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You Must Be Choking! - Day of Action Against Drax Power Station

imc-uk-features | 31.08.2006 23:00 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

Actions against Drax Power Station started early on Thursday morning (31st of August) and continued all day, with the Drax perimeter being breached several times. Up to 600 campaigners against climate change participated in the Reclaim Power mass action. Four main blocs gathered at the centre of the Climate Camp before splitting off into different groups, with some heading towards Drax across fields to avoid police road blocks [Early report | Photos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Videos 1 | 2 | Protestors Audio Interview]

Meanwhile, other smaller actions had already begun - just after 4.30am seven activists occupied a Drax lighting tower. Later nearby roads were blocked by different affinity groups and another Drax lighting tower was also occupied with a banner reading "No Future For You". More perimeter penetrations occured as more groups arrived at the fence to be met with police in riot gear, horses and dogs. The total number of arrests on the day's actions was 38 people, some of whom were violently attacked by police.

In the early hours of Friday 1st of September the actions around Drax continued. Reports came in of people attempting to breach the perimeter of the fence overnight. On the other hand, the Legal Team informed that all of the 38 people arested in yesterday's mass action were released throughout the day, some of which having spent about 28 hours in police custody. There was also one confirmed arrest that took place on Friday morning. Two more arrests took place on Saturday 2nd September near the field were the Climate Camp was taking place.

For full details, see the full timeline of events and individual reports that have been posted to IMC-UK Climate Camp page.

Reports: First reports | Police Prevent Essential Supplies From Reaching Activists | Police quotes | Searching for 'weapons' | Farmer attacks Drax Protesters with Tractor (including photos) | Kids Block at Climate Camp | Fireworks from inside Drax | On the Ground: Suicide farmers found in Yorkshire | Photographer arrested over 'weapon' near Drax | Police Obstruction of Media around Climate Camp and Drax | Police hipocrisy at Drax | 3 hour lock on shuts down machine inside Drax | Climate Camp site restored to how it was found | Personal Experience of the Camp | Operation HASH report back | Wellbeing@Climate Camp | Indymedia at the Camp for Climate Action 2006: Report & Personal View.
Mainstream press: List of articles | Radio 4 coverage [ 1 | 2 ] | Reuters inaccurancies on climate camp reporting.




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Climate Camp site restored to how it was found

08.09.2006 11:18

The last climate campers left site on wednesday after much hard work restoring the site to its original state. The landowner rang on thursday to teel the the campers he was happy with the clean-up operation.

All straw, human waste and food scraps have gone to a local organic farm to be composted. All metal, glass, card and plastic has been recycled locally and the pallettes have been recycled or given to locals. The compost loos have been packed ready for re-use and most plumbing, tools etc and stored ready for future events. The site has been thoroughly litter picked but very little was left (apart from random clothes and stuff!) The only evidence we were there is some vehicle tracks around the gate.

Thankyou to everyone who came and helped, be it washing-up one bowl or moving wheelie bins full of shit for days.

The camp is not over, we need to pay off our debts and plan how we work togetehr in the future. Check the Climate Camp website for details on how to donate or come to the next gathering in October.

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Comments

Display the following 23 comments

  1. Solidarity from down south. — Gemstone
  2. Proud to be an enemy of the state.. — Dawit Smallmoney
  3. Well done You lot — Marcus
  4. Dirty Oiler — Dirty Oiler
  5. hardly our fault — n
  6. Best eco action in years! — Power To The People
  7. RE Dirty Oiler — re Dirty Oiler
  8. Oil Fired — Pieter@Drax
  9. Yes we did get in! — lumsk
  10. indymedia censorship — The Real Tony Blair
  11. Close drax down??? — I'm sick of it
  12. the point — kim
  13. the web is a wonderful thing! — a bit of research goes a long way
  14. For info — Claire
  15. over the border — peacelover
  16. to poster calling themselves tony blair — offgridandlovingit
  17. No Clean Coal from Drax — Almuth Ernsting
  18. re various — camper
  19. The reasons why so many police do this job... — hum
  20. Did that — The Real Tony Blair
  21. Universal Support - ha ha ha ha — Blue Moon
  22. RE: The web is a wonderful thing — Luke P
  23. direct action junkies — Blue Peter