In this newsletter:
1. Meet-up time
2. What to expect on the day
3. Upcoming events
4. Make it happen
5. Website revamp and new video
1. Meet-up time
On the 29th of September there will be a solidarity demonstration in Copenhagen starting at 17:00 at Gammeltorv, in support of Stine Gry Jonassen and Tannie Nyboe, two spokespersons for the Climate Justice Action network (CJA) who will go on trial the 6th of October. They are accused of 'organizing' the Reclaim Power – Push for Climate Justice demonstration on the 16th of December in Copenhagen. We call out for everyone to act in solidarity on the 29th of September through demonstrations and statements of support and solidarity, including demonstrations and manifestations outside Danish embassies, demanding that the charges be dropped against Stine and Tannie.
A Mass Action to Switch Off Oil
Saturday, 16 October 2010, Central London
Have you been thinking it's about time a whole load of people got together to take mass action against oil in central London? The Crude Awakening is launched! The mobilization is now in full swing and everyone is invited to help publicize and prepare. There is loads to do…
The infomation is in three parts:
1. The call out - please copy and paste and help this get all over the Internet!
2. Upcoming events and how to get involved
3. Frequently asked questions
1. The Call Out ...
RT-UK is supporting this call-out with a diversity of targets at national level. Join us!
October 12 to 16 2009
Global Mobilization for Mother Earth
The Earth is a live being and is seriously ill. We, her inhabitants, are those who are affecting her with the virus of developmentalism. We inhabit an ocean called the atmosphere, as fish live in water. Without it, there would be no life, because it contains oxygen and water, together with the forests and rains that give sustenance to live beings. But we are affecting her terribly.
“Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climatico y las Direchas de Madre Tierra”-
BOLIVIA, COCHABAMBA – APRIL 2010
Quote from the “Structural Causes” group text:
An evening of films and discussion about climate activism and the oil
industry, hosted by London Rising Tide
When: Thursday, 23 September, 7.30 PM
Where: London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate St., E1 1ES. Nearest
tube: Whitechapel
Rising Tiders from across the UK traveled to this year’s climate camp. Our first reaction – wow the site is in the back garden of RBS HQ! (Hats off to the people who took the site). The camp was undoubtedly smaller in size than previous camps but that was made up for in the number of actions that took place and the great spirit around the camp. We all got stuck in to helping the camp run smoothly; setting up, cooking, helping in the kids space, taking shifts on the gates, helping meetings run well, and of course helping to plan actions!
NEW BOOKLET - Reflections from Bolivia on climate justice, social movements and the state.
In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Bolivia’s first indigenous president called for a World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movements to respond where governments and the UN have failed? Was it an attempt to co-opt radical demands? Following the CMPCC in Cochabamba, April 2010, this booklet reflects on the lessons from Bolivia and the role of movements in the fight for climate justice.
DOWNLOAD HERE - http://spaceformovement.wordpress.com.
13 of us were in court today to be sentenced for blockading the railway at Ffos y fran mine back in April, when several people locked on to the tracks in order to stop a train carrying coal to Aberthaw, the dirtiest power station in Wales.
We received conditional discharges and restraining orders away from the mine and the power station. Four people were ordered to pay compensation costs to Miller Argent, the company who owns the mine, The judge acknowledged that the action had been carried out carefully to ensure there would be no danger to anyone.
