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documentary: Reclaim Power — voices from the camp for climate action 2006

In the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

Climate camp view from gateIn the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

How­ev­er, in a world dri­ven by prof­it and com­mit­ted to unlim­it­ed eco­nom­ic growth, human­i­ty seems very unwill­ing to change the course of the fos­sil fuel econ­o­my.

In the sum­mer of 2006, the 5th hottest year ever record­ed in recent his­to­ry, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK.

With over one hun­dred work­shops on a wide range of top­ics, the 10 day camp was a space of col­lec­tive learn­ing, sus­tain­able liv­ing and tak­ing direct action on the root caus­es of cli­mate change. The gath­er­ing that showed prac­ti­cal low ener­gy solu­tions in action, cul­mi­nat­ed in a day of protest and mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax.

DVD 62min + extras
Eng­lish with sub­ti­tles in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man and Span­ish
reports on indy­media UK: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Trail­er down­load: 2:58 min
http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_article=356〈=en

a cine rebelde pro­duc­tion in coop­er­a­tion with http://risingtide.org.uk and http://climatecamp.org.uk

indy­media reports of the Camp 2006:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Pic­tures, infor­ma­tion and film orders:
orders@cinerebelde.org
http://www.cinerebelde.org

DVDs will also soon be avail­able from ris­ing tide, cli­mate camp groups and at the meet­ing in Bris­tol.

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Prepa­ra­tions for the Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 are in full swing. The upcom­ing meet­ing will be in Bris­tol on March 17th /18th.

Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca is cur­rent­ly doing a Road Show. Check out:
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org

The Campaign Against Prison Slavery

The Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery is a group set up to try to expose the real­i­ty of prison labour, how lit­tle of it teach­es skills that can be used after release and which could help reduce the chances of re-offend­ing.

The Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery is a group set up to try to expose the real­i­ty of prison labour, how lit­tle of it teach­es skills that can be used after release and which could help reduce the chances of re-offend­ing.

We also seek to expose the pri­vate com­pa­nies that have con­tracts with pris­ons that are mak­ing huge prof­its using pris­on­er labour while the pris­on­ers are paid pen­nies an hour, any los­es incurred by the prison indus­tries con­tracts are cov­ered by the tax pay­er.

CAPS now has a new web­site www.againstprisonslavery.org and the con­tact details are:

Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery
P.O. Box 74
Brighton
BN1 4ZQ
E‑mail: againstprisonslavery@riseup.net

Beat the Chainsaw Pledge, Hereford

HEREFORD GREEN PARTY PRESS RELEASE:

Forty-nine locals vow to stand in front of chain­saws to pre­vent loss of Mead­ow trees.

HEREFORD GREEN PARTY PRESS RELEASE:

Forty-nine locals vow to stand in front of chain­saws to pre­vent loss of Mead­ow trees.

A capac­i­ty crowd of near­ly 300 peo­ple filled two floors of Here­ford’s Water­shed build­ing last night, to hear a coali­tion of groups talk about the Envi­ron­ment Agen­cy’s poor­ly-designed flood defence scheme for the City. Atten­dees expressed sup­port for the pro­vi­sion of effec­tive flood defences — but also con­cern over the Coun­cil’s lack of vision and lead­er­ship in pass­ing the cur­rent scheme by which estab­lished trees on Bish­op’s Mead­ow will be need­less­ly cut down. Green Par­ty prospec­tive Coun­cil can­di­date Mar­tin Wyness asked peo­ple if they would be will­ing to stand under the affect­ed trees, there­by mak­ing it impos­si­ble for work­ers to fell them. Forty-nine peo­ple expressed a com­mit­ment to stand in the way of the chain­saws in order to pro­tect Here­ford’s won­der­ful cul­tur­al and nat­ur­al her­itage.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic attend­ing the meet­ing expressed sur­prise that local ward Coun­cil­lors were not present to take ques­tions as to why they had not robust­ly chal­lenged the scheme dur­ing the plan­ning process. Dis­ap­point­ment was voiced as to why that process was not pub­li­cised suf­fi­cient­ly for res­i­dents to engage with it effec­tive­ly.

The Green Par­ty hopes that Coun­cil­lors who felt they could not chal­lenge the Envi­ron­ment Agency and DEFRA before, because of fears of los­ing fund­ing, will now find the courage to stand with the coali­tion as it demands that the scheme is rethought.

Green Par­ty prospec­tive Coun­cil can­di­date Mar­tin Wyness asked the Envi­ron­ment Agency rep­re­sen­ta­tive present at the meet­ing: “Can you give an assur­ance that the trees affect­ed will not be cut down in a rush in order to beat restric­tions caused by the immi­nent bird nest­ing sea­son?” The Envi­ron­ment Agency’s reply was that a sur­vey would be car­ried out.

Because it is still too ear­ly for nest­ing, this effec­tive­ly means that the chain­saws can come at any moment, even before the Envi­ron­ment Agency or Coun­cil looks at any alter­na­tive pro­pos­als.

The Green Par­ty is dis­ap­point­ed that Here­ford Lib­er­al Demo­c­rat MP Paul Keetch has until now, not seen fit to ques­tion the scheme prop­er­ly until he saw the scale of pub­lic con­cern. Here­ford needs a dynam­ic and pas­sion­ate Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment who will argue the case for keep­ing the mon­ey on the table while we amend the detail of these plans that would do so much dam­age to Here­ford’s his­toric envi­ron­ment. A some­what reluc­tant Mr. Keetch said on radio yes­ter­day “I am assured by the Envi­ron­ment Agency that if there is fine tun­ing that can be done, it will be done”. Let us hope he holds the agency to that promise.

ENDS

NOTES FOR EDITORS

It is quite pos­si­ble that Elgar walked beneath the trees that will be destroyed by this scheme. There is also a memo­r­i­al on the site that says that Elgar penned The Enig­ma Vari­a­tions after see­ing the Cathe­dral organist’s dog fall into the riv­er at this spot.

The coali­tion is ful­ly in favour of a flood defence scheme for the city, but not this one.

RRA Archi­tects showed their alter­na­tive and sym­pa­thet­ic pro­pos­al to the pub­lic meet­ing.

The coali­tion in favour of bet­ter flood defences includes: -

Cycle Here­ford
The Dis­abled Users Access Group
Friends of Cas­tle Green
Friends of the Earth
Fod­der
The Green Par­ty
The Here­ford Civic Soci­ety
RRA Archi­tects
St James and Bar­ton­sham Com­mu­ni­ty Asso­ci­a­tion
Water­shed

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please con­tact:
Mar­tin Wyness
Media — Here­ford & South Here­ford­shire Green Par­ty
07809 150344
mediasouth@herefordshiregreens.org.uk
www.herefordshiregreens.org.uk

Protests at Irish embassy in London against Shell’s hell in north west Ireland

30.01.2007

At mid­day today, while a sam­ba band played below, a man who wished to be known as “G” climed the Irish embassy. This was in protest over the Irish gov­ern­ments col­lu­sioin with Shel­l’s activ­i­ties in North West Ire­land where they are con­struct­ing a pipeline and refin­ery. Many cam­paign­ers claim this pipeline and refin­ery pose as seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal risk. While there have been wide­spread protests in Ire­land itself many claim that the gov­ern­ment of Ire­land has giv­en Shell sus­pi­cious­ly favourable busi­ness terms on the deal. “G” was arrest­ed for on sus­pi­cion of crim­i­nal dam­age though there was no dam­age vis­i­ble from ground lev­el. For fur­ther details see the cor­po­rate watch web­site.

30.01.2007

At mid­day today, while a sam­ba band played below, a man who wished to be known as “G” climed the Irish embassy. This was in protest over the Irish gov­ern­ments col­lu­sioin with Shel­l’s activ­i­ties in North West Ire­land where they are con­struct­ing a pipeline and refin­ery. Many cam­paign­ers claim this pipeline and refin­ery pose as seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal risk. While there have been wide­spread protests in Ire­land itself many claim that the gov­ern­ment of Ire­land has giv­en Shell sus­pi­cious­ly favourable busi­ness terms on the deal. “G” was arrest­ed for on sus­pi­cion of crim­i­nal dam­age though there was no dam­age vis­i­ble from ground lev­el. For fur­ther details see the cor­po­rate watch web­site.

301007_Irish_Embassy_Shell_Hell — video/x‑ms-wmv 5.4M

Press Release

Today, sup­port­ers for the Anti-Shell Cam­paign took their protest to the Irish Embassy. The action was to tar­get the Irish State; Shell; Sta­toil and Marathon who are attempt­ing to con­struct a dan­ger­ous and exper­i­men­tal onshore raw gas pipeline and refin­ery in Coun­ty Mayo; a beau­ti­ful remote part of North West Ire­land.

There is mas­sive oppo­si­tion to this pro­posed pipeline by the local com­mu­ni­ty, Ire­land and inter­na­tion­al­ly. A cam­paign of direct action against this plan has been ongo­ing since 2005.

The action at the Embassy today is to demon­strate that this pol­lut­ing project will not just affect the area in which it is to be built, but will con­tribute to the ongo­ing organ­ised destruc­tion of the plan­et by Shell. The action is in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple direct­ly affect­ed by this unprece­dent­ed raw gas pipeline, which has been con­demned as pos­ing an unac­cept­able risk to health and safe­ty.

The Irish State active­ly encour­ages the Shell led con­sor­tium – Nor­we­gian owned Sta­toil and U.S. owned Marathon — by facil­i­tat­ing stages of the con­struc­tion project, includ­ing the chang­ing of laws to allow the project go ahead. These com­pa­nies are tax exempt, thus there is no finan­cial ben­e­fit to the Irish peo­ple. Shell are also deploy­ing hun­dreds of police, who dai­ly intim­i­date peo­ple and use vio­lence to deter them, espe­cial­ly at recent demon­stra­tions.

The action at the Embassy today is to show the con­cern which many peo­ple share about the cor­rup­tion and com­plic­i­ty of the Irish Dáil, using its pow­er to sell out the inter­ests of the Irish peo­ple, putting per­son­al prof­it before pub­lic inter­est, safe­ty and health.

Colombian farmers evicted by British mining companies

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of African-Colom­bian and Indige­nous fam­i­lies evict­ed from their land in the province of La Gua­ji­ra, Colom­bia to make way for a mas­sive open­cast coal mine will speak in Lon­don on Mon­day 29th Jan­u­ary, 6.30pm‑8.30pm at The Human Rights Action Cen­tre, 17–25 New Inn Yard, Lon­don EC2.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of African-Colom­bian and Indige­nous fam­i­lies evict­ed from their land in the province of La Gua­ji­ra, Colom­bia to make way for a mas­sive open­cast coal mine will speak in Lon­don on Mon­day 29th Jan­u­ary, 6.30pm‑8.30pm at The Human Rights Action Cen­tre, 17–25 New Inn Yard, Lon­don EC2.

Many com­mu­ni­ties have been forced from their land since the mine opened in the 1970s. The vil­lage of Taba­co was demol­ished in 2001 just after British-based com­pa­nies bought into the project. Many inhab­i­tants accept­ed the inad­e­quate finan­cial com­pen­sa­tion on offer, oth­ers are still hold­ing out for com­mu­ni­ty relo­ca­tion so that they can con­tin­ue liv­ing as a com­mu­ni­ty and farm­ing the land as they did before.

The British-based com­pa­nies that now own the mine are Anglo Amer­i­can, BHP­Bil­li­ton and Xstra­ta. All raise mon­ey on the Lon­don Stock Exchange. Anglo Amer­i­can has its head office in Lon­don. Many pen­sion funds invest in these com­pa­nies. Many ordi­nary work­ing peo­ple in Britain, with­out know­ing it, are ben­e­fit­ing from the destruc­tion of farm­ing com­mu­ni­ties in Colom­bia by the world’s rich­est min­ing multi­na­tion­als. All three com­pa­nies have good rep­u­ta­tions as social­ly and envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble enter­pris­es. The real­i­ty is very dif­fer­ent. Come and hear the com­mu­ni­ties’ side of the sto­ry

Loca­tion: The Audi­to­ri­um, Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al UK, The Human Rights Action Cen­tre, 17–25 New Inn Yard, Lon­don EC2
Con­tact:  info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk
(near­est tube Old Street)

3 protesters arrested at supermaket blockade (for Welsh language)

Mor­risons super­mar­ket was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers and three mem­bers of the Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety were arrest­ed today (Sat­ur­day 27 Jan­u­ary) as part of the con­tin­u­ing cam­paign for a law ensur­ing rights to use Welsh

Welsh supermarket blockadeMor­risons super­mar­ket was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers and three mem­bers of the Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety were arrest­ed today (Sat­ur­day 27 Jan­u­ary) as part of the con­tin­u­ing cam­paign for a law ensur­ing rights to use Welsh
Fol­low­ing a pub­lic meet­ing held in the High Street of Ban­gor, north Wales, attend­ed by about 250 peo­ple a small­er group held a sit-down protest in the entrance to Mor­risons super­mar­ket. Despite pre­vi­ous protests and meet­ings between cam­paign­ers and the company’s head office in Eng­land, Mor­risons have failed to pro­vide a full bi-lin­gual ser­vice.

As eighty or so pro­test­ers sat down block­ing the entrance a num­ber of oth­er Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety mem­bers plas­tered posters on the doors announc­ing that the store was tem­porar­i­ly shut. Gwen­no Teifi, Sti­wart Edwards and Bethan Willams were lat­er arrest­ed for sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal dam­age. were lat­er arrest­ed for sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal dam­age.

Estab­lished in 1962 The Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety (Cymdei­thas yr Iaith Gym­raeg) has been suc­cess­ful in win­ning a TV chan­nel, edu­ca­tion reforms and two changes in leg­is­la­tion pro­vid­ing lim­it­ed rights ensur­ing gov­ern­ment, local coun­cils and offi­cial bod­ies make use of Welsh. How­ev­er the Soci­ety con­stant­ly draw atten­tion to exam­ples such as Mor­risons as typ­i­cal of the pri­vate sector’s fail­ure to pro­vide bi-lin­gual ser­vices.

More pho­tos on Flickr.com
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/51447658@N00/

http://cymdeithas.org

Protests continue at Trebanos

26.01.2007

At 2.00 pm today a group of cam­paign­ers against the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline forced work to stop yet again on the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos.

Pipe protest on footpath26.01.2007

At 2.00 pm today a group of cam­paign­ers against the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline forced work to stop yet again on the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos.

Cam­paign­ers occu­pied a foot­path run­ning through the site. They argued that the foot­path had been closed ille­gal­ly because the required sev­en days noti­fi­ca­tion had not been giv­en. Even local res­i­dents had not been informed of the clo­sure.

Ini­tial­ly, the police tried to stop pro­tes­tors gain­ing access to the foot­path, how­ev­er, they had to admit that they were uncer­tain of the legal­i­ty of the path clo­sure.

Pri­or to today’s action, work on the con­struc­tion site had been stopped for three weeks by cam­paign­ers occu­py­ing the foot­path. Resis­tance to the pipeline is grow­ing, with protest sites and actions against the pipeline increas­ing dai­ly. The lat­est direct action site is a tree camp in Bre­con occu­py­ing the route of the pipeline.

Come to Wales and be on the front­line of Britain’s eco-defence!

Con­tact Rachael (Tre­banos): 01792 830417
Bre­con Tree Camp: 07903152822

LONDON MEDIC TRAINING

3–5th Feb­ru­ary, we are hold­ing an action­medics train­ing. all wel­come. email  training@actionmedics.org.uk to book a place and get venue details.

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.

3–5th Feb­ru­ary, we are hold­ing an action­medics train­ing. all wel­come. email  training@actionmedics.org.uk to book a place and get venue details.

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.
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. You are not a “real” medic until you are in the streets inter­act­ing with patients.
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. You will have to find your own course.
This is NOT a cer­tifi­cate course. You will receive no cer­ti­fi­ca­tions or licens­es of any kind. If you have a first aid cer­tifi­cate (such as First Aid at Work) this will not count as a refresh­er course (sor­ry).

http://www.actionmedics.org.uk

Welsh pipeline protest — New tree camp set up near Brecon

22.01.2007

Fol­low­ing sup­port from local peo­ple in Bre­con at the week­end, a new protest camp has been set up right in the mid­dle of the phase two route of Nation­al Grids con­tro­ver­sial pipeline.

22.01.2007

Fol­low­ing sup­port from local peo­ple in Bre­con at the week­end, a new protest camp has been set up right in the mid­dle of the phase two route of Nation­al Grids con­tro­ver­sial pipeline.

The protest camp is up in the trees in ancient wood­land 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church.It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525.
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.

There are over 15 peo­ple on site at the moment and they are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, food, water, warm clothes and bed­ding, camp­ing and cook­ing gear, wood, rope, nails, etc etc etc. They would also like any peo­ple inter­est­ed to join them and show sol­i­dar­i­ty in this bat­tle to save our envi­ron­ment.
Map link

Sto­ries about recent stalls & sam­ba in Clydach Indoor Mar­ket and Bre­con

Bloody report from Ballinaboy/ Rossport, Ireland

Fri­day 19th Jan­u­ary 2007.
Today a good crowd of pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the usu­al ren­dezvous, approx 60+ peo­ple. The crowd was buoyed by the pres­ence of a mem­ber of Glob­al Com­mu­ni­ty Mon­i­tor, over from the states, and a film crew trav­el­ling with him. At 7.30 peo­ple pro­ceed­ed up the road, some wear­ing white jump suits with chem­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­nants inscribed on the front, poi­sons which the Bal­linaboy ter­mi­nal would pol­lute the local area, fresh water and sea with. The crowd was lead with a large ban­ner read­ing Cor­rib Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness.

Fri­day 19th Jan­u­ary 2007.
Today a good crowd of pro­tes­tors gath­ered at the usu­al ren­dezvous, approx 60+ peo­ple. The crowd was buoyed by the pres­ence of a mem­ber of Glob­al Com­mu­ni­ty Mon­i­tor, over from the states, and a film crew trav­el­ling with him. At 7.30 peo­ple pro­ceed­ed up the road, some wear­ing white jump suits with chem­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­nants inscribed on the front, poi­sons which the Bal­linaboy ter­mi­nal would pol­lute the local area, fresh water and sea with. The crowd was lead with a large ban­ner read­ing Cor­rib Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness.

As the crowd passed over the nar­row bridge tem­pers frayed and to nobod­ies sur­prise the Gar­dai ploughed into the pro­tes­tors, shov­ing them every which way. At this point two Gar­dai held Pat’s arms while anoth­er punched him in the face sev­er­al times. Sim­i­lar­ly his broth­er Mar­tin was seri­ous­ly assault­ed, suf­fer­ing cut­ting and bruis­ing to face and eye. But as the dawn has not yet bro­ken cap­tur­ing any image of this is vir­tu­al­ly impos­si­ble, espe­cial­ly giv­en the num­ber of Gar­dai there to hide each oth­ers activ­i­ties and deny same.
It’s very hard to ascer­tain if there is any log­i­cal point to the Gar­dai activ­i­ties with regard to wad­ing in and assault­ing all around them as oth­er than to bul­ly and injure peo­ple it serves no prac­ti­cal pur­pose. Usu­al­ly their excuse for push­ing and shov­ing is to ensure your safe­ty and make sure you are on the oth­er side of the white line so none of Shells work­ers or trucks can pos­si­bly be delayed for even a sec­ond. How­ev­er as can be seen in the first pho­to some Gar­dai are near­ly on the oth­er side of the road, where there is no hard shoul­der as this is on the bridge, and still they are push­ing, shov­ing and assault­ing peo­ple.

Yes­ter­day after the Gar­dai head­ed off for their break­fasts, leav­ing the trucks to fend for them­selves, local res­i­dents blocked access to the site, hold­ing up stone trucks for a peri­od of time. Secu­ri­ty appeared to pan­ic some­what clos­ing and lock­ing the site gates before Gar­dai with out a com­mand­ing offi­cer appeared on the scene to ush­er in the stalled trucks.

Water qual­i­ty con­tin­ues to be a seri­ous issue, despite Co.Co. assur­ances that it is fine. Images below show water leav­ing the Bal­linaboy site, some clear­ly untreat­ed and look­ing very sim­i­lar to last year, sil­ver grey, when it was found to be heav­i­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed with alu­mini­um. The main out­fall area from the site looks mar­gin­al­ly bet­ter, where the water is at least sup­posed to have been treat­ed by this point, how­ev­er it is also clear­ly looks noth­ing like drink­ing water qual­i­ty and exhibits some sil­ver grey colour­ing. Despite the fact that all water leav­ing the site is sup­posed to be treat­ed before leav­ing site you can clear­ly see the water from the truck wash at Gate 3 being pumped straight into exit­ing drains.
The past 3 days have seen mem­bers of Shell to Sea hand­ing out leaflets at the Shell green­wash events in Castle­bar and Bal­li­na. Very few peo­ple attend­ed these events, and num­bers must have been dou­bled or even tre­bled by the atten­dance of 2 school groups, 1 from sec­ondary school and 1 from pri­ma­ry school, nev­er to ear­ly to start brain wash­ing.

Our own pres­ence was wel­comed by many peo­ple pass­ing by and many who did go in to see Shells expen­sive PR work were firm­ly behind the stance of Shell to Sea. As we hand­ed out infor­ma­tion leaflets and chat­ted to peo­ple 1 passer­by even went into the hotel and brought out a tray of steam­ing hot whiskeys!