MASS ACTION CALL OUT
When: Saturday, 15th May
Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes. Oxford Circus meeting point map
Shutting down a petrol station for 5 hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon was so much fun we’re going to do it again. Shell’s Hell – in the tar sands and beyond - is next in the firing line.
Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.
See here for a video of Party at the Pumps Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6-tdxd12M
And for all you cyclists out there, there will be a special Party at the Pumps Critical Mass making its way to the party. Meet 1PM at Marble Arch (under the arch).
Get ready for sunshine, music, and dancing on the forecourt!
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Why target Shell?
Party at the Pumps Part 2 is taking place just three days before Shell’s AGM, where the company will come under fire from shareholders over its plans in the Canadian tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride, which will link two communities in Wales and Ireland resisting fossil fuel extraction.
Party at the Pumps is in solidarity with communities around the world who are resisting Shell’s destruction of lives and livelihoods, poisoning of lands and waters, and fuelling of climate chaos. In Northern Canada, Shell’s tar sands projects are ignoring First Nations treaty rights, causing rare forms of cancer and killing wildlife (http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html). In Rossport, Ireland, a dangerous onshore pipeline and massive refinery are transforming an area of\ outstanding natural beauty into an environmental disaster zone with serious public health and safety implications (http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org). And in Nigeria, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against Shell’s devastation of the Niger Delta, resistance to Shell and Big Oil continues (http://www.remembersarowiwa.com).
These struggles may be happening in distant places, but they are driven from Shell HQ. On May 15th, we bring the resistance to the heart of London.
This action is jointly called by London Rising Tide/London Tar Sands Network and Climate Camp London.
http://www.no-tar-sands.org
http://www.risingtide.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/london
AND LATER THAT NIGHT ...
CLIMATE EMERGENCY OVERNIGHT VIGIL
Night of Saturday to Sunday 15th-16th May.
Candlelit Procession down Whitehall - assemble 11.00 pm outside St Martin's in the Fields, Trafalgar Square.
Post election event to remind the new government that dealing with the climate crisis needs to be their top priority.
Light a candle for scientific realism and rationality against the dark, populist, tide of sceptic lies and ignorance.
Join others in a visible demonstration of conviction that we face a climate emergency, and determination to challenge the government in the future if it does not respond appropriately.
11.00 pm Assemble outside St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square.
Service inside the church from 11.00 pm organised by Christian Ecology
12.00 midnight. Candlelit Procession for the Climate down Whitehall.
12.30 - 5.00 am Overnight Vigil at Old Palace Yard, outside Parliament. 'Art and Empowerment' events through the night - bring lanterns, your music, your art. Artists, workshop leaders and others wishing to contribute to this event contact info@campaigncc.org
5.00 am 'Zero Carbon' Dawn
6.00 am Climate 'Vigil-istas' communal Breakfast.
Join us right outside the home of government if you can. if not, can you organise an overnight vigil in your locality, say outside the surgery of the newly elected MP, or wherever you feel most appropriate?
More Info - http://www.campaigncc.org.
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