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Get Your Selves Down to Climate Camp

Climate Camper | 13.08.2009 17:04 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces

5.30pm Thursday








The site was taken on Wednesday.Kitchens, compost loos, wind and solar energy and kids spaces are all up and running; workshops are go and we’ll soon have a cinema. The sun’s been shining all day. Friendly locals!

We’re roughly the same distance from Ffos y Fran, the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine, as the nearest houses (36 metres!) - that’s so close the marquee pegs are hitting coal. Good to know, considering how much dust and air pollution is emitted by the mine, the coal from which will generate as much CO2 per year as the whole of Mozambique.

Come and join us for four days of sustainable living, education, movement building, and building the capacity for action.

See:  http://www.climatecampcymru.org for directions etc.


Climate Camper
- Homepage: http://www.climatecampcymru.org

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er no thanks...

13.08.2009 18:02

...I can think of better ways of spending my time than drinking tea with the filth. I was really pro climate camp and considering coming until I saw that image.

Hopefully you can persuade them to go and ask the government to stop doing nasty things.

Not a liberal


I was wondering myself...

13.08.2009 18:41

... what yr heddlu are doing on the site, I thought they had been banned. Or was this the bit where they were allowed on for an hour for the one-off permitted tour?
Can't say I'd want to sit down for a cuppa and a chat with them myself (they might be fishing for information about me) but that apart, it's a little reassuring. It doesn't look like they're going to be as abusive as they were at last year's camp. That made me wary of joining this year's camp.

Annie Citizen
- Homepage: http://www.rightsandwrongsuk.blogspot.com


good luck

13.08.2009 19:59

great to see some pictures!

good luck over the next few days, wish i could join you.

Pete


Police at the Camp

20.08.2009 12:31

It should be noted, that while the picture of the cops enjoying a cuppa with some of the campers suggests they were playing a significant part on site - they did not.

The campers agreed to an escorted tour of the camp at 2pm (not to refreshements with them), while some people disengaged from the process and descisions which had come out of it, to sit them down to tea. This was not a popular move and the next day there was no tea for the coppers!

Sufficed to say, the camp was a safe space and an adventure into a more just and empowering way to organise, maintained by us - not the police.

Well done to all who took part - this was the begining of something special for the Wales climate movement and social justice for oppressed communities.

CCC Camper