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Climate Camp News, Wed 30th August: "If not Tomorrow, then When?"

imc features | 30.08.2006 19:06 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

The Camp for Climate Action has been hailed as a success, with an impressive collective commitment to organising the camp in an environmentally-friendly way, and with hundreds of people just over half way through a packed programme of workshops. One statement said:

"What has really struck me is the way in which everyone who has come to the camp is getting involved. People from all walks of life and with all sorts of previous experiences are here, and everyone is doing their bit to make the camp tick. From action planning to compost toilet building, everyone is getting involved..." [read more]
See also Life at the Camp - a personal perspective | todays pics from inside the camp.

Thursday sees the Reclaim Power mass day of action against Drax Power Station, and preparations are underway with people making banners, puppets and other props.

Meanwhile throughout the day the police have been using Section 60 powers to stop and search all people entering or leaving the Climate Camp [report and pictures 1 | 2] Undeterred, people continue coming and going, some taking tours around the increasingly guarded perimeter of Drax power station [pics]. Later in the afternoon at around 2.30pm the police were denied entry to the camp [report and pictures] in a peaceful but strong reaction by camp residents, with similar scenes repeated again at around 5.30pm [report].

Seel also: Drax Shares Take A Slide | Drax to Stop Smoking | Power Line Pole Allegedly Cut | Oldbury Nuclear Power Reactors to Close | Feminism and Climate Change [more] | Green Spirituality workshop | Greenwashing Climate Change | City Harvest workshop | (Some) Workshops at the Camp for Climate Action | Feedback from Green Spirituality Workshop.

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Photographs in and around the camp

06.09.2006 20:50

A system to make 'grey water' from dish washing etc. safe to re-enter the ground

Most "neighbourhoods" had a kitchen

Compost loos to recycle waste

There was a range of waorkshops

A basic circuit for living off the grid. Watts = Amps X Volts

Computer tent

Recyle recycle recycle

Straw bales are amazingly useful.

We did get sun, but also this stuff ..

London Rising Tide tent, and little garden

Looking inside drax

Protest on light tower

For me, the camp itself was an amazing experience of building and sharing skills, knowledge and networks, as well as being about protest action. We can be proud to be developing the infrastructure the human race will need to survive the future.

Photographs (telephone camera only tho) ...

Brent
mail e-mail: thebrentc@gmail.com

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Big mainstream coverage

31.08.2006 10:25

11.00 am Thursday.

The event is getting plenty of coverage on BBC and Sky News and the police sanitised version is actually being questioned. Unfortunately though, no shots of wholescale stop and search, or other police intimidation, but at least one of an arrest.

Itsme.

call out: record details about the stop and searches

31.08.2006 11:02

Pennie asked me to add this call out to the climate camp article: She is asking people who have been stopped and searched during the climate camp to record details about individual stops and searches. She thinks that it might be possible to consider legal action. You can mail any details to her, or mail them to the privately archived imc-uk-evidence list: imc-uk-evidence at lists.indymedia.org.

ionnek

UK Indymedia