Climate Change Action

The Good

Creativity of protest: from rafts down the Medway to placards holding our ministers to account.
Outreach to local workers: people could see us as a threat but we arent after peoples jobs, we need to start a dialogue with employees in the fossil fuel industries about how they can prosper as a new renewable energy industry is born.
Atendees: from inpiring camp organisers with an unhuman level of commitment to a few good MP's, MEP's and councilors, to climate scientists, professional campaigners and journalists, the climate camp was a facinating and potent miluaeu.
Toilets that where cleaner and less smelly than any festival facilities you are likely to encounter!
Our rather cosy relationship with The Guardian.
Our commitment to a permenant blockade at Kingsnorth should it get the go ahead.
The variety of affinity group actions that where autonomously organised, perticularly the biofuels storage depot blockade and banner drop.
A few very interesting ideas for future campaigns that i couldnt possibly mention on the internet but which are going to be awesome :-)
Indymedia documentation.
On site TV studio by VisionOn Tv.
Caroline Lucas MEP giving the police an earful on our behalf.

The Bad

Police using stop and search powers over blanket areas when only individuals subject to justified suspicion can legally be searched under the relavent law.
Police flying hellicopters almost hourly over the camp for several days, and sometimes hovvering over workshops.
Police talking about a 'hardcore' of protestors intent on breaking the law; most of us had sated we where willing to carry our civil disobedience. There was scary marginal goup intent on violience--it just didnt exist--and had there been it would have been at the periphary of the movement not a result of a shared idea and determination that the term 'hardcore' implies.
EON PR--it really was awful. Coal is the fuel of the past; this argument has been won so please give it up!
Govornment policy: they are missing it so badly and so ineptly that it really looks farsical.
Russia's invasion of Georgia (sorry to be self serving but this was a PR nightmare for us)!

The Ugly

A 65 year old woman being battoned by charging riot police as climate campers peacfully linked arms and sang. She had two broken fingers.
A stop and search holding area that was illigally setup and run in a manner that clearly indicated an intention to intimidate and not to gather legitimate intelligence.