CONTENTS:
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RISING TIDE ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY – 1.4.08
2) NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH, BRISTOL CYCLE CIRCUS, GLOBAL DOA – 8.12.07
3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY – BATH, 1.12.07
4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS – BRUSSELS, 4.12.07
5) CLIMATE CAMPER’S TRIAL – UXBRIDGE, 8/9.1.07
6) CLIMATE CAMP NATIONAL GATHERING – LEEDS, 26-27.1.08
7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION – WINTER 07-08
8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING – HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18-20.1.08
9) LOW IMPACT COURSES – BUCKS, JANUARY 2008
10) WOODHEAD TUNNEL ACTION IDEAS? – 8.12.07
11) PROTECT TASMANIA’S FORESTS – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
12) CONTACT VEDANTA – EMAIL ACTION
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE – NORWICH, 24.11.07
2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT – 21.11.07
3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE – AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07
4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE – 28.11.07
5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT – AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07
6) TOTAL OUT OF BURMA – NATIONWIDE, 24.11.07
7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION – 4.11.07
8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL – UK, NOVEMBER 07
9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST – 21.11.07
10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE – NOVEMBER 07
11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT – COLOMBIA, 29.10.07
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AND EVENTS:
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1) RT ANNOUNCES FOSSIL FOOLS DAY – 1.4.08
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY, April 1st 2008
Roll up, roll up! The climate circus is in town. Climate change threatens our very survival, but the fools at the head of the fossil fuel empire continue to plunder the earth, with governments the willing court jesters at their side. They would have us believe that we can escape climate change with techno-fixes, market mechanisms and offset schemes – all technocratic acrobatics that distract us from the truth: the only real solution to climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Find a local fossil fool – the coal-mining clown, the offset contortionist, the aviator tripping on the high wire, the supermarket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any other fool that deserves your attention – and join with thousands around the world in taking one step closer to dismantling the fossil fuel industry.
www.fossilfoolsday.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk <http://www.campaigncc.org
The Shell’s Wild Lie exhibition will feature at the London demo after-party at the Synergy Centre:
www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=109,
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/41/2/
This will be one of many global climate demonstrations taking place on the 8th. There are actions planned in 80 countries.
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org
One of the events planned in the UK is a cycle-relay of messages from Transition Towns and Climate Friendly Villages in Cornwall to Parliament.
http://www.transitionfalmouth.org.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29
Bristol Rising Tide are having a Cycle Circus – Join a colourful critical mass of people and peddlers of all shapes and sizes and let our cycling circus upstage and reveal Bristol’s climate criminals. Meet: College
Green, 1pm.
http://risingtide.org.uk/bristol
3) RECLAIM THE PLANET PARTY – BATH, 1.12.07
Bath Activist Network are having a demo/party highlighting radical alternatives to environmental destruction.
Meet at Abbey Courtyard at 11.30 am, then moving through Bath saying hello to some of our favourite planet trashers, playing music, sharing food, playing games and making mischief!
http://www.myspace.com/bathactivistnetwork
4) THE WORST EU LOBBYING AWARDS – BRUSSELS, 4.12.07
The annual award for deceptive, manipulative and unethical lobbying. This year there is a special Greenwash Prize. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Brussels on 4th December.
http://www.worstlobby.eu <http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/nextmeeting.php
7) GREENHOUSE BRITAIN EXHIBITION – WINTER 07-08
This exhibition addresses the environmental, political and economic challenges of rising sea levels caused by climate change. The central feature will be a multimedia video projection onto a giant relief model of mainland Britain, where the rising waters are seen to redraw the coastline.
http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/tour/
8) POPULAR EDUCATION GATHERING – HEBDEN BRIDGE, 18-20.1.08
Come and learn techniques and be inspired by popular education, share new skills and talk about how we can expand radical education networks in UK and beyond.
http://www.trapese.org/
9) LOW IMPACT COURSES – BUCKS, JANUARY 2008
Low impact smallholding / How to make biodiesel / Heating with wood / Pruning & care of old fruit trees. For more details, see:
http://www.lowimpact.org/
<http://nomottrambypass.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-goodbye-to-woodhead.html
<http://www.huon.org/
12) CONTACT VEDANTA – EMAIL ACTION
Solidarity would be hugely appreciated as India’s Supreme Court looks like it is going to rule in favour of British mining corporation Vedanta to be able to mine the Niyamigiri Hills in Orissa. This could lead to the death
of thousands of people and will set a precedent for the mining of all of India’s forests.
25,000 farmers are to form a human chain around one of the worlds largest dams in protest against this development.
Feel like contacting Vedanta to tell them how you feel?
By email; investorrelations@vedantaresources.com
By post; Vedanta Resources plc
16 Berkeley Street
London W1J 8DZ
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6348
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RECENT HAPPENINGS:
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1) BUY NOTHING DAY RAT RACE – NORWICH, 24.11.07
Norwich Rising Tide marked Buy Nothing Day with a rat race. Activists created a mobile rat race that stopped off at the city’s busiest malls and high streets.
People in rat costumes scurried hither and thither through a maze built from placards reading; Work Harder, Earn More Money, Buy More Things, Keep Going… Meanwhile Fat Cats advised that happiness was just around the corner if the rats would only keep shopping!
A thousand leaflets were handed out and many passers-by expressed their support.
http://risingtide.org.uk/node/237
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386382.html
For reports of Buy Nothing Day in Leeds, London, Edinburgh and Manchester see;
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17851
2) LRT PROTESTORS INVADE ETS SUMMIT – 21.11.07
On November 21st London Rising Tide interrupted delegates at the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit, held at Selfridges Hotel, central London. Free shares for pre-Emissions Trading Scheme atmosphere were given out to each
delegate at the conference.
<http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/node/399
3) COAL TRAIN BLOCKADE – AUSTRALIA, 19.11.07
Rising Tide activists blockaded a coal train on its way into the world’s biggest coal export port, at Kooragang Island in Newcastle Harbour. No trains are able to enter Kooragang Coal Terminal because of the blockade.
“When faced with an overwhelming problem and a Government unwilling or unable to take action to solve the problem, it is the duty of all citizens to take action on the community’s behalf…There is no way Australia can continue passing the buck on climate change. We are the biggest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases and the biggest coal exporter in the world.”
(spokesperson for Rising Tide, Georgina Woods)
http://www.risingtide.org.au/coaltrainblockade
4) PLANE STUPID DISRUPT BAA PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE – 28.11.07
Climate activists opposed to plans for a third runway at Heathrow disrupted a Parliamentary inquiry going on inside the House of Commons. Protesters from climate action group, Plane Stupid, disrupted the proceedings of the Transport Select Committee who were hearing evidence from BAA boss, Steven Nelson and Aviation Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick.
The team of protesters, wearing t-shirts emblazoned with No Third Runway, handed out copies of the Tyndall Centre climate change report about the impacts of flying on global warming.
http://www.planestupid.com/?q=content/plane-stupid-disrupt-parliamentary-committee-future-baa
5) ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN COAL POWER PLANT – AUSTRALIA, 15.11.07
Greenpeace activists occupied the Munmorah coal-fired power station today. A Greenpeace activist pushed the button to stop the conveyor belt. Now it’s time to push the emergency switch on all coal power plants.
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/Climate-change/coal-kills-shut-down
<http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17852
Also on the 13th November, campaigners blockaded a Total garage on Oxford Road, Manchester. http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17820
7) DOVER CLIMATE ACTION – 4.11.07
In the early hours of a Sunday morning, climate activists made a bold statement about global warming with a banner drop from a four-storey building.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/6352
8) SOLIDARITY AGAINST SHELL – UK, NOVEMBER 07
While the company continues to flare gas in Nigeria claiming lack of funds, people are taking action…
On the 9th, supporters of the International struggle against Shell demonstrated outside the Shell Gas offices in Duckmanton, Nr Chesterfield with banners, noise and images of the community struggle in Ireland. They leafleted the workers at the offices and demanded an end to the ongoing violence, intimidation and bribery that the Shell project has unleashed on the local people of Mayo, NW Ireland.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17808
In solidarity with the people of Rossport and Nigeria, the Shell petrol station on Dalry Road, Edinburgh was blockaded for 2 hours on the 11th by 20 people including members of the Clown Army. The Comiston Shell Petrol
Station was subjected to a night-time redecoration.
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17805
Rossport: Another Season of Resistance is an excellent indymedia update.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386253.html
Also in the news; The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil company’s claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flowers.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/shell_advert_is_ruled_misl_01112007.html
9) LEGAL BLOW TO BP OVER TEXAS CITY BLAST – 21.11.07
BP’s hopes of drawing a line under its problems in the US after agreeing a $380m (£184m) settlement with the authorities have been dealt a blow by a legal challenge over the fatal explosion at its Texas City refinery. An
attorney for victims of the blast, has asked a federal judge to reject the settlement, saying it is “shockingly lenient”.
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk//content/view/42/2/
10) PERMACULTURE UPDATE – NOVEMBER 07
November ebulletin from the Permaculture Association (Britain).
http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ebulletin.php
11) CLIMATE JUSTICE TRIBUNAL REPORT – COLOMBIA, 29.10.07
For a report on the grass-roots Tribunal into Climate Justice in Bogotá, see;
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26987&search_text=colombia
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