Pics from campaign against climate change demo

kriptick | 03.12.2005 20:45 | Ecology | Globalisation | London

10,000? marchers took to the streets of London to protest climate change while world leaders decide to do too little too late in Montreal.

Crowd at the start in Lincoln's Inn

Rinky dink pedal powered sound system

Outside Exxon Mobil

Whistle blower

To escape from clowns, climb a tree

Cheerful musicians despite the rain

Outside parliament

Evil eagle threatens the world

Monbiot wowed the crowds

This was the largest turnout yet for any climate change demo. A sudden mid afternoon downpour failed to stop people on their way to the US embassy. Apart from a short sit-down outside parliament, The A to B march was fairly uneventful. Would definitely have been improved by some direct action.

kriptick

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Change Happens

04.12.2005 04:13

A bunch of Commies and Clowns protesting climate change...I hope you guys show up next week when we protest the rotation of the earth.

Emmit Kelly

TACTICS!!

04.12.2005 12:21

Won't respond to the first comment - boring.

But according to a friend of mine, who was part of the sit-down, a terribly distressed man rushed up and told the people that they should NOT be sitting down. He was apparently part of the march organising committee.

If you ask me the march organising people (and this goes for the SWP too) should be telling the thousands of people at their disposal to sit down as much as possible. The police were baffled, apparently.

Obviously it would be better if no-one told anyone anything, but since these people are taking it on themselves to direct the rest of us, they should be surely making the best use of the power they've annexed. In fact, I think I'll do a post about it.

sit down and march organisers

04.12.2005 21:19

its much more complicated than that. 'Booking' a demonstration with the police involves a lot of negotiation in terms of what they'll do for us etc. e.g getting decent space at Lincoln's Inn Fields and the Embassy. You could argue that we are being corrupted by the system. Anyhow, march organisers cannot say 'sit down here' because if we did the police would be uncooperative next time we book a march. Having said that we shouldn't be too bothered if people decide to take a rest along the route.

John Ackers
mail e-mail: john.ackers@campaigncc.org
Homepage: http://www.campaigncc.org

There was also a scotland demo: some more details.

04.12.2005 23:15

Download: The talks given outside the scottish parliment. - mp3 3.8M

Just incase anyone reading this article is from scotland, you should know there was a march in edinburgh and the campaign against climate change has 4 groups in scotland, they have a website for more information.

http://climatechangecampaign.blogspot.com

Calvin Jones
mail e-mail: calvin.jones@gmail.com
Homepage: http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com

tactics too

05.12.2005 13:18

while I'm into direct action, and it's all very easy to say this should have been that, well, there's been little direct action on climate change over recent years here, though some have tried. Check out risingtide.org.uk and earthfirst.org.uk/manchester for stuff on the Baku oil pipeline, and other oil/climate direct action.

Also how stewards play their role is political. Legally, they are responsible if people sit-down, though I don't know of a case when this has resulted in legal action.

And for upcoming direct action stuff to get involved in, check out climatecamp.org.uk

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