Greenwash guerillas assemble outside conference
High greenwash toxicity causes mass die in
Greenwash detection in progress
Greenwash gets everywhere it seems...
Police remove protester "for his own safety".
No event complete without a cop photographer.
Some delegates happily took in bottles of Ev.eon water (carbon capture in a bottle, the latest techno-fix here to save the day! Check it out: www.ev-eon.com), and ended up taking a little piece of subversion into the belly of the E.ON-sponsored beast. At one point, the word went out that greenwash had reached maximum toxicity levels, and some of the guerrillas temporarily succumbed in a mass die-in. The sounds of the Pedals pedal-powered sound system soon revived them, however, and the guerrillas went back to sucking greenwash out of the building and chatting to largely receptive passers-by and largely sheepish delegates.
One guerrilla was heard to say: "This summit is greenwash of the highest toxicity. E.ON is spending a lot of money trying to paint its dirty deeds as green. Those really concerned about climate change will be confronting their lies, at conferences and offices in London, at the Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth this August, and wherever else E.ON is committing climate crimes", said McDonnell.
After 1000 leaflets had been handed out and the ‘E.ON’s Greenwash Won’t Wash’ and ‘Caution: Toxic Greenwash Hazard’ banners rolled away (to be used another day, should any company ever be crazy enough to accept sponsorship from E.ON again), the guerrillas outmanoeuvred the police to have a debrief and late breakfast in the sunshine at a nearby park. Just as they were preparing to leave, a huge cheer went out: Oxford climate campers had occupied the roof of the London head office of Edelman, E.ON’s recently hired PR company!
A brilliant morning’s work. Keep the pressure on E.ON – see you at the Camp!
Photos and video to follow.
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Nice one!
16.07.2008 15:44
oilypoo
I see the greenwash risin'...
17.07.2008 15:37
Greenwash Risin’ (for the E.ON-sponsored Guardian Climate Bullshit, 16.7.08)
I see the greenwash risin’
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin’
Still I see such bullshit today
Chorus:
Don’t go there today
It’ll steal your soul away
There’s toxic greenwash on the rise
A Climate Summit sponsored by E.ON?
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry
But I do know which planet I want to be on
The coal in the ground and the miners raised up high
Chorus
I hear hurricanes a-blowing
Some say the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Chorus
Hope you got your things together
Are you really prepared to lie?
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather
Gotta keep that carbon outta the sky
Chorus
So will we see you down at Kingsnorth?
Will we see you at the Climate Camp?
Shall we surprise ourselves by what springs forth?
We’d love to see you at the Climate Camp
Chorus:
Go down there in August
But watch out for that coal dust
There’s resistance on the rise
Carbon Town Cryer
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