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Cardiff Shell petrol station rooftop occupation

(A) | 29.06.2013 17:04 | Rossport Solidarity | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Wales | World

A report of the rooftop occupation of the Shell petrol station in Pontprennau, Cardiff on 29th June 2013.





In solidarity with the protest camp in County Mayo Ireland, as part of their anti-Shell week of action, on Saturday morning a group of individuals from South Wales dropped banners and held a rooftop occupation of a Shell petrol station on the outskirts of Cardiff. The activists handed out leaflets to motorists and passers by, explaining the issues, and had some in depth conversations with passers by. There were no arrests.

The occupation started at 9:50 and protestors distributed leaflets and informed local consumers of Shell's actions internationally and in County Mayo, until they ran out of flyers. The occupier came down in their own time at 11.30, due to the fact that business continued operating as usual, and the point had been made. 3 banners were left on the roof of the garage, reading "Solidarity with Mayo", "One Earth (A)", and "Occupy Oil- Shell Kills". Comrades from Italy, London and Brighton sent messages of solidarity, along with local comrades.

Solidarity with all peoples and communities affected and dispersed by Shell's (and other profiteers') despicable greed and profit-driven ecocide. From Alaska to Ireland, from Japan to Nigeria, and here in Cardiff also, the struggle against the suicidal convenience culture continues.

Fuck fracking! South Wales will resist!

Love and Rage
Some Anarchists

(A)
- e-mail: redandblackumbrella@riseup.net
- Homepage: http://southwalesanarchists.wordpress.com

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How to close the station

29.06.2013 20:02


You mixed the magic red box

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Total communication FAIL

29.06.2013 22:27

Classic activist ghetto FAIL - what do you think members of the public perceive "Solidarity with Mayo" as referring to? Simon Mayo? Mayo-nnaise?

If you're going to associate the Anarchy symbol with something make sure it's something that's meaningful to the people who are going to read it - don't speak the private language of the activist micro-community, use words and symbols whose meaning the public actually understand... please

Trev

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Trev's classic communication FAIL

30.06.2013 05:26

Classic Indymedia comments FAIL - attack someone who actually got out of their chair and did something - fail to offer constructive advice of how the action could have been improved - fail to offer an example of a Trev action which actually worked - miss the point that the target of the action was Shell.

As the report makes clear, leaflets were handed out to the public who were unlikely to have been aware of what Shell is doing in Mayo, as it has not had much mainstream coverage.

Must try harder Trev.

vert

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Serious question

30.06.2013 21:00

What, exactly, do you think motorists and other passers-by this banner was actually read by, will think "Solidarity with Mayo" actually means?

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high up

01.07.2013 17:54

a man could get hurt climbing up there
one little slip and its bye bye
man best be careful else he get hurt

anon

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