Critical Mass at Party at the Pumps 2
RT | 03.05.2010 12:22 | Tar Sands | Rossport Solidarity | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles
When: Saturday, 15th May
Critical Mass meeting point: 1PM at Marble Arch
Bring: a bike, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Marble Arch meeting point map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=marble%20arch%20
(Meeting point for those without bikes – Oxford Circus, 1PM.)
Critical Mass meeting point: 1PM at Marble Arch
Bring: a bike, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Marble Arch meeting point map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=marble%20arch%20 (Meeting point for those without bikes – Oxford Circus, 1PM.)
Critical Mass 15th May
One week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride (which will leave Merthyr Tydfil in Wales on the 23rd May and is due to arrive in Glengad, Ireland on 4th June - http://www.shelltosea.com/content/merthyr-mayo-solidarity-cycle-0) there is the perfect chance for those of us who can’t go on the ride to show our support … a special Critical Mass that will make its way to join Party at the Pumps Part 2.
Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.
Facebook event – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187
Check out our video call-out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoL-L32XuIA
Why target Shell?
Party at the Pumps Part 2 is taking place just three days before Shell’s AGM, where the company will come under fire from shareholders over its plans in the Canadian tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride, which will link two communities in Wales and Ireland resisting fossil fuel extraction.
Party at the Pumps is in solidarity with communities around the world who are resisting Shell’s destruction of lives and livelihoods, poisoning of lands and waters, and fuelling of climate chaos. In Northern Canada, Shell’s tar sands projects are ignoring First Nations treaty rights, causing rare forms of cancer and killing wildlife ( http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html). In Rossport, Ireland, a dangerous onshore pipeline and massive refinery are transforming an area of outstanding natural beauty into an environmental disaster zone with serious public health and safety implications ( http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org). And in Nigeria, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against Shell’s devastation of the Niger Delta, resistance to Shell and Big Oil continues ( http://www.remembersarowiwa.com).
This action is jointly called by London Rising Tide / London Tar Sands Network and Climate Camp London.
http://www.no-tar-sands.org
http://www.risingtide.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/london
Celebration, demonstration, communication, emancipation, good vibration, determination, liberation, jubilation, politicization, revelation, calculation, realization, no gas station, new equation, world rotation, bicycle nation, CRITICAL MASS!
http://www.shelltosea.com/content/merthyr-mayo-solidarity-cycle-0) there is the perfect chance for those of us who can’t go on the ride to show our support … a special Critical Mass that will make its way to join Party at the Pumps Part 2. Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.
Facebook event –
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112331352138187 Check out our video call-out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoL-L32XuIA Why target Shell?
Party at the Pumps Part 2 is taking place just three days before Shell’s AGM, where the company will come under fire from shareholders over its plans in the Canadian tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride, which will link two communities in Wales and Ireland resisting fossil fuel extraction.
Party at the Pumps is in solidarity with communities around the world who are resisting Shell’s destruction of lives and livelihoods, poisoning of lands and waters, and fuelling of climate chaos. In Northern Canada, Shell’s tar sands projects are ignoring First Nations treaty rights, causing rare forms of cancer and killing wildlife (
http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html). In Rossport, Ireland, a dangerous onshore pipeline and massive refinery are transforming an area of outstanding natural beauty into an environmental disaster zone with serious public health and safety implications ( http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org). And in Nigeria, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against Shell’s devastation of the Niger Delta, resistance to Shell and Big Oil continues ( http://www.remembersarowiwa.com). This action is jointly called by London Rising Tide / London Tar Sands Network and Climate Camp London.
http://www.no-tar-sands.org http://www.risingtide.org.uk http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/london Celebration, demonstration, communication, emancipation, good vibration, determination, liberation, jubilation, politicization, revelation, calculation, realization, no gas station, new equation, world rotation, bicycle nation, CRITICAL MASS!
RT
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