UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
1) PAPER PLANE FLASH MOB, DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT, 3.7.08
Tell Ruth Kelly: Stop Airport Expansion
- Meet 11am, Thursday 3 July, Department for Transport (DfT), 76 Marsham
Street, SW1P 4DR (tube: St James's Park or Westminster)
- 11.03am: Reveal your 'Stop Airport Expansion' t-shirt, if you have one
- 11.05am: launch your 'Stop Airport Expansion' paper planes at the DfT
Called by the people who brought you the Terminal 5 Flash Mob ...
An A4 paper aeroplane template can be downloaded from
www.stopairportexpansion.org
2) CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION, AUSTRALIA, 10-15.7.08
'Six days of inspiring workshops, sustainable living and community direct
action at the world's largest coal port. Hope to see you there.'
www.climatecamp.org.au
3) GREENWASH GUERRILLAS VS. E.ON, WEDNESDAY, LONDON, 16.7.08
Just two weeks before the Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth, E.ON is
sponsoring a climate summit designed to help industry leaders 'keep
stakeholders engaged'. Just like its plans for 'clean coal' at Kingsnorth,
this is greenwash of the highest toxicity, an attempt to distract us from
the fact that E.ON is planning to build the first coal-fired power station
in the UK for over thirty years. This hot-air-fest cannot pass without a
visit from… the Greenwash Guerrillas! Camp for Climate Action, Rising
Tide, People and Planet, Earth First! and WDM are all helping to spread
the word.
8.15am, Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London N1 0QH
More info: info@??? / 07961 917 535
www.greenwashguerrillas.org
4) CLIMATE CARAVAN, HEATHROW TO KINGSNORTH, KENT, 27.7.08-3.8.08
The Climate Caravan will traverse London by foot, wheel and water looking
at how capitalism and collective resistance to it since 17th century have
set us on a path to the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in 2008. The 60 mile
route will mostly follow the south side of the Thames. We hope to be
hosted by communities along the route who will support us with food, water
and accommodation. The caravan group is keen for the experience to be
family friendly an act as positive outreach for the camp.If you'd like to
get involved with organising the caravan or just have an idea for it then
contact caravan@???
5) CLIMATE CAMP 2008, KINGSNORTH, 3-11.8.08
Do you remember last summer's Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow?
Well, Climate Camp is back again this year directly challenging the causes
of climate chaos, living in the vision of a sustainable community and
educating ourselves and each other.
Location: Kingsnorth Power Station
Next monthly planning meeting: 12/13 July, London
www.climatecamp.org.uk
Also check out The Great Rebel Raft Regatta: www.thegrrr.net
6) 3 US CONVERGENCES FOR CLIMATE ACTION THIS SUMMER
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action: July 28 - August 4, Eugene, OR
Southeast Convergence for Climate Action: August 5-11, Louisa County, VA
(near Richmond)
Northeast Climate Confluence: July 27 - August 3, High Falls, NY
7) CLIMATE ACTION CAMP & NOBORDER CAMP, HAMBURG, 15-24.8.08
'These camps are going to take place in or near Hamburg. It's two
different camps, but probably on the same camp site and doing together at
least two mass actions like blockades: on 22nd
August at the deportation airport of Hamburg and on 23rd at the harbour or
at the new coal power plant.
klimacamp08.org
http://camp08.antira.info
8) FORTHCOMING IFEES EVENTS AND COURSES, LONDON, JULY '08
Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) Presents:
1) MUSLIMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE GREEN JIHAD: London, 14th July
2) QUR'AN, CREATION AND CONSERVATION COURSE: London, 26th July
3) UK WIDE ISLAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP MEETING: London, 27th July
Tel: 0845 108 5101
info@???, www.islamexpo.com
9) LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES, AUGUST '08
August 1-3 make your own natural skin care products:
http://www.lowimpact.org/course_outline_natural_skin_care.htm
August 2 clay rendering:
http://www.lowimpact.org/hackney_course_outline_clay_rendering.htm
August 3 lime rendering:
http://www.lowimpact.org/hackney_course_outline_lime_rendering.htm
August 16 wattle and daub:
http://www.lowimpact.org/heeley_course_outline_wattle_and_daub.htm
August 29-31 how to make biodiesel:
http://www.lowimpact.org/courseoutlinebiodiesel.htm
August 30 rammed earth building:
http://www.lowimpact.org/hackney_course_outline_rammed_earth.htm
LILI, Redfield Community, Buckingham Rd, Winslow, Bucks, MK18 3LZ.
+44 (0)1296 714184 www.lowimpact.org
10) EARTH FIRST! SUMMER GATHERING, UK, 27.8-1.9.08
…and a new EF! Update is now available..
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20645
11) SIGN-ON LETTER FOR U'WA, COLOMBIA
Amazon Watch is requesting signatures for a public pronouncement against
the militarisation of the U'wa tribe's territory in Colombia. In recent
months the presence of armed actors, both state and illegal, has increased
tremendously within the U'wa reservation.
The U'wa have been in the forefront of resistance to oil exploration for
many years by defending their land from appropriation and drilling. 'Our
territory is a place of peace and freedom for both humans and well as for
nature and we do not want it to become a place of war, blood and
destruction.'
http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=1582
12) SUPPORT KAMCHATKA SALMON AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES!
Sign the Pacific Environment petition to stop oil drilling in Kamchatka
(Russia) fisheries and show solidarity
with communities on the ground.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/608/t/425/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1283
13) NEW CORNERHOUSE CLIMATE BRIEFINGS, 18.6.08
'Billions wasted on UN climate programme'
'European Union's efforts to tackle climate change a failure
'UN effort to curtail emissions in turmoil'
'Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved'
These recent newspaper headlines tell the story. The world's dominant
approach to dealing with the climate crisis –- carbon trading, the
centrepiece of the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading
Scheme –- isn't working. The Corner House has recently posted nearly a
dozen new items on its
website that shed light on these issues. We hope you find them useful and
informative.
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/climate.
14) TOWARDS CLIMATE IN ACTION IN COPENHAGEN 2009
'We invite you to join the 1st international planning meeting in
Copenhagen from the 13-14th of September 2008. The meeting aims at
preparing a large mobilisation for direct action against the root causes
of climate change in Copenhagen and throughout the world during the UN
Climate Conference (30 Nov-11 Dec 2009).'
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399459.html
http://www.klimax2009.org
15) PERMACULTURE ASSOCIATION E-BULLETIN, JUNE '08
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php
16) NEW ART NOT OIL POSTCARDS AVAILABLE
(addresses of oily museums, galleries, theatres etc. handily included, in
case you fancy using one to dreop them a line…)
Art Not Oil is looking for someone to help update and keep an eye on its
website. Please write to info@??? if you might be up for it.
And keep sending us your art!
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
1) ASHEVILLE RISING TIDE BUILDS GREEN POWER PLANT IN DUKE CEO'S FRONT
YARD, US, 25.5.08
Today, activists with Asheville Rising Tide broke ground on a new 800 Mw
clean energy power plant in Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers front yard. The
power plant will tap into a previously unexplored energy source known as
hot air which has been found in large concentrations at Roger's North
Carolina residence. "The hot air emitting from Jim Rogers mouth has been
around for quite some time, but the last couple of years has seen an
exponential growth of this untapped energy source as Rogers parades around
the country calling for greenhouse gas reductions while building the dirty
Cliffside coal plant. This was simply an opportunity we couldn't pass up,"
said Jill Rockingham, chief engineer for the project.
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2008/05/25/asheville-rising-tide-builds-green-power-plant-in-duke-ceos-front-yard/
2) CLEANING COMPANY TARGETS E.ON ON NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION, 1.5.08
'At 07.45 this morning E.ON's head office on Pall Mall was targeted by the
new upstart Coal Cleaning Company as part of a nationally 'Day of Climate
Action against False Capitalist Solutions'.The Coal Cleaning Company
launched its enterprise with E.ON as their first customer. According to
the chatty cleaners, "There's no mess too big! We make coal Fossil Fuel
Fresh ™".The climate activists targeted E.ON for its promotion of 'false
capitalist solutions' to climate change. E.ON is exploiting the idea of a
future Carbon Capture and Storage system to justify building a new
coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/419
www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk
2) 'PEOPLE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE' DELIVER TONNE OF COAL TO MINISTER,
IRELAND, 8.5.08
The group delivered a tonne of coal to the Minister for Finance on his
first day in office.
http://www.pacc.ie/
3) GROENFRONT! BLOCKS E.ON BENELUX HQ, ROTTERDAM, 3.6.08
The office was closed shut down from 6 AM - 1 PM, when police specialists
finally managed to remove some technologically advanced lock-ons.
GroenFront! is demanding an immediate halt to the construction of an E.ON
coal power plant in the port of Rotterdam. The action is part of
GroenFront!'s "shrink or drown" campaign, which aims at bringing down the
size of the Dutch economy to more manageable proportions. Seven protestors
were arrested for refusing police orders or refusing to show an ID. They
were released around midnight.
www.groenfront.nl
4) SITE OF NEW FRANKFURT AIRPORT RUNWAY SQUATTED, 5.6.08
'Some activists have squatted a forest against a new runway of Frankfurt
Airport. We are about 10 people and we built platforms in the trees. We
need more people, so maybe you can mobilize a bit for us, thanks'.
Indy: http://de.indymedia.org/2008/06/219295.shtml
5) DAY OF ACTION ON FOOD AND CLIMATE CHANGE, 10.6.08
'Climate activists took action across the country and beyond to coincide
with the start of the UN Conference on World Food Security, Climate Change
& Bio-energy in Rome. "As world leaders and corporations come together to
talk more hot air, people across the UK are taking real action on food and
climate change." In Girton, Cambridge, Earth First! activists visited the
laboratory and offices of the National Institute for Agricultural Botany
(NIAB), others came together for a protest outside Newham town hall in
East Ham to object the UK's first biofuel-fired power plant to be built,
in Beckton. Manchester saw some guerilla gardening as well as free food
giveaways in London, Sheffield, Bistol, Nottingham, Glasgow, Liverpool and
Amsterdam. 'Ready, Steady, Skip!', a new film and website
(http://www.readysteadyskip.org.uk) about the joys of skipping was also
launched from Nottingham to coincide with the day of action.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400740.html
6) NOISE DEMO AT UK COAL HEAD OFFICE, 10.6.08
'UK Coal is about to devastate a beautiful part of the Derbyshire
countryside by starting an open cast mine. So 'Leave it in the Ground' and
Earth First! decided to make some noise over it with people from Derby,
Nottingham Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Brighton as well as other
places, all travelled to UK Coals Head office in Doncaster to make some
noise.'
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400722.html
7) WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE IN THE UK, JUNE '08
This year, rides took place across the UK between June 6th and 14th…
http://worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/
8) 29 CLIMATE CAMPERS ARRESTED IN GREAT COAL TRAIN ROBBERY, 14.6.08
'Climate change campaigners halted a coal train yesterday outside Drax,
Britain's biggest power station, and shovelled its contents on to the only
line into the plant.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/14/activists.carbonemissions
'At 12pm on Friday evening the last three coal train blockaders where
evicted from the bridge above the blockaded train. The occupation had
lasted 16 hours and occupiers had shovelled around 30 tons of coal onto
the tracks. 20 people where cut out of arm tube lock-ons and 9 were taken
of the bridge, 29 were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit
Unlawful and malicious obstruction of trains. Everyone was out of the
police cells and accounted for by 10pm Saturday evening. Everyone is
bailed to return... you guessed it on the 31st of July and 4th 5th and 6th
of August. The fires at Drax are still burning but the movement to stop
coal is growing fast.'
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/node/41
See also www.thecoalhole.org
9) CLIMATE PROTESTORS OCCUPY DERBYSHIRE OPENCAST COAL SITE, 18.6.08
'Today climate campaigners from 'Leave it in the Ground' have occupied the
UK Coal's Lodge House site in Derbyshire by barricading themselves in a
disused farm building and taken to the trees on the site of the open cast
mine.'
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/20918
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