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Before we get into this week's newsletter ... we would like to announce that Rising Tide will be on the Body Bloc. The bloc is meeting at 10am at Victoria Train Station – please come along and join us! Or, if one of the other two blocs suits you better then head along to one of them. The important thing is to sign up to a bloc (so you can receive texts on the day) on the Crude Awakening Website - Sign Up Page.

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.

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.

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.

2 Camps for Climate Action are happening in the UK this summer - one in Scotland and one in Wales. Rising Tiders will be at both. Get involved and come along.

Camp for Climate Action 2010 (Scotland)
Break the Bank!

Occupy and set up the basecamp: 19th–20th August
Four days of training and direct action: 21st–24th August
Day of action against RBS: 23rd August
Return basecamp to nature: 25th August

Eighteen people from Bristol and Bath were in court last week (July 8) to answer two charges of obstructing the railway at Ffos-y-Fran open-cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil. Seven people who had chained themselves to the track and six who had been acting as support and legal observers all pleaded guilty to Section 36 of the Malicious Damages Act 1861, and not guilty to Section 35 of the same act (the section carrying the infamous life penalty). Five people including a legal obvserer and drivers pleaded not guilty to both charges.