Category: Transport

Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence

A coali­tion of envi­ron­men­tal activists led by GatewaySucks.org is call­ing on cli­mate change activists to join the con­ver­gence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Van­cou­ver.


A coali­tion of envi­ron­men­tal activists led by GatewaySucks.org is call­ing on cli­mate change activists to join the con­ver­gence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Van­cou­ver.

When the 2010 Win­ter Olympics start a cou­ple of weeks from now in Van­cou­ver, BC the ath­letes and spec­ta­tors will be joined by orga­ni­za­tions with some of the worst records on cli­mate change.

Gen­er­al Motors is a nation­al part­ner for the games, and one of the lead­ing cor­po­rate oppo­nents of effec­tive action on cli­mate change. Only two years ago, a vice-chair­man of GM called glob­al warm­ing a “total crock of shit.” GM is sup­ply­ing a large fleet of vehi­cles for the games, almost all of which are gas-guz­zling SUVs.

Petro-Cana­da, anoth­er Nation­al Olympic Part­ner, is the retail arm of the largest extrac­tor of Oil Sands bitu­men. The Oil Sands are Canada’s biggest ghg emis­sions point source.

RBC (the Roy­al Bank of Cana­da) in addi­tion to being a promi­nent Olympic spon­sor is the largest com­mer­cial bank fun­der of the Oil Sands,. Tran­sCana­da pipelines, whose pipelines con­nect to the Oil Sands, is also an offi­cial sup­pli­er.

The gov­ern­ment of British Colum­bia is the main fun­der and pro­mot­er of the games. They kicked off a mas­sive plan to add over 1,000 km of new high­way lanes (an increase of over 2,000,000 annu­al tonnes of CO2e emis­sions ) with the Sea-to-Sky High­way expan­sion for the Olympics. These plans include the con­tro­ver­sial Gate­way Pro­gram. It con­tin­ues to heav­i­ly sub­si­dize the oil and gas indus­try which result­ed in it being the only Cana­di­an province to see ghg emis­sions from indus­tri­al sources increase in 2008.

The Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment of Cana­da which con­sis­tent­ly earned “Fos­sil Awards” at the most recent inter­na­tion­al cli­mate talks also is a major fun­der for the Olympics.

These cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ments want to fool the world with their claim that these are the “Green­est Games Ever” despite the links to cli­mate change deniers, high­way expan­sion and the Oil Sands.

If you would like to endorse this call-out or get involved direct­ly please con­tact info@gatewaysucks.org.

MORE INFORMATION:

Con­ver­gence Info: http://olympicresistance.net/

Wel­com­ing Com­mit­tee: http://2010welcoming.wordpress.com/

Green Olympic Watch: http://2010greenwatch.org/

GatewaySucks.org: http://www.gatewaysucks.org/

2010 Cli­mate Crime Scene: http://2010climatecrime.org

The new EF! Action Update — bursting onto the seams…

In the Spring edi­tion of the EF! Action Update, see how King Coal is being con­front­ed — chim­neys climbed, con­vey­ors locked-on to, mines invad­ed, machin­ery occu­pied, eco­tage, and more.

EF! AU logo 1In the Spring edi­tion of the EF! Action Update, see how King Coal is being con­front­ed — chim­neys climbed, con­vey­ors locked-on to, mines invad­ed, machin­ery occu­pied, eco­tage, and more.

Mar­vel at the Main­shill strat­e­gy of con­tin­u­ous action, look with awe at the range of tac­tics they used in the many months before eviction…and then think about what you can do, with who, where and when.

“If not you, who? If not now, when?”

The Main­shill fea­ture includes an action time­line, local com­mu­ni­ty links and ideas for the future.

The Nuclear New Build CON­sul­ta­tion is over on 22nd Feb­ru­ary — read about what hap­pens next, who’s involved, and an anti-nuclear camp in April.

“in the end we just need rebel­lion. Every­where.” — what was your response to the Copen­hagen cli­mate chaos, whether you went or stayed at home?

Be inspired by an inter­view with “D Lock,our mys­tery dig­ger div­ing activist” — get out there, bicy­cle lock in hand. In Jan­u­ary, one per­son so-armed brought a whole coal ter­mi­nal to a halt for many hours.

And from across the seas, read about our broth­ers and sis­ters strug­gling against high-speed train destruc­tion in Italy, high-volt­age pow­er lines in Cat­alo­nia, and whale hunt­ing on the High Seas.

And if you don’t get high on all that, try not to be inspired by con­fer­ences block­ad­ed, dams delayed, earth-trash­ing machin­ery sab­o­taged, trees hugged, archi­tects impost­ed, genet­ics roofed, bio­mess bio­massed and much more.

“We are going to inher­it the earth . There is not the slight­est doubt about that. We Are not afraid of ruins. We car­ry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is grow­ing this minute.” — Dur­ru­ti

To down­load the lat­est EF!AU for print­ing, go to http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10print.pdf

To read the lat­est EF!AU online, go to http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_feb10.pdf

Mexico: Two Jailed For Earth Liberation Front Actions

Abra­ham López Martínez (age 16) and Fer­mín Gómez Tre­jo (age 17), have been held since Decem­ber 15, 2009 at a youth deten­tion cen­ter in Mex­i­co City. They are accused of dam­ag­ing prop­er­ty and crim­i­nal asso­ci­a­tion, relat­ed to the burn­ing of nine pri­vate­ly-owned cars and a bomb attack against a Harley David­son deal­er, actions claimed by the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra [Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front]. They are await­ing tri­al. Both are veg­an.

Abra­ham López Martínez (age 16) and Fer­mín Gómez Tre­jo (age 17), have been held since Decem­ber 15, 2009 at a youth deten­tion cen­ter in Mex­i­co City. They are accused of dam­ag­ing prop­er­ty and crim­i­nal asso­ci­a­tion, relat­ed to the burn­ing of nine pri­vate­ly-owned cars and a bomb attack against a Harley David­son deal­er, actions claimed by the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra [Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front]. They are await­ing tri­al. Both are veg­an.
Write to them via Anar­chist Black Cross-Mex­i­co: cna.mex@gmail.com

Source: http://www.directaction.info/prisoners.htm

Manchester Veloween Critical Mass

Update: 3 or 400 peo­ple came and massed. We caused cycle traf­fic jams for our­selves, but actu­al­ly man­aged to ride more freely when we got onto the 3 lane dual car­riage­ways — ah, first time I’ve been glad to ride on those!

Octo­ber Crit­i­cal Mass and Hal­loween Par­ty

WOWZA!!!!

On Fri­day 30th Octo­ber we shall be hav­ing a SPOOOOKTASTIC CRITICAL MASS AND AN AFTER PARTY!!!!

Update: 3 or 400 peo­ple came and massed. We caused cycle traf­fic jams for our­selves, but actu­al­ly man­aged to ride more freely when we got onto the 3 lane dual car­riage­ways — ah, first time I’ve been glad to ride on those!

Octo­ber Crit­i­cal Mass and Hal­loween Par­ty

WOWZA!!!!

On Fri­day 30th Octo­ber we shall be hav­ing a SPOOOOKTASTIC CRITICAL MASS AND AN AFTER PARTY!!!!

Join us at 6pm at Cen­tral Library for a fun mass bike ride around the city to cel­e­brate the bicy­cle over car cul­ture, to meet oth­er cyclists, to feel less alien­at­ed on usu­al­ly car dom­i­nat­ed roads, to go on a bike ride, to feel the wind in your hair and rain on your face (we ride rain or shine!)

(come in fan­cy dress, and fan­cy dress your bike too)…

then we shall ride to a secret venue for a spooky par­ty with amaz­ing Dj’s from Drum Music, Bass Camp and Pick your Own and oth­er ace peo­ple too… Soundsys­tem lov­ing­ly pro­vid­ed by GASH SOUNDSYSTEM

with danc­ing, beer and muchos fun til around midnight/1am when we shall go for an eerie group ride back to civ­i­liza­tion so you can all find your way home/ on to more par­ties

PLUS there will be deli­cious HOT FOOD avail­able!!!

Hope you can come

Love the CM Mas­sive

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162785236582

EARTH FIRST! WINTER MOOT: 5th — 7th Feb 2010, County Durham — exact location released, & other info (incl. for cyclists)

EARTH FIRST! WINTER MOOT
6pm Fri 5th — Sun 7th Feb 2010
North-east Eng­land

“A week­end of net­work­ing, reflec­tion, strate­gic dis­cus­sions & cam­paign plan­ning for any­one involved in eco­log­i­cal direct action who believes in non-hier­ar­chi­cal organ­i­sa­tion and direct­ly con­fronting the forces respon­si­ble for the destruc­tion of the Earth and its inhab­i­tants”

EF! earth fist logoEARTH FIRST! WINTER MOOT
6pm Fri 5th — Sun 7th Feb 2010
North-east Eng­land

“A week­end of net­work­ing, reflec­tion, strate­gic dis­cus­sions & cam­paign plan­ning for any­one involved in eco­log­i­cal direct action who believes in non-hier­ar­chi­cal organ­i­sa­tion and direct­ly con­fronting the forces respon­si­ble for the destruc­tion of the Earth and its inhab­i­tants”

Venue:
The Win­ter Moot will be tak­ing place at the Dip­ton Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Front Street (A692), Dip­ton, Stan­ley, Coun­ty Durham, DH9 9DR. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on get­ting there can be found via the How to get there link (now includ­ing cycling direc­tions).

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Details of EF! Win­ter Moot announced:

The Earth First! Win­ter moot is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for peo­ple who feel affil­i­a­tion with the ideas behind Earth First! to net­work, dis­cuss and reflect on the UK eco­log­i­cal direct action move­ment and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruc­tion of the Earth. We believe we can make a real dif­fer­ence by doing it our­selves rather than rely­ing on lead­ers, gov­ern­ments or indus­try.

This years Earth First! Win­ter Moot will be tak­ing place in Co. Durham on the week­end of 6/7th Feb­ru­ary. As well as eval­u­a­tions and updates from a num­ber of eco­log­i­cal cam­paigns from around the coun­try, this year we will have a themed event — The Cri­sis: eval­u­a­tion, analy­sis and pos­si­ble respons­es. We will be explor­ing the inter­ac­tions between the var­i­ous eco­log­i­cal, finan­cial and resource crises, exam­in­ing our own con­cep­tions and expe­ri­ences of cri­sis, then tying it alto­geth­er to find a way for­ward using non-hier­ar­chi­cal approach­es.

We will also be host­ing a dis­cus­sion on how Earth First and the Camp for Cli­mate Action inter­sect, to deal with quite a num­ber of issues that emerged at the EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, includ­ing issues of gen­er­a­tional under­stand­ing, anar­chism vs. lib­er­al­ism, are we seper­ate net­works, and how can we go for­ward togeth­er in the future. This debate will be tak­ing from 6.15–7.30pm on the Sat­ur­day evening of the Moot, and is open to all.

Every­one wel­come

If your cam­paign (local or nation­al) is inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the feed­back please get in touch.

The venue will be acces­si­ble, and par­ent-friend­ly. Veg­an food pro­vid­ed. Sug­gest­ed dona­tion for the week­end is £20. The venue will be announced one week before­hand so keep an eye on the web­site for details; how­ev­er, for those who want to pur­chase advance tick­ets, the near­est sta­tion will be New­cas­tle-upon-Tyne.

For more infor­ma­tion vis­it http://earthfirst.org.uk/ & http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2010moot/front.html
Tel: 0777 114 2131

1. It is in doors with com­mu­nal sleep­ing areas (no camp­ing — we’re not that mad 🙂 )

2. The actu­al venue will be announced a week before hand, so please check the web­site then, or email us.

For enquiries, offers of facil­i­ta­tion & help, ideas for work­shops and TO LET US KNOW YOU ARE COMING! email : wintermoot@earthfirst.org.uk

More about the Moot
The EF! Win­ter Moot is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for peo­ple who feel affil­i­a­tion with the ideas behind Earth First! to net­work, dis­cuss and reflect on the UK eco­log­i­cal direct action move­ment and to plan for the future.

Fol­low­ing a pop­u­lar dis­cus­sion at 2009’s EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing 2010’s Moot also aims to hold dis­cus­sions on the theme of “ready­ing our­selves for unpre­dictabil­i­ty and insta­bil­i­ty in the UK and glob­al­ly”. The cur­rent & impend­ing crises of eco­nom­ics, ecol­o­gy, ener­gy & soci­ety fun­da­men­tal­ly alter the ter­rain of strug­gle; this in turn impacts both the prac­tice and pos­si­bil­i­ties for a rad­i­cal eco­log­i­cal move­ment.

2010’s Win­ter Moot is to be held in Coun­ty Durham, an area with a large num­ber of open­cast coal mines, both active and at the appli­ca­tion stage. The week­end will include oppor­tu­ni­ties to meet with activists involved local­ly in cam­paigns against these.

Cost includ­ing veg­an food & crash-pad accom­mo­da­tion £20-£30 (depend­ing what you can afford-but please don’t blag-even the organ­is­ers will pay).

If you have par­tic­u­lar accom­mo­da­tion, access or dietary needs or are bring­ing chil­dren it would help us to know as soon as pos­si­ble so we can plan suit­able facil­i­ties; who­ev­er you are please do try & drop us an email at least a week in advance so we can gauge how many to cater for.

www.earthfirst.org.uk

Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action — the new Earth First! Action Update is out!

Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?

EF! gathering '07 logo (rabbit/fence)Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?
Old King Coal meets his Match, but the Nuclear Empire Strikes Back! Read tales of flotil­las, bish­op-bash­ing, block­ades and occu­pa­tions as the Rebel Alliance takes on the Empire. The rebels have also been hang­ing around in nets and on plat­forms, occu­py­ing and lock­ing-on at coal ter­mi­nals, and pas­sion­ate­ly attack­ing pow­er sta­tion fences around the world, try­ing to shut ’em down. Main­shill protest camp con­tin­ues to pro-active­ly resist open-cast min­ing — they climb, occu­py, and by night, anony­mous pix­ies sab­o­tage. Who knows when they sleep — with a strong alliance with local vil­lagers, they wel­come YOU to come and play any­time, with a gath­er­ing at the end of Octo­ber.

Want more? Radio-tow­ers top­pled, dams and trucks seized, naked oil streaks and green smears in defence of the wild, a shit dumped with shit…resistance to peat min­ing, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, log­ging and Shell in Ire­land, and for Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry and work­ers on the Isle of Wight.

Still not enough? Stop­ping Tesco, cli­mate cam­paign­ing suc­cess­es, run­way inva­sions, more eco­tage, and the EF! Win­ter Moot, plus con­tacts and upcom­ing dates.

To down­load your copy go to this web­site:

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_oct09.pdf

If you want paper copies to dis­trib­ute, con­tact us at: actionupdate@earthfirst.org.uk or pick up a bunch from our stall at the Anar­chist Book­fair in Lon­don. To print your own, down­load from http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_oct09print.pdf

Want­ed: We are very skint! Please send us some dosh to help us pay for the print­ing.
Cheques can be made out to Earth First! Action Update, and post­ed to The Base­ment, 78a Pen­ny St, Lan­cast­er LA1 1XN

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Eco-Anarchists Attack Luxury Car in Guadalajara, Mexico

In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of August 18 our cell once again decid­ed to attack the machines which destroy the plan­et and its inhab­i­tants; this time our protest was against the auto­mo­bile, and why do it if not to lux­u­ry cars.

In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of August 18 our cell once again decid­ed to attack the machines which destroy the plan­et and its inhab­i­tants; this time our protest was against the auto­mo­bile, and why do it if not to lux­u­ry cars.

Com­mu­nique:

“Arson attack on a lux­u­ry car by eco-anar­chists in Guadala­jara, Mex­i­co

In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of August 18 our cell once again decid­ed to attack the machines which destroy the plan­et and its inhab­i­tants; this time our protest was against the auto­mo­bile, and why do it if not to lux­u­ry cars. We entered a bour­geois area of our city and we set fire to the front tires of a lux­u­ry car; unfor­tu­nate­ly the fire did not spread because of the rain; it only melt­ed the tires, but it cre­at­ed a psy­cho­log­i­cal fear in all those who choose to invest their mon­ey and spend it in the destruc­tion of our planet.We will return to destroy their machines!

ECO ANARCHISTS GUADALAJARA MEXICO”

Source: ELF Press Office

EF! summer gathering — exact location, travel info & updated workshop programme announced; coal-blighted communities visit

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, 18th-24th August 2009, Cum­bria

Nev­er has halt­ing the destruc­tion of our plan­et been so impor­tant… Learn how to make them stop!

The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Seath­waite in the beau­ti­ful Bor­row­dale. The site is right in the heart of the Lake Dis­trict and sur­round­ed by moun­tains, streams and tarns. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith. More detailed direc­tions, pub­lic trans­port, walks & cycle rides to the site

Work­shop pro­gramme in a vari­ety of for­mats

EF!-rabbit-in-canoeEarth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, 18th-24th August 2009, Cum­bria

Nev­er has halt­ing the destruc­tion of our plan­et been so impor­tant… Learn how to make them stop!

The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Seath­waite in the beau­ti­ful Bor­row­dale. The site is right in the heart of the Lake Dis­trict and sur­round­ed by moun­tains, streams and tarns. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith. More detailed direc­tions, pub­lic trans­port, walks & cycle rides to the site

Work­shop pro­gramme in a vari­ety of for­mats

WHO
Earth First! is a net­work of peo­ple and cam­paigns who fight eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion and the forces dri­ving it. We believe in doing it our­selves rather than rely­ing on gov­ern­ments or indus­try. Direct action is at the heart of what we do, whether we’re stand­ing in front of a bull­doz­er, shut­ting down an open­cast mine or rip­ping up a field of GM crops.

Join us for 5 days of work­shops, net­work­ing and plan­ning actions at a low impact eco-liv­ing camp organ­ised non-hier­ar­chi­cal­ly

WHAT
Plan­ning actions and cam­paigns, meet­ing and shar­ing skills with oth­ers who care. Over 80 train­ing work­shops plus games and evening fun:
• Learn skills for direct action. Tree Climb­ing, Ori­en­teer­ing, Secu­ri­ty for activists, Legal brief­ing, Escap­ing pub­lic order sit­u­a­tions, street medics – first aid, self defence, Boat blockad­ing using kayaks, radio pro­ce­dures and rock abseil­ing.
• Net­work your cam­paign against eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion. open­cast min­ing, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, agro­fu­els, dam-build­ing, hunt-sab­bing, cli­mate actions, oil pipeline resis­tance, road stop­ping, anti-whal­ing, squat­ting, rain­for­est pro­tec­tion.
• Learn about ecol­o­gy, eco­cen­tric ethics and alter­na­tives to the cor­po­rate world of exploita­tion.
• Prac­ti­cal skills for eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and sus­tain­able liv­ing, field trips and hands-on work.

YOU
We are all crew! This is your gath­er­ing come pre­pared to help run the camp and con­tribute to the pro­gramme. Con­tact us in advance with ideas for work­shops, help with organ­is­ing the gath­er­ing, come ear­ly to help set­up the site or stay on for a cou­ple of days for take­down.
If you can help get in touch!

BRING
Bring tent and sleep­ing bag. You can either cook food for your­self or for £4 per day chip in with col­lec­tive cook­ing of deli­cious veg­an organ­ic food. There’ll be qui­et sleep­ing areas, toi­lets and run­ning water, a children’s space and spaces for work­shops and info stalls.
Veg­gies will pro­vide veg­an cake and snacks. Chil­dren and young adults wel­come with sub­si­dized meals.

Arrive Tues pm. Work­shops from Wed am until Sun pm.

Loads of cam­paigns are tak­ing to the water in defence of the plan­et, like at Ross­port where Shell are try­ing to lay onshore pipelines and the Great Rebel Raft Regat­ta at last sum­mers cli­mate camp. This sum­mer’s EF! gath­er­ing will be build­ing on these tac­tics with train­ing in water based actions.

An excur­sion to vis­it com­mu­ni­ties in the North East threat­ened by an expan­sion of coal min­ing on Mon­day 24th August. Vis­it beau­ti­ful val­leys and strong spir­it­ed com­mu­ni­ties and make links for ongo­ing resis­tance.

We aim to make the site as acces­si­ble as we can please con­tact us in advance if you have spe­cial needs, ques­tions or con­cerns.

WHERE
The site is near in the Lake Dis­trict, Cum­bria. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith and there is a bus ser­vice to the site, there are car and liv­ing vehi­cle spaces out­side the camp.

Dogs: We are for­tu­nate this year to be able to accom­mo­date well behaved own­ers with dogs on leads but think about whether your dog will feel com­fort­able in work­shops. Please call before­hand so we know num­bers.

Cost: £20 — £30 accord­ing to what you can afford. We are not for prof­it all extra cash goes to help fund next year. Under 14’s free.

For more info con­tact us at :
summergathering@earthfirst.org.uk
www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Latest EF! Action Update bursts forth

Car tyres deflate in the night, dig­gers halt­ed in their tracks, build­ings and MPs cov­ered in slime…airports plagued by crazy golf, pic­nics, city gents and hostage-taking…eco-villages and oth­er autonomous spaces sprout, as oth­ers are under threat…tree-sits, banks evict­ed, fake phone-masts and whal­ing ships sunk.…it must be time for anoth­er Earth First! Action Update, bring­ing you a con­cen­trat­ed quar­ter­ly blast of inspi­ra­tion and con­tacts to get out there and take direct action against the bas­tards threat­en­ing this plan­et and its inhab­i­tants.

News from the front-lines — per­ma­nent protest camps old and new, and tem­po­rary gath­er­ings in a field near you, all the dates and info you need for a sum­mer of blis­ter­ing action and tor­ren­tial out­pour­ings!

Suc­cess­es here, across the pond and round the very oth­er side of the world.

People stop logging trucksCar tyres deflate in the night, dig­gers halt­ed in their tracks, build­ings and MPs cov­ered in slime…airports plagued by crazy golf, pic­nics, city gents and hostage-taking…eco-villages and oth­er autonomous spaces sprout, as oth­ers are under threat…tree-sits, banks evict­ed, fake phone-masts and whal­ing ships sunk.…it must be time for anoth­er Earth First! Action Update, bring­ing you a con­cen­trat­ed quar­ter­ly blast of inspi­ra­tion and con­tacts to get out there and take direct action against the bas­tards threat­en­ing this plan­et and its inhab­i­tants.

News from the front-lines — per­ma­nent protest camps old and new, and tem­po­rary gath­er­ings in a field near you, all the dates and info you need for a sum­mer of blis­ter­ing action and tor­ren­tial out­pour­ings!

Suc­cess­es here, across the pond and round the very oth­er side of the world.

A report back from the Coal Car­a­van, plus info about the com­mu­ni­ties along its route.

Court news — what hap­pened after pro­test­ers planned to shut a coal-fired pow­er plant, and climbed atop a train, plus handy Secu­ri­ty Tips for Going on Actions.

Leav­ing it All in the Ground — news of glob­al fights against the min­ing of gold, cop­per, baux­ite and alu­mini­um — blockad­ing, torch­ing and night-time pix­ieing.

A View from the Trees — a sto­ry from our eco-cen­tric cousins. And indige­nous Peru­vians fight on against the whole­sale onslaught on our world.

And a round-up of your favourite pub­lic order sit­u­a­tions — G20, SmashE­DO and Athen­ian rub­bish dumps!

Read, down­load and print it here, sub­scribe so you get it direct to your door, or look out for it at a cli­mate camp near you.

If you want to be list­ed or get a bunch of them to dis­trib­ute, please get in touch.

Share your inspi­ra­tional news at EF! Action Reports, and it’ll find it’s way into your very own print­ed EF!AU, in good old black and white print.

Camp for Climate Action Scotland

There is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

ccs stickerThere is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

For a week of low-impact liv­ing and high-impact direct action, keep 3–10 August free and join us in Scot­land to take direct action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change and eco­log­i­cal col­lapse. This sum­mer the strug­gle against a cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem intent on extin­guish­ing life on the plan­et will hit the Firth of Forth!

What’s hap­pen­ing:

We’re going to set up camp some­where around the Firth of Forth, a part of the cen­tral belt of Scot­land lit­tered with pow­er sta­tions, cor­po­rate HQs, gas and oil refiner­ies, open cast coal mines, a nuclear pow­er sta­tion and a cement fac­to­ry. We want you to join us to hold the peo­ple and sys­tems respon­si­ble for cli­mate change to account.

The camp will focus on sup­port­ing groups of peo­ple tak­ing action against a whole range of tar­gets. If you’re com­ing with a group of friends that’s great – we’ll help you choose tar­gets and actions, and if you’re com­ing alone there will be plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet oth­er peo­ple to work and take action with.

The camp will have as low an eco­log­i­cal impact as pos­si­ble so expect com­post toi­lets, grey water sys­tems and micro-renew­able ener­gy. There will be kitchens on site where campers will make three meals a day so there’s no need to bring any food or cook­ing equip­ment. Organ­ised hor­i­zon­tal­ly, the camp will pro­vide lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties to get involved, be cre­ative and prac­ti­cal and learn new skills. There will be work­shops, dis­cus­sions and oppor­tu­ni­ties to link up with oth­er peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns.

We hope to work with and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with local com­mu­ni­ties and ongo­ing cam­paigns around the camp’s local­i­ty to build on what oth­ers are already doing and for the camp to have long-last­ing pos­i­tive impacts.

How to get there:

The loca­tion of the site will be announced just before the start of the camp – check here or phone the info num­ber which will be avail­able short­ly before the 3rd for direc­tions to the camp. If you’re com­ing by pub­lic trans­port get your­self to Edin­burgh Waver­ley or Glas­gow Cen­tral train sta­tions and be pre­pared to trav­el – info-points will tell you the train sta­tion to get to and how to get there. There will be shut­tle bus­es from the near­est train sta­tion to the camp. If you can’t make all of the camp, just come along for a day, a week­end or what­ev­er you can.

What to bring:

Camp­ing gear — a tent, sleep­ing bag and mat, prac­ti­cal cloth­ing and footwear. Be pre­pared for rain and sun. Ban­ners and dec­o­ra­tions to make our site beau­ti­ful and any­thing else that you would like to see. But most impor­tant­ly, bring all of your friends!

We will also be ask­ing for dona­tions to cov­er costs of food and expens­es for the camp. Sug­gest­ed amounts will be made avail­able clos­er to the time.

What not to bring:

It is pos­si­ble that you will be searched by police on enter­ing the site – penknives and any­thing that may be con­strued as a weapon is best left behind. You may also want to pro­tect your per­son­al details but remem­ber, if you don’t bring a cash card, bring enough cash to cov­er your trans­port, food dona­tions etc.

Know your rights!

Check­out the web­sites below for some advice on deal­ing with the police.
http://www.faslane365.org/en/legal
http://www.g8legalsupport.info/guide/

Up to date legal infor­ma­tion and advice will be avail­able at the camp.

Chil­dren:

Are most wel­come and there will be a kids space that peo­ple will be able to vol­un­teer for.

Dogs:

If you bring dog(s) please take respon­si­bil­i­ty for them. We ask that you keep them on a lead as there have been inci­dents at past camps that we’d pre­fer to avoid.

If you want more infor­ma­tion or to get in touch email us on climatecampscotland@riseup.net

See you there!

Come to our next meet­ing!

Edin­burgh, Wednes­day 29th July, 12:00–16:00, For­est Cafe Action Room, 3 Bris­to Place

in the mean­time, get your­self down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!
See: http://coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk/