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CRUDE AWAKENING | 22.09.2010 08:55 | Climate Chaos | Liverpool

THE CRUDE AWAKENING
A mass action to switch off oil
Saturday, 16 October 2010, Central London

THE CRUDE AWAKENING
A mass action to switch off oil
Saturday, 16 October 2010, Central London
Floods in Pakistan, drought in Russia, huge glaciers breaking up in Greenland...
Our climate system is rapidly sliding into crisis, as oil companies destroy people's lives and the environment to keep sucking up their profits.

Oil saturates every aspect of our lives. Oil profits lubricate the financial markets and its sponsorship clings like a bad smell to our cultural institutions. It flows through pipelines to the pumps, airports and factories of our cities.

The failure of the UN COP15 process showed us – if there was ever any doubt – that government and industry can’t tackle climate change. It’s up to us and it’s time to up the ante.
As a movement, our actions against coal and aviation have made a real difference. Now oil’s time is up.

Together, on October 16, let's give the oil industry a Crude Awakening.
Meet in central London. Be ready to move, to HOLD A SPACE and to leave that space in a way that shows we've been there.

Be creative. Be prepared. Be there.

Find out more, get involved and sign up for text alerts at
www.crudeawakening.org.uk

There are a whole host of build up events up and down the country and details can be found on the website, along with further explanation.

Facebook:  http://bit.ly/c6S0kg
Twitter: @crudeawake

Part of the Climate Justice Action
Climate Justice Action global week of action for climate justice.
 http://www.climate-justice-action.org/

Supported by: Space Hijackers, Climate Camp, Plane Stupid, Rising Tide, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, UK Tar Sands Network and Earth First

See you on the streets

Crude Awakening
crudeawakening.org.uk


CRUDE AWAKENING
- e-mail: crudeawakening2010@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.crudeawakening.org.uk

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flyers

22.09.2010 15:47

apart from a few activist meeting places, i haven't seen any posters for this or flyers being handed out.

i'm sure there are lots of like minded youth out there who need to be told of the event, but how will they hear about this?

back in the day it was all about posters, flyers and sickers to get the message out there, thats why all the rts and may days protests were so huge and fun, there hoardes of pissed off potental dissenters in london, and they haven't gone away!

jo blogs


question

22.09.2010 15:54

Too right 'government and industry can’t tackle climate change' but how exactly is "holding a space" going to tackle climate change?
Maybe persuade "the powers that be" to try harder?
I don't mean to be negative, at least you aren't flying around the world to eco. meetings.

anon