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Timeline: Climate Camp 2008

04-08-2008 23:35

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Climate Camp Radio - Monday evening show for download

04-08-2008 22:37

Here is the Monday 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

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Leave it in the ground banner dropped above roadway

04-08-2008 22:33

Campaigners battling plans for an open cast mine on the edge of Telford today unfurled banners across one of Shropshire’s busiest roads. Members of Wrekin Stop War and Wrekin Anarchist Group are bidding to catch the attention of motorists travelling on the M54 past Telford and are calling for them to join their protests.

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Bail Breaker Arrested at climate camp according to sky news

04-08-2008 22:02

Ellen Potts, Oli Rodker, Johnathan Stevenson and Mel Evans all made it into the camp, thereby breaching their bail conditions.

But Paul Morozzo was arrested as he tried to get in.

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Article re: dirty policing at climate camp from Guardian Online

04-08-2008 21:42

Dirty tactics to defend a dirty industry
Aggressive policing at this year's climate camp in Kingsnorth has exposed the UK authorities' contempt for peaceful protest
by caroline lucas

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Police drop top secret NETCU guide to policing protest - part 2

04-08-2008 20:01

Part 2 of the NETCU guide

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Police drop top secret NETCU guide to policing protest

04-08-2008 19:46

When raiding the site of the Camp for Climate Action, the police dropped a copy of their top-secret guide to policing protest.

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Tilting at Windmills: The Future of the Climate Change Movement

04-08-2008 18:23

This essay, to be discussed at climate camp, elucidates some current problems with the Climate Camp, as demonstrated by the repression on the Kingsnorth, and demonstrate that a future trajectory can overcome them: just as the anti-roads movement transformed into the anti-globalisation movement in the UK by moving to the focus to the city and capitalism, moving the camps from the countryside to the city would make victory again possible.

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Social War Not Climate Chaos Meetings at Camp

04-08-2008 18:11

Social War Not Climate Chaos! Starting Tuesday, daily meetings at the Scottish Barrio from 5-7 PM will explore how the climate crisis, a facet of the more general latest crisis in capitalism itself, can be used to build a new kind of autonomous social movement constituted as a material force...a force capable of confronting and ultimately halting capitalism. These meetings are not on the official climate camp workshop list, of course.

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Report Back From the Green Spirituality “ Friend or Foe” Workshop Monday 4th Aug

04-08-2008 16:30

Chris Philpott gave a little talk about how Green Spirituality can be a friend of the Climate Change Movement. He explored the commonality of spiritual teachings that pointed to the spiritual causes of Climate Change. He said that one cause was the drive of greed and materialism fuelled by consumerism, as this was shown as a danger and distraction to spiritual progress in the Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Bahai, Islamic, Hindu, and other spiritual traditions. Another spiritual cause of climate change was identified as how we have lost our connection with nature, which was illustrated in the teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shamanism, Paganism and other spiritual traditions. A further spiritual cause of climate change was pointed out to be our collective bad karma which was explained in the teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and other spiritual traditions. Finally he pointed out that a spiritual cause of climate change was our loss of balance in our lives which was emphasised in the teachings of Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, and other spiritual traditions.

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Climate Camp Radio ready to go

04-08-2008 11:01

The studio's set up, we've got guests coming in, and an action packed schedule of programs coming up over the duration of the camp

We'll be doing two shows a day during lunch and dinner. The early show starts at 1pm and goes til 2-2:30, the late show starts at 7pm and finishes at 9pm.

Shows are available online (streaming or as podcasts) from

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio

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Dawn raid on Climate Camp

04-08-2008 11:00

"Police on site, get up London, move it now!" was today's 5.15 alarm call. Clothes still wet from last night's downpour, London neighbourhood, now a couple of hundred strong was up and running for the top gate.

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Video of Caravan and March to Climate Camp 3-8-08

04-08-2008 08:44

This year's Climate Camp in the UK is against a proposed new highly polluting, coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, at at time when the Government is pretending to be 'green'.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/ClimateCamp3-8-08

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5 o'clock and the police try and drive through main gate to climate camp

04-08-2008 08:13

Climate Camp main gate duty meets and repels a van load of police at 5am

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Police mount morning attacks against climate campers

04-08-2008 05:37

Shortly after 5am this morning, police mounted an operation at the climate camp.

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Caravan and March to Climate Camp 3-8-08

03-08-2008 21:13

The March began in Rochester where it was was joined by the Caravan.

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No New Coal March - Rochester

03-08-2008 21:04

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Climate Camp Day One Summaries

03-08-2008 19:49

The day started and ended with rain but for the most part was sunny, dry but windy. Most of the neighborhoods have their infrastructure pretty sorted and kitchen serving food. The media 'village' now has it's full complement of structures and although some are literally held up with bits of string, it's looking good despite being two days behind schedule. Everything is running behind thanks to continuing vindictive obstruction by the police.

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Little Peace Boat on the way to The Climate Camp

03-08-2008 18:14

Nearing the end of an epic voyage, a veteran peace campaigner is about to sail down the Medway and join the Climate Camp protesters, before sailing on to Westminster for the anniversary of Hiroshima

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The 300-350 Show: Al Gore's Energy Challenge

03-08-2008 16:59

Al Gore's historic "Challenge to Repower America" speech in full. Gore calls for the US to be powered by renewable energy and "clean power" in ten years.