Category: Action Reports

Friday 8th June 2007 — International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8

Direct Action for Cli­mate Jus­tice — Resis­tance is Self Defense!

We all know the ter­ri­fy­ing sta­tis­tics: a mil­lion species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Green­land and Antarc­ti­ca melt­ing, droughts, floods, famines ? the G8 have had over 30 years to address cli­mate change and only suc­ceed­ed in pro­vid­ing tril­lions in sub­si­dies to the very indus­tries that are destroy­ing our plan­et and our future. And while the G8 con­tin­ues to line their pock­ets, island states dis­ap­pear and hun­dreds of thou­sands die as a result of the freak weath­er con­di­tions caused by their irra­tional and uncon­trol­lable obses­sion with nev­er end­ing eco­nom­ic growth.

Direct Action for Cli­mate Jus­tice — Resis­tance is Self Defense!

We all know the ter­ri­fy­ing sta­tis­tics: a mil­lion species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Green­land and Antarc­ti­ca melt­ing, droughts, floods, famines ? the G8 have had over 30 years to address cli­mate change and only suc­ceed­ed in pro­vid­ing tril­lions in sub­si­dies to the very indus­tries that are destroy­ing our plan­et and our future. And while the G8 con­tin­ues to line their pock­ets, island states dis­ap­pear and hun­dreds of thou­sands die as a result of the freak weath­er con­di­tions caused by their irra­tional and uncon­trol­lable obses­sion with nev­er end­ing eco­nom­ic growth.

We have a ten-year win­dow to act. As the mega­lo­ma­ni­ac G8 lead­ers meet in Ger­many, masked behind a bar­ri­er of fences and sol­diers, intent on lead­ing us fur­ther towards cat­a­stroph­ic and irre­versible cli­mate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the time to take direct action and shut them down, them and their cli­mate crim­i­nal indus­try friends!

The 8th of June Inter­na­tion­al Day of Action Against Cli­mate Change and the G8 has been called by the Inter­na­tion­al Ris­ing Tide Net­work. This is a call for autonomous, decen­tral­ized actions appro­pri­ate for your town, city, or local area. Use this inter­na­tion­al day of action to sup­port local strug­gles against oil refiner­ies, gas pipelines, strip mines and coal-fired pow­er plants. Dis­rupt the finan­cial back­ers of the fos­sil fuel indus­try. Organ­ise work­shops to spread sus­tain­able post-petro­le­um liv­ing skills. Find a weak point in the infra­struc­ture of resource exploita­tion and throw a lit­er­al or sym­bol­ic wrench in the works. It’s time to vis­it your local pol­luters and give ’em hell!

We already know of actions planned across the UK, North Amer­i­ca, Ger­many, Cana­da and Aus­tralia and that’s just the start! By 8th June actions will be planned around the world. Pass this call out on to all envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, cli­mate action, rad­i­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and relat­ed move­ments in all the G8 coun­tries and the Glob­al South.

Ris­ing Tide will cre­ate a col­lec­tion of out­reach and agit-prop mate­ri­als (includ­ing this call out in five dif­fer­ent lan­guages) that can be used by groups around the world to organ­ise local­ly. These mate­ri­als will be down­load­able from www.risingtide.org.uk and http://risingtidenorthamerica.org.

Direct action and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence are the ratio­nal response in this time of cri­sis. Sup­port the 8th of June Inter­na­tion­al Day of Direct Action against Cli­mate Change and the G8! Tell us about planned actions for cli­mate jus­tice being planned in your com­mu­ni­ty. Con­tact us — info@risingtide.org.uk and contact@risingtidenorthamerica.org

In June 2007 the G8 will under­stand the mean­ing of rebel­lion, revolt and rev­o­lu­tion. Their recipe for cat­a­stro­phe will be met with our world­wide resis­tance!

York Vikings go berserk over Trident

19.03.2007
A twelve strong group from York, dressed as Vikings, have suc­cess­ful­ly block­ad­ed both entrances to the Faslane nuclear sub­ma­rine base. The coor­di­nat­ed action com­plete­ly closed the base for half an hour this morn­ing. Four men and eight women were arrest­ed in the peace­ful protest.

Faslane Viking protest 1
Faslane Viking protest 2
Faslane Viking protest 3
19.03.2007
A twelve strong group from York, dressed as Vikings, have suc­cess­ful­ly block­ad­ed both entrances to the Faslane nuclear sub­ma­rine base. The coor­di­nat­ed action com­plete­ly closed the base for half an hour this morn­ing. Four men and eight women were arrest­ed in the peace­ful protest.

One of the pro­test­ers, Richard Lane, said “The Vikings slaugh­tered tens of thou­sands of peo­ple but they did so over half a mil­len­ni­um. Tri­dent could do the same in a minute.” Dave Tay­lor of York Green Par­ty said “What­ev­er hap­pened to the eth­i­cal for­eign pol­i­cy that New Labour once promised?” “There is noth­ing eth­i­cal about spend­ing bil­lions of pounds on weapons that the human race can­not afford to use,” he added.

The base is sub­ject to a year long cam­paign reject­ing nuclear weapons and, in par­tic­u­lar, the renew­al of Tri­dent. This has attract­ed a lot of inter­na­tion­al sup­port. So far, near­ly 600 peo­ple from all over the world have been arrest­ed in as many actions and block­ades.

4 anti-military activists from Spain poured gallons of red paint over themselves at Faslane

A group of 15 Span­ish activists from five dif­fer­ent areas of Spain, all belong­ing to the Span­ish Con­scien­cious Objec­tion Move­ment, arrived at Faslane for the week-end. With ban­ners, song and dance they protest­ed at the UK’s pos­ses­sion and deploy­ment of nuclear weapons.

Faslane red paint protest 2
Faslane red paint protest 3
Faslane red paint protest 1
A group of 15 Span­ish activists from five dif­fer­ent areas of Spain, all belong­ing to the Span­ish Con­scien­cious Objec­tion Move­ment, arrived at Faslane for the week-end. With ban­ners, song and dance they protest­ed at the UK’s pos­ses­sion and deploy­ment of nuclear weapons.

Last Thurs­day march 18th the British passed the updat­ing of their nuclear arse­nal, includ­ing the nuclear sub­marines nuclear­es with Tri­dent mis­siles with more destruc­tive pow­er (12 nuclear heads) than the bombs
thrown over Hirosi­ma and Nagasa­ki. The cost of this pro­grame goes up to 30.000 mil­lions of euros. These are real mass destruc­tion weapons

In view of this, anti­mil­i­tarist activists of difer­ent parts of the Span­ish State have trav­elled to the mil­i­tary base where this sub­marines are locat­ed in Faslane (Scot­land), to car­ry out an action of block­ade.
This anti­mil­i­tarist action is with­in the frame­work of a cam­paign that is tak­ing place since last octo­ber. Up to now there have been 579 peo­ple from all ovr the world arreested in sev­er­al actions of block­ade. Also,
in front of the mil­i­tary base, there is a peace camp (Faslane Peace Camp) to demand the dis­ar­ma­ment of the base and the non-pro­lif­er­a­tion of nuclear weapons. This Peace Camp has been oper­at­ing for 25 years.

AA-MOC has been work­ing for years to build a world with­out wars where Armies and weapons ‑par­tic­u­lary if they are nuclear- have no place, a world where the huge mil­i­tary expens­es (almost 18.000 mil­lions of euros
in the Span­ish State this year) are devot­ed to cov­er social neces­si­ties.

Today AA-MOC has bock­ad­ed the North gate of the Mil­i­tary Base of Faslane in Scot­land. To do so, two women and two men from Sala­man­ca, Madrid, Zaragoza and Ali­cante ‑sup­port­ed by oth­er activists of the State- have
poured red paint over them­selves. The red colour sym­bol­izes the suf­fer­ing and the blood­shed that these weapons of mass destruc­tion can cause. The paint has imped­ed the imme­di­ate deten­tion of the activists.
Final­ly they have been arrest­ed and moved to difer­ent police sta­tions. They were released ten hours lat­er with­out charges.

Tele­phone for inter­views: (34) 609.469.599 ó (34) 696.343.586
To dowm­load pho­tos: http://www.box.net/shared/1d8sqy8gcy
Video: http://www.box.net/shared/m1om1e29pc
Fur­ther info (span­ish): www.insumissia.org

http://www.faslane365.org

Camp Titnore needs your help!

Camp Tit­nore near Wor­thing in Sus­sex could do with some com­mit­ted cam­paign­ers to come and lend a hand. Com­ing up to a year in res­i­dence (May 28) the camp could do with some new blood. Be part of group aim­ing to stop Tescos and oth­er scum-bags trash one of the last remain­ing ancient wood­lands on the Sus­sex coastal plain.

Camp Tit­nore near Wor­thing in Sus­sex could do with some com­mit­ted cam­paign­ers to come and lend a hand. Com­ing up to a year in res­i­dence (May 28) the camp could do with some new blood. Be part of group aim­ing to stop Tescos and oth­er scum-bags trash one of the last remain­ing ancient wood­lands on the Sus­sex coastal plain.

We could do with some new camp mem­bers down Tit­nore way. This is a very well defend­ed site, but vet­er­an anti-road cam­paign­ers as well as new blood would be real­ly wel­come. With sum­mer round the cor­ner this is a beau­ti­ful part of the coun­try and the camp ben­e­fits from a well organ­ised sup­port group in the near­by estate, Wor­thing and Brighton. The for­est eco-sys­tem, plus lake is threat­ened by 850 homes, a new Tescos and attached busi­ness units. An evic­tion order has been in place since Novem­ber, but as devel­op­ment plans are stalled, an actu­al attempt­ed evic­tion could be months fur­ther down the line.

http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

Spring into Action provisional programme

The pro­vi­sion­al pro­gramme for Spring into Action is now avail­able. Check out the many excit­ing work­shops, from the sci­ence of cli­mate change, through food grow­ing to how to build a rock­et stove.

pro­gramme as pdf — application/pdf 62K

The pro­vi­sion­al pro­gramme for Spring into Action is now avail­able. Check out the many excit­ing work­shops, from the sci­ence of cli­mate change, through food grow­ing to how to build a rock­et stove.

pro­gramme as pdf — application/pdf 62K

The pro­vi­sion­al pro­gramme for Spring into Action is now avail­able. Check out the many excit­ing work­shops, from the sci­ence of cli­mate change, through food grow­ing to how to build a rock­et stove.

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

Demonstration and Carnival against the Pipeline- Saturday 24th March, Trebanos

As part of the ongo­ing cam­paign against the pro­posed 150 mile liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas pipeline run­ning through South Wales at a dan­ger­ous­ly high pres­sure, there will be march through the affect­ed vil­lage of Tre­banos, fol­lowed by a ral­ly at Tre­banos RFC club­house.

Stop LNG pipeline bannerAs part of the ongo­ing cam­paign against the pro­posed 150 mile liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas pipeline run­ning through South Wales at a dan­ger­ous­ly high pres­sure, there will be march through the affect­ed vil­lage of Tre­banos, fol­lowed by a ral­ly at Tre­banos RFC club­house.

We invite any­one who wish­es to express their con­cern at the envi­ron­men­tal impact and safe­ty con­sid­er­a­tions of this devel­op­ment, or who wish­es to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple who’s lives are being affect­ed by it.

Meet 2pm at the Lidl Carpark in Pon­tar­dawe to LEAVE FROM THE BOTTOM OF GLYNMEIRCH ROAD AT 2:30PM

Please bring ban­ners, music, colour, flags, fan­cy dress, friends, fam­i­ly and pets.

For more info check out:
http://www.fightthepipe.co.uk
http://www.safehavenpembs.co.uk
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/bristol/pipeline

There will be a minibus from Cardiff, tak­ing peo­ple direct­ly to the start of the march.

Times from car park at the rear of Cardiff Cen­tral train sta­tion: 10.00 am & 12.00 noon.
Times from Tre­banos RFC club­house to Cardiff Cen­tral: 4.00 pm & 6.00 pm

Tick­ets for a return jour­ney are £5. Please con­tact Amy on 07828671422 or email neverwork@riseup.net to book your place on the minibus.

Please note: there is a lim­it­ed num­ber of places so please make sure your place in secured by no lat­er than Tues­day 20th. If mon­ey is a prob­lem for you, we still may be able to find you space — get in touch!
http://www.fightthepipe.co.uk

Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!

Faslane Peace Camp recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 23rd year of direct action to oppose the Tri­dent nuclear sub­marines sta­tioned 30 miles north of Glas­gow. Vis­i­tors are always wel­come, for a day, a week, or longer!

Faslane Peace Camp recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 23rd year of direct action to oppose the Tri­dent nuclear sub­marines sta­tioned 30 miles north of Glas­gow. Vis­i­tors are always wel­come, for a day, a week, or longer!

Direc­tions: Train from Glas­gow Queen Street or 216 bus from Jamaica Street to Helens­burgh Cen­tral. Then catch the 316 bus to the peace camp.

For more info and to check the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion: 01436 820 901
faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com

Week of Iceland Actions in the Low Countries

16.03.2007
This morn­ing, Sav­ing Ice­land and the Dutch/Belgian envi­ron­men­tal­ist net­work Groen­Front! built a dam blockad­ing the entrance of the Ice­landic Embassy in Brus­sels (pho­to-report). Ear­li­er this week, a pick­et­line was held at the Ice­landic Con­sulate in Rot­ter­dam and the folk singer Armand, the “Dutch Bob Dylan”, per­formed songs of praise to Ice­landic nature. Last night, Earth­First! closed down both ALCOA’s Dutch head office in Drunen and an ALCOA fac­to­ry in Kerkrade, the Nether­lands in oppo­si­tion to heavy indus­try. The actions this week express grow­ing inter­na­tion­al con­cern on the plans for expan­sion of the alu­mini­um indus­try and megahy­dro in Ice­land and oth­er coun­tries such as Trinidad and Brazil.

16.03.2007
This morn­ing, Sav­ing Ice­land and the Dutch/Belgian envi­ron­men­tal­ist net­work Groen­Front! built a dam blockad­ing the entrance of the Ice­landic Embassy in Brus­sels (pho­to-report). Ear­li­er this week, a pick­et­line was held at the Ice­landic Con­sulate in Rot­ter­dam and the folk singer Armand, the “Dutch Bob Dylan”, per­formed songs of praise to Ice­landic nature. Last night, Earth­First! closed down both ALCOA’s Dutch head office in Drunen and an ALCOA fac­to­ry in Kerkrade, the Nether­lands in oppo­si­tion to heavy indus­try. The actions this week express grow­ing inter­na­tion­al con­cern on the plans for expan­sion of the alu­mini­um indus­try and megahy­dro in Ice­land and oth­er coun­tries such as Trinidad and Brazil.

http://www.savingiceland.org/node/694

URGENT! PEOPLE NEEDED AT ANTI-PIPELINE TREE CAMP!

Lots more peo­ple are URGENTLY need­ed at the protest camp near Bre­con. Trees are now being felled in the area around the camp and evic­tion is expect­ed with­in the next two weeks. We need peo­ple, it does­n’t mat­ter if you can’t stay for long, we still want you!

Lots more peo­ple are URGENTLY need­ed at the protest camp near Bre­con. Trees are now being felled in the area around the camp and evic­tion is expect­ed with­in the next two weeks. We need peo­ple, it does­n’t mat­ter if you can’t stay for long, we still want you!

The ancient wood­land is sched­uled for dec­i­ma­tion by Nation­al Grid to clear a path for the 48″ high pres­sure gas pipeline. The pro­test­ers aim to stop the destruc­tion of yet more ancient wood­land by Nation­al Grid and it’s con­trac­tors.

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

The spring is spring­ing, the flow­ers are start­ing to cov­er the wood­land and it’s the most beau­ti­ful time of year. As Nation­al Grid are sched­uled to be trash­ing this land in April, this is your last chance to see it.

DIRECTIONS:

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

Map link :- http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-3.49420&GridN=51.94540&lon=-3.49420&lat=51.94540&place=Penpont%2C%20Powys&db=freegaz&scale=100000&search_result=Penpont%2C%20Powys〈=&keepicon=true
http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/churches/brecon/5844.html

http://fightthepipe.co.uk

London Climate Campers update

Only four months to go till the 2007 Camp for Cli­mate Action — are you get­ting involved?

Get inspired, watch the Reclaim Pow­er movie about last years camp at the ram­pART social cen­tre tonight from 8pm. (see https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364997.html). Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

Only four months to go till the 2007 Camp for Cli­mate Action — are you get­ting involved?

Get inspired, watch the Reclaim Pow­er movie about last years camp at the ram­pART social cen­tre tonight from 8pm. (see https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364997.html). Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

The Lon­don cli­mate camp group had a meet­ing last tues­day and among the issues dis­cussed was the lack of strength in terms of peo­ple com­mit­ting at this stage. This raised the prospect of join­ing forces with oth­er groups from the South East to organ­ise a neigh­bour­hood rather than try to have Lon­don as an enti­ty in it’s own right. Con­tact has been made with the Brighton group but no fur­ther news yet on that.

The Lon­don group is plan­ning on organ­is­ing a fundrais­er for April 28th. If you can help or have con­tacts with good DJs, bands, etc to draw crowds; who know about good venues; etc get in touch!

The Lon­don group has vol­un­teered to organ­ise the May gath­er­ing and host it in Lon­don. The dates will be the 19th and 20th May so put it in your diary now. Venue is yet to be decid­ed. Help will be need­ed with the gen­er­al organ­i­sa­tion (kitchen, facil­i­ta­tion, etc), so step

In the mean­time, this week­end is the nation­al cli­mate camp gath­er­ing in Bris­tol. Min­utes of pre­vi­ous meet­ings can be found on the cli­mate camp web­site http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/meeting.htm

The next Lon­don meet­ing will be on Mon­day 26th March at the Insti­tute of Edu­ca­tion cafe. Up to now the meet­ings have been fort­night­ly, but there are plans to skip April 10th as this will be East­er tues­day and then make the meet­ings week­ly from Tue­day 17th Apri. It would be great if more peo­ple could make the meet­ings so that Lon­don can have a vibrant gath­er­ing and neigh­bour­hood.