actions against E‑On in Nottingham

15.02.2013

Last night the doors to the Not­ting­ham E‑on Open House on Lis­ter Gate were d‑locked shut in sol­i­dar­i­ty with any­one strug­gling to stay warm this win­ter.

15.02.2013

Last night the doors to the Not­ting­ham E‑on Open House on Lis­ter Gate were d‑locked shut in sol­i­dar­i­ty with any­one strug­gling to stay warm this win­ter.

Eon and their part­ners in crime are not only destroy­ing the plan­et as they extract every last inch of nat­ur­al resources from the ground, they’re also doing their best to fleece each and every­one of us as they raise the prices year in year out. What we did last night was a minor act. Car­ried out by indi­vid­u­als who are dis­gust­ed with the ways in which the cor­po­rate pow­er and greed which goes hand in hand with this sys­tem. It is destroy­ing the plan­et, human beings and every liv­ing thing. We must fight back.
 
Update: I work across the road from the open house. It had to open two hours lat­er than usu­al.
 
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Stop G8 Notts hit the streets of Not­ting­ham yes­ter­day dis­trib­ut­ing a leaflet that made con­nect­ing the every­day real­i­ty of pover­ty in the city, where peo­ple are forced to choose between eat­ing or stay­ing warm to the cap­i­tal­ist spec­ta­cle of the G8 sum­mit tak­ing place lat­er this year.
Indi­vid­u­als were recep­tive to the mes­sage although many peo­ple did­n’t view them­selves as empow­ered to do any­thing about the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion. This re-enforced the impor­tance of us being on the streets talk­ing and engag­ing with as many peo­ple as we can, talk­ing about the prob­lems, their caus­es and how we can tack­le them on micro and macro lev­els.

Starv­ing to Sttay Warm

Fuel pover­ty protest against E.on.

Eon and the oth­er five big ener­gy com­pa­nies (EDF, Cen­tri­ca, SSE, Scot­tish Pow­er and npow­er) are a car­tel which con­trols 99% of the domes­tic ener­gy mar­ket. Domes­tic ener­gy prices for us are con­stant­ly ris­ing whilst every year these com­pa­nies declare record prof­its.

Accord­ing to a recent sur­vey, this win­ter 1 in 4 fam­i­lies have had to face a stark choice between heat­ing and eat­ing. Whilst e.on exec­u­tives and share­hold­ers spend bumper prof­its on sec­ond homes and hol­i­days
abroad, peo­ple in the UK are freez­ing because they need to eat.

We are starv­ing to stay warm!

On June the 17th and 18th the G8 world lead­ers will be meet­ing in Fer­managh, North­ern Ire­land, to dis­cuss how to main­tain the cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem which enables and jus­ti­fies this day­light rob­bery. While we allow our lives to be gov­erned by these crooks prof­it will always come before peo­ple. The only way to achieve real change is to break from this vicious cycle of exploita­tion, smash cap­i­tal­ism and reor­gan­ise our com­mu­ni­ties in a way which ensures every­one has access to the neces­si­ties of life.

From the 10th of June there will be a week of action, work­shops and meet­ings in Lon­don to protest against the G8 and to work towards build­ing the sort of world that we want to live in

stopg8notts@riseup.net