Climate Change

Are you concerned about climate change?
If so, come to this meeting with speakers from London Rising Tide,
the World Development Movement and the London Islamic Network for the
Environment.
- Learn more about climate change
- Meet people taking action near you
- Discover how you can be more effective by working with others

At the London Action Resource Centre (LARC),
(62 Fieldgate Street, behind East London Mosque, corners of Parfett
Street)
6PM-7PM (Doors open 5:30PM)
www.londonrisingtide.org
www.wdm.org.uk
www.lineonweb.org.uk

This is the statement written jointly by members of London Rising Tide, and read out at the December 3rd 2005 rally outside the US Bombassy in London:

This day of action is undoubtedly the best supported and most international day of action on climate ever planned, which is an amazing achievement. Today’s a day to tell the world that we have had enough of being told that ‘the end could be nigh’ by scientists, only to see our leaders jamming their foot on the accelerator of a car that is already hurtling towards the cliff edge - whilst they shout ‘Trust me – I have your best interests at heart!’

And whilst today is a great achievement, maybe we should be asking ourselves some difficult questions, and re-examining our arguments and our tactics.

“The future is unwritten, inaction is the tragedy.”

For the most up to date information and downloads see the main G8 webpage

Direct Action for Climate Justice – Resistance is Self Defense!
We have a ten-year window to act. As the megalomaniac G8 leaders meet in Germany, masked behind a barrier of fences and soldiers, intent on leading us further towards catastrophic and irreversible climate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the time to take direct action and shut them down, them and their climate criminal industry friends!

'The 2006 G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and heads of the World Bank took place at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne, Australia, from November 17-19 2006.' (http://www.stopg20.org/)

This is what a Rising Tider said to a big rally on the day:

It's time to say we have had enough of being told that 'the end could be
nigh' by scientists, only to see our leaders jamming their foot on the
accelerator of a car that is already hurtling towards the cliff edge -
whilst they shout 'Trust me – I have your best interests at heart!'

Direct-action protesters in the U.K. are focusing on climate change
By Mike Wendling
13 Nov 2006

It's half an hour or so after the end of Britain's biggest-ever protest against climate change, and I'm still hanging out in Trafalgar Square.

A few groups of kids are milling around, and a couple of anarchists have set up a bicycle-powered disco. One or two old-timers are trying to get rid of their last remaining copies of the Socialist Worker. Most of the protesters have heeded the organizers' advice to reuse or recycle their placards, but the local cleaning crews are quick on the job, cleaning up the rest of the rubbish to get the place ready for a typical London Saturday night. Everyone else is heading home, or to the pub.