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Manchester Goes to Climate Camp

The Mule | 23.08.2009 12:33 | Climate Chaos

This week will see a number of Manchester residents head down to London for this year’s Climate Camp. They will converge, with thousands from around the country, at an undisclosed location somewhere inside the M25.

Those attending hope to put pressure on companies and the government to take urgent action on climate change, but also to discuss and learn about what can be done independently.

Toby B from Manchester said “Their main solution seems to be carbon trading, a complex market mechanism like sub-prime mortgages. Carbon trading has failed to stop carbon dioxide emissions from continuing to rise and we need big reductions rapidly.”

Now in its fourth year the camp aims to provide a space for workshops, discussion and action around climate change. Unlike previous years the immediate focus of the camp this time round is not a mass action. Instead a large direct action will take place in mid October. The target will be one of Britain’s most pollutiong power stations, either Drax or Ratcliffe-on-Soar. The camp recently started ‘Britain’s Got Direct Action’ – an online public vote to decide the target.

The last major action that Climate Camp activists undertook ended in violence, when police launched an unprovoked attack on the environmental campaigners during the G20 demonstrations.

Police have vowed to change their tactics after they were roundly criticised for the way they handled last year’s camp at Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent and the G20 protests, which ended in the death of newspaper salesman Ian Tomlinson. This incident is now under investigation from the Independent Police Complaints Commission after footage was found of the police assaulting Mr. Tomlinson.

However, Climate Camp organisers are sceptical of claims made by the police. Manchester activist John Archer told MULE he thought it was a cynical attempt by the police to redeem themselves after several disastrous operations. “In the past they got in touch with us yet they still did terrible things. In 2008 at Kingsnorth, despite earlier discussions, they battered their way onto the site, confiscated items such as re-chargable batteries, hospitalising people in the process. Ironically, they have always approached us over health and safety concerns but from past experience the only threat is from the police.”

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Camping in London

24.08.2009 09:50

What an odd choice of location. There are plenty of nicer places to go camping than London.

Anyway, enjoy yourselves but don't expect anyone else to take any notice of your elitist, middle class scare stories.

Pete


doh, Pete

25.08.2009 17:26

> What an odd choice of location. There are plenty of nicer places to go camping than London.

Er, Pete - if you took a small moment to read what's been written in this press release or anywhere else about the Camp for Climate Action, you might understand the links people are drawing and the reason it's near London.

> Anyway, enjoy yourselves but don't expect anyone else to take any notice of your elitist, middle class
> scare stories.

Anyway, enjoy yourself Pete with the thought that that the most marginalised in society here and even more so abroad are the ones that bear the brunt of your lack of thoughtfulness and are dying already from climate chaos. I hope no-one takes notice of your elitist middle class head-in-the-sand stupidity.

peaty


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