Protest against BP — This Saturday 26/06 1pm at Tottenham Hale BP Garage, London

Against cli­mate crimes in the name of prof­it and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with work­ers exploit­ed by giant cor­po­ra­tion BP, come and protest this Sat­ur­day 26 June, 1pm at Tot­ten­ham Hale BP garage.

Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group have organ­ised a protest against giant cor­po­ra­tion BP this Sat­ur­day 26 June, from 1pm at Tot­ten­ham Hale BP Garage (map here: http://tiny.cc/28p38)

Against cli­mate crimes in the name of prof­it and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with work­ers exploit­ed by giant cor­po­ra­tion BP, come and protest this Sat­ur­day 26 June, 1pm at Tot­ten­ham Hale BP garage.

Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group have organ­ised a protest against giant cor­po­ra­tion BP this Sat­ur­day 26 June, from 1pm at Tot­ten­ham Hale BP Garage (map here: http://tiny.cc/28p38)

We aim to draw atten­tion to the many cli­mate crimes BP is respon­si­ble for, all in the name of prof­it, show sol­i­dar­i­ty with work­ers exploit­ed by the cor­po­ra­tion and encour­age peo­ple to build col­lec­tive and local alter­na­tives to the cli­mate cri­sis.

See the text of the leaflet below.
An on-line ver­sion is avail­able here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4403399/BP_Protest.pdf

Please cir­cu­late wide­ly, come along, bring ban­ners, plac­ards, etc…

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BP – Guilty of Cli­mate Crimes!

Called by Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group as part of Haringey Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Month

The dan­ger­ous greed of BP has seen them trash­ing the plan­et in pur­suit of prof­it – across the world, BP is guilty of cli­mate crimes that should all be front page news.

The Gulf of Mex­i­co: BP’s faulty drilling results in one of the worst oil spills in his­to­ry, killing work­ers, endan­ger­ing wildlife across the region and leav­ing a mas­sive clean-up oper­a­tion.

Cana­da: Extrac­tion of mil­lions of bar­rels of tar sands oil, pro­duc­ing 3–5 times the green­house gas­es of con­ven­tion­al oil, caus­ing mass defor­esta­tion and pol­lut­ing indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties.

Colom­bia In Jan­u­ary, indus­tri­al action organ­ised by trade union­ists in the region of Casanare was severe­ly repressed by BP, with the help of a spe­cial police force known for anti-work­er vio­lence.

Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline: This crude oil pipeline, run­ning through Turkey, Geor­gia and Azer­bai­jan, was financed by BP, vis­i­bly scar­ring the land­scape and wreck­ing areas of great nat­ur­al beau­ty, includ­ing nat­ur­al spring water reserves.

Not to men­tion com­mu­ni­ties across the world! While adding to the wealth of a few, BP is destroy­ing the com­mon wealthe of the many. We need to act local­ly to resist com­pa­nies like BP dic­tat­ing the way our economies are struc­tured – for prof­it and against the envi­ron­ment.

See over for how we can take action col­lec­tive­ly in our com­mu­ni­ties to fight cli­mate change and cre­ate a future sus­tain­able soci­ety.

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Build­ing Alter­na­tives to the Cli­mate Cri­sis

Oppres­sive and destruc­tive cor­po­ra­tions like BP do not serve the gen­er­al inter­est. We need to end our depen­den­cy on oil and fos­sil fuels, which grad­u­al­ly destroys the plan­et and our lives, and aim for the devel­op­ment of renew­able ener­gy man­aged by the com­mu­ni­ty.

We can organ­ise local­ly and take back con­trol of our lives and envi­ron­ment by build­ing sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties for the ben­e­fit of all. Peo­ple in Haringey are get­ting togeth­er to form col­lec­tive, grass­roots alter­na­tives and solu­tions to the cli­mate cri­sis.

See below for how to get involved!

Haringey Sol­i­dar­i­ty Group

We are a group of local peo­ple who want to get rid of the cur­rent sys­tem which places prof­it and pow­er before people’s real needs. To do this, we believe we all need to get organ­ised, fight back and take over the deci­sion-mak­ing in com­mu­ni­ties and work­places. We sup­port and par­tic­i­pate in local cam­paigns, spread ideas and help cre­ate effec­tive oppo­si­tion to the pow­ers that be.

www.haringey.org.uk, email info@haringey.org.uk, write to PO Box 2474, Lon­don N8 or call 0845 223 5270

Sus­tain­able Haringey

An inde­pen­dent infor­mal net­work for every­body want­i­ng to make Haringey more sus­tain­able. It brings togeth­er groups and indi­vid­u­als already mak­ing pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tions and wel­comes those who would like to find out how to do more. In June there are events hap­pen­ing across the bor­ough as part of Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Month.

See www.sustainableharingey.org.uk for fur­ther details