Climate camp sets up in Blackheath

IMCista | 26.08.2009 14:29 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Free Spaces

Climateswoop has descended on Blackheath, and begun to set up camp. Tripods and banners are up, and fencing is being erected as people join from the various climate swoops around London

Timeline:

http://london.indymedia.org/action_timelines/2

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Black Heath? don't you mean Black Death!

26.08.2009 17:26

Black Heath? don't you mean Black Death! Your camped out on top of a plague pit... disgusting... don't dig for fucks sake!

oi yoi

The name ‘Blackheath’ is popularly but erroneously held to derive from its reputed use as a mass burial ground for victims of the Black Death in the 1340s. Less grisly, but more plausible suggestions for the origin of the name, which was recorded as early as the 11th century, are that it stems from Old English words meaning ‘dark soil’ (although the soil is not particularly dark except when wet), or that it is a corruption of ‘bleak heath’. The latter seems the most likely derivation.

Dull Pedant

Dont believe da hype!

26.08.2009 19:39

Blackheath is not a plague burial ground, that is a myth.

Its name is actually a corruption of 'Bleak Heath'

Anyway, fuck the trivia, go and support the camp!

b heath

tripods

27.08.2009 17:58

I've never understood those tripods protestors use. Surely the police can just pull one leg away and topple the person out of them? Or are they embedded into the ground or something?

KILO

Tripods

28.08.2009 10:55

I think it's more that if they did pull one leg away and send the protester toppling to the ground, they'd probably seriously injure or kill them, which wouldn't be great publicity.

H.G. Wells

They've done it once.

28.08.2009 17:20

The police (actually an off-duty one) have pulled down a tripod with someone on it at least once and she was seriously injured. The courage of people who hang up tripods in the face of rampaging cops should be recognised. It's bloody uncomfortable, too.

Stroppyoldgit

tripod

29.08.2009 18:41

What i mean is how does it stop the police?
In my country the police would push the tripod over and hit the protestor when they are on ground again. Other policeman may shoot the protestor as they don't run when shooting starts. It seems a foolish idea to me to not have an escape from the police