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Climate Camp podcast

Teresa | 22.08.2007 17:39 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | London

This podcast content a couple of interviews, general mood in BAA, Seize the day music and Rob Newman performance.





I set up for the climate camp on friday night with a friend

While waiting for the train to Hayes and Harlington at Paddington station I saw a familiar face, a girl with dread locks and camping gear. we smiled and said hello to each other. she was taking the Oxford train that was leaving earlier, we followed her.


When we got out of the bus in a quiet suburban area I immediately relaxed, the London chaos was behind and a friendlier more peaceful atmosphere welcomed us
after few minutes walking on the light of the clear night we could see the white tents of the camp and hear our people singing, the rows of policemen standing by the road didn't matter, the sense of purpose produced by being part of something big was stronger than anything.

At the camp "Seize the day", my favorite band, where performing in the main tent we listen to them for a while but had to go to set up our tents

The next day my friend was going to lock herself to the gate of Carmel, an Israeli company that imports fruits and vegetables from Palestinian illegally occupied land,
more info at ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378741.html) a peaceful protest in front of this company had been arranged with climate campers to
rise awareness about this company's unfair trading and disregard for climate change issues.

The protest went ok apart from each one of us being searched by police under section 60 and about 6 young people arrested for getting into the company's office and creating some chaos.

That night at the camp Rob Newman performed his activist political stand up. Next day was the big march when everyone was going to march to Sipson village and then to BAA.

We some training on de-escalation techniques to avoid violence with the hundreds of police surrounding the camp but only few of us managed to succeed on crossing the different lines of police on horses, normal police on foot and riot police. They were taking no chance, they were determined to stop us at any cost.

I was among the people who were kettled in the fields for few hours and then escorted back to the camp by police where we were free to go to the BAA building to join the rest of us who were already there

The atmosphere at BAA was a happy one, lot of young people singing and bonding together in the exercise of their right to free expression.

Here are the recordings I did during my 3 days experience of the climate camp
 http://www.archive.org/details/TereClimateCampPodcast

Teresa
- e-mail: teresa@aktivix.org

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22.08.2007 21:01

well done. it's nice to hear more indymedia audio coverage coming out of the actions...but some introductions would have been good. it's all a bit disjointed and hard to tell what is what if you weren't there.

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Great Week!

23.08.2007 08:08

Thanks for this. It brings back special memories of a great week of learning and participation. The way that campers just got on with stuff despite the weather and psychological/physical harassment from the police was a credit to us all. The afternoon/night/morning at the BBA building i will never forget the singing and solidarity and locking on to each-other when things looked bad was inspirational. I believe we can change the world and we WON at victory at the climate camp!

Crusty Camper


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