CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) FOSSIL FOOLS DAY – (INTER)NATIONAL, 1.4.08
2) FOSSIL FOOL FILMS AT HOUSMAN’S BOOKSHOP – LONDON, 29.3.08
3) CLIMATE OF CHANGE 2 EXHIBITION – LONDON, STARTS 1.2.08
4) NIGHT TALKS AT THE SYNERGY PROJECT – LONDON, 8.2.08
5) COIN EVENTS – LONDON, FEB-MARCH ’08
6) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE TRADE UNION CONFERENCE – LONDON, 9.2.08
7) COLOMBIAN ACCOMPANIMENT TRAINING – BRISTOL, 16-17.2.08
8) ‘THE CARBON CONNECTION’ UK PREMIERE – LONDON, 21.2.08
9) SAVING ICELAND GATHERING – NOTTINGHAM, 22.2.08
10) EARTH FIRST! WINTER MOOT – NOTTINGHAM, 22-24.2.08
11) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE NATIONAL MEETING – MANCHESTER, 23.2.08
12) TELL SHELL AND BP: HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL! – NATIONAL, 23.2.08
13) MASS RALLY AGAINST HEATHROW EXPANSION – LONDON, 25.2.08
14) BRINGING THE PIPELINE BACK TO SHELL – LONDON, 15-17.3.08
15) WEEK OF ACTION ON THE CLIMATE BILL – NATIONAL, 30.3.08-5.4.08
16) APRIL BIOFOOLS DAY – NATIONAL, 15.4.08
17) NATUREWISE COURSES – LONDON AREA, 2008
18) ECO-COMMUNITY EDUCATION WORKSHOPS – SUFFOLK, FEBRUARY-APRIL ’08
19) CAT COURSES – WALES, MARCH-SEPTEMBER ’08
20) CLIMATETALK CARD GAME – FREE UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY ’08
21) E-PETITIONS AGAINST AIRPORT EXPANSION – HEATHROW AND NEWQUAY, ONGOING ’08
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) TOP WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION DITCHES SHELL – 26.1.08
2) NEW WAVE OF CLIMATE ACTION – NATIONWIDE, JANUARY ’08
3) ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE PRIVATE JETS – EDINBURGH, 21.01.08
4) PENGUINS RECLAIM ICE (SH)RINK – LONDON, 12.01.08
5) GREENWASH GUERILLAS HIT SHELL HQ – 4.1.08
6) LONDON RISING TIDE DIE-IN AT THE TATE – 4.1.08
7) GREENERGY BIOFUELS PROTESTS – LONDON AND EDINBURGH, 30.1.08 AND 31.1.08
8) TESCO GREENWASH PROTEST – MANCHESTER, 23.1.08
9) CLIMATE CAMP SET UP OUTSIDE COURT – NOTTINGHAM, 14.1.08
10) CLIMAX BLOCK DONG POWERPLANT! – COPENHAGEN, 29.1.08
11) INDIGENOUS ACTION AGAINST MINING – PHILIPPINES, 17.1.08
12) OGONI DAY REMEMBERED AS SHELL FAILS TO HALT GAS FLARES – 4.1.08
13) CLIMATE CAMP SUPERGLUE TRIAL – LONDON, JANUARY ’08
14) BONN SQUARE TREE OCCUPATION – OXFORD, JANUARY ’08
15) ACTION AGAINST MOTORWAY THROUGH TARA – IRELAND, JANUARY ’08
16) CRITICAL MASS REPORT – LONDON, JANUARY ’08
17) FOREST PROTEST ACTIONS AND ARREST – TASMANIA – 8.1.08
18) SHELL TO SEA UPDATES – IRELAND, JANUARY ’08
19) ROAD BLOCK E-BULLETIN – JANUARY ’08
20) PERMACULTURE ASSOCIATION E-BULLETIN – JANUARY ’08
21) SAVE SWALLOW’S WOOD CAMPAIGN UPDATE – JANUARY ’08
22) EARTH FIRST! ACTION UPDATE – SPRING ’08
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) FOSSIL FOOLS DAY – NATIONAL, 1.4.08
Roll up! Roll up! The Countdown to Fossil Fools Day Begins…
With less than two months to go, activists are busy plotting and planning, intent on bringing the spirit of carnival and mischief to the fight for climate justice. The day of action is being supported by the Climate Camp movement, Global Exchange and Rainforest Action Network among others. Numerous actions are expected worldwide, with possible targets including the oily strongman and gas guzzling gowk, the dirty coal merchant and biofuel clown, the offset juggler and aviation freakshow. It’s time to turn the tables on the fossil fools and to pull a prank that really packs a punch.
http://www.fossilfoolsday.org/
http://www.globalexchange.org/
http://www.ran.org/
The network for climate action is planning 3 Days Of Action Over 3 Months, starting with Fossil Fools.
April 1st: Fossil Fuels / May 1st: False Capitalist Solutions / June: Food and Climate Change. This third day of action will coincide with the UN conference on food security and climate change on 3-5 June.
www.networkforclimateaction.org.uk
2) FOSSIL FOOL FILMS AT HOUSMAN’S BOOKSHOP – LONDON, 29.3.08
Housman’s Bookshop at Kings Cross will be screening two short documentaries in the run up to FFD ( ‘Those Who Dance’ and ‘The Carbon Connection’) highlighting the struggle of communities at the frontline of the fossil fuel empire. Starts at 5pm. http://www.housmans.com/
3) CLIMATE OF CHANGE 2 EXHIBITION – LONDON, STARTS 1.2.08
6-9pm at the old Mercedes Garage,341 Finchley Rd. Camden, London NW3 6ET.
Then on the following Tues and Thurs 6-9pm. This is an open submission exhibition.
http://www.circlecommunity.org/
4) NIGHT TALKS AT THE SYNERGY PROJECT – LONDON, 8.2.08
Climate Abuse – getting over the addiction! by Jonathan Essex 02:00-02:40
Biofuels – worse than fossil fuel? By Jim Roland, eco-campaigner 02:40-03:30
As part of the Synergy event at the SeOne club, Weston Street, London Bridge.
http://www.thesynergyproject.org/content/view/13/38/
5) COIN EVENTS – LONDON, FEBRUARY-MARCH ’08
Win the climate change argument in a 15 minute tea break, 7.2.08 / Carbon Cafe, 12.2.08 / Climate Change Condensed, 28.2.08 / Climate Action Groups, 11.3.08
See www.coinet.org.uk for full details of all our trainings!
6) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE TRADE UNION CONFERENCE – LONDON, 9.2.08
University of London Union, Malet Street, 10 am – 5 pm. Delegate fee £10.
Opening plenary speakers include Michael Meacher MP, Caroline Lucas MEP, Mark Serwotka (General Secretary, PCS), Matt Wrack (General Secretary, FBU).
http://www.campaigncc.org/CCAC%20Trade%20Union%20Conference.pdf
7) COLOMBIAN ACCOMPANIMENT TRAINING – BRISTOL, 16-17.2.08
Espacio Bristol-Colombia are organising a two day training for people interested in going to Colombia to do solidarity ‘accompaniment’ there; that is to both provide an international presence to deter the army or paramilitaries from killing social activists and to work with Colombian organisations building solidarity links. There is the opportunity to get involved with work on biofuels, BP, coal mining as well as struggles around food sovereignty and indigenous rights. The training will take place at Kebele Community Coop , 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol from 11am – 5pm on Saturday and then 10pm – 4pm on Sunday.
If you are interested in attending this training email;
espacio@redcolombia.org.
http://www.redcolombia.org/
8) ‘THE CARBON CONNECTION’ UK PREMIERE – LONDON, 21.2.08
6.30 pm at Waterloo Action Centre, 16 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA. This brilliant documentary exposes government claims that buying and selling carbon credits can reduce global warming. Plus discussion on sustainable alternatives to trading in pollution. Introduced by Kevin Smith, Carbon Trade Watch and Penny Cole, author of ‘Running a Temperature – action plan for the eco-crisis’. Refreshments. Details: info@aworldtowin.net 07871 745258
http://www.carbontradewatch.org/
9) SAVING ICELAND GATHERING – NOTTINGHAM, 22.2.08
One day gathering on opposition to wilderness trashing dams in Iceland; these are part of the USA’s carbon trading scam and evidence shows that dams are not free from releasing greenhouse gases either. For more info. phone; 01508 531636
http://www.savingiceland.org/
10) EARTH FIRST! WINTER MOOT – NOTTINGHAM, 22-24.2.08
2 days of discussion on radical direct action on climate change, GM food, nuclear power and much more. For more info. phone; 01508 531636
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19843
11) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE NATIONAL MEETING – MANCHESTER, 23.2.08
An opportunity for you to get involved in deciding what the Campaign Against Climate Change should be doing in the coming year, and to hear about plans already made! 11.45 am to 5.00 pm, in the Peterloo Room – The Mechanics Centre, 103 Princess Road, Manchester.
http://www.campaigncc.org/
12) TELL SHELL AND BP: HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL! – NATIONAL, 23.2.08
London action (as part of National Day of Action) meet 12.30pm, Bond Street tube Hold a protest at your local Shell and BP garages (see website for resources), and contact handsoffiraqioil@gmail.com so they can help publicise it.
www.HandsOffIraqiOil.org
13) MASS RALLY AGAINST HEATHROW EXPANSION – LONDON, 25.2.08
‘We want to fill Central Hall, Westminster to get our message across to the Government.’ Speakers, music, solidarity, conviviality, inspiration for action…7pm on the 25th.
http://www.stopheathrowexpansion.com/
14) BRINGING THE PIPELINE BACK TO SHELL – LONDON, 15-17.3.08
Gluaiseacht are mobilising people from all over Ireland to travel to Shell Headquarters in London on St Patrick’s Day to protest the give-away and mismanagement of our national resources. We will be carrying a 200ft pipeline to Shell’s front door. For more info email; gluaiseacht@gmail.com
http://gluaiseacht.nologic.org/wordpress/
15) WEEK OF ACTION ON THE CLIMATE BILL – NATIONAL, 30.3.08-5.4.08
A whole host of NGOs, under the banner of Stop Climate Chaos, will be taking action for a stronger Climate Bill from March 30th to April 5th. In particular, they are encouraging everyone who cares about the Bill to lobby their MPs (not just in the week of action, but starting immediately) – and have produced a comprehensive pack of resources about how to do so. This is available for download at;
http://icount.org.uk/get_involved/296.asp
On Saturday April 5th, Friends of the Earth have called for a Day of Action on the Climate Bill.
http://www.foe.co.uk/index.html
16) APRIL BIOFOOLS DAY – NATIONAL, 15.4.08
On the 15th April the UK biofuel legislation known as the RTFO (Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation) will come into force. This commits the UK to a 2.5% mix of biofuels in both diesel and petrol rising to 5% in two years (2010). This increased demand will exacerbate the serious problems of tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss, land grabs and food price increases forcing yet more people into life-threatening food poverty. A number of NGOs will be protesting on this day and they are hoping for solidarity actions.
www.networkforclimateaction.org.uk
17) NATUREWISE COURSES – LONDON AREA, 2008
Introductory weekends: Hornsey Rise Gardens / Kingston upon Thames / Spittlefields City Farm.
Permaculture for families residential weekend: Epping.
Full design course (residential): Chingford / North London.
Woodland Weekends: Sussex.
Fees: Negotiable and flexible, depending on income.
http://www.naturewise.org.uk/page.cfm
18) ECO-COMMUNITY EDUCATION WORKSHOPS – SUFFOLK, FEBRUARY-APRIL ’08
February 12th, Non-hierarchical Decision Making and effective meetings.
February 13-14th, Solar photo-voltaic panels and 12 volt electrics.
April 3rd-4th, Introduction to permaculture.
April 14th-16th, Building a Grey water system.
Booking is essential – Contact Mell on 07760161755 / 08453370282
email; susteducation@hush.ai
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2008/01/388741.html
19) CAT COURSES – WALES, MARCH-SEPTEMBER ’08
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has announced a new programme of one-day courses for 2008:
8 March; Land Art: As Nature Inspires / 15 March; Mosses and Lichens of the Old Quarry / 29 March; Hurdle Making / 29 March; Willow Weaving / 26 April; Forest ecosystems: Dead wood, leaf litter and nutrient cycling / 10 May; Birds of the Old Quarry / 24 May; Woodland Painting / 31 May; Charcoal Drawing / 31 May; Organic Vegetables of the Old Quarry / 3 June; Upland Ecology and Landscape Management: the Future / 14 June; Practicalities of Using Rainwater / 21 June; Plants of the Old Quarry / 19 July; Mammals of the Old Quarry / 30 August; Charcoal Making: Practical and Theoretical / 27 September; Trees of the Old Quarry. Contact the Courses Department on 01654 705981.
http://www2.cat.org.uk/shortcourses/
20) CLIMATETALK CARD GAME – FREE UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY ’08
This is a conversation game that helps groups of about 6 people talk about climate change and what they might do about it. Everything they need, including the information and process for this conversation are provided in a smart little pack. Copies of the kit are currently available for free for small organisations that commit to sending their results. It is also freely downloadable from www.climatespace.org
21) E-PETITIONS AGAINST AIRPORT EXPANSION – HEATHROW AND NEWQUAY, ONGOING ’08
Two minutes? – two petitions.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopheathrowexpansion/
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopnqyexpansion/
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) TOP WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION DITCHES SHELL – 26.1.08
Shell’s two year tenure as sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition has come to an end. A determined, creative two year national campaign, coordinated in part by Rising Tide and its Art Not Oil campaign, helped force the National History Museum and the BBC to ditch their unlikely sponsor. London Rising Tide’s Chris Hyde said: “This victory has shown what climatically conscious grassroots art can achieve…we will be keeping up the pressure with our Art Not Oil campaign.”
And please send your art in to the 2008 Art Not Oil online gallery…
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/259,
www.shelloiledwildlife.org.uk,http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/
2) NEW WAVE OF CLIMATE ACTION – NATIONWIDE, JANUARY ’08
Here’s some reasons to be cheerful in the dark winter months… far from hiding away from the cold (or hiding heads in the sand for that matter), hotbeds of climate action are springing up around the country. On the Rising Tide front, six new groups have formed in the last six months, with more people joining in all the time.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/253
3) ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE PRIVATE JETS – EDINBURGH, 21.01.08
Over twenty environmental protesters breached security at Edinburgh Airport and blockaded the entrance to the private jet company, Greer Aviation. The activists, from direct action group Plane Stupid Scotland, pledged that today’s actions come as part of a nationwide campaign to reverse the current plans for a tripling of air travel in Scotland which they say flies in the face of the government’s own climate targets.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-scotland-activists-blockade-Edinburgh-airport-private-jets
4) PENGUINS RECLAIM THE ICE (SH)RINK – LONDON, 12.01.2008
Around 30 penguins today “reclaimed the ice” at the Natural History Museum’s ice (sh)rink in protest at British Airways sponsorship of the museum’s annual winter festivities. The protesters, from the climate action group Plane Stupid, dressed as penguins to highlight the irony of an airline creating an ice rink in central London.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/march-penguins-climate-activists-protest-british-airways-ice-rink
5) GREENWASH GUERILLAS HIT SHELL HQ – 4.1.08
A small band of Rising Tide greenwash guerillas entered the lobby of the London Shell HQ to highlight the massive amount of toxic greenwash emanating from the building. Once ejected they continued their work outside, warning the public of the dangers of greenwash.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/250
6) LONDON RISING TIDE DIE-IN AT THE TATE – 4.1.08
Activists from London Rising Tide staged a ‘die-in’ in the BP sponsored Tate Britain. Bob Jones from LRT said “we’re here to demand that the Tate cut it’s ties with BP, an art gallery is no place for an environmental hazard such as an oil company. BP are here to Greenwash their image and distract from the ecological devastation they’re causing around the world”. The protesters handed out lots of leaflets and urged patrons to demand the end of oil companies’ sponsorship of art galleries.
http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/409
7) GREENERGY BIOFUELS PROTESTS – LONDON AND EDINBURGH, 30.1.08 AND 31.1.08
In London, a colourful banner protest was held outside the office of Greenergy International, the UK’s largest biofuel supplier. This was part of a National Week of Action on Agrofuels in which different groups and organisations across the UK are organising protests against the deforestation, high food prices, human rights abuses and faster global warming caused by biofuels from large-scale monocultures. There was a second protest at Edinburgh’s Greenergy office.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390483.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390551.html
8) TESCO GREENWASH PROTEST – MANCHESTER, 23.1.08
See; http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19911
9) CLIMATE CAMP SET UP OUTSIDE COURT – NOTTINGHAM, 14.1.08
While the trial of the eleven climate change activists who shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station on April 10th 2007 began at Nottingham Magistrates Court,
Over 30 people set up a climate camp outside the court. This is the first time that the defence of necessity in relation to climate change has been used in a court of law. The defendants will call an expert witness; a climate scientist, and Royal Society Research Fellow, to prove to the court the scale and imminence of the threat that climate change poses. The judgement is expected on 25th February.
http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389386.html
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19860
10) CLIMAX BLOCK DONG POWERPLANT! – COPENHAGEN, 29.1.08
50 activists from the Danish group ClimaX blocked the main entrance to a powerplant in Copenhagen owned by the DONG Energy corporation. The power company plans to start building a coal-fired powerplant in northern Germany.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19933
11) INDIGENOUS ACTION AGAINST MINING – PHILIPPINES, 17.1.08
Tribal villagers blockaded an Australian mining company and forced the firm to leave the village.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19875
12) OGONI DAY REMEMBERED AS SHELL FAILS TO HALT GAS FLARES – 4.1.08
At just before 8.30 this morning, as staff were arriving for work at Royal Dutch Shell’s Irish headquarters in Dublin, they were treated to a taste of what life is like for those who have to live and work near Shell installations in other parts of the world.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19799
13) CLIMATE CAMP SUPERGLUE TRIAL – LONDON, JANUARY ’08
The prosecution collapses. See;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19819
14) BONN SQUARE TREE OCCUPATION – OXFORD, JANUARY ’08
For updates see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19837
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19818
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19827
15) ACTION AGAINST MOTORWAY THROUGH TARA – IRELAND, JANUARY ’08
For action updates see;
http://www.tarapixie.net
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19929
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19905
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19902
16) CRITICAL MASS REPORT – LONDON, JANUARY ’08
See; http://criticalmasslondon.org.uk/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19920
17) FOREST PROTEST ACTIONS AND ARREST – TASMANIA – 8.1.08
For reports see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19937
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19877
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19878
18) SHELL TO SEA UPDATES – IRELAND, JANUARY ’08
See; http://www.corribsos.com/
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19926
19) ROAD BLOCK E-BULLETIN – JANUARY ’08
To get these monthly updates on campaigns against road building schemes (and for some quick online actions ) sign up here;
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/user/subscribe/2
20) PERMACULTURE ASSOCIATION E-BULLETIN – JANUARY ’08
For the latest ebulletin from the Permaculture Association (Britain) see;
http://permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php
21) SAVE SWALLOW’S WOOD CAMPAIGN UPDATE – JANUARY ’08
See; http://www.saveswallowswood.org.uk/index.shtml
22) EARTH FIRST! ACTION UPDATE – SPRING ’08
See; http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/19938
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