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26.07.08 Climate Camp press conference

Images from the climate camp press conference, Saturday 26th July 2008.
The climate camp will move this weekend from its location at Heathrow Airport to a new location - Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent. This conference aimed to examine the ongoing situation at Heathrow and bring different groups such as Camp for Climate Action, local campaign groups HACAN and NoTRAG), and Greenpeace to discuss a broad strategy against expansion.

UK, Greater London. Climate camp press conference, Harlington Baptist church.

UK, Greater London. Climate camp press conference. Activist Dan Glass.

This climate camp press conference took place at Harlington Baptist Church, near Heathrow airport.

There was a large turnout - one or two hundred people by my estimation, packed into a small church. These were mainly local residents who are concerned about the impact expanding Heathrow will have on the surrounding areas, and activists / environmentalists who see the airport as an environmental disaster area.

Speakers included members of Greenpeace, the wife of the Vicar who had kindly lent the Church for the day and who publicly lends his support to the activists, people involved in 'Flashmobs' at Heathrow in the past, local MPs, and also an environmental scientist who gave a detailed account of what scientists believe the effect of pumping vast amount of CO2 into the air is doing to our planet.

Also present were several people who have recently taken direct action against the Government to raise awareness about Heathrow, including one of the activists who climbed onto the houses of Parliament, a Greenpeace activist involved in a recent high-profile action, and activist Dan Glass, who managed to superglue himself to Gordon Brown a few days ago, urging the PM to 'Stick to his promises about Heathrow.' (This really happened!)

The atmosphere was cheerful, determined, and informative. The crowd was a mix of young and old. From what was said, it was difficult not to come away with the feeling that Climate Camp has genuinely affected public opinion on the matter, having gained a vast amount of positive media coverage over the past year.

Links:

CLIMATE CAMP WEBSITE:

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/

STOP KINGSNORTH POWER STAION WEBSITE:

http://www.wdm.org.uk/kingsnorth/index.htm

SUPERGLUE INCIDENT:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/07/stuck_on_you.html

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All images Copyright Billy Macrae 2008
These lo-res versions may be circulated in connection with Climate Camp.
(For hi-res versions, drop me a line.)

An edit of this story will be placed on my photo-blog along with other stories on similar issues:
http:www.billymacrae.blogspot.com

Billy Macrae
e-mail: billy.macrae.online@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.billymacrae.blogspot.com

Comments

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your being ripped off

27.07.2008 10:07

Whilst your out there frightening old bluerinsed grannys with all this codswallop about climate change; remember this, G browne family and chums have invested alot of money into this climate change thing, but guess what, they also invested alot of money into pushing more nuclear powerstations too, and into the companies whom have already been awarded the contracts to build them. So keep on peddling hooha science that you don't even understand, attack coal powered fire stations, show solidarity with the nimby's opposing the wind farms and we will all have some more nice hot waste to keep us warm over the next 50,000 years. And maybe i will keep reading the daily mail, lol!

oi yoi

The New Consensus

27.07.2008 10:19

On March 4th 2007 Channel 4 aired The Great Global Warming Swindle.

The programme was a lone voice. Whether or not you agree with its conclusions, the documentary was a little bit of free speech, arguing against a consensus. Surely free speech means that even people who are wrong are allowed to have their say.

One documentary that stands against a tide of opposing opinion leads to Channel 4 being taken to court. Surely this only reinforces the contents of the offending documentary. We are not allowed to question the new consensus on global warming.

When it comes to global warming, people are divided into two groups: believers and deniers!

Belief and denial have very little to do with science, and far more to do with religion. Looks like we got a new religion on our hands: Global Warming.

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Self censorship?

27.07.2008 12:36

What happened to the 4th comment

Title: It is our policy to jump on every bandwagon and exploit it. — UK Indymedia collective

Can anyone from the UK Indymedia collective clarify this previous comment as being authentic or as not under general consensus of the UK Indymedia collective?

I smell trouble.

BTW, are you both participating, organising and reporting on protest, cause that doesn't read like news to me, it's more like propaganda.

oi yoi

More Censorship

27.07.2008 13:40

this time, it's one of my comments that have faced censorship,

Comment title: Pudding

Well done UK Indymedia collective, you have just proven the point i have been highlighting all along, you can find it here..

Only click this link if you wish to visit the 'view all' page for this article..

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404722.html?c=all

oi yoi

Participating etc

27.07.2008 13:48

Hi, I do get your point but I don't participate in or organise protests, I just document them.
Billy

Billy Macrae

your innocent, don't worry

27.07.2008 14:15

your right, you didnt.

oi yoi

keyboard warrior

27.07.2008 18:10

Hi, I do get your point too but I participate in or organise protests, I don't just sit on my arse and shout from the sidelines like a keyboard warrior, slagging others off. Whatever action people take to put the political and public agenda onto climate change is a good one imho..

klaus

Bistow Boy

27.07.2008 19:31

Keyboard warrior? careful, if it wasn't for activists on keyboards this text field wouldn't be here for you to type your nonsense into Biggoted Bistow Boy. So when we sabbed the coal fired power stations, wind farms, what energy producing alternatives to Nuclear power are we left with? solar energy, hmm, ya maybe in sunny Spain but not under the canopy of cloudy Great Britan. Maybe if we were to highlight the carbon bi-product of breathing, maybe, just maybe if we could get some of the 6.680 billion useless eaters off the planet it might help reduce our carbon emissions on a global scale? What do you think? Doing something bad is far better than doing nothing at all?

Maybe, if we ceased the oppertunity, we could use the global warming agenda to push in a global carbon bassed tax system, yes, that's it!

oi yoi

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