whitechapel, and pumpin' out of your stereo!

whitechapel, and pumpin' out of your stereo!

whitechapel, and pumpin' out of your stereo!

Dalston resident is off to Climate Camp

By Jessica Mudditt • Aug 24th, 2009

Lynn Chambers tells Jessica Mudditt why she's going

Dalston resident Lynn Chambers is off to Climate Camp this week

In the lead up to the United Nations' talks in Copenhagen in December, one Dalston resident is seeking to get climate change on the local agenda.

Lynn Chambers explains why and how she is joining Climate C…

Environmental activists from all over the country will be arriving at Sipson, the village set for demolition if the Heathrow expansion goes ahead, on 5 September to join local anti-expansion campaigners for a festival of community resistance.

The swoop starting positions for the 2009 Camp for Climate Action have been revealed.

The locations that have been announced are:

- the headquarters of oil majors Shell and BP;

- the Bank of England, where Ian Tomlinson was killed by police during April's G20 protests;

- global mining giant Rio Tinto;

- the site of the 2012 Olympics;

- and the tube station where Jean Charles de Menezes was s…

The G-20 meeting to be held in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is taking place in just under a month (Sept. 24-25, 2009) and it would be nice to receive some advice and/or words of solidarity from London G20 protesters about how to achieve success with this round of protests.  Online support via Twitter updates & Blogs would be helpful too!  You folks have experience and we need to here from you in the st…

Help report what's happening by sending your reports from the streets/fields - your reports will be used to update the Indymedia websites covering the camp.

There are three Indymedia reporting numbers (starting Wed 26th August):



07556 251 105 : For calling in reports from events - remember the 'who what when where why'



08444 872 207 : For calling in to leave a short audio recording that can be uplo…

your guide to a wonderful stay in the big smoke next week. please print (a3) and distribute!!

www.dissidentisland.org

The police's behaviour at Kingsnorth Climate Camp last year didn't result in public outcry; it was the events of the G20 protests this April which finally caused greater scrutiny to be focussed on the policing of dissent in the UK. What does this bode for the London Climate Camp next week?

The summer of 2009 is seeing an upsurge in campaigning on climate change, with Climate Camp protests taking place throughout Europe and the world [see list] ahead of the COP15 UN Climate talks in Copenhagen in December this year. Climate Camps have recently taken place in Scotland, Wales and Ireland with hundreds of people occupying land, learning about climate change, exchanging skills and taking…

With just one week to go before 'the swoop' to take the site of the London Camp for Climate Action, here's a great photostory account of a visit to the Welsh Climate Camp, which took place from the 8th -16th August 2009.

To see the full story with lots of great pictures, check out:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/amelias_blog/2009/08/climate_camp_cymru_ffosyfran_m.php

The metropolitan police CO11 Public Order Operational Command Unit has opened an account on Twitter in order to relay information regarding the forthcoming Camp for Climate Action protest in London starting on Wednesday 26th August 2009.

They say it is designed specifically to relay information to participants of the Climate Camp.

The Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/CO11MetPolice currently h…

LARC...and pumpin' out of your stereo

Welcome home Mandy! At 6am on June 10, two climate suffragettes and the Yes Men barricaded Peter Mandelson's Regent's Park home in support of the Vestas workers and wind power in the UK. The climate suffragettes, chained to his gate, unfurled a banner reading 'Mandy, Put Some Wind in Vestas' Sales' while the Yes Men inflated their 'survivor balls' in preparation for the worst effects of climate ch…

Climate Radio 56-minute special featuring the voices of Climate Camp activists from London and around the globe:

Download mp3: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/08//435876.mp3

also at source: http://climateradio.org/climate-camps-2009/

Arthur of the London Camp for Climate Action media team is live in the studio discussing



* the rapid take-up of the Climate Camp model around the worl…

Plans are afoot to pull off a daring feat of technology and collaboration and put out a stream of video during the London Climate Camp (27th of August to 2 September 2009).



Climate Camp TV will have an on-site studio and cameras out in the camp (and beyond). We will be editing on and off site, and putting out short films and shows through out the week. There will also be an open platform for people…

From 26 August to 2 September, thousands of people will converge on a secret location in London to challenge the economic and political systems that have created financial meltdown and climate chaos - ordinary people coming together to build a movement for sustainable living, education and direct action.

With three weeks to go, the Camp for Climate Action have posted the first of a series of arti…

[3 (YES THREE) WEEKS TO GO!]



As the countdown (and build-up) continues, we'll be brining you regular weekly bulletins.



1. Get ready to camp in London!

      a. Info, spreading the word + "the swoop!"

      b. A taste of climate camp on 16 August

2. Get organising!

      a. In London

      b. Nationally

3.  Vestas

4.  Other camps in the UK

5.  Get in the camp spirit!

+ Legal …

MOTH Club, Valette Street, Hackney Central.

Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Dateline: Roof-Top Occupation, Vestas Venture Quays Workshop, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, Wed 05 Aug 09 – Before Vestas Wind Systems were handed an eviction order against the 15-day-old Newport turbine blade factory occupation, five climate activists, including an RMT member, occupied the roof of Vestas’ harbour-side facility. With tents set up, plenty of food, and an uninterrupted supply-l…

Camp for Climate Action 2009: Prepare to Swoop!

On Wed 26th August, the Camp for Climate Action will take back the city of London in a massive public swoop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we converge on the secret location where the camp will rise. This summer, we are swooping together, and together we will transform a part of London into the physical manifestation of our desired worlds.

Dateline: Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, UK, Tue 04 Aug 09 – Despite hundreds of Vestas Workers, their families, friends, and supporters from across the UK marching in the rain to the Court House, Judge White grants an eviction order to Vestas Wind Systems bosses against the “Boys On the Balcony”, in the 15th day of their factory occupation against 625 green energy jobs cuts and the shutti…

Protesters superglue themselves to the entrance of the dept. of energy and climate change in central London over the closure of the Vestas wind plant.

[BREAKING NEWS] Ed Miliband's London offices were blockaded this morning by a coalition of "red, green and black" activists in a demonstration of solidarity for the factory workers who have been occupying the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight since the 20th July.

The occupation in Newport is protesting against the Vestas management's decision to shut down the factory, cutting 600 job…

Dateline: 4th Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 05:00-06:00, Fri 31 Jul 09 – Gerry Byrne makes best use of her one hour stint on the 4th Plinth, as a part of Antony Gormley's One & Other art project, by staging a one woman “Save Vestas – Save Jobs – Save the World” protest, coping as best she can with a bunch of drunk, abusive, foul-mouthed, profoundly ignorant, laddish twenty-someth…

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.