Climate Camp: flood victims blockade government office in Leeds
Taken from Indymedia: Residents from flood stricken areas of Yorkshire and Humberside today blockaded the Government Office in Leeds to protest at its continued promotion of airport expansion. Inspired...
View ArticleClimate Camp returns to Heathrow: where next debate
Although the decision on Heathrow has been delayed until later this year (so that Ruth Kelly and her lackeys can pretend they're reading our submissions to the consultation) the mobilisation against...
View ArticleObserver and NETCU smear environmental activists as terrorists
This morning the Observer carried a National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit press release, in which they claimed to have alerted a number of major carbon polluters to watch out for...
View ArticleFrankfurt airport expansion meets determined local opposition
I've just got back - by coach, thanks for asking - from meeting campaign groups opposing expansion at Frankfurt airport. The authorities want a fourth runway, and expansion is justified on the same...
View ArticleDrax or Ratcliffe: you decide!
This summer, the biggest heavyweights of climate change will face off in a media-friendly extravaganza. In the red corner, emitting 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, the UK's single biggest...
View ArticleCamp for Climate Action responds to police
Oh this is very sweet: the cops wrote to the Camp for Climate Action, asking them nicely to tell them where the party will be happening. And the Camp wrote back, via t'internet.It's a great video, but...
View ArticleGreat Climate Swoop: trash, trash, trash all the fences
There's an old anarchist camp fire song, the chorus of which goes something along the lines of: Trash, trash, trash all the nations, we are the anarchist generation, we blockade military bases, we...
View ArticleEverything you wanted to know about the Great Climate Swoop
There are less than three weeks to go until our day of action! Just imagine… it’s the morning of Saturday 17th October. You receive a message telling you to move into position at the south side of...
View ArticleE:ON gets youtube swooped
Imagine - and I know this will be a stretch for at least 50% of you - that you're working for E.ON's public relations people. You know that Britain doesn't want to turn every hilltop into an open cast...
View ArticlePolice harassment begins early for Great Climate Swoopers
Climate activists have been harassed, threatened and detained by police, just days before a mass action to take over a coal-fired power station near Nottingham.On Wednesday at 8.10pm, an activist from...
View ArticleFences breached at Ratcliffe-on-Soar
As night draws in, the battle for Ratcliffe-on-Soar (and, indirectly, our future) continues. With police now promising (threatening?) to use new tactics on anyone who refuses to go home and cower in...
View ArticleBest offence is a good de-fence
More awesomeness from Ratcliffe-on-Soar: the police have released some helicopter footage showing people getting through the fences.You'll love the bit, a few minutes in, where they complain of being...
View ArticleNest of oil giants found in central London - let's drum them out!
We all know that the real cost of cheap flights is paid for by the planet. Aviation fuel is not taxed, and so flying gets a free ride. This means more people fly, increasing demand for high-emission...
View ArticleClimate Camp takes action against dirty oil sponsors
Last Wednesday night, I was one of 100 people who swooped (swept?) onto the site of this year's Camp for Climate Action. It's a stone throw away from the Royal Bank of Scotland's Headquarters at their...
View ArticleYes Yes Yes
Environmental activists find themselves answering the same questions again and again, and one of these most frequently asked questions is “You’re saying no to coal power fire stations, no to airport...
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