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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

Bristol & Aberystwyth Upcoming Street Medic Trainings — 20th March & 28–30th

UK Action Medics have two upcom­ing “street medic” train­ings.

One Day affin­i­ty group medic train­ing:
Tues­day 20th March, 9.30am — 6pm,
@ Bris­tol Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dents’ Union

2.5 Day street medic train­ing:

UK Action Medics have two upcom­ing “street medic” train­ings.

One Day affin­i­ty group medic train­ing:
Tues­day 20th March, 9.30am — 6pm,
@ Bris­tol Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dents’ Union

2.5 Day street medic train­ing:
7pm — 9pm, Weds 28th March,
9.30am — 6pm, Thurs 29th
9.30am — 6pm, Fri 30th
@ Aberys­t­wyth (email for loca­tion)

UK Action Medics is a net­work of activists who have a range of med­ical skills, from first aid to qual­i­fied doc­tors. We want to ensure that our­selves and oth­ers are trained in the unique areas of med­i­cine in protest sit­u­a­tions (eg. CS gas and the work­ing con­di­tions) in addi­tion to stan­dard first aid.

We have two upcom­ing train­ings.
ONE-DAY TRAINING
@ Bris­tol Uni­ver­si­ty, Stu­dents’ Union

This train­ing will equip with basic first aid skills enabling you to look after your­self and your friends/comrades on actions/demos. These are skills which are also applic­a­ble in every­day life. The train­ing includes role-plays where par­tic­i­pants have the chance to prac­tice skills under stress. It is also use­ful as a refresh­er if you have had pre­vi­ous first aid training/experience.

2.5 DAY TRAINING
in Aberys­t­wyth
What this course is and is not:

* This is a 24-hour street medic train­ing. We will cov­er the major­i­ty of the basic infor­ma­tion and skills you will need to pro­vide first aid at protests and direct actions.

** the train­ing includes: work­ing with a bud­dy, pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary assess­ment, check­ing for Dan­ger, Response, Air­ways, Breath­ing,
Cir­cu­la­tion, Dis­abil­i­ty and sur­round­ing Envi­ron­ment (DR ABCDE). Spinal immo­bil­i­sa­tion, basic wound­care, burn­care, splint­ing, car­ry­ing patients with frac­tures, treat­ing vic­tims of chem­i­cal weapons (CS gas & pep­per spray) attacks, hot & cold injuries, etc.

* This will not make you ready for any­thing. This course is a foun­da­tion in first aid and some prac­tice. More diverse and deep­er skill comes with time and prac­tice as well as con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion in health care.

* One thing we do not teach is Car­diopul­monary resus­ci­ta­tion (CPR). CPR is a great and some­times nec­es­sary skill. But we do not cov­er it
here due to time con­straints. The British Heart Foun­da­tion offer free “Heart­start” cours­es, see www.bhf.org.uk

* This is NOT a cer­tifi­cate course. You will receive no cer­ti­fi­ca­tions or licens­es of any kind.

COST:
We don’t make any prof­it from the train­ings, the cost goes towards pay­ing for venue hire, trav­el expens­es for train­ers, pho­to­copy­ing hand­outs and mate­ri­als used through­out the day. The costs below are a guide­line, and nobody will be turned away through lack of funds.

The one day train­ing will cost up to £10 per per­son (tbc), although it is like­ly to be low­er.

The 2.5 day train­ing will cost up to £20 per per­son.

I you would like to come to either train­ing or have any ques­tions, please drop me an email on:
ryanmcgavock@riseup.net

http://www.actionmedics.org.uk

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

Climate Camp Meeting this weekend in Bristol, and Film

Last year saw 600 peo­ple gath­er in the shad­ow of Drax Pow­er Sta­tion for the ten day Camp For Cli­mate Action. This week­end in Bris­tol is the next nation­al plan­ning meet­ing, Sat­ur­day 17th and Sun­day 18th March. The venue is Bar­ton Hill Set­tle­ment which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Sta­tion.

Last year saw 600 peo­ple gath­er in the shad­ow of Drax Pow­er Sta­tion for the ten day Camp For Cli­mate Action. This week­end in Bris­tol is the next nation­al plan­ning meet­ing, Sat­ur­day 17th and Sun­day 18th March. The venue is Bar­ton Hill Set­tle­ment which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Sta­tion.

Any ques­tions, sug­ges­tions or pro­pos­als for the meet­ing can be sent to gath­er­ings [at] climatecamp.org.uk.

Last years camp was cap­tured on video and turned into a doc­u­men­tary by Cine Rebalde called Reclaim Pow­er. Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

Those in Lon­don can check out the cli­mate camp film as part of two evenings of cli­mate chaos relat­ed films at the ram­pART social cen­tre (see http://rampart.co.nr for details). Also show­ing is the epic doc­u­men­tary The Plan­et, plus Glob­al Dim­ming and The Denial Machine. Addi­tion­al­ly there will be speak­ers and info.

More info on film at http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_rubrique=22&lang=en
More info on camp for cli­mate action at http://climatecamp.org.uk

concrete lock-on tips (following Parliament Square blockade)

If they took only 20 mins to demol­ish each lock­on then your con­crete does­n’t sound up to scratch. Don’t mean to brag but a sim­i­lar lock on I once built took them 6 hours to demol­ish with jack ham­mers and angle grinders. In future you need to include some met­al rein­forc­ing mesh or crinkly rebar rods, either off­cuts of the prop­er stuff from builders skips or sawn up super­mar­ket trol­leys are ok. Includ­ing met­al mesh serves not only to bind the con­crete togeth­er but it spreads the shock­wave from jack ham­mers through­out the mate­r­i­al rather than allow­ing it to be con­cen­trat­ed at the chis­el tip. Also good to include some short lengths of blue 6mm rope which pre­vents the forces of dark­ness from being able to sep­a­rate the chunks of frag­ment­ed con­crete which real­ly winds them up. The oth­er real­ly impor­tant things are to use fresh­ly bought cement, be sure your con­crete mix is very thor­ough­ly mixed — absolute­ly no sandy or cemen­ty streaks vis­i­ble — and then poured in less than 20 mins or so and when pour­ing it, don’t do it all in one go but ram or tamp (jig­gle and shake) it in thor­ough­ly into the con­tain­er in stages with the end of a bit of 4 x 2. Your con­crete looks like it has voids in it which is always a con­sid­er­able weak­ness. Good luck with future coura­geous actions.

Lock-on after drillingIf they took only 20 mins to demol­ish each lock­on then your con­crete does­n’t sound up to scratch. Don’t mean to brag but a sim­i­lar lock on I once built took them 6 hours to demol­ish with jack ham­mers and angle grinders. In future you need to include some met­al rein­forc­ing mesh or crinkly rebar rods, either off­cuts of the prop­er stuff from builders skips or sawn up super­mar­ket trol­leys are ok. Includ­ing met­al mesh serves not only to bind the con­crete togeth­er but it spreads the shock­wave from jack ham­mers through­out the mate­r­i­al rather than allow­ing it to be con­cen­trat­ed at the chis­el tip. Also good to include some short lengths of blue 6mm rope which pre­vents the forces of dark­ness from being able to sep­a­rate the chunks of frag­ment­ed con­crete which real­ly winds them up. The oth­er real­ly impor­tant things are to use fresh­ly bought cement, be sure your con­crete mix is very thor­ough­ly mixed — absolute­ly no sandy or cemen­ty streaks vis­i­ble — and then poured in less than 20 mins or so and when pour­ing it, don’t do it all in one go but ram or tamp (jig­gle and shake) it in thor­ough­ly into the con­tain­er in stages with the end of a bit of 4 x 2. Your con­crete looks like it has voids in it which is always a con­sid­er­able weak­ness. Good luck with future coura­geous actions.

Nev­er ever use ordi­nary “build­ing” or soft sand which is only used for brick­lay­ing and will make very crumbly con­crete indeed. You should be using all in bal­last which is sharp sand already mixed with peb­bles. In some parts of the coun­try — most­ly the north — you can’t get this so will have to mix your own using SHARP sand and mixed size peb­bles from pea size up to the size of brazil nuts or so.

Titnore tree protest camp appeals for help (& audio report)

SPRING is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees and Tit­nore Woods in Sus­sex is once again a love­ly place to be…

With the end of a tough win­ter, the protest camp near Wor­thing has today appealed for help in a spring offen­sive aimed at mak­ing sure it is in fight­ing fit shape as its first anniver­sary and anoth­er rebel sum­mer approach.

SPRING is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees and Tit­nore Woods in Sus­sex is once again a love­ly place to be…

With the end of a tough win­ter, the protest camp near Wor­thing has today appealed for help in a spring offen­sive aimed at mak­ing sure it is in fight­ing fit shape as its first anniver­sary and anoth­er rebel sum­mer approach.

It was set up in May last year to oppose plans for a 875-home estate, access roads and new Tesco mega­s­tore on ancient wood­land and green fields in West Dur­ring­ton.

Top of the wish­list at the moment are pal­lets, long sup­port beams for tree­hous­es, climb­ing equip­ment (not har­ness­es) and climb­ing rope. Also some­one with a van or sim­i­lar vehi­cle who would be able to help clear away rub­bish from the site.

Most of all, of course, there is a plea for more peo­ple! Whether you can spare five min­utes, five hours, five days, five weeks or five months, your phys­i­cal pres­ence in any sup­port­ive capac­i­ty is always appre­ci­at­ed.

Why not get down there your­self and dis­cov­er the kind of envi­ron­men­tal direct action that they thought had gone out of fash­ion after New­bury?

The camp is in woods just north of “Som­er­set Lake”, a fish­ing lake east of Tit­nore Lane. How­ev­er, Tit­nore Lane is very dan­ger­ous for pedes­tri­ans and eas­i­est access is from Ful­beck Avenue, off Tit­nore Way. Take the path at the far east of Ful­beck Avenue, then turn left until there is a large gap in the hedgerow on the left, oppo­site a cleared square of ground on the right, and cross right over to the far side of the field, keep­ing the clump of trees to your left.

It can also be reached via the car park at Tesco’s in Dur­ring­ton, served by the “Pulse” bus route from Wor­thing town cen­tre. Basi­cal­ly head straight on from the entrance to the fields at the back end of the super­mar­ket car park, reach­ing the gap in the hedgerow men­tioned above.

Near­est rail­way sta­tions are Dur­ring­ton and Gor­ing by Sea on the main South Coast line with direct trains from Brighton, Portsmouth and Lon­don.

There is a camp phone — 0780 4245324.

More info: www.eco-action.org/porkbolter
www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

Indy­media Glob­al Report arti­cle on Tit­nore — mp3 5.5M
a piece about the camp made for the Indy­media radio show

Call for workshops at the Earth First! Summer Gathering 2007

This year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

EF! summer gathering 2007 logoThis year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

The idea is to have mul­ti­ple work­shop ses­sions, e.g. four two-hour slots spread over four days build­ing up skills in a par­tic­u­lar area, so peo­ple can learn the basic skills to actu­al­ly do the job at oth­er mobil­i­sa­tions, events like the cli­mate camp — or wher­ev­er. For exam­ple plumb­ing, elec­tri­cal skills, medics…and what­ev­er else peo­ple want to do… It’s not just about the prac­ti­cal skills but also about get­ting to know each oth­er and start­ing to work togeth­er.

If you would like to offer a work­shop please write to:
martinshaw64@riseup.net

Thanks — the EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing col­lect­ing
Gen­er­al con­tact details etc at http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/

please for­ward to peo­ple you think would be inter­est­ed.

first Bath Climate Camp meeting — 8th March

between thurs­day 19th and sun­day 22nd of April there will be a Cli­mate Camp in Bath.

The camp will be a self man­aged space with work­shops, actions, par­ty and protest. Most of the action/protest will be focused around the head offices of Land and Marine who are build­ing a con­traverisial gas pipeline through wales. The pipeline has been the scene of numer­ous demos and actions, delay­ing progress on almost a dai­ly basis. Its time to take the bat­tle to Land and Marines doorstep!

between thurs­day 19th and sun­day 22nd of April there will be a Cli­mate Camp in Bath.

The camp will be a self man­aged space with work­shops, actions, par­ty and protest. Most of the action/protest will be focused around the head offices of Land and Marine who are build­ing a con­traverisial gas pipeline through wales. The pipeline has been the scene of numer­ous demos and actions, delay­ing progress on almost a dai­ly basis. Its time to take the bat­tle to Land and Marines doorstep!

Our first plan­ning meet­ing will be this thurs­day 8th March at 7.30 down­stairs in the hob­gob­lin, city cen­tre, Bath. We need plen­ty of ideas, ener­gy and enthu­si­asm to make the camp a suc­sess, so feel free to come along.
Also, if you are inter­est­ed in host­ing a work­shop on any eco sub­ject, please get in con­tact.

e‑mail bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk for more info.

cheers

announcement of Bath Climate Camp

4.03.2007

Bath Activist Net­work has begun organ­is­ing a cli­mate camp to be held between thurs­day the 19th and sun­day the 22nd of April

The focus of the camp will be the head­quaters of Land and marine, the com­pa­ny build­ing a 150 mile long, envi­ron­men­tal­ly destruc­tive pipeline through Wales.

4.03.2007

Bath Activist Net­work has begun organ­is­ing a cli­mate camp to be held between thurs­day the 19th and sun­day the 22nd of April

The focus of the camp will be the head­quaters of Land and marine, the com­pa­ny build­ing a 150 mile long, envi­ron­men­tal­ly destruc­tive pipeline through Wales.
We hope to shut land and Marine down with Blockades/protests on the fri­day and sat­ur­day.
this is a chance to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with those in Wales who have been sucess­ful­ly dis­rupt­ing the pipeline for so long, and a chance to bring the bat­tle to the doorstep of the com­pa­ny respon­si­ble.

The camp will be a self man­aged space which will include work­shops, music/soundsystem a veg­an kitchen and more and is inspired by the Camp for Cli­mate Action held last sum­mer.

We will have a web­site, posters, book­lets etc pro­duced soon

feel free to e‑mail us if you want any info, or to help us pub­li­cise the camp.

bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk