North East Shop Stewards Network refuse to publicise Open Cast Conference
None of your business | 29.01.2009 18:30 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Workers' Movements
The NESSN have decided not to publicise an upcoming conference against open cast coal mining. Open casting has been used by the state, in revenge for the miners strike, to destroy the countryside around former mining communities. NESSN intend to make a database of all the left wing workers in the North East and give it to Combat 18.
Q. Hi Dave,
Please could you forward this around the NESSN?
Fliers on: www.toonclimateaction.tk
Environmental and community campaigners from across the region will be gathering in Newcastle on Saturday 31st to discuss the recent upsurge in opencast mining applications in the north east and to consider coordinated opposition to them.
The meeting which has been called by Newcastle Climate Action will take place in St Johns Church, Grainger Street, Newcastle between 1.30 and 4 pm and will hear representatives from past and present anti-opencast campaigns, Greenpeace, Coal Action Network, trade unionists and industry experts.
Liz Crocker, one of the organisers, said: "There seems to be a new Dirty Gold Rush in the North East with over half of the country's opencast applications being in this region. Most of the communities opposing these applications are doing so in isolation and each is having to reinvent the wheel. We hope that this gathering on Saturday will take the first steps to coordinate the opposition and identify the best tactics to stop the blight of our landscape and the massive climate change impacts that these developments herald. All are welcome to attend."
Tom Bidley of Coal Action Network added: "We have a lot to discuss and some interesting ideas to consider so we hope that anyone interested in opposing these developments can get along on Saturday."
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No, you do it.
Dave
Please could you forward this around the NESSN?
Fliers on: www.toonclimateaction.tk
Environmental and community campaigners from across the region will be gathering in Newcastle on Saturday 31st to discuss the recent upsurge in opencast mining applications in the north east and to consider coordinated opposition to them.
The meeting which has been called by Newcastle Climate Action will take place in St Johns Church, Grainger Street, Newcastle between 1.30 and 4 pm and will hear representatives from past and present anti-opencast campaigns, Greenpeace, Coal Action Network, trade unionists and industry experts.
Liz Crocker, one of the organisers, said: "There seems to be a new Dirty Gold Rush in the North East with over half of the country's opencast applications being in this region. Most of the communities opposing these applications are doing so in isolation and each is having to reinvent the wheel. We hope that this gathering on Saturday will take the first steps to coordinate the opposition and identify the best tactics to stop the blight of our landscape and the massive climate change impacts that these developments herald. All are welcome to attend."
Tom Bidley of Coal Action Network added: "We have a lot to discuss and some interesting ideas to consider so we hope that anyone interested in opposing these developments can get along on Saturday."
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No, you do it.
Dave
None of your business
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