Australia: Climate activists do Banner drops in Boggabri and Melbourne against coal rush

Activists from Quit Coal were able to get a mes­sage across this morn­ing: with a ban­ner drop over the main entrance of the Vic­to­ri­an State par­lia­ment house. The ban­ner said “ ‘Coal is the sin­gle great­est threat to civil­i­sa­tion and all life on our plan­et’ Prof. James Hansen, NASA.

Activists from Quit Coal were able to get a mes­sage across this morn­ing: with a ban­ner drop over the main entrance of the Vic­to­ri­an State par­lia­ment house. The ban­ner said “ ‘Coal is the sin­gle great­est threat to civil­i­sa­tion and all life on our plan­et’ Prof. James Hansen, NASA. Why is Bail­lieu fund­ing coal?” At the same time activists in cen­tral NSW at Bog­gabri climbed a coal-crush­er and dropped a ban­ner which said “Stop the Coal Rush: Pro­tect Health, Water, Cli­mate”

Relat­ed: Fur­ther sub­si­dies for Vic­to­ri­an coal by Vic­to­ri­an and Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ments | Quit Coal pho­tos: Par­lia­ment House Ban­ner Drop & Lock On

“Why is Baillieu funding coal?” demand climate activists

Four activists elud­ed secu­ri­ty and were able to climb the scaf­fold­ing at the back of par­lia­ment house to the roof to drop the ban­ner just after 9am. Two chained them­selves on the roof while two more dropped down with the ban­ner on ropes. Nine oth­er peo­ple chained them­selves on the steps of par­lia­ment house. Pro­tes­tor Dominic O’D­wyer said from the roof: “We are plan­ning on stay­ing here until the gov­ern­ment does some­thing recog­nis­ing the threat that cli­mate change pos­es. We would like the gov­ern­ment to take the threat of cli­mate change seri­ous­ly.”

 

The ban­ner was present for a few hours before police peace­ful­ly escort­ed the pro­tes­tors away. Bolt cut­ters had to be brought in to cut the chains of peo­ple on the steps. Accord­ing to a police spkeswoman no charges have been laid at this stage.

MR Bail­lieu when asked about the protest by reporters com­ment­ed “It will be a mat­ter for the pres­i­dent and the speak­er. Those peo­ple have endan­gered them­selves but they have also endan­gered oth­er peo­ple.”

Ener­gy min­is­ter Michael O’Brien called the protest a “stu­pid and dan­ger­ous stunt”.

Dominic O’D­wyer, who chained him­self on the roof, told AAP reporter and report­ed in the Her­ald Sun “We’re dis­ap­point­ed that the gov­ern­ment is not tak­ing action on cli­mate change and they’ve got their head in the sand. That’s why we’re here today, we’re not here today because we enjoy this. We’ve seen record ice melts in the Arc­tic this year, that means more bush­fires, more severe droughts, worse flood­ing, which affects mil­lions of Vic­to­ri­an fam­i­lies.”

Gavin Jen­nings, Deputy Leader of the Oppo­si­tion in the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil and Shad­ow Min­is­ter of Health, tweet­ed dur­ing the protest:

 

One of the rea­sons pro­tes­tors iden­ti­fied for the action was the State gov­ern­ment deci­sion to put $45 mil­lion into fund­ing ‘clean coal’ ini­tia­tives along with anoth­er $45 mil­lion from the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment. Mr O’D­wyer said “For a start they should with­draw that mon­ey”.

Protest against coal expansion Gunnedah Basin, NSW

While the protest at the Vic­to­ri­an Par­lia­ment House was occur­ring there was also a protest and ban­ner drop in cen­tral New South Wales, where activists scaled a coal-crush­ing plant at Bog­gabri Coal Mine on the Gunnedah basin.

Accord­ing to the media release the NSW Gov­ern­ment has recent­ly approved a four­fold expan­sion of the Bog­gabri Coal Mine. The two pro­tes­tors dropped a ban­ner say­ing: “Stop the Coal Rush: Pro­tect Health, Water, Cli­mate”. After more than 8 hours atop the coal-crush­er two pro­tes­tors were arrest­ed and tak­en to Narrabri Police Sta­tion. The men were protest­ing against the destruc­tion of Leard State For­est, in the Gunnedah Basin, for three open-cut coal mines.

Sources:

GM sunflowers — Faucheurs Volontaires in action

2 Sep­tem­ber 2012

Press release

In the ear­ly hours of 2nd Sep­tem­ber, a hun­dred Faucheurs Volon­taires (vol­un­tary reapers of GM) from all over France simul­ta­ne­ous­ly decon­t­a­m­i­nat­ed 8 test fields in the Isère region and 1 in the Drôme.

2 Sep­tem­ber 2012

Press release

In the ear­ly hours of 2nd Sep­tem­ber, a hun­dred Faucheurs Volon­taires (vol­un­tary reapers of GM) from all over France simul­ta­ne­ous­ly decon­t­a­m­i­nat­ed 8 test fields in the Isère region and 1 in the Drôme.

Par cette action que nous assumons pleine­ment, nous voulons : met­tre en évi­dence qu’une par­tie impor­tante des sur­faces de tour­nesol de la région a été semée avec des var­iétés mutées, issues de tech­nolo­gies brevetées, tolérantes à des her­bi­cides, véri­ta­bles OGM qui ne dis­ent pas leur nom. Dénon­cer le pas­sage en force des firmes semen­cières et des opéra­teurs de la fil­ière, qui cachent aux paysans la véri­ta­ble nature de ces var­iétés. C’est la poli­tique du fait accom­pli : on colonise les champs, ensuite on dis­cutera.

Par ailleurs, aucune traça­bil­ité ni éti­que­tage n’est exigée pour les pro­duits de con­som­ma­tion humaine (graines et huile de tour­nesol) et ani­males (graines et tourteaux) Les récoltes de ces par­celles seront mélangées avec les récoltes con­ven­tion­nelles et se retrou­veront donc dans nos assi­ettes

Nous atten­dons du min­istre de l’agriculture et des Ser­vices de l’Etat : qu’ils garan­tis­sent aux con­som­ma­teurs la lib­erté de con­som­mer sans OGM qu’ils agis­sent pour que ces tech­nolo­gies ne soient plus exclues du champ d’application de la direc­tive européenne 2001–18 sur les OGM (alors qu’elle les définit comme tels : art 2 et 3)

Ces var­iétés de tour­nesol muté con­stituent des impass­es tech­niques : tou­jours plus de pes­ti­cides, risques de résis­tance de l’ambroisie… Les pro­duc­teurs doivent les refuser et ne pas se laiss­er embar­quer dans cette spi­rale qui les ren­dent encore plus dépen­dants des firmes semen­cières agrochim­iques

PAS D’OGM DANS NOS CHAMPS ET NOS ASSIETTES QU’ILS SOIENT ISSUS DE TRANSGENESE OU DE MUTAGENESE

Les Faucheurs Volon­taires

Japan Dolphins Day 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around 100–150 pro­test­ers held a ral­ly out­side the Embassy of Japan in Lon­don yes­ter­day (31st August 2012) to send a clear mes­sage to Japan on the eve of the Tai­ji dol­phin slaugh­ter sea­son- END THE UNNECESSARY & CRUEL MURDER OF DOLPHINS IN THE COVE. Sim­i­lar events were held at Japan­ese embassies around the world, with thou­sands of pas­sion­ate  peo­ple from all walks of life and of all ages com­ing togeth­er for the cause and cel­e­brat­ing lives of the beau­ti­ful and intel­li­gent crea­tures on Japan Dol­phins Day. We made a lot of noise and got a lot of atten­tion from embassy staff, secu­ri­ty and impor­tant­ly the pub­lic.

 

For more infor­ma­tion-

http://thecovemovie.com/

http://www.seashepherd.org/

http://savejapandolphins.org/

USA: Earth First! Blockades Florida’s Dirtiest Power Plant protesting Mitt Romney’s Acceptance Speech

Apol­lo Beach, FL—In the cli­max of the 2012 Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, pro­tes­tors with Earth First! have blocked access roads to TECO’s Big Bend coal plant on the east­ern shore of Tam­pa Bay. The envi­ron­men­tal action group is cit­ing cor­po­rate influ­ence in pol­i­tics and eco­log­i­cal impacts of fos­sil fuel depen­den­cy as rea­sons for the dis­rup­tion.

Apol­lo Beach, FL—In the cli­max of the 2012 Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, pro­tes­tors with Earth First! have blocked access roads to TECO’s Big Bend coal plant on the east­ern shore of Tam­pa Bay. The envi­ron­men­tal action group is cit­ing cor­po­rate influ­ence in pol­i­tics and eco­log­i­cal impacts of fos­sil fuel depen­den­cy as rea­sons for the dis­rup­tion.

Report from Indy­bay IMC: A30 Earth First! Lock­down at Tam­pa’s Big Bend Coal Plant Dur­ing 2012 RNC
| Youtube video: Envi­ron­men­tal Protest in Tam­pa Bay dur­ing RNC , Pro­tes­tors chained togeth­er, Protest ends peace­ful­ly

This year’s RNC was fund­ed by an esti­mat­ed $55 mil­lion in cor­po­rate pay-offs, with cor­po­ra­tions includ­ing the Tam­pa based-TECO Ener­gy, along with Chevron, Duke Ener­gy and Exxon Mobil.

Accord­ing to a report by Nat­ur­al Resources Defense Coun­cil (NRDC) last year, Flori­da is among the dirt­i­est states in pow­er plant pol­lu­tion. NRDC found TECO’s Big Bend plant to be in the state’s, “top three most pol­lut­ing smoke stacks.”

Earth First! activists chose this day for their protest in order to high­light Mitt Rom­ney’s plan to expand what the group calls the “ener­gy empire” which favors the inter­est of big donors in oil, gas and coal indus­tries.

Romney’s top ener­gy pol­i­cy advi­sor is the wealth­i­est oil­man in the coun­try and accord­ing to data ana­lyzed by the Cen­ter for Respon­sive Pol­i­tics, Rom­ney has already raised more from min­ing inter­ests than Bush or McCain raised from these indus­tries in their entire cam­paigns.

Local­ly, TECO’s Big Bend plant has a long his­to­ry of pol­lu­tion. Along with being declared Flori­da’s num­ber one dirt­i­est pow­er plant by Flori­da Con­sumer Action Net­work, they were also doc­u­ment­ed dis­charg­ing waste into Cobia Bay in Apol­lo Beach in years past.

But that’s not all. TECO has been called one of the nation’s worst offend­ers when it comes to moun­tain­top removal coal min­ing. In coal min­ing regions of the Appalachi­an Moun­tains, TECO has ruined entire com­mu­ni­ties to max­i­mize their prof­its. Ken­tucky coal­field res­i­dent Doug Jus­tice worked in the coal mines for 22 years and said “I have nev­er seen an out­fit treat a com­mu­ni­ty the way TECO Coal has done us.”

In response to the dev­as­ta­tion from floods caused be TECO’s min­ing in 2002, Granville Burke of Letch­er Coun­ty, Ken­tucky, had this to say: “I wish TECO had nev­er start­ed min­ing above our home. Pro­tec­tion for fam­i­lies like ours is sup­posed to come from the state and fed­er­al reg­u­la­to­ry agen­cies, but instead they look the oth­er way as coal com­pa­nies destroy entire com­mu­ni­ties for the sake of prof­it.”

“Dirty ener­gy becomes dirty pol­i­tics. We can’t afford to stand by and watch it any­more. We have to fight back.” Said Rachel Kijew­s­ki, an orga­niz­er with the Earth First! move­ment in Flori­da.

xxx

 

Twyford Down anti-road protests gathering, September

There is going to be a Twyford Down anti-roads protest reunion to mark that it is 20 years since the protests start­ed.  It’s on 29–30 Sept, when it’ll be the Har­vest Moon.  

There is going to be a Twyford Down anti-roads protest reunion to mark that it is 20 years since the protests start­ed.  It’s on 29–30 Sept, when it’ll be the Har­vest Moon.  

There will be a camp run along the same lines as 20 years ago (bring what you expect to find… water butts, tents, food, etc).  That said, there will be some domes and the @ teapot are going to be doing cater­ing (Sat din­ner and Sun break­fast) — hur­rah!  Camp loca­tion to be on top of St Cather­ine’s Hill, near Win­ches­ter.

There will also be a protest / pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ty about this cur­rent Gov­ern­men­t’s mania of road­build­ing. 

 Please spread this amongst your con­tacts who you think may be inter­estd.  There is a Face­book page if you do such things called Twen­ty Years Since Twyford: http://www.facebook.com/events/344190508996315/

More details and fly­er down­load­able at http://bettertransport.org.uk/blogs/roads/100912-twyford-20

Netherlands: destruction of potato GM trial site

Two GM pota­to tri­al fields at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wagenin­gen were destroyed by activists in July and August 2012. 

The pota­to tri­als were for mildew resis­tance.  They were in Lelystad and Valther­mond. It was only recent­ly, on 16th August, that the destruc­tion was dis­cov­ered.  The action has not been claimed. 

Two GM pota­to tri­al fields at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wagenin­gen were destroyed by activists in July and August 2012. 

The pota­to tri­als were for mildew resis­tance.  They were in Lelystad and Valther­mond. It was only recent­ly, on 16th August, that the destruc­tion was dis­cov­ered.  The action has not been claimed. 

Russia. Khimki forest (north of Moscow). Construction vehicles torched, tree-cutter assaulted, his arm broken

report­ed by activists in Rus­sia:

“Rus­sia. Khim­ki for­est (north of Moscow). Con­struc­tion vehi­cles torched, tree-cut­ter assault­ed, his arm bro­ken.

report­ed by activists in Rus­sia:

“Rus­sia. Khim­ki for­est (north of Moscow). Con­struc­tion vehi­cles torched, tree-cut­ter assault­ed, his arm bro­ken.

Unknown activists have torched sev­er­al con­struc­tion vehi­cles and assault­ed tree-cut­ter at the new toll high­way con­struc­tion site in Khim­ki for­est. These news appeared in joint dec­la­ra­tion, pub­lished by state enter­prise “Avtodor” and “North-East­ern con­ces­sion” (sub­sidiary of Vin­ci). The acci­dents hap­pened on nights of 19.07 and 21.07.
“Avtodor” rep­re­sen­ta­tives stat­ed that an assault on tree-cut­ters took place on 19.07: one of the work­ers tried to pre­vent eco-activists from enter­ing the con­struc­tion site. In the fol­low­ing fight his arm broke.
On the night of 21.07 spe­cial con­struc­tion vehi­cles were torched: sev­er­al brand new har­vesters and hydraulic exca­va­tor were com­plete­ly destroyed by fire. Mate­r­i­al dam­age is esti­mat­ed to be over $ 2 000 000.
Ear­li­er the same com­pa­nies filed a com­plaint about unknown peo­ple open­ing fire on con­struc­tion vehi­cles (sup­pos­ed­ly from “Saiga”, a civ­il 12-mm car­bine) and torch­ing work­ers sheds with molo­tovs.
Eco-activists present at the site of eco-camp near the con­struc­tion failed to pro­vide police with evi­dence or ideas about the nature of per­pe­tra­tors.”

report­ed by activists in Rus­sia:

“Rus­sia. Khim­ki for­est (north of Moscow). Con­struc­tion vehi­cles torched, tree-cut­ter assault­ed, his arm bro­ken.

Unknown activists have torched sev­er­al con­struc­tion vehi­cles and assault­ed tree-cut­ter at the new toll high­way con­struc­tion site in Khim­ki for­est. These news appeared in joint dec­la­ra­tion, pub­lished by state enter­prise “Avtodor” and “North-East­ern con­ces­sion” (sub­sidiary of Vin­ci). The acci­dents hap­pened on nights of 19.07 and 21.07.
“Avtodor” rep­re­sen­ta­tives stat­ed that an assault on tree-cut­ters took place on 19.07: one of the work­ers tried to pre­vent eco-activists from enter­ing the con­struc­tion site. In the fol­low­ing fight his arm broke.
On the night of 21.07 spe­cial con­struc­tion vehi­cles were torched: sev­er­al brand new har­vesters and hydraulic exca­va­tor were com­plete­ly destroyed by fire. Mate­r­i­al dam­age is esti­mat­ed to be over $ 2 000 000.
Ear­li­er the same com­pa­nies filed a com­plaint about unknown peo­ple open­ing fire on con­struc­tion vehi­cles (sup­pos­ed­ly from “Saiga”, a civ­il 12-mm car­bine) and torch­ing work­ers sheds with molo­tovs.
Eco-activists present at the site of eco-camp near the con­struc­tion failed to pro­vide police with evi­dence or ideas about the nature of per­pe­tra­tors.”

 

“On the night of 20–21 july, after hav­ing received news of new tree-cut­ting activ­i­ty in Khim­ki for­est, we decid­ed to vis­it the work­ers. We aimed for 2 trucks and exca­va­tor parked on the clear cut. They were com­plete­ly destroyed.

Our sol­i­dar­i­ty goes out to eco-activists who broke the arm of pri­vate guard who was guard­ing the clear cut (this piece we learned from news).

Enough of pseu­do-legal­ism!

Do like us, do bet­ter than us.
- Autonomous autonoms

 

Protesters Shut Down Largest Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in U.S.

Ramp­ing up renewed efforts to end moun­tain­top removal min­ing in cen­tral Appalachia, scores of pro­test­ers staged a dar­ing action at the con­tro­ver­sial

Ramp­ing up renewed efforts to end moun­tain­top removal min­ing in cen­tral Appalachia, scores of pro­test­ers staged a dar­ing action at the con­tro­ver­sial Hobet strip mine today in Boone Coun­ty, West Vir­ginia, shut­ting down oper­a­tions through a series of coor­di­nat­ed lock downs, tree-sits and ban­ner drops. In a sym­bol­ic chal­lenge to the Oba­ma administration’s failed reg­u­la­to­ry poli­cies, the protest tar­get­ed the Hobet 45 moun­tain­top removal mine, which had been grant­ed a wide­ly denounced per­mit over two years ago.”

Twen­ty pro­test­ers were arrest­ed, and are being held for a total of $500,00 dol­lars in bail. A call for sup­port to raise funds has been issued.

View a video of the action here. Learn more at rampscampaign.org.

5,000 March Against Fracking in DC

More than 5,000 peo­ple from all over the nation, and var­i­ous parts of the world includ­ing Aus­tralia, unit­ed [Sat­ur­day, July 28] on the West lawn of the U.S. Capi­tol demand­ing Con­gress take imme­di­ate action to stop frack­ing.

More than 5,000 peo­ple from all over the nation, and var­i­ous parts of the world includ­ing Aus­tralia, unit­ed [Sat­ur­day, July 28] on the West lawn of the U.S. Capi­tol demand­ing Con­gress take imme­di­ate action to stop frack­ing. After the ral­ly that began at 2 p.m., ral­ly par­tic­i­pants marched for more than one hour, stop­ping at the head­quar­ters of the America’s Nat­ur­al Gas Alliance and Amer­i­can Petro­le­um Insti­tute.

Peo­ple impact­ed by frack­ing in their com­mu­ni­ties joined forces with 136 local and nation­al orga­ni­za­tions to call on Con­gress to Stop the Frack Attack and pro­tect Amer­i­cans from the dan­ger­ous impacts of frack­ing.

Ral­ly speak­ers includ­ed, Bill McK­ibben, co-founder of 350.org; Josh Fox, pro­duc­er of Gasland; Calvin Till­man, for­mer may­or of Dish, Texas; Alli­son Chin, board pres­i­dent of the Sier­ra Club, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers from swing states affect­ed by frack­ing.

“As the increas­ing­ly bizarre weath­er across the plan­et and melt­ing ice on Green­land makes clear, at this point we’ve got no choice but to keep fos­sil fuels under­ground. Frack­ing to find more is the worst pos­si­ble idea,” said McK­ibben.

“The amaz­ing thing about this prob­lem is that there’s a solu­tion… We know that  we can run the world on renew­able ener­gy. We know that we can run the world on the wind. And today, we have a reminder that we can run the world on the sun,” said Fox. [Ed. note: While we sup­port actions to stop frack­ing, see our arti­cle cri­tiquing this per­spec­tive on so-called clean alter­na­tives]

Today’s ral­ly was part of the first nation­al event to stop the frack attack. The ral­ly is the cul­mi­na­tion of three days of train­ing to fur­ther esca­late the move­ment to stop abuse by the fos­sil fuel indus­try. Large groups from swing states includ­ing Ohio, Col­orado, Penn­syl­va­nia and North Car­oli­na attend­ed the train­ing and ral­ly to make sure that frack­ing is a key part of the upcom­ing elec­tion.

“Just weeks ago in North Car­oli­na, our leg­is­la­ture ripped up decades of ground­wa­ter pro­tec­tions for rur­al drink­ing water, in order to allow frack­ing and invite in dirty indus­try cam­paign dol­lars. So we add our voic­es to the nation­al move­ment call­ing on Con­gress to pro­tect our homes, our drink­ing water and our health by repeal­ing the 2005 oil and gas exemp­tions,” said Hope Tay­lor, a farmer near Durham and exec­u­tive direc­tor of Clean Water for NC.

Ral­ly par­tic­i­pants have three key demands: an end to dirty and dan­ger­ous frack­ing, clo­sure of the sev­en legal loop­holes that let frack­ers in the oil and gas indus­try ignore the Safe Drink­ing Water Act, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, and full enforce­ment of exist­ing laws to pro­tect fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties from the effects of frack­ing.

“It is time for us to come togeth­er as a peo­ple and let the law mak­ers that work for us know that we are tired of being run over by the out-of-con­trol oil and gas indus­try,” said Till­man.

While at the head­quar­ters of America’s Nat­ur­al Gas Alliance, ral­ly orga­niz­ers deliv­ered six jugs of con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed water in haz­mat suits and then head­ed to the Amer­i­can Petro­le­um Insti­tute where a 20-foot-high mock oil rig was smashed to the ground.

This event was a launch­ing point for the move­ment, and will be fol­lowed by events in Albany, NY on Aug. 25, Philadel­phia on Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, and sub­se­quent events in oth­er states and regions affect­ed by frack­ing.

Solidarity with Japanese anti-nuclear protests

Six­teen anti-nuclear pro­test­ers — half of them Japan­ese — gath­ered out­side the Japan­ese embassy in Pic­cadil­ly, Lon­don on Fri­day morn­ing (10 August), for the sec­ond week run­ning, in a demon­stra­tion organ­ised by Lon­don-based group Kick Nuclear.

Six­teen anti-nuclear pro­test­ers — half of them Japan­ese — gath­ered out­side the Japan­ese embassy in Pic­cadil­ly, Lon­don on Fri­day morn­ing (10 August), for the sec­ond week run­ning, in a demon­stra­tion organ­ised by Lon­don-based group Kick Nuclear. This was in sol­i­dar­i­ty with week­ly demon­stra­tions tak­ing place out­side the Prime Min­is­ter’s offices in Tokyo and else­where in Japan against the restart­ing of nuclear reac­tors as the Fukushi­ma cri­sis con­tin­ues. The week­ly num­bers tak­ing part in those protests have now swelled to well over 70,000.

 

All images are Copy­right © 2012 Kick Nuclear, but may be repro­duced free of charge for non-com­mer­cial use if cred­it­ed. For larg­er, high res­o­lu­tion ver­sions, please e‑mail. More pho­tos

See also:

film of anti-nuke protest at japan embassy — by Rik­ki

Upcom­ing actions and events:

- Fri­day 17 August, 9.30–11.30am — Anti-nuclear sol­i­dar­i­ty protest at Embassy of Japan, 101–104 Pic­cadil­ly, Lon­don W1:

- 23 August — 1 Sep­tem­ber — Bud­dhist-led peace walk towards a nuclear-free future, Alder­mas­ton Atom­ic Weapons Estab­lish­ment, Berk­shire to Hink­ley Point nuclear pow­er sta­tion, Som­er­set.

- Tues­day 28 August, 7.30–9.30pm — Kick Nuclear open night

- with guest speak­er from Indi­an anti-nuclear move­ment

Venue: Lon­don Action Resource Cen­tre (LARC) — (ground floor)
62 Fieldgate Street, (cor­ner of Par­fett Street), Whitechapel, Lon­don E1 1ES
Near­est Sta­tions:- Whitechapel / Aldgate East / Aldgate / Shad­well: Map

This event is open to new folks and old hands alike to come and dis­cuss the lat­est from the murky world of nuclear ener­gy and nuclear new build, share news about protests and actions that have been tak­ing place in the UK and else­where, and plot how we can put a few span­ners in the works.

Come and join us!

- Tues­day 25 Sep­tem­ber — Ben­e­fit gig: David Rovics — Songs of Social Sig­nif­i­cance, with sup­port from The Noo and Mr Creedy — pre­sent­ed by Kick Nuclear and friends

Doors 7pm
Tick­ets: £5 on the door

Venue: Lon­don Action Resource Cen­tre (LARC) — (ground floor)
62 Fieldgate Street, (cor­ner of Par­fett Street), Whitechapel, Lon­don E1 1ES
Near­est Sta­tions:- Whitechapel / Aldgate East / Aldgate / Shad­well
Map: http://tinyurl.com/czzkpdg

(Lis­ten to and down­load David Rovics songs for free at http://www.davidrovics.com )

- Stop New Nuclear camp and mass action against nuclear new build at Hink­ley Point, Som­er­set, 5–8 Octo­ber 2012.

http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk