Category: Action Reports

ELF Mexico Torch More Earth Destroying Machine

“Urban expan­sion is one of the biggest eco­log­i­cal prob­lems, with roads being built over fer­tile land comes loads of con­se­quences such as pol­lu­tion, warm­ing of the ground with exces­sive heat, mas­sive felling of trees, etc. The expan­sion of civ­i­liza­tion and its unnec­es­sary tech­nol­o­gy leaves the world in the hands of the pow­er­ful who con­trol the repres­sive state appa­ra­tus ready to stop any kind of resis­tance that is put in front of them to halt their run of destruc­tion.

“Urban expan­sion is one of the biggest eco­log­i­cal prob­lems, with roads being built over fer­tile land comes loads of con­se­quences such as pol­lu­tion, warm­ing of the ground with exces­sive heat, mas­sive felling of trees, etc. The expan­sion of civ­i­liza­tion and its unnec­es­sary tech­nol­o­gy leaves the world in the hands of the pow­er­ful who con­trol the repres­sive state appa­ra­tus ready to stop any kind of resis­tance that is put in front of them to halt their run of destruc­tion.

It is for this rea­son that on the night of Feb­ru­ary 22 we of the ELF decid­ed to go out at night in Mex­i­co State and set fire to a machine that destroys the earth and a truck owned by the dom­i­na­tors.

We say it once again, there will be no mer­cy until the abo­li­tion of all that oppress­es us.

F.L.T/E.L.F”

received anony­mous­ly from Bite Back: http://www.directaction.info

Anti-Coal Protesters Blockade Washington Power Station (U$A)

2nd March 2009
Thou­sands of demon­stra­tors braved icy winds and snow to march on the US capi­tol’s coal-fired pow­er plant on Mon­day to demand a more sane approach to ener­gy pol­i­cy. Orga­nized by Capi­tol Cli­mate Action thou­sand block­ade the five main gates to the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant in south-east Wash­ing­ton, not far from Capi­tol Hill.

Capitol coal power station blocked2nd March 2009
Thou­sands of demon­stra­tors braved icy winds and snow to march on the US capi­tol’s coal-fired pow­er plant on Mon­day to demand a more sane approach to ener­gy pol­i­cy. Orga­nized by Capi­tol Cli­mate Action thou­sand block­ade the five main gates to the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant in south-east Wash­ing­ton, not far from Capi­tol Hill.

The block­ade last­ed near­ly four hours, form­ing what orga­niz­ers called the largest dis­play of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence on the cli­mate cri­sis in U.S. his­to­ry. Police were out in force, but no one was arrest­ed.

The 99-year-old coal fired pow­er sta­tion is respon­si­ble for an esti­mat­ed one-third of the leg­isla­tive branch’s green­house gas emis­sions. It is no longer even used to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty but instead acts as a glo­ri­fied boil­er pro­vid­ing steam for heat­ing and chilled water for cool­ing build­ings for the leg­isla­tive build­ings of the Capi­tol Com­plex.

Envi­ron­men­tal and cli­mate celebri­ties led the protest action, includ­ing NASA cli­ma­tol­o­gist Dr. James Hansen, who released a video on You Tube in Feb­ru­ary urg­ing peo­ple to join him March 2 at the demon­stra­tion to send a mes­sage to Con­gress and the Pres­i­dent that, “We want them to take the actions that are need­ed to pre­serve cli­mate for young peo­ple and future gen­er­a­tions and all life on the plan­et.”

“What has become clear from the sci­ence is that we can­not burn all of the fos­sil fuels with­out cre­at­ing a very dif­fer­ent plan­et,” Hansen said. “The only prac­ti­cal way to solve the prob­lem is to phase out the biggest source of car­bon and that is coal.”

Con­gres­sion­al Democ­rats have already moved to con­vert the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant to clean­er-burn­ing nat­ur­al gas. On Thurs­day, House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi and Sen­ate Leader Har­ry Reid released a let­ter ask­ing the Capi­tol Archi­tect to switch the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant from coal to 100 per­cent nat­ur­al gas by the end of 2009.

“The switch to nat­ur­al gas will allow the CPP to dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduce car­bon and cri­te­ria pol­lu­tant emis­sions, elim­i­nat­ing more than 95 per­cent of sul­phur oxides and at least 50 per­cent of car­bon monox­ide,” wrote Pelosi and Reid in their let­ter to Act­ing Archi­tect of the Capi­tol Stephen Ayers.

“We strong­ly encour­age you to move for­ward aggres­sive­ly with us on a com­pre­hen­sive set of poli­cies for the entire Capi­tol com­plex and the entire Leg­isla­tive Branch to quick­ly reduce emis­sions and petro­le­um con­sump­tion through ener­gy effi­cien­cy, renew­able ener­gy, and clean alter­na­tive fuels,” they wrote.

“While the costs asso­ci­at­ed with pur­chas­ing addi­tion­al nat­ur­al gas will cer­tain­ly be high­er, the invest­ment will far out­weigh its cost,” wrote Pelosi and Reid. “The con­ver­sion will also reduce the cost of stor­ing and trans­port­ing coal as well as the costs asso­ci­at­ed with clean­ing up the fly ash and waste.”

“Elim­i­nat­ing coal from the fuel mix­ture should also assist the City of Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in meet­ing and com­ply­ing with nation­al air qual­i­ty stan­dards, and demon­strate that Con­gress can be a good and con­sci­en­tious neigh­bour by mit­i­gat­ing health con­cerns for res­i­dents and work­ers around Capi­tol Hill,” the lead­ers wrote.

“We’ve been fight­ing to clean up the Capi­tol for years — it’s an impor­tant sym­bol for the whole nation,” said Friends of the Earth Pres­i­dent Brent Black­welder on Thurs­day.

Last week, Black­welder and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Earth­jus­tice and the Sier­ra Club sent let­ters to Reid and Pelosi ask­ing that they stop using coal at the Capi­tol pow­er plant.

“Dirty coal plants all over the coun­try con­tin­ue to release heat-trap­ping gas­es and pol­lute the air we breathe, so there remains much work to be done, but today’s announce­ment is a sig­nal of a major change in direc­tion,” Black­welder said.

“Peo­ple in D.C. have been fight­ing against the plant for years, it is very dirty and locat­ed in a poor neigh­bour­hood. They haven’t had much suc­cess until now,” said Adri­an Wil­son, a San Fran­cis­co-based envi­ron­men­tal orga­niz­er with the Capi­tol Cli­mate Action coali­tion. “The fact that three days before the action, Nan­cy Pelosi and Har­ry Reid wrote let­ter for plant to be switched from coal to nat­ur­al gas shows the pow­er of direct action to make change quick­ly.”

Bruce Nilles, direc­tor of the Sier­ra Club’s Beyond Coal Cam­paign, said, “Stop­ping the use of coal at the Capi­tol Pow­er Plant will help local res­i­dents breathe eas­i­er, but the pos­i­tive impacts will stretch far beyond the Dis­trict. Bold mea­sures are need­ed right now to reduce glob­al warm­ing emis­sions and we look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to work with Con­gress and the new admin­is­tra­tion to send a clear sig­nal to cities and states across the coun­try that after eight long years, Amer­i­ca is seri­ous about clean ener­gy and green jobs.”

The Capi­tol Pow­er Plant demon­stra­tion was part of a larg­er move­ment in the nation’s cap­i­tal on the week­end that last­ed through this evening — Pow­er Shift 2009. Some 12,000 col­lege and high school stu­dents trav­elled to DC for the sec­ond Pow­er Shift con­fer­ence, a meet­ing of stu­dents con­fronting cli­mate change, and busi­ness-as-usu­al atti­tudes in Wash­ing­ton.

Ener­gy Action, a coali­tion of 50 envi­ron­men­tal groups, orga­nized the Pow­er Shift week­end con­fer­ence and lob­by day. For three days, stu­dents attend­ed sem­i­nars on the his­to­ries of coal pow­er, direct action and ura­ni­um min­ing, media and lead­er­ship train­ing ses­sions, grass­roots orga­niz­ing and anti-oppres­sion work­shops.

For video, links to lots of pho­tos and more, http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/

Council’s £50,000 attack on volunteer-run social centre

Press release from The Com­mon Place, for imme­di­ate release 7pm 27th Feb 2009

The Common Place logoPress release from The Com­mon Place, for imme­di­ate release 7pm 27th Feb 2009
Today Leeds city cen­tre’s vol­un­teer-run com­mu­ni­ty space The Com­mon Place lost the court bat­tle to keep its enter­tain­ment licence (1). After three prob­lem-free years the licence was with­drawn by Leeds City Coun­cil in July 2008 leav­ing the social cen­tre with­out its main income. Leeds City Coun­cil per­ceived The Com­mon Place as not being a true mem­bers club as we are open to huge vari­ety of events and types of peo­ple. This open­ness had also led to lax pro­ce­dures when sign­ing non-mem­bers in, a con­di­tion of the licence.

The Com­mon Place is a space used by many of the most mar­gin­alised and vul­ner­a­ble mem­bers of soci­ety (2). Carl Gal­lager of Zer­man­sky and Part­ners, act­ing for The Com­mon Place esti­mates that Leeds City Coun­cil have spent in excess of £50 000 bring­ing this case to court in a attempt to shut down the cen­tre, despite a cho­rus of sup­port from dozens of groups who use the cen­tre and over 1000 mes­sages of sup­port (3).

Com­mon Place Vol­un­teer Amy Stephen­son said, “It beg­gars belief that despite the deep­en­ing reces­sion and the lack of afford­able, social city cen­tre venues that the coun­cil has spent so much time and effort on the clo­sure of this much-loved resource.”

Dom Marsh said, “The Com­mon Place is exact­ly the sort of place that the coun­cil should be encour­ag­ing. It pro­vides free space to groups who might strug­gle to find afford­able spaces as well as an amaz­ing gig venue for up-and-com­ing local per­form­ers.”

The Com­mon Place Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee repeat­ed­ly attempt­ed to meet with the Coun­cil licens­ing depart­ment to avoid a court case and to reas­sure them of our sta­tus and capa­bil­i­ty as a mem­bers’ club. How­ev­er, this attempt to iden­ti­fy and rec­ti­fy any per­ceived prob­lems was reject­ed out­right by the coun­cil.

The future of the Com­mon Place is now under seri­ous threat. With­out licensed events the abil­i­ty of the social cen­tre to pro­vide a resource to the peo­ple of Leeds is uncer­tain.

Notes
1) The Com­mon Place is a vol­un­teer run mem­bers club and social cen­tre at Wharf Street LS1 — details at www.thecommonplace.org.uk
2) The Com­mon Place is used by groups includ­ing the award win­ning Com­mon Con­ver­sa­tion, The Per­ma­cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion, The Unit­ed Refugee Organ­i­sa­tion, TIDAL (a Leeds-based fair trade asso­ci­a­tion), The­atre Under Fire, St. Anne’s Home­less Sup­port, Leeds Domes­tic Vio­lence Part­ner­ship
3) The com­mon place received over 1100 on-line sig­na­tures on it’s peti­tion and over 30 let­ters of sup­port from indi­vid­u­als and groups includ­ing The Refuge Coun­cil, Leeds Met­ro­pol­i­tan Uni­ver­si­ty Union, Leeds Uni­ver­si­ty Union, Church Action on Pover­ty, Leeds Step­ping Out, Ladyfest Leeds, The Healthy Liv­ing Net­work.
4) Con­tact: Paul Chat­ter­ton 07894340531

Fossil Fools Day 2009, 1st April — actions & resources

FFD is only five weeks away! We know of var­i­ous affin­i­ty group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspi­ra­tional pub­lic actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area.

PUBLIC ACTIONS

12 Noon

FFD 09FFD is only five weeks away! We know of var­i­ous affin­i­ty group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspi­ra­tional pub­lic actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area.

PUBLIC ACTIONS

12 Noon

Help build a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the City of London.Stopping car­bon mar­kets — because nature does­n’t do bailouts. Meet at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW. Bring a pop-up tent, sleep­ing bag, wind tur­bine, mobile cin­e­ma, action plans and ideas … let’s imag­ine anoth­er world. Don’t let the finan­cial and fos­sil fools make the rules!

For more details vis­it — http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

6PM — *** POSTPONED by BP fol­low­ing police advice. ***

For rea­sons unfath­omable yet deeply pleas­ing, BP* has cho­sen Fos­sil Fools Day to cel­e­brate its cen­te­nary. This will take place at the British Muse­um, where the not-so-great and the far-from-good will quaff cock­tails, snaf­fle canapes and watch a cel­e­bra­to­ry film. And Ris­ing Tide and Art Not Oil will be there too, between 6–7pm, to say ‘Your Par­ty’s Over!’ Bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments, a sense of cli­mate jus­tice and a non­sense of fool­ery. Meet at 6pm at the British Muse­um’s Gt. Rus­sell St. gate. * BP = Burn­ing Plan­et, British Plun­der, Bloody Prof­its, Bro­ken Promises,Boring Par­ties, Breath­tak­ing Protests and..? Send your unrav­elled acronyms to info@artnotoil.org.uk

RESOURCES

Media — Ris­ing Tide has pro­duced an 11 page Media Q&A for Fos­sil Fools Day. If you think you’ll be talk­ing to the media on the day and want a few tips for tricky ques­tions send us an email (info@risingtide.org.uk) and we’ll email you a copy.

Action Ideas — For a short guide on why and how to take direct action against the fos­sil fuel indus­try … includ­ing plan­ning tips, tar­get loca­tions, exam­ples of suc­cess­ful actions and much more vis­it the RT Resources page were you can down­load ‘15 Actions to Top­ple the Fos­sil Fuel Empire’.

FFD is only 5 weeks away so whether you’ve been look­ing for a chance to dip a toe into the grow­ing cli­mate action move­ment, or have had your kick-ass action planned since last year, now is the time to do it — what­ev­er it is. On April 1st, join the glob­al day of resis­tance and pull a prank that packs a punch.

http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday2009

Climate Rush at UK Coal HQ & coal awards — Doncaster & London — and next one 5th March at RBS

North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­it to UK coal head­quar­ters

UK Coal rush 1UK Coal rush 2North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­it to UK coal head­quar­ters

Around 15 cli­mate activists from the North of Eng­land vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of UK Coal near Don­cast­er yes­ter­day, 26th Feb­ru­ary, in a protest against new coal and call­ing for tougher mea­sures to con­trol CO2 emis­sions.

Two peo­ple climbed up lam­posts to sus­pend a 6m ban­ner read­ing ‘Leave it in the Ground’, while on the ground below the pro­tes­tors played a bit of sam­ba, danced, and had a pic­nic. The pro­tes­tors wore Edwar­dian themed dress includ­ing red sash­es with the words ‘No New Coal’ writ­ten across them.

UK Coal is the UK’s largest coal com­pa­ny. The Don­cast­er protest was timed to coin­cide with the Cli­mate Rush at the UK Coal Awards, host­ed by UK coal, in Lon­don.

The police reac­tion was fair­ly low-key and non-obstruc­tive, although they did take an awful lot of pho­tos (I sup­pose they had noth­ing else to do). A van dri­ver was has­sled by cops, had his details checked and was told he was not insured to dri­ve the vehi­cle (which was not the case).

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Thurs­day 26th Feb­ru­ary 2009
PRESS RELEASE: North­ern Cli­mate Rush vis­its UK Coal head­quar­ters

Cli­mate activists from the North vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of UK Coal near Don­cast­er today in a protest against new coal and call­ing for tougher mea­sures to con­trol CO2 emis­sions. The protest coin­cid­ed with the ‘Cli­mate Rush’ in Lon­don where peo­ple intend­ed to gate­crash the Coal UK Con­fer­ence and Awards 2009 at the Land­mark Hotel in Regents Park. How­ev­er, the Lon­don pro­test­ers arrived to find the Con­fer­ence had moved venue at the last minute. Around 200 pro­test­ers in Lon­don occu­pied the lob­by of the Land­mark and dropped ban­ners. They asked that the hotel to refrain from host­ing any future events with fos­sil fuel indus­tries such as UK Coal, to which the man­age­ment agreed.

The pro­tes­tors of both demon­stra­tions wore Edwar­dian themed dress includ­ing red sash­es with the words ‘No New Coal’ writ­ten across them. In Don­cast­er two female pro­test­ers scaled lamp-posts to hang a ban­ner read­ing ‘Leave it in the ground’ across the entrance to the UK coal head­quar­ters.

Coal is the dirt­i­est form of ener­gy pro­duc­tion yet the gov­ern­ment has plans to expand the coal indus­try, includ­ing a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent. UK Coal are respon­si­ble for oper­at­ing sev­er­al open cast mines across the UK. Open cast coal min­ing is par­tic­u­lar­ly dam­ag­ing to the local envi­ron­ment since it involves scalp­ing the land­scape and typ­i­cal­ly pro­vides an aver­age of only 40 jobs per site, for a hand­ful of years only.

Vanes­sa Hall, spokes­woman for the North­ern Cli­mate Rush said, “It is essen­tial that we take cli­mate change seri­ous­ly and move away from dirty fos­sil fuels like coal. There is no way we can avoid run­away cli­mate change if we con­tin­ue to burn coal.”

Megan Beech, 24, said, “The coal indus­try talk about Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age (CCS) as the mag­ic bul­let that will allow us to keep burn­ing coal. How­ev­er CCS is as yet an unproven tech­nol­o­gy. You don’t start a fire on the promise that one day we”ll invent a fire extin­guish­er with which to put it out.”

ENDS

Notes to Edi­tors

This is the third major ‘Cli­mate Rush’ event, fol­low­ing from the first in Par­lia­ment square in Octo­ber 2008 on the cen­te­nary of the Suf­fragette rush on Par­lia­ment. Pro­test­ers demand­ed ‘Deeds Not Words’ on cli­mate change, includ­ing an end to air­port expan­sion and no new coal. The sec­ond was at Heathrow and Man­ches­ter air­ports to draw atten­tion to the threat of avi­a­tion and cli­mate change.

The North­ern Cli­mate Rush is made up of cam­paign­ers from Man­ches­ter, Leeds, Hud­der­s­field, Brad­ford and Liv­er­pool.

www.climaterush.co.uk
www.northernclimaterush.wordpress.com

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'Coal: so last century' banner
Coal canary climate rush
Cli­mate Rush host­ed cock­tail par­ty for the coal indus­try out­side of the Land­mark Hotel on Maryle­bone Road, Lon­don.

Coal UK planed to pre­sent­ed cel­e­bra­to­ry awards to the most dam­ag­ing com­pa­nies in the coal indus­try. Cli­mate Rush offered an alter­na­tive awards based on the eco­log­i­cal dam­age that the coal indus­try is inflict­ing on the envi­ron­ment.

How­ev­er after sev­er­al tries at rush­ing the hotel peo­ple dis­cov­ered that the award din­ner had been can­celled.

Brochure for the awards din­ner:
http://conf.mccloskeycoal.com/journals/McCloskey/Conferences/Conferences/attachments/Coal%20UK%20Brochure%20web.pdf

Cli­mate Rush calls for:

1. No new coal to avoid run­away cli­mate change

Coal is the dirt­i­est fos­sil fuel, and by far the dirt­i­est way to pro­duce elec­tric­i­ty. We must leave coal in the ground and not build any new coal fired pow­er sta­tions if we want to avoid run­away cli­mate change. CCS is an unproven tech­nol­o­gy that may nev­er be a viable option. Cli­mate change is hap­pen­ing now and we must act now to stop it.

2. We can’t have infi­nite growth on a finite plan­et

At this out­dat­ed and fos­silized awards cer­e­mo­ny UK Coal is cel­e­brat­ing the worst excess­es of our fail­ing eco­nom­ic sys­tem. Just like over­paid bankers these heads of cor­po­ra­tions are receiv­ing plau­dits for plun­der­ing the plan­et.

3. A tran­si­tion to a low car­bon soci­ety with sus­tain­able jobs

We must coun­ter­act any jobs loss­es from the coal indus­try with a major re-skilling pro­gram in sus­tain­able trades. Many more jobs will be cre­at­ed by a huge retro­fitting pro­gram of old hous­ing stock and in the new renew­able ener­gies sec­tor than in new coal. The Ger­man clean ener­gy rev­o­lu­tion has seen the cre­ation of 250,000 new jobs.

More pho­tos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/filkaler/tags/climaterush/

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Land­mark Deci­sion Against Coal Indus­try
For imme­di­ate release: 26 Feb­ru­ary 2009

LANDMARK DECISION

A top class Lon­don hotel has vowed com­pa­nies and organ­i­sa­tions which con­tribute to cli­mate chaos will no longer be wel­come to use their facil­i­ties for cor­po­rate pro­mo­tion and enter­tain­ment

The move fol­lows a Cli­mate Rush action on the Land­mark Hotel in Maryle­bone, where hun­dreds of pro­test­ers con­verged on Thurs­day to halt a coal indus­try awards cer­e­mo­ny.

Coal is acknowl­edged among sci­en­tists and cli­mate change activists as the world’s worst con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change in the form of CO2 emis­sions.*

The coal indus­try under the ban­ner of UK Coal were booked into the Land­mark to host an awards cer­e­mo­ny with five star food and drink where they planned to hand out gongs for UK coal per­son­al­i­ty of the year and the best open cast min­ers among oth­er cat­e­gories.

Pro­test­ers dropped ban­ners and staged a peace­ful sit-in to speak out at the hotel’s sup­port and the coal industry’s insis­tence of “busi­ness as usu­al” in the face of evi­dent esca­lat­ing cli­mate chaos.

The Landmark’s land­mark deci­sion has been applaud­ed by activists. “At Last! For too long prof­i­teer­ing from cli­mate change has been sold to the pub­lic as a neces­si­ty of ‘busi­ness as usu­al’. But with glob­al tem­per­a­tures ris­ing and cli­mate chaos run­ning riot in the form of drought (Africa and Aus­tralia) and flood­ing (low lying lands all over), we all need to work togeth­er.

“ We applaud the Land­mark for their good sense and the vision to say ‘enough is enough’. They right­ly don’t want to be asso­ci­at­ed with the cor­rupt sys­tem that needs over­turn­ing. We wel­come the Land­mark to play their role in the new way of doing things so need­ed.”

The Land­mark now plans to deny com­pa­nies such as the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land (the biggest sin­gle investor in coal and oil indus­tries) and oil com­pa­nies, such as ESSO, BP and Shell, as well as the coal indus­try from using their ball­rooms and ban­quet halls to pro­mote their cause.

The hotel has also pledge to com­mu­ni­cate with the 24 oth­er five star hotels in its’ group to sug­gest they do the same.

Cli­mate Rush has pledged to work with the Land­mark Hotel to ensure the right com­pa­nies are blocked, to send a clear mes­sage to pol­luters: they’re not wel­come.

ENDS
Notes and foot­notes to Edi­tors

Coal is respon­si­ble for 50 % of the cli­mate change gas­es in the atmos­phere caused by human activ­i­ty.

Cli­mate Rush is a cut­ting edge move­ment of car­bon cut­ting indi­vid­u­als who have seen the light and want to spread the word through their remit: Deeds not words, based on the clar­i­on call of the suf­fragettes

For high qual­i­ty pho­tos and fur­ther com­ments please ring 075 2839 8441 or email media@climaterush.co.uk

For com­ments from the land­mark hotel please ring Fran­cis T Green 0207 631 8000

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UK No New Coal Awards

Cli­mate Rush is delight­ed to announce that it will be pre­sent­ing the fol­low­ing “Canary in the Coalmine” awards:

Sci­ence Fic­tion award
goes to the most unbe­liev­able tech­nol­o­gy not yet avail­able to stop CO2 emis­sions, Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age.

Finan­cial Fool award
goes to the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land, for help­ing to raise $16 bil­lion in loans to finance the world­wide coal indus­try over the past two years.

Life­time Achieve­ment award
goes to Drax coal fired pow­er sta­tion, for the Great­est Emis­sions in the UK, equiv­a­lent to that of the 54 poor­est coun­tries in the world.

Best Sup­port­ing Role
goes to the biggest Cli­mate Cow­ard, Gor­don Brown, for his use­less lead­er­ship over Cli­mate Change.

Best New­com­er
goes to the next like­ly “fac­to­ry of death”, Kingsnorth coal fired pow­er sta­tion in Kent.

and final­ly…

UK Coal Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year
goes to Paul Gol­by, CEO of ener­gy com­pa­ny E.ON, for out­stand­ing ser­vices to Green­wash (whilst plot­ting to build Kingsnorth)

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CLIMATE RUSH: THURSDAY 5TH MARCH, 1PM, RBS HQ

GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK and STOP TRASHING THE PLANET

Roy­al Bank of Scot­land: £33 bil­lion in bail outs SO FAR!

Using OUR MONEY!

RBS boss 50-year-old Sir Fred: retires ear­ly with a whop­ping £16 mil­lion pen­sion fund.

Using OUR MONEY!

OUR bank: arranges £16 bil­lion in loans to the coal indus­try in just two years.

RBS: the BIGGEST investor in cli­mate chaos.

FOR THE LOVE OF OUR MONEY, WHAT PLANET ARE THEY ON?

Grab your mates, bring some lunch and get down to the bank to demand OUR mon­ey back.

Roy­al Bank of Scot­land HQ

Thurs­day 5th March

1.OOPM PROMPT: think flash­mob…

280 Bish­ops­gate, near Liv­er­pool Street Sta­tion

ANGRY? You bet­ter believe it: Let’s rush!

See what they’re say­ing about the RBS Cli­mate Rush in the Guardian here

Face­book invite here: invite ALL your friends

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Protestors To Go Bananas at Leeds Tesco

Banana flash­mob at Leeds Tesco in protest of Tesco refus­ing to stock only Fair­trade bananas.

Banana flash­mob at Leeds Tesco in protest of Tesco refus­ing to stock only Fair­trade bananas.

Ctrl.Alt.Shift, a move­ment of young agi­ta­tors, is demand­ing that Tesco ban the sale of non-Fair­trade bananas for good. At 1pm on March 3rd 2009, Pro­tes­tors will stage a flash­mob protest at Tesco Metro in Leeds city cen­tre. Using Fair­trade bananas as dum­my phones, the pro­tes­tors will hold loud phone con­ver­sa­tions about the poor eth­i­cal stan­dards that Tesco main­tains. A viral video and social net­work cam­paign will run over the inter­net in the run up to the event.

Leaflet link here

Over the last five years, British super­mar­kets have engaged in banana price wars, match­ing each other’s price cuts to such a low lev­el that it is now impos­si­ble for many plan­ta­tion work­ers to earn a liv­ing — or even a legal min­i­mum – wage.

Han­nah Mar­tin who is part of Ctrl.Alt.Shift and helped organ­ise the Leeds flash­mob said ‘It’s a scan­dal that a com­pa­ny as pow­er­ful as Tesco refuse to ful­ly sup­port an organ­i­sa­tion as sig­nif­i­cant as Fair­trade, Ctrl.Alt.Shift want to show Tesco we wont sit back and let this con­tin­ue’.

In 2007, both Sainsbury’s and Wait­rose agreed to sell Fair­trade-only bananas. But Tesco refuse to fol­low suit. As the nation’s largest retail­er, it is Tesco’s duty to sup­port Fair­trade prac­tices with­in the World’s sup­ply chains. As a result, many plan­ta­tion work­ers are still paid less than $2 per day.

Ctr­lAlt­ShiftLeeds
flash@ctrlaltshift.co.uk
http://www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk

Work Stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site

26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Shipley soul bannerShipley soul security26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Work was stopped for one hour and a half. The pro­tes­tors left when the police turned up.

The police entered into dis­cus­sion with UK Coal about cre­at­ing a more per­me­nant space for peo­ple to protest at, the police sug­gest­ed some kind of shel­ter. UK Coal declined, stat­ing that they were wor­ried the pro­tes­tors would turn the shel­ter into a “con­crete lock-on”.

No arrests were made.

Same ban­ner; dif­fer­ent protest.

Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Mine Site

23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

Rosewell coal mine action23.2.2009
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to dis­rupt the oper­a­tions of Scot­tish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the Mid­loth­i­ans. Some of the 10 activists stop­ping work today are local res­i­dents.

They climbed onto dig­ging machin­ery to pre­vent works and climbed onto trucks to pre­vent coal from leav­ing the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morn­ing. Then police arrived but no-one were arrest­ed.

One activist said “the burn­ing of coal to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty is one of the most pol­lut­ing and destruc­tive of all human activ­i­ties. We can­not deal with cli­mate change while com­pa­nies like Scot­tish coal con­tin­ue to prof­it from coal exploita­tion.”

A local res­i­dent said “With a gov­ern­ment com­mit­ted to expand­ing open­cast, deep mine and new coal pow­er gen­er­a­tion across Scot­land, ask­ing politi­cians will achieve noth­ing. Peace­ful direct action is the only way peo­ple are going to stop coal expan­sion.”

Anoth­er said. “We are opposed to this cli­mate dis­as­ter of an ener­gy pol­i­cy and to the scar­ring of scot­land’s coun­try­side with these hor­ri­ble open-cast coal mines, Rosewell and Scot­tish Coal’s oth­er oper­a­tions have and will con­tin­ue to be met by resis­tance from local peo­ple tak­ing direct action.”

This action was done by indi­vid­u­als who are not affil­i­at­ed to any par­tic­u­lar group.

This is anoth­er exam­ple of the grow­ing resis­tance to new coal in scot­land. For more gen­er­al info on how peo­ple are stop­ping new coal in Scot­land, check out www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk

Germany: Upper class car torched, armament company & luxurious condo-project attacked

02/02/09: Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched
02/02/09: Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or
09/02/09: Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched

Berlin, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Direct Action Germany: 2nd-12th February02/02/09: Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched
02/02/09: Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or
09/02/09: Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Upper­class car from O.Rohr (house­keep­er of L14 and R94) torched

Berlin, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

A claim which reached us:
„On mon­day the 2 of Feb­ru­ary we payed a vis­it to the offices of Rohr, dis­trict Marien­dorf, and we torched his car.

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Arma­ment com­pa­ny attacked with stones and col­or

Hamburg/Kiel, 2 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Claim of the attack:

„On the night from the 1 to the 2 of Feb­ru­ary, we ren­dered nicer the arma­ment com­pa­ny Northtrop Grum­man, sit­ed in the Woltmanstr.19 in Ham­burg and the Marine Logis­tic (Mar­log) sit­ed in the Werlt­str. 179, Kiel, by using stones and col­or.
Through this action, we want to adress us against the gath­er­ing of inter­na­tion­al politi­cians of the NATO State mem­bers, their accom­plices, arma­ment indus­tri­al­ists such like Northtrop Grum­man and Mar­log and to the Army, who will all meet at the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary 2009 at the 45 con­fer­ence for the secu­ri­ty politic, tak­ing place in Munich.
They want to meet there, in order to improve the civil­ian-mil­i­tary coop­er­a­tion.
This means war and oppres­sion for mil­lions of peo­ple.
We also see this action as a con­tri­bu­tion to the begin­ning of the protests against the 60 years fes­tiv­i­ties of the NATO hap­pen­ing in Baden Baden and Stras­bourg at the begin­ning of April 2009.

Against cap­i­tal­ist glob­al­iza­tion and world­wide war politic of NATO States which leads to a fur­ther mil­i­ta­riza­tion of soci­eties to their inside and to the out­side!

Action Group against mil­i­tarism and cap­i­tal­ism

Source: Inter­im

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Stones and bot­tle against lux­u­ri­ous con­do-project

Berlin, 9 of Feb­ru­ary 2009

Unknown per­sons threw stones and bot­tles full of col­or against the facade of a house sit­ed in the Dres­d­ner­str., Mitte.
Since this house is con­sid­ered being of the upper­class, one can not exclude a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion behind it, so the police.
State secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

Source: Berlin­er Zeitung

note for eng­lish-speak­ing read­ers: this lux­u­ri­ous house built on the bor­der between Kreuzberg and Mitte has been already vic­tim of attacks dur­ing the past.

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direct action news from ger­many
http://directactionde.blogspot.com

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 86, February 2009

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09
4. Earth First! & Treespon­si­bil­i­ty Tree Plant­i­ng week­end – Heb­den Bridge – 13–15.03.09
5. Peo­ple’s Block­ade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port – New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia — 21.03.09
6. Direct action and car­bon trad­ing edu­ca­tion week­end – Lon­don and Brighton – 21–22.03.09
7. Fos­sil Fools Day – all over – 01.04.09
8. Coal Car­a­van – Mid­lands, York­shire and North East – 24.04.09–04.05.09

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1. Bio­fu­elled attacks in Suma­tra, Indone­sia – 18.12.08
2. Plane Stu­pid turns Southamp­ton air­port into a refugee camp — 17.01.09
3. Cli­mate Rush activists lock on to Par­lia­ment — 20.01.01
4. E.On Ref Off! – 24.01.09
5. A not-so-Roy­al wel­come for the nuclear indus­try — 09.02.09
6. Man­ches­ter RBS branch roof occu­pa­tion — 11.02.09
7. Occu­pa­tion of Kel­ster­back For­est, Frank­furt Air­port, Ger­many — Ongo­ing
8. New report – Cater­ing for the Coal Indus­try

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UPCOMING/ONGOING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
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1. ARTIVISM, Smash EDO’s week of anti-war cre­ativ­i­ty — Brighton – 24.02.09–01.03.09
Includ­ing an Art Exhi­bi­tion, Music & Voic­es in Exile, Peace Choir, Images from the Smash EDO cam­paign and the world events that inspired the resis­tance to Brighton’s local bomb builders. Events include Guy Small­man, inter­na­tion­al pho­to-jour­nal­ist; on the ground pho­tog­ra­phy from Israel’s inva­sion of Lebanon in 2006; the clas­sic draw­ings of John Catt, vet­er­an anti-war activist; pho­tog­ra­phy by Medyan Dairieh, Al-Jazeera jour­nal­ist; ‘On the Verge’ the film they tried to ban; Clan­des­tine Rebel Clown Train­ing; Rad­i­cal Cheer­lead­ing: make pom-poms, write cheers and prac­tice your moves; car­ni­val cre­ations and mask mak­ing; and Ben­e­fit Finale at the Albert Pub.
www.smashedo.org.uk

2. Cli­mate Rush – Lon­don and Man­ches­ter – 26.02.09
Cli­mate Rush cor­dial­ly invites you to an awards cer­e­mo­ny for the coal indus­try, to hon­our the world’s great­est emit­ters of CO2, on THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY at THE LANDMARK HOTEL. Dress for­mal­ly for cock­tails in the Win­ter Gar­den at 6.30 prompt.
www.climaterush.co.uk

And in Man­ches­ter, North­ern Cli­mate Rush will be pay­ing a vis­it to the UK’s largest coal com­pa­ny – UK Coal. Meet in front of the Stu­dent Union build­ing at 1pm.
www.northernclimaterush.wordpress.com

3. Camp for Cli­mate Action Gath­er­ing – Not­ting­ham – 7–8.03.09
With the G20, cli­mate crim­i­nals and COP 15 in mind, be part of the gath­er­ing – inspi­ra­tion, action and sol­i­dar­i­ty guar­an­teed.
www.climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/468

4. Earth First & Treespon­si­bil­i­ty Tree Plant­i­ng week­end – Heb­den Bridge – 13–15.03.09
The annu­al and socia­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty to plant thou­sands of native trees on a eco­log­i­cal­ly degrad­ed hill­side is hap­pen­ing in March. Organ­ised by Earth First! activists in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Calderdale com­mu­ni­ty group Treespon­si­bil­i­ty. Based in Heb­den Bridge in Calderdale. A week­end of hard but sat­is­fy­ing work plant­i­ng native wood­land com­bined with good food and social­is­ing.
More info: treesponsibility@yahoo.co.uk or 07983743894

5. Peo­ple’s Block­ade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port – New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia — 21.03.09
Coal exports are Aus­trali­a’s sin­gle biggest con­tri­bu­tion to glob­al cli­mate change, and the fastest grow­ing. In New­cas­tle, the world’s biggest coal port, com­mu­ni­ty groups have been cam­paign­ing against the dou­bling of coal exports from New­cas­tle Har­bour. There have been three com­mu­ni­ty block­ades of New­cas­tle Har­bour now, and each of them has man­aged to keep coal ships from enter­ing or leav­ing for most of the day. The next one is on Sat­ur­day 21 March 2009.
www.risingtide.org.au

6. Direct action and car­bon trad­ing edu­ca­tion week­end – Lon­don and Brighton – 21–22.03.09
Cli­mate Camp Car­bon Trad­ing Edu­ca­tion Week­end, Lon­don. With Cli­mate Camp tar­get­ing car­bon mar­kets this year, find out every­thing you ever want­ed to know about car­bon trad­ing and more but were afraid to ask! More info:international@climatecamp.org.uk

Also this week­end, a two-day direct action train­ing at the Cow­ley Club, Brighton. 10 AM start.
www.cowleyclub.org.uk

7. Fos­sil Fools Day – all over – 01.04.09
Cli­mate Camp at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, fol­lowed by a “cel­e­bra­tion” of BP’s cen­te­nary at the British Muse­um; inter­spersed with local actions all over the coun­try and the world!

Cli­mate camp hits the city: stop­ping car­bon mar­kets // because nature doesn’t do bailouts
On April 1st the G20 lead­ers arrive in Lon­don. At a time of cli­mate cri­sis their response to the mar­ket melt­down is emer­gency loans to car man­u­fac­tur­ers, increased spend­ing to encour­age con­sump­tion, and bailouts for the very peo­ple who got us into this mess — just the thing that will make the cli­mate cri­sis worse. Don’t let them get away with it: join our camp in the Square Mile! Gath­er at noon, April 1st, at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW.
www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

“Cel­e­brate” BP’s cen­te­nary: Tell them the party’s over!
For rea­sons unfath­omable yet deeply pleas­ing, BP has cho­sen Fos­sil Fools to cel­e­brate its cen­te­nary. This will take place at the British Muse­um, where the not-so-great and the far-from-good will quaff cock­tails, snaf­fle canapes and watch a cel­e­bra­to­ry film. Join us between 6–7pm, to say ‘Your party’s over!’ Bring ban­ners, musi­cal instru­ments, a sense of cli­mate jus­tice and a non­sense of fool­ery. Meet at 6pm at the British Museum’s Gt. Rus­sell St. gate.
www.fossilfoolsday.org
www.artnotoil.org.uk

8. Coal Car­a­van – Mid­lands, York­shire and North East – 24.04.09–04.05.09
The fab­u­lous cli­mate car­a­van lives on, as the COAL CARAVAN, walk­ing and cycling between the sites for pro­posed open cast mines and new pow­er sta­tions in the Mid­lands, York­shire and North East. On our route we’ll be talk­ing to local peo­ple, organ­is­ing bicy­cled pow­er films and events, hold­ing pub­lic dis­cus­sions and dis­plays, and link­ing groups from dif­fer­ent areas to help strength­en iso­lat­ed cam­paigns. For route details see:
www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/21915
More info or to get involved: caravan@climatecamp.org.uk.

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1. Bio­fu­elled attacks in Suma­tra, Indone­sia – 18.12.08
In the rush to clear sub­sis­tence farms and for­est for agro-fuel plan­ta­tion, local vil­lages in the glob­al South are suf­fer­ing. On 18th Decem­ber 2008 the vil­lage of Suluk Bongkal in Suma­tra, Indone­sia was attacked by hun­dreds of armed police and para­mil­i­taries with fire-arms and tear­gas and was also fire-bombed from a heli­copter. Hun­dreds of hous­es were burned down and lat­er bull­dozed. Most of the vil­lagers fled into the forests and oth­ers were arrest­ed. The attack is linked to a sub­sidiary com­pa­ny of Sinar Mas, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) which is clear­ing land for pulp and paper tree plan­ta­tions. Sinar Mas is one of the biggest own­ers of palm oil and pulp and paper plan­ta­tions in Indone­sia. A protest let­ter is col­lect­ing sig­na­to­ries to send to the Indone­sian author­i­ties.
To sign and for more info: www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/index.php

2. Plane Stu­pid turns Southamp­ton air­port into a refugee camp — 17.01.09
Activists chained them­selves to the entrance of Southamp­ton air­port and erect­ed tents at the main entrance in a bid turn the region­al air­port into a cli­mate refugee camp. In addi­tion to set­ting up camp, activists for­mal­ly sub­mit­ted a plan­ning appli­ca­tion with East­leigh Bor­ough Coun­cil to turn the air­port into refugee hous­ing.
www.planestupid.com

3. Cli­mate Rush activists lock on to Par­lia­ment — 20.01.01
On the day that Par­lia­ment vot­ed about the third run­way, nine Cli­mate Rush activists high­light­ed the high farce that is UK democ­ra­cy by chain­ing them­selves to the gates of Par­lia­ment. Despite stay­ing for hours and enter­tain­ing tourists and the press, when the police final­ly cut them out, the activists walked away scot free.
www.climaterush.co.uk

4. E.On Ref Off! – 24.01.09
On Sat­ur­day 24th Jan­u­ary a group of Lon­don Cli­mate Camp activists turned up at Stam­ford Bridge dressed as foot­ball ref­er­ees to show E.ON the red card. Over 40,000 Chelsea and Ipswich fans arriv­ing for the game heard us blow­ing the whis­tle on E.ON’s dirty FA Cup spon­sor­ship mon­ey, and thou­sands of them were per­son­al­ly hand­ed an “E.ON F.OFF” red card explain­ing how the com­pa­ny is mak­ing foul prof­its from the cli­mate cri­sis. It was all good fun and reac­tions were pret­ty pos­i­tive — E.ON them­selves would have paid tens of thou­sands to get the oppo­site pub­lic­i­ty for their brand!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/420346.html

5. A not-so-Roy­al wel­come for the nuclear indus­try — 09.02.09
Hun­dreds of tourists, vis­it­ing the Palace for the Chang­ing of the Guard, were amused to see “nuclear guards” tak­ing their place at the gates. They held up a large ban­ner read­ing “Nuclear Pow­er is Not the Answer to Cli­mate Chaos!” and a plac­ard read­ing “Roy­al Nuclear Fam­i­ly? No Thanks!”, draw­ing atten­tion to the fact that Prince Andrew, the UK’s Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Inter­na­tion­al Trade and Invest­ment, was host­ing a gala lunch at the Palace for the nuclear indus­try, pre­sum­ably to plot how best to pro­mote their tox­ic green­wash agen­da at home and abroad.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421693.html

6. Man­ches­ter RBS branch roof occu­pa­tion — 11.02.09
Around 35 stu­dents held a cli­mate change ‘Evic­tion Demon­stra­tion’ out­side (and on top of) a Roy­al Bank of Scot­land branch at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter Stu­dents Union. The group from Peo­ple and Plan­et also sub­mit­ted a motion to the Union Gen­er­al Meet­ing propos­ing that the Union does not renew the lease for RBS’ branch when it expires in Jan­u­ary 2010. Stu­dents climbed up on to the roof of the branch, and dropped ban­ners adver­tis­ing RBS’ fos­sil fuel invest­ments. Oth­ers engaged in ‘rapid infor­ma­tion dessim­i­na­tion’, rac­ing off to speak to as many peo­ple as they could in 20 min­utes before return­ing back to the RBS branch to com­pare scores.
http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/22169

7. Occu­pa­tion of Kel­ster­back For­est, Frank­furt Air­port, Ger­many — Ongo­ing The occu­pa­tion of the threat­ened Kel­ster­back For­est con­tin­ues. This is a large and beau­ti­ful for­est that has already been encroached upon for exist­ing air­port infra­struc­ture and is “in the way” of a planned, addi­tion­al run­way.
http://waldbesetzung.blogsport.de

8. New report – Cater­ing for the Coal Indus­try A per­son­al account from an activist on the ground in Columbia,documenting resis­tance to exploita­tion in Columbia’s’ coal industry.The report is focused on the lives of those who pre­pare and serve the food nec­es­sary for the mine to func­tion. They want peo­ple out­side of La Loma to hear of their inhu­mane, dan­ger­ous and humil­i­at­ing work­ing con­di­tions. Read­ing and shar­ing this report helps to break the invis­i­bil­i­ty of the exploita­tion with­in the glob­al coal infra­struc­ture.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419675.html

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