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Resistance escalates with Airport 'Green' Light

12-01-2009 13:13

Both Heathrow and Manchester airports were targeted Monday with the domestic departure lounges of both airports simultaneously occupied by protesters. In London over 500 people defied airport bylaws by staging a sit-down dinner forcing airport operator BAA to close 18 check-in desks. In Manchester police used powers under Section 14 of the Public Order Act to contain up to 100 protesters on the ground floor of Terminal 3 and there was one arrest.

The Climate Rush actions were timed to coincide with MPs return to the house of commons with the government expected to announce the decision on the Heathrows airport expansion during week. Meanwhile, Greenpeace revealed that a plot of land within the proposed expansion site had been purchased in an attempt to delay the construction.

Despite media speculation that the announcement would be delayed, by Wednesday nght the media were reporting that the expanision plans have been given the green light. After the official announcement on Thursday, 'climate suffragettes' smashed the windows of the Department of Transport and on Saturday 500 flash mobbed at Heathrows terminal 5.

Newswire Reports : Climate Rush Heathrow images, 12.01.09 | Heathrow Terminal One Climate Rush Picnic a success! | Northern Climate Rush at Manchester Airport | Northern Climate Rush Photos (video) | Protests against airport extension in Frankfurt | Why I renounce my vote | Suffra-jets smash windows

Campaign Links: Plane Stupid | Airport Watch | Climate Rush | T5Flashmob"> | HACAN ClearSkies | No Third Runway Action Group | Stop Heathrow Expansion | Campaign for Better Transport | Airport Pledge | Stop Bristol Airport Expansion

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Manchester Climate Change Activists Blockade Domestic Flights

10-10-2007 15:25

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Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport.

Passengers were denied access to the departure lounge by seven activists locked together using arm-tube devices. Two banners were unfurled reading, “Manchester City Council...supporting climate chaos” and “Domestic flights cost the Earth”. Other protesters leafleted passengers with information about aviation and climate change as well as handing out train timetables for route destinations.

Video | Photos | Press release

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Esso: Number One Denier

13-02-2007 20:51

closed for denying climate change

Thirty climate activists shut down an ESSO petrol station Feb 9th on Upper Brook Street in Manchester for two hours, using bits of fencing and traffic cones. The action aimed to highlight the link between the oil industry and global warming. As a symbol against car culture, three people locked themselves with D-locks to bicycles. Two others were locked to concrete based signs. Two large banners were displayed reading “no.1 supplier, no.1 denier, no.1 profiteer” and “closed for denying climate change”.

Climate change has become very topical of late. A week earlier and coinciding with the latest IPCC report on climate change, an illustration of a carbon footprint was found decorated on pavements in Manchester outside flight centres, petrol stations, supermarkets and a humvee garage. Remaining on a climate theme, there is to be a celebration in Manchester of the perfect antedote to global warming, the bicycle. From 30th March to 20th April the I Bike MCR festival takes place - a grassroots festival organised by cyclists for cyclists with diverse events that will entice any cyclist.

Carbon Footprints: What Do They Mean? | I Bike MCR festival | Esso garage Shut Down

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Two Days of Action Target Climate Criminals

06-02-2007 03:37

Over the weekend of 3-4 Feb 2007, actions up and down the country and beyond targeted dangerous 'greenwash' being desperately pushed by corporations and politicians. The actions came in the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Friday, which warned of world temperature rises of over 6C by the end of the century. The report indicated that a 4 degree rise would mean a 10% loss in global food production due to draught, flooding, water shortages. While the world slowly wakes up to the magnitude of climate chaos, Shell and Exxon Mobil last week announced record breaking profits. With the figures laid out so clearly, the nauseating hypocrisy spouted by corporations and politicians has spurred action from Paris to Aberdeen.

Links Press release for oil spill action | action report, photos & video | another video | Shell sponsorship background
Other actions Glasgow | Edinburgh | Plane Stupid | Greenpeace
Coming up Protest against ESSO, 9th Feb | Spring into Action
Climate Camp 2006 indymedia page | website | 2007 Camp 14-21st August | next organising meeting 17-18th Feb

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Text Call out for solidarity actions against Shell
22-12-2010 14:46 | 1 comment

Image Manchester Airport protesters found guilty but vow to fight on
08-12-2010 20:50

Image Manchester Airport on Trial - call out for court support - Mon. 6th December
04-12-2010 12:25 | 1 comment

Image The season so far
01-11-2010 23:23

Image Manchester students vote to boycott RBS
22-10-2010 15:36 | 1 comment

Generic This weekend: Stop Nuclear Power Network Gathering in Bristol
18-10-2010 16:55

Image Video: 16 Oct 2010: World Food Day - Kids Action @ Cargill Ghent
17-10-2010 12:09

Image Cumbrian Greenfield Nuclear Sites 'Removed'
14-10-2010 09:50 | 2 comments

Text Huntington Lane Coal Mine Eviction?
13-10-2010 13:05 | 1 comment

Image Manchester Airport protesters appear in Magistrates court
06-10-2010 07:12 | 9 comments

Image £400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria
02-10-2010 15:51

Image Wednesday is International Radioactive Waste Action Day
28-09-2010 12:54

Image High Level Nuke Dump Opposition
21-09-2010 10:04

Image Stop Nuclear Power gathering Bristol 23rd Oct
13-09-2010 16:35 | 3 comments

Image West Cumbria Revolt Begins over High Level Nuke Dump.
07-09-2010 10:21 | 2 comments

Image Manchester Airport End Domestic Flights Demo
06-09-2010 00:40 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Text Eco day at the Nerve Centre
27-08-2010 23:37

Image End Domestic Flights demo + Evening Party at Manchester Airport
27-08-2010 18:13

Text Climate Camp parks its tanks on RBS's lawn!
19-08-2010 20:13 | 1 comment

Image Cheap as Minibus and Veggie-oil coaches going to Edinburgh Climate Camp/Fring
12-08-2010 19:11 | 3 comments

Image Warning over Nuclear Industry Freshwater Use
10-07-2010 09:52 | 5 comments

Image Peat Bog protesters found not guilty
07-07-2010 01:05 | 1 comment

Image Lewes Road Community Garden V Tesco
01-07-2010 00:37 | 6 comments

Text Italian company ICOP applying for tunnel tender
30-06-2010 13:38

Text Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy
29-06-2010 20:01

Text Plane Stupid breach security at Manchester Airport
24-05-2010 11:10

Image Manchester Plane Stupid Breach Airside Security in Airport Protest
24-05-2010 09:16 | 1 addition | 4 comments

Audio Giant Elephant attacks Manchester Council meeting
20-05-2010 14:02 | 1 comment

Image Biodiversity Walk at Manchester Airport - 9th May 2010
11-05-2010 16:16

Image Know Your Airport! Biodiversity Walk - Sun 9th May
29-04-2010 14:33

Image benefit night tonight 7pm onwards
23-04-2010 10:01

Image Peat Bog Extraction halted in Greater Manchester
15-04-2010 13:02 | 8 comments

Text No Inaccuracies - But Report Condemmed by UK Coal
12-04-2010 13:45

Image Radioactive Waste - In a Landfill Near You ?
09-04-2010 18:04 | 5 comments

Text I Bike MCR Festival 2010
31-03-2010 12:56

Text Dissident Island Radio - check out the show
25-02-2010 12:25

Image Manchester Airport and Heathrow residents join forces
09-02-2010 12:20

Text Earth First! Winter Moot location announced, 6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010
01-02-2010 11:59 | 3 comments

Text Adopt a Hasty Lane Resident!
01-02-2010 11:48

Text A major legal victory over Kent Police
31-01-2010 11:46

Image Climate and Capitalism – Manchester Day School - sat 23rd January
15-01-2010 01:48 | 2 comments

Text When the other Miliband came to town
17-12-2009 15:27

Text University research findings called into question over Tesco funding
15-12-2009 14:44 | 6 comments

Image Ed Miliband meets his followers on the way to 'Hopenhagen'
09-12-2009 18:03

Text Would a council really serious on tackling climate change make this decision?
02-12-2009 11:38 | 1 comment

Text Manchester Airport Expansion Approved
28-11-2009 15:48

Text Fuelling Conflict: The Tar Sands and the Military Industrial Complex
21-11-2009 12:42

Image Fuelling Conflict: The Tar Sands and the Military Industrial Complex
20-11-2009 19:01

Text Don't Nuke the Climate! - Sat 12 Dec, International Day of Action
18-11-2009 09:28

Text ‘End bloody oil!’ Indigenous women bring the fight against Tar Sands to Manch
17-11-2009 12:41

Text Indigenous women accuse RBS and Treasury of funding 'bloody oil'
16-11-2009 14:57 | 7 comments

Image Radiation Tax proposed to protect DNA ?
28-10-2009 22:31

Text Machines locked-on to at Mainshill again in two days of continuous action
27-10-2009 10:25

Text Activists Interrupt Coal Supply Destined for Ratcliffe-on-Soar
26-10-2009 11:08 | 3 comments

Image Earth First! Wintermoot: 5th - 7th February 2010
23-10-2009 09:44

Text Carbon Capture Companies Must Share Results With Poor Countries
12-10-2009 13:55 | 1 comment

Image Sabotage and digger-diving – work stopped twice in two days at Mainshill Wood
10-10-2009 23:06 | 1 comment

Image Mainshill Solidarity Camp needs you! Clear-felling and drilling ongoing
02-10-2009 23:11 | 1 comment

Text Is Greenpeace sabotaging the ‘Great Climate Swoop’?
22-09-2009 11:40 | 1 addition | 7 comments

Text Locations For Targets (Kingsnorth Campaign)
09-09-2009 14:20 | 1 comment

Text Climate Swoop and COP 15 Mobilisation Call Out
07-09-2009 13:44

Text EVENT: From the Camp to the Swoop, Copenhagen and beyond....
06-09-2009 00:08

Image Bodysnatching, Radiation Poisoning and Infanticide
04-09-2009 14:24 | 9 comments

Text Manchester Goes to Climate Camp
23-08-2009 12:33 | 2 comments

Image Nuclear New Build Blessed by Bishop of Carlisle
21-08-2009 14:36

Image Dissident Island Radio - August 21 transmision from 9pm
21-08-2009 13:25

Text Whats going on in Mayo? Rossport Update
17-08-2009 20:46

Image Nuclear Power Trashing the Climate
15-08-2009 12:42 | 1 comment

Text Climate Change: a year from now
26-07-2009 11:15 | 1 comment

Image Solidarity protest at Vestas UK HQ in Warrington - Sat 25th July
23-07-2009 22:51 | 2 comments

Image Activists strike at Chorlton Tesco
04-07-2009 13:58 | 2 comments

Image Manchester Plane Stupid disrupt aviation industry Gala Dinner
17-06-2009 08:38

Image Manchester Plane Stupid disrupt aviation industry conference
16-06-2009 14:56 | 2 comments

Text Anti-Shell fisherman speaks of attack & sinking of boat
11-06-2009 23:19 | 3 comments

Text Dissident Island Radio - latest show ready for download!
11-06-2009 09:30

Image Part Owner of Arsenal Soccer Team Invested in Mammal Genocide
29-05-2009 17:58 | 5 comments

Text Activists deflate tyres of 100 4x4s in Manchester area
23-05-2009 11:51 | 14 comments

Text Lakes for Living – Lakes for Life ??
20-05-2009 10:44

Text Event: Acting on Climate Change
25-04-2009 15:15

Image G20 Part II - Dissident Island Radio
03-04-2009 17:38

Text Shock and Awe tactics along with Bribery used by Nuclear Industry in Cumbria
03-04-2009 13:59

Image RBS in the stocks – Fred Goodwin slimed with green custard
18-03-2009 18:06 | 1 comment

Image Northern Climate Rush visit to UK coal headquarters
27-02-2009 21:23 | 1 comment

Image Northern Climate Rush - Rush on UK Coal!
18-02-2009 21:16 | 1 comment

Image Manchester students occupy roof of Royal Bank of Scotland
11-02-2009 22:16 | 3 comments

Text Environmental Direct Action in Britain - a Short History, 17th Feb
09-02-2009 21:31

Text Manchester airport: emissions cleared for take-off
05-02-2009 19:26

Text Council payout to 'green' consultancy revealed
27-01-2009 00:22

Image The Northern Climate Rush
13-01-2009 19:21 | 5 comments

Text Northern Climate Rush at Manchester Airport
13-01-2009 14:12 | 2 additions | 1 comment

Image Heathrow Terminal One Climate Rush Picnic a success!
13-01-2009 02:46 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Text ARTPORT to redefine domestic departures lounge
12-01-2009 17:27

Text Climate Rush targets Heathrow and Manchester airport on the 12 January 2009
12-01-2009 09:53 | 3 comments

Image Invitation to the Northern Climate Rush - Jan 12
23-12-2008 22:33 | 1 comment

Image Students roll out red carpet for RBS greenwash award show.
16-12-2008 12:39

Text Manchester Students remember Ken Saro-Wiwa in University Shell protest
24-11-2008 19:14 | 2 comments

Text 23rd November issue of Manchester Climate Fortnightly out
23-11-2008 21:29

Text Chomsky@80 tickets now available
04-11-2008 09:19

Image Students question RBS at Manchester Uni recruitment drive
02-11-2008 17:23

Image Manchester students flashmob the RBS and E-On Recruitment Stalls
24-10-2008 20:08 | 3 comments

Generic Flash mob against RBS and E.ON at Manchester careers fair
24-10-2008 16:28

Image First Sumac Debate now Online- Listen Now!
01-10-2008 14:26 | 3 comments

Image I Bike MCR Mini Festival.
26-09-2008 12:03

Image Critical Mass September
26-09-2008 11:58 | 4 comments

Text Climate Camp 2008: film and discussion night
22-09-2008 16:16

Text Climate change book launch, Manchester, 17th September
12-09-2008 12:09 | 1 comment

Text No New Coal! Invitation to national networking meeting
05-09-2008 12:25 | 9 comments

Text Manchester Climate Action Get-together, Thurs 18th Sept, 7.30pm
04-09-2008 18:31

Generic Thanks a million?
03-09-2008 22:42

Generic Wanted (times four)
19-08-2008 21:21

Generic Happy - and determined - Campers
14-08-2008 17:43

Image Leave it in the ground banner dropped above roadway
04-08-2008 22:33 | 1 addition

Image ClimateCycle - Woodhead High Peak - Saturday 2nd August
28-07-2008 17:17

Generic Where's the Strategy?
21-07-2008 00:14

Text Climate Camp demo - Save the Woodhead Tunnel
19-07-2008 10:19

Generic Stern words will be spoken- and soon
10-07-2008 21:43

Generic There's going to be an almighty TIF
06-07-2008 16:34

Image camp for climate action northwest neighbourhood get-together
25-06-2008 23:58

Image Camp For Climate Action N/W Social Event: Wed 2nd July
19-06-2008 14:37

Text Climate change protestors occupy Derbyshire open cast site
18-06-2008 04:59 | 1 comment


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