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BUILDING ON WHAT WE ACHIEVED AT THE CLIMATE CAMP

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/09/2006 - 22:44

’No to dirty coal’ at mass day of action, 31.8.06

Read on for info re.
1. POST-CAMP FOLLOW-UP MEETING (OCT 13/14) DETAILS
2. AN A-Z OF WHY THE CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
3. WE'RE WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF A NEW PROTEST MOVEMENT TO FORCE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING, Johann Hari, Independent, 5.9.06
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1. The Camp for Climate Action seems to have catalysed commitment to build a real movement to combat climate chaos, a movement that feels more motivated by direct action than lobbying deadbeat governments.

Greenwash detected at British Museum (again), 23.3.06

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/23/2006 - 00:00
Greenwash detected at British Museum (again), 23.3.06

The Greenwish Guerrillas struck again yesterday at the opening of the BP-sponsored ‘Michelangelo Drawings - Closer to the Master’ exhibition.

This is what the poster for the exhibition became after it had spent a few hurried moments in the hands of the Greenwash Guerillas' (very) ad hoc design department.

BIG OIL AND HIGH ART MEET LONDON CULTURES OF RESISTANCE REMEMBERING OGONI 9

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/13/2005 - 13:15

ShellOn November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron.

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of this execution, activists from London Rising Tide, Rhythms of Resistance, Rossport Solidarity Camp and London Earth First! came together to take action against Shell for its activities in Nigeria, in Ireland and worldwide.

RAISED VOICES FROM THE FENCELINE

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/12/2005 - 15:19

Raised voicesFilmed testimonies from people affected by climate change and the oil industry:

The next UN talks on climate change will take place in Canada at the end of November 2005. While the US administration remains resistant to signing the climate agreement and many countries are on course to fail to meet their Kyoto targets, the impacts of climate change intensify.

Meanwhile the oil industry is investing billions in discovering new sources of oil and creating environmental and social injustices in communities they operate in.

Irish anti Shell activists in UK on speaking tour - London Date - Thursday 17th November

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/31/2005 - 19:14

RossportActivists from County Mayo will be touring the UK during November to increase awareness of the struggle to prevent a giant Shell Consortium from building a dangerous, raw gas pipeline and huge refinery on unstable bog land, raising serious public health and safety issues and devastating remote conservation areas on the north west coast of Ireland. www.corribsos.com
Here are the London dates: Thurs 17th ...

The World in Our Hands

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 10:36

Well it doesn't feel any hotter to meReading Rising Tide Education Presents "The World in our hands" exhibition and launch event.

On Monday October 24th Reading Rising Tide will be hosting an event to mark the launch of "The World in our hands" exhibition.

The World in Our Hands

At: The Global Café, 35 London St, Reading
On: Monday 24th October
From: 7pm until 11pm
Entrance: Free
Speakers:

Lucy Pearce - Campaign Director of Stop Climate Chaos
Rajinder Sohpal- Reading Council for Racial Equality
John Hoggett - Reading Rising Tide

Art Not Oil heads to Newcastle, October 5th-28th

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/26/2005 - 00:10

Caribou Banerjeeplease spread far and wide!
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indignation – inspiration – creation…solution?

ART NOT OIL

at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 5DW; Tel: 0191 232 6478

EXHIBITION RUNS OCTOBER 5th-28th
FREE PUBLIC OPENING, WED OCT 5th, 7pm: art – music – food – talk

As the BP Portrait Award settles in at the Sunderland Museum and Winter
Gardens, its alter ego Art Not Oil comes to the Forth Hotel to offer up
what could be a truer portrait of an oil company, as well as celebrating
our creative dissent.

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