climate camp mass action is on!

[e19896]

Indymedia ticker

19:25 About one hour ago people dropped a banner reading 'Plane Suicide' on Colnbrook Bypass motorway bridge over the M25. The banner overlooks the traffic going northbound, some of which will exit off towards the aiport.

and here i goto the pub a fun day haveing been had...

 

[peacepete]

IMCUK SMS

"British Airways World Cargo terminal near Hatton Cross now blockaded by 8 people locked on in circle. 7 people present in suppor, like more." (sic.)

also...

"Bicycology have delivered food to hte 250+ people sheltering under tarps outside BAA. There is music and part atmosphere despite rain."

and...

"Police not yet at blockade or cargo terminal near Hatton Cross but some airport security now present. Only 7 people there in support."

 

[The Black Hand]

The press release about the police violence was well written (on Indymedia) and the police brutality par for the course unfortunately. I hope the protesters get thousands in compo mind

 

[peacepete]

IMCUK SMS

"Police cordoned off cargo depot area near Hatton Cross. Over twenty police vans present. Protesters still locked on in a ring on ground."

 

[e19896]

The press release about the police violence was well written (on Indymedia) and the police brutality par for the course unfortunately. I hope the protesters get thousands in compo mind

You mean this http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378936.html link for others to read...

 

[e19896]

update link

police in huge numbers, including silver commander, came hurtling from the BAA seige to the BA depot. Suport team cleared away, lockers on removed and nicked by about 22.10. The shift of cops releived the pressure at BAA which is reported to have a good party vibe going into the night.

and into the night i goto sleep..

 

[In Bloom]

'nuff said.

 

[e19896]

Blockade at Sizewell B nuclear power station

A group of five people have locked to concrete blocks in the entrance of Sizewell nuclear power station. They started the action at 7.45am this morning and unfurled a banner reading 'nuclear power is not the answer to climate chaos'.


The protesters have targeted the power station to highlight that nuclear power is no answer to climate change.

Sizewell B nuclear power station is operated by British Energy and is the UK's only large pressurised water reactor. In the first ten years of it's operation it produced about 3% of the UK's electricity. British Energy claim the power station has reduced the amount of greenhouses gases that would otherwised have been released by fossil fuel generation by around 60 million tonnes.

However they have conveniently accounted for only a tiny part of entire production cycle. A large amount of energy (and therefore greenhouse gas emissions) are involved in the mining of uranium ore, it's refining and enrichment and the construction and eventual decommissioning of the nuclear power stations themselves also needs to be factored into the equation.

Last year, during the climate camp near Drax in Yorkshire, protesters blockaded the Hartlepool nuclear power station.

source http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/379128.html

Don't forget the rabbit

Just ignore them.

oi mate, you got a warren for that?

 

[e19896]

Indymedia ticker

11:15 The blockade at Sizewell Nuclear Power Station is still in place. CID have arrived but so far there is no cutting team at the blockade. Earlier when the blockade was established the Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers were initially very rough, trying to move the concrete lock-on while people were attached and causing considerable pain. The support team and media were moved down to the end of the road.

 

[TAE]

Climate protests target UK firms
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954428.stm

 

[Cobbles]

Climate protests target UK firms
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954428.stm

From the article:

"During direct action protests across the country on Monday:


Five people blocked the main gate at Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk after locking their arms inside barrels of concrete

A dozen protesters superglued their hands to entrance doors at oil firm BP's headquarters in central London

Campaigners dressed as "red herrings" protested at the offices of carbon offset firms Climate Care in Oxford and the Carbon Neutral Company in London

A group invaded the London offices of Bridgepoint Capital, a private equity firm who are behind the expansion of Leeds-Bradford Airport
Earlier, there were scuffles between campaigners and riot police and eight people were arrested after blockading British Airways' world cargo centre."

Mass action? - more like mass-turbation.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Mass action? - more like mass-turbation.

cobbles - why are you following it at all then if you think its all wank?

 

[bluestreak]

cobbles - why are you following it at all then if you think its all wank?

what, and miss a chance to be sneering?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

and my point to cobbles is that this action and others like it achieve their aim when cobbles is exercised about it to the extent of posting about it - you have entered the debate even if to disagree......

.....you know where that will lead to......before long, you'll be at the next climate camp pissing on a strawbale and eating vegan food.

 

[In Bloom]

More advanced cockery from Plane Stupid
The offices of the CarbonNeutral company in King's Cross, London, were surrounded by protesters handing out leaflets while dressed as red herrings.

One of the campaigners, Sophie Nathan, said they wanted to spread the message that carbon emissons needed to be cut rather than offset by projects that might "make a fast buck out of the ethical consumer".

"We deeply believe you should be getting on a bike instead of getting in a car and thinking about whether you need a foreign holiday," she said.

Turn out that light, sonny, don't you know there's a global climate catastrophe on?

 

[Fruitloop]

Carbon offsetting is a load of cock though.

 

[In Bloom]

Carbon offsetting is a load of cock though.

So is the arrogant, puritanical shite pimped by the likes of Plane Stupid.

 

[Fruitloop]

Maybe. What do you so object to in "We deeply believe you should be getting on a bike instead of getting in a car and thinking about whether you need a foreign holiday"?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

why is it arrogant and puritanical to advise/challenge people to take less flights?

 

[In Bloom]

Maybe. What do you so object to in "We deeply believe you should be getting on a bike instead of getting in a car and thinking about whether you need a foreign holiday"?

Because I happen to think that it's bullshit for these stupid hippy cunts to go around telling people off for such terrible sins as owning a car and enjoying yourself. The majority of carbon emissions are not caused by leisure flights*, and it's not as if driving to work is something a lot of people can just opt out of.

It's pretty rare that I can afford a foreign holiday, but when I can (and I can get the time off), I'll take one. Fuck Plane Stupid.

*And the majority of commuter flights through cheap companies like EasyJet aren't for holiday purposes, for that matter

 

[In Bloom]

why is it arrogant and puritanical to advise/challenge people to take less flights?

If you can't find the answer in your own question, you need to spend less time with hippies.

 

[Fruitloop]

I don't think they told anyone off for enjoying themselves tbh.

The majority of people doing most of the leisure flying are rich folk, and tbh I find it odd that you're defending their right to fly around as much as they like, while poor people elsewhere watch their arable land disappear under the sea. I guess it's all a matter of preference at the end of the day.

Most people could opt out of driving to work if they really wanted to, I mean I have never owned a car and have lived and worked in some pretty remote places.

 

[bluestreak]

i think that In Bloom is throwing the baby out with the bath-water here. i think the idea is not just to get people to say "do i need to take that flight" but to make people realise that flying is a luxury and unnecessary flying is anti-social and polluting. very few people are critical of one holiday a year types choosing to spend their precious time and money enjoying a well deserved break, but of people who are flying for business meetings that can be done by teleconference etc.

well said Fruitloop, by the way.

 

[editor]

The majority of people doing most of the leisure flying are rich folk, and tbh I find it odd that you're defending their right to fly around as much as they like, while poor people elsewhere watch their arable land disappear under the sea. I guess it's all a matter of preference at the end of the day.

Spot on, fella.

 

[In Bloom]

i think that In Bloom is throwing the baby out with the bath-water here.

Don't you always?

i think the idea is not just to get people to say "do i need to take that flight" but to make people realise that flying is a luxury and unnecessary flying is anti-social and polluting. very few people are critical of one holiday a year types choosing to spend their precious time and money enjoying a well deserved break

Except Plane Stupid and their supporters. She didn't say she wanted people to wonder "Do I really need to fly from London to Edinburgh for a meeting?", but "Do I really need a foreign holiday?". It's not exactly ambiguous.

Plane Stupid and other groups with similar politics have clearly and explicitly criticised people taking foreign holidays.

but of people who are flying for business meetings that can be done by teleconference etc.

Not that I've already made that point myself, or anything like that.

 

[In Bloom]

The majority of people doing most of the leisure flying are rich folk, and tbh I find it odd that you're defending their right to fly around as much as they like

Where have I done that? Do you even read other people's posts when you're typing a reply or do you just go by guesswork and blind predjudice?

If it weren't for the availability of cheap air travel, I could never afford a foreign holiday, why should travel abroad be the sole preserve of the rich?

Most people could opt out of driving to work if they really wanted to, I mean I have never owned a car and have lived and worked in some pretty remote places.

Most people could make their own clothes out of sackcloth instead of buying them from shops if they really wanted to. Who gives a shit? The point is that for a lot of people, it'd lead to a lot of unnecessary stress and inconvenience that they'd, quite understandably, rather avoid.

 

[Fruitloop]

Well to be honest I'm finding it hard to tell what your point is, except that you think that everyone has the right to cheap flights that are effectively subsidised by the rest of us through the exemption on aviation fuel duty, and that you really, really hate hippies.

I mean the average passenger on a low-cost airline is still someone who is far more wealthy than you or I - why are we propping them up as they degrade our shared environment?

Most people could make their own clothes out of sackcloth instead of buying them from shops if they really wanted to. Who gives a shit? The point is that for a lot of people, it'd lead to a lot of unnecessary stress and inconvenience that they'd, quite understandably, rather avoid.

Well, lots of things are inconvenient, like the 6000 people who had to be relocated in India because their living space disappeared (link). Now if people want to continue contributing to that kind of thing because they can't be arsed to get on a bus then that's their decision, but I can't see defending their right to be a selfish arsehole as any kind of a priority.

 

[In Bloom]

I mean the average passenger on a low-cost airline is still someone who is far more wealthy than you or I - why are we propping them up as they degrade our shared environment?

Do you even read other people's posts when you're typing a reply or do you just go by guesswork and blind predjudice?

So the latter then?

 

[In Bloom]

Well to be honest I'm finding it hard to tell what your point is, except that you think that everyone has the right to cheap flights that are effectively subsidised by the rest of us through the exemption on aviation fuel duty, and that you really, really hate hippies.

I mean the average passenger on a low-cost airline is still someone who is far more wealthy than you or I - why are we propping them up as they degrade our shared environment?

We're back to you not actually reading my posts again.

My objection to targetting cheap flights is that while they are mostly used by business travellers when teleconferencing would be much more ecologically friendly (and this is a bad thing) and the very rich, they do make it possible for the less wealthy to take foreign holidays.

In any case, cheap flights are not the biggest contributer to carbon emissions.

Well, lots of things are inconvenient, like the 6000 people who had to be relocated in India because their living space disappeared (link). Now if people want to continue contributing to that kind of thing because they can't be arsed to get on a bus then that's their decision, but I can't see defending their right to be a selfish arsehole as any kind of a priority.

And that's the fault of people who own cars, is it? As opposed to, say, the people who control the process of production and manage it in an unnecessarily wasteful way? It's not down to me or you if the agricultural industry happens to find that it's more profitable to import food from abroad rather than grow it locally, nor is it down to people who drive if their workplace is innaccessible by public transport and too far away to walk.

 

[Random]

Turn out that light, sonny, don't you know there's a global climate catastrophe on?

It's a shame that many environmentalists are radical in their action, but in their rhetoric they're no further to the left than Al Gore. What we need is to keep hammering the message home - it's industry, the govenrment, and the world they create that causes climate emissions.

Low energy light bulbs and personal choices aren't going to cut the 90% reduction mustard. It's dishonest as well as politically unsound for grassroots protestors to pretend otherwise.