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Plane Stupid Callout for Local Groups

Plane Stupid | 07.05.2007 11:21 | Climate Chaos | World

Plane Stupid is looking for people to set up their own Plane Stupid groups in their local area to resist the growth of the aviation industry the fastest growing and least unchecked cause of climate change.

PLANE STUPID CALL OUT FOR LOCAL GROUPS: forward far and wide

Plane Stupid (www.planestupid.com) is calling out for local Plane
Stupid groups to form to fight the fastest growing cause of climate
change (aviation) in your area. Plane Stupid thinks that local groups
taking action in their area but within a wider network of Plane Stupid
activists is the best way to fight the unsustainable growth of the
aviation industry. If you would like to set up a group in your area
all you need is a few enthusiastic members committed to using direct
action to fight climate change.

The 2003 Aviation White Paper outlines plans for between double and
triple the current number of passenger flights. This involves massive
airport expansion all over Britain at rate equivalent to the building
of a new Heathrow every 5 years. The UK's top climatologists predict
that aviation's emissions alone are predicted to exceed the
government's target for the country's entire output of greenhouse
gases in 2050 by around 134%. (Tyndall Centre for Climate
ChangeResearch)

Plane Stupid has become one of the direct action groups of the
emerging grassroots climate movement in Britain. Our dramatic impact
has come by means of a series of high-profile direct actions and a
near obsessive focus on clear, basic demands that people understand:
the scrapping of airport expansion plans, a tax on aircraft fuel and
plane tickets, and an end to unnecessary and unsustainable short haul
flights.

Since we formed in less than 18 months ago; we have disrupted the
world's largest international aviation industry conference in Central
London; grounded planes through the occupation of a taxiway at the
short-haul East Midlands Airport; blocked the entrance to BAA's
headquarters at Heathrow twice; staged a roof-top protest at easyJet's
corporate headquarters in London, temporarily shut down tens of travel
agents across the UK and helped angry Heathrow residents disrupt the
transport minister's speech. We also inspired and oversaw Britain's
first national day of action against short haul flights, which saw
local groups hold demonstrations at six regional airports and outside
Flight Centre travel agents in cities across the UK.

Government and industry's profiteering from creating catastrophic
climate change will go unchecked unless YOU do something today! Join
us by setting up a local group with some like minded people in your
area to help us scrap airport expansion, get aviation fuel and tickets
taxed and ending short haul flights.

Contact  info@planestupid.com or call 07948 219 493 for advice on
setting up a local group or for someone to come and speak in your area
about Plane Stupid. Also on the 12th and 13th of May we will be at the
Campaign against Climate Change conference in London
( http://www.campaigncc.org/) where you can come and speak to us.

www.planestupid.com

Plane Stupid
- e-mail: info@planestupid.com
- Homepage: http://www.planestupid.com

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  1. Quite right — Daphne
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