RISING TIDE UK CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET - 12th July, 2001

THIS ISSUE:

WEEK OF CLIMATE ACTIONS

90% for 90% DAY OF ACTION 16TH JULY

BUSH UNWELCOMING ACTION

CYCLE CIRCUS GOING TO BONN 19th-27th July 2001

NEW ON THE WEB

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WEEK OF CLIMATE ACTION- JULY 16th-23rd JULY NEXT WEEK!

90% for 90% DAY OF ACTION 16TH JULY

Actions are planned around Britain to coincide with the first week of the COP6.5 climate climate meeting in Bonn. It’s not too late to organise your own event, however small. Among the actions planned (and openly publicised) are:

CARDIFF MARCH AGAINST GEORGE W BUSH’S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

SATURDAY 14^TH JULY

Starting at 11 am at the US Consulate Office on Cathedral Road, through the City Centre, down Bute Street to finish at the National Assembly Building in Cardiff Bay for speeches and photos

More info: Steve Bartley Wales Green Party - Cardiff

s.bartley@ntlworld.com Tel 029 2025 8361

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EDINBURGH- 'CRITICAL MASS', AND A GRAND TOUR OF CLIMATE CHANGE LANDMARKS.- FRIDAY 20TH JULY, 5.30 pm

Starting at Festival Square (large square on Lothian Rd, next to Shearaton

Hotel, opposite Usher Hall). Bring yourselves, friends and bikes, rollerskates or equivalent,

anything thats colourful and/or makes a noise!

EDINBURGH - STREET PARTY. SATURDAY 14^TH JULY. Meet 3 pm both Festival Sq. AND Bristo Sq. - Bring what you hope to find!

WORKSHOPS, IDEAS, TALKS VIDEOS 21-22 July, Studio 24, 24 Carlton Rd, Edinburgh.

11am-5pm both days, , fully staffed creche, and more.

For more information:

Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh

17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA

Tel: 0131 557 6242

Email: ccedinburgh@yahoo.co.uk

Email: ace@autonomous.org.uk

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OXFORD- WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE — GAME SHOW OF DOOM

Come on down, spin the wheel and gamble on your future with a range of nightmare climate scenarios. With deranged MC, music, displays and prizes.

11am-3pm, Bonn Square (no pun intended), Oxford,

More information call 01865 241 097 or just turn up!

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LEATHERHEAD-THURSDAY 19^th MARCH ON ESSO

A protest march, led by local mothers and children, will march one a half miles to the Esso HQ to protest against Esso’s destructive activities and obstruction of the intergovernmental talks. At the HQ they will hand in a petition (which you can sign at the bottom of this news sheet and send to them).

They will meet at the Swan Shopping Centre, Leatherhead at 10am. More info contact Emily

emilygreg@zoom.co.uk

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LONDON- BUSH UNWELCOMING PARTY

On July 19th Bush visits Britain. A protest march against the US government’s position on climate will gather in Trafalgar Square from 12.00pm, and march to the US embassy There will be a protest at the US Embassy, Grosvenor square, from 7.00 pm

On 28th July there is a "March against Bush": assembling at 11.00 am at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and march to the US embassy via the Exxon-Mobil offices in Kingsway.

There is a "GW BUSH, Wanted for Crimes against the Planet" poster available for pasting, sent to you by e-mail or snail mail.

For the poster, more details on the protests and especially to help out, email philthornhill@yahoo.com or phone 020 8533 7274

Details will change and new events will appear on the website: www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net. Keep an eye on it.

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CYCLE CIRCUS JULY-AUGUST

Cycle Circus, a bicycle based travelling environmental circus roadshow has been travelling around the south of England for the past three weeks. People are welcome to join them- so RUN AWAY AND JOIN THE CIRCUS!

Their coming itinerary is:

end of June - early July - Tiverton arts camp

16th July - 20th July Buddhafield festival

21st July - 5th Aug: Slowly making their way up through Somerset, Gloucestershire and up to Centre of Alternative Technology in Wales.

16th Aug - 20th Aug; Welsh green Gathering, South Wales .....and many stops at villages and towns in between.

To contact them to find out where they are and what they’re up: Phone Sally on - 0771 261 2006 , Jenny on - 07929 983 712, Susie and Duchan - 01273 241 255

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GOING TO BONN 19th-27th July 2001

Most people are organising their own actions in Britain, but there is still a small (but deadly) UK posse protesting in Bonn where there are two weeks of actions planned. Details of what is happening on the website http://www.risingtide.de).

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NEW ON THE WEBSITE

The website http://www.risingtide.org.uk has a new zappier title bar taken from the roadshow poster (it used to look a bit too "respectable") and we are loading up freak weather stories every 2 weeks. Also new on the site an article on climate campaigning and the Risingtide Tour from Green Pepper (link from action page)

The website is now getting 100 hits a day, making it one of the most successful sites in the Oxford region, beating the on-line horoscope and the Hamster Information Service (sorry hamsters-we’ll link to you).

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PETITION TO BE HANDED IN TO LEATHERHEAD ESSO HQ

Please sign a petition to Esso in three easy steps:

1) Send this to all the people on your address book

2) Fill in your details below

3) Email it to emilygreg@zoom.co.uk with 'petition' in the subject box

NAME HOME TOWN COUNTRY

Closing date 17th July. We will then put it into a petition and hand it in to Esso on July 19th. The petition says:

We will boycott Esso until they:

1) Stop sabotaging the climate talks as this is dangerous and undemocratic

2) Publicly recognise that climate change is happening, is disastrous and has to be stopped, and reversed

3) Pull out of the World Climate Coalition

4) Accept that we need to switch from fossil fuels to safe, renewable energy