Environment / Climate Change

from email, 12 May 2010: "Party at the Pumps Part 2... This time it’s Shell! When: Saturday, 15th May. Meet: 1pm at Oxford Circus, London. And for all you cyclists out there, there will be a special Party at the Pumps Critical Mass making its way to the party. Meet 1pm at Marble Arch (under the arch). Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes. Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond. Get ready for sunshine, music, and dancing on the forecourt!" more

from infoshop, 16 March 2010: "On March 16th and March 19th, Noah (American) and Natasha (Australian) will go to trial for charges related to the organization of demonstrations against the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. They are facing politically motivated charges which accuse them of organizing to disrupt the public order and do violence to police, and face stiff prison sentences as well as deportation form Denmark. Both were targeted by Danish police and arrested in December during the COP15, and kept in jail for 25 days in isolation before being released in advance of their trials..." more

from priceofoil, 16 March 2010: "Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel peace prize novelist warned that Nigeria is close to breaking up and had become a failed state. He said the leadership of the country has descended into a “theatre of the absurd”. Soyinka’s warnings came soon after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) – the leading militant group in the delta region – set off two car bombs, in the government building in the southern oil city of Warri, where talks were being held about implementing an amnesty programme..." more

from london-imc, 13 January 2010: "The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the UK ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. We believe we can make a real difference by doing it ourselves rather than relying on leaders, governments or industry. This years Earth First! Winter Moot will be taking place in Co. Durham on the weekend of 6/7th February 2010..." more

from freedom, 19 December 2009: "In a unanimous statement issued on Friday 18th December the Governments of the world gave the go-ahead to runaway climate change. That’s about it from Copenhagen. There was no target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, no limit to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, nothing more than a pious wish that average global temperature should not rise more than 2 degrees above pre global warming levels..." more

from climate-imc, 26 November 2009: "Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity..." more

from Energy Bulletin, 26 October 2009: "What proved to be correct for individual nations, well-defined regions, and specific fields in the relatively early stages of exhausting traditional oil - namely reaching an “objective” maximum rate of output and declining smoothly thereafter - seems staggeringly improbable for the entire world in the sunset phase of the petroleum age. What looked like a summit, arching against a clear sky of commonplace obviousness from a distance, is turning out to be the mirage of a Sphinx from the near. To show this, we need to keep in mind that in the life of any geographically defined oil wealth - from a single well to the planet - there are three peaks: One relates to physics, the other to economics, and the third is the actually recorded, de facto peak..." more

via mostly water, 9 October 2009: "We at the Council of Canadians understand and appreciate the pleasure and enjoyment so many around the world share in the spectacle and achievements of the Olympic Games. However, with less than half a year until the 2010 Games begin, we are gravely concerned by the increasing evidence that these worthy aspects are being overwhelmed, if not totally supplanted, by an “Olympic industry” focused on real-estate development and massive corporate marketing opportunities..." more

from plane stupid, 7 October 2009: "There are less than three weeks to go until our day of action! Just imagine… it’s the morning of Saturday 17th October 2009. You receive a message telling you to move into position at the south side of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station. The helicopter blades cut through the noise of the cars zipping up and down the M1. Your mission is clear and you’re ready to swoop..." more

from email, 3 October 2009: "A perspective paper produced by members of the Anarchist Federation within climate camp 2009 - At the 2008 Climate Camp in Kingsnorth an open letter was circulated by anti-capitalist campers raising concerns that the movement was increasingly being by influenced state-led approaches to tackling climate change. A more developed version was later published by Shift magazine. The original argued broadly that the camp should adopt anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian principles and objectives..." more

from oilsandstruth, 28 August 2009: "An Italian company's plan to develop tar sands in the Congo has activists worried. You’ve likely heard about the tar sands in northern Alberta. There's less chance you've heard of the tar sands in the Republic of Congo (sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville)... Congolese activists gathered at a recent civil-society meeting in Italy around the G8 do know that Eni, an Italian oil company, has signed agreements with the scandal-ridden government of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso for tar sands development, as well as for a palm oil plantation with the intention to make biofuels... more

from email, 2 September 2009: "Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is going to be closed down on Saturday 17-18 October 2009. It's time to take the power back, and start the massive transition to a low carbon future. Its time to start imagining a world without coal. Join the Great Climate Swoop on the 17th & 18th October 2009 as we close down a coal-fired power station, democratically and together, to say enough is enough..." more

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