Nottinghamshire COP15 Climate Summit 2009 Newswire Archive

Live in Nottingham area and interested in talking, organising and taking radical action on climate change and it's causes...?

Yesterday morning (Friday) around 20 cyclists on a five day journey to London left Cambridge for the final leg of their journey to the climate protests in London.

Come to this meeting!

Tuesday 10th November 8pm at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, Forest Fields, Nottingham

Do you want to shout about Climate Change, but can't make it to Copenhagen? A group from Nottingham will be travelling to Copenhagen for the COP 15 summit. To support them and show solidarity for the protests happening in Copenhagen in December, we are hopeing to organise events closer to home.

uk are building incinerators that are a danger to health and the climate .we must stop them being built prottest now before its 2 late

Greenpeace is encouragung its supporters to engage in other campaigns on the weekend of the 'Great Climate Swoop' rather than backing the protest at Ratcliffe.

Last December government minister Ed Miliband said that 'popular mobilisation' was needed to create the pressure to reduce carbon emissions. He linked it to previous campaigns that had involved direct action.

"When you think about all the big historic movements, from the suffragettes, to anti-apartheid, to sexual equality in the 1960s, all the big political movements had popular mobilisation"


It sounds great doesn't it? And, when climate activists are essentially only asking for what science demands and what the government claims to want too, what could be the problem?

Someone should pass that thought on to other branches of government and state apparatus, as they appear to think differently on the issue.

Arrested for conspiracy, 114 people alleged to have been planning to shut down E-On's massive Ratcliffe coal fired power station have apparently found themselves voiceless, advised not to issue any statements to the media or friends. Unrelated groups however have been stepping into the void to express support for the alleged action and remind people that taking direct action to cut greenhouse emissions is something we should all be doing. Groups such as Rising Tide, Plane Stupid, Climate Rush, the Camp for Climate Action and others have already issued such statements and no doubt it would be great if a diverse range of groups did likewise.