UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Bali Demo for Climate Justice

11-12-2007 10:08

My colleague and I are at the Bali COP and we took part in the Day of Global Action here. For the duration fo the COP meeting, the Indonesian Civil Society Forum have been hosting their alternative events, including workshops, discussions and actions.

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Campaign against Climate Change - London Rally

11-12-2007 10:00

Some photos from the rally near to the American Embassy in London on Saturday 8th December.

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Drivers to demonstrate around Parliament.

11-12-2007 09:13

Because of the way SOCPA legislation is worded it is unlikely that fuel protesters will be stopped by police under that particular law when they stage a juggernaut go slow around Parliament Square at noon on Wednesday.

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TOUR OF CLIMATE ACTION 2008

10-12-2007 21:27

Planning is beginning for a radical Tour of Climate Action around the UK's campuses and universities. The tour is being organised by The Student Climate Project, a new non-hierarchical collection of students from around the UK aiming to inspire radical climate activism amongst the wider body of students. The Student Climate Project needs more people onboard, and has its next open national planning meeting in Leeds from the 19th-20th January at the Common Place, Leeds. All our welcome!.

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Fuel protests on Saturday

10-12-2007 18:17

Fuel protests have been threatened for Saturday 15th Dec at 10am at refineries and storage depots. If people want to, it could be an opportunity for climate campaigners to attend the demos and talk to them and the media about climate change? Campaign for Better Transport (formally Transport 2000) have produced a myth-buster about fuel duty in readiness for the protests - see

http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/roads/facts.

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Petrol price protests planned for Saturday

10-12-2007 16:14

Remember the chaos that the fuel protests caused in 2000? There is a call for more protests of this type on Saturday:

"Transaction2007 have decided to release the date and time of protest action earlier than scheduled. This is to enable the motorist and public to better prepare themselves for the coming action."

"A date of Saturday 15th December 2007 at 10:00am has been decided for protest action. This date was decided by members as the best possible to enable those who would normally be working during the week to attend. This action will be initiated at a refinery or storage depot somewhere near you. Anyone wishing to support action is requested to make your way there at the alotted time. Transaction again wish to emphasise the importance of legal protesting."

http://www.transaction-2007.com/

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Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

10-12-2007 10:29

The march showed growing public concern about climate change with over 6,000 marchers and several hundred cyclists making their way through the centre of London. It was a one of over 50 world-wide actions before the UN Climate Change talks in Bali. Images are copyright.

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Police manhandle Tesco biofuel protestors – corporate protection gone mad?

10-12-2007 09:36

3 protestors who arrived to set up a peaceful protest against Tesco’s investments into biofuels were manhandled by Police in central London on December 8th who forced them into a metal pen. Despite, this a peaceful protest was held for an hour including a stop by 300 cyclists and 1 minutes silence for those who are suffering or who have died as the result of massive expansion of large scale biofuel plantations across the South.

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Come to Tasmania! (Rainforest Protection)

10-12-2007 08:04

Untouched rainforest, 'old-growth' is being logged for paper, woodchips and profits at an alarming rate. Trees turn carbon into oxygen, rainforests are perhaps our greatest ally against global warming and considered by scientists and ecologists alike to be Planet Earth's 'lungs'. In Tasmania you have
people turning the most beautiful land into a temporary desert for profit, ignoring public opinion, changing laws to suit themselves and a line drawn in the sand.

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Pictures from Campaign against Climate Change march in London.

10-12-2007 02:26

Around 10,000? climate campaigners marched from Millbank to the American embassy in Grosvenor square despite the pouring rain.

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Glasgow Climate March - pics

09-12-2007 01:13

Just some photos of a rainy march in Glasgow

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The Death Knell for Nuclear Power

08-12-2007 21:22

David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html#Nuclear or you can order printed copies here

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/nuclear/buy.htm . Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me.

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EarthFirst! blockade at coal-fired power plant in Rotterdam, NL

08-12-2007 19:09

On Saturday morning a collective of twenty Dutch EarthFirst! activists blocked the coal conveyor- belt to a plant owned by the German energy giant E.on on the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam. This day, December 8, has been announced as an international actionday in the protest against the coal industry. The growing number of coal-fired power plants worldwide and in the Netherlands at the moment is the biggest threath to the climate. Secondly, this action is part of the protest against the plans for a new E.on coal-fired plant, right next to the existing one on the Maasvlakte.

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Billboards pasted in Manchester

08-12-2007 18:06

Three airline billboards advertising cheap flights to european cities were subverted today.

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Global Climate Campaign march in Central London

08-12-2007 16:41

In spite of heavy rain, thousands turned out to demand climate change action.

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Peak Oil And The Vision In The Mirror

08-12-2007 15:21

If you don't know what peak oil is, then, first of all, you are not alone. Most people don't seem to have a clue about it. And, even some that do, don't seem to get the full implications. Let me lay it out for you as succinctly as I can...

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90% Emissions Reductions by 2030? Easy!

08-12-2007 11:18

I was in the middle of writing an article and, you know how things are, you get stuck on an idea and try a different way of looking at things. In this case I wanted to show how moving our electricity consumption to the night time could reduce the overall generating capacity needed, but I also needed to say this in the context of the startling, but real need to reduce Western greenhouse gas emissions by 90% (at least) by 2030.

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Plane Stupid activists shut down travel agents on route of climate marc

08-12-2007 10:38

Environmental activists from direct action group Plane Stupid have shut down travel agents and airline offices along the route of today’s National Climate March in London as part of the Global Day of Action against climate change.

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All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted

08-12-2007 01:15

For people interested in something a little more direct than the big climate demo in London tomorrow...

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The Tide Is Rising

07-12-2007 16:24

A banner reading: 'THE TIDE IS RISING' with a blue wave across it now welcomes all those entering the city of Manchester on the Princess parkway. This marks the beginning of a number of Climate campaigns this weekend.