[risingtide] CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 69, JULY 2007
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CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 69, JULY 2007
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CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) ALIVE EARTH, THE GRASSROOTS ALTERNATIVE TO LIVE EARTH - 7.7.07
2) EARTH FIRST! SUMMER GATHERING - 18-22.6.07
3) LOW IMPACT COURSES - August/September 2007
4) MOVE TOUR OF U.K.- June/July 2007
5) UPDATE RE. CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION, NR. HEATHROW, 14-21.8.07
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION VS. CLIMATE CHANGE & THE G8 - 8.6.07
2) WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE, 8/9.6.07
3) BRECON TREE CAMP EVICTION - 19.6.07
4) GREENPEACE GIVES AWAY FREE TRAIN TICKETS - 19.6.07
5) RESIDENTS STOP TRAFFIC IN HEATHROW PROTEST - 20.6.07
6) EXXON'S PLAN B FOR CLIMATE CALAMITY: BURN PEOPLE! - 15.6.07
7) CLIMATE ACTIVISTS GLUED TO DOORS - 16.6.07
8) OILWATCH NETWORK BULLETIN - June 2007
9) RISING TIDE IN THE INDY PAPERS - June 2007
10) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BILSTON GLEN CREW - 24.6.07
11) SAVE SWALLOW'S WOOD PUBLIC INQUIRY STARTS - 26.6.07
12) RISING TIDE CANADA - June 2007
13) SHRAMORE FIVE LOCK OUT SHELL IN IRELAND - 5.6.07
14) BIOFUELS PROTEST IN ABERDEEN - 23.5.07
15) CALL FOR SUPPORT AT TARA (IRELAND) - May 2007
16) BP PORTRAITEE SPEAKS!
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) ALIVE EARTH, THE GRASSROOTS ALTERNATIVE TO LIVE EARTH - 7.7.07
This on-line concert is the brainwave of COIN, a small non-profit
organisation which feels that the mega-concerts are not doing enough to
support the wide range of voices on climate change. And, because this
concert will be on the web, there will be no executive jets, no cars, no
floodlighting, no air conditioning, no paper, no plastic, no cans. Truly
low carbon. www.aliveearth.org
Rising Tide UK is supporting the project and has issued a strong critique
of the Chevrolet & DaimlerChrysler-sponsored Live Earth event.
www.risingtide.org.uk
2) EARTH FIRST! SUMMER GATHERING 18-22.7.07
The Earth First! Summer Gathering is the place where people involved in
radical ecological direct action - or those who want to be involved - get
together for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills,
learn, play, rant, find out what's going on, find out what's next, live
outside, strategise, hang out, incite, laugh and conspire.
www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk
3) LOW IMPACT COURSES - August / September 2007
Residential Weekend Courses, Low-impact Living Initiative, Redfield
Community, Buckinghamshire.
Aug 10-12 2007 - make your own essential oils & skin care products
Aug 24-26 2007 - round wood timber framing
Aug 24-26 2007 - roofing
Aug 31-Sep 2 2007 - how to make biodiesel
Cost: high-waged £180 / waged £150 / unwaged £120
All food and accommodation included - plus free beers, wine, tea and
biscuits!
(01296) 714184 / www.lowimpact.org
4) MOVE TOUR OF UK - June/July 2007
Ramona Africa is touring the UK speaking about the incredible story of
MOVE, a largely black eco-revolutionary group based in Philadelphia, which
has campaigned on environmental, animal rights and anti-police repression
issues for thirty years.
www.onamove2007.org.uk
5) UPDATE RE. CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION, NR. HEATHROW, 14-21.8.07
Local leafletting and meetings have shown that there is strong local
support for the Climate Camp. Next monthly planning meeting is in London
on July
Also, the new spoof flight safety instruction leaflet is now available...
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk
See also www.climateconvergence.org for info about this year's North
American climate camps.
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION VS. CLIMATE CHANGE & THE G8 - 8/6/07
Reports have come in of actions in London, Bristol, Norwich and Nottingham
in the UK. Evershagen in Germany. Lisbon and Porto in Portugal. Sao Paulo
in Brazil. Whanganui-a-Tara in New Zealand. Asheville, San Francisco,
Florida and Portland in the US. All told, at least 15 actions in 4
continents!
It has been difficult to tell how many actions in Germany were in response
to our publicity as the place was pretty buzzing, as you can imagine.
There was a huge Reclaim the Streets in Berlin. The flyers in German were
a really good idea - they were everywhere. People thought there was
already an RT Germany, and when told there wasn't, they thought that they
should start one. FANTASTIC STUFF!!
www.risingtide.org.uk
2) WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE, 8/9.6.07
In 2004 there were 58 riders, in 2005 a creditable 250 riders, rising to a
massive 800 in 2006. But in a scale that surprised even the organisers,
more than five thousand people today took to London's streets to protest
against oil dependency, celebrate body freedom and curb car culture.
http://worldnakedbikeride.org, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEuDP7BOBUc
3) BRECON TREE CAMP EVICTION - 19/6/07 AND ONGOING (?)
Check out the following for further info. and to send messages of support
or offers of assistance. Bristol Rising Tide: 07917 383517
www.fightthepipe.co.uk / www.indymedia.org.uk / www.earthfirst.org.uk
4) GREENPEACE GIVES AWAY FREE TRAIN TICKETS 19.6.07
Greenpeace volunteers (fetchingly dressed as stewards and stewardesses
offered BA passengers checking into domestic flights climate-friendly
train tickets. Flying causes 10 times more damage to the climate than
taking the train. And its responsible for 13 per cent of the UK's impact
on the climate.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
5) RESIDENTS STOP TRAFFIC IN HEATHROW PROTEST 20.6.07
West London residents protesting about plans to expand Heathrow
dramatically stopped traffic outside the Department for Transport (DfT)
offices in Central London before attempting an invasion of the building.
www.earthfirst.org.uk
6) EXXON'S PLAN B FOR CLIMATE CALAMITY: BURN PEOPLE! 15.6.07
Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC)
representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at
GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference. "Without oil we could no longer
produce or transport food, and most of humanity would starve. That would
be a tragedy, but at least all those bodies could be turned into fuel for
the rest of us."
The oilmen listened to the lecture and then lit commemorative candles
supposedly made of Vivoleum obtained from the flesh of an Exxon janitor
who died as a result of cleaning up a toxic spill. Pretty grim and very
funny...
http://www.vivoleum.com/event/
7) CLIMATE ACTIVISTS GLUED TO DOORS - 16.6.2007
No, this isn't the latest police tactic! The campaigners glued themselves
to the doors of the short-haul East Midlands airport to draw attention to
the environmental impacts of flying as part of a European day of action on
short-haul flights called by pressure group Airport Watch. On the same
day, Stop Bristol Airport Expansion used the theme of 'trains not planes'
to stage a bike ride from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol International
Airport.
http://www.planestupid.com, www.earthfirst.org.uk
8) OILWATCH NETWORK BULLETIN - June 2007
The different ways oil companies pressure governments to reach their
objectives are explained.
http://correo.oilwatch.org/mailman/listinfo/resistanceen
9) RISING TIDE IN THE INDY PAPERS & RADIO 4 - June 2007
An inspiring little article.
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1142
And look out for RTUKs contribution to the Radio 4 programme Analysis
in mid-July, called Go green, or else!
10) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BILSTON GLEN CREW - 24/06/07
The happy campers at Bilston Glen are celebrating five years of their
anti-bypass protest site.
www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk
11) SAVE SWALLOW'S WOOD PUBLIC INQUIRY STARTS 26.6.07
As you read this, the public inquiry will be under way.
www.saveswallowswood.org.uk
12) RISING TIDE CANADA - June 2007
Ottawa Rising Tide have had their first meeting! Watch this space for
further developments...
13) SHRAMORE FIVE LOCK OUT SHELL IN IRELAND - 5/6/07
A team of five protesters and their support crew successfully halted
Shell's operation in Erris for five hours through the use of "lock-On" arm
tubes. The blockade ended with the five being cut loose from each other by
the fire brigade and arrested whilst a crowd of around thirty people
cheered them on.
http://www.shelltosea.com, http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82900
14) BIOFUELS PROTEST IN ABERDEEN - 23/5/07
Aberdeen Campaign Against Climate Change held a protest inside the
auditorium of the All Energy conference in Aberdeen. They unfurled
anti-biofuels banners and interrupted a speech by US Ambassador to the UK,
Robert Tuttle, in which he was praising the efforts of the US to fight
climate change and was claiming that biofuels are part of the solution.
www.biofuelwatch.org.uk. http://climatechangecampaign.blogspot.com
15) CALL FOR SUPPORT AT TARA (IRELAND) - May 2007
Since late May, protesters have been blocking the use of heavy
construction machinery at ancient archaeological sites in the Tara-Skryne
valley in Co. Meath, Ireland. Construction workers are trying to begin
work on the M3 four-lane motorway, although no public decision has yet
been given by the Minister for Heritage Dick Roche to commence work.
Reports state that the peaceful protesters who sat down in front of the
machinery, were in some cases badly manhandled by the construction
workers. Support is needed.
http://www.protect-tara.org
16) BP PORTRAITEE SPEAKS!
The gent featured in the London Underground ads for the BP Portrait Award
exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery has begun to speak his mind,
via speech bubbles reading Im helping BP paint over its appalling record
on climate chaos and human rights and Dont talk to me about climate
chaos, human rights or worker safety THIS IS ART! Rumours of a
Shell-sponsored National Gallery-exhibited Frans Hal portraitee also
pitching in with similar sentiments are awaiting confirmation at press
time...
www.artnotoil.org.uk
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