Category: Action Reports

All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

For peo­ple inter­est­ed in some­thing a lit­tle more direct than the big cli­mate demo in Lon­don tomor­row…

Tonight, all Flight Cen­tre branch­es in Man­ches­ter city cen­tre have been super­glued closed, in time for Sat­ur­day trad­ing and to coin­cide with the cli­mate march in Lon­don tomor­row. They were past­ed with notices say­ing: “Closed — we want your kids to have a plan­et”

The UK’s only Hum­mer deal­er­ship, Bauer Mil­lett, was also locked shut with a D‑lock.

Stick­ers have also start­ed appear­ing all over Man­ches­ter with “The Tide is Ris­ing” and a blue line…see ear­li­er post about a ban­ner drop, http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17886

Earth First!

The Tide Is Rising

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing (Fri­day 7th Dec 2007) activists dropped a ban­ner from the pedes­tri­an bridge near Hulme. It was still there at eleven twen­ty and, as far as we know, remains hang­ing at this moment.

Sea lev­els may well rise by 6 metres if the worst reports come true. The 8th Decem­ber is the inter­na­tion­al day for Cli­mate Change. Whether you’re in Lon­don, Man­ches­ter or any where, you can join the tide for change. Use rib­bons, chalk, or any­thing non tox­ic to mark a sym­bol­ic tide line, 1 metre above the ground on trees, fences or any oth­er places this week­end. Let’s make fac­ing this urgent prob­lem unavoid­able.

Fred Pearce in his most recent book ‘The last gen­er­a­tion’ has sight­ed a num­ber of alarm­ing reports from sci­en­tists in both the Artic and Antarc­tic that state ice is melt­ing at an expe­ri­en­tial rate.
If these reports are right we have passed an irre­versible tip­ping point mak­ing sea lev­el ris­es immi­nent (in some reports as much as 6 Metres).

Action needs to be tak­en from the grass roots lev­el to the top.

Be the change!

Women Climate Activists Blockade the Department for Transport

7.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

Women blockade DfTWomen blockade DfT 27.12.2007
Women have this morn­ing block­ad­ed the Depart­ment for Trans­port pre­vent­ing staff from get­ting to work and car­ry­ing out their poli­cies which are cat­a­pult­ing us towards dan­ger­ous run-away cli­mate change. This action comes in response to the Trans­port Sec­re­tary Ruth Kel­ly con­firm­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s inten­tions to build a third run­way and a sixth ter­mi­nal at Heathrow and co-incides with the open­ing of their first ‘con­sul­ta­tion’ exhi­bi­tion.

This protest is part of a grow­ing direct action move­ment against cli­mate change inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action (1). On Wednes­day over 30 cli­mate activists includ­ing the colum­nist George Mon­biot invad­ed and occu­pied Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. On 28th Novem­ber, pro­test­ers from cli­mate action group Plane Stu­pid dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick in protest at the Heathrow expan­sion plans. This week­end thou­sands of peo­ple will march on the streets of Lon­don to protest about cli­mate change. This protest is a call to all to stand up and take action against the gov­ern­ments and cor­po­ra­tions who are fuel­ing cli­mate chaos.

Why the DfT?

Trans­port is the fastest grow­ing source of cli­mate change gas­es in the UK, now account­ing for 26% of emis­sions (2). In a time when we des­per­ate­ly need to reduce emis­sions, the DfT plans to build more roads and more air­ports encour­ag­ing us to dri­ve and fly more. The DfT was tar­get­ted dur­ing the Camp for Cli­mate Action in August, and women have returned today to re-empha­sise the role of our gov­ern­ment in dan­ger­ous trans­port expan­sion plans. Groups will con­tin­ue to return to the DfT until the gov­ern­ment reviews its poli­cies.

Why women?

Women have act­ed today in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the res­i­dents of Sip­son, espe­cial­ly the women who con­tin­ue to cam­paign to pro­tect their homes, despite bul­ly­ing and pres­sure from BAA, and the women all over the world who fight every­day to sur­vive in the face of increas­ing cli­mate chaos.

NO 3rd run­way at Heathrow

Avi­a­tion is already the fastest grow­ing source of UK car­bon diox­ide emis­sions (3), and these emis­sions are released high in the atmos­phere mean­ing we feel their effects imme­di­ate­ly. Heathrow is already the busiest air­port in the world. Build­ing a third run­way will lead to even more flights and more pol­lu­tion. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty recent­ly con­clud­ed that it will be impos­si­ble to meet the gov­ern­men­t’s own tar­get for a 60 per cent car­bon reduc­tion by 2050 with­out curb­ing avi­a­tion growth (4)

NO M1 Widen­ing

The DfT is build­ing a £5 bil­lion 115 mile long expan­sion of the M1 with an increase of 186,092 tonnes of CO2 every year (5). Is this tak­ing cli­mate change seri­ous­ly? We call for a scrap­ping of the cur­rent and pro­posed schemes up and down the length of the M1.

NO green wash

We call for a reduc­tion in trans­port, and reject dan­ger­ous green wash such as ‘bio­fu­els’ and car­bon off­set­ting. We can­not con­tin­ue with relent­less growth on a finite plan­et. We all need to reduce con­sump­tion, and our car­bon emis­sions. (6)

Jane Wil­son, on the protest says, “The gov­ern­ment does not like to admit it , but we can­not sus­tain our cur­rent lev­els of con­sump­tion or the growth econ­o­my and stop cli­mate change. Its time to stop tin­ker­ing at the edges and wake up to the real­i­ty of the threat & take seri­ous and dras­tic action. We have to cre­ate a soci­ety that is less depen­dent on ener­gy, and that is more local­ly self-suf­fi­cient.”

Notes for Edi­tors:

1 The Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 (www.climatecamp.org.uk) was a large protest and edu­ca­tion­al event at Heathrow this year, high­light­ing the link between the avi­a­tion indus­try and cli­mate change.

2 The Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port (www.bettertransport.org.uk)

3 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

4 Cam­paign for Bet­ter Trans­port

5 Bio­fu­el­watch (www.biofuelwatch.org.uk)

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Update and out­come

In the end: Hav­ing shut the DFT for over two hours, eight women who were locked or glued to the doors of the DFT were arrest­ed, held all day in Bel­gravia Police Sta­tion and then released on bail.

They are all charged with offences under SOCPA (seri­ous organ­ised crime and police act). At least one more was sum­moned to appear under SOCPA, although not arrest­ed.

Total amount of women involved was around twen­ty. They’re all ace and of course this is only the begin­ning of women pitch­ing in to stop cli­mate chaos on their own terms.

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One of these women, hav­ing been released on bail for SOCPA, was rear­rest­ed at the Dec 8 March in Lon­don, for being in the SOCPA zone!!

She was held until Mon­day 10th when the court saw her and threw out the bail-breach on the grounds that she should nev­er had had such bail con­di­tions.

Anoth­er exam­ple of the MET endear­ing them­selves to us then.

70 stop old growth logging in 3 East Gippsland Coupes

2007-12-06
Today 70 con­ser­va­tion­ists stopped log­ging in three coupes in East Gipp­s­land, Vic­to­ria. The protest is in response to unfilled elec­tion promis­es to pro­tect old growth forests made by the Bracks/Brumby gov­ern­ment over a year ago. Four have attached them­selves to machin­ery halt­ing clear-felling oper­a­tions.

2007-12-06
Today 70 con­ser­va­tion­ists stopped log­ging in three coupes in East Gipp­s­land, Vic­to­ria. The protest is in response to unfilled elec­tion promis­es to pro­tect old growth forests made by the Bracks/Brumby gov­ern­ment over a year ago. Four have attached them­selves to machin­ery halt­ing clear-felling oper­a­tions.

Activists stopped oper­a­tions in Black Cut­tings, Aspen Bat­tery Track and Goon­garah Catch­ment. Cur­rent­ly two peo­ple are locked on to machi­nary in both Aspen Bat­tery Track and Black Cut­tings. Oth­er activists are black waller­by­ing (run­ning around) the coupes avoid­ing Depart­ment of Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Envi­ron­ment (DSE) offi­cers. 20 peo­ple were asked to leave Goon­garah Catch­ment and com­plied with that direc­tion, avoid­ing arrest.

“We are here today to hold politi­cians to account to ful­fil elec­tion promis­es. It is out­ra­geous that the Bracks/Brumby gov­ern­ment have not yet put these areas into reserves. Brum­by needs to act now and solves this issue.” said Mark Tylor spokesper­sons for the group.

Only two per­cent of Victoria’s old growth forests remains. These crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant areas are home to many endan­gered species, includ­ing sooty owl, pow­er­ful owl and long foot­ed potoroo.

“Forestry caus­es a sig­nif­i­cant pro­por­tion of Australia’s green­house gas emis­sions. If Labor is seri­ous about tak­ing real action to pre­vent dan­ger­ous cli­mate change they must com­mit to end­ing log­ging of high con­ser­va­tion forests now.”

“The gov­ern­ment needs to stop pan­der­ing to the multi­na­tion­al wood­chip indus­try, and have the courage to do what the sci­ence tells us is nec­es­sary to pro­tect the future sur­vival of all Aus­tralians and the plan­et” con­clud­ed James Ludd.

Ffos y Fran Coal Mine, 5th Dec 2007: activists chained to bulldozers to prevent work on open-cast coal mine (video added)

More than thir­ty cli­mate activists and local res­i­dents this morn­ing took mass direct action to pre­vent exca­va­tion work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

open cast lock-onMore than thir­ty cli­mate activists and local res­i­dents this morn­ing took mass direct action to pre­vent exca­va­tion work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

Cli­mate cam­paign­ers from all over Wales (2) joined with local peo­ple from Merthyr Tyd­fil to evade police and secu­ri­ty before tak­ing over the 1,000 acre site on a hill­top near Cardiff. They have chained them­selves to bull­doz­ers and oth­er heavy machin­ery to pre­vent work on the mine and have unfurled large ban­ners. They’ve pledged to pre­vent work on the site for as long as they can by climb­ing onto, and chain­ing them­selves to the 1,300 horse­pow­er yel­low dig­gers. The lead­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ist and author, George Mon­biot, is amongst their ranks.

Cli­mate Pro­tes­tor, Tim Hel­weg-Larsen, from Mach­nyn­l­leth, said:

“Gor­don Brown’s offi­cials this week jet off to Bali for UN talks on cut­ting car­bon emis­sions but at home they’re try­ing to drag us into a new coal age.”

He added:

“Coal is the filth­i­est fuel known to man and projects like this mine could destroy all our chances of tack­ling glob­al warm­ing. The bat­tle over this hill­top in Wales is a fight for the sta­bil­i­ty of the glob­al cli­mate and it epit­o­mis­es this government’s hypocrisy on cli­mate change.” (3)

Merthyr res­i­dent, Leon Stan­field, explained:

“We’ve protest­ed this mine in all the con­ven­tion­al ways. Now we’re turn­ing to direct action as a last resort. This project is wreck­ing both the local and the glob­al envi­ron­ment and is putting the health of our com­mu­ni­ty and its chil­dren at risk.”

Over 10,000 local peo­ple peti­tioned against the pit.

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

(1) Back­ground about the mine is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/09/energy
Miller Argent is the con­sor­tium dig­ging this pit. They are min­ing for 11 mil­lion tonnes of coal from the site. When this is burned, it will emit more than 30 mil­lion tonnes of car­bon diox­ide. The edge of the mine pit will be just 36 metres from people’s homes.

(2) Activists are from the group who organ­ised the Camp for Cli­mate Action out­side Heathrow dur­ing the sum­mer. www.climatecamp.org.uk

(3) The gov­ern­ment has con­vened a UK coal forum to “bring for­ward ways of strength­en­ing the indus­try, and work­ing to ensure the UK has the right frame­work to secure the long term future of coal fired gen­er­a­tion.”
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file39568.pdf (page8)

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Stream­ing for online view­ing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCn5HMI2M4

Full rez screen­ing copy
http://blip.tv/file/get/Undercurrents-PolarBearsPopulateWelshCoalMine312.mp4

International Hoax Targets US Business Consortium Amidst Bali Climate Negotiations

Cli­mate activists with the inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide net­work embar­rassed the U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a lob­by group com­posed of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, by dis­trib­ut­ing a spoof press release declar­ing that the consortium’s mem­bers had com­mit­ted to a 90 per­cent reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. In addi­tion, the spoof release called for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of all new coal-fired pow­er plants.

Cli­mate activists with the inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide net­work embar­rassed the U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a lob­by group com­posed of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, by dis­trib­ut­ing a spoof press release declar­ing that the consortium’s mem­bers had com­mit­ted to a 90 per­cent reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. In addi­tion, the spoof release called for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of all new coal-fired pow­er plants.

“To sta­bi­lize our cli­mate, reduc­tions need to be based on sci­ence, not on cre­at­ing wind­fall prof­its for the world’s largest pol­luters,” said Matt Leonard. “Lead­ing sci­en­tists say deci­sive action must hap­pen now to reduce our emis­sions. How­ev­er, cor­po­rate inter­ests have stymied sub­stan­tive action and are derail­ing gen­uine efforts of civ­il soci­ety to ade­quate­ly address cli­mate change.”

The fake press release was picked up by sev­er­al media out­lets, includ­ing the Dal­las Morn­ing News, UK Hem­scott and sev­er­al blogs before jour­nal­ists real­ized that USCAP mem­bers would nev­er agree to such pro­gres­sive reduc­tions in car­bon emis­sions or a mora­to­ri­um on coal plants. Fur­ther­more, Ris­ing Tide activists have done dozens of inter­views with media and even received calls from real USCAP mem­ber com­pa­nies about the web­site and press release.

Ris­ing Tide used the pho­ny web­site www.climateactionpartnership.org to dis­trib­ute the release, which mim­ic­ked USCAP’s site, www.us-cap.org. USCAP’s mem­bers include many of the largest US cor­po­ra­tions, includ­ing Alcoa, BP, Cater­pil­lar, Cono­coPhillips, Dow, DuPont, Ford, Gen­er­al Elec­tric, Gen­er­al Motors Corp., John­son & John­son, Pep­si­Co, PG&E, Shell and Xerox.

The hoax was timed to coin­cide with the open­ing of a major Unit­ed Nations cli­mate sum­mit in Bali in an effort to expose the dis­pro­por­tion­ate influ­ence of large cor­po­ra­tions on the cli­mate nego­ti­a­tions and the lack of ini­tia­tive from cor­po­ra­tions on reduc­ing fos­sil fuel use. Ris­ing Tide said that they will now tran­si­tion the site into an archive of envi­ron­men­tal mis­deeds and human rights abus­es of USCAP’s mem­bers.

“USCAP says it is seri­ous about stop­ping cli­mate change, but these com­pa­nies have not put their mon­ey where their mouth is,” said Bri­an Sloan of Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca. “It’s time to base our poli­cies on sci­ence and the safe­ty of our com­mu­ni­ties, not on someone’s bot­tom-line.”

Ris­ing Tide is an inter­na­tion­al net­work of all vol­un­teer grass­roots activists who tar­get cor­po­ra­tions respon­si­ble both for cli­mate change and for block­ing efforts to find solu­tions to it. Activists in Aus­tralia, the U.S., Cana­da, the Unit­ed King­dom and Indone­sia par­tic­i­pat­ed in the hoax.

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SPOOF PRESS RELEASE
For Imme­di­ate Release
Decem­ber 3, 2007

Con­tacts:
Joan Adams, Par­sons & Fis­ch­er, 202–684-8097, jadams@parsonsfischer.com
Jack Esco­bar, Par­sons & Fis­ch­er, 202–683-8451, jescobar@parsonsfischer.com

Infor­ma­tion at www.climateactionpartnership.org

MAJOR US BUSINESSES ANNOUNCE COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 90%

Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Dec. 3, 2007 — The U.S. Cli­mate Action Part­ner­ship (USCAP), a con­sor­tium of 33 promi­nent busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, announced today a com­mit­ment amongst its mem­bers to a 90% reduc­tion in green­house gas emis­sions by 2050. The announce­ment was timed to coin­cide with the open­ing of a major Unit­ed Nations cli­mate sum­mit in Bali.

“In an effort to encour­age deci­sive action in Bali this week, USCAP’s mem­bers have com­mit­ted to a 90% reduc­tion in their green­house gas emis­sions by 2050,” said Matt Leop­ard, a spokesper­son for the con­sor­tium. “This com­mit­ment should send a strong mes­sage to the assem­bled coun­tries and busi­ness­es about the type of reduc­tions need­ed to stop glob­al warm­ing.”

USCAP’s mem­bers include many US mar­ket lead­ers such as Alcoa, BP, Cater­pil­lar, Cono­coPhillips, Dow, DuPont, Ford, Gen­er­al Elec­tric, Gen­er­al Motors Corp., John­son & John­son, Pep­si­Co, PG&E, Shell and Xerox. USCAP’s goal is to fur­ther pub­lic pol­i­cy that will reduce green­house gas emis­sions and pro­tect the cli­mate.

The announce­ment from USCAP’s mem­bers also includes a mid-term com­mit­ment to reduce green­house gas emis­sions 45% from 1990 lev­els by 2020. Fol­low­ing the leads of NASA’s top cli­mate sci­en­tist James Hansen, as well as bi-par­ti­san polit­i­cal lead­ers, USCAP is also call­ing for an imme­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on the con­struc­tion of new coal-fired pow­er plants.

Toward this end, USCAP is urg­ing the US and oth­er indus­tri­al­ized nations to enact a pol­i­cy frame­work for manda­to­ry reduc­tions of green­house gas emis­sions from all sec­tors of the econ­o­my. USCAP has pro­duced a com­pre­hen­sive set of prin­ci­ples and rec­om­men­da­tions for sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly effec­tive, social­ly respon­si­ble cli­mate pol­i­cy. This doc­u­ment, titled A Call to Action1, has been released by USCAP to under­score the urgent need for a com­pre­hen­sive pol­i­cy shift on ener­gy and cli­mate.

USCAP is the first con­sor­tium of major busi­ness­es to make such a com­mit­ment in hopes that it will yield to pol­i­cy deci­sions to accel­er­ate the deploy­ment of zero-emis­sion tech­nolo­gies and ener­gy effi­cien­cy. In par­tic­u­lar, USCAP is pro­mot­ing land­mark leg­is­la­tion for a gov­ern­ment fund­ed “Sus­tain­able Job Corps.” This polit­i­cal­ly pop­u­lar pro­gram would cre­ate 5 mil­lion jobs build­ing a new pub­lic util­i­ty grid based on renew­able tech­nolo­gies, with a goal of pro­duc­ing 50% of the US ener­gy sup­ply by 2020.

“USCAP has offered a plan for the US to lead by exam­ple in efforts to pro­tect the cli­mate,” said Matt Leop­ard. “The world gov­ern­ments assem­bled in Bali this week should begin a rapid tran­si­tion to zero-emis­sion ener­gy sources and com­mit to a 90% reduc­tion from 1990 lev­els by 2050″.2

USCAP’s web­site is www.climateactionpartnership.org.

http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org

Switzerland: Police brutality against RTS. 245 activists detained

3.12.2007
Near­ly 500 riot cops with tanks and water can­nons stopped a peace­ful Reclaim The Streets par­ty. The cops used pep­per­spray, non-lethal guns and did beat peo­ple. They detanied 245 peo­ple.

Swiss RTS 13.12.2007
Near­ly 500 riot cops with tanks and water can­nons stopped a peace­ful Reclaim The Streets par­ty. The cops used pep­per­spray, non-lethal guns and did beat peo­ple. They detanied 245 peo­ple.

Police hunt­ed peo­ple through the streets. In a park they sur­round­ed hun­dreds of activists. Each activist was filmed and brought to a near­by prison. The prison was absolute­ly new and it seems it was con­struct­ed for arrest­ing pro­test­ers. After some hours no one was allowed to go to the toi­let or to ask for drink­ing water. The detainees were forced to be naked. After the arrest peo­ple were brought by police not back into the city of Luzern — but in neigh­bour­ing vil­lages. Quote of a cop: “We don´t want you in the city”.

Repres­sion is on a new lev­el in Switzer­land. Time to act.

CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 74, DECEMBER 2007

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07
3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07
4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07
5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07
6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08
7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08
8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08
9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008
10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07
11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07
2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07
3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07
4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07
5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07
6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07
7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07
8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07
9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07
10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07
11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RT ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY — 1.4.08
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY, April 1st 2008
Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival, but the fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with gov­ern­ments the will­ing court jesters at their side. They would have us believe that we can escape cli­mate change with tech­no-fix­es, mar­ket mech­a­nisms and off­set schemes – all tech­no­crat­ic acro­bat­ics that dis­tract us from the truth: the only real solu­tion to cli­mate change is to keep fos­sil fuels in the ground.

Find a local fos­sil fool – the coal-min­ing clown, the off­set con­tor­tion­ist, the avi­a­tor trip­ping on the high wire, the super­mar­ket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any oth­er fool that deserves your atten­tion – and join with thou­sands around the world in tak­ing one step clos­er to dis­man­tling the fos­sil fuel indus­try.

www.fossilfoolsday.org.uk /
www.risingtide.org.uk http://www.risingtide.org.uk/>

2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH & BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS FOR GLOBAL DOA — 8.12.07

As the UN cli­mate talks take place in Bali, join peo­ple all around the world to demand urgent action to pre­vent cat­a­stroph­ic desta­bil­i­sa­tion of glob­al cli­mate.
In Lon­don, assem­ble 12 noon Mill­bank for main march. [West­min­ster Tube].
The Anti-Avi­a­tion (inc. No Run­way 3 at Heathrow) bloc meets in Vic­to­ria Gar­dens at 12

Ral­ly at US embassy 2.30pm. http://www.campaigncc.org

The Shell’s Wild Lie exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture at the Lon­don demo after-par­ty at the Syn­er­gy Cen­tre:
www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=109,
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/41/2/

This will be one of many glob­al cli­mate demon­stra­tions tak­ing place on the 8th. There are actions planned in 80 coun­tries.
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org

One of the events planned in the UK is a cycle-relay of mes­sages from Tran­si­tion Towns and Cli­mate Friend­ly Vil­lages in Corn­wall to Par­lia­ment.
http://www.transitionfalmouth.org.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29

Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide are hav­ing a Cycle Cir­cus — Join a colour­ful crit­i­cal mass of peo­ple and ped­dlers of all shapes and sizes and let our cycling cir­cus upstage and reveal Bris­tol’s cli­mate crim­i­nals. Meet: Col­lege
Green, 1pm.
http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol

3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY — BATH, 1.12.07

Bath Activist Net­work are hav­ing a demo/party high­light­ing rad­i­cal alter­na­tives to envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion.

Meet at Abbey Court­yard at 11.30 am, then mov­ing through Bath say­ing hel­lo to some of our favourite plan­et trash­ers, play­ing music, shar­ing food, play­ing games and mak­ing mis­chief!
http://www.myspace.com/bathactivistnetwork

4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS — BRUSSELS, 4.12.07

The annu­al award for decep­tive, manip­u­la­tive and uneth­i­cal lob­by­ing. This year there is a spe­cial Green­wash Prize. The win­ners will be announced at a cer­e­mo­ny in Brus­sels on 4th Decem­ber.
http://www.worstlobby.eu http://www.worstlobby.eu/>

5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL — UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07

The case involves the arrest of Pen­ny, who glued her­self to the gates of the Cli­mate Camp to pre­vent re-entry by police offi­cers after mass action had per­suad­ed them to leave. Sol­i­dar­i­ty is urgent­ly request­ed for this court appear­ance. The tri­al is sched­uled to begin at Uxbridge mag­is­trates court, 10am on the 8th Jan­u­ary.
There will be a pop up cli­mate camp out­side court, more vol­un­teers are need­ed. Crash space is being organ­ised for the night before.
www.climatecamp.org.uk

6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING — LEEDS, 26–27.1.08

The Cli­mate Camp on its own did­n’t stop cli­mate change — but it’s part of a grow­ing social move­ment that can! Come and take the next steps for­ward at the upcom­ing UK-wide meet­ing on Jan 26–27 in Leeds. Every­one is wel­come, whether you came to the camp, or were sim­ply inspired by it.
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/nextmeeting.php

7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION — WINTER 07–08

This exhi­bi­tion address­es the envi­ron­men­tal, polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges of ris­ing sea lev­els caused by cli­mate change. The cen­tral fea­ture will be a mul­ti­me­dia video pro­jec­tion onto a giant relief mod­el of main­land Britain, where the ris­ing waters are seen to redraw the coast­line.
http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/tour/

8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING — HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18–20.1.08

Come and learn tech­niques and be inspired by pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion, share new skills and talk about how we can expand rad­i­cal edu­ca­tion net­works in UK and beyond.
http://www.trapese.org/

9) LOW IMPACT COURSES — BUCKS, JANUARY 2008

Low impact small­hold­ing / How to make biodiesel / Heat­ing with wood / Prun­ing & care of old fruit trees. For more details, see:
http://www.lowimpact.org/
http://www.lowimpact.org/course_outline_pruning_and_care_of_fruit_trees.htm>

10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? — 8.12.07

Whilst Nation­al and local gov­ern­ment have pushed for a destruc­tive Bypass to the A628 trunk road, Wood­head remains shut and alter­na­tives shut out. The own­ers of the Tun­nel, Nation­al Grid, are mov­ing to close it for good and
destroy any hope of future alter­na­tives to the car mon­ster.

A walk/bike ride is planned for Decem­ber 8th, to coin­cide with the nation­al cli­mate march, but oth­er ideas for action are most wel­come.
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-goodbye-to-woodhead.html
http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/or>

11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS — JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008

Get involved in the cam­paign to pro­tect Tas­ma­ni­a’s old growth forests.

Don’t fly but still want to help? Then please con­sid­er hold­ing a film night or fund-rais­er, or become a mem­ber of the Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre.
http://www.huon.org/

12) CONTACT VEDANTA — EMAIL ACTION

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

25,000 farm­ers are to form a human chain around one of the worlds largest dams in protest against this devel­op­ment.

Feel like con­tact­ing Vedan­ta to tell them how you feel?

By email; investorrelations@vedantaresources.com

By post; Vedan­ta Resources plc
16 Berke­ley Street
Lon­don W1J 8DZ

http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6348

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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE — NORWICH, 24.11.07

Nor­wich Ris­ing Tide marked Buy Noth­ing Day with a rat race. Activists cre­at­ed a mobile rat race that stopped off at the city’s busiest malls and high streets.
Peo­ple in rat cos­tumes scur­ried hith­er and thith­er through a maze built from plac­ards read­ing; Work Hard­er, Earn More Mon­ey, Buy More Things, Keep Going… Mean­while Fat Cats advised that hap­pi­ness was just around the cor­ner if the rats would only keep shop­ping!
A thou­sand leaflets were hand­ed out and many passers-by expressed their sup­port.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/237
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html

For reports of Buy Noth­ing Day in Leeds, Lon­don, Edin­burgh and Man­ches­ter see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17851

2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT — 21.11.07

On Novem­ber 21st Lon­don Ris­ing Tide inter­rupt­ed del­e­gates at the Avi­a­tion Emis­sions Trad­ing Sum­mit, held at Sel­f­ridges Hotel, cen­tral Lon­don. Free shares for pre-Emis­sions Trad­ing Scheme atmos­phere were giv­en out to each
del­e­gate at the con­fer­ence.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>The pro­test­ers were high­light­ing the huge risk of accel­er­at­ed cli­mate change through flights.

The ETS scheme will allow the indus­try to claim envi­ron­men­tal cre­den­tials when in fact stop­ping air­port expan­sion and reduc­ing flights is what is required. The fact that these per­mits will be auc­tioned at a bar­gain price will fur­ther add to the lack of impact that this scheme will have on the avi­a­tion indus­try.
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/399

3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE — AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07

Ris­ing Tide activists block­ad­ed a coal train on its way into the world’s biggest coal export port, at Koor­a­gang Island in New­cas­tle Har­bour. No trains are able to enter Koor­a­gang Coal Ter­mi­nal because of the block­ade.
“When faced with an over­whelm­ing prob­lem and a Gov­ern­ment unwill­ing or unable to take action to solve the prob­lem, it is the duty of all cit­i­zens to take action on the community’s behalf…There is no way Aus­tralia can con­tin­ue pass­ing the buck on cli­mate change. We are the biggest per capi­ta emit­ter of green­house gas­es and the biggest coal exporter in the world.”
(spokesper­son for Ris­ing Tide, Georgina Woods)
http://www.risingtide.org.au/coaltrainblockade

4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE — 28.11.07

Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­test­ers from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.
The team of pro­test­ers, wear­ing t‑shirts embla­zoned with No Third Run­way, hand­ed out copies of the Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-disrupt-parliamentary-committee-future-baa

5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT — AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07

Green­peace activists occu­pied the Mun­morah coal-fired pow­er sta­tion today. A Green­peace activist pushed the but­ton to stop the con­vey­or belt. Now it’s time to push the emer­gency switch on all coal pow­er plants.
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/coal-kills-shut-down
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html>

6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA — NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07

On Sat­ur­day 24 Novem­ber, protests were held at 36 Total petrol sta­tions across the UK. The protests called upon Total Oil to pull out of Bur­ma and stop financ­ing the Burmese mil­i­tary regime. Protest loca­tions includ­ed Brad­ford, Brighton, Chatham, Cardiff, Guernsey, Lon­don, Man­ches­ter, Oxford and Vir­gina Water. Some sta­tions were block­ad­ed and all the protests received great sup­port from the motor­ing and pedes­tri­an pub­lic.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17852

Also on the 13th Novem­ber, cam­paign­ers block­ad­ed a Total garage on Oxford Road, Man­ches­ter. http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17820

7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION — 4.11.07

In the ear­ly hours of a Sun­day morn­ing, cli­mate activists made a bold state­ment about glob­al warm­ing with a ban­ner drop from a four-storey build­ing.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6352

8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL — UK, NOVEMBER 07

While the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to flare gas in Nige­ria claim­ing lack of funds, peo­ple are tak­ing action…

On the 9th, sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against Shell demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has unleashed on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17808

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Ross­port and Nige­ria, the Shell petrol sta­tion on Dal­ry Road, Edin­burgh was block­ad­ed for 2 hours on the 11th by 20 peo­ple includ­ing mem­bers of the Clown Army. The Comis­ton Shell Petrol
Sta­tion was sub­ject­ed to a night-time redec­o­ra­tion.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17805
Ross­port: Anoth­er Sea­son of Resis­tance is an excel­lent indy­media update.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386253.html

Also in the news; The Adver­tis­ing Stan­dards Agency (ASA) has upheld a com­plaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil com­pa­ny’s claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flow­ers.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/shell_advert_is_ruled_misl_01112007.html

9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST — 21.11.07

BP’s hopes of draw­ing a line under its prob­lems in the US after agree­ing a $380m (£184m) set­tle­ment with the author­i­ties have been dealt a blow by a legal chal­lenge over the fatal explo­sion at its Texas City refin­ery. An
attor­ney for vic­tims of the blast, has asked a fed­er­al judge to reject the set­tle­ment, say­ing it is “shock­ing­ly lenient”.
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/42/2/

10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE — NOVEMBER 07

Novem­ber ebul­letin from the Per­ma­cul­ture Asso­ci­a­tion (Britain).
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php

11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT — COLOMBIA, 29.10.07

For a report on the grass-roots Tri­bunal into Cli­mate Jus­tice in Bogotá, see;
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26987&search_text=colombia

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Sizewell Nuclear Power Blockade

1.12.2007
At 6:50 am this morn­ing 8 sleepy pro­tes­tors arrived at the gates of Sizewell A and B in Suf­folk. What else would you do at this time in the morn­ing at a nuclear pow­er sta­tion, oth­er than lay on the road, lock your­selves togeth­er, unfurl your ban­ner read­ing ‘nuclear pow­er is not the answer to cli­mate chaos’ and wait 15 min­utes for the secu­ri­ty to notice you.

Sizewell 11.12.2007
At 6:50 am this morn­ing 8 sleepy pro­tes­tors arrived at the gates of Sizewell A and B in Suf­folk. What else would you do at this time in the morn­ing at a nuclear pow­er sta­tion, oth­er than lay on the road, lock your­selves togeth­er, unfurl your ban­ner read­ing ‘nuclear pow­er is not the answer to cli­mate chaos’ and wait 15 min­utes for the secu­ri­ty to notice you.

As the shift change began, we lay com­fort­ably on the wet and cold road, and only one work­er threat­ened to run us over.
The griffins arrived (civ­il nuclear police), Suf­folk police, and a cou­ple of gnomes (or maybe secu­ri­ty peo­ple). Appar­ent­ly, peo­ple want­ed to go to work, and so the police asked us to move. We declined.
After 2 and a half hours of shift change dis­rup­tion (job done!) we made a deal with the cop­pers that we could leave, with all of our equip­ment, not get arrest­ed, and be free to come and do it again anoth­er day. Bizarrely, the police agreed to this. Watch the video below of what hap­pened just after release – appar­ent­ly, they couldn’t arrest us under the human rights act – pro­por­tion­al­i­ty and all that, innit.

Videos:
The rea­sons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7-Z3wdjAM
Inter­ac­tions with the police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OiMfCGC94
Leav­ing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPMcvj7BBQ

Below is the press release we sent out.

This week it was announced that Sizewell is one of the four sites pro­posed for the new build of nuclear pow­er plants. Brown indi­cat­ed that large gov­ern­ment incen­tives for new nuclear sta­tions will be promised in the new year. These would include a plan­ning reform bill that will speed up the plan­ning process. The pro­test­ers say that this will take away the abil­i­ty to refuse per­mis­sion on a local lev­el and that many safe­ty fea­tures were intro­duced dur­ing the exten­sive plan­ning phase for Sizewell B.

One of the pro­test­ers, Peter Lux from Nor­wich said, “Gor­don Browns state­ment is com­plete­ly at odds with what we should be doing to com­bat cli­mate change. The pro­posed avi­a­tion pol­i­cy with the expan­sion of Heathrow will cause sev­er­al times more green­house gas emis­sions than could pos­si­bly be saved by replac­ing our exist­ing nuclear pow­er sta­tions even if nuclear pow­er was car­bon neu­tral which it is not.”

Anoth­er pro­test­er said: “It is so frus­trat­ing to think that we do not even have a democ­ra­cy when it comes to our ener­gy needs and use. That’s why we have to come and take direct action, how can we sit back and watch when we know this is the wrong route to be tak­ing?.” Said Mell Har­ri­son, one of the pro­test­ers and Cam­paigns Coor­di­na­tor for East­ern Region CND. She went on “The gov­ern­ment are going ahead with build­ing new nuclear pow­er sta­tions with­out prop­er pub­lic debate and con­sul­ta­tion. All you ever hear from the Gov­ern­ment is about our grow­ing ener­gy needs, but the real answer is ener­gy con­ser­va­tion and more sus­tain­able life styles. For exam­ple we hear about China’s ever grow­ing ener­gy needs, but it’s the West’s desire for more cheap goods from Chi­na that is one of the biggest rea­sons for their car­bon emis­sions.”
Sizewell B was the last nuclear reac­tor to be built in the UK and was com­plet­ed in 1995. It took 15 years to com­plete, cost over £3billion with about £800 mil­lion in cost over­runs, which result­ed main­ly from addi­tion­al safe­ty fea­tures.
The nuclear indus­try also suf­fered a set­back ear­li­er this month when it was announced that the Nuclear Decom­mis­sion­ing Author­i­ty was unable able to say what the costs of clean­ing up Britain’s nuclear pow­er sta­tions would reach, but last month it raised its esti­mate by more than 12 per cent to £72.7 bil­lion. This ris­ing cost will be met by the tax­pay­er rather than the nuclear indus­try.

plunk@hushmail.com
http://www.easterncnduk.org

Maniac Motorist Marrs Mass in Glasgow

Last Fri­day’s Crit­i­cal Mass in Glas­gow was marred and cut short slight­ly by an assault on one of the rid­ers. Not over­bur­dened with fes­tive spir­it, a mid­dle-aged woman leant out of a car (reg. no X754…) and pulled the cyclist off his bike.

Glasgow CM Nov. 07Last Fri­day’s Crit­i­cal Mass in Glas­gow was marred and cut short slight­ly by an assault on one of the rid­ers. Not over­bur­dened with fes­tive spir­it, a mid­dle-aged woman leant out of a car (reg. no X754…) and pulled the cyclist off his bike.

After gath­er­ing as usu­al, defy­ing rain and the inva­sion of George Square by a St andrews day icerink and a mil­lion Saltires, 20 cyclists went for their reg­u­lar ride around. About 0 min­utes into the event the atmos­phere turned nasty while head­ing up St Vin­cent Street.

After attempt­ing to dri­ve in between the Massers, always a dan­ger­ous and counter-pro­duc­tive thing to do, the sil­ver car near­ly hit a rid­er. after that and a short con­ver­sa­tion, the car’s pas­sen­ger, a mid­dle-aged blonde woman in a red jack­et grabbed the cyclist by the shoul­der, jerked him off of his bike.

The car with a reg­is­tra­tion num­ber begin­ning X754 and end­ing in either LGG or a sim­i­lar sound­ing com­bi­na­tion of let­ters, then sped off up the hill. a rid­er caught up at the next set of traf­fic lights (always hap­pens) but was unable to get a clear pho­to­graph of the vio­lent crim­i­nal and her accom­plice, who turned right up Pitt Street and got away.

Crit­i­cal Massers regrouped to catch breath on the pave­ment, then most of them con­tin­ued to ride for anoth­er 20 min­utes or so. Includ­ing the assault­ed cyclist, not seri­ous­ly hurt but slight­ly shak­en and, giv­en the police’s inac­tion over a pre­vi­ous assault, unlike­ly to both­er press­ing charges. From Argyle Street, past the most pol­lut­ed site in the city, over the riv­er and back over the foot­bridge to the pub for a warm­ing and well-earned drink.

“Motorist breaks law with impuni­ty.” It’s hard­ly a news sto­ry, as you can see from this pho­to­graph of a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent car on the same road. Two peo­ple in the car, wet road, lengthy stop­ping dis­tance, yet it’s the dri­ver who’s talk­ing on the mobile phone. Anoth­er idiot endan­ger­ing my life and my friends’ lives while slow­ly poi­son­ing the air we all share. Where’s the choice in lifestyle choice there?

While the assault might cause Crit­i­cal Massers to think more deeply about tac­tics, there’s no doubt that more than ever it’s a vital part of the bat­tle for qual­i­ty of life in Glas­gow.

Meets at George Square, 5:30pm for a 6:00pm depar­ture on the last Fri­day of every month.