Like most protest, it's value was mostly symbolic,
we didn't stop the power station, we didn't cut down on pollution,
and we didn't change the world!
If you want to live an ethical life, in this day and age you have to accept that on many occations you will be a hypocrite, you drive a polluting vihicale to an anti pollution protest, buy Iraqi Oil on the way to an anti-war protest, and consume several products from multinationals on the way to a protest against globalisation,
the point is that we want to change the world and make alternatives, and we have to start somewhere, but until we finish( if there is a definate finish point) we will always break our own moral values on the proccess of changing other's,
I seek to live in an ethical world, while i write this email on a Compaq computer probably produced by slaves, which uses electricity, some of which comes from the Drax power station.

letz keep tryin; solidarity/SOLIDarnosc in PEACE x

the message was much more complex than "don't use coal". If you were at the camp, you could have tried to find that out through the many workshops, or chatting to people. If you weren't at the camp, you could have read the website, press releases or media coverage.

Some of the point was symbolic, sure. But in actual fact - no coal went into Drax stockpiles that day, and for almost all the day no coal went from the stockpiles into the power station itself. Of course, you are right about starting somewhere, making compromises.

yes, climate camp is confused and we do not know really what to do.... but who does????? we have to start somewhere. i am not sure here is where to start but it is an experiment, that is all. that is how i see it, we the left do not know what to do, and nothing really seems to work, yet we want to change things. perhaps something else will come out of these sorts of events which will really change things.