[risingtide] CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 49, 30.5.05
Art Not Oil
info at artnotoil.org.uk
Mon May 30 23:50:43 CEST 2005
CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 49, 27.5.05
Compiled and sent by Rising Tide: info at risingtide.org.uk
Hello, only(!) 15 items for you this month - get stuck in, and keep
sending in your stuff...
1.) LRT FILM NIGHT: SUNDAY 5TH JUNE 2005, 6:30PM
2.) EXHIBITION/ACTION: ART NOT OIL 2005: London, June 9-18.
3.) TALK: SCIENTISTS VS. ENVIRONMENTALISTS, Oxford, 9.6.05
4.) CONSCIOUS PARTY: RECLAIM THE FUTURE 3, Saturday 11 June 2005
5.) GUIDED TOUR OF THE CAT COMMUNITY WIND TURBINE, 25.6.05
6.) SEMINAR: 'LIVING ON THE CUSP' , 17-19.6.05
7.) IRAQ PETROLEUM CONFERENCE, 29th JUNE - TAKE ACTION
8.) LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE (LILI) COURSES, July 05.
9.) JULY 8TH CLIMATE CHANGE DAY OF ACTION UPDATE
10.) AN ACCOUNT OF LRTS TREESIT AT BP HQ, APRIL 26-29TH 2005
11.) TRANSPORT MINISTER PIED FOR SUPPORT OF HEATHROW EXPANSION, 24.5.05
12.) INDIGENOUS RECLAIM LANDS FROM ARACRUZ CELLULOSE IN BRASIL
13.) INDIGENOUS HUAORANI SEEK OIL MORATORIUM ON THEIR AMAZON LANDS
14.) PROTESTS AS SHELL ANNOUNCES INSUFFICIENT SAKHALIN PLAN
15.) IMAGE GALLERY FOR THE SEMINAR ON RENEWABLE ENERGIES, SPAIN 2004
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1.) LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT: SUNDAY 5TH JUNE 2005, 6:30PM
4 films to get you in the mood for the G8!
* "Why Shut The G8?" London premiere (we think)
* "June 18th 1999"
* "Crowd Bites Wolf"
* "Marici Weu" ("We Will Win!" - Examines the mobilisation around the
conference on climate change (COP-10) in Buenos Aires, December 2004)
Free entry!
Where: LARC (London Action Resource Centre), 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
Tel. 020 7377 9088
Buses: 25, 205; Nearest tube: Whitechapel or Aldgate East
* http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
* london at risingtide.org.uk 07708 794665
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2.) ART NOT OIL 2005: A TRUER PORTRAIT OF AN OIL COMPANY?
* online at www.artnotoil.org.uk See also www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
* Institute for Autonomy, 76-78 Gower Street, London WC1 (Goodge St.
tube), 12-6pm, June 10-18th.
* June 9th launch night (6-10pm) includes exhibition, films, food, live
music, talks & DIY anti-oil art.
* Monday 13th June, 6-8pm: mobile gallery outside the National Petroleum
Gallery on the evening of the BP Portrait Award presentation ceremony.
- For postcards with this info (& a portrait of a BP-branded Saddam
Hussein), email info at artnotoil.org.uk
...and send us your art!
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3.) TALK: SCIENTISTS VERSUS ENVIRONMENTALISTS: WHICH IS THE BIGGER
OBSTACLE TO PROGRESS ON SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF CLIMATE CHANGE?
7-9pm, THE VAULTS, rear of University Church of St Marys, Oxford
High Street, Price £2 /£1 concessions
Web: www.COINet.org.uk
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4.) RECLAIM THE FUTURE 3
Saturday 11 June 2005, a benefit in a self-organised space in London
Part of proceeds go to July 8th climate change day of action
For location details, on the day call the partyline on 020 7644 5155 or 07
951 868 252
http://www.reclaimthestreets.net
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5.) SPECIAL GUIDED TOUR OF THE CAT COMMUNITY WIND TURBINE
Saturday 25th June
01654 705950 or info at cat.org.uk
www.cat.org.uk
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6.) 'LIVING ON THE CUSP' is a new seminar linking ecology,
limits to growth, and one of the most important but virtually
unknown constraints - 'Peak Oil'. It is taking place at the Braziers
Park eco-village near Oxford, June 17-19th, 2005.
www.livingonthecusp.org www.love-craft.net
georgegiangrande at yahoo.co.uk
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7.) IRAQ PETROLEUM CONFERENCE, 29th JUNE
STOP THE PLUNDER OF IRAQ'S OIL!
Protest outside Iraqi Petroleum Conference 2005
10.30am, 29 June, The Hilton, Paddington.
Assemble 10.30am Edgware Rd tube
stopthepillage at yahoo.co.uk
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8.) LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE (LILI) COURSES
LILI is running the following courses during July.
Build your own earth oven: 1-3 July 2005
Straw-bale buiding: 1-3 July 2005
How to make biodiesel: 22-24 July 2005
LILI, Redfield Community, Bucking ham Road, Winslow, Bucks, MK18 3LZ
(01296) 714184 lili at lowimpact.org
www.lowimpact.org
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9.) JULY 8TH DAY OF ACTION ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE - UPDATE
Actions now announced in Iceland, Australia (<risingtide at planet-save.com>)
& brewing in
Scotland, Reading, Bristol, USA, Venezuela & France
Next update and discussion meeting; London, June 20th, location tbc
Website now up: www.dissent.org.uk/g8climateaction
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10.) BRINGING THE CLIMATE MESSAGE HOME:
an account of London Rising Tides treesit at BP HQ, April 26-29th 2005
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311690.html
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11.) TRANSPORT MINISTER PIED FOR SUPPORT OF HEATHROW EXPANSION LOBBY
Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Transport, was pied on Tuesday
May 24th at the launch event of a powerful new industry coalition, 'Future
Heathrow', formed to ensure expansion of Heathrow goes ahead.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311810.html
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12.) INDIGENOUS RECLAIM LANDS FROM ARACRUZ CELLULOSE IN BRASIL
Indigenous Tupinikim and Guarani, in the state of Espírito Santo, Brasil,
reclaimed over 11,000 Hectares of their lands last week. The action began
on May 17 and continued for five days. The indigneous cut down thousands
of destructive eucalyptus trees creating a boundary to build new villages
and recuperate lands back to native forests.
See www.desertoverde.org for more information on this inspiring and
incredible direct action.
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13.) INDIGENOUS HUAORANI SEEK OIL MORATORIUM ON THEIR AMAZON LANDS
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2005/2005-05-17-01.asp
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14.) HUNDREDS WORLDWIDE TAKE TO THE STREETS AS SHELL ANNOUNCES
INSUFFICIENT SAKHALIN PLAN
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/articles/csfb_actions.htm
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15.) IMAGE GALLERY FOR THE SEMINAR ON RENEWABLE ENERGIES,
held at Escanda, Spain August 2005:
http://escanda.riot-city.de/escanda/eventos/seminar/album1/index.php
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