Direct actions by people from the Camp for Climate Action

Cli­mate activists at Lon­gan­net call for clo­sure date
6.08.2008
One-night mini Scot­tish camp out­side UK’s dirt­i­est pow­er sta­tion. SNP Gov­ern­ment urged to set ear­ly clo­sure date for plant and guar­an­tee green jobs for coal work­ers in the grow­ing renew­ables rev­o­lu­tion.

No New Coal bannerCli­mate activists at Lon­gan­net call for clo­sure date
6.08.2008
One-night mini Scot­tish camp out­side UK’s dirt­i­est pow­er sta­tion. SNP Gov­ern­ment urged to set ear­ly clo­sure date for plant and guar­an­tee green jobs for coal work­ers in the grow­ing renew­ables rev­o­lu­tion.

A group of cli­mate pro­tes­tors were at Lon­gan­net pow­er sta­tion in Fife this morn­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Camp for Cli­mate Action near to Kingsnorth pow­er sta­tion in Eng­land.

Lon­gan­net coal plant, which pro­duces a quar­ter of Scot­land’s elec­tric­i­ty, pro­duces around 10 mil­lion tonnes of car­bon diox­ide every year — rough­ly equiv­a­lent to the annu­al emis­sions of 2.5 mil­lion cars.

Eight sci­ences stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh pre­sent­ed Scot­tish Pow­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives with the recent respect­ed ‘Zero Car­bon Britain’ report from CAT.

Daniel Abra­hams, a physics stu­dent, told Scot­tish Pow­er, who run the plant:
‘Any talk of ‘clean coal’ or car­bon cap­ture is a total dis­trac­tion. We need to rad­i­cal­ly reduce emis­sions in less than a decade and we just don’t have the time to wait for unproven tech­nol­o­gy when we already have renew­able solu­tions ready to roll. Lon­gan­net must close by 2015.’

Sarah Hol­l­i­day, a chem­istry stu­dent from the Isle of Tiree said:
‘The SNP must urgent­ly fund a tran­si­tion deal for all those in the coal indus­try. All those employed in the car­bon sec­tor must be guar­an­teed green jobs in the renew­ables rev­o­lu­tion.’

Notes to edi­tors:

1. Lon­gan­net ranked as the UK’s dirt­i­est pow­er sta­tion in a 2007 WWF report:
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/european_dirty_thirty_may_2007.pdf

2. The Scot­tish Cli­mate Bill will bind Min­is­ters to a tar­get of an 80% in green­house gas­es by 2050. An 80% cut in car­bon diox­ide would mean total emis­sions for the whole nation of 10–13 mil­lion tonnes a year. Lon­gan­net pro­duces 10 mil­lion tonnes now.

3. Alex Salmond recent­ly described coal as a ‘fuel of the future’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7487184.stm

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Cli­mate Activists Shut Down South’s Biggest Bio­fu­el Base, Thur­rock
Vopak biofuel action 2Vopak biofuel action 4
Vopak biofuel action 5

7.08.2008
This morn­ing cli­mate activists from around the coun­try have shut down the South’s biggest agro­fu­el depot.

The cam­paign­ers, who say that agro­fu­els will cause run­away cli­mate change if left unchecked, have dropped a 35 foot ban­ner from the top of one of the site’s biggest oil con­tain­ers and are block­ing fuel lor­ries from leav­ing or enter­ing the base.

Dean Rivers, who is cur­rent­ly chained to the roof of the oil depot said: “com­pa­nies like Green­er­gy and Tescos who use Thur­rock are prof­i­teer­ing out of the rush to bio­fu­els caus­ing food price ris­es, hunger for mil­lions, ecosys­tem destruc­tion and accel­er­at­ed Cli­mate Change. These are crimes against human­i­ty and the earth from which we may nev­er recov­er.” The protest is cur­rent­ly stop­ping one truck from leav­ing the Thur­rock site every 90 sec­onds.

George Mon­biot, who is at the Cli­mate Camp said “far from being a solu­tion to Cli­mate Change, agro­fu­els are so dam­ag­ing they make petro­le­um look green. They threat­en both to accel­er­ate Cli­mate Change and to trig­ger a glob­al human­i­tar­i­an dis­as­ter. I’m delight­ed that this depot has been block­ad­ed and I hope it sends a strong sig­nal that agro­fu­els are a part of the prob­lem not of the solu­tion.”

Last month, it was revealed that the US had buried a report from the World Bank which shows that agro­fu­els are respon­si­ble for 75% of recent food price ris­es. Despite this, both Europe and the USA con­tin­ue to invest bil­lions into the fuels, which under UK and EU law con­tin­ue to make up 2.5% of the UK fuel mix at the pump.

Julia Brown­low, who is block­ing lor­ries from enter­ing or leav­ing the site said “Agro­fu­els are destroy­ing the very ecosys­tems which can sta­bilise the cli­mate — with the col­lapse of the Ama­zon pos­si­bly just a few years away I am left with no choice but to take action.”

The protest will con­tin­ue for the rest of the day.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Agro­fu­els are bio­fu­els derived from plant mate­r­i­al grown in exten­sive mono­cul­tures.

what hap­pened & bio­fu­els explained — audio/x‑wav 7.0M
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Anoth­er cli­mate camp action — Stu­dents Killed at Roy­al Bank of Scot­land’s HQ.
RBS die-in 2RBS die-in 17.08.2008
Fif­teen dead bod­ies are cur­rent­ly lying in a pool of oil block­ing the entrance to RBS Lon­don HQ at Liv­er­pool Street [1]. Stu­dents are stag­ing a ‘die-in’ block­ade to high­light the dev­as­tat­ing effects of cli­mate change. The pro­test­ers are demand­ing RBS stop fund­ing destruc­tive fos­sil fuel projects which will cre­ate cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe. The action is tak­ing place as part of the cli­mate camp and is co-ordi­nat­ed by the stu­dent action net­work PANDA [1].

A report released today by a coali­tion of envi­ron­men­tal NGOs [2] reveals that RBS is esti­mat­ed to have been involved in pro­vid­ing loans of over $20 bil­lion to coal-relat­ed com­pa­nies in the last two years – includ­ing the ener­gy com­pa­ny E.ON.

Head of Cli­mate Change Cam­paigns at Peo­ple & Plan­et, Bron­wen Thomas said

“Thou­sands of cli­mate change activists are cur­rent­ly gath­ered at the Cli­mate Camp in Kingsnorth to oppose E.ON’s plans to build the first coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in the coun­try for 33 years. Coal is the dirt­i­est fuel there is. Open­ing coal fired pow­er sta­tions is mad­ness — We should be stop­ping cli­mate change not mak­ing it worse”

PANDA stu­dent activist Alex Wood, 22, is cur­rent­ly chained to oth­er activists in front of RBS. He explained his rea­sons: “I’m risk­ing arrest today because RBS must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the emis­sions caused by their invest­ments. Cli­mate change caus­es the death of 150, 000 peo­ple per year – each one of the fif­teen bod­ies lying out­side RBS rep­re­sents 10, 000 deaths. To stop this num­ber increas­ing RBS must act now.”

RBS, who refer to them­selves as ‘the oil and gas bank’ has also loaned mon­ey to com­pa­nies like Arch Coal, who are involved in the con­tro­ver­sial tech­nique of coal min­ing called Moun­tain Top Removal. This destroys the tops of entire moun­tains and pro­duces large quan­ti­ties of tox­ic sludge.

PHOTOS ON REQUEST: pandapress@hushmail.com

NOTES:

[1] RBS Lon­don HQ address is 250 Bish­ops­gate, Lon­don, EC2M 4NR

[2] PANDA is Peo­ple & Plan­et’s Asso­ci­at­ed Net­work for Direct Action. For more details see:
http://peopleandplanet.org/ditchdirtydevelopment

[3] The coali­tion of groups con­sists of Friends of the Earth Scot­land, Peo­ple & Plan­et, Plat­form, Bank­Track, Stop Cli­mate Chaos and Scot­tish Edu­ca­tion and Action for Devel­op­ment.

[4] For more info on the Cli­mate Camp vis­it www.climatecamp.org.uk

[5] For more info on the Roy­al Bank of Scotland’s financ­ing of fos­sil fuel extrac­tion see: www.peopleandplanet.org/ditchdirtydevelopment

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Plane Stu­pid leaves Camp for Cli­mate Action for protest at Gatwick
7.08.2008
Nine pro­tes­tors from the anti-avi­a­tion group ‘Plane Stu­pid’ have left the Kingsnorth Cli­mate Camp to mount a protest against short-haul flights from the near­by Gatwick Air­port. The nine cli­mate activists had been plan­ning to protest against the government’s plans to expand Kingsnorth coal fire pow­er sta­tion. How­ev­er con­tin­u­al police intim­i­da­tion and vio­lence forced them to leave the camp, choos­ing instead to protest against the pop­u­lar­i­ty of short-haul flights, espe­cial­ly dur­ing the Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val, from Gatwick air­port.

The nine activists arrived at the air­port at 7.50am. They then split into three groups. The first group scaled the wall next to the esca­la­tor above the train sta­tion, occu­py­ing the roof struc­ture and drop­ping a ban­ner: ‘SHORT-HAUL FLIGHT? LET THE TRAIN TAKE THE STRAIN.’ The sec­ond group mount­ed the mez­za­nine above the arrivals lounge, hand­cuffed them­selves to a rail­ing and dropped a ban­ner: ‘STOP SHORT-HAUL’. The third group, dressed as ‘infor­ma­tion points’, with t‑shirts ask­ing, ‘can I hin­der?, leaflet­ed the sur­prised crowd with infor­ma­tion about the eco­log­i­cal cost of avi­a­tion and the irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty of those who fly short-haul.

Lot­ti Rut­ter, one of those hand­cuffed to the rail­ing, said:

‘It’s ter­ri­fy­ing – we’re approach­ing a cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe yet the Depart­ment for Trans­port do absolute­ly noth­ing to pro­vide us with a low car­bon trans­port pol­i­cy – there are a total of 139 flights from Lon­don to Edin­burgh as opposed to just 22 trains. We’re here today to protest against short-haul flights. We’re well aware that a lot of peo­ple will be choos­ing to go to the Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val and we’re here to ask them to make the right deci­sion – to take the train. In a time of cli­mate cri­sis any­thing else is more than irre­spon­si­ble: it’s Plane Stu­pid.’

Gatwick flies 26 times dai­ly to Edin­burgh. The same route is cov­ered by a four hour train ride from Lon­don King’s Cross. How­ev­er there are only 22 trains per day. The route from Lon­don to Edin­burgh (by air) is also cov­ered by Heathrow (66 flights), Stanst­ed (31 flights), Luton (12 flights) and Lon­don City Air­port (4 flights).

The activists are present­ly at Gatwick con­tin­u­ing their protest, after which those not arrest­ed will return to the Cli­mate Camp to con­tin­ue their envi­ron­men­tal action.

http://www.planestupid.com

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World’s small­est cam­paign­ers scale Kingsnorth smoke­stack
Lego Kingsnorth occupation7.08.2008
E.ON’s repli­ca of the Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion has been occu­pied by one inch tall cli­mate change cam­paign­ers. The dra­ma unfold­ed at the Legoland park in Wind­sor – spon­sored by E.ON – where the Lego Kingsnorth is giv­en pride of place next to Big Ben and Canary Wharf.

The Lego cam­paign­ers struck as hun­dreds of peo­ple gath­er at this year’s Cli­mate Camp to protest the planned new coal plant at Kingsnorth in Kent.

The six cam­paign­ers appeared at the top of the con­struc­tion at around 11am this morn­ing, before unveil­ing a ban­ner say­ing STOP CLIMATE CHANGE down the length of the tow­er. Lego police are in atten­dance at the foot of the tow­er, along with a Lego police heli­copter.

E.ON proud­ly announced the con­struc­tion of Britain’s newest coal-fired sta­tion at Legoland in 2006. The Ger­man util­i­ty giant is Britain’s sin­gle biggest green­house gas pol­luter. The com­pa­ny is aim­ing to have Kingsnorth 2 built by 2012. Despite claims that the new plant will be more effi­cient, it is esti­mat­ed that it will emit 8.4 mil­lion tonnes of cli­mate chang­ing pol­lu­tants every year, com­pared to the 8.7 mil­lion tonnes the exist­ing plant releas­es annu­al­ly, and nowhere near the 80% reduc­tions need­ed to com­bat glob­al warm­ing.

Nei­ther the cam­paign­ers nor the police would com­ment, because they’re made of Lego and there­fore can’t talk.

legoactivist@googlemail.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/legoactivist

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Cli­mate Camp activists super­glue them­selves to RBS
8.08.2008
This morn­ing at 8.30 AM, activists from the Camp for Cli­mate Action super­glued them­selves to the front doors of the Roy­al Bank of Scotland’s Oil and Gas Divi­sion in Bish­ops­gate, Cen­tral Lon­don wield­ing a ban­ner read­ing “RBS: Cash­ing In On Coal”.

The fol­low­ing is tak­en from the Cam­p’s press release:

“Loca­tion: 199 Broadgate Court, Bish­op’s Gate, near Liv­er­pool Street sta­tion.

Roy­al Bank Of Scot­land Tar­get­ed By Cli­mate Camp Activists For The Sec­ond Day Run­ning

Activists from the Camp for Cli­mate Action have super­glued them­selves to the front doors of the Roy­al Bank of Scotland’s Oil and Gas Divi­sion in Cen­tral Lon­don [1]. Wield­ing a ban­ner read­ing “RBS: Cash­ing In On Coal”, the cam­paign­ers are stag­ing this protest to high­light the links between the finan­cial sec­tor, the fos­sil fuel indus­try, and dis­as­trous cli­mate change.

This action fol­lows the protest at RBS’s head­quar­ters yes­ter­day, when 15 stu­dents staged a “die-in” block­ade [2] to demand that the bank stop fund­ing fos­sil fuel projects includ­ing the pro­posed new coal pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth. Today’s action, which takes place as part of the cli­mate camp and involves mem­bers of the cli­mate action net­work Ris­ing Tide [3], will show the bank that this cam­paign pres­sure is not going to go away.

In 2007, projects financed by RBS were respon­si­ble for more emis­sions that the whole of Scot­land. Along with oth­er banks, RBS par­tic­i­pat­ed in financ­ing E.ON – the own­ers of Kingsnorth coal-fired pow­er sta­tion — $70 bil­lion over the course of 2007 [4]. RBS has financed com­pa­nies like Arch Coal, who are engag­ing in con­tro­ver­sial moun­tain top removal min­ing in the US [5], and are also financ­ing com­pa­nies like Dyn­e­gy [6] who are look­ing to roll out new coal pow­er sta­tions across Amer­i­ca.

Sarah Horne, who is at the Cli­mate Camp in Kent, said:
“The Cli­mate Camp has always been about far more than just stop­ping a new pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth. The fact that the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land has been tar­get­ed twice in as many days high­lights the inti­mate involve­ment of well-known high street banks in the destruc­tion of our cli­mate, thanks to the bil­lions of pounds they invest in fos­sil fuel projects each year. We need to shift to a dif­fer­ent kind of econ­o­my – one that doesn’t rely on end­less eco­nom­ic growth at all costs, and respects the nat­ur­al lim­its of the plan­et.”

Sam Har­ri­son, who is cur­rent­ly super­glued to the entrance of RBS’s oil and gas divi­sion, said “The fact that RBS have a spe­cial office ded­i­cat­ed entire­ly to fund­ing oil and gas projects shows exact­ly where their pri­or­i­ties lie. We need to rad­i­cal­ly reduce our use of fos­sil fuels to have any chance of avoid­ing dis­as­trous cli­mate change, so it is com­plete­ly per­verse for RBS to keep pour­ing so much mon­ey into oil, gas and coal. We’re here to make them to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for their actions.”

PHOTOS ON REQUEST: press@climatecamp.org.uk.

For updates and inter­views about the action con­tact Sam Har­ri­son on 07939 142072. For infor­ma­tion about the Camp for Cli­mate Action, call 07531396232 or see www.climatecamp.org.uk.

NOTES:

[1] RBS London’s Oil and Gas Divi­sion address is at 199 Broadgate Court, Bish­op’s Gate, near Liv­er­pool Street sta­tion.

[2] The stu­dents posed as oil-cov­ered dead bod­ies to block the entrance to RBS’s HQ. For more details on yesterday’s RBS action, con­tact Richard Roaf on 07801140192

[3] For more infor­ma­tion about Ris­ing Tide see www.risingtide.org.uk

[4] Project Finance, Issue No. 287, Feb­ru­ary 2008

[5] Bank Track, Mind The Gap, 2007, pp 124–5

[6] www.banktrack.org”

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Naked protest at BERR
Naked BERR climate action 1
Naked BERR climate action 2
Pho­tographs of pro­test­ers super­glued to the sign of the Depart­ment for Busi­ness Enter­prise and Reg­u­la­to­ry Reform, 1 Vic­to­ria Street, Lon­don. August 8, 2008.

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Cli­mate campers tar­get min­ing cor­po­ra­tion
BHP action 1BHP action 211.08.2008
An affin­i­ty group from Thames Val­ley Cli­mate Action, inspired by this year’s cli­mate camp, occu­pied the lob­by of BHP Bil­li­ton today, super­glu­ing them­selves to the doors and win­dows and climb­ing onto part of the archi­tec­ture. After sev­er­al hours, they man­aged to nego­ti­ate leav­ing with­out any arrests.

BHP are the world’s biggest min­ing cor­po­ra­tion. Based in Aus­tralia, they are respon­si­ble for min­ing hun­dreds of tonnes of coal, as well as for human rights abus­es world­wide. One exam­ple is their involve­ment in Cer­re­jón, the world’s biggest open­cast mine, in Colom­bia, which has dis­placed 14’000 peo­ple.

With all this in mind we decid­ed to dis­rupt busi­ness as usu­al at BHP’s head offices in Lon­don. We scat­tered coal in the lob­by, glued to the revolv­ing doors and near­by win­dows, while a sec­ond door near­by was D‑locked. Mean­while a team of mis­chie­vous fer­rets slipped upstairs in suits to see what else could be done, while oth­ers held a ban­ner out­side say­ing ‘BHP: Under­min­ing the future’ (a play on their vac­u­ous cor­po­rate slo­gan) and leaflet­ed the intrigued passers-by.

When the ‘fer­rets’ were dragged back down to the lob­by, they joined the rest of us. One of them also glued to the revolv­ing door, while the oth­er held a ‘Coal Heart­ed Killers’ ban­ner and even­tu­al­ly man­aged to scram­ble up onto a bit of the struc­ture.

A cou­ple of cops even­tu­al­ly showed up, but there was a tan­gi­ble reluc­tance on the part of BHP to esca­late the sit­u­a­tion; they seemed to want to do any­thing nec­es­sary to get us to qui­et­ly go away! It was main­ly because of this (and because they did­n’t have any easy way of get­ting the climber down) that we were able to nego­ti­ate get­ting every­one away with­out arrest, after the glued on folk had been unglued by the police using a spe­cial chem­i­cal solu­tion.

We adjourned to a near­by pub where we sat in mild shock at hav­ing done what we planned to do with­out the expect­ed has­sle of arrests..

We can hearti­ly rec­om­mend pay­ing them a vis­it! The mas­sive plate glass win­dows pro­vide a good view for passers-by, media etc.

BHP Bil­li­ton Plc
Neathouse Place
Vic­to­ria
Lon­don SW1V 1BH

There are also plen­ty of oth­er sim­i­lar­ly evil out­fits around cen­tral Lon­don — do your own research!

http://tvca.atspace.com/
http://leaveitintheground.org.uk/
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/

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Cli­mate Cam­paign­ers Tar­get Mil­i­tary Base
Mildenhall climate action 111.08.2008
At USAF Milden­hall today, activists linked to the cli­mate camp made a sur­prise appear­ance. Dressed as mil­i­tary air­craft and traf­fic jam both with CO2 tech­ni­cians. They attempt­ed to enter­tain whilst defi­ant­ly edu­cat­ing the troops and passers by. They said they where there to raise aware­ness of the large CO2 emis­sions cre­at­ed by Mil­i­tary air­craft.

A sin­gle KC135 plane uses 44 gal­lons of fuel per minute, emit­ting approx­i­mate­ly the same amount of CO2 as 2000 cars. The planes are used for air-to-air refu­elling and can car­ry 30,000 gal­lons of fuel – enough to dri­ve a car over 30 times around the earth.

One of the activists, Mell Har­ri­son said ‘We are here to show that mil­i­tary air­craft are not only com­mit­ting war crimes, but cli­mate crimes also. You very rarely hear about the vast amounts of CO2 emit­ted by the mil­i­tary and at a time when all should be account­able for their car­bon foot­print now is the time to put our efforts and resources into tack­ling cli­mate change not fight­ing wars over oil resources. ’

Richard Jack­son dressed as KC-135 58–0036 said, ‘Nweeeeeeeeearhh­h­h­h­hh phut phut phut phut’

Whilst dressed as an ‘allur­ing’ car sales girl, Pete Lux said, “Even if you do not believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are counter pro­duc­tive as we do, there is still the large amount of unnec­es­sary fly­ing. Often the planes will do ‘touch and goes’ where they land and then take off sev­er­al times. This is a need­less emis­sion of car­bon diox­ide, in fact dur­ing the 2 hours of our pres­ence here we have had the same two air­craft tak­ing off and land­ing con­tin­u­al­ly. ”

Milden­hall is one of the major logis­tic bases for US Air Force and plays a major role in sup­port­ing com­bat air­craft in both Afghanistan and Iraq. US planes car­ry out about 40 ‘close air sup­port’ mis­sions every day in Iraq and a sim­i­lar num­ber in Afghanistan. Each KC-135 flies on aver­age, for 435 hours each year. There are 15 KC ‑135s at this US base alone. This results in over 160 mil­lion Kg of CO2 per year.

Whilst at the US air base some­body with the group was told by a female Suf­folk police offi­cer that if she did not tell them who they were, how long they would be there and num­bers expect­ed, she, as the ‘nice police’ , would have to call in ‘ the ones with shields and dogs’. So looks like the police tac­tics of the last few days con­tin­ue……
We did not see any pup­pies though.

As Cli­mate Camp fin­ish­es, the group say that the cam­paign against cli­mate crim­i­nals will con­tin­ue all year round.

The KC-135 uses 2650 gal­lons per hour = 44.16666667 gal­lons per minute
Car­ries 90700 kg of avi­a­tion fuel = 126000 litres = 27800 gal­lons.
Aver­age new car cre­ates 140g CO2 per km = 12.6 kg CO2 per hour = 0.21 Kg CO2 per minute.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/kc-135e.htm
http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas

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Cli­mate camp activists tar­get envi­ron­men­tal­ly ‘irre­spon­si­ble’ meat indus­try
Climate camp activists target environmentally ‘irresponsible’ meat industryClimate camp activists target environmentally ‘irresponsible’ meat industryThis morn­ing, 11th August 2008, six Cli­mate Camp activists climbed the roof of Smith­field meat mar­ket to high­light the links between cli­mate change and meat con­sump­tion. The activists dropped a ban­ner bear­ing the mes­sage “Fight cli­mate change — Go Veg­an”.

The activists also quot­ed the 2007 UN Food and Agri­cul­ture report that found that 18% of glob­al green­house emis­sions are caused by ani­mal farm­ing – more than the entire trans­port sec­tor world­wide. The pro­tes­tors argue that all major polit­i­cal par­ties have failed to address this seri­ous prob­lem and as a con­se­quence the pub­lic have not been encour­aged to adopt an envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble diet.

The group is call­ing for more peo­ple to choose a veg­an diet, which excludes all ani­mal prod­ucts includ­ing meat, eggs and dairy, in order to mas­sive­ly reduce cli­mate alter­ing emis­sions. “An ani­mal-based diet is no longer sus­tain­able with cli­mate change threat­en­ing the plan­et, its ecosys­tems, and the peo­ple who depend on them,” said Clare Whit­ney, one of the activists.

The fos­sil fuel input to pro­duce a day’s food for a veg­an is just under 10,000 calo­ries, com­pared to 34,000 calo­ries for a meat eater – the equiv­a­lent of near­ly 1.5 tonnes more car­bon diox­ide per per­son per year. As such, the cli­mate camp pro­tes­tors main­tain, chang­ing the way we eat is one of the most pow­er­ful ways for indi­vid­u­als to reduce their car­bon foot­print.

Smith­field mar­ket is one of the largest whole­sale trad­ing places for meat prod­ucts in the UK. Eighty-five thou­sand tonnes of pro­duce pass through it each year includ­ing meat, poul­try and cheese.

Phil Mur­ray, 22, not­ed: “the meat indus­try is up there with short-haul flights as one of the most envi­ron­men­tal­ly irre­spon­si­ble sec­tors.”

The action took place as part of the Camp for Cli­mate Action, a week-long protest against the build­ing of a new coal-fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth in Kent, which, if built, will emit between 6 and 8 mil­lion tons of CO2 every year.

(This is actu­al­ly just our press release but since the back light on our lap­top just van­ished we’re going to have to leave it as that…)

Cli­mate Camp Veg­an Action Group
angelo.b@talk21.com

Five GMO fields sabotaged in 3 weeks — Germany

Amflo­ra pota­toes (GMO) cleaned up

Dambeck (Müritzkreis), 22th June 2008

Biohazard (red)Amflo­ra pota­toes (GMO) cleaned up

Dambeck (Müritzkreis), 22th June 2008

Despite the high sur­veil­lance on the field, peo­ple man­aged to mix up seeds of bio-pota­toes with the ones of the GMO-pota­toes present on the field, which means that those last one will have to be destroyed, because thanks to this mix-up its unique­ness will not guar­an­teed any fur­ther.

Few weeks before, the field had been squat­ted by anti-GMO oppo­nents, an evic­tion fol­lowed to this.

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Lib­er­a­tion of a GMO-field in Wes­t­heim

Wes­t­heim (Unter­franken), 29th June 2008

Around 60 actvists destroyed the fence around a GMO corn-field and man­aged to destroy almost all of it before get­ting arrest­ed by the cops.

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GMO corn­field in Rhe­in­stet­ten has been destroyed

Rhe­in­stet­ten, 4th June 2008

In the night to the 4.7, some activist man­aged to destroy again some parts of the Rhe­in­stet­ten exper­i­ment field, Despite a strict sur­veil­lance, over 5000m² of the field could be destroyed.
Here a trans­la­tion of the com­mu­nique:

“In the night from the 4 to the 5 of july, we destroyed around 5000m² of gmo corn­field in Rhe­in­stet­ten-Forcheim.
We cut­ted away a part of it, the rest is so destroyed than noth­ing will ever grow any­more.
The plants can not cre­ate cobs any­more. There­fore the exper­i­ment is now failed.
The technog­i­cal cen­ter for the rur­al devel­op­ment of Augusten­berg (LTZ) want­ed to study the socalled „co-exis­tence“ of gmo and non-gmo corn in Rhe­in­stet­ten. Every rea­son­able per­son knows that such co-exis­tence is impos­si­ble. A large cul­ti­va­tion of gmo plants con­ducts to a melt, soon or lat­er. The pollen do not let them­selves be ruled Seed­pro­duc­ers such as Mon­san­to ren­der through their genet­ic engi­neer­ing farm­ers all over the world depen­dent to their prod­ucts.
By this, they endan­ger the world’s nour­ish­ment as much as its vari­ety.
The LTZ and its respon­si­ble, the min­is­ter for agri­cul­ture Hauk, through their genet­ic engi­neer­ing attempts make them­selves helpers of the genet­ic engi­neer­ing indus­try. They do not respect the will of the pop­u­la­tion, which most­ly refuse such appli­ca­tion with­in the agri­cul­tur­al sphere.
Fences, watch­tow­ers and sen­tinels nei­ther did stop us, nor will ever do, in defend­ing us by all means against Mon­san­to and its col­lab­o­ra­tors.

Kom­man­do Biene Maja”

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NRW free from GMOs!

Werne, 10th July 2008

Dec­la­ra­tion:

“Do it your­self
The attempt in Werne, NRW, could be brought to a suc­cess­ful end thanks to coura­geous way of act­ing. Few days ago, fields full of her­bi­cide-resistent corn have been lib­er­at­ed.
Good pre­pared is half a reminder.
Espe­cial­ly small exper­i­ment-fields are a thank­full gift of the agri­cu­tur­al genet­ic engi­neer­ing indus­try, where one can inter­vene in a deci­sive and influ­en­tial way with an hand­ful of peo­ple.
Just do it and do not let your­selves get caught
Enough writ­ten – act!”

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Anoth­er gmo-field lib­er­at­ed

Kitzin­gen, 11th July 2008

Dec­la­ra­tion:

“There steps the bear on! Bruno destroys the gmo-field
Experts are con­firm­ing it after it hap­pened: Bruno the avenger is back.
Togeth­er with the omi­nous com­man­do Bim­ber­le, he left behind him­self a trace of destruc­tion at a gmo-field at Kitzin­gen. Even though Gen­hofer asked for the shoot­ing of the prob­lem­at­ic bears, there was­n’t at all a dan­ger for the pop­u­la­tion.
And since there are still too many gmo-fields, Bruno said ‘Destroy them all!’ ”

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Eviction Of Coal Mine Protest Site Started (Bodge House)

7.08.2008
Around 7.45am about 60 police and 50 bail­liffs arrived at the house. Through­out the day the police have been try­ing to get through the bar­ri­cades and defences. Local peo­ple and media have been at the scene. So far 3 peo­ple have been removed from lock­ons and a car­go net out­side the house and have been arrest­ed. 7 peo­ple are still inside and are heav­i­ly bar­ri­cad­ed in, includ­ed being hid­den in tun­nels under the house. The bailiffs have put up secu­ri­ty fences and although they have man­aged to enter part of the build­ing, the evic­tion attempt has been stopped for today. It is esti­mat­ed the evic­tion will take at least anoth­er cou­ple of days.

Bodge House eviction7.08.2008
Around 7.45am about 60 police and 50 bail­liffs arrived at the house. Through­out the day the police have been try­ing to get through the bar­ri­cades and defences. Local peo­ple and media have been at the scene. So far 3 peo­ple have been removed from lock­ons and a car­go net out­side the house and have been arrest­ed. 7 peo­ple are still inside and are heav­i­ly bar­ri­cad­ed in, includ­ed being hid­den in tun­nels under the house. The bailiffs have put up secu­ri­ty fences and although they have man­aged to enter part of the build­ing, the evic­tion attempt has been stopped for today. It is esti­mat­ed the evic­tion will take at least anoth­er cou­ple of days.

Direc­tion to the site (PDF) — http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20918

Bowl Court Evicted This Morning — Call Out For Help

7.08.2008
This morn­ing at 7am, 40 high court bailiffs have evict­ed the Bowl Court squat in Shored­itch. It is locat­ed in Bowl Court which is up Plough Court next to the junc­tion of Great East­ern Street and Shored­itch High Street. Please come around — help need­ed urgent­ly !

I went there at 1pm the sit­u­a­tion was :

- a lot of secu­ri­ty around, both sides of the build­ing

7.08.2008
This morn­ing at 7am, 40 high court bailiffs have evict­ed the Bowl Court squat in Shored­itch. It is locat­ed in Bowl Court which is up Plough Court next to the junc­tion of Great East­ern Street and Shored­itch High Street. Please come around — help need­ed urgent­ly !

I went there at 1pm the sit­u­a­tion was :

- a lot of secu­ri­ty around, both sides of the build­ing
— a lot of rental vans — it looks like they might be emp­ty­ing it
— met­al grills have been fixed to all entrances, both sides of the build­ing
— they had run­ning gen­er­a­tors out­side, going in. Don’t know what for.

I did­n’t see any of the squat­ters, there was noth­ing to do so I left.

Free Food Give Away — 31st July 2008 — Nottingham

The Not­ting­ham Ani­mal Rights crew take great tast­ing veg­an food to the mass­es and get the facts out about McDon­alds.

The Not­ting­ham Ani­mal Rights crew take great tast­ing veg­an food to the mass­es and get the facts out about McDon­alds. The over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of the pub­lic are delight­ed by deli­cious food and more than slight­ly con­cerned by the dubi­ous eth­i­cal prac­tices of every­body’s least favourite (alright KFC & Burg­er King, joint least…) fast food chain.

Fol­low­ing kind dona­tions from Alley Cafe, Dot­ty’s Cafe, Veg­gies, Scream­ing Car­rot and some home-baked good­ness veg­an food took over Not­ting­ham for a pro­duc­tive few hours. Peo­ple gushed in awe at Dot­ty’s cup­cakes, and went crazy for Alley Cafe veg­an piz­za. McDon­alds cus­tomers (or should it be ex-cus­tomers..?) got a taste of what a real burg­er should taste like — the veg­gies burg­er, 100% tasty and minus dead flesh and assort­ed nas­ties that crafty Ronald McDon­ald sneaks into his kitchens.

Leaflets were on hand cov­er­ing all vari­ety of great rea­sons to go veg­gie (or even bet­ter veg­an); be it for ani­mals, the envi­ron­ment or our health.

Veg­gie food nev­er looked so appeal­ing 🙂 For any­one inter­est­ed in sim­i­lar events in the future, please don’t hes­i­tate to get in touch.

Peace, Love & Com­pas­sion

http://www.myspace.com/nottinghamanimalrights
Nottingham free food 2

URGENT CALL OUT: MAYO NEEDS YOU! NOW IS THE TIME

Dur­ing the next 2 weeks, the Soli­taire (the biggest pipe lay­ing ship in the world) is set to begin ille­gal­ly con­struct­ing the off­shore sec­tion of the pipeline. It is believed that the Soli­taire is on a pret­ty tight sched­ule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY dis­rup­tion pro­vides us with a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to delay the project sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

Dur­ing the next 2 weeks, the Soli­taire (the biggest pipe lay­ing ship in the world) is set to begin ille­gal­ly con­struct­ing the off­shore sec­tion of the pipeline. It is believed that the Soli­taire is on a pret­ty tight sched­ule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY dis­rup­tion pro­vides us with a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to delay the project sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

After the suc­cess of Cli­mate Camp, come over to Ire­land and sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty deter­mined to resist Shell…but they need your help!
Although local resis­tance has been ongo­ing, the police and a hired secu­ri­ty force have meant it is incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult. A few weeks ago 13 peo­ple were arrest­ed in Glen­gad (1 man remains in hos­pi­tal). How­ev­er the police are now just escort­ing peo­ple from the site and not arrest­ing peo­ple.

There­fore there is a real need for clever actions to help delay cur­rent con­struc­tion at the land­fall area in Glen­gad and the planned off­shore pipe lay­ing. The local peo­ple are call­ing for your assis­tance at this time.

It is expect­ed that once the off-shore pipe lay­ing is done, there will be anoth­er qui­et peri­od for sev­er­al months before con­struc­tion is due on the onshore sec­tion pos­si­bly next spring or sum­mer, so NOW IS THE TIME TO COME!

If you can­not come over please do what you can from home …organ­ise Ross­port film nights, protest at Shell garages & offices, con­tact the Irish Embassy & media.

Trav­el details on camp web­site www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com
The cheap­est and eas­i­est way to trav­el from Eng­land-Ire­land is to get a coach or train tick­et that includes fer­ry too. www.sailandrail.com — 08705 455 455 www.coachacross.com
Acco­mo­da­tion is avali­able at the camp house
we can win but we need you
e‑mail: rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
Home­page: http://www.shelltosea.com, www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com, www.indymedia.ie/mayo

High tension electrical tower bombed in Chile, claimed by anarchist group

An anar­chist group, in an e‑mail sent to var­i­ous media out­lets, took respon­si­bil­i­ty for a bomb attack on a high ten­sion elec­tri­cal tow­er on the road at Farel­lones, where one of the major ski cen­ters of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Region is locat­ed.

The mes­sage said, “Sab­o­tage the cen­ters of diver­sion of the rich” and “pre­pare a sub­ver­sive Sep­tem­ber”.

An anar­chist group, in an e‑mail sent to var­i­ous media out­lets, took respon­si­bil­i­ty for a bomb attack on a high ten­sion elec­tri­cal tow­er on the road at Farel­lones, where one of the major ski cen­ters of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Region is locat­ed.

The mes­sage said, “Sab­o­tage the cen­ters of diver­sion of the rich” and “pre­pare a sub­ver­sive Sep­tem­ber”.

It also men­tioned John­ny Cariqueo Yañez, a youth who died March 31 from a heart-attack after he was arrest­ed and jailed on the night of the “Day of the Young Com­bat­ant.”

The same anar­chist group claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for the May 18 bomb­ing of the same police sta­tion the youth was jailed at.

The bomb at the elec­tri­cal tow­er caused struc­tur­al dam­age but did­n’t cut off pow­er.

August 11th, 2008
Source: lanacion.cl
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Mien­tras los ricos se divierten gra­cias a tra­ba­jadores explota­dos, una bom­ba en sus cen­tros de diver­sion les recuer­da que la Guer­ra Social esta Declar­a­da

http://www.hommodolars.org/web/spip.php?article610

Kondh Tribes Determined to Fight UK Mining Firm in India

OrissaIndia’s Supreme Court has today dealt a dev­as­tat­ing blow to the Don­gria Kondh tribe by giv­ing British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta per­mis­sion to mine their sacred moun­tain. The tribe say the mine will destroy their way of life for­ev­er. Vedanta’s sub­sidiary Ster­lite plans to mine for baux­ite, the raw mate­r­i­al for alu­mini­um, from Niyam­giri moun­tain in Oris­sa, east­ern India. Vedan­ta is major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based Indi­an bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al. The Don­gria Kondh say the huge open cast mine will destroy a vast swathe of untouched for­est, and will reduce their most sacred site to an indus­tri­al waste­land. Last month, thir­ty Don­gria Kondh men block­ad­ed a road that is being built through their for­est towards the site of the pro­posed mine. The tribe say they will stage mass protests if min­ing goes ahead.

OrissaIndia’s Supreme Court has today dealt a dev­as­tat­ing blow to the Don­gria Kondh tribe by giv­ing British FTSE 100 com­pa­ny Vedan­ta per­mis­sion to mine their sacred moun­tain. The tribe say the mine will destroy their way of life for­ev­er. Vedanta’s sub­sidiary Ster­lite plans to mine for baux­ite, the raw mate­r­i­al for alu­mini­um, from Niyam­giri moun­tain in Oris­sa, east­ern India. Vedan­ta is major­i­ty owned by Lon­don-based Indi­an bil­lion­aire Anil Agar­w­al. The Don­gria Kondh say the huge open cast mine will destroy a vast swathe of untouched for­est, and will reduce their most sacred site to an indus­tri­al waste­land. Last month, thir­ty Don­gria Kondh men block­ad­ed a road that is being built through their for­est towards the site of the pro­posed mine. The tribe say they will stage mass protests if min­ing goes ahead.

The Don­gria Kondh can­not appeal this deci­sion by the Supreme Court, but they plan to sub­mit anoth­er peti­tion to the Court focus­ing on the ways in which the mine will vio­late their cul­tur­al and reli­gious rights.

Don­gria spokesper­son Jitu Jake­si­ka said, ‘We will become beg­gars if the com­pa­ny destroys our moun­tain and our for­est so that they can make mon­ey. We will give our lives for our moun­tain.’

At this sum­mer’s Earth First! Gath­er­ing Sav­ing Ice­land is organ­is­ing a ses­sion on baux­ite min­ing and heavy indus­try and min­ing in gen­er­al in Oris­sa and around the globe, where there will be the oppor­tu­ni­ty to plan action against Vedan­ta in the UK.

More on devel­op­ments in Oris­sa

Bardon Hit Again

Inspired by an action ear­li­er this year we decid­ed to hit Bar­dons quar­ry in Bur­to-on-trent. Bar­don are part of a group respon­si­ble for the destru­tion of moun­tains at the Glen­san­da Quar­ry in Scot­land. This is one of the largest quar­rys in Europe and exports stone for road con­struc­tion.

Inspired by an action ear­li­er this year we decid­ed to hit Bar­dons quar­ry in Bur­to-on-trent. Bar­don are part of a group respon­si­ble for the destru­tion of moun­tains at the Glen­san­da Quar­ry in Scot­land. This is one of the largest quar­rys in Europe and exports stone for road con­struc­tion.

This can not be allowed. As the secu­ri­ty watched TV we slashed tyres, stripped paint jobs, Glued locks and trashed con­va­y­or belts. All the earth movers were hit and many of the cement and agr­re­gate trucks. This action cost us very lit­tle but should cost bar­don thou­sands.

We all know lob­by­ing gets us lit­tle, we all know that once a moun­tain is gone it is gone for­ev­er, we all know time for the earth is run­ning out. We all have fear that stops us act­ing but we must act.

Leave it in the ground banner dropped above roadway

4.08.2008
Cam­paign­ers bat­tling plans for an open cast mine on the edge of Telford today unfurled ban­ners across one of Shropshire’s busiest roads. Mem­bers of Wrekin Stop War and Wrekin Anar­chist Group are bid­ding to catch the atten­tion of motorists trav­el­ling on the M54 past Telford and are call­ing for them to join their protests.

Coal Leave it in the Ground banner4.08.2008
Cam­paign­ers bat­tling plans for an open cast mine on the edge of Telford today unfurled ban­ners across one of Shropshire’s busiest roads. Mem­bers of Wrekin Stop War and Wrekin Anar­chist Group are bid­ding to catch the atten­tion of motorists trav­el­ling on the M54 past Telford and are call­ing for them to join their protests.

Ban­ners were dropped from the bridge cross­ing the motor­way at Arleston read­ing “Coal: Leave It in the Ground”, refer­ring to UK Coal’s pro­pos­als to cre­ate an open cast mine in the New Works area near the Ercall.

Else­where, ban­ners pro­claim­ing Telford as “Birth­place of Industry/Womb of Cli­mate Change” were hung from bridges cross­ing the motor­way at the Ercall and Cas­tle Farm Inter­change.

It was a dif­fi­cult deci­sion for us this year as we all want­ed to be at Kingsnorth but thought the week of the Cli­mate Camp was a good time to cam­paign on the threat of open-cast local­ly.

As some of our col­lec­tive also felt uneasy about the emis­sions gen­er­at­ed by those trav­el­ling to the Kent, they decid­ed to stay at home and take local direct action, whilst oth­ers are on site at Kingsnorth and fight­ing the good fight with the West Mid­lands neigh­bour­hood.

This action was the first of a num­ber we have planned for the week of Cli­mate Camp and hope that oth­ers will be up on Indy­media soon. The ban­ner drop cer­tain­ly gen­er­at­ed a lot of local inter­est and, along with the wider issue of cli­mate change, has been dis­cussed at length on local web forums. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, some of these dis­cus­sions have become a bit bogged down with dis­cus­sions over the nature of anar­chy but hey ho, it’s brought a vari­ety of issues into a local forum that might not oth­er­wise have been dis­cussed!

For any­one not famil­iar with the area, ‘Birth­place of Indus­try’ is Telford’s tourist slo­gan (yes, that’s right, they use this to attract peo­ple to the town!) Iron­bridge (in Telford) is seen as the home of the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion (although there is some debate in this regard) and has been des­ig­nat­ed a World Her­itage Site. This is despite the fact that Wrekin, a near­by hill and for­est (part of the Shrop­shire Hills Area of Out­stand­ing Nat­ur­al Beau­ty) would be a far more attrac­tive sym­bol for our bor­ough.

The pro­posed open-cast site is in the New Works area, which adjoins the Ercall (the Wrekin’s sis­ter hill). This is an area of ancient wood­land with a huge diver­si­ty of plant and ani­mal life, as well as ancient bur­ial sites.

Some of our col­lec­tive recent­ly took part in direct action on open-cast in Wales and we have recent­ly made con­tact with a group in Der­byshire too.

Please make con­tact with us if you can offer sup­port, advice and sol­i­dar­i­ty for our cam­paigns.

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