Climate activists have swooped on the grounds of recently closed special education needs school in the heart of Lewes. The swoop took place at dawn this morning, with activists erecting marquees, eco-toilets and kitchens. The camp, which is overlooked by East Sussex County Hall, expects hundreds of activists and visitors to be arriving at the camp over the next week.
Ian Ratcliffe said: "It's been a dramatic start to what's going to be a week full of workshops, sustainable living and direct action against both local and national cuts and climate targets."
"We're in a beautiful location here in Lewes, surrounded by woods and overlooking the oil-threatened South Downs. People should come down, have a cup of tea and check out what's going on for themselves."
The campers have named oil-drillling on the South Downs, an incinerater in Newhaven and a proposed biofuel power station in Shoreham as potential local targets during the week.
The 30th of May has been named as a day of mass action which for the first time with combine both cuts and climate grievences.
Jenny Walker, one of those who took part in the swoop said: "With these massive cuts to public services, governments are making ordinary people pay for a crisis caused by the banks. But it is these same banks, fixated by the idea of profit at anyone’s and anything’s expense, that continue to bankroll climate-wrecking projects the world over."
"We are now, effectively, paying for our own destruction, this camp is about making the intrinsic link between the economic system and the climate crisis"
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"We're in a beautiful location here in Lewes, surrounded by woods and overlooking the oil-threatened South Downs. People should come down, have a cup of tea and check out what's going on for themselves."
The campers have named oil-drillling on the South Downs, an incinerater in Newhaven and a proposed biofuel power station in Shoreham as potential local targets during the week.
The 30th of May has been named as a day of mass action which for the first time with combine both cuts and climate grievences.
Jenny Walker, one of those who took part in the swoop said: "With these massive cuts to public services, governments are making ordinary people pay for a crisis caused by the banks. But it is these same banks, fixated by the idea of profit at anyone’s and anything’s expense, that continue to bankroll climate-wrecking projects the world over."
"We are now, effectively, paying for our own destruction, this camp is about making the intrinsic link between the economic system and the climate crisis"
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23.04.2011 14:45
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It looks like a backwards step
23.04.2011 15:57
The politics articulated in some of the writing is terrible, and when I saw that I mean it looks liberal, with no good understanding or action against capitalism/the state. It looks like some green hippie event that pays lip service to radical politics cos that's the trendy thing to do, but the actual content (green jobs, sewing (!), compost toilets, bee keeping, etc.) does not add up to anti-capitalist struggle.
I know that this is not the place for a decent discussion of the politics of your event, and I'm aware great things might happen there, but looking at the site, it doens't look likely and I'm not sure what your justification for this event is rather than the much more radical and braver attempt by the national process to try and break out of the camp ghetto.
In these exciting days of real struggle and genuine radical poltics springing up around the country this event is nothing but retrogressive politically and desperately depressing.
Ex-Climate Camper
Good move guys
23.04.2011 16:39
Note to Ex Climate camper : So glad your not coming. Set up your own super radical, up with the real struggle camp in your back garden and have fun on your own. perhaps I might come along and give you marks out of 10. Negative Git.
spike and george
Yawn...
23.04.2011 18:28
PS: Being critical isn't being 'negative' - it's an attempt to move things in a more useful direction, so grow up and stop being so defensive.
Ex-Climate Camper
No Time...........
23.04.2011 19:01
Spike and george