Climate Camp News, Wed 30th August: "If not Tomorrow, then When?"
imc features | 30.08.2006 19:06 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology
"What has really struck me is the way in which everyone who has come to the camp is getting involved. People from all walks of life and with all sorts of previous experiences are here, and everyone is doing their bit to make the camp tick. From action planning to compost toilet building, everyone is getting involved..." [read more]
See also Life at the Camp - a personal perspective | todays pics from inside the camp.
Thursday sees the Reclaim Power mass day of action against Drax Power Station, and preparations are underway with people making banners, puppets and other props.
Meanwhile throughout the day the police have been using Section 60 powers to stop and search all people entering or leaving the Climate Camp [report and pictures 1 | 2] Undeterred, people continue coming and going, some taking tours around the increasingly guarded perimeter of Drax power station [pics]. Later in the afternoon at around 2.30pm the police were denied entry to the camp [report and pictures] in a peaceful but strong reaction by camp residents, with similar scenes repeated again at around 5.30pm [report].
Seel also: Drax Shares Take A Slide | Drax to Stop Smoking | Power Line Pole Allegedly Cut | Oldbury Nuclear Power Reactors to Close | Feminism and Climate Change [more] | Green Spirituality workshop | Greenwashing Climate Change | City Harvest workshop | (Some) Workshops at the Camp for Climate Action | Feedback from Green Spirituality Workshop.
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Photographs in and around the camp
06.09.2006 20:50
A system to make 'grey water' from dish washing etc. safe to re-enter the ground
Most "neighbourhoods" had a kitchen
Compost loos to recycle waste
There was a range of waorkshops
A basic circuit for living off the grid. Watts = Amps X Volts
Computer tent
Recyle recycle recycle
Straw bales are amazingly useful.
We did get sun, but also this stuff ..
London Rising Tide tent, and little garden
Looking inside drax
Protest on light tower
Photographs (telephone camera only tho) ...
Brent
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