Three climate activists were arrested by Scottish police as they took the site for the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh which set up very close to the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters at Gogarburn Gardens off Gogar Station Road just after 9pm yesterday evening.
It is understood that the three who were arrested have all been released without charge.
It is understood that the three who were arrested have all been released without charge.
The @climatecamp Twitter site reports:
Three arrests last night.
Ridiculous reasons.
Otherwise chilled.
We look forward to seeing you on the swoop soon!
Amelia Gregory reports:
I just woke up and took some photos of the climate camp by daylight.
Just saw one of the people who was arrested last night.
He seems okay.
At least he's back on site anyway!
Just a few people up.
Everyone else is getting a bit of shut eye and all is calm.
Camp for Climate Action swoop update:
We are now swooping at noon from just one location in Edinburgh.
Meet at St Andrews Square.
We need large numbers to come down and support us on the swoop.
Please help out!
RBS is a 30 minute walk from Edinburgh park station or get the westbound bus from Haymarket or the town centre.
Come join us as soon as you can!
RBS HQ is also very near the airport.
Enter via Kellerstain Farm lane off Gogar Station Road.
BBC Scotland reported: Climate protesters set up climate camp close to RBS headquarters.
Press release info: secret climate camp location revealed as over 100 activists have descended on grounds of RBS headquarters a day early.
If you'd like to speak to any of us please contact press @climatecamp.org.uk
All interviews welcome!
Three arrests last night.
Ridiculous reasons.
Otherwise chilled.
We look forward to seeing you on the swoop soon!
Amelia Gregory reports:
I just woke up and took some photos of the climate camp by daylight.
Just saw one of the people who was arrested last night.
He seems okay.
At least he's back on site anyway!
Just a few people up.
Everyone else is getting a bit of shut eye and all is calm.
Camp for Climate Action swoop update:
We are now swooping at noon from just one location in Edinburgh.
Meet at St Andrews Square.
We need large numbers to come down and support us on the swoop.
Please help out!
RBS is a 30 minute walk from Edinburgh park station or get the westbound bus from Haymarket or the town centre.
Come join us as soon as you can!
RBS HQ is also very near the airport.
Enter via Kellerstain Farm lane off Gogar Station Road.
BBC Scotland reported: Climate protesters set up climate camp close to RBS headquarters.
Press release info: secret climate camp location revealed as over 100 activists have descended on grounds of RBS headquarters a day early.
If you'd like to speak to any of us please contact press @climatecamp.org.uk
All interviews welcome!
Comments
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Swoop?
19.08.2010 07:57
Protestor
Swoop
19.08.2010 08:15
Protester
No,
19.08.2010 08:43
A sab
A little pointless, perhaps
19.08.2010 10:13
CC is not quite ‘turning into a laughing stock’ but it does seem to be missing the point. If the camp had chosen to go anywhere else in Edinburgh then the police would be forced to split their numbers between the camp and RBS’s headquarters. Although it looks good from a media perspective to be next to RBS, it is not only assisting the police enormously but it is now going to make the planning ‘day of action’ against RBS far more difficult to organise. It also means that unless it attracts truly large numbers, which seems unlikely, giving RBS a bird’s eye view of the camp may have precisely the opposite effect and persuade them that it not a serious threat to its lending activities.
I know a lot of people such as myself as going up at the weekend and so hopefully there should be a good turnout for the day of action.
Andy R
Disrupt lending activities?
19.08.2010 10:46
Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.
FCC
Help!!!
19.08.2010 11:27
Jimmy
straw men
19.08.2010 12:37
If the only way to outfox the police is to take the site before the swoop gets there, then so be it. My ego isn't bothered by that, and I'd be glad by turning up to the swoop to have enabled the site to be taken. I'd get there and pitch in. It's an old tactic that has been used countless times with taking squatted social centres and much more - a small group find a way in, stay there overnight, and when the large group that meets at the meeting point to take the building arrive, they are let in and start transforming the place.
There seems to be a huge lack of trust in these comments about other activists. That's a pity, and not something we can easily build a better world and confront the old one with!
I may put my energy into other places now than the Camp for Climate Action, but we can at least be active in changing the world, rather than just typing fast here.....
easy to shoot down