New Directions for Climate Action: 9th-10th July

At the Common Ground meeting in June we got together to continue some of the discussions around radical climate action that were started at Space for Change. The conversation is progressing with lots of discussion around identity, structure, how to organise non/anti-hierarchically, how to keep a radical perspective and more.

A follow-on meeting, ‘New Directions’ has been planned for the 9-10th of July.

As with Common Ground, the meeting is for people who have previously been involved in organising the Camp for Climate Action, or other radicalgrassroots climate action, who are interested in and feel positive about co-ordinating nationally.

If you didn’t make it to Common Ground, you’re still very welcome to attend, though please bear in mind that the meeting will be building on the discussions that took place last time – ie. we’ll be picking up wherewe left off. So do make sure you read the minutes.


Also, we feel it’s important to stress that this is not really a meeting to ‘get involved’. We recognise the need to bring new people in, but this is not the best occasion, as it’s a meeting for organisers who have time and energy to develop new directions based on their common ground.

A group was formed at Common Ground to arrange the details of the nextmeeting, including the agenda and facilitation. As with Common Ground there will be external facilitators (from Rhizome), but this time there may also be some facilitation from the group attending.

It will be a two day meeting, at the fabulous Grow Heathrow again.

• Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th July 2011 (more details: e.g venue + map)

Crash space will be available Fri/Sat/Sun and food provided on Sat and Sun. Let us know via spaceforchange[at]climatecamp.org.uk if you want crash space.

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Camp for Climate Action: 2010 Edinburgh

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Coal Mine Sabotage in Scotland

The Camp for Climate Action Scotland has been tipped off that anonymous activists have successfully sabotaged the Glentaggart opencast coal mine in South Lanarkshire. The unknown individuals have disabled the conveyor belt that moves coal from the mine to Ravenstruther rail terminal where the coal is then sent to Drax power station in Yorkshire.

The sabotage has the potential to greatly disrupt the removal of coal. Insiders say that once it has been stopped it is difficult to restart the heavily laden conveyors which is several kilometers long and comes in quarter kilometer sections. Drax powerstation was the site of the first Camp for Climate Action 2006.

The Camp for Climate Action Scotland is taking place cross the valley from Glentaggart at the site of another proposed open cast mine at Mainshill woods near Douglas. A protest camp has already been in place for six weeks campaigning against the plans which have gone through despite strong local opposition. The area is already one of the most heavily mined areas in Europe with a number of other opencast mines already being worked.

Diarmaid Lynch, a spokesperson from the Camp said on hearing the news

"“Fantastic. Congratulations to those who did this. Opencast mining is responsible for a spike in the number of lung related deaths in this small area. It is time that the likes of Scottish Coal and the planning authorities are held directly responsible for their role in these deaths. Climate change is a killer, both at home and in the Global South where those who have benefited the least from industrialisation are the first to pay the price.”"

The World Health Organisation estimates that climate change kills 150,000 people a year and that figure is expected to grow as countries fail to take action. Cancer in the Douglas postcode area is 23% above the national average, and 28% above the regional average. In the four years that the existing three opencast mines have been operating in the area pulmonary issues have increased 60%.

In a separate development the Camp for Climate Action has also learned that police leave across the central belt of Scotland has been cancelled as the various forces move to a state of high alert. To date the policing at the Camp has been very low key, but campers remain alert.

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1. The Camp for Climate Action Scotland can be contacted on 07910 915 698, 07906 499 379 and 07722 708 760. For further information on the camp see www.climatecampscotland.org.uk

2. The aims of the Camp for Climate Action Scotland are to highlight practical solutions to climate change from a grassroots level through education and demonstration of sustainable living, and to take direct action against the root causes of climate change. It among the first of many such camps taking place this year. Previously camps have taken place at Drax Powerstation, Heathrow and Kingsnorth Powerstation in the UK.

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Climate Camp Scotland is Underway!

Yes, the Camp for Climate Action in Scotland is up and running, and needs you to come as soon as you can!

We said that the camp would be somewhere in the Firth of Forth, but the recent occupation of a soon-to-be open cast coal site by the Mainshill Solidarity Camp has provided us with a beautiful site that is in need of support and solidarity from movements such as this one.

There is no shortage of targets in this area, we are surrounded by open cast coal mines and other infrastructure and within easy reach of targets across the central belt of Scotland.

At the moment Climate Camp is busy with people building compost loos, grey water systems, cooking food and getting to know the local community.

We need your help to defend the trees and stop this site being turned into an open cast coal mine and contributing to climate change!

How to get to the camp:

• Nearest Train Station: Lanark
• Call the Info number for help with travel and shuttles from Lanark train
• station!
• 07553215473
• For more information go to: http://climatecampscotland.org.uk/
• Follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/campcaledonia

See you there!

Climate Camp Scotland.

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Climate Camp Ecuador!

At the moment as Marea Creciente (RT-Ecuador) is just begining with very few members (full time workers & students!), we're joining forces with other groups, which includes the national Indigenous movement.

First, to resist the big fossil fuel national battle against Mining on a Large Scale, which is an agressive project that the ecuadorian assembly and government are trying to put forward. We already had a collective public protest and hunger strike at the beggining of the year and another big one coming from all directions of
the country was stopped by the government forces, before people could gather at the capital.

The debate is reaching the press every time but the issue of 'finding a new road for the national economy' is still strong in the general public, including the miners. The Ecuadorian economy, after all our background as an exploited country is trying to reach an independence with the new government -which is, by the way, the most decent we have had in more than 25 years! Now the battle is to make people understand that we have to learn from other countries' experiences.

Second, and with a more optimistic ground is the creation of the first Climate Camp in Ecuador (!!), with Mining as the target. RT-Ecuador ( MC) is meeting almost every week with other groups and activists, to discuss the way to do this. There's desire to kick it out this year(!) which would be an amazing victory, although the greatest difficulty is achieving consensus about how to focus on the target and ,of course, the funding for the camp.

• MC has already given a talk in the University about the Climate Camp; and in union with 'La Casita del Arbol' activists, a workshop about a foreign project for Mining in all SAmerica (!)
• We have to thank to our local activists Centre for their support with a space for MC in their venue! Also thanks to the presence of one of our International-Rising Tiders to support the CCamp process!
• The way of Direct Action in Ecuador, although has been always present (as in all LA), is a hard one, as our legal infrastructure is still too corrupt to give any guarantees to the people that they're gonna receive treatement in accordance with the law, if they're arrested. We still have a USA military base here, (which should be leaving the country in October by Ecuadorian government orders!) which means that CIA still have a comfortable chair around...

Many thanks to all global folks who, with amazing vibes, would like to visit us to give a hand! and our gratitude will be complete if you PLEASE CONSIDER NOT FLYING to our country!

Thank you all.
With Love and Solidarity,


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• Related: Climate Camp UK Website and Videos

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Climate Camp In the City (2009 G20) Policing Report

The Climate Camp Legal Team (who are awesome!) have just released a report and associated video covering the latest climate camp--which took place in the city of london during the G20.

Full Report (PDF)

The associated video is already clocking up views thanks to it's publication by the Daily Mail, Times and the Guardian.

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Policing of the Kingsnorth Climate Camp: Preventing Disorder or Preventing Protest?

H/T to BRITCIT

This was released a little while back, so sorry for the delay!

Lib Dem MP David Howarth held a meeting in Westminster to present a highly disturbing and potentially explosive report on the way police in the UK are criminalising legitimate protest. The report, produced by the Climate Camp's legal support team and entitled Policing of the Kingsnorth Climate Camp: Preventing Disorder or Preventing Protest?, is devastating for the police.

It documents a concerted campaign by police to deter, smear, intimidate, harass, and criminalise UK citizens who did nothing more than attempt to exercise their right to peaceful protest in the name of an important cause.

Full Report (PDF)

There is a video associated with this report.

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Quite cool really...climate camp interviewed about that thing that never happened.

Tonight members of the camp for climate action where on...

• C4 news
• BBC news at 10
• Newsnight

Talking about the issues surrounding eon and its plans for new coal power - not the alleged action in nottingham.

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Climate Camp in The City

A really great event. The whole day would have been like this--peaceful, musical and educational--if the violent thugs (guardian/times) hadn't been out in force.

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Response to Policing of Climate Camp

A few interesting pieces of writing about the the way the police dealt with the climate camp:

1. A letter to The Times

Sir, Last week a parliamentary report recognised that police tactics against dissent have become “heavy-handed in recent years”. This week the police provide another example of an approach towards protest that is primarily about repression and not about public order (report, April 3).

The Joint Committee on Human Rights suggests that “the deployment of riot police can unnecessarily raise the temperature at protests”. On Wednesday riot police were sent into peaceful crowds, hitting people with truncheons and riot shields. Aggressive dogs were used to intimidate. The report is concerned about the “improper use” of Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008 to prevent photographing or filming police. When the police broke up the climate camp, people were forced to delete images and film that showed the police in action.

The report states that “inconvenience or disruption alone are not sufficient reasons for preventing a protest from taking place”, and that the police need more human rights training. Claiming that indiscriminate tactics, such as “kettles” to contain and break up protests, were employed in order to deal with “a small number of people” is an admission that the rights of others to protest can go to the wall. Parliamentarians have yet to address the legality of the police database in which information on thousands of protestors is held. On April 1 climate campers were unable to leave unless they gave names and addresses and had their photos taken. The database has just got much bigger.

Emma Sangster

London E5

2. A piece in the Independant

The (very) heavy hand of the law

It was clear from early on, in the City of London on Wednesday, that two very different protests were being staged. One, centred on the Bank of England, sheltered masked agents provocateurs, who were intent on clashing with the police. They succeeded in their aims.

But the other, the Climate Camp on Bishopsgate, harboured no such elements, and continued peacefully all day. Yet the 800 people at this street party were still attacked by riot police very suddenly in the evening. Footage has been posted on the internet showing officers repeatedly hitting unarmed civilians

The attack on the camp by the police is being described as "unprovoked" by protesters. This is not, strictly speaking, the case. It is provocative, of course, to block a road without permission, and the aim of the protest was to block that section of Bishopsgate for 24 hours.

What is downright sinister, however, is that all those who were visiting the Climate Camp at that time were violently attacked and then trapped for many hours by the police. They were not allowed to leave between 7pm and midnight, even if they had been injured. Even a woman in a wheelchair was held.

If the concern of the police was to clear the road for traffic, then their action was certainly counterproductive. They succeeded, after all, in blocking the road to pedestrians as well as vehicles for five hours. The tactics of the police smack of collective punishment for everyone.

It is possible that had a warning of an impending shutdown been given to the campers, the news may have attracted more aggressive visitors. It's true also that had the police put in place a policy whereby people were allowed to leave but not to enter, there was no guarantee that those leaving would quietly disperse.

Yet these factors only make it difficult to understand why the police became so confrontational so early. Why could the police not just keep the protest under observation, while they concentrated on quelling the violent skirmishes in other parts of town?

Their claim is that they corral groups of protesters so that they can isolate the anti-social elements. But by the time they mounted their attacks, the police had had nearly seven hours to assess whether any such element had ever been present. The fact that the Climate Camp protesters mounted no violence in response to that meted out to them suggests that their intentions of mounting a peaceful protest had been successful.

Most worrying of all, when legal observers advised people who had been hit by the police, or who had been witnesses to it, to take down the numbers of their assailants, the line of police all covered their badges. It is much more terrifying that the police are hiding their identities as they take part in violence, than that the self-styled "anarchists" we have heard so much about are doing so.

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States create the violence used to justify there existance.

It seems that that old Anarchist saying still holds true.

Quote from David Howarth MP (LD) who attended Climate Camp in the City:

"How did the police end up in a situation where they used the same degree of force on the most peaceful demonstration as they did for a violent protest at the Bank of England? They seem to only have one trick."

The Guardian has this quote in a story called "Baton charges and kettling: police's G20 crowd control tactics under fire". It's somewhat ironic that the Guardian is reporting on this now, when it had absolutely no issue with talking up planned protests as some sort of mass riot in the run-up to the g20. I think they should take a close look at there role in allowing this to happen. it's easy to police asif there is a riot if all the public are expecting one!

Nasty policing in action after people have already been kettled (illigally?) for hours.


Climate Camp in the City from Tina Tunning on Vimeo.

UPDATE: WHITNESSES MAKE STATEMENTS IMPLICATING POLICE IN DEATH OF BYSTANDER (STORY)

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Climate Camp in The City

Climate Camp in the City was a huge success despite police violence against peaceful protestors bringing the event to a premature end.

There are many beautiful photos, and interesting videos on the events of April 1st.

My first contribution to the currently available collection is a video of Danny Chivers telling an ass kicking poem about fighting for a better future.



More video to come shortly.

Related:

• Climate Camp website with photos.
• Climate Camp was targeting carbon trading, why?
• Climate Camp on Indymedia.

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Climate Camp in The City: Final Update

Final update on The Swoop, for the April 1st Climate Camp in the City
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

Hi campers, not long to go before we join each to set up camp in the city
on April 1st! This is the final update, please read it carefully and
forward it to all your friends who are coming…

WHAT TO BRING:

We hope many of us will be staying overnight, please bring a popup tent,
food, 4 litres of water, warm clothes, hand cleaning gel (for hygiene, we
might not get water) and whatever you might need for 24 hours of rebel
camping adventure. (a full list is here
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/what-to-bring)

HOW TO DO IT:

1) SYNCHRONIZE YOUR WATCHES: It is important that we swoop at exactly the
same time, and those arriving too late or too early might not make it in.
You can use the speaking clock or this: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com

2) PLUG IN: Sign up to text messages here:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/text-updates You will only get text
messages if there is a change of plan.

3) PREPARE: Print out the map from http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/map
and if you still need somewhere to sleep the night before check
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20/sleepspace Remember that there may be
limited toilet facilities so don’t arrive with bursting bowels !!!

3) SWOOP DOWN: Arrive at 62 Bishop's Gate, the European Climate Exchange
at 12:30 on the dot. Swoop swiftly and stealthily from a location of your
choice. It might be good to avoid Bank and Liverpool Street stations where
other protest groups are meeting at 11.00am as you may be unable to leave
due to police Kettles (when police surround a crowd). Avoid kettles at all
costs and if when you get to the Climate Exchange the police invite you
into a protest pen, say “no thanks, we’ll camp elsewhere”, keep moving and
wait for text messages.

4) SPREAD INSPIRATION: You can use your phone to send reports, pictures,
audio etc from the streets to Indymedia. Its very easy – see
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/425262.html for numbers and
details.

If you are covering the action using twitter, please include the hashtags
#g20cc or both #g20 and #protest so we can pull tweets into one single
feed of the event.

5) AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST - ENJOY: The next few days will be extraordinary
days for extraordinary times...

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The g20 police scare, issues and the reality so far.

The world is suffering from a bad case of neo-liberalism. People are up in arms at the failure of this ideology. Not surprisingly the police are being used by the state to marginalise the protesters and confuse the issues. Just as unsurprisingly the media are eating up the propaganda despite a coalition of formidable diversity; religious, development, environmental, labour and other groups all standing together for a better way of doing things.

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Parliamentary scrutiny of political policing (via indymedia)

(H/T Indymedia)

Mike Schwartz, a partner at London law firm Bindmans, said:

"The police have adopted mission creep. One of the symptoms is their misuse of the power of stop and search under the Terrorism Act. It is being misused because the police have the power to impose a blanket area, where any police officer can search anyone without reason for suspicion on the basis that a senior police officer has thought that there might be terrorist activity or terrorists operating in the area."

Also under the spotlight was Police intimidation and monitoring of journalists, refusal to recognizing press cards, and accusations of obstruction and assault. The committee said it was unacceptable that journalists had to resort to taking court action against officers interfering with their work.

London's Metropolitan Police Service excused their wide-ranging misuse of power by saying,

"We will always facilitate lawful protest and are committed to doing so but do have to minimize the disruption caused to others going about their lawful business".

The criticism follows a report was made to parliament last week into the abuse of police powers during the climate camp protests at Kingsnorth in 2008. The report and accompanying video documented systemic abuses of power including blanket stop and searches, arbitrary seizure of property, and a campaign of psychological intimidation which included sleep deprivation through helicopter overflying late into the night, mock night and dawn raids by tooled up riot police, and the infamous 'Flight of the Valkyries' incident.

David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said,

“What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing."

Defending Kent police's handling of the Kingsnorth protest, Home Office minister Vernon Croaker had claimed that seventy officers had sustained injuries in clashes with protestors. However a Freedom of Information act request proved that the police chiefs had misled parliament as no officers had really been injured in clashes at all.

Lib Dem MP David Taylor told the Commons:

"We were told that [the police behavior] was justified because dozens of injuries were incurred. We have now found that those injuries were of a more prosaic origin—they were due to things such as insect stings and sunstroke. Unless the protesters are to be held responsible for wasps and the weather, are we not to conclude that the justification used at the time was wholly bogus and vacuous?"

Attempting some damage control after the damning report, the Kent Police chiefs have now voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of it's officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Even before the these two reports in Parliament, the extent of political policing had been further exposed by the Guardian article revealing that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists as well as harassing sympathetic journalists.

Meanwhile however, the police propaganda department has launched it's annual offensive against mass protester. They've flooded the mainstream media with pieces on the much hyped 'summer of rage' in which they began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression over the coming months.
Download the report and read the details for yourself: Committee Website

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G20 in London: protest and propaganda

You may have heard in the news that the G20 are meeting in London in the coming week.

The main notable aspect of the runup to the meeting is the sheer quantity of negative and frankly terrifying propaganda coming out of all the 'independent' press we have here in the UK. On the basis of what the police tell them the media are out of control frothing at the mouth. It's rare to get such confusion, conflation and crap all mixed together into one basic narative. the very diversity of the views involved has caused the media to narrow it's focus to a tiny range--questions range from 'are these people dangerous' all the way to 'just how dangerous are these people'.

On the positive side:

• An awesome group of people created a special edition of the Financial Times.
• A march is being organised by Unions, green groups, religious, aid and development charities. Thats a pretty broad swathe of society. They are all very reasonable in there demands: jobs, justice, climate action.
• You can sign up for live on the day txt updates from the climate camp!
• There are loads of events planned.
  

Related:

• #g20 on twitter.
• put people first march.
• climate camp in the city.
  

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Climate Camp by Twitter or By TXT!

The climate camp(main/g20) has now got two active twitter accounts one national and one for the london group.

Also, and this is the cool part...since twitter has stopped sending txt's in the UK we have a special climate camp txt messaging service so that you can subscribe for mobile phone updates.

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Police 'over the top' at climate camp.

More than 2,000 'potentially harmful' items were confiscated from protesters by officers - including balloons, crayons and a clown's outfit

Tracy McVeigh

The Observer, Sunday 1 March 2009 (link)

Police have been accused of setting a "dangerous precedent" when they confiscated hundreds of items of property - including children's crayons, a clown's outfit and a pensioner's walking stick - from people attending an environmental protest camp at Kingsnorth power station.

A list of more than 2,000 possessions taken from protesters, who were repeatedly searched going to and from the camp last August, has been obtained through a freedom of information request by Liberal Democrat justice spokesman David Howarth.

It shows that officers took packets of balloon, tents, a clown's outfit, camping equipment, cycle helmets and bike locks, plastic buckets, bin bags, blankets, soap, banners and leaflets, books, party poppers and nail clippers. A toy plastic gun, life-jackets, inflatable dinghies, paddles and foot pumps were also confiscated, police say, to stop protesters taking to the river around the Hoo peninsula in Kent. Much of the property has yet to be returned.

It is the latest attack on what has been criticised as over-the-top policing of the Climate Camp near the site where the government is planning to allow the construction of a £1bn coal-fired power station by the energy firm E.on. The project is seen by activists as damaging to the environment and a key obstacle to the UK achieving carbon reduction targets.

Kent police were embarrassed over the event last year when, after ministers had justified what they called the "proportionate" £5.9m cost of the security operation by pointing out that 70 officers had been injured at the event, they then had to admit that the injuries reported by officers included heat exhaustion, toothache, insect bites and headaches.

Howarth said:

"It is not the police's job to confiscate protesters' banners, pensioners'
walking sticks and children's crayons.

"The police admit that almost all the items seized had a legitimate purpose. The
idea that it is appropriate to seize ordinary people's property on the
off-chance that it might be used to commit a crime is a dangerous precedent.

"Almost anything can be invested with sinister intent with enough
imagination. I even heard of one case where police confiscated a camper's soap
on the basis that it could be used to make them slippery and evade capture by
police. This is simply farcical.

"This kind of pre-emptive policing is
out of all proportion to the threat posed by environmental direct action and
should not be acceptable in a democratic society."

Sarah Perkins, a member of the Climate Camp's legal team, said their main concern was that they believed police misused "stop and search" legislation.

"It certainly was disproportionate policing and a real sea change in the
way police are using their powers. Absolutely everyone was searched, many people
several times over, and then police raided the camp and searched yet again."

Green party MEP Caroline Lucas, who attended the week-long event, said at the time that she had witnessed police confiscating disabled access ramps, board games and fire safety equipment.
Kent's assistant chief constable, Allyn Thomas, defended the actions, saying the aim was always to enable a lawful and peaceful protest to take place. "This included our objective to prevent unlawful incursion of the power station," he said. "Had the station been shut down, there would have been a possible loss of power to over 300,000 homes.

"There was also the need to protect protesters who trespassed on the site as Kingsnorth is very hazardous for people without the appropriate training and safety equipment.

"While the majority of people were law abiding," he added, "it was clear from the first day of the camp setting up that a number of people were intent on causing trouble.

"By seizing items which could be used to commit a crime, we were able to ensure criminal acts were not carried out and more importantly no one was injured by some of the items which potentially could have been used to harm others. Arrests were prevented and many of the items have now been returned.

"We hope that anyone who attends a similar event in future accepts their responsibility to do so lawfully and in a legal manner."

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Kevin Smith on Climate Camp and carbon trading.

The police are maintaining there war of words against the Climate Camp. A recent police stopry was covored widely in the press--across ideological lines--from the Guardian to the Daily Mail. This story told of a fiorthcoming 'summer of rage' and went on to conflate general economic tensions relating to the financial crisis with the motives of climate change activists who dont believe in carbon trading. It is an interesting conflation, and one that we wish the public where generally more willing to make; if the neoliberal economic model has hit crisis point then do we really want to apply that same model of trading--this time in carbon certificates--to the problem of climate change? Wouldnt we be better with an approach that we know will work such as simply replacing fossil fuel plants with renewable generation, or increasing the energy eficiency of transport?

On cap and trade Kevin says:

This is a policy option that has been aggressively promoted not because of its
track record in reducing pollution (because it hasn't got one) but because of
its compatibility with the market-obsessed economic agenda of recent decades.
The concept of the omnipotence of markets has had an enormous crisis of
legitimacy in the wake of the financial crisis but the UK government is still
making futile attempts to apply the same failed market logic to the problem of
climate change.

But while the climate camp strives to think the unthinkable; environmental protection not based on markets...the police are trying to persuade the public to accept the unacceptable. Protest is not just protest it is highly disruptive 'social unrest' which requires far more strident policing.

The climate camp's plans to target the carbon markets on 1 April is one of the
protests that were described in the Guardian by Superintendent David Hartshorn
as kick-starting a "summer of rage". Using the threat of social unrest provoked
by the recession could be interpreted as an attempt to justify increasingly
draconian policing of protest. However there's a great deal of evidence to
suggest that this policing trend had started long before the recession began.

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NEW! Documentary on Climate Camp.

In a liberal democracy freedom of the press is sacrisanct...



Part 2...



God i love citizen journalists! Independent media is the only way to go, we need to improve it, but it is the only game in town if we want to change our society for the better.

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