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Manchester Climate Change Activists Blockade Domestic Flights

10-10-2007 16:25

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Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport.

Passengers were denied access to the departure lounge by seven activists locked together using arm-tube devices. Two banners were unfurled reading, “Manchester City Council...supporting climate chaos” and “Domestic flights cost the Earth”. Other protesters leafleted passengers with information about aviation and climate change as well as handing out train timetables for route destinations.

Video | Photos | Press release

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Esso: Number One Denier

13-02-2007 21:51

closed for denying climate change

Thirty climate activists shut down an ESSO petrol station Feb 9th on Upper Brook Street in Manchester for two hours, using bits of fencing and traffic cones. The action aimed to highlight the link between the oil industry and global warming. As a symbol against car culture, three people locked themselves with D-locks to bicycles. Two others were locked to concrete based signs. Two large banners were displayed reading “no.1 supplier, no.1 denier, no.1 profiteer” and “closed for denying climate change”.

Climate change has become very topical of late. A week earlier and coinciding with the latest IPCC report on climate change, an illustration of a carbon footprint was found decorated on pavements in Manchester outside flight centres, petrol stations, supermarkets and a humvee garage. Remaining on a climate theme, there is to be a celebration in Manchester of the perfect antedote to global warming, the bicycle. From 30th March to 20th April the I Bike MCR festival takes place - a grassroots festival organised by cyclists for cyclists with diverse events that will entice any cyclist.

Carbon Footprints: What Do They Mean? | I Bike MCR festival | Esso garage Shut Down

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Two Days of Action Target Climate Criminals

06-02-2007 04:37

Over the weekend of 3-4 Feb 2007, actions up and down the country and beyond targeted dangerous 'greenwash' being desperately pushed by corporations and politicians. The actions came in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Friday, which warned of world temperature rises of over 6C by the end of the century. The report indicated that a 4 degree rise would mean a 10% loss in global food production due to draught, flooding, water shortages. While the world slowly wakes up to the magnitude of climate chaos, Shell and Exxon Mobil last week announced record breaking profits. With the figures laid out so clearly, the nauseating hypocrisy spouted by corporations and politicians has spurred action from Paris to Aberdeen.

Links Press release for oil spill action | action report, photos & video | another video | Shell sponsorship background
Other actions Glasgow | Edinburgh | Plane Stupid | Greenpeace
Coming up Protest against ESSO, 9th Feb | Spring into Action
Climate Camp 2006 indymedia page | website | 2007 Camp 14-21st August | next organising meeting 17-18th Feb

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Image Fossil Fools Parade!
01-04-2008 22:11 | 1 comment

Image Fossil Fools day - Banner hung
31-03-2008 14:01 | 2 additions | 1 comment

Text Fossil Fools Day public actions
25-03-2008 15:32

Image I Bike MCR Fest 2008 Starts This Month
13-03-2008 15:33

Text Manchester Crtitical Mass and After Party This Friday
26-02-2008 20:32

Text Bali & Beyond: the international climate change negotiations, and local action
10-02-2008 22:12

Video Bio-fuel - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
10-02-2008 11:55 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Text Big Business + Biofuels = Disaster
30-01-2008 20:16

Text Mr Tesco avoids a green wash
23-01-2008 18:56 | 2 additions | 2 comments

Text Demonstrate to Save Woodhead - 12th January @ 1.00 p.m.
11-01-2008 21:58

Text Save the Woodhead Tunnel//Climate Change demonstration
20-12-2007 12:41 | 2 comments

Image Short haul flight adverts cancelled
18-12-2007 15:27 | 1 comment

Image Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008
17-12-2007 15:56 | 4 comments

Image Billboards pasted in Manchester
08-12-2007 19:06 | 2 comments

Text All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted
08-12-2007 02:15 | 2 comments

Image The Tide Is Rising
07-12-2007 17:24 | 4 comments

Text Buy nothing day 2007.
04-12-2007 14:32 | 5 comments

Image Free Manchester and the Buy Nothing Balloons
28-11-2007 13:57 | 3 comments

Text Manchester aiport beaten in debate
20-11-2007 00:43

Text Urgent: National Grid to close Woodhead Tunnel
15-11-2007 23:55 | 1 addition

Image photos of Critical Mass ride to TAA squat
11-11-2007 17:46

Text the Great Aviation Debate- Manchester 15th November
09-11-2007 00:22

Image Ding - Rooley Moor, valuing our South Pennine habitats and biodiversity
07-11-2007 18:09 | 2 comments

Text Preston Public Meeting To Debate Ribble Barrage and Floodplain Housing Threat
05-11-2007 23:30

Text Preston Council Forced Into Barrage Retreat By Ribble Bloggers
23-10-2007 11:56

Audio Audio Report of Manchester Royal Bank of Scotland protest
15-10-2007 14:39

Image Rising Tide National Day of Action Against the Royal Bank of Scotland
15-10-2007 13:23

Text Sentenced to death - Urgent help needed to save the Wigan's Ruddy Duck
09-10-2007 23:31 | 2 comments

Image Photos of Blockade of Manchester airport Terminal 3
08-10-2007 13:52 | 14 comments

Video Video of Manchester Airport Blockade
08-10-2007 13:18 | 2 comments

Text Plane Stupid / Manchester Climate Action blockade Manchester domestic terminal
08-10-2007 09:49 | 1 addition | 26 comments

Text Climate Change Activists Blockade Domestic Flights
08-10-2007 09:28 | 6 comments

Image I Bike MCR October 2007
05-10-2007 17:11

Image CUBA Calls for End to Insensitivity...
26-09-2007 15:45 | 1 comment

Text What Does Democracy Really Mean In Preston?
20-09-2007 22:57

Text NW road news - successes & dangers
13-09-2007 13:54

Text Flood Risk - Who Cares? Not Preston City Council
30-08-2007 23:49

Image Battle of the broad bean field ( 15 pics )
23-08-2007 13:35 | 2 additions | 3 comments

Video Dubstep video of the climate camp - photos video music for screenings
18-08-2007 23:03 | 3 comments

Text critical mass 31st august
10-08-2007 20:41

Text Crops destroyed by Global Warming
01-08-2007 19:12

Text gathering anticivilization 2007
25-07-2007 22:33 | 1 comment

Image Garden City Social - Climate Camp Fundraiser 7/7/7
22-06-2007 18:28

Text Pipeline Milford Haven To Tirley
21-06-2007 09:50 | 3 comments

Image june 29 critical mass summer party BBQ
12-06-2007 18:53

Text Call for a Public Enquiry - Just sign and send!!!
05-06-2007 22:52

Text Fight the Pipe, manchester meeting
20-05-2007 15:28 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text National Grid Pipeline Meeting in Mancherster
18-05-2007 12:10

Image Saving Europe's Last Great Wilderness from corporate greed - TALK+FILMS
09-05-2007 19:29 | 2 comments

Text Change of venue for direct action training day
02-05-2007 22:15

Text !!!Direct Action Training Day In Manchester!!!
27-04-2007 16:43

Text Camp for climate action 2007: Events this week...
16-04-2007 12:58

Text Climate Camp organising gathering April 21 and 22, Liverpool
09-04-2007 19:44 | 3 comments

Text River Barrages are an Expensive Burden on Nature and Communities
05-04-2007 22:29

Text Rivers Of Life - Dams Of Death
02-04-2007 00:13

Text Preston Vision Board - Private Developers Marketing Subsidised With Public Money
25-03-2007 17:52 | 1 comment

Image I bike MCR bicycle festival and exhibition
23-03-2007 10:50

Image National Grid feeling the pressure as time runs out on giant pipeline project
22-03-2007 14:31 | 1 comment

Image Grrrl bicycle ride
16-03-2007 21:20

Text Swindled by channel 4: spurious science for the climate of confusion.
11-03-2007 17:18 | 2 comments

Image 30 shut down Manchester petrol station
10-02-2007 13:18 | 2 additions

Image photos of Manchester carbon footprint stencils
07-02-2007 23:48 | 3 comments

Text Protest against ESSO this Friday, 9th Feb
06-02-2007 14:04

Text Next national climate camp organsing gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds
06-02-2007 10:59 | 9 comments

Image PIA Beagle Death Flights
04-02-2007 22:40 | 1 comment

Text Climate Change Awareness
04-02-2007 17:17

Image Manchester I bike Mcr festival:
01-02-2007 22:05

Text welcome energy crisis
01-02-2007 12:05

Text Camp for Climate Action 'next steps' gethering Jan 13th/14th, Leeds
09-01-2007 22:04

Image Manchester Bicycle Exhibition
05-01-2007 19:12

Text Invitation:building support for action against climate change
06-12-2006 01:05 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text Preston City Council - Give Us A Clear Answer on Barrage and Housing Ideas!
19-11-2006 21:15

Image Rossport Solidarity Picket, Salford Quays, with pics!
18-11-2006 18:39 | 9 comments

Text buy nothing day bicycle ride
17-11-2006 23:02 | 8 comments

Text northern eco-action gathering this weekend (updated info than post below)
07-11-2006 17:49

Text Greater Manchester Plane Stupid Day of Action
07-11-2006 09:56

Image Plane Stupid day of action against short haul flights
07-11-2006 00:32

Text Manchester Plane Stupiders Close more Travel Agents!
06-11-2006 02:20 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Image Rossport Solidarity Meeting 2nd Nov and Pics from demo 26th Oct
29-10-2006 21:35

Image Hummer Dealership shut down by protesters against urban 4 x 4's in Manchester
17-10-2006 12:39 | 1 addition | 14 comments

Text Lost and Found social centre Manchester opening this Wednesday!
09-10-2006 10:34

Image Camp for Climate Action Follow Up Meeting 14+15/10
03-10-2006 15:04 | 1 addition

Text Manchester climate camp exhibition opening this Friday
21-09-2006 16:49

Image Critical Mass End of Summer Party
12-09-2006 17:50 | 6 comments

Text Hay Stax Not Drax
31-08-2006 21:33 | 1 comment

Text Callout to Join Manchester/Liverpool Neighbourhood at Climate Camp
17-08-2006 10:36

Text Full (& exciting) workshops programme announced, for Camp for Climate Action
10-08-2006 01:21

Text Stuff needed for climate camp
26-07-2006 15:51 | 2 comments

Image Manchester cyclists occupy the city in carnival protest against the G8.
15-07-2006 19:26 | 1 addition

Text climate camp summer fair
27-05-2006 17:24

Image massive climate chaos direct action - Reclaim Power
20-05-2006 17:30

Text Dig for victory ~ Climate Camp
13-05-2006 09:31 | 2 comments

Video Video of anti-nuclear demo
03-05-2006 22:11 | 1 comment


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