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Thank you for this information which will no doubt be very useful to the Evening Standard newspaper which appears to be attempting to organise this summer's Camp for Climate Action.
It is extraordinary that they appear to be clairvoyant and know in advance the decisions that will be made at the national meeting of the climate camp in Nottingham this weekend.

Either their journalists really do have inside knowledge about the camp, and its “participatory democracy” is just the same kind of sham as the British government's draconian totalitarian system of doing things, or the reporters are just making up all their stories about the environmental campaigns.

If the decision to hold the Camp for Climate Action in Hyde Park really has been made secretly in advance by the climate campers then their claim to be democratic will prove to be fraudulent, and this will come as a shock to a lot of serious activists who actually believe in this new way of giving everyone an equal say in decision making.

On the other hand if the Evening Standard journalists are just fabricating the stories they are publishing so sensationally in their newspaper, this will go to heart of the debate about the integrity of the news media and the accusations of manipulation and censorship and suppression of important information.

It is not in the public interest for newspapers to publish false news which is then repeated by the BBC and other news organisations, and if this is what the Standard is doing on a regular basis then there really does need to be some kind of legal action taken against them to put a stop to it.

At the Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow in 2007 a lot of people got injured by the police who believed the reports that there were “anarchists” at the camp getting ready to engage in violent attacks on the airport.
The police over reacted to the peaceful protests as a direct result of the false information that was first published in the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail, and was then repeated continuously by all the rest of the media.

It will be very interesting to see what the national meeting of the climate camp this weekend decides to do this summer, and the proposal to hold the camp in Hyde Park is definitely on the agenda, but it does seem unlikely that the decision has already been made in advance.

However in law everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and the Evening Standard journalists are entitled to the benefit of the doubt at this stage, but we do need to know what is going on in what is beginning to like a vicious battle against the Environmental Movement by some of the people in the news media for reasons that are yet to be determined.

Everybody makes mistakes and the last comment should have concluded with the words "but we do need to know what is going on in what is beginning to LOOK like a vicious battle against the Environmental Movement by some of the people in the news media for reasons that are yet to be determined".

If the Evening Standard can show that their irresponsible journalism is just the result of mistakes or incompetence then maybe they can be forgiven, and we can all move on to a better understanding and a proper working relationship with them.

It is going to be very important this summer to establish the correct ground rules for all the environmental actions and campaigns with the media and the police, and to make sure that they really do understand that there is nothing illegal about protesting against the destruction of the planet by the government and the big corporations.

Police liaison needs to be very thorough to protect everyone, especially the young people now being recruited into the Movement by the university students, some of whom probably have no understanding of the way the media and the police behave in public order situations.

More experienced campaigners should be ready to react immediately to false stories published in the newspapers to try to stop them from escalating right across the rest of the media, which tends to respond quickly because they have deadlines to meet and don't always have time to check the authenticity of what they are about to publish.

Unfortunately journalists tend to trust each other and believe what they read in each other's newspapers, and when rogue reporters plant false information it can have very serious consequences for the victims of this corrupt and illegal practice.

i can reveal that the climate camp will not be held at hyde park. full press release on cc details will be released in good time. just assume the evening standard get everything arse about face, and in my experience you won't go far wrong.

Ground rules for all environmental campaigns? I'm not sure you've much experience of eco-direct action campaigning, with suggestions like that, plus saying that protests against destruction of the earth are not illegal (which unfortunately is very much not the case), and thinking that people vote for things at the climate camp meetings (that's not consensus - read up about it).

Many thanks to Climate Camper Dispatch for confirming that the Evening Standard report was untrue, and hopefully they will be publishing a correction, along with BBC London as well.
The suggestion that there should be ground rules established for campaigns with the media and the police was intended to mean that it is important that the media should report what is happening accurately, and the police should observe the law the same as everyone else.

Protests and demonstrations are not illegal in Britain as long as they are peaceful and law abiding, and there is no good reason why the media should publish lies about “anarchist violence” in advance of these events, nor should the police attack the campaigners just because they don't agree with them or because the newspapers make false claims about them.

What actually happens at climate camp meetings is a bit of a mystery, but it does seem likely that they did not decide in advance to hold this summer's camp in Hyde Park, and that they didn't leak this information to the Evening Standard for them to publish it before the recent national meeting in Nottingham.
Which can only mean that the Standard journalists were either lying in their report or they were mistaken.

There is a large number of groups and individuals who are attempting to make sure that the environmental events they get involved with this summer are peaceful and fluffy, and that the message about the reasons for the campaigns is truthfully reported to the public by the news media, and that the police facilitate the events rather than obstruct them.

As for the question “are you weirdos?” the answer is that some of us may be a bit mad, but most of our friends are simply peace and environmental campaigners, and a lot of them are performers and entertainers and musicians, and there will no doubt be quite a lot of street theatre happening this summer.
This might seem a bit weird to some people, but we are all concerned about the heatwaves and the flooding and the natural disasters that are leading up to an Ecological Cataclysm and the extinction of all life on Earth, and we want to try to help reverse the process of global warming and save the human race from extinction and ensure the survival of future generations.