Action: Confronting the fossil fuel economy

CARNIVAL AND KRITICAL MASS TOUR OF THE G8's TOP CLIMATE CRIMINALS

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/10/2004 - 05:14

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CARNIVAL AND KRITICAL MASS TOUR OF THE G8's TOP CLIMATE CRIMINALS

Dress code: London underwater 2050, (rubber rings, fish, mermaids/mermen, etc. Some snorkels provided!)
Details:london@risingtide.org.ukTel: 07708 794665

 As part of the many grassroots events sprouting up all around the European Social Forum in London, London Rising Tide has (dis)organised this very public exposure of some of the forces that are sending our planet tumbling into climate chaos.

Roads and Airports Gathering, 19th - 21st November 2004

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/10/2004 - 00:04

Airport occupation at Schipol, Netherlands

More traffic growth? More roads? Airport Expansion? You must be CHOKING! It's time to take ACTION!

Labout are backsliding on the victories of the 1990's roads protests, and many road schemes, dropped in the 1990s, are back on the road builders' agenda. Meanwhile the Government is also proposing large-scale airport expansion... and all in the same breath as talking about tackling climate change.

This backslide CAN and WILL be stopped by PEOPLE POWER.

We need to ORGANISE NOW!

BP Annual General Meeting (timetable)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 11:09

TAKE ACTION with London Rising Tide...

 

Thursday 15 April, 'Oil Festival Hall', London, 10am-3pm

 

10am: Meet and greet the shareholders
10-3.30pm: Rally, performance and open mic... Sound system, Rhythms of Resistance samba band, voices from Colombia, the Caspian Region and other oil-cursed areas, poets, musicians, ranters, diggers and dreamers
3pm: The Beginning is Nigh! Say Bye Bye (Planet) to shareholders and contemplate saying farewell to BP for good.

Bring banners, drums, voices, music and friends

Tortured Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Campaigner considers indefinite hunger strike

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 11:09

 

[Update: Ferhat has now been granted bail... click here for details...]

 

The prominent human rights defender detained and allegedly tortured in Turkey following his work to mitigate the impacts of the controversial Baku-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has indicated that he will commence a 'death fast ' hunger strike on 12 May 2004 if his application for release is not accepted. Human rights and environmental groups are calling on the international community to intervene urgently to guarantee the safety of the campaigner.

 

Assaulted Turkish Baku-Ceyhan Campaigner Granted Bail

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 11:09

Ferhat Kaya, one of the main activists working on the Turkish part of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, has been badly assaulted and detained by Turkish police for more than two weeks.

Thank you to everyone who wrote letters on Ferhat's behalf. The Turkish authorities have now agreed to grant him bail.

Unfortunately, it has been set at £2000, much higher than we expected and hard for us to raise alone. In view of the urgency of the situation, we are having to ask for assistance from you. If anyone can help us with a financial donation to get our colleague released, it would be a greatly appreciated act of solidarity.

Please send cheques for whatever you can (payable to the Ilisu Dam Campaign) to 14 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, SW1W 8RG.

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