could u make the trip to scotland on this?

...in case you didn't have a bike and thought you wouldn't be able to come. We might also have a few snorkels to share out in case you forget your underwater costume. And write to us if you'd like some 'postcard from 2050' leaflets advertising this action...

Jesus,somebody tell the webmaster at  http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk/ to try his/her site in something other than IE (I assume thats what its written for) I almost had a epiletic fit.(with Safari)

No, it's not just your browser. I tried it in IE and Firefox, and it still looks like Walt Disney threw up.
Must be some kinda design statement, I guess. But it would have been nice to read what they're saying- it seems to be something about ESF.

I couldn't find a 'comment' link on the opening page
so I couldn't tell Rising Tide that, on FireFox PR1.0,
the long and presumably well-thought-out text is
unreadable due to a heavy dependence on IFrames,
fancy graphics and over-sized, unusable buttons.
Maybe if Rising Tide got off its IE-dependent arse,
tried using a non-IE friendly version, considered
slow/poor bandwidth users, alternate browser owners
or just took a course in website design, it might more hits

plus, did Rising Tide web design even consider the needs
of visually impaired users. . . text-only/no-images link?
I guess that's a no then!

Hi,

Sorry about the LRT site difficulties - we're a small group with just that bit too much to do. If anyone out there would like to come along at some point and help out with techy and/or other stuff, we'd be chuffed. In the meantime, the RT UK site - risingtide.org.uk - has the call to action as well as some other interesting stuff.

See you midday Friday!

Tel

Hi,

Sorry about the LRT site difficulties - we're a small group with just that bit too much to do. If anyone out there would like to come along at some point and help out with techy and/or other stuff, we'd be chuffed. In the meantime, the RT UK site - risingtide.org.uk - has the call to action as well as some other interesting stuff.

See you midday Friday!

Tel

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CARNIVAL AND KRITICAL MASS TOUR OF THE G8's TOP CLIMATE CRIMINALS
Dress code: London underwater 2050, (rubber rings, fish, mermaids/mermen, etc. Some snorkels provided!)
Details:  london@risingtide.org.uk Tel: 07708 794665

As part of the many grassroots events sprouting up all around the European Social Forum in London, London Rising Tide has (dis)organised this very public exposure of some of the forces that are sending our planet tumbling into climate chaos.

This event is timed as part of the build-up of widespread creative resistance to the G8 meeting in Scotland next year. Samba band Rhythms of Resistance will be there, as will a renewably-powered cycle sound system, not to mention loads of Londoners and visitors to the city taking a break from the ESF.

A shortlist of G8 climate criminals has been drawn up, and one representing each G8 country will be visited and (un)ceremonially declared unwelcome in any vision of a socially just, fossil fuel-free future. Possible recipients include oil & gas companies, government embassies, car companies, airlines, arms manufacturers & the nuclear indus

(NB: this event is for pedestrians and people on unmotorised wheels)
Meet NFT, underwaterloo Bridge, South Bank
Midday Friday 15th October, ending with a (London) Rising Tide of resistance to climate chaos at 3.30pm at the Edith Cavell statue opposite the entrance to the BP-sponsored National
Portrait Gallery, Charing Cross Road.

The people need the G8 like a fish needs a bicycle!

Email:  london@risingtide.org.uk
Tel: 07708 794665
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
See also www.altspaces.net
www.risingtide.org.uk
www.dissent.org.uk
www.agp.org (Peoples' Global Action)

A highly incomplete shortlist (eg. where the hell are the banks?) of London-based companies & institutions profiting nicely from climate chaos and everyday exploitation - by G8 country. (Write to LRT if you might be up for helping turn this into a printed briefing/map in early 2005.)

UK:
Govt: 10 Downing street,
DTI: Victoria Street

Shell Centre: York Road, SE1, 7546 5000
+ several stations
shell sponsored: National Theatre, South Bank, & Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7; )tel: 7591 3000

BP: Head Office, 1 St. James’ Square, SW1 -
Britannic House, 1-6 Finsbury Circus, EC1M – 7496 4000
+ several stations
BP-sponsored: Science Museum, Barbican, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Opera House, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and National Gallery.
AGMs held at Oil Festival Hall, South Bank

Falkland Oil and Gas Limited
5 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6PX
Tel: 777 893 267; 7867 8600

Regal Petroleum plc
11 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DS
Phone: +44 (0)20 7408 9500; Fax: +44 (0)20 7408 9501
Email:  info@regalpetroleum.com

Burren Energy is a London based Exploration and Production company (E&P), with core producing assets in the Caspian state of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Congo, West Africa. The Company manages and operates a tanker fleet in the Caspian Sea which is dedicated to the transportation of company and third party crude oil production and refined products from the Caspian littoral states to international markets.
Kierran Cross, 11 Strand, London WC2N 5HR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7484 1900
Fax: +44 (0)20 7484 1910 Email:  burren@burren.co.uk www.burren.co.uk

SOCO International plc is an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange. The Company has designated core areas in the Far East / Southeast Asia and Middle East / North Africa regions.
St James's House, 2nd Floor, 23 King Street, London SW1Y 6QY
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 2000; Fax: +44 (0)20 7747 2001
 http://www.socointernational.co.uk/

Premier Oil: Lower Belgrave Street
 http://www.premieroil.com/

Paladin Resources plc is a British independent oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Paladin has assets in the U.K., Danish and Norwegian North Sea, Gabon, Indonesia, Romania and Tunisia.
www.paladinresources.plc.uk/
Kinnaird House , 1 Pall Mall East, London SW1Y 5PR
Tel +44 (0) 20 7024 4500 Fax +44 (0) 20 7024 4501
Email  reception@paladinresources.plc.uk

Imperial College:
Kensington, London SW7 – London’s top oil company recruiting ground; ‘Imperial Strategic Alliance with shell’: In May 2003, Professor John Perkins, then Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, and Dr John Darley, Director of Shell Technology Exploration & Production, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of the College and Shell respectively.
www.ic.ac.uk/  press.office@imperial.ac.uk

RAC: 17 Connaught Place, W2

BNFL: 65 Buckingham Gate, Off Victoria Street, SW1E 6AP
Tel: 7222 9717 (included here as an example of an industry now sticking its tainted head above the parapet as an ‘environmental’ low emission alternative to fossil fuels.)

British Airports Authority: (runs Heathrow, Gatwick etc. etc.)
Wilton Road, Victoria, SW1
Tel: 7834 9449
www.baa.co.uk
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US:
Embassy: Grosvenor Square

Hummer dealership: 57-63 Coburg Road, Wood Green, N22 6UB
Tel: (+44) (0)20 8889 4545 Fax: (+44) (0)20 8889 7500
Email:  sales@americancarimports.com
www.americancarimports.co.uk

ChevronTexaco: 93 Wigmore St., W1. Tel: 7487 4100
2 Portman St., W1. Tel: as above
& several Texaco stations

ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. It is the third largest integrated energy company in the United States, based on market capitalization, oil and gas proved reserves and production; and the largest refiner in the United States. Worldwide, of non-government controlled companies, ConocoPhillips has the eighth largest total of proved reserves and is the fourth largest refiner in the world.
2 Portman St W1H
Tel: 020 7408 6000

Marathon Oil Company
Capital House , 25 Chapel Street, London, NW1 5DQ England
phone: +44-20-7298-2500
fax: +44-20-7298-2501
www.marathon.com
Marathon recognizes that the ability to do business in any community is a privilege. We honor this by doing our utmost to avoid harm to people and the environment, and by acting responsibly wherever we operate.
‘focus on sustainable value growth’
‘Oil industry calling for fight against environmentalists’, San Francisco Chronicle, 5.10.04 - Steve Hinchman, senior vice president of worldwide production

US Airways: 30 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LP

ExxonMobil: 2 Kingsway, WC2
Tel: 7405 0015
******
Canada:
Embassy: Trafalgar Square

Petro Canada: Bowater House, 114 Knightsbridge

Air Canada: ?

*******

Italy:
Embassy: 14 Three King’s Yard, 7312 2200

Agip (aka) Eni (UK) Ltd (oil company; part of consortium building Baku-Ceyhan pipeline – baku.org.uk)
Ebury Bridge House, 10 Ebury Bridge Road - London SW1 W 8PZ (also Eni BTC Ltd.)
tel. 7344 6000
 http://www.eni.it/eniit/eni/home.do?mncommand=home〈=en

Alitalia:
*****
Russia:
Embassy: 5 Kensington Palace Gdns
Tel: 020 7229 2666

Lukoil: 6 Lower Regent Street?  http://www.lukoil.com/
1.5% of global oil reserves and 2% of global oil production
19% of Russian oil production and 19% of Russian oil refining The 2nd largest oil company worldwide by proven reserves of hydrocarbons
The 6th largest oil company worldwide by production of hydrocarbons
The largest Russian oil business group with annual turnover of over $20 bln

Aeroflot: 70 Piccadilly, W1J 8HP
Tel: 7355 2233
******
France:
Embassy: 58 Knightsbridge
Tel: 7201 1000

Thales: Aerospace & Defence – 103 Wigmore Street, 7408 9500
9 Aldgate High St 7650 0100
 http://www.thalesgroup.co.uk/
to symbolise the links between oil, war and climate chaos

Air France: 1st Floor, 10 Warwick Street, W1B 5LZ
Tel: 0845 0845111

Total Fina Elf: 33 Cavendish Square, W1
Tel: 7416 4200
www.total.co.uk/
www.uk.total.com/
*******
Japan:
Embassy: 101-104 Piccadilly
Tel: 7465 6500

Japan Airlines Int’l:
Hanover Court, 5 Hanover Square, W1S 1JR
Tel: 0845 774 7700

Japan National Oil Corporation: Egyptian House, 170-173 Piccadilly W1:
Tel: 7629 4821

Mitsubishi Corporation (UK) plc: Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, WC1
Tel: 7025 3000
Mitsubishi Oil UK: 38 Finsbury Square, EC2
Tel: 7638 1242
Mitsubishi Motors: 92 George St., W1
Tel: 7262 2728

Toyota Motor Europe: 9 Clifford St., W1
Tel: 7287 7171
******
Germany:
Embassy: 23 Belgrave Square
Tel: 7824 1300

BMW: 70 Park Lane, W1Y 3TE
 mail@parklane.bmw-net.co.uk

Mercedez-Benz: 78 Piccadilly, W1
105 Wigmore St., W1
18 King William St., EC4

Audi: 74-75 Piccadilly, W1
Tel: 7318 2222

Welcome to the London underwater 2050 tour of the G8 CLIMATE CRIMINALS

We are here to protest against the government and corporate creators of climate chaos – and celebrate in carnival style our vision of a world where we’ve phased out not just fossil fuels, but capitalism as well.

The rate we’re burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas is out of control, and it’s creating climate chaos – unhinging the weather worldwide and hitting the world's poorest people the hardest. Recent floods and heatwaves here in the UK are just the beginning, and London Underwater may not be that far off. Meanwhile, the governments of the North keep going to war to secure their access to Middle Eastern oil supplies.

Today, we’re unmasking some of the worst climate criminals at large in this oil capital.

They’re part of the G8, an exclusive club of the world’s largest and most powerful economies. We’re exposing the driving force behind climate chaos – an unholy alliance between corrupt companies and controlling states that is built behind the closed doors of the G8.

WANTED: FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE CLIMATE

USA: ExxonMobil, for still denying that climate change is happening.
Canada: The government, for promoting oil and gas exploration with £7 billion in corporate subsidies a year.
Russia: Lukoil, one of Russia's largest oil companies, for contributing xx tonnes of CO2 to climate chaos a year.
France: Total, for backing the environmental and human rights abuses of the Baku Ceyhan pipeline (baku.org.uk).
Japan: Japan Airlines, since aviation is the fastest-growing source of C02 emissions, and Japan refuses to sign the (deeply flawed) Kyoto protocol.
Italy: The government, for handing over taxpayer money to Agip Oil to build the Baku Ceyhan pipeline, and collaborating with the oppressive Nigerian government.
Germany: BMW, for committing to ‘clean’ energy cars in public and funding climate sceptics behind the scenes.
UK: Partners in crime BP and the UK government, for being masters of deception and greenwash, and for taking us into an unjust war for oil.

Why the focus on the G8? Its leaders are gathering in Scotland next year – and so are the creative forces of resistance. Today we’re charging the climate criminals. Now it’s up to all of us to bring them to justice. With the European Social Forum happening in London, this is also an opportunity to kickstart a Europe-wide network of resistance to the fundamentally flawed and failed fossil fuel experiment. It’s time to come together to dismantle capitalism and Big Oil, and build up sustainable, socially just alternatives.

Resist. Protest. Organise. Collaborate. Create.
See you at the G8!

www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
 london@risingtide.org.uk Tel: 07708 794665
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.risingtide.org.uk www.dissent.org.uk www.agp.org.uk www.altspaces.net