London Newswire Archive

07-08-2008 12:23

Climate Camp thanks everyone participating

A Big Thank You to everyone making the Climate Camp a success even before the main action - this from the CC website :

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/home Read more >>

07-08-2008 11:37

Another climate camp action - Students Killed at Royal Bank of Scotland's HQ.

Fifteen dead bodies are currently lying in a pool of oil blocking the
entrance to RBS London HQ at Liverpool Street [1]. Students are staging a
'die-in' blockade to highlight the devastating effects of climate change.
The protesters are demanding RBS stop funding destructive fossil fuel
projects which will create climate catastrophe. The action is taking
place as part of the climate camp and is co-ordinated by the student
action network PANDA [1].
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07-08-2008 10:45

Demonstrate on Sunday to remember Pauline Campbell

Prisoners’ Justice Day demonstration

Sunday 10 August 1-3pm, outside Styal prison, Wilmslow, Cheshire (nearest stations Wilmslow and Manchester Airport).

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07-08-2008 10:06 | 2 additions

Bowl Court Evicted This Morning - Call Out For Help

This morning at 7am, 40 high court bailiffs have evicted the Bowl Court squat in Shoreditch. It is located in Bowl Court which is up Plough Court next to the junction of Great Eastern Street and Shoreditch High Street. Please come around - help needed urgently ! Read more >>

07-08-2008 10:04

Plane Stupid leaves Camp for Climate Action for protest at Gatwick

Nine protestors from the anti-aviation group ‘Plane Stupid’ have left the Kingsnorth Climate Camp to mount a protest against short-haul flights from the nearby Gatwick Airport. The nine climate activists had been planning to protest against the government’s plans to expand Kingsnorth coal fire power station. However continual police intimidation and violence forced them to leave the camp, choosing instead to protest against the popularity of short-haul flights, especially during the Edinburgh Festival, from Gatwick airport. Read more >>

07-08-2008 09:15 | 1 addition

Climate Activists Shut Down South's Biggest Biofuel Base

This morning climate activists from around the country have shut down the
South's biggest agrofuel depot. Read more >>

07-08-2008 00:19

HLS Largest Shareholder Barclays - Update & Action Alerts

Barclays Global Investments has called a PR meeting to decide what to do about the protests against them. Remind them that HLS shares = puppy killing scum! Read more >>

06-08-2008 23:19

Climate Camp Radio - Wednesday evening show for download

Here is the Wednesday evening Climate Camp show, available for download. Daily shows are live streamed (at 1pm and 7pm) and archived at

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio Read more >>

06-08-2008 23:14 | 1 addition

Climate Camp - Police Demonstrate Excessive Force At Stop And Searches

Here is a short video from Kent Online, showing the police using excessive force against a some female climate campers and a legal observer. Read more >>

06-08-2008 19:58

Climate Camp Radio - Wednesday lunchtime show for download

Here is the Wednesday lunchtime Climate Camp show, available for download. Daily shows are live streamed (at 1pm and 7pm) and archived at

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio Read more >>

06-08-2008 18:50

Climate Camp Silver Group- Call Out For Flying Devices

On Saturday August 9th we will shut down Kingsnorth Power Station. the Silver Group are planning a significant aerial presence involving all sorts of flying craft. Some details obviously cannot be discussed however... Read more >>

06-08-2008 18:47

Tibet Activists scale Tower Bridge on Eve of Olympics

Two campaigners have climbed London's Tower Bridge to unfurl banners in protest at China's occupation of Tibet on the eve of the Olympics. The banner-hang was linked to similar actions internationally, most notably the unfurling of free Tibet banners within metres of the 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium in Beijing. The activists are linked to the group Students for a Free Tibet. Read more >>

06-08-2008 16:22 | 1 addition

Riot Police Continue to Attack Women and Children at the Camp for Climate Action

The relentless campaign of intimidation by the police against the Camp for Climate Action continued during the night.
Around 2 am the police switched off the floodlights at the front gate and rushed in four riot vans blasting out Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries which was the theme music of the film Apocalypse Now and also Adolph Hitler's favourite music.
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06-08-2008 15:20

Media getting trouble from Police at Climate Camp

Police out of control with £5m budget to stop protest. Read more >>

06-08-2008 14:11

Climate camp: BBC buys into police propaganda

A BBC reporter buys into police propaganda and fails to report campers' side of an issue Read more >>

06-08-2008 12:33

Tuesday at climate camp.

Some snaps and a short report from tuesday at Climate Camp. Read more >>

06-08-2008 11:40

Climate Camp: Pics of Police Confiscating Bikes from Car Park

Screen grabs from the video showing police cutting locks off bicycles next to the Climate Camp and confiscating them.

Video and report at:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405517.html Read more >>

06-08-2008 10:03

'Some ready to surrender - we won’t' - SPIKE

Monday 11th Aug 2008 @ The Good Ship

Monday Love has come to Spike’s aid to raise the awareness of the threat to the place.

see:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400568.html

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06-08-2008 03:50 | 3 additions

Psyops, terror and policing of the climate camp

Police mounted an outrageous terror attack on the camp in the early hours of Wednesday 6th, sounding sirens, circling their helicopter over the site, cutting the flood lighting, then deploying van loads of tooled-up riot cops at the gates in the darkness and getting them to number off and yell 'get up, get up' into the camp.... Read more >>

05-08-2008 23:30

Clapham South Total Oil Protest for Burma

On 30th July six protesters from www.totaloutofburma.org held a demonstration at the Ridge Total Service Station, 40 - 50 Balham Hill, Wandsworth, London SW12 9EL (near Clapham South). French Total Oil funds the brutal Burmese junta with 500 million dollars a year from the Total operated Yadana gas field, fuelling oppression and great cruelty in Burma. Next August 8th will mark the 20th uprising of the 8-8-88 protests in which 3,000 peaceful Burmese protesters were murdered by the Burmese junta. Read more >>