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30-08-2006 09:55
Yesterday afternoon bicycology cyclists left en masse from the climate camp to establish a presence in nearby Selby town centre. The cops presumably thought we might double back, crash the main Drax gates, storm the control room, locate the big on/off switch and padlock it off. So they followed us closely all the way stopping at every roundabout to video us. Once in the town, we distributed subversive literature promoting sustainable lifestyles and also offering a Dr Bike workshop to fix the local people's bikes. Plenty of locals, especially kids appreciated this offer and the workshop was kept constantly busy for several hours. The cops continued their intimidatory surveillance tactics, initially with 5 police vehicles parked around the town square and several cameras. They finally realised that we weren't actually so much of a threat to national security.
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30-08-2006 08:56
Here are photos from the blockade of Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station which took place from 8am Tuesday 29th August and lasted till 6pm, when the last of the protesters were finally cut out ten hours later. The action took place as part of the Camp For Climate Action. There were twenty arrests but all were later released on police bail but currently without charge.
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29-08-2006 23:48
This month, Manchester NO2ID had our first meeting at the wheelchair-accessible Friends Meeting House. It was very packed and busy, perhaps too busy since we didn't have much time for our usual chat and digression. At the next meeting, rather than first reviewing the previous meeting's minutes then recapping when we go through the agenda, I will simply place ongoing activities on the new agenda so we can get through it more quickly.
This isn't the exact order in which matters were discussed; I have re-ordered things a little to make it easier to follow. I have included some updates since the meeting, which was now a fortnight ago! Also, I have put links at the end of each section rather than at the very bottom. Dates for the diaries will follow shortly.
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29-08-2006 20:45
Over the weekend, I experienced a new variation on unlawful police 'stop and search' tactics in London. They looked like a trial run for Israeli-style 'check-points' being used in Britain, setting a worrying precedent.
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29-08-2006 17:33
Today after what seemed to be little more than symbolic press conference (no questions allowed) with the Lebanese political aristocracy. The head of the UN went to South Beirut. Don’t get me wrong I’m sure Kofi Annan is a nice bloke with his heart in the right place. I have also seen loads of practical UN aid being distributed across the war torn areas of Lebanon. The Israelis hate them; of this there is no doubt. They even deliberately murdered four of their soldiers in an observation post at the beginning of the war. However the UN has yet again proved to be powerless. The feeling on the ground here is that it was the Israelis entrenched in an unwinable ground war that forced the ceasefire. The UN as usual was forced to tow the line of America. (See- Bosnia/Rwanda/Iraq for further reading.) So, whose idea was it to bring Mr Annan to Dhayiya? An area that was bombed solidly for 33 days while the worlds leaders could not even call for an immediate ceasefire. The people of Dhayiya gave them the welcome they deserved.
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29-08-2006 17:32
Twenty people have been arrested at the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station Blockade.
Up to nine people were involved in locking on to create blockades at the front and back of the power station.
One can only assume the total of twenty arrests must therefore include all of the supporters. It definatly includes a card carrying NUJ videographer who was there to cover the events.
It's understood those locking on had to be cut out of their arm tubes etc and were in place blocking the gates for most of the day.
More later when confirmed.
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29-08-2006 17:21
“Are you with Spiderman?” enquires a representative of the Hizbollah cultural wing. I am nervously watching British stencil graffiti artist ‘Arofish’ scale yet another crumbling wall in Dhayiya. His design for the space involves images of Lebanese children defiantly flying kites in the ruins of South Beirut. Kite flying is a traditional act of defiance used by Palistinian children to break the Israeli curfews. Here Arofish has also included some ghostly white, unattached kites to represent the children who did not survive the war. He has previously scrawled less than flattering images of Ariel Sharon in occupied Palistine and defaced American bases in Baghdad.
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29-08-2006 17:11
Bent Jbeil is Israel's Fallujah. It has resisted every attempt at occupation over the years. During this war they announced it's capture no less than five times. Each time they had to revise their statement. Towards the begining of the war the Israelis marched straight into a trap here. Seven of their soldiers were killed and loads more wounded. The retaliation was extreme. The town centre no longer exists. The buildings were shelled to rubble. The rubble was shelled to pebbles and the pebbles were shelled to dust.
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29-08-2006 14:19
Interview with mandy minkle. Introduction to the deeply worrying concept of Peak Oil (that we have used up half the oil on the planet, and that the second half of it is harder to get at) and our societies' addiction to oil.
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29-08-2006 12:03
Just to give everyone who hasn't attended the climate camp (why not!?) an idea of the scale of the camp. Somewhat jerky video twirl right around the camp using a tripod but not the normal type of tripod that video makers use.
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29-08-2006 11:13
Police was allowed this morning into the Climate Action Camp, after they threatened yesterday to enter by force if they were not allowed to do so. After more than 24 hours of negotiations, it was decided to allow them in and walk around the camp, whilst being escorted by legal observers and activist media.
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29-08-2006 11:00
Audio Interview of the Workshop leader - Run by an internationally recognised authority on the subject, the workshop covers current military plans to build new immobilising and paralysing technologies for border control and for targeting large crowds. The talk explores the generation of this technology as well as the challenge of developing non-violent countermeasures.....
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