Winter Warm-up round-up — Fuel Poverty Action protests

Fri­day update: an excit­ing start to the Fuel Pover­ty Action Week­end of Win­ter Warm-ups…Hundreds of peo­ple across the coun­try came out of their cold homes to get warm at the build­ings of insti­tu­tions that have a hand in cre­at­ing fuel pover­ty, to chal­lenge the Big Six’s monop­oly and the government’s com­plic­i­ty.  Lon­don — Leeds — Swin­don — Man­ches­ter:

Fri­day update: an excit­ing start to the Fuel Pover­ty Action Week­end of Win­ter Warm-ups…Hundreds of peo­ple across the coun­try came out of their cold homes to get warm at the build­ings of insti­tu­tions that have a hand in cre­at­ing fuel pover­ty, to chal­lenge the Big Six’s monop­oly and the government’s com­plic­i­ty.  Lon­don — Leeds — Swin­don — Man­ches­ter: read more

Sat­ur­day update: Cam­bridge

Mon­day update: six activists have bar­ri­cad­ed them­selves into meet­ing rooms on two floors of British Gas offices in Staines, Mid­dle­sex, as part of the ‘Win­ter Warm-Up’ week­end called by the cam­paign group Fuel Pover­ty Action. British Gas is being tar­get­ed as one of the Big Six ener­gy com­pa­nies mak­ing prof­its out of ris­ing ener­gy bills.  Read more. 

Update — faced with a threat­en­ing police pres­ence, the occu­piers of the British Gas offices have now decid­ed to leave on their own terms.