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CLIMATE CAMP - happy days are here again!

mini mouse | 16.08.2007 12:50 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | London

To read the news coming out of Climate Camp you'd think it was all doom and gloom. Police blockade roads, supplies have to be carried along the lane, police invade the site, police set up traps and police lead campers into the injunction zone.

There's a thread running here of course, and it's that the cops and their bosses are doing their very best to intimidate the camp and depress the mood.

Well I'm delighted to report they're failing miserably. Everything they throw at us brings us closer together.

Putting the wind up a clown!
Putting the wind up a clown!

It's sunny now, but a lot of stuff needed drying earlier this week
It's sunny now, but a lot of stuff needed drying earlier this week

Most neighbourhoods have their own solar power
Most neighbourhoods have their own solar power

Including indymedia - this is the public access tent
Including indymedia - this is the public access tent

The gentlemen of the press assemble at media hour
The gentlemen of the press assemble at media hour

The sun comes out - and the clowns go forth.
The sun comes out - and the clowns go forth.


Every so often a call goes out: "Heavy supplies arriving, help needed to unload", and there's an immediate rush to the gate to bring hay, gas or whatever is arriving across the site on barrows, in wheelie bins or simply on shoulders.

The incursion of the police on Tuesday (video:  http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378267.html) created the best mood ever - the barrio marquees were simply hopping, with musicians playing, beer flowing and new friendships flowering.

And a spirit of co-operation reigns supreme. You see someone struggling to build a grey water system, you stop to help lift a bath and find yourself helping to finish it a couple of hours later.

It's been more than a bit windy. Some pretty big tents have blown away with the people still inside - but within seconds there's a crowd around diving on to the flapping canvas and heaving it back into place.

The infrastructure is pretty much complete. Fresh water, grey water, toilets, power are all functioning well. Apart from a central kitchen - which was the lifesaver during the set up period - each barrio now has its own kitchen situated in its communal tent. Indymedia has a fully functioning public access tent, as well as video and radio editing tents. We have two satellite dishes and our own (solar and wind) power supplies.

The seminars and workshops are going brilliantly and are well attended. And despite a few glitches from the usual suspects, media coverage of site is very positive, a firm endorsement of the media team's handling of the press.

(They have incidentally made a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the unsubstantiated, and unsubstantiable lies made by the Evening Standard).

Children are well catered for with a large play tent, with plenty of soft areas for the tired ones to bed down. Entertainments go on all day, the clowns at midday being especially popular (and subversive too - train 'em young :-)

You may be thinking about coming, or you may have been thinking about coming but started feeling nervous...

Well stop that right now and come and join us.

Climate Camp is the best, most friendly, most creative place on the planet right now. We look forward to making you welcome.

mini mouse
- e-mail: mini_mouse@riseup.net

Comments

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Well Done Everyone!!

16.08.2007 23:01

Just reading about you all at the Climate Camp is so encouraging.
For personal reasons I'm not able to be there, but supporting every one of you.
Wonderful to see all the videos - when the police were pushed out was excellant-and all the photos.
Keep Safe Keep Happy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Kath Bland


Respect to you for putting the details out there!

17.08.2007 02:09

This report has really made a difference to me, and I hope to others. It's being able to imagine real people in colour, rather than just police in black&white. Thanks.

1ofThoseWhoWasGettingNervousButWillBeThereNow


GREETINGS FROM SUPPRESSED USA!!!

17.08.2007 10:42




Great work, we in the US are being suppressed by the Bushies from disclosing the real truth about our warming mother Earth. Al Gore is my hero! Please continue! But I do not believe the clowns are the correct image, once mother Earth heats up to dramatic high temperatures, as we all know will be very soon, it will be too hot to wear clothes. Show the world what the future holds and strip off your oppressive made by prison labor clothing and run naked to hit home the fact that that is our future!

I read on another blog that Bush and Cheney do not care about the rising mother Earth temperatures because they had the sweat glands removed from themselves and all family members, Tyrants!!

Fight on, God er, may Mother Nature bless you.

AZ


Repressed

17.08.2007 12:06

Like AZ, I live in the US. We are quite repressed here by the likes of Chimpy McBushHitler and his sidekick Dick "Halliburton" Cheney and their legions of weather controlling minions. In fact, that I'm even able to submit this comment is rather amazing considering that they...

AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!

GET AWAY FROM ME!!!

I was just...

GAAAAACK!

Head makes audible "thump" on desk...

Dude


Ron Paul Event

17.08.2007 13:27


Please go to my web site or call my office, 703-248-9115, ask for Amanda so we can hold an event in Washington. Bring the hemp products. Do you know global warming stunts the growth of shrimp??

RON PAUL
- Homepage: http://WWW.RONPAUL2008.COM


GOOD VIBE

17.08.2007 14:09

You have media attention here in Australia. Keep up the good vibe. Love Yous

Ozzies


Handy Global Warming Safety Tip

17.08.2007 15:48

Environmental activists should take extra precautions this summer to make sure that global warming doesn't ruin their demonstrations. Did you know that a nifty personal solar radiation shield can be fashioned in a few minutes from common household materials? Just take a square of aluminum foil, fold it into a pyramid shape, place on top of the head, and viola! – instant defense against deadly cosmic rays! And not only that, it makes a hip fashion statement as well! No serious environmentalist should be without one. I always wear mine.

GOD BLESS , WELL… ME, AL GORE!

Al Gore
mail e-mail: algore@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.algore.com


keep up da heet

17.08.2007 16:12


dis is clout from da motherland, ve are watching and ar very proud of yu. Ve tried to warn of dis back in da forties but da world voud not listen. So maybe adolph vas not da best spokesperson.

i like da idea of da nude demostraton

Clout
- Homepage: http://Www.ronpaul2008.com


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