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1.) ART NOT OIL AT THE FOUNDRY, LONDON, JULY 29-AUGUST 1
2.) CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA, LEEDS, 2.7.06; OXFORD 6.7.06
3.) ‘CLIMATE CHANGE: CULTURAL CHANGE', NEWCASTLE, UNTIL 1.7.06
4.) INT’L DAY OF DIRECT ACTION 4 CLIMATE JUSTICE, VS. CLIMATE CHANGE AND
THE G8! 15.7.06
5.) ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DISRUPT UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
6.) TREEHOUSE PROTEST TO SAVE TITNORE WOOD, WEST SUSSEX
7.) HELP ‘THE PRICE OF OIL’ RUN U.S. AD CAMPAIGN
8.) TELL THE GUARDIAN WHAT YOU THINK OF CARBON OFFSETTING
9.) POWERSWITCH.ORG.UK NEWSLETTER 18.6.06
10.) LATEST LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES, JULY-AUGUST
11.) PEOPLE'S OCCUPATION OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST COAL PORT, NZ, 5.6.06
12.) REPORTS FROM EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION ON AVIATION, 10.6.06
13.) CRITICAL MASS CYCLIST WINS JUDICIAL REVIEW AGAINST PETROPOLITAN
POLICE, 27.6.06
14.) AND FINALLY…‘SHELL AGAIN MOST SUSTAINABLE OIL COMPANY IN 2006’
-------------------
1.) ART NOT OIL AT THE FOUNDRY, LONDON, JULY 29-AUGUST 1
The Foundry: 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)
Launch and public-private view, Thursday July 29th, 7-11pm.
Friday 30th: 4.30-11pm; Saturday 1st: 2.30-6pm
www.artnotoil.org.uk
Shell is the new sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award.
There's a campaign brewing - send us your photos, artworks and ideas for a
roving October exhibition & infotour.
See www.shelloiledwildlife.org.uk
--------------------
2.) ‘CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA’
a] Leeds, 2.7.06: 10 Years on from Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sunday 2nd July @ The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ.
The Remember Saro-Wiwa Coalition presents an afternoon of readings, poetry
and film inspired by the Niger Delta struggle.
www.remembersarowiwa.com; www.thecommonplace.org.uk
b] Thursday 6th July, 7-9 pm, Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford £3/£2.
www.coinet.org
----------------------
3.) ‘CLIMATE CHANGE: CULTURAL CHANGE', NEWCASTLE, UNTIL 1.7.06
Climatic arts in the community and on the Tyne:
www.climatechange-culturalchange.com
--------------
4.) INT’L DAY OF DIRECT ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
AND THE G8! 15.7.06
This is a call to action from Rising Tide North America and the Earth
First! Climate Caucus, both in the US. ‘Resistance is self defense. The G8
agenda promotes petroleum-dependent "Energy Security" that pollutes our
land and atmosphere, exploits communities everywhere, and scorches the
earth’s climate. Their recipe for catastrophe must be met with our global
resistance!’
www.reclaimthecommons.net
--------------
5.) ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO SHUT DOWN UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
Thousands of climate change activists will converge on Drax power station
- the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK - for ten days of
direct action this summer. Everyone's invited to get involved, possibly
via the next organising gathering at Talamh, near Glasgow on July 8/9.
www.climatecamp.org.uk
------------
6.) TREEHOUSE PROTEST TO SAVE TITNORE WOOD, WEST SUSSEX
Twelve protesters fighting plans to cut down 210 trees in West Sussex have
set up camp in two 30ft-high tree houses. The Protect Our Woodland group
has put up notices claiming squatters' rights in Titnore Wood, Durrington.
"We value green space and countryside more than money," they said.
www.protectourwoodland.co.uk
---------------
7.) HELP ‘THE PRICE OF OIL’ RUN U.S. AD CAMPAIGN
‘We’re kicking the Separation of Oil & State campaign into high gear and
we're asking for your help to do it. Our ad is ready to run in newspapers
like the Washington Post and the New York Times – with your help we can
make sure that it runs far and wide.’
www.priceofoil.org/oilandstate/
---------------------
8.) TELL THE GUARDIAN WHAT YOU THINK OF CARBON OFFSETTING
‘Of course, not everybody subscribes to carbon offsetting as a valid
response to climate change, and we welcome your opinions. Email
travel.feedback@guardianunlimited.co.uk and let us know what you think.’
(Gdn 17.6.06) For background, see www.carbontradewatch.org, as well as the
brilliant and timely carbon offset-critical latest edition of New
Internationalist, (
http://www.newint.org/)
--------------
9.) POWERSWITCH.ORG.UK NEWSLETTER 18.6.06
‘…it has been a very interesting month, as always, with everything from
the BBC running a show on, effectively, Peak Oil, to Al Gore saying we’re
at Peak Oil and Total saying it’ll be around 2020. Even the British
Ambassador to America is expecting it by then, which is a deviation from
the official UK government’s policy of saying it is not expected
before…Also, this month we’ve finalised details for Peak Speak 2 for 15th
July 2006. Read the news, absorb it, tell your friends, write letters to
your MP, heads of businesses and organisations...what is the point of this
information if we do not use it to mitigate what is to come?’
www.PowerSwitch.Org.Uk
--------------------
10.) LATEST LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES, JULY-AUGUST
Straw-Bale Building, July 7-9
Self-Build Solar Hot Water, July 21-23
How to Make Biodiesel, July 28-30
Beekeeping, August 11-13
Natural Paints & Lime, August 11-13
Green Woodworking, August 18-20
Rammed Earth Building, August 18-20
LILI, Redfield Community, Buckingham Road, Winslow, Bucks, MK18 3LZ
(01296) 714184; www.lowimpact.org
-------------------
11.) PEOPLE'S OCCUPATION OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST COAL PORT, NZ, 5.6.06
Despite miserable weather, over 70 citizens took to the water in Newcastle
Harbour on World Environment Day 2006 (5th June) to occupy and protest the
world’s biggest coal port. More than 100 supporters cheered from the
shore, to show their opposition to the Hunter coal industry expansion,
which will fuel runaway dangerous climate change.
http://risingtide.org.au/node/76
---------------
12.) REPORTS FROM EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION ON AVIATION, 10.6.06
‘In total, there were events at around 25 airports across Europe…At
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, campaigners dressed in night attire,
made their way through the airport terminals, singing their protests and
handing out bi-lingual leaflets to passengers. As a finale, they turned
the leaflets into paper planes and fired then across the terminal
concourse! The Dutch did direct action: they invaded Schipol Airport under
the cover of darkness and blocked the taxiway for three hours by locking
themselves on using a variety of instruments.’
www.airportwatch.org.uk
----------------
13.) CRITICAL MASS CYCLIST WINS JUDICIAL REVIEW AGAINST PETROPOLITAN
POLICE, 27.6.06
The High Court today upheld a legal challenge to London’s Petropolitan
Police brought by Friends of the Earth’s Rights & Justice Centre on behalf
of Critical Mass cyclist Des Kay. Kay had challenged the Pet’s claim that
London’s Critical Mass Cycle Ride was unlawful and that cyclists taking
part were liable to prosecution.
The next Critical Mass cycle ride will take place this Friday 30th July
starting, as always, at 6.45 outside the National Film Theatre on the
Embankment.
----------------
14.) AND FINALLY…‘SHELL AGAIN MOST SUSTAINABLE OIL COMPANY IN 2006’
‘Shell tops the list of the worlds most sustainable and ethical oil
companies for the third year running. In the 2006 study Shell achieves the
highest score of any oil company ever, achieving 89.01%. This is the
result of the third in-depth study measuring oil companies' compliance
with over 280 key areas of sustainability, corporate governance, ethics,
social responsibility and transparency by the Madrid-based ethics research
and rating company Management & Excellence S.A.
For more information (please!) contact: Oil & Gas Journal Online Research
Center, Robert Beck (Manager), Tel: 1-918-831-9488; Fax: 1-918-832-9521
E-mail: orcinfo@pennwell.com or bobb@pennwell.com
www.ogjresearch.com
!
------------------
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2.) CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA, LEEDS, 2.7.06; OXFORD 6.7.06
3.) ‘CLIMATE CHANGE: CULTURAL CHANGE', NEWCASTLE, UNTIL 1.7.06
4.) INT’L DAY OF DIRECT ACTION 4 CLIMATE JUSTICE, VS. CLIMATE CHANGE AND
THE G8! 15.7.06
5.) ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DISRUPT UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
6.) TREEHOUSE PROTEST TO SAVE TITNORE WOOD, WEST SUSSEX
7.) HELP ‘THE PRICE OF OIL’ RUN U.S. AD CAMPAIGN
8.) TELL THE GUARDIAN WHAT YOU THINK OF CARBON OFFSETTING
9.) POWERSWITCH.ORG.UK NEWSLETTER 18.6.06
10.) LATEST LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES, JULY-AUGUST
11.) PEOPLE'S OCCUPATION OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST COAL PORT, NZ, 5.6.06
12.) REPORTS FROM EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION ON AVIATION, 10.6.06
13.) CRITICAL MASS CYCLIST WINS JUDICIAL REVIEW AGAINST PETROPOLITAN
POLICE, 27.6.06
14.) AND FINALLY…‘SHELL AGAIN MOST SUSTAINABLE OIL COMPANY IN 2006’
-------------------
1.) ART NOT OIL AT THE FOUNDRY, LONDON, JULY 29-AUGUST 1
The Foundry: 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)
Launch and public-private view, Thursday July 29th, 7-11pm.
Friday 30th: 4.30-11pm; Saturday 1st: 2.30-6pm
www.artnotoil.org.uk
Shell is the new sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award.
There's a campaign brewing - send us your photos, artworks and ideas for a
roving October exhibition & infotour.
See www.shelloiledwildlife.org.uk
--------------------
2.) ‘CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA’
a] Leeds, 2.7.06: 10 Years on from Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sunday 2nd July @ The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ.
The Remember Saro-Wiwa Coalition presents an afternoon of readings, poetry
and film inspired by the Niger Delta struggle.
www.remembersarowiwa.com; www.thecommonplace.org.uk
b] Thursday 6th July, 7-9 pm, Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford £3/£2.
www.coinet.org
----------------------
3.) ‘CLIMATE CHANGE: CULTURAL CHANGE', NEWCASTLE, UNTIL 1.7.06
Climatic arts in the community and on the Tyne:
www.climatechange-culturalchange.com
--------------
4.) INT’L DAY OF DIRECT ACTION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
AND THE G8! 15.7.06
This is a call to action from Rising Tide North America and the Earth
First! Climate Caucus, both in the US. ‘Resistance is self defense. The G8
agenda promotes petroleum-dependent "Energy Security" that pollutes our
land and atmosphere, exploits communities everywhere, and scorches the
earth’s climate. Their recipe for catastrophe must be met with our global
resistance!’
www.reclaimthecommons.net
--------------
5.) ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO SHUT DOWN UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
Thousands of climate change activists will converge on Drax power station
- the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK - for ten days of
direct action this summer. Everyone's invited to get involved, possibly
via the next organising gathering at Talamh, near Glasgow on July 8/9.
www.climatecamp.org.uk
------------
6.) TREEHOUSE PROTEST TO SAVE TITNORE WOOD, WEST SUSSEX
Twelve protesters fighting plans to cut down 210 trees in West Sussex have
set up camp in two 30ft-high tree houses. The Protect Our Woodland group
has put up notices claiming squatters' rights in Titnore Wood, Durrington.
"We value green space and countryside more than money," they said.
www.protectourwoodland.co.uk
---------------
7.) HELP ‘THE PRICE OF OIL’ RUN U.S. AD CAMPAIGN
‘We’re kicking the Separation of Oil & State campaign into high gear and
we're asking for your help to do it. Our ad is ready to run in newspapers
like the Washington Post and the New York Times – with your help we can
make sure that it runs far and wide.’
www.priceofoil.org/oilandstate/
---------------------
8.) TELL THE GUARDIAN WHAT YOU THINK OF CARBON OFFSETTING
‘Of course, not everybody subscribes to carbon offsetting as a valid
response to climate change, and we welcome your opinions. Email
travel.feedback@guardianunlimited.co.uk and let us know what you think.’ (Gdn 17.6.06) For background, see www.carbontradewatch.org, as well as the
brilliant and timely carbon offset-critical latest edition of New
Internationalist, (
http://www.newint.org/) --------------
9.) POWERSWITCH.ORG.UK NEWSLETTER 18.6.06
‘…it has been a very interesting month, as always, with everything from
the BBC running a show on, effectively, Peak Oil, to Al Gore saying we’re
at Peak Oil and Total saying it’ll be around 2020. Even the British
Ambassador to America is expecting it by then, which is a deviation from
the official UK government’s policy of saying it is not expected
before…Also, this month we’ve finalised details for Peak Speak 2 for 15th
July 2006. Read the news, absorb it, tell your friends, write letters to
your MP, heads of businesses and organisations...what is the point of this
information if we do not use it to mitigate what is to come?’
www.PowerSwitch.Org.Uk
--------------------
10.) LATEST LOW-IMPACT LIVING INITIATIVE COURSES, JULY-AUGUST
Straw-Bale Building, July 7-9
Self-Build Solar Hot Water, July 21-23
How to Make Biodiesel, July 28-30
Beekeeping, August 11-13
Natural Paints & Lime, August 11-13
Green Woodworking, August 18-20
Rammed Earth Building, August 18-20
LILI, Redfield Community, Buckingham Road, Winslow, Bucks, MK18 3LZ
(01296) 714184; www.lowimpact.org
-------------------
11.) PEOPLE'S OCCUPATION OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST COAL PORT, NZ, 5.6.06
Despite miserable weather, over 70 citizens took to the water in Newcastle
Harbour on World Environment Day 2006 (5th June) to occupy and protest the
world’s biggest coal port. More than 100 supporters cheered from the
shore, to show their opposition to the Hunter coal industry expansion,
which will fuel runaway dangerous climate change.
http://risingtide.org.au/node/76 ---------------
12.) REPORTS FROM EUROPEAN DAY OF ACTION ON AVIATION, 10.6.06
‘In total, there were events at around 25 airports across Europe…At
Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, campaigners dressed in night attire,
made their way through the airport terminals, singing their protests and
handing out bi-lingual leaflets to passengers. As a finale, they turned
the leaflets into paper planes and fired then across the terminal
concourse! The Dutch did direct action: they invaded Schipol Airport under
the cover of darkness and blocked the taxiway for three hours by locking
themselves on using a variety of instruments.’
www.airportwatch.org.uk
----------------
13.) CRITICAL MASS CYCLIST WINS JUDICIAL REVIEW AGAINST PETROPOLITAN
POLICE, 27.6.06
The High Court today upheld a legal challenge to London’s Petropolitan
Police brought by Friends of the Earth’s Rights & Justice Centre on behalf
of Critical Mass cyclist Des Kay. Kay had challenged the Pet’s claim that
London’s Critical Mass Cycle Ride was unlawful and that cyclists taking
part were liable to prosecution.
The next Critical Mass cycle ride will take place this Friday 30th July
starting, as always, at 6.45 outside the National Film Theatre on the
Embankment.
----------------
14.) AND FINALLY…‘SHELL AGAIN MOST SUSTAINABLE OIL COMPANY IN 2006’
‘Shell tops the list of the worlds most sustainable and ethical oil
companies for the third year running. In the 2006 study Shell achieves the
highest score of any oil company ever, achieving 89.01%. This is the
result of the third in-depth study measuring oil companies' compliance
with over 280 key areas of sustainability, corporate governance, ethics,
social responsibility and transparency by the Madrid-based ethics research
and rating company Management & Excellence S.A.
For more information (please!) contact: Oil & Gas Journal Online Research
Center, Robert Beck (Manager), Tel: 1-918-831-9488; Fax: 1-918-832-9521
E-mail:
orcinfo@pennwell.com or bobb@pennwell.com www.ogjresearch.com
!
------------------
Please send anything you'd like included in this news sheet to:
newssheet@risingtide.org.uk To view previous editions of the Rising Tide News Sheet, visit the News
Sheet Archive at
http://risingtide.org.uk/newssheet This News Sheet was brought to you by Rising Tide, a grassroots network of groups and individuals committed to taking action and building a movement against climate change.
For more information...
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