Fleeing penguins and polar bears, and climate refugees on boats migrating due to the devastating effects of climate change, invaded London Bridge at about eleven in the morning, and they slowly made their way into the City of London. The traffic in London Bridge was brought to a standstill for about one hour, whilst protesters gave away hundreds of leaflets and the Camp's newspaper to the passers-by.
The Caravan then moved into the City itself, with a detour through several of the City's main landmarks. It eventually stopped at the global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs, where a long speech was made through the bike sound system about the sort of 'investments' Goldman Sachs are involved in, and how this relates to Climate Change and its effects on communities and the environment. It was also pointed out that Goldman Sachs had already been targeted before by the Justice For Cleaners campaign, for their low standards of employment conditions for the City's army of invisible cleaners.
The Caravan then moved to St Paul's Cathedral where it stopped for a couple of hours for lunch. A photo exhibition was set up, whilst the bike sound system kept playing chill tunes for the participants, as well as for the many tourists that approached it to find out what was all that about.
The Caravan then set off for the meeting point at Liverpool Street station, where it was joined by some more people waiting there. It then moved to the nearby headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland, where bags full of pennies where thrown at the main entrances to symbolize the corporation's investments in Climate Chaos.
Here there are some pics of the day:
Penguins invading the southern end of London Bridge ...
... some of which seemed quite baffled about their new environment ...
The back of the caravan moving along the bridge ...
... with some motorists getting a bit impatient.
The Caravan then moves into the belly of the beast ...
... with cycle boats ...
... and a confused polar bear.
The Caravan eventually stops at the City headquarters of Goldman Sachs ...
... and later on at the headquarters of the RBS ...
... where bags full of pennies were thrown at the bank's entrances ...
... and leaving some messages to the bank ...
... to make it clear to the continuous flow of employers what was all about...
... but at the end someone is always told to do the ineresting jobs.
Anyhow, lets hope this climate refugee made it to somewhere safe.
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and...Shell/Fishburn Hedges, BAA/Masius & E.ON/TTWA targeted
15.08.2008 13:29
Having slipped a sluggish police escort, a rebellious gaggle of 5 penguins and one human friend parted temporarily from the delights of the Climate Caravan's St. Pau;s Cathedral lunch stop and headed towards three little known companies that are doing very nicely from nuancing the brands that are trashing our future, not to mention trashing our here-right-now:
1. Fishburn Hedges (
2. Masius (
3. TBWA (
These visits follow on in part from the Fossil Fools Day visit to Y&R, the ad agency of Land Rover/BAe Systems etc. Isn't it time the advertising industry felt a little friendly heat?
PS. Goldman Sachs was visited earlier in the day because it sells its services to E.ON...
Penny le Guin
'Who burnt our fish?' asks the penguin posse at Fishburn Hedges
03.10.2008 18:35
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