police are going to do next on the Lon­don ride. They clamp down on some things and relax on oth­ers from one month to the next and from one part of the ride to anoth­er. ‘Sham­bol­ic’ is per­haps the word that best describes their behav­iour. They seem at times to behave more like Anar­chists than the rid­ers. You would think with their radios they could at least arrive at some sort of a con­sen­sus. In addi­tion to our usu­al police overkill the For­ward Intel­li­gence Team were also in atten­dance at the South Bank, pok­ing their cam­eras in peo­ple’s faces. All this just because of a bike ride!

This time the cops decid­ed to get tough with rid­ers with­out lights and those who go through red lights and also with sound sys­tems in the SOCPA zone. Did you know, it is OK for some­one with a car to play their sound sys­tem in the vicin­i­ty or Par­lia­ment but not for a cyclist with a sound sys­tem? How dis­crim­i­na­to­ry is that? Any­way, the cops allowed an extra long ‘bikes high’ stop in Oxford Cir­cus but no stop what­so­ev­er in Pica­dil­ly Cir­cus. Those rid­ers who were pulled for going through red lights are now fac­ing a £30 fine, despite the fact that some cops were actu­al­ly ush­er­ing oth­er rid­ers through red lights!

One of the high­lights of the ride was storm­ing through the Ald­wych under­pass, some­thing the police nor­mal­ly pre­vent. We had a fun time with Bri­an Haw in Par­lia­ment Square, he led the “More bikes less cars!” chants on his mega­phone and seemed in a very good spir­its. The ride split up after that at around 9pm, going off in all direc­tions and leav­ing our yel­low coat­ed ret­inue behind, chin-wag­ging among them­selves.
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk

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Win­dows video ver­sion — video/x‑ms-wmv 8.6M

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45 peo­ple rode around Leeds for just under an hour last night, with no police inter­ven­tions. The largest ride for some years, its hoped that this is the begin­ning of rever­sal in the down­ward trend of recent times.

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crit­i­cal mass man­ches­ter last fri­day and the next one..

Crit­i­cal Mass on Fri­day was absolute­ly amaz­ing. We stood around chat­ting out­side the library for ages just chill­in and social­is­ing and meet­ing the many new­com­ers to the mass. Peo­ple mak­ing the I Bike MCR did some film­ing for part of the film and some­one tak­ing pho­tos for the bicy­cle exhi­bi­tion in March.

Then the 40 or so of us took to the streets, rid­ing around the city cen­tre and down past the sta­tion right down Grosvenor street and onto oxford road where mass­es of stu­dents wait­ing for some gig cheered us as we rode by the union. We rode through Rusholme and then up to With­ing­ton and back , hard­ly any neg­a­tiv­i­ty at all instead we were greet­ed with cheers and friend­ly beeps and waves from car dri­vers and pedes­tri­ans… woooo!
After the ride we all went for a nice cold beer..mmm

Join us on Fri­day 23rd Feb for the next one, which will end at the ram­pant lion on upper brook st/anson rd where we will have our very own cel­e­brate crit­i­cal mass par­ty with bands and dj’s play­ing reg­gae, ska and punk..

email us at: mcrcriticalmass@yahoo.co.uk
be our myspace friend: http://www.myspace.com/mcrcriticalmass
see our web­site: http://velorution.x21.org.uk

Man­ches­ter I bike Mcr fes­ti­val:

From 30th March to 20th April the I Bike MCR fes­ti­val takes place in
Man­ches­ter. It is a grass­roots fes­ti­val organ­ised by cyclists for cyclists
with diverse events that will entice any cyclist. From Bicy­cle Polo
class­es and match­es to All­ey­cat rac­ing to a Bicy­cle Art Exhi­bi­tion,
there’s some­thing for every­one.

Those involved in organ­is­ing the event are cyclists from dif­fer­ent walks
of life includ­ing cycling instruc­tors, dai­ly com­muters, bicy­cle
mes­sen­gers, Crit­i­cal Mass advo­ca­cy group mem­bers and bicy­cle mechan­ics.

Timetable

Fri­day 30th March
6pm Crit­i­cal Mass bike ride, meet at Cen­tral Library to cel­e­brate the
bicy­cle over car cul­ture.

8pm Exhi­bi­tion Open­ing at The Base­ment, 24 Lever St. The open­ing event
will be one to remem­ber and will fea­ture the pre­mier screen­ing of new
Man­ches­ter bicy­cle film “I bike MCR”. We shall also be show­ing oth­er
bicy­cle films and hav­ing a roller race (an indoor bicy­cle race- on
rollers) with lots of prizes to be won! Local acoustic bands will be
per­form­ing includ­ing the amaz­ing Coop­er Jones and Dr But­ler’s Hat­stand
Med­i­cine Band

Sat­ur­day 31st March
1pm Platt Fields Park Bicy­cle Polo class. Oxford bicy­cle polo team are
com­ing to teach us how to play the sport. Please email to reserve a place.
(they return 2 weeks lat­er to play a match: Man­ches­ter vs Oxford)

Sun­day 1st April
2pm Cen­tral Library April Fools Day Bicy­cle Trea­sure Hunt. A fun trea­sure
hunt around our city.

Wednes­day 4th April
Moon­light Pub Ride Start 7pm Sand­bar, Grosvenor St (off Oxford Road/opp.
All Saints Park. A night ride out and around the out­skirts of Man­ches­ter
stop­ping off at some love­ly pubs for a drink on the way.

Fri­day 13th April
Hell Of The North West All­ey­cat
Fix­ies and road­ragers ride the all­ey­cat for a fast race round our city. £5
entry, amaz­ing prizes to be won. with some donat­ed by the won­der­ous Twin
Six and Keirin Cul­ture
Email to reg­is­ter

Alleykit­ten
Shop­pers, bmx’s and sil­ly bikes ride alleykit­ten for a ran­dom race full of
games and non­sense round our city cen­tre. £5 entry, amaz­ing prizes to be
won. Email to reg­is­ter

Sat­ur­day 14th April
1pm Platt Fields Park Bicy­cle Polo Match: Man­ches­ter vs Oxford.

For more infor­ma­tion see the web­site: www.ibikemcr.org.uk or email
info@ibikemcr.org.uk

Protests continue at Trebanos

26.01.2007

At 2.00 pm today a group of cam­paign­ers against the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline forced work to stop yet again on the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos.

Pipe protest on footpath26.01.2007

At 2.00 pm today a group of cam­paign­ers against the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline forced work to stop yet again on the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos.

Cam­paign­ers occu­pied a foot­path run­ning through the site. They argued that the foot­path had been closed ille­gal­ly because the required sev­en days noti­fi­ca­tion had not been giv­en. Even local res­i­dents had not been informed of the clo­sure.

Ini­tial­ly, the police tried to stop pro­tes­tors gain­ing access to the foot­path, how­ev­er, they had to admit that they were uncer­tain of the legal­i­ty of the path clo­sure.

Pri­or to today’s action, work on the con­struc­tion site had been stopped for three weeks by cam­paign­ers occu­py­ing the foot­path. Resis­tance to the pipeline is grow­ing, with protest sites and actions against the pipeline increas­ing dai­ly. The lat­est direct action site is a tree camp in Bre­con occu­py­ing the route of the pipeline.

Come to Wales and be on the front­line of Britain’s eco-defence!

Con­tact Rachael (Tre­banos): 01792 830417
Bre­con Tree Camp: 07903152822

Hell at Shell petrol Stations: London blockade

Report 1 — On the evening of the 24th Jan­u­ary two Shell petrol sta­tions in north Lon­don were block­ad­ed by activists who are con­cerned over Shel­l’s aggres­sive busi­ness prac­tices and poor human rights record.

Report 1 — On the evening of the 24th Jan­u­ary two Shell petrol sta­tions in north Lon­don were block­ad­ed by activists who are con­cerned over Shel­l’s aggres­sive busi­ness prac­tices and poor human rights record.

For more details of Shells record see:

www.shelltosea.com
www.shellfacts.com
www.corporatewatch.com
www.artnotoil.org.uk

The non-vio­lent actions took place at Shell sta­tions on Hol­loway Road and Upper Street in north Lon­don. No arrests were made. How­ev­er some motorist became aggres­sive, made threats and insult­ed block­aders. The police did not over react and one offi­cer made the com­ment “sup­pose we can look this up on the usu­al web­site can we?” Here it is offi­cers.

After the last action at the sta­tion on Hol­loway Road one very friend­ly black cab dri­ver con­grat­u­lat­ed block­aders and asked for pub­lic­i­ty cards to hand out to his pas­sangers. Thank for your sup­port mate.

240107_Shell_Hell_WMV — video/x‑ms-wmv 18M

Report 2 — On 24th Jan­u­ary Lon­don Ris­ing Tide once again helped their friends at Rhythms of Resis­tance Sam­ba Band and oth­ers keep Shell aware that the cam­paign to pre­vent the dam­ag­ing high pres­sure gas pipeline and refin­ery near Ross­port in Coun­ty Mayo, Ire­land is still rolling.

…and rolling is what it was, with even a bit of rock­ing. We tried the new tac­tic with mea­sured suc­cess of short spells at a series of North Lon­don Shell garages blockad­ing the entrance and exits with band, ban­ners and ban­danas (there was also men­tion of bananas when it came to irate dri­vers).

Hol­loway Road was the first stop where hav­ing set up and told the gas guz­zlers on the fore­court that we were not block­ing them in, one of them decid­ed to dri­ve at us from behind. Hav­ing stepped back just in time, bang­ing the win­dow as it surged past, the dri­ver got out of her 4 x 4 (fun­ny that, it always seems to be) and vio­lent­ly threat­ened to do unspeak­able things to us as indi­vid­u­als from about 2 inch­es away. More fos­sil fuelled dri­ver luna­cy fol­lowed and we decid­ed to get rolling to the next garage when push­ing came to pull us away as plod were sum­moned.

On arriv­ing at the famil­iar ter­ri­to­ry of the Shell Upper Street garage we kit­ted up and last­ed a bit longer, even turn­ing away petrol thirsty black cab dri­vers, before more vio­lence threat­en­ing behav­iour from peo­ple block­ad­ed out. The thin line of Sam­ba resist­ed and held out as we turned away the ubiq­ui­tous Isling­ton SUVs. The usu­al sup­port from the Fire Brigade was good for keep­ing up our spir­its.

After that it was back to Hol­loway Rd with less abuse but more plod and we retired to the pub when they called for back-up since the final whis­tle of the Spurs v Arse­nal game was about to be blown along with plod’s patience.

On reflec­tion over out stout we agreed it was des­per­ate­ly sad that such anger of par­tic­u­lar­ly 4 x 4 dri­vers only had the unhealthy out­let of threat­en­ing us. Espe­cial­ly when Shell’s sta­tu­spher­ic dis­re­gard of the planet’s atmos­phere and the atmos­phere of liv­ing in Mayo, Ogo­ni­land or Sakhalin seemed a bet­ter place to vent their frus­tra­tion.

Gaspipe protest in Trebanos comes to an end

25.01.2007

Today the foot­path in Tre­banos has been closed, despite res­i­dents reciev­ing next to no noti­fi­ca­tion. Legal­ly Nation­al Grid had the right to close the foot­path tomor­row (fri­day 26th) but notic­ing a reduc­tion in num­bers the foot­path was sealed off today.

25.01.2007

Today the foot­path in Tre­banos has been closed, despite res­i­dents reciev­ing next to no noti­fi­ca­tion. Legal­ly Nation­al Grid had the right to close the foot­path tomor­row (fri­day 26th) but notic­ing a reduc­tion in num­bers the foot­path was sealed off today.

Despite hav­ing the equip­ment to prop­er­ly resist an evic­tion the activists decid­ed that they’d “made their point and it was time to move on”. Well actu­al­ly there was no need to risk arrest when we have anoth­er 115 miles of pipe to protest against.

The protest con­tin­ues, here in Tre­banos, Cil­frew, at the new tree-site in Bre­con, and every­where else along route, where local peo­ple are sud­den­ly becom­ing rad­i­calised and small actions are pop­ping up all over the place.

Radley lakes — eviction imminent — update 29th jan

Urgent call for help in Oxford­shire, where activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of cheap import­ed coal at the near­by NPow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

Radley Lakes squat
Urgent call for help in Oxford­shire, where activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of cheap import­ed coal at the near­by NPow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

The lakes are unusu­al in their clar­i­ty and the area con­tains local and nation­al rare and threat­ened species, with 115 species of birds record­ed and over1000 trees sur­round­ing the lake which will be felled. How­ev­er this has been ignored by pow­er com­pa­ny RWE npow­er, and has been rail-road­ed through by Oxford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil.

The lake con­tains sev­er­al pro­tect­ed species, includ­ing a pos­si­ble sight­ing of otters, and despite a report paid for by local peo­ple con­firm­ing all this the local gov­ern­ment big­wigs have giv­en per­mis­sion for N Pow­er to fill the lake with fly­ash from Did­cot pow­er sta­tion, killing every­thing in the process. They have already been allowed to do this to 3 oth­er lakes in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty. The local coun­ty ecol­o­gist has dis­missed the report, despite a long term cam­paign and evi­dence from anoth­er ecol­o­gist prov­ing the lake is a wildlife haven. The whole thing stinks.

Please, please if you are free this week, (or even bet­ter, right now), get down there, lock on, and make sure they have a fight on their hands. The baliffs are due any minute and more peo­ple are des­per­ate­ly need­ed.

Get off the train at Oxford, then catch train to Radley, takes about 10 mins, then anoth­er 10/15 minute walk. For more info call the site mobile on: 07772055384.

TAT NEEDED!
PolyProp, air horns/ rape alarms, cement, aggre­gate, etc, BOATS (dingy/inflatables etc — lake­wor­thy!) bed­ding & PEOPLE! — even if you can just spare a day to help out with build­ing defences is is much need­ed and appre­ci­at­ed.
Thanks

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24.01.2007 — Npow­er have been grant­ed imme­di­ate pos­s­e­sion of San­dles, the squat­ted field cen­tre at Radley lakes. A call out to any­one to come down and bring cake and lock on tubes!
Call the site mobile 0777 2055 384
www.saveradleylakes.org.uk for more info on the npow­er plans to destroy this beau­ti­ful area

Welsh pipeline protest — New tree camp set up near Brecon

22.01.2007

Fol­low­ing sup­port from local peo­ple in Bre­con at the week­end, a new protest camp has been set up right in the mid­dle of the phase two route of Nation­al Grids con­tro­ver­sial pipeline.

22.01.2007

Fol­low­ing sup­port from local peo­ple in Bre­con at the week­end, a new protest camp has been set up right in the mid­dle of the phase two route of Nation­al Grids con­tro­ver­sial pipeline.

The protest camp is up in the trees in ancient wood­land 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church.It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525.
The ancient wood­land is sched­uled for dec­i­ma­tion by Nation­al Grid to clear a path for the 48″ high pres­sure gas pipeline. The pro­test­ers aim to stop the destruc­tion of yet more ancient wood­land by Nation­al Grid and it’s con­trac­tors.

There are over 15 peo­ple on site at the moment and they are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, food, water, warm clothes and bed­ding, camp­ing and cook­ing gear, wood, rope, nails, etc etc etc. They would also like any peo­ple inter­est­ed to join them and show sol­i­dar­i­ty in this bat­tle to save our envi­ron­ment.
Map link

Sto­ries about recent stalls & sam­ba in Clydach Indoor Mar­ket and Bre­con

Critical Masses This Friday (& others)

This is the first crit­i­cal mass of 2007. Lets start as we mean to go on and make it a big one!

We cycle round the city to cel­e­brate the bicy­cle:
It’s for any­one that rides a bike;
Its a cel­e­bra­tion of get­ting round the city with­out pol­lut­ing it;

This is the first crit­i­cal mass of 2007. Lets start as we mean to go on and make it a big one!

We cycle round the city to cel­e­brate the bicy­cle:
It’s for any­one that rides a bike;
Its a cel­e­bra­tion of get­ting round the city with­out pol­lut­ing it;
Its about every jour­ney being an adven­ture instead of just sit­ting on a bor­ing bus or in a stress­ful car;
Its about cyclists rid­ing togeth­er to demand more respect from oth­er road users;
Its a way to meet oth­er cyclis­tas;
At rough­ly the same time on Fri­day hun­dreds of cities around the world do the same thing…all get togeth­er for crit­i­cal mass. its beau­ti­ful to know that as you ride with your mates through your own city that all around the world thou­sands of peo­ple are doing the same thing…

Rides in the UK this Fri­day include:
* Brighton — Gath­er 18:00 at the Lev­el (BN2 3FX)
* Cam­bridge — Maybe gath­er 18:30 Cam­bridge Mar­ket Square
* Leeds (This mon­th’s call­out) — Gath­er 17:30–18:00 Mil­le­ni­um Square
* Lon­don — Gath­er 18:30 Water­loo Bridge, by the Nation­al Film The­atre
* Man­ches­ter (videos of pre­vi­ous rides) — Gath­er 18:00 Cen­tral Library
* Not­ting­ham — Gath­er 17:30 Savoy cin­e­ma on Der­by Road in Lenton
* Oxford — Gath­er 17:45–18:00 Corn­mar­ket end of Broad Street out­side The Oxford Sto­ry
* Read­ing — Gath­er 17:30, Read­ing Town Hall

Please leave a com­ment if your ride has been left off (or is incor­rect).
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York Crit­i­cal Mass

In order not to clash with oth­er rides in the vicin­i­ty, York Crit­i­cal Mass is on the first Fri­day of every month mean­ing that the next ride is next Fri­day on 2nd Feb­ru­ary. Assem­ble at 5pm out­side Cost­cut­ters at the Uni­ver­si­ty or 5:30pm out­side York Min­ster. See you there!

Birm­ing­ham Crit­i­cal Mass: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 2nd

Brum’s crit­i­cal mass is also on the first fri­day of the month, Fri­day 2nd Feb­ru­ary.
We meet up at Pigeon Park (St. Philip’s Cathe­dral) at 5:30pm and set off at 6pm.
The rides are get­ting more pop­u­lar and more cre­ative. There’s now a mobile soundsys­tem and for win­ter crit­i­cal mass’ rid­ers bring along fairy lights to illu­mi­nate the ride.
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Glas­gow CM

This Fri­day at 5:30, George Square.
http://www.citystrolls.com/strolls/pages/critical.htm
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For list of UK rides & links, see also http://criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Critical_Mass_rides#United_Kingdom