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The Martians in Wonderland at the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh

Nick Martian | 23.08.2010 07:37 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Workers' Movements | World

Rehearsals for the live public performance of the pantomime reality show “The Martians Have Landed” to be performed on the streets of Edinburgh on the day of mass action by the climate campers at the Camp for Climate Action were very successful.
The White Rabbit visited the media tent to inform the media team about what the kids' bloc Children's Revolution was going to be all about to any journalists who might have been interested.



There's a White fluffy bunny in the media tent at climate camp  http://tweetphoto.com/40675180  http://tweetphoto.com/40675422

Security guards in Morrisons suspiciously eyeing climate camper with a rabbit on the back of his bike, reported Jono Warren, a London based photojournalist, editor of @NUJPhoto and co-founder of @phnat.
Mr Warren had been escorted off the climate camp site for taking photographs of masked activists and then he went on a search for the other villains of the piece who claimed they were stalking the climate campers with their sophisticated James Bond surveillance equipment.

Mr Warren has been reporting on Twitter:
@C4nickmartin Did you see the Searchlight investigation in June that identified Tommy Robinson as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon?  http://jw.to/7 EDL
Not very covert surveillance at climate camp  http://jw.to/8
Tighter security at climate camp today.
Police have set up a sterile area around RBS HQ.
Waiting to be allowed into visitors car park

Climate camp protesters just pushed through police lines and smashed five windows on RBS building with hammers
Climate camp protesters being led away in handcuffs, protesters attempting to 'de-arrest'
Chants of "We'll be back" and "Our Bank"
Climate camp protesters now surrounded by police, on RBS side of bridge
Sitting down to make a consensus decision

Police announcing over loudhailer "Attention, Attention, disperse now or you will be arrested for a breach of the peace"
Climate camp protesters bringing hay bales over the bridge to block police from taking back the RBS side of the bridge
Climate camp protesters now pulled back to hold the bridge
Hay bales being broken apart by police

Climate camp protesters chaining wooden pallets across the bridge to stop police coming over
Around 20 climate camp protesters in boiler suits left holding the RBS side of the bridge standing off with the police
Police Chief Inspector claiming that whole of RBS HQ is a crime scene and has ordered Marc Vallee off the grounds
Climate camp protesters withdrawn
Police dismantling wooden pallet barrier protesters erected across the bridge

Overheard police saying an officer had lost their radio in scuffles with climate camp protesters
Now going over to climate camp to try and interview someone about today's action
I counted five broken windows RT @climatecamp: during the earlier site incursion two windows were smashed by activists
A climate camp protester smashes the windows of RBS HQ  http://jw.to/A
Full set of photos from today's climate camp action against RBS where five windows were smashed by protesters  http://jw.to/B

From the official Camp for Climate Action Twitter site:
Today's the day.
Keep watching!
Latest news from Edinburgh guardian  http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2010/aug/22/edinburgh-cliamtecamp-rbs-portobello-waterfront-leith
Police vans across the RBS bridge  http://tweetphoto.com/40687161 and banner  http://tweetphoto.com/40687287
We had a bit of a party instead climate camp  http://tweetphoto.com/40687403

MrOolong If anyone thinks climate camp is a waste of time, check out today's Sunday Herald.
Business journalist Ian Fraser blogs in support of climate camp  http://bit.ly/aTA7Ih
jessnewint  http://twitgoo.com/1j9st4 @lucypearce's flags fluttering in front of RBS
Exciting news: Top comedian Josie Long confirmed to perform at climate camp at 10pm on Monday evening.
What a fab end to mass action day!

Mass incursion at RBS HQ.
Hundreds threatened with arrest if they don't cross back over the bridge climate camp
Pictures from our incursion onto RBS HQ.
Currently a stand off and bridge and people up tripods too  http://tweetphoto.com/40722969
SophiaCR Balloons full of 'oil' just burst on the RBS building.

Overheard_it Overheard police saying an officer had lost their radio in scuffles with climate camp protesters
during the earlier site incursion two windows were smashed by activists angry about RBS fossil fuel investments
In an unrelated incident two activists were also arrested.
Molasses representing dirty oil was flung at RBS HQ in caterpaults

After a prolonged stand off with the police we are now in a mass plenary hearing from two Canadian tarsands activists
Packed plenary for tarsands activists
Discussing en masse the role of potentially damaging actions against corporate property within the movement

We have all agreed that a diversity of tactics and acceptance of different methods is at the core of what climate camp is!
Tarsands activists applaud our courage and passion.
Big woops all round!

youandifilms Going to project some climate camp videos onto a building in central Edinburgh RBS
@col_buendia hi, I'm sorry but I don't know.
All actions have been planned on site by autonomous groups.
But please retweet them!

johnstuttle New Statesman climate camp article. V wimpish re loos.
They are clean, odour-free, much better than at music festivals  http://bit.ly/a0zT1i
Now about to have a full debrief from this afternoon's actions.
Huge woops for successful de-arrests on mass action today
Lots of claps: we nearly (maybe) got into the RBS HQ
woop woop

Unfortunately we had a few injuries in the process - but they are being looked after.
Two arrested for breach of the peace.
In court tomorrow
Police have requested that if anyone has any police items that they dropped during the incursion, please can they return them?
tiredlegs Been given midge repellent by police. This isn't Kingsnorth!

nmec A #ClimateCamp protester smashes the windows of #RBS HQ  http://jw.to/A
Point being made that it's really good that we are able to show we don't just do media stunts and banner drops
Generally people really happy with how well we operated as a unit under pressure.
All feeling enervated about to watch action video.

A de-arrested shoe has just been returned.... Now to watch that action video
Then time for a band. And bed.
We just had a mass group hug. Lots of love for fellow campers tonight.
Now time to relax before day of mass action tomorrow. Exciting times

ur32daurt I have nothing but love respect for your actions today's well done one in all big up
And tonights fabulous band hits the deck/haybale stage.  http://tweetphoto.com/40764207
SophiaCR It's not just about science; climate change is a social and political problem.
Woop woop. Just saw a favourable report of today's climate camp action on the Scottish Beeb.

wmclimateaction Eviction Imminent at Huntington Lane  http://wp.me/pNNLC-5s UK Coal are preparing papers for a court order
jpjhall It's amazing how many people want to criticise climate camp without really knowing anything about it
Photos from actions (and for use by press) here:  http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/photography
Rumours of fencing just arriving at the front of RBS HQ - we shall investigate

The evil stalkers of the Camp for Climate Action also posted on Twitter:
AlJahom @wearethebritish @obotheclown Some rudimentary searches lead me to believe that intrepid reporter Nick Martian is this nob @godsavetheearth
obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: @guardianeco please check out indymedia police asked to arrest nazi fascist terrorising camp for climate action

obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: @climatecamp please be very careful because the evil stalker is planning to return soon to climate camp Paranoid much?
obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: @guardianeco Max Clifford may be the only person who can save climate campers from being murdered at climate camp
obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: @guardianeco help!
The fascist lunatics have been threatening to burn us all to death at climate camp
Hahahahaha

CynaraeStMary @GodSaveTheEarth This is God! Don't eat the bunny, hippie!
obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: @guardianeco fascist stalker of climate camp should be front page news
And you should be in a padded cell
obotheclown RT @GodSaveTheEarth: please help me I am too terrified to come out of my tent at climate camp Terrified of coming out?

obotheclown Current Climate Camp Score: @wearethebritish 200 @GodSaveTheEarth 0 All 200 points are @GodSaveTheEarth 's own goals
My_Thoughts_UK @GodSaveTheEarth The police are being requested to arrest mentally ill ex-serviceman
PMSL so much my head hurts.

JamieVaide RT @GodSaveTheEarth: If a single child gets hurt again at climate camp I will start a prosecution - putting kids in harm's way? Disgraceful
theimp67 Please be careful @GodSaveTheEarth - I hear civilians have been issues with Mk 1 Eyeballs.
Geez, what a bell end.  http://j.mp/czfoFG

wearethebritish @CynaraeStMary I wonder what they did with that guy @GodSaveTheEarth - he made an absolute fool of himself and climate camp today - GOOD!!
wearethebritish @CynaraeStMary they put @GodSaveTheEarth into a balloon & fired him at the RBS building - he's now a gooey blob on wall

There were also messages of support from the eco-warriors:
Martyn Healer: What has this man done?
How come so many people are scared of just one person, I'm confused!
Nick Martian: He is part of a group called the English Defence League and they are targeting the climate camp and threatening the climate campers on Twitter under the name "wearethebritish"
The EDL is a vicious and violent neo Nazi group that many people regard as a terrorist organisation.
They have threatened to burn down the climate camp.

Martyn Healer: Blimey Nick you are acting like a shill.
I've never seen such fear put out by one person before.
You are doing the EDL's work for them,
I know of at least 10 people who have refused to go because your reporting has scared them off, that is just me.
I calculate you personally have stopped possibly 500 people from attending, who's side are you on Nick, think about it!

Martyn Healer: Can you tell me about child that was hurt?
Mary Corri: It's a in case of statement... if Martyn if
Nick Martian: No it is not only an in case of statement.
A baby was kicked out of her buggy by a stampeding riot police horse on the day of mass action at the Kingsnorth Camp for Climate Action.
The witness is a friend of yours.

Nick Martian I need to get some sleep now.
Working around the clock.
Will be back later.
Thanks for your interest and your help.
Mary Corri: Oh shit sorry didn't see the again bless!

Well, it certainly looks as if the War on Terror has returned with a vengeance to the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
The eco-warriors have not only kept their children away but they seem to have decided that discretion is the better part of valour and they are staying away in droves themselves, if Martyn healer is correct.
They do say that if you fight and run away you live to fight another day.

The brave souls who are battling it out on the front lines at the climate camp deserve to be applauded and wooped for their efforts in the face of the provocation by the police who are being very obstructive and uncooperative to say the least, and the evil stalking villains of the English Defence League who are jeering and heckling everyone.
Hiss hiss!
Let's hope that they all get arrested soon for threatening behaviour and causing alarm and distress to the women and children as the grand finale to the day of mass action.

Personally I think that George Bush was right after all.
There really are evil terrorists out there who are threatening our freedom and democracy.
I am still hiding under my sleeping bag in my tent feeling panic stricken and hysterical, too terrified to come out and face the music, as they say.
What if the evil stalkers actually do set fire to the climate camp and murder all the women and children?
Then who will cook the food and do the washing up and run around shouting “we are the future”?

Someone should call Max Clifford 02074082350 urgently to ask him to mobilise the mainstream news media to get massive worldwide publicity for the day of mass action at the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
Only Max Clifford can save us now, not only from the evil stalkers of the EDL but from the indifference of the journalists and the television stations who don't seem to be too interested in the activities of the climate campers any more.

The fact is that the human race faces extinction this century as a result of global warming and climate change which is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels, according to the most eminent and reputable climate scientists.
Pakistan is flooded right across the whole country and millions of people are fleeing from their homes.
There is also severe flooding in China, and Russia has just experienced the worst heatwaves and forest fires in its history.

Bangladesh is about to disappear under the rising sea levels and the islands of Tuvalu in the South Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are also about to vanish beneath the waves.
There are hurricanes brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and scientists say there will be twice as many as in previous years and they will be even stronger and more ferocious than ever before.
In the run-up to the United Nations' climate conference in Cancun in Mexico this December we are likely to be seeing even more natural disasters destroying the environment and contributing to the mass extinction of all life on earth.

Martyn Healer is quite right of course and his constructive criticism must be taken into account if the environmental movement is to be able to survive the attempted hijack by the liberal reformists and the green capitalists who are supporting government and corporate policies to carry on burning fossil fuels and polluting the earth's atmosphere.
Carbon trading and cap and trade and biofuels and carbon permits are all false solutions to global warming, and the Bilderberg capitalist financial system is not offering anything to solve the global environmental crisis except their greedy money making schemes that will kill us all in the end.

There is a lot of anxiety and fear going about these days and I have been helping to spread it around myself without actually meaning to, but the activities of the global warming sceptics are getting even more nasty than ever before and somebody has got to reveal what is going on.
The truth about global warming must be told if the human race is to be able to survive into the next century and the public has the right to know what is really happening to the planet.

Rather than hiding our heads in the sand like ostriches and continuing to accept the censorship of the Bilderberg news media that wants us all to think that global warming is just a hoax we have to take serious action to combat climate change.
The Transnational corporations and the banks and the western governments that are controlled by Bilderberg want everyone to carry on shopping as the earth continues on its collision course with catastrophe and sinks beneath the waves like the Titanic.

The Camp for Climate Action is all about raising awareness of global warming and climate change and the need to ensure the survival of future generations.
Unfortunately the climate campers have overlooked the obvious and that is that if they really do want to protect the children in the future they should be looking after their interests right now, and not putting the kids in danger at their part time publicity stunts.

We will just have to hope that the climate camp police liaison team has done their job properly for a change and that the climate campers will have consulted with the children and taken notice of what they have to say and they will protect them from their enemies.
Hopefully the mainstream news media will be there to keep an eye on everyone as well and the police will uphold the law and protect life and property as they are supposed to do, and make sure that the kids are safe which should be their main priority.
After that we must hope that they will deal with the evil stalkers.

Right now I am busy digging a tunnel under my tent so that I can escape from all this madness around me.
I've had enough.
I'm getting out of here.
If 500 eco-warriors have stayed away because they are too scared of the English Defence League to come to the climate camp then there will be no cavalry coming over the hillside to rescue me.
No reinforcements after all my hard work and dedication to the cause?
It's time to head for the hills.

I am reminded of the famous French general who ordered his troops into battle and they turned and ran the other way.
“Now what are you going to do, mon generale?” asked his second in command.
“I am their leader, I must follow them,” the general replied.
My thoughts exactly, and I am getting on with digging my tunnel to freedom.
If Swampy could do it, so can I.
Farewell climate campers, good luck with your day of mass action and thanks for all the fish.

Nick Martian
- e-mail: earthaidcampaign@gmail.com

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  1. i find this poster slightly creepy — Bob Hoskins
  2. Too Much Acid — Jimi Hendrix
  3. tell us the troof — phoo
  4. i also find your posts creepy and offensive — suffer the children
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