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…

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…

Dateline: Vestas Occupation Solidarity Demo No.2, Department of Energy & Climate Change, London, UK, 18:30, Tue 28 Jul 09 – On the eve of Danish wind energy corporation Vestas seeking an eviction order at Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, to turf out the Workers Factory Occupation which is opposing 625 green job redundancies, hundreds of people protested against the pathetic shoulder-shruggin…