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Climate Camp 2006

The climate camp to be held in northern England at the end of August 2006 - see www.climatecamp.org.uk

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You Must Be Choking! - Day of Action Against Drax Power Station

31-08-2006 23:00

Actions against Drax Power Station started early on Thursday morning (31st of August) and continued all day, with the Drax perimeter being breached several times. Up to 600 campaigners against climate change participated in the Reclaim Power mass action. Four main blocs gathered at the centre of the Climate Camp before splitting off into different groups, with some heading towards Drax across fields to avoid police road blocks [Early report | Photos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Videos 1 | 2 | Protestors Audio Interview]

Meanwhile, other smaller actions had already begun - just after 4.30am seven activists occupied a Drax lighting tower. Later nearby roads were blocked by different affinity groups and another Drax lighting tower was also occupied with a banner reading "No Future For You". More perimeter penetrations occured as more groups arrived at the fence to be met with police in riot gear, horses and dogs. The total number of arrests on the day's actions was 38 people, some of whom were violently attacked by police.

In the early hours of Friday 1st of September the actions around Drax continued. Reports came in of people attempting to breach the perimeter of the fence overnight. On the other hand, the Legal Team informed that all of the 38 people arested in yesterday's mass action were released throughout the day, some of which having spent about 28 hours in police custody. There was also one confirmed arrest that took place on Friday morning. Two more arrests took place on Saturday 2nd September near the field were the Climate Camp was taking place.

For full details, see the full timeline of events and individual reports that have been posted to IMC-UK Climate Camp page.

Reports: First reports | Police Prevent Essential Supplies From Reaching Activists | Police quotes | Searching for 'weapons' | Farmer attacks Drax Protesters with Tractor (including photos) | Kids Block at Climate Camp | Fireworks from inside Drax | On the Ground: Suicide farmers found in Yorkshire | Photographer arrested over 'weapon' near Drax | Police Obstruction of Media around Climate Camp and Drax | Police hipocrisy at Drax | 3 hour lock on shuts down machine inside Drax | Climate Camp site restored to how it was found | Personal Experience of the Camp | Operation HASH report back | Wellbeing@Climate Camp | Indymedia at the Camp for Climate Action 2006: Report & Personal View.
Mainstream press: List of articles | Radio 4 coverage [ 1 | 2 ] | Reuters inaccurancies on climate camp reporting.


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Climate Camp News, Wed 30th August: "If not Tomorrow, then When?"

30-08-2006 19:06

The Camp for Climate Action has been hailed as a success, with an impressive collective commitment to organising the camp in an environmentally-friendly way, and with hundreds of people just over half way through a packed programme of workshops. One statement said:

"What has really struck me is the way in which everyone who has come to the camp is getting involved. People from all walks of life and with all sorts of previous experiences are here, and everyone is doing their bit to make the camp tick. From action planning to compost toilet building, everyone is getting involved..." [read more]
See also Life at the Camp - a personal perspective | todays pics from inside the camp.

Thursday sees the Reclaim Power mass day of action against Drax Power Station, and preparations are underway with people making banners, puppets and other props.

Meanwhile throughout the day the police have been using Section 60 powers to stop and search all people entering or leaving the Climate Camp [report and pictures 1 | 2] Undeterred, people continue coming and going, some taking tours around the increasingly guarded perimeter of Drax power station [pics]. Later in the afternoon at around 2.30pm the police were denied entry to the camp [report and pictures] in a peaceful but strong reaction by camp residents, with similar scenes repeated again at around 5.30pm [report].

Seel also: Drax Shares Take A Slide | Drax to Stop Smoking | Power Line Pole Allegedly Cut | Oldbury Nuclear Power Reactors to Close | Feminism and Climate Change [more] | Green Spirituality workshop | Greenwashing Climate Change | City Harvest workshop | (Some) Workshops at the Camp for Climate Action | Feedback from Green Spirituality Workshop.

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Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station Blockaded For Ten Hours

29-08-2006 07:48

Front gate blockade


Climate Action News: Tues 29th August:
From 8am a group of nine climate change campaigners blockaded the front and back gates of Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, sending out the message that nuclear power is not the solution to climate change. The blockade was in place for ten hours until the last person was cut out of the arm tubes they had locked themselves into to form the blockade. Police arrested a total of twenty people including non-blockading supporters and a freelance journalist.
[see Blockade Reports + Updates | Reclaim Power Press Release | Mobile Photos | More Photos + Report]

Climate Camp News:
The comprehensive programme of workshops continues at the camp, with sessions on practical steps individuals can make to reduce their impact upon the environment, across to debates about biofuels and carbon trading schemes. See Workshop Audio Interviews [1 | 2]

A Bicycology cycle caravan left en masse from the Climate Camp to establish a presence in nearby Selby town centre, holding bicycle maintenance workshops and promoting sustainable energy [Report and Pics | video].

During the day the police were allowed onto the site for a walking tour around the camp, as well as the fire brigade [see Reports + Pics]. Meanwhile in the evening people at the camp continued preparing for the day of mass action on thursday.

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Camp For Climate Action

28-08-2006 22:32

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In the shadow of Drax power station, hundreds of activists have gathered at the Camp for Climate Action [see report and location | first pictures and call out | video]. The camp, which started officially on Saturday, August 26th, is based on squatted land and will have over 160 workshops over the course of the week. For more information and background, see the climate camp special reports section. Click the Full Article link for updates.

Sunday, 27 Aug - reports: 1 | 2 - photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Monday, 28 Aug - reports: Police Refuse Offer to Tour Climate Camp Site [2] | Kids Walk to Drax Power Station | Audio of Faslane Workshop

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Bicycology Tour visits Nottingham on their way to the Climate Camp

13-08-2006 15:05

Bicycology is a biketour which will be travelling from London to Lancaster (via Nottingham) this August. Form Lancaster it will be heading to the Climate Action Camp. It will visit Nottingham on Saturday 19th August. On their tour, the Bicycologists will be giving free bike maintainence workshops, holding Dr Bike sessions - come and get your bike fine-tuned - organising bike games and playing around with some crazy tall wobbly bikes; there will also be information and examples of alternative forms of energy, including some pedal-powered gadgets.

Watch video of Bicycology leaving London | Photos | Tash Photos of ride, passin' though Sumac Centre

Links: Bicycology website | Bicycology Wiki | Ian Gregory on Bicycology

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Camp for Climate Action Approaches

11-08-2006 15:06

This summer, the Camp for Climate Action will be held in ‘Megawatt Valley’ near Leeds, one of the most industrialised areas of the UK and home to the Drax, Eggborough and Ferrybridge coal-fired power stations.

From 26th August - 4th September, the camp promises education about climate change and sustainable living, with around 150 workshops scheduled, ranging from practical building and permaculture activities to the advanced science behind climate change. Workshops include analysis of the problems and causes of climate change and strategies on how to confront it - both practically on a grassroots level and politically. Those holding the workshops range from grassroots community activists to internationally-known academics, and from MPs to representatives of environmental NGOs.

During the time of the camp there will also be a Reclaim Power mass direct action against Drax power station (the UK's largest single emitter of CO2 emissions) on August 31st, as well as opportunitites to discuss resistance to nuclear power, the aviation industry, mining and road building schemes and corporate sponsored damage to the environment. The camp will be held on a legally occupied site, and aims to demonstrate practical solutions in action. Power usage will be minimised and the site will be powered by alternative energy sources.

Recently on 18th July climate change activists occupied a lighting tower at Didcot power station in Oxfordshire. Three climbers scaled the tower and unfurled a 50-foot orange and black banner with the words 'Climate Crime' [see pics]. Just prior to that, July 15th was an 'International Day of Direct Action for Climate Justice, against Climate Change and the G8' [see action roundups 1 | 2 | 3 | 4] which coincided with the G8 Summit in Russia. In London, Tulchan Communications, a public relations firm that works for Drax power station, was forced to deny it had been sacked by Drax for failing to make it look good, after a spoof press release was circulated [report]. See also: Climate Action News Sheet: June 06 | July 06 | Social Centers meeting at the climate camp

Mass callout to help build the climate camp

Links: Camp for Climate Action website | IMC Climate | Download programme PDF

Also Upcoming:
- Call for Action against G8 + 5 Climate Summit: Oct 3-4, Mexico [background]
- UK Climate Change Bill - 'Big Ask' Lobby (12 Sept - 11 Oct)
- International Climate Change Demonstrations: 4 Nov, prior to UN Climate Talks (COP 12/ MOP 2) in Nairobi (6-17 Nov). See National Climate March, London (4th Nov) | "I-Count"

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04-03-2011 00:53 | 1 addition | 46 comments

Text Plane Stupid barking up the wrong tree?
15-08-2007 10:07 | 2 comments

Image Please Take Climate Camp Flyers to Events and Festivals...
08-07-2007 14:27 | 4 comments

Image Power Up! Benefit Party
07-07-2007 13:56

Text Do You Want Journalists at the Camp for Climate Action?
06-07-2007 12:06

Image Power Up! Benefit Party
06-07-2007 11:31

Image The Camp for Climate Action Invites Everyone to Heathrow Airport
04-07-2007 15:20 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text Refuting Climate Sceptisism on Indymedia
30-06-2007 15:58 | 9 comments

Image Make a Festival that Matters
29-06-2007 09:55

Text The British Airline Pilots Association Wants Your Views
18-06-2007 15:34 | 6 comments

Text West Midlands Climate Camp Meeting, Wed 30th May
26-05-2007 17:39

Image Another End of the World is possible: video portraits
23-05-2007 23:06

Text Climate Chaos Cafe Weds May 23rd 7pm
22-05-2007 09:36

Text Rattcliffe 11 to face courts
21-05-2007 17:57 | 2 comments

Text Activists target M1 - Press Release
18-05-2007 09:40 | 4 comments

Text Leeds Bradford Airport Gets The Glue Treatment
18-05-2007 07:46 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Text 2,500 against coal-fired power station (in Germany)
13-05-2007 16:38

Text Reclaim Power film screening Wed 16 May
13-05-2007 13:00

Image Are Gangsters Forcing Child Slaves to Work Illegally in London?
08-05-2007 16:44 | 6 comments

Text Climate Chaos Cafe in Leeds
06-05-2007 18:52

Text Change of venue for direct action training day
02-05-2007 21:15

Image Reclaim Power - 15min film version online
24-04-2007 22:44 | 1 comment

Text Spring Into Action debrief meeting, Tuesday 24th, 8pm
22-04-2007 22:17

Audio Concerned about Climate Change? Spring Into Action Now! - an audio piece
21-04-2007 22:01

Text Climate Camp 2007 Benefit - London, Saturday 28th April 07.
18-04-2007 10:30

Text Climate Camp organising gathering Liverpool 21st and 22nd April
11-04-2007 12:57

Image Climate change activists target power station Part 2
10-04-2007 20:50 | 1 comment

Image Climate change activists target power station Part 1
10-04-2007 20:43 | 1 comment

Text Climate Camp organising gathering April 21 and 22, Liverpool
09-04-2007 18:44 | 3 comments

Generic media Climate Chaos Cafe
09-04-2007 16:52

Image Climate Change: Corporate Criminals ExxonMobil (Esso) Targeted in Surrey
06-04-2007 20:28 | 3 additions | 1 comment

Text Spring Into Action - Printable Programme
04-04-2007 17:11

Image Spring Into Action Central Venue Announcement
03-04-2007 16:23 | 2 additions | 1 comment

Image Spring Into Action!
03-04-2007 00:33

Text Spring into Action Workshop venues now online
01-04-2007 21:19

Image Polar bear asks the Bradford climate criminals to stop.
31-03-2007 13:25 | 20 comments

Text Spring into Action programme now online
28-03-2007 15:38 | 3 additions | 1 comment

Image M1 Activists Go Down To The Yard
26-03-2007 15:38 | 3 comments

Text -AGENDA (gathering)- ZAPATISTA SOLIDARITY GROUP -UK-
26-03-2007 12:40

Text It's Hotting Up
22-03-2007 01:02

Text Out-Flanked: A New War on Terra Arrives with Bush-Lula Ethanol Deal
19-03-2007 22:30 | 1 comment

Generic media Spring into Action provisional programme
18-03-2007 18:12 | 5 comments

Text London Climate Campers update
16-03-2007 13:32 | 1 comment

Text Climate Camp Meeting and Film
15-03-2007 15:43

Text Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax
14-03-2007 18:50 | 1 addition | 15 comments

Text Climate Chaos Double Wammy!!
13-03-2007 13:16 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Text West Midlands Climate Camp meeting
07-03-2007 19:03

Text Spring into Action orgainising meeting Tuesday 6th March 8pm
05-03-2007 18:29 | 3 comments

Image documentary: Reclaim Power - voices from the camp for climate action 2006
03-03-2007 18:18 | 1 comment

Image Bradford Climate Criminals Reproached
21-02-2007 23:17

Text Peaceful Climate Camp Protest Axed By Police
19-02-2007 11:25

Text Attila the Stockbroer /Corporate Watch benefit gig
14-02-2007 00:58

Image 30 shut down Manchester petrol station
10-02-2007 12:18 | 2 additions

Image Npower uses Thugs to Evict Radley Lakes Environmental Activists
09-02-2007 18:38 | 16 comments

Text Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
09-02-2007 12:03

Text Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
09-02-2007 12:01

Text Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
09-02-2007 12:00

Text Next national climate camp organising gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
09-02-2007 11:59

Text U.S. Backs Controversial Oil ‘Research’ in Peruvian Amazon
09-02-2007 10:52

Image photos of Manchester carbon footprint stencils
07-02-2007 22:48 | 3 comments

Text Next national climate camp organsing gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
06-02-2007 09:59 | 9 comments

Image Photos - Oil Spill to save wildlife ?
03-02-2007 23:37 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Text Oil spill at the Natural History Museum
03-02-2007 14:03 | 3 additions | 3 comments

Image Spring Into Action - A week of events on Climate Change, happening in Nottingham
01-02-2007 19:56 | 2 additions

Text Next Yorkshire Climate Camp meeting - Weds Jan 17th 7pm (food at 6pm)
16-01-2007 19:15 | 2 comments

Image Save Radley Lakes Occupation
12-01-2007 20:35 | 1 comment

Text Camp for Climate Action 'next steps' gethering Jan 13th/14th, Leeds
09-01-2007 21:04

Text Welcome Energy Crisis
08-01-2007 00:29

Text The Camp for Climate Action- ‘next steps’ gathering 13/14 Jan, Leeds
05-01-2007 11:23

Image Critical mass this Friday 29th Dec
27-12-2006 16:29 | 1 comment

Text Invitation:building support for action against climate change
06-12-2006 00:05 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Image Climate chaos and aviation: giant issue -> giant letter
05-12-2006 15:13 | 2 comments

Text Climate Action - What Next? Meeting in Leeds Dec 6th
27-11-2006 13:34

Generic media East Mids Climate Camp Meeting
24-11-2006 14:35 | 1 comment

Text The Camp for Climate Action, Yorkshire Neighbourhood re-group
21-11-2006 18:23

Image pipeline protest, trebanos, wales
20-11-2006 17:05

Text Directions to pipeline protest & Update
15-11-2006 21:49 | 2 additions | 2 comments

Image Wellbeing@Climate Camp
13-11-2006 23:46

Text divided but not conquered
09-11-2006 08:58 | 3 comments

Text Travel agents disrupted in Reading!
07-11-2006 14:12 | 2 comments

Image Plane Stupid day of action against short haul flights
06-11-2006 23:32

Image Biggest Youth Movement in History Could be About to Begin in London...
02-11-2006 22:39 | 3 comments

Image Worldwide Children's Revolution To Try to Save the Human Race From Extinction?
28-10-2006 21:31

Text Northern Eco-Action gathering 11th November, Bradford
27-10-2006 10:48 | 4 comments

Text Leeds/Yorkshire Climate Action group
27-10-2006 08:55

Text Swansea Climate change activists target housing development
25-10-2006 23:12 | 2 comments

Text Nuclear Protest - Charges dropped
24-10-2006 14:22 | 2 comments

Text Bristol Chapter of Westside Neighbourhood Occupy Shell Garage
24-10-2006 14:15 | 3 additions

Image Children's Revolution Kids' Bloc May Lead the March for Climate Justice...
18-10-2006 20:03 | 2 comments

Image Hummer Dealership shut down by protesters against urban 4 x 4's in Manchester
17-10-2006 11:39 | 1 addition | 15 comments

Text READY TO RESIST THE EVICTION IN DALSTON (HACKNEY)
13-10-2006 11:16 | 3 comments

Text Lost and Found social centre Manchester opening this Wednesday!
09-10-2006 09:34

Image Camp for Climate Action Follow Up Meeting 14+15/10
03-10-2006 14:04 | 1 addition

Image Indymedia at the Camp for Climate Action 2006: Report & Personal View
02-10-2006 18:12 | 5 additions

Text Saints Arrested - Christian Witness and Climate Change
30-09-2006 12:31

Text An open letter to motorists who dislike cyclists.
29-09-2006 08:24 | 3 comments

Image The Camp For Climate Action Benefit, 30th September
26-09-2006 20:50 | 1 addition

Text Anarchist Against the Wall, Lebanon, Climate Camp, Soy and table football
22-09-2006 00:40

Text Manchester climate camp exhibition opening this Friday
21-09-2006 15:49

Text National Camp for Climate Action follow-up meeting in Manchester
21-09-2006 13:05

Text London Climate Camp meeting
21-09-2006 13:01

Image The Camp For Climate Action Benefit, 30th September
18-09-2006 22:20 | 1 comment

Text Operation HASH report back
17-09-2006 14:58 | 2 comments

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16-09-2006 09:34 | 1 comment

Text Camp for Climate Action Benefit @ Common Place
15-09-2006 19:19

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15-09-2006 09:35

Text Have you got the dreaded Drax flu?
15-09-2006 02:01 | 8 comments

Text Power bills soar - Drax investors get £326m
13-09-2006 12:28 | 5 comments

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13-09-2006 09:52 | 3 comments

Image Critical Mass End of Summer Party
12-09-2006 16:50 | 6 comments

Text Latest news from the rampART
11-09-2006 23:01

Text Personal Experience of the Climate Change Camp
11-09-2006 22:11 | 1 addition | 7 comments

Text Feedback from the Green Spirituality Workshop at the Drax Climate Change Camp
11-09-2006 22:06 | 4 comments

Image Police Thug Identified
10-09-2006 19:56 | 10 comments

Text York Eco Action created
10-09-2006 15:03

Text 'Camp for Climate Action - the Movie' and London follow-up meeting
09-09-2006 15:35

Text northern eco-action gathering: 11/12th November, Leeds
08-09-2006 22:25 | 2 comments

Text Climate Camp site restored to how it was found
08-09-2006 10:11

Text (Some) Workshops at the Camp for Climate Action
07-09-2006 14:14

Text UK-based coal company in Bangladesh might have been kicked out
07-09-2006 12:21 | 1 addition | 3 comments

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