2 Camps for Climate Action are happening in the UK this summer - one in Scotland and one in Wales. Rising Tiders will be at both. Get involved and come along.
Camp for Climate Action 2010 (Scotland)
Break the Bank!
Occupy and set up the basecamp: 19th–20th August
Four days of training and direct action: 21st–24th August
Day of action against RBS: 23rd August
Return basecamp to nature: 25th August
The Camp for Climate Action is a grassroots movement taking direct action against the root causes of climate change. After mobilising and helping stop the proposed third runway at Heathrow and a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth, we're growing into a mass movement reclaiming our future from government and profit-hungry corporations.
This year we're targeting the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Last year RBS were bailed out with £50 billion of public money. This bank is one of the world's largest investor in oil, gas and coal. From tar sands extraction in Canada to coal infrastructure here in the UK, we're paying to trash our future. These projects are not just causing catastrophic climate change, but destroying the lives and livelihoods of people across the globe. Meanwhile, we're told there is no money left and we should be braced for decades of public sectors cuts.
Ecological destruction is built into the mechanics of the financial system, with communities disenfranchised from their own futures. This is why, in August, people from across the UK will be converging to take back the power and Break the Bank!
Our sustainable and collectively organised basecamp will give you the chance to learn, train up, and meet like minded individuals. Exciting action plans are currently in the plotting stages, so watch this space.
We need loads of people to get involved with planning and organised. To find out how visit - www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010.
Climate Camp Cymru: 13th – 17th August
Open cast is trashing the south Wales landscape
It’s time to take action
A momentum is building. Last year we camped next to Ffos y Fran - one of the largest opencast mines in Europe - for a week of workshops and sustainable living. This summer we’re going back to basics with a light action-based camp, targeting coal somewhere in south Wales.
Our current economic system is based on an addiction to fossil fuels and on maximising profit at the expense of people and the environment. Fossil fuel corporations cannot be allowed to progress unchecked. We need green jobs for Wales, not dirty destruction.
On the 13th we’ll meet in Cardiff and make our way from there to the site.
Things to bring:
- Tent
- Sleeping bag
- Warm clothes and waterproofs
- Plate, bowl, mug and cutlery
- and a bike could be useful too
Burning coal is destroying our climate, while opencast mining damages the earth and the health of local people. We must leave it in the ground.
Join a growing number of ordinary people taking direct action, and exploring alternatives, to stop the madness that is destroying the earth. This August 13th -17th come to Climate Camp Cymru.
www.climatecampcymru.org
info@climatecampcymru.org
07040 909 147
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