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

London Climate Campers update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Squatted Centre, Camberwell South London

A bunch of local south lon­don­ers have opened up a build­ing in Cam­ber­well, South Lon­don and are fix­ing it up to run as a social space. Right now, lots of work fix­ing and repair­ing is going on towards get­ting the space ready for a caff, and social nights with films.

Camberwell squat flierA bunch of local south lon­don­ers have opened up a build­ing in Cam­ber­well, South Lon­don and are fix­ing it up to run as a social space. Right now, lots of work fix­ing and repair­ing is going on towards get­ting the space ready for a caff, and social nights with films.

There will be a small ‘work-in-progress’ Potluck Caff and B.Y.O on SUNDAY 18th MARCH from 2pm onwards. So bring food and drink to share and come on down. This event will also give folks a chance to see the space, meet the res­i­dents and oth­ers involved, here the plans and sug­gest ideas. Become occu­pied and be involved!

CAMBERWELL SQUATTED CENTRE
192 Warham St
Cam­ber­well SE5
opp Union Tav­ern on Cam­ber­well New Rd
bus­es: 36, 436
tube; oval
There is a evolv­ing web­site up at:
www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

Sol­dar­i­ty, Love and Rage

Cam­ber­well Squat Cen­tre
http://www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

Earth First! Shut Down Aluminum Giant ALCOA in The Netherlands

Last night “Earth First!” closed Alcoa’s head­quar­ters in Drunen, the Nether­lands. Alcoa’s largest dutch fac­to­ry in Kerkrade was also shut. Entrance gates were locked with chains. The gates’locks them­selves were sab­o­taged with a liq­uid.
Alcoa is con­struct­ing new alu­minum smelters in Ice­land. Alcoa also plans to build new smelters in Trinidad and in the Ama­zon. There is fierce local and inter­na­tion­al oppo­si­tion to these plans. Effects on nature and cli­mate are dev­as­tat­ing. Var­i­ous planned smelters would be pow­ered by con­struct­ing new megadams that would flood large areas of unique wilder­ness.

Last night “Earth First!” closed Alcoa’s head­quar­ters in Drunen, the Nether­lands. Alcoa’s largest dutch fac­to­ry in Kerkrade was also shut. Entrance gates were locked with chains. The gates’locks them­selves were sab­o­taged with a liq­uid.
Alcoa is con­struct­ing new alu­minum smelters in Ice­land. Alcoa also plans to build new smelters in Trinidad and in the Ama­zon. There is fierce local and inter­na­tion­al oppo­si­tion to these plans. Effects on nature and cli­mate are dev­as­tat­ing. Var­i­ous planned smelters would be pow­ered by con­struct­ing new megadams that would flood large areas of unique wilder­ness.

With this action, we are declar­ing our sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Sav­ing Ice­land cam­paign. Sav­ing Ice­land has called out for an inter­na­tion­al week of action against heavy indus­try. This action has been done in response to that call.

Earth First! in Bel­gium and the Nether­lands is also called Groen Front!.
Earth First! is not an organ­i­sa­tion but an inter­na­tion­al ban­ner for direct action.

NO COMPROMISE IN DEFENCE OF MOTHER EARTH!

(Source of this report:
https://prod.indymedia.nl/nl/2007/03/43107.shtml)

Also rel­e­vant:
http://www.groenfront.nl
http://www.savingiceland.org

14 Landrovers covered in Paintstripper

Four­teen 4x4s were cov­ered in painstrip­per in a Land Rover Deal­er­ship near Here­ford in an action against cli­mate change. Slo­gans were also sprayed while the vehi­cles were left to ruin.

This action was tak­en to warn any deal­er­ship spe­cial­is­ing in these cars, that they are a tar­get. Dri­ving one of these vehi­cles is the equiv­e­lent to leav­ing the TV on for 32 years, cars like this must be stopped in their tracks.

Four­teen 4x4s were cov­ered in painstrip­per in a Land Rover Deal­er­ship near Here­ford in an action against cli­mate change. Slo­gans were also sprayed while the vehi­cles were left to ruin.

This action was tak­en to warn any deal­er­ship spe­cial­is­ing in these cars, that they are a tar­get. Dri­ving one of these vehi­cles is the equiv­e­lent to leav­ing the TV on for 32 years, cars like this must be stopped in their tracks.

Cli­mate Change is the most mas­sive glob­al­ly destruc­tive issue that is fac­ing us today, we can not wait for any­one else to take action but our­selves. The new dawn is com­ing for direct action in defence of the Earth. There will be no more tol­er­ance.

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front

Next BIG Aldermaston Blockade Monday 19th March

Next block­ade: Mon­day 19th March
http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk/Blockades.php

This will be the first block­ade since the vote in par­lia­ment last
Wednes­day 14th March in favour of replac­ing Tri­dent. Because of that vote and
the total lack of pub­lic debate and con­sul­ta­tion that pre­ced­ed it, this needs
to be the most mas­sive show of strength ever to tell them that there is,
and there will con­tin­ue to be, mas­sive oppo­si­tion to any new nuclear weapons.

Next block­ade: Mon­day 19th March
http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk/Blockades.php

This will be the first block­ade since the vote in par­lia­ment last
Wednes­day 14th March in favour of replac­ing Tri­dent. Because of that vote and
the total lack of pub­lic debate and con­sul­ta­tion that pre­ced­ed it, this needs
to be the most mas­sive show of strength ever to tell them that there is,
and there will con­tin­ue to be, mas­sive oppo­si­tion to any new nuclear weapons.

If we can’t stop the next gen­er­a­tion of nuclear weapons by voting…then
we have to use all oth­er means.

The build­ing work at Alder­mas­ton has con­tin­ued through­out the so-called
par­lia­men­tary “debate”; mil­lions are being invest­ed in new facil­i­ties.
Right now, work on the Ori­on laser site — a key facil­i­ty for the future of
Britain’s WMD project — is well under­way.

Meet up on Sun­day 18th March at 6pm at the Friends Meet­ing House in
New­bury (map: http://tinyurl.com/beuyo) for a plan­ning meet­ing on the
action on Mon­day morn­ing, and a meal. Please bring a sleep­ing bag and a
mat. More details on http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk/Blockades.php

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

20th April Liverpool Critical Mass Returns!

Fri­day, 20th April 2007, 6pm
Meet at the Chi­nese Arch, Nel­son Street, Liv­er­pool

“We aren’t block­ing traf­fic, we are traf­fic”

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Fri­day, 20th April 2007, 6pm
Meet at the Chi­nese Arch, Nel­son Street, Liv­er­pool

“We aren’t block­ing traf­fic, we are traf­fic”

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A crit­i­cal mass is a group of cyclists, wheel­chair users, roller­skaters, skate­board­ers, in fact any­one with self-pro­pelled trans­port is wel­come to join. We trav­el around the city on a ran­dom route fol­low­ing who­ev­er is in front to cel­e­brate non-pol­lut­ing trans­port. Some­times it’s just for fun and some­times it’s to cam­paign for bet­ter trans­port facil­i­ties. This first ride is for fun.