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Climate Camp 2007 - taking of the site saturday night.

16-08-2007 18:35

The site of the Climate Camp 2007 was taken during Saturday night the 2 days before the official star of the Camp. The site is near Sipson village and close to Heathrow and inspite of a high police presence, the authorities were taken by surpise.

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Video of blockade at Farnborough Airport

16-08-2007 17:00

24 people took part in a blockade at Farnborough Airport this morning with 9 people locked onto gates with lock-on devices. After an hour the aiport staff opened up an emergancy crash exit to allow the gathered business people in.

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25 mins of climate camp interview audio - thursday

16-08-2007 16:53

Audio of random interviews from the climate camp snaffled off of someone's video camera.

Rough and ready not fully edited.

mp3 96kbps mono

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Eye in the sky surveillance at climate camp

16-08-2007 15:31

Thurs 16th - a police helicopter drones overhead circling the camp while since the morning a large crane / cherry picker has had cctv cameras mounted on it and hoisted high over the camp.

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Climate chaos action at Bristol airport today

16-08-2007 14:39

Climate chaos action at Bristol airport today:
Endangered gorilla in last stand shock!

An endangered gorilla has been sighted outside Bristol airport this afternoon on top of the towering monument to progress on the roundabout. The clearly agitated creature is reportedly attempting to swat planes out of the sky as some sort of protest against climate chaos. Photo opportunity from 3:30pm. More details to follow…

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Indymedia centre at Climate Camp

16-08-2007 12:55

Couple of pics of the IMC public access terminals at the climate camp.

The tent is open for a total of four hours a day, over two main time slots and is running on a mixture of wind and solar power.

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CLIMATE CAMP - happy days are here again!

16-08-2007 12:50

To read the news coming out of Climate Camp you'd think it was all doom and gloom. Police blockade roads, supplies have to be carried along the lane, police invade the site, police set up traps and police lead campers into the injunction zone.

There's a thread running here of course, and it's that the cops and their bosses are doing their very best to intimidate the camp and depress the mood.

Well I'm delighted to report they're failing miserably. Everything they throw at us brings us closer together.

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Our nearest friendly neighbours having to deal with police oppression

16-08-2007 10:13

Biggin up the local Sikh temple next door to the Climate Change camp

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Business flights blockaded by climate activists

16-08-2007 08:04

Two independent groups of campaigners from the Camp for Climate Action
have this morning stopped carbon-intensive private jets fom operating at
two airports in the south east.

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Four horsemen arrive at Terminal 4 to coincide with Climate Camp

16-08-2007 03:50

Four drivers from the Meltdown Chauffeur Agency went to Heathrow Terminal 4 as requested by their clients and waited patiently for them at the Arrival gate.

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Carry on climate camping

15-08-2007 22:48

Carry on climate camping
Peter Lockley
August 15, 2007

Direct action may undermine public support for the protesters at Heathrow, but somehow the message about more flights needs to get through.

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Police cause holiday havoc - and blame protesters

15-08-2007 21:09

"Local residents will stage a protest against airport expansion at Hatton Cross this afternoon" read the Climate Camp noticeboard. "Main Gate - 3.30"

Nobody can say who wrote it. Spokespersons for the two local protests organisations deny all knowledge and NoTRAG were even concerned that people might wear their stickers.

But it did result in 60 or 70 people leaving the camp to give support.

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small pics of police blunder at climate camp on tuesday

15-08-2007 21:03

few small pix from the provocative incursion by police yesterday as described here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378258.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378256.html

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Climate Camp Pics

15-08-2007 20:52

Some images from the climate camp

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Climate Camp Demonstrators Block Road to Heathrow

15-08-2007 20:40

Police fumble aids climate camp demonstrators block road to Heathrow airport

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Police force climate camp march to Heathrow airport and block A4...

15-08-2007 19:49

Just a quick report to say that today a small march of around 80 people left from the climate camp to support a local demonstration against heathrow expansion. They were very quickly surrounded by over one hundred police - having just left the camp this happened in what could be called a side street - then quite inexplicably the police forced the group down several streets towards the airport. Still penned in on all side by police, they were then forced across the main A4 road (which police closed for some time before forcing the people across it) and then right up to the security fence of Heathrow where they were held for over one hour.

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Awaiting the Four Horsemen

15-08-2007 18:36

Four drivers from the Meltdown Chauffeur Agency went to Heathrow on 14th Aug 2007.

(to neatly coincide with Climate Camp)

As requested by their clients they waited patiently for them at the Arrival gate.

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West Midlanders join Camp for Climate Action

15-08-2007 18:16

Activists from across the West Midlands have established a neighborhood at the Camp for Climate Action taking place at Heathrow airport in protest at the unsustainable development of civil aviation infrastructure in the UK, specifically the expansion of Heathrow airport itself by the construction of a third runway.

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USA climate camps - reports, actions & messages to the UK

15-08-2007 14:23

USA climate camps - reports, actions & messages to the UK
Links to action reports, a 10 min film of video messages & actions images from the USA and a few messages sent in by email from The East Coast USA climate camp, Save Happy Valley - New Zealand, The Yes Men, The Earth First! Journal, Rising Tide Newcastle - Australia, Huon Valley Environment Centre -Tasmania & Everglades Earth First! - Florida.

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What's new Heathrow cargo workers strike as Nippon Express refuses to talk

15-08-2007 12:47

Drivers and warehouse workers at Heathrow cargo handler Nippon Express walked out on strike at 6am this morning after the company once again refused to settle the pay and shifts dispute. THE PICKETT IS 2 BUS STOPS AWAY FROM THE CLIMATE CAMP TOWARDS HAYES. SHOW SOME SUPPORT!