27-07-2007 09:33
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The British Airport Authority (BAA), who owns Heathrow Airport, is to seek one of the biggest injuctions affecting peaceful protest in Britain's history. They hope to obtain it through the High Court next week and is it set to affect millions of people. According to reports by the Independent, the injunction will ban members of the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust and Friends of the Earth, from entering Britain's biggest airport. Other no-go zones include the Piccadilly line. And parts of Paddington station. And sections of the M4. And all this: 'because the authorities want to halt a protest against climate change'.
Read more >>27-07-2007 09:27
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BAA is seeking to gain an unwarrented injunction against environmental campaigners to prevent them protesting against climate change and the expansion of heathrow airport.
The story featured two days ago in the Uxbridge Gazette:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/377010.html Since then, the scale of the injunction BAA is seeking has become clear. They have targeted not only groups related to the forthcoming Camp for Climate Action, but also several campaign groups composed of local people opposing the airport's expansion, and even mass membership organisations like The National Trust, FOE, RSPB, Greenpeace, as well as the Campaign to Protect Rural England and others!
The injunction hearing which could see millions of people liable for arrest if they approach heathrow, will be heard next wednesday.
The Independent newspaper put the story frontpage today, and it's now been featured by BBC, Guardian, and other news sources. More details below:
Read more >>20-07-2007 00:25
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"I've lived here twenty years, and at fifty years of age I've got to say I'd given up. I've said to my wife, what will happen will happen. But tonight you lot have changed my bloody mind!"
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17-07-2007 15:52
17-07-2007 12:41
Everyone concerned about the environment is urged by Dr Derek Wall the Green Party Principal Speaker, to spend their summer holiday with him at the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow from 14 to 21 August.
Dr Wall teaches economics at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and his most recent book "Babylon and Beyond" looks at alternatives to capitalism and corporate globalisation.
globalisation.
Read more >>15-07-2007 18:18
“Everybody's doin' media!” said a recent message from the Camp for Climate Action Networking Group, and they invited everyone involved with the Camp to help publicise it by offering information to their local news media.
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15-07-2007 18:11
The Children of the Eco Warriors are likely to be holding another kids' bloc Childrens' Revolution at the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport from 14 to 21 August.
It is possible that they will lead another march with their banner “The Kids Are Revolting!” in the same way that they did at the Drax power station protest in 2006.
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14-07-2007 09:58
The camp dates are drawing nearer and nearer and we're all desperate to know where it will be... but we'll just have to wait a little longer!
But what we do know is that if you get yourself to Staines railway station in West London by 10am on Tuesday 14th August, you will be greeted by our friendly welcome team and promptly transported via a magical mystery tour, to the camp! (There will also be lifts to the camp later in the day and throughout the week.)
Read more >>13-07-2007 12:47
07/07/07: It was the two year anniversary of the London bombings. Wembley stadium filled with 65,000 people to see some of the largest names in music and to draw awareness to climate change.
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10-07-2007 01:08
A BENEFIT PARTY TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY BASED DIY ENERGY
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08-07-2007 14:27
Hi again Everyone.
Firstly to remind you about going to events and festivals.
If you are going to ANY of this sort of thing, however big or small - please remember to take flyers.
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04-07-2007 15:20
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Everyone is being asked to help send out invitations to attend the Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport from 14 to 21 August 2007.
Here is the latest message from the Climate Camp networking crew:
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22-06-2007 13:28
DepARTure Lounge: A weekend workshop designing creative resistance against the root causes of Climate Change.
13 – 15 July, near Heathrow, London
A weekend workshop where we will collectively explore the spaces between art and activism and design creative actions in preparation for the Camp for Climate Action.
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20-06-2007 13:36
West London residents protesting about plans to expand Heathrow dramatically stopped traffic this morning outside the Department for Transport (DfT) offices in Central London before attempting an invasion of the building.
The protestors carried a bed along Marsham Street from the flat of BAA Chief Executive Stephen Nelson (1) to the Department for Transport. In the bed were two figures symbolising the close relationship between BAA and the DfT under the slogan “DfT in bed with BAA”.
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18-04-2007 10:30
8pm - 2am - Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, LONDON, E14 7HA.
Read more >>16-03-2007 13:32
Only four months to go till the 2007 Camp for Climate Action - are you getting involved?
Get inspired, watch the Reclaim Power movie about last years camp at the rampART social centre tonight from 8pm. (see
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364997.html). Copies are now available on DVD in this country from Rising Tide and local groups working towards this years climate camp.
Read more >>15-03-2007 15:43
Last year saw 600 people gather in the shadow of Drax Power Station for the ten day Camp For Climate Action. This weekend in Bristol is the next national planning meeting, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March. The venue is Barton Hill Settlement which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Station.
Any questions, suggestions or proposals for the meeting can be sent to gatherings [at] climatecamp.org.uk.
Read more >>06-03-2007 14:17
ANGRY HEATHROW RESIDENTS DISRUPT MINISTER’S SPEECH
~ Airport residents resort to direct action techniques for the first time
~ Marks new phase in resistance to airport expansion
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17-11-2006 13:00
London neighbourhood meeting to plan for the next climate camp, lets get this thing rolling!
Read more >>30-09-2006 17:05
"There's turbulence ahead for the British Airports Authority", was the message from protesters gathering for an introduction to direct action today.
Years of letter writing and lobbying of MPs may have kept the deceitful, climate-wrecking actions of the air industry in the public eye, but the cosy relationship between BAA and the DoT means they get to do what they want anyway. That's ever more short haul flights, no tax on fuel, and new runways, terminals and access roads.
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