Direct-action protesters in the U.K. are focusing on climate change
By Mike Wendling
13 Nov 2006

It's half an hour or so after the end of Britain's biggest-ever protest against climate change, and I'm still hanging out in Trafalgar Square.

A few groups of kids are milling around, and a couple of anarchists have set up a bicycle-powered disco. One or two old-timers are trying to get rid of their last remaining copies of the Socialist Worker. Most of the protesters have heeded the organizers' advice to reuse or recycle their placards, but the local cleaning crews are quick on the job, cleaning up the rest of the rubbish to get the place ready for a typical London Saturday night. Everyone else is heading home, or to the pub.

By Harry Helios

The spirit of ‘energy-descent-meets-energy-dissent’ took a major leap forward (or perhaps away from the cliff-edge) this summer, with the Camp for Climate Action. The Camp announced in the build-up its intention to share ideas and inspiration about how we can ‘live the solutions’, as well as a trifling intention to shut down neighbouring Drax power station, Europe’s largest emitter of CO2.

Zoe Kenny & Rohan Pearce
4 November 2006

The October 30 release of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate
Change — a British government-commissioned report — has helped increase
the pressure on Australia and its fellow Kyoto renegade, the United
States, and keep the threat posed by the greenhouse effect on the front
pages of at least a section of the corporate press.

http://www.robnewman.com

(Due to the event over-running, this speech was cut a little on the day.)

There is no planet B, so we need an economic plan B. We need to develop new economic systems because there is only one eco-system and it cannot survive the present free market economy.

by Mike Tidwell (mwtidwell@aol.com)

On Monday, October 23rd 2006, at exactly 8 am, a dozen global warming
activists - some arriving on foot, some in a rented truck - converged
outside of Washington, D.C., and promptly occupied a main entrance to
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the
nation's leading climate agencies.