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Climate Camp goes back to Heathrow: Conference Sat 26th July

19-07-2008 11:19

A conference organsied by the Camp for Climate Action, local residents groups NoTRAG and HACA and Greenpeace to answer the question:

“What do we do if the worst comes to the worst and the Government says ‘yes’ to Heathrow expansion?

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Climate Camp demo - Save the Woodhead Tunnel

19-07-2008 10:19

This year we have a unique opportunity to re-open the Woodhead rail line.

Join the Save the Woodhead Tunnel Campaign in demanding the Government hold to their promises on sustainable transport and climate change and re-open this historic and important line.

 http://savethewoodheadtunnel.blogspot.com/
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Cycle from Hadfield, meet train station, midday

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Dissident Island - Climate Camp special tonight

18-07-2008 17:26

Listen to the NUM, Climate Camp UK, Climate Camp USA, Climate Convergence USA as well as some tasty music and the usual chat and randomness

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32 SUVs disabled across Oxford

18-07-2008 11:10

Up to 32 SUV owners awoke this morning to discover that their destructive vehicles had been disabled.

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The Two Degrees Show: No New Coal

17-07-2008 15:50

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James Hansen says we need a moratorium on new coal projects in order to protect the planet and all who live on it. We speak to two people involved in the global campaign against coal.

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Greenwash Guerrillas Embarrass E.ON

16-07-2008 10:16

Greenwash guerillas assemble outside conference
This morning, Climate Campers and friends put a fresh dent in E.ON’s tarnished reputation with a Greenwash Guerrillas demo outside the Guardian Climate Change Summit, which E.ON are sponsoring.

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Oxford Climate Action Spin The Spinners!

16-07-2008 09:59

Oxford Climate Action activists have today
blockaded the headquarters of Edelman PR. They arrived at 9:30 to
protest the PR giant's collusion with E-On in "greenwashing" its
proposed Kingsnorth power station development. Several protestors
gained access to the firms offices. Others outside climbed onto the
roof to unfurl a banner reading "Edelman: Spinning The Climate Out
Of Control" as another colourful contingent spoke to
passers by about the protest. MP John MC Donnell has also dropped by to lend his support.

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Bath Bomb #12 Out Now

15-07-2008 17:25

Bath Bomb #12 hits the streets running? Cycling? Bathing? The twelfth instalment of Bath's monthly radical rag is now online...

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Melting Point

15-07-2008 09:41

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Exposing government tactics in reaction to environmental protests

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Open statement and invitation to the trade union movement from the Climate Camp

14-07-2008 17:50

An invitation to the trade union movement to engage in a dialogue with the Camp for Action.

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Australian Climate Change protestors block trains and ports

14-07-2008 12:15

In the last few days Australia' Climate Camp was established at Newcastle,
Australia. Yesterday, people from the camp chained themselves to a
coal train, blocking access to Carrington coal terminal for most of the
day and costing the company an estimated 1.2 million US dollars.
Today, more climate camp activists are blocking work at the world’s
largest coal port at Kooragang.

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Tony Blair: A Sudden Turn Of Conscience? No.

14-07-2008 11:50

My inbox has been overflowing with love and best wishes to the planet from all sorts of people recently — one of them is no less than Tony Blair, that great peacekeeper (1), climate saviour (2) and lover of human rights (3) is pushing his big plan (yes, another one) to return the planet to its former health. It’s called “Breaking The Climate Deadlock” and you can read the latest report here [ http://www.theclimategroup.org/assets/resources/BTCDJune08Report.Fin.pdf] (4).

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BAN Big Up Climate Camp And Other Routes Of Change

13-07-2008 19:00

Recycled Purse Tutorial Brings Happiness
Yesterday, Saturday 12th July, Bath Activist Network set up camp in the Green Park Market, Bath, along with Transition Town Bath, Viva! and London Road Food Co op, for ‘Roots of Change,’ a day organized to spread the word about this year’s Climate Camp and the diversity of initiatives available to the exploring ‘green’ citizen.

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Cannabis Seed Ban Bill Angers Campaigners

13-07-2008 12:52

A Bill introduced in UK Parliament calls for a ban on cannabis seeds.

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An Open Letter to the Camp for Climate Action

11-07-2008 11:50

Dear Camp for Climate Action,

Firstly thank you for contacting me. I'm hopping mad about what I've
heard, but I may not have been told the whole story. I can tell you too
the mining community whats left of us feel utterly betrayed by rumours
about you swinging all your efforts to close down what remains of the coal
industry. There are debates about counter-demonstrations etc and press
statements from the power workers and miners. So its vital we do not take
up cudgels over this unless and until and at least that we know where each
other stand. I was a matter of interest with the National General
secretary of the NUM and the Yorkshire Area Leadership last weekend and
they are spitting feathers about the Drax demonstration. The slogans on
the demonstration and the statements made to the press by the protestsrs
demonstrated no concern for the miners, railway workers or power workers.
There was no consultation with us, no debate with us, no seeing what we
wanted or how we see the world or how we can see if there is anything is
common. 'Leave It In The Ground' was the banner which was unfurled at
Drax, 'it' being the coal, and the miners ? where do we leave them ? that
bit wasn't answered. We know where John Major and Maggie Thatcher and
Harold Wilson left us, on the dung heap, and most of us are still there.

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Reminder: Noise demo UK Coal this Monday 14th July

11-07-2008 11:12

Keep up the pressure on UK Coal to stop their profiteering from climate destruction. Tell them we can’t live with their new open cast sites.

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Stern words will be spoken- and soon

10-07-2008 21:43

Latest issue of Manchester Climate Fortnightly newsletter, sample article below. The newsletter features cartoons and local to global round up on climate change news.

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Memories of the Camp for Climate Action UK 2007

10-07-2008 16:32

Want to know about what the camp for climate action is like? What to expect when you get there or what would it be like to bring your kid along?

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Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

10-07-2008 13:31

A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference (  http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php ) held in Sydney in April.

Author of a range of books, including Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society, Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation, and Walk left, Talk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms, Bond is a long-time advocate for radical solutions to the climate and social catastrophe wraught by global capitalism.

Lauren Carroll Harris spoke to Bond at the conference about responses to climate change.