“The future is unwritten, inaction is the tragedy.”

ACTIVISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO SHUT DOWN THE UK’S LARGEST POWER STATION
Press Release, June 19th 2006

Thousands of climate change activists will converge on Drax power station - the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK (1) - for ten days of direct action this summer.

Alison Templeton from the Camp for Climate Action (2) said:
"The only solution to climate change is a drastic cut in our energy
consumption. Drax continues to belch out emissions while we are staring
catastrophe in the face. It has to go."

 

A 16 page comic explaining the science, causes, and complexities of climate change by award wining comic book artist Kate Evans. Black and white with colour cover.

It can be ordered from the resources section and is also available for download in Welsh.

ART NOT OIL at The Bongo Club, 37 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8BA; 0131 558 7604; www.thebongoclub.co.uk
indignation – inspiration – creation…solution?

Exhibition runs from Thursday 15th December to Monday 16th January 2006.

FREE PUBLIC OPENING: Sunday 18th December, 3-6pm: art - music - food - film - talk

As BP soaks up some of its £30m per day windfall profits with a soothingly duplicitous ad campaign, currently infesting UK airwaves, print media and billboards, the BP Portrait Award arrives at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh on the last leg of its 2005-6 UK tour. Meanwhile, its low-budget, high-impact alter ego Art Not Oil comes to Edinburgh's Bongo Club, offering up what it hopes is a truer portrait of an oil company, as well as a celebration of creative dissent.

If you're in Montreal for the UN climate negotiations from Nov 27th to Dec 8th, you'll be able to hear the voices of those directly affected by climate change, the oil and coal industry and carbon trading.

The Montreal Climate Justice Convergence Centre is a space where the voices of those
struggling against oil and coal extraction, refineries, pollution 'offset'
projects, a destabilised climate, oil wars and all the other effects of fossil
fuel dependence can be heard. Photo-exhibitions, films, speakers and workshops
will examine issues ranging from energy use to tree plantations to the World
Bank, the G8, carbon trading, nuclear power and genetic engineering.

web: www.carbontradewatch.org/durban
blog: climatejustice.blogspot.com

This is the statement written jointly by members of London Rising Tide, and read out at the December 3rd 2005 rally outside the US Bombassy in London:

This day of action is undoubtedly the best supported and most international day of action on climate ever planned, which is an amazing achievement. Today’s a day to tell the world that we have had enough of being told that ‘the end could be nigh’ by scientists, only to see our leaders jamming their foot on the accelerator of a car that is already hurtling towards the cliff edge - whilst they shout ‘Trust me – I have your best interests at heart!’

And whilst today is a great achievement, maybe we should be asking ourselves some difficult questions, and re-examining our arguments and our tactics.

On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron.

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of this execution, activists from London Rising Tide, Rhythms of Resistance, Rossport Solidarity Camp and London Earth First! came together to take action against Shell for its activities in Nigeria, in Ireland and worldwide.

Nine nooses were hung from lampposts directly in front of Shell’s UK headquarters on London’s South Bank. A pipeline decorated with slogans celebrating resistance to the curse of oil in the Niger Delta and in County Mayo in the past and right now were also on site, as were banners and a small but noisy samba band.

Filmed testimonies from people affected by climate change and the oil industry:

The next UN talks on climate change will take place in Canada at the end of November 2005. While the US administration remains resistant to signing the climate agreement and many countries are on course to fail to meet their Kyoto targets, the impacts of climate change intensify.

Meanwhile the oil industry is investing billions in discovering new sources of oil and creating environmental and social injustices in communities they operate in.

Raised Voices is a collection of short statements from people living on the fenceline of the oil industry around the world and from people in the global South on issues related to climate change.

Activists from County Mayo will be touring the UK during November to increase awareness of the struggle to prevent a giant Shell Consortium from building a dangerous, raw gas pipeline and huge refinery on unstable bog land, raising serious public health and safety issues and devastating remote conservation areas on the north west coast of Ireland. www.corribsos.com