Category: Climate Chaos

Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011

This year’s Earth First Sum­mer Gath­er­ing takes place in East Anglia this year, start­ing on the 10th of August and run­ning for five days. With six work­shops tents we have space for over 100 dis­cus­sions, pre­sen­ta­tions and work­shops. The spaces are fill­ing up fast, but there is still time to book a spot.

This year’s Earth First Sum­mer Gath­er­ing takes place in East Anglia this year, start­ing on the 10th of August and run­ning for five days. With six work­shops tents we have space for over 100 dis­cus­sions, pre­sen­ta­tions and work­shops. The spaces are fill­ing up fast, but there is still time to book a spot. So if you’ve got an idea you wish to high­light, whether it’s relat­ed to eco­log­i­cal defence or social resis­tance here is your chance. The gath­er­ing is attend­ed by hun­dreds of indi­vid­u­als inter­est­ed and par­tic­i­pat­ing in strug­gles around the UK and Europe.

To get in touch just email efsummergathering2011announce@riseup.net with a blurb of for you work­shop or dis­cus­sion and we’ll do our best to fit you in.

For month­ly email updates for the gath­er­ing sub­scribe to efsummergathering@lists.riseup.net

Rossport Direct Action Training Weekend — 25–26 June

Come up for a week­end of direct action train­ing, meet the com­mu­ni­ty and see this incred­i­ble place.

If you came up for the Par­ty Against the Pipe fes­ti­val, this is a great chance to get more involved in the cam­paign.

Come up for a week­end of direct action train­ing, meet the com­mu­ni­ty and see this incred­i­ble place.

If you came up for the Par­ty Against the Pipe fes­ti­val, this is a great chance to get more involved in the cam­paign.

If you have ever want­ed to take action and be part of the cam­paign, the time is now! All wel­come, open to com­plete begin­ners-no expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary. Please try to arrive by the evening of Fri­day 24th if pos­si­ble.

We are run­ning direct action train­ings here and around the coun­try for peo­ple who want to take part in safe and effec­tive protests. The train­ing is aimed at com­plete begin­ners, cov­er­ing your legal rights and dif­fer­ent meth­ods of protest­ing.

Get in touch if you would like us to give a direct action work­shop in your area.

Food will be cooked com­mu­nal­ly, dona­tions wel­come.

Accom­mo­da­tion is avail­able in the camp house or book in to the love­ly Kil­com­mon lodge hos­tel http://www.kilcommonlodge.ie

The Shell to Sea cam­paign has suc­cess­ful­ly used direct action for the last 11 years to frus­trate, delay and try to stop Shel­l’s destruc­tive project. We take direct action because the Gov­ern­ment has failed us and the author­i­ties that are sup­posed to pro­tect com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment have refused to act. So we have no choice but to pro­tect it our­selves. We also take action to inspire oth­er com­mu­ni­ties to do the same. Whether it’s stop­ping Shell ille­gal­ly drilling in a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion or block­ing the trucks car­ry­ing build­ing mate­ri­als for this exper­i­men­tal and dan­ger­ous project, using direct action works! So come along & get pre­pared…

Shel­l’s Cor­rib Gas Project is already decade late and 3 times over bud­get — impres­sive for a rur­al com­mu­ni­ty fight­ing one of the biggest multi­na­tion­als in the world!

There is a huge glob­al his­to­ry of direct action cam­paigns. Mar­tin Luther King and Gand­hi sym­bol­ise the most well known cam­paigns but there have been thou­sands of suc­cess­ful direct action cam­paigns in our his­to­ry. Direct action was used dur­ing the anti-war cam­paign at Shan­non air­port, in the civ­il rights march­es, dur­ing the amaz­ing anti-nuclear cam­paign at Can­sore Point and also to kick out dirty indus­tries such as Raytheon, Mer­rell Dow and Raybestos Man­hat­tan.

The Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp has guide­lines which state that all actions must be agreed by con­sen­sus at the camp. Direct action is used in par­al­lel with oth­er cam­paign­ing tools such as engag­ing in the plan­ning process, lob­by­ing, pub­lic meet­ings and tak­ing legal chal­lenges against Shell.

As Fred­er­ick Dou­glass, the US abo­li­tion­ist ora­tor said in 1857: “If there is no strug­gle there is no progress. Those who pro­fess to favor free­dom and yet depre­ci­ate agitation…want crops with­out plow­ing up the ground, they want rain with­out thun­der and light­en­ing. They want the ocean with­out the awful roar of its many waters…. Pow­er con­cedes noth­ing with­out a demand. It nev­er did and it nev­er will.”

http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org/content/direct-action-training-weekend-25–26th-june

Indigenous groups lead blockade against gas hub in Australia

13.6.11
More than 70 pro­test­ers are still block­ing the main access road to the site of Woodside’s pro­posed LNG precinct at James Price Point, 60km north of Broome.

A con­voy of Wood­side con­trac­tors has returned to Broome and no work will be car­ried out today, The West Aus­tralian under­stands.

13.6.11
More than 70 pro­test­ers are still block­ing the main access road to the site of Woodside’s pro­posed LNG precinct at James Price Point, 60km north of Broome.

A con­voy of Wood­side con­trac­tors has returned to Broome and no work will be car­ried out today, The West Aus­tralian under­stands.

A new block­ade was set up on the cor­ner of the Man­ari Road, clos­er to the Broome town site, pre­vent­ing con­trac­tors’ access since 5am today.

The pro­test­ers have blocked the road, which leads to Broome’s icon­ic Willie Creek Pearl Farm, but are allow­ing vehi­cles not asso­ci­at­ed with land clear­ing at James Price Point through the block­ade.

Sev­er­al local indige­nous women have been lead­ing the block­ade and are refus­ing to allow vehi­cles down the road.

Janet and Rowe­na Puer­tol­lano said Wood­side and the WA Gov­ern­ment should be con­sult­ing the entire Broome and Kim­ber­ley com­mu­ni­ty about the gas precinct, and not just the Goolarabooloo/Jabbir Jab­bir tra­di­tion­al own­ers of the area.

Both women say they are descen­dants of Jab­bir Jab­bir peo­ple, but were not allowed to vote in the recent bal­lot which approved the devel­op­ment in exchange for $1.5 bil­lion in ben­e­fits over the life of the project.

Janet Puer­tol­lano said that if her fam­i­ly had been includ­ed in the group it would have changed the out­come.

Last week for­mer Kim­ber­ley Land Coun­cil exec­u­tive direc­tor Wayne Bergmann con­demned the pro­test­ers for their “hooli­gan tac­tics” dur­ing the week.

The Kim­ber­ley Land Coun­cil and Wood­side have been con­tact­ed for com­ment.

Shell compound occupied for 9 hours – third action in two days

10th June 2011

10th June 2011
Wednes­day and Thurs­day saw a seri­ous of occu­pa­tions and actions against the drilling com­pound at Aghoos in Mayo as part of the ongo­ing cam­paign against Shell. The events cul­mi­nat­ed in an eight-hour lock-on and a nine hour occu­pa­tion of machin­ery which stopped all work for the day. Over thir­ty peo­ple were involved in the events. UK and oth­er inter­na­tion­al cam­paign­ers joined Irish activist as part of the days of action.

Shell com­pound occu­pied for 9 hours – third action in two days

Yes­ter­day, thir­ty activists, includ­ing an inter­na­tion­al pres­ence, took the Shell com­pound at Augh­oose where they are doing prepa­ra­tion work for the con­tro­ver­sial pipeline that will run high pres­sure gas through com­mu­ni­ties in North West­ern Ire­land. Three indi­vid­u­als man­aged to make it onto machin­ery while oth­ers closed the main gain with a lock-on. The result was no work done for the entire day. Five peo­ple were arrest­ed, all of whom are now released though some have been charged.

The action was done from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp which cur­rent­ly occu­pies a field on the oth­er side of the road from where Shell are work­ing. Plan­ning start­ed the night before, peo­ple want­i­ng to build on the reg­u­lar actions that have been tak­ing place over the last few months since the camp has been in place.

On Wednes­day, there had been anoth­er, short­er occu­pa­tion of the site dur­ing the day. How­ev­er, in the won­der­ful way these things hap­pen, a sec­ond vis­it to the site to do recon­nais­sance for Thurs­day’s protest turned into an action in its own right…

So, Thurs­day, 7.30am – a large group of peo­ple move across the field to the road and begin breach­ing the com­pound at numer­ous places. They found a large, frankly scary look­ing lock-on dropped off in front of the main gates, despite the pres­ence of fif­teen secu­ri­ty guards from IRMS try­ing to secure the access. Two peo­ple, “Bread” & “Jam” prompt­ly made use of this gift to attach them­selves to it.

Peo­ple swarmed every­where, mak­ing good use of their access as secu­ri­ty locked them­selves down in their cen­tral com­pound behind lines of har­ris fenc­ing, though that was no obsta­cle. Indeed, the only work that Shell did today was build­ing a sor­ry pile of man­gled fences.

Numer­ous peo­ple made it through the lines of guards to occu­py var­i­ous machin­ery and struc­tures, includ­ing the roof of the por­tak­abins. Three clam­bered onto the drilling and dig­ging machin­ery that the days’ work would have depend­ed on. Of these, one was lied to about not being arrest­ed on com­ing down so oth­er two, who were on the sam­pling drill and the large dig­ger, remained there for the next nine hours. By that time vic­to­ry was clear­ly in the hand of the pro­test­ers and they came down of their own accord.

In all this exu­ber­ance, all bar one of the win­dows of the house Shell own down the road decid­ed to shat­ter in sol­i­dar­i­ty.

Mean­while, back at the main road, the campers pro­vid­ed sup­port to those locked-on. Police blocked off the road. The cut­ting team turned up at 10.15am and after a lot of head-scratch­ing start­ed cut­ting at 11am. The god of lock-on’s had pro­vid­ed them a fair headache and it took anoth­er four hours before they man­aged to extract Jam. By the time that Bread was cut-out the lock-on had been in place for eight hours.

All five peo­ple arrest­ed were tak­en to Bel­mul­let Gar­dai sta­tion. The two who were locked on were charged with not fol­low­ing police instruc­tions and for obstruc­tion. The oth­er three who were on the machin­ery were let go with­out charge for that, though one was sub­se­quent­ly re-arrest­ed for a pre­vi­ous action. Sup­port will con­tin­ue.

In all, a fan­tas­tic day out, espe­cial­ly with the rain hold­ing off until the action was over.

For more infor­ma­tion on the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp and the cam­paign against Shell see
www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org

Protestor stops coal train in Australia

9.6.11
A Green­peace activist had halt­ed a Hunter Val­ley coal train by bolt­ing a steel box to the lines and lock­ing him­self inside.

The bright yel­low met­al box which is paint­ed with “pol­lu­tion tax col­lec­tion point” con­tains Green­peace activist Erland How­den, the ABC reports.

9.6.11
A Green­peace activist had halt­ed a Hunter Val­ley coal train by bolt­ing a steel box to the lines and lock­ing him­self inside.

The bright yel­low met­al box which is paint­ed with “pol­lu­tion tax col­lec­tion point” con­tains Green­peace activist Erland How­den, the ABC reports.

The box stopped a coal train leav­ing BHP Billiton’s Mt Arthur coal mine, which man­aged to halt just 70 metres before it.

The box mea­sures 1.5 metres by 2.5 metres and is bolt­ed to rail line from the inside.

Accord­ing to the ABC, How­den said he is ready to stay inside the box for the next three days.

The move is part of a wider Green­peace protest against min­ing indus­try attempts to halt the car­bon tax. Pro­mo video

Do You Remember Fairmile?

Join the Silent Vic­to­ries Bike Ride.

Silent Vic­to­ries is a free 10 day long bike ride around the South West of Eng­land from the 1st ‑10th July that will vis­it places saved by direct action and analyse wider polit­i­cal ques­tions around what makes social change.

Join the Silent Vic­to­ries Bike Ride.

Silent Vic­to­ries is a free 10 day long bike ride around the South West of Eng­land from the 1st ‑10th July that will vis­it places saved by direct action and analyse wider polit­i­cal ques­tions around what makes social change.

The ride is pass­ing the site of the Fair­mile Road protest against the com­ple­tion of the A30. Were you there? We are par­tic­u­lar­ly look­ing for peo­ple with mem­o­ries of the A30 protests to join the ride and share mem­o­ries, reflec­tions and learn­ing.

On the ride we will:
— vis­it beau­ti­ful places in fine com­pa­ny,
— learn from com­mu­ni­ties that have suc­cess­ful­ly pro­tect­ed their area from destruc­tion
— sup­port ongo­ing cam­paigns
— inves­ti­gate alter­na­tives spaces
— dis­cuss issues and learn from each oth­er
— go swim­ming and eat lots of veg­an food

All wel­come, to learn, teach, share and take action.

To sign up to par­tic­i­pate please con­tact: silent.victories@gmail.com

Coal protesters show solidarity with the people of South Mongolia, and stand against China’s crackdown on freedom of expression

Today, 30th May 2011, a small group of anti-coal pro­test­ers ral­lied to a call out by South Mon­go­lian human rights activists for glob­al protest [1] and held a short vig­il out­side the Chi­nese Con­sulate in Edin­burgh.

Today, 30th May 2011, a small group of anti-coal pro­test­ers ral­lied to a call out by South Mon­go­lian human rights activists for glob­al protest [1] and held a short vig­il out­side the Chi­nese Con­sulate in Edin­burgh. This comes at the end of a month of protests in Mon­go­lia against the Chi­nese coal indus­tries destruc­tion of Mon­go­lian herders land in which two peo­ple have been killed. One was a Mon­go­lian herder and local anti-coal activist, Mer­gen, who was delib­er­ate­ly run over by by a coal truck while try­ing to stop it from tak­ing short cuts across herders land on the 10th of May. Accord­ing to the Guardian anoth­er pro­test­er was killed four days lat­er [2].

These protests have rat­tled the Chi­nese state, which has respond­ed with bru­tal crack-downs, and total cen­sor­ship. Cities in South Mon­go­lia are awash with para-mil­i­tary police and intense sur­veil­lance as areas are placed under Mar­tial Law [3]. Inter­net a phone com­mu­ni­ca­tion has been shut down. This is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the repres­sion of peo­ple who dare to stand up for the rights of Mon­go­lians. One case of par­tic­u­lar con­cern to the South Mon­go­lia Human Rights Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre is that of Mr Hada and his fam­i­ly [4].

The Inner Mon­go­lia Autonomous Region (IMAR) has been hit hard dur­ing what one human rights organ­i­sa­tion is call­ing the “coal rush.” Last year IMAR’s coal exports exceed­ed 700 mil­lion tons, with an esti­mat­ed 732.3 bil­lion tons of coal reserves still under the ground. This extrac­tion has come at the expense of the local pop­u­la­tion and envi­ron­ment. The Mon­go­lian peo­ple who have herd­ed live­stock on the land for gen­er­a­tions are now being thrown from their land and Chi­nese coal cor­po­ra­tions are mov­ing in to dig up the coal. Dur­ing the extrac­tion con­voys of coal trucks have been tak­ing short cuts through herders land, destroy­ing fences and live­stock. Bayagu­ut, a South­ern Mon­go­lian cyber dis­si­dent, said “this real­ly is a three-dimen­sion­al attack on us by the Chi­nese: they have destroyed our land, pol­lut­ed our air, and now dig­ging up what we have below ground. What we will be left with is a bar­ren land unin­hab­it­able to human beings.” [5]

The protest in Edin­burgh was held at mid­day and the group held plac­ards with slo­gans such as “End Chi­na’s Coal Rush” “Jus­tice For Mer­gen Killed By The Coal Indus­try” and “Stop The Killings In South­ern Mon­go­lia!” One also called for the release of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers in Mon­go­lia. The protest was organ­ised at short notice by peo­ple from Coal Action Scot­land, a group which takes direct action and works with com­mu­ni­ties fac­ing the coal indus­try in Scot­land.

Luke Dou­glas, who attend­ed the protest, said “It’s real­ly impor­tant to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of South­ern Mon­go­lia, and to show the Chi­nese state that there are peo­ple out­side of Mon­go­lia and out­side of their con­trol who are watch­ing what’s going on. The bru­tal repres­sion of the herders and stu­dents protest­ing is despi­ca­ble. Peo­ple should not be impris­oned just for call­ing for human rights and cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal free­dom. I am inspired by the brav­ery by the peo­ple protest­ing in South­ern Mon­go­lia, and hope that today’s protest helps them in some way.”

Tam­my Price added “I’ve worked with com­mu­ni­ties in Scot­land who have been affect­ed by the Coal indus­try. The health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of the open casts, plus the dis­rup­tion caused by the trans­port of the coal, are dev­as­tat­ing. It’s impor­tant to have a glob­al per­spec­tive on coal as an issue, as it is one that affects peo­ple all across the world. As well as peo­ple in Scot­land, we have pre­vi­ous­ly heard from those in Indone­sia [6], Colum­bia [7] and the US [8] fight­ing against the Coal indus­try. The coal indus­try glob­al­ly is respon­si­ble for envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion, human rights abus­es, cor­rup­tion and colo­nial­ism on a scale dif­fi­cult to fath­om until you start mak­ing these links between peo­ple affect­ed on a glob­al scale.”

Coal Action Scot­land

media@coalactionscotland.org.uk

1. http://www.smhric.org/news_384.htm

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/30/mongolia-protests-communist-party-crackdown

3. http://www.smhric.org/news_385.htm

4. http://www.smhric.org/Hada/Hada.htm

5 http://www.smhric.org/news_376.htm

6 http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2197

7 http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=1433

8 http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=2553

Inner Mongolians protest against Coal extraction

May 28, 2011

Chi­na: Inner Mon­go­lia: street protests against Chi­nese abus­es

Bei­jing – Protests are spread­ing in Inner Mon­go­lia, as demon­stra­tions spread fol­low­ing the death of two local herder lead­ers opposed to envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion due to coal min­ing.

Yes­ter­days, protests were held in two towns in Inner Mon­go­lia, the South­ern Mon­go­lian Human Rights Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre (SMHRIC) said.

May 28, 2011

Chi­na: Inner Mon­go­lia: street protests against Chi­nese abus­es

Bei­jing – Protests are spread­ing in Inner Mon­go­lia, as demon­stra­tions spread fol­low­ing the death of two local herder lead­ers opposed to envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion due to coal min­ing.

Yes­ter­days, protests were held in two towns in Inner Mon­go­lia, the South­ern Mon­go­lian Human Rights Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre (SMHRIC) said.

It has been dif­fi­cult for the for­eign press to reach the area, but pic­tures were sur­faced online show­ing hun­dreds of pro­test­ers march­ing through the coun­ty seats of Huveet Shar Ban­ner (coun­ty) and Left Ujum­chin Ban­ner.

The pro­test­ers car­ried ban­ners bear­ing Mon­go­lian slo­gans includ­ing ‘defend the rights of Mon­gols’ and ‘defend the home­land.’

Six more protests are planned in oth­er areas of Inner Mon­go­lia from Fri­day to 2 June, SMHRIC said. Using online social net­work­ing, Mon­go­lians were invit­ed to fur­ther gath­er­ings in Alshaan Left Ban­ner on Fri­day, Ordos City on Sat­ur­day, and Tongliao on Sun­day.

Protest first broke out on Mon­day in Xil­in­hot, the admin­is­tra­tive cen­tre of Xilin-Gol, when hun­dreds of eth­nic Mon­go­lians gath­ered in from of a gov­ern­ment build­ing after a Mon­go­lian herder leader was killed by a coal hauler dri­ven by eth­nic Han Chi­nese. Mer­gen, that is the herder leader’s name, was try­ing to stop coal-haul­ing lor­ries from tak­ing a short­cut across frag­ile graz­ing land

Pho­tos show­ing his body were post­ed online. They show his head, crushed under the wheels of a 100-tonne coal hauler dri­ven by two Han Chi­nese dri­vers on 10 May, and his body, dragged by the lor­ry for 150 metres.

On Tues­day, more than 2,000 peo­ple, most­ly stu­dents, took to the streets in protest, demand­ing Chi­nese author­i­ties respect the rights of Mon­go­lian herders to their land and lifestyle.

Indige­nous Mon­go­lians have com­plained for a while that Chi­na is only inter­est­ed in the region’s min­er­al resources, espe­cial­ly coal. For them, min­ing and indus­tri­al devel­op­ment is destroy­ing graz­ing land, under­min­ing the tra­di­tion­al herd­ing econ­o­my, already under stress from expand­ing deser­ti­fi­ca­tion and lack of rain.

Shen Wenyin, deputy chief of the Xilin­gol League gov­ern­ment, said on Tues­day night that the two Han Chi­nese dri­vers, Li Lin­dong and Lu Xiang­dong, had been arrest­ed by police. He did not com­ment the protest.

He did how­ev­er con­firm that res­i­dents in the Abag min­ing area tried to stop oper­a­tions at a near­by coal mine on 14 May because of noise, dust and water pol­lu­tion.

One of the pro­test­ers, Yan Wen­long, 22, was killed when Sun Shun­ing, a work­er, drove a fork­lift truck into Yan’s car. Sun was arrest­ed for inten­tion­al homi­cide. Offi­cial sources said that the mine stopped oper­a­tions.

The wave of protests is increas­ing­ly tak­ing on an eth­nic con­no­ta­tion as indige­nous Mon­go­lians resent dom­i­na­tion by eth­nic Han Chi­nese who have become the largest eth­nic group in Inner Mon­go­lia, fol­low­ing a delib­er­ate immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy pur­sued by Bei­jing that includes tax and finan­cial breaks as well as oth­er advan­tages.

Eth­nic Mon­go­lians now num­ber only 6 mil­lion out of 23 mil­lion peo­ple in the province, a minor­i­ty in their native land.

Experts note that the sit­u­a­tion remained calm until recent­ly. Things began to change when large-scale envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion began to threat­en the local herd­ing econ­o­my. Action by eth­nic Mon­go­lian groups based abroad has also played a role.

From Sig­nal­fire

http://signalfire.org/?p=10797

South Coast climate camp eviction threat

26.5.11
The St Annes protest site in Lewes (http://brightonclimateaction.org.uk/)
has been under threat of evic­tion since 4pm yes­ter­day!

Please come and sup­port the resis­tance by com­ing to vis­it some­time soon.
OR come and stay on the beau­ti­ful site — we des­per­ate­ly need peo­ple to occu­py. There are spare tents and bed­ding.

26.5.11
The St Annes protest site in Lewes (http://brightonclimateaction.org.uk/)
has been under threat of evic­tion since 4pm yes­ter­day!

Please come and sup­port the resis­tance by com­ing to vis­it some­time soon.
OR come and stay on the beau­ti­ful site — we des­per­ate­ly need peo­ple to occu­py. There are spare tents and bed­ding.

Lots of fun things going on, includ­ing tree house build­ing, seed plant­i­ng, music mak­ing and tea drink­ing.

the address — St. Anne’s School (dis­used)
Rot­ten Row
Lewes
East Sus­sex
BN7 1LJ

and here’s a video about the site –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14oEZFLcHQ&feature=player_embedded

The Camp at the End of the Runway, Manchester, 27–29 May

Fri­day 27 May, 5.30pm to Sun­day 29 May at 8.30pm
The Woods, Near Man­ches­ter Air­port

Man­ches­ter Air­port is plan­ning to press ahead with its expan­sion plans, demol­ish­ing local homes and green spaces, and dou­bling air freight capac­i­ty. Come and spend a week­end in the woods, get­ting to know the area and local res­i­dents, and learn­ing more about the cam­paign against expan­sion.

Fri­day 27 May, 5.30pm to Sun­day 29 May at 8.30pm
The Woods, Near Man­ches­ter Air­port

Man­ches­ter Air­port is plan­ning to press ahead with its expan­sion plans, demol­ish­ing local homes and green spaces, and dou­bling air freight capac­i­ty. Come and spend a week­end in the woods, get­ting to know the area and local res­i­dents, and learn­ing more about the cam­paign against expan­sion.

Meet 5.30pm at Pic­cadil­ly Sta­tion 27th May, or at 6pm out­side Man­ches­ter Cen­tral Library for Crit­i­cal Mass. We will go straight to the camp from Crit­i­cal Mass.

Plans for the week­end include: Walk and Cycle Car­a­van to look at sites of cam­paign­ing sig­nif­i­cance such as Arthur’s Wood, the World Freight Cen­tre, Hasty Lane, and the sites of the 2nd Run­way Protest Camp; Pix­ie Pic­nic; Aware­ness Rais­ing and much more besides.

Alter­nate meet time: 11am Heald Green Sta­tion Sat 28th May for the walk and cycle car­a­van.

Some hot (veg­an) food will be pro­vid­ed, but the week­end won’t be ful­ly catered. Bring enough food to be self-suf­fi­cient, and a lit­tle extra to share. Cater for your own dietary require­ments.

What else to bring:
Bike (walk­ers wel­come too, but cycling will be eas­i­er)
Dec­o­ra­tions for your bike
Camp­ing Kit
Food (see above)

See you there
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