Protests - 20 September
Oxford Rising Tide Group - Critical Mass bicycle protest, Manchester Rising Tide Group - Critical Mass AND an evening of videos, information and inspiration
Danish anti-environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg had pie on his face in a climate change protest in Oxford.
PRESS RELEASE
Lomborg gets pied
'Pies for damn lies and statistics' as Danish anti-green author gets his just desserts
Danish anti-environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg today received his just desserts courtesy of a fellow writer enraged at his "dangerous and misleading" statements on crucial green issues. A pie was thrown in his face at Borders Bookshop in Oxford just after 7pm this evening.
Nine women environmentalists were violently assaulted when they attempted a peaceful office occupation against the construction of the new heavy crude pipeline. They were protesting against a 500 mile pipeline which will help oil companies double production in the Amazon.
Oilwatch International Æ Amazon Watch Æ Project Underground
For Immediate Release: August 31, 2001
Contacts in the US: Janet Lloyd 310.455.0617
Contacts in Ecuador: Esperanza Martinez or Yvonne Ramos at 011-593-98-25637 or amazonia@hoy.net
OIL COMPANIES' ASSAULT ON ECUADORIAN ACTIVISTS & JOURNALISTS CONDEMNED INTERNATIONALLY
PACIFIC ISLAND STATES DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACTION
International Herald Tribune August 16, 2001
Internet: http://www.iht.com/articles/29464.htm KOLONIA Federated States of Micronesia -Leo A. Falcam Thursday, August 16, 2001
WHY CAN’T WE GIVE UP FOSSIL FUELS?- ASK A SMOKER!
George Marshall- August 2001
1. Climate change is a direct result of our addiction to fossil fuels. We cannot imagine life without fossil fuels. If our supply is cut off we "brown out" or even "black out"
2. We suspend all moral standards to get a fix. We are prepared to carve up conservation areas, overrule all basic human rights, and even carpet bomb countries to maintain the flow of fuel.
Environmental groups need to accept it is a dangerous con trick
Mark Lynas Friday July 27, 2001 The Guardian newspaper,
The last day of COP6.5 climate talks in Bonn was interrupted by activists protesting that the deal being signed would only serve the interests of big business and reinforce global inequality.
Plenery meeting disrupted in Bonn - carbon trading
All talk and no action..
from - www.climateconference.org
16.7.01 - 23.7.01
There was an unprecedented level of protest throughout Britain during and following the Bonn conference - evidence of a growing national movement against climate chaos!
WEEK OF CLIMATE ACTION- JULY 16th-23rd JULY
Noisy climate protest in Turkey broken up by police.
CLIMATE PROTEST IN TURKEY
NOAHÀS ARK AGAINST GLOBAL CAPITALISM!
On the 20th of July, Social Ecologist Transformation made an action in Istanbul, in solidarity with the Climate Summit in Bonn. The action was in Istiklal Street, in one of the main and crowded squares of Istanbul. The other groups in Anarchist Platform, Anarchist Youth Federation and the Masterless.
The Rising Tide climate change tour travelled around the UK, visiting 11 places and spreading information on climate change, inspiring action, and instilling hope that things really can get better, not just wetter.
stopping climate chaos with local action
The rising tide…
Rivers bursting their banks once, twice, and more, across the UK this winter; giant cracks in Antarctica's ice sheets; the 1990's was the warmest decade in the last 1000 years - the climate is in chaos.
