WEEK OF CLIMATE ACTIONS-

90% for 90% DAY OF ACTION 16^TH JULY

GOING TO BONN 19th-27th July 2001

NATIONAL TOUR

SPEAKER TRAINING

This is the first newsheet update on the UK climate action campaign. The newsheets will be short (2 pages) and we won't "flood" you (ho ho)- we will issue them only when we have something to say and even then no more than one update per week (and maybe even less often).

YOUR DETAILS WILL NEVER BE GIVEN TO ANYONE.

Put this in your diary! AND START PLANNING - IT'S LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS AWAY!

We are planning a week of local actions in the UK during the first week of the COP6.5 climate meeting in Bonn, from July 14-21st this year. COP6 in The Hague in November 2000 saw inspiring actions take place both in The Hague and all over the UK (not to mention the rest of the world). These Rising Tide actions condemned the way the unsigned Kyoto protocol is becoming a trade deal dominated by businessmen desperate for a piece of the new market in trading carbon emissions. The actions also called for 60-90% reductions in such emissions, and fast.

It’s time to make our voices heard, only louder this time. COP6.5 will also see a mobilisation in Bonn to which many UK people may travel, but there is also a growing feeling among Rising Tide UK people that many of us would rather make an impact where we live.

Various events and actions are coming together all over the place, and we hope you're able to participate during the week, as well as letting us know what your plans are so that we can collate them on the Rising Tide (UK) website well before the week begins. Good luck to all of us!

Ideas for actions and campaigns that people suggested on the Rising Tide tour have been collated and will be loaded up on the RT website by the end of this week.

Materials- we have a range of materials available including infosheets, cartoon booklets, and basic display packs.

Kicking off the week of actions will be a national day of action calling for a 90% cut in public transport fares, to make public transport affordable as a fundamental contribution to the 90% cut in UK greenhouse gases emissions needed to halt climate change.

There are materials, information, copies of the 90% card, and leaflet, ideas of actions, legal briefings all on the website. Some people have leafleted trains, talked to staff, some organised in groups and simply refused to pay more than 10% of their fare. Their experiences are also up on the web. Go on a 90% trip on the 16th: to the seaside (get there before it gets to you); to the countryside; to view your nearest oil refinery — the possibilities are endless.

Alternatively, for £3.50 you can receive a pack of 50 cards and one leaflet ‘top copy’ for

photocopying. Send a cheque / postal order payable to ‘Rising Tide’ to: 90% for 90%, c/o Manchester Earth First! Box 29, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester, M4 7HS.

The Rising Tide Climate Chaos Tour started in Brighton and passed through Farnborough, London (x2), Edinburgh, Lancaster, Liverpool, Newcastle, York, Reading and finally ended in Oxford with a benefit (and large party) by Seize The Day. Each event was very different in size and feeling: some small and intimate, some large and buzzing.

'Really professional, well thought through and geared to action! For a simple collection of like minded individuals as they call themselves, they had the place buzzing."

Response from activist at the Edinburgh meeting

The materials from the training, including nine factsheets, will be posted up on the website next week.

More information on anything!