Dateline: Kingsnorth Power Station, North Kent, UK, 11:00-15:00, Sat 04 Jul 09 – How can we convince a pro-business “New” Labour government...

• that capitalism’s ecological crisis means business-as-usual cannot continue? 

• that the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December is humanity’s last best chance to urgently and drastically constrain its greenhous…

Dateline: Haringey, London, UK, Sat 30 May 09 – On a gloriously sunny Saturday in May, Haringey Independence Day 2009 provided discussions, workshops, stalls, films, socialising and refreshments for everyone who cares about their community, environment and workplace and wants to change them for the better. 

European Climate Exchange, Hasilwood House, 62 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AW.

Domestic departures - Heathrow Terminal 1

Five brave counterculture warriors don Santa Suits, sing anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist Xmas carols, and leaflet for more mindful attention to love, gifts, and catastrophic climate change – in Oxford Street, in the heart of the shopping district of Old London Town, on the busiest shopping day of the year: Sat 13 Dec 08.

A throng of thousands of Climate Change protesters filled the streets of London with chants, effigies, banners, samba, placards, music and whistles during the National Climate March 2008, demanding:

1) NO to a 3rd runway at Heathrow and runaway aviation expansion

2) NO new coal ? no new coal-fired power stations as planned at Kingsnorth in Kent

3) NO to the expansion of agrofuels ? with negative impa…

A freewheel of hundreds of cyclists begin the Global Day of Climate Action events in London with a protest cycle ride, linking the issues around Catastrophic Climate Change by joining the dots on the map, stopping off at three particular places:

• outside Greenergy, 198 High Holborn – for an Anti-Agrofuels Protest organised by Biofuelwatch
• outside E.ON, 100 Pall Mall – for speakers on No New…

This morning around 150 cyclists rode from lincoln's inn fields via several pertinent stops to the start of the Climate March at Grosvenor Square. There, several thousand protestors marched to Westminster as part of a campaign to force the government to take climate change seriously.

Hear audio of speeches outside the Department of Transport | See video of the critical mas | Further report and pi…

Students tell it like it is..

London Rising Tide's first eleven demonstrate their balls skills outside the Football Association's Headquarters in Soho Square, in protest against our national game being sullied by sponsorship from filthy climate criminal corporation E.ON – as part of the wider '48 Hours of Action against E.ON and New Coal' over Fri 28 and Sat 29 Nov 08.

Greenwash Guerillas London Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, pay a protest-oriented visit to the London Office of filthy climate criminal corporation E.ON UK to confront a Short-Sighted Fat Cat and PR Greenwash Pushers plugging 'Clean Coal' bullplop.

From one of the bellies of financial capitalism reaches us David Graeber's analysis of the current crisis, a look at the recent past of our movement and the lack of organised resistance to capitalism.

We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appe…

National wave of student protest forces energy giant to abandon recruitment tour



Anti-coal protests at graduate careers fairs around the UK have forced E.ON to cancel the remainder of its recruitment tour. The energy company, which is planning to build a new coal power station at Kingsnorth, Kent [1], has seen at least seventeen of its careers events disrupted over the last few weeks [2].

London Rising Tide's Greenwash Guerillas Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, moved into action this morning at 08:00 hours – targeting dirty great energy corporation Électricité de France (EDF) at the central London headquarters (HQ) of their UK subsidiary EDF Energy.   

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft Notice at the end of the story below the photos and video clips.



NB: These pix ar…