PARTY AT THE PUMPS PART 2… THIS TIME IT’S SHELL!

MASS ACTION CALL OUT

When: Sat­ur­day, 15th May
Meet: 1PM at Oxford Cir­cus
Bring: a zone 1–2 tube pass, noise­mak­ers, your friends & fam­i­ly and your
danc­ing shoes
Oxford Cir­cus meet­ing point map: http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap

MASS ACTION CALL OUT

When: Sat­ur­day, 15th May
Meet: 1PM at Oxford Cir­cus
Bring: a zone 1–2 tube pass, noise­mak­ers, your friends & fam­i­ly and your
danc­ing shoes
Oxford Cir­cus meet­ing point map: http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap

Shut­ting down a petrol sta­tion for 5 hours on a sun­ny Sat­ur­day after­noon was so much fun we’re going to do it again. Shell’s Hell – in the tar sands and beyond — is next in the fir­ing line.

Par­ty 1 had Sam­ba, twin sound sys­tems, a live Ceilidh band, face-paint­ing, free cakes and 200 peo­ple. Par­ty 2 will be big­ger and bet­ter, with activists join­ing us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.
See here for a video of Par­ty at the Pumps Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6-tdxd12M

And for all you cyclists out there, there will be a spe­cial Par­ty at the Pumps Crit­i­cal Mass mak­ing its way to the par­ty. Meet 1PM at Mar­ble Arch (under the arch).

Get ready for sun­shine, music, and danc­ing on the fore­court!

Why tar­get Shell?

Par­ty at the Pumps Part 2 is tak­ing place just three days before Shell’s AGM, where the com­pa­ny will come under fire from share­hold­ers over its plans in the Cana­di­an tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo sol­i­dar­i­ty bike ride, which will link two com­mu­ni­ties in Wales and Ire­land resist­ing fos­sil fuel extrac­tion.

Par­ty at the Pumps is in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties around the world who are resist­ing Shell’s destruc­tion of lives and liveli­hoods, poi­son­ing of lands and waters, and fuelling of cli­mate chaos. In North­ern Cana­da, Shell’s tar sands projects are ignor­ing First Nations treaty rights, caus­ing rare forms of can­cer and killing wildlife (http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html). In Ross­port, Ire­land, a dan­ger­ous onshore pipeline and mas­sive refin­ery are trans­form­ing an area of out­stand­ing nat­ur­al beau­ty into an envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ter zone with seri­ous pub­lic health and safe­ty impli­ca­tions (http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org). And in Nige­ria, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogo­ni col­leagues were hung by the Niger­ian state for cam­paign­ing against Shell’s dev­as­ta­tion of the Niger Delta, resis­tance to Shell and Big Oil con­tin­ues (http://www.remembersarowiwa.com).

These strug­gles may be hap­pen­ing in dis­tant places, but they are dri­ven from Shell HQ. On May 15th, we bring the resis­tance to the heart of Lon­don.

This action is joint­ly called by Lon­don Ris­ing Tide/London Tar Sands Net­work and Cli­mate Camp Lon­don.
http://www.no-tar-sands.org
http://www.risingtide.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/london