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August 2009

Flashmob at London City Airport

We were 60 activists from Climate Camp, and we were occupying the main entrance to London City Airport alongside activists from the local Fight the Flights campaign group. Looking back, I was amazed at how quickly an effective action can be put together.

Our cleaning spree against the government’s dirty investments

At 11am today we converged on the Treasury in our cleaning overalls, feather dusters and scrubbing brushes - to clean up the Treasury’s act over their climate change-inducing investments. On this “anti-bank” holiday we dropped a banner highlighting that ‘Climate Change doesn’t take holidays’ - most of the bankers and officials may have had the day off but we were there to press home that time is running out in the fight against climate change.

The widening gap in America's two tiered society

Where published: 
The People\'s Voice
Author(s) Information
Author(s): 
TNI
External author(s): 
Emily Spence
Cites John Cavanagh

Americans, particularly ones from the middle class, need to realize that there are no core entitlements imparted by their government representatives, nor any other sources. They have none and should adjust their expectations accordingly.

If the U.S. populace somehow imagines that its members are viewed any differently than any other populations across the world that are used to produce maximal profits for the top economic class, there's a rude awakening in store ahead.

When Cocaine and Monsanto's Roundup Collide, War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on Science

Where published: 
Buzzflash
Author(s) Information
Author(s): 
TNI
External author(s): 
Meg White
Cites TNI

At the intersection of cocaine and Roundup in rural South America, Monsanto and the U.S. government are struggling to keep up appearances. That's becoming more and more difficult as the unanticipated hazards of genetic modification become clearer.

Back in April, Argentinean embryologist Andrés Carrasco gave an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper describing his recent findings suggesting the chemical glyphosate, a chemical herbicide widely used in agriculture as well as in U.S.

Bike-Powered Smoothies

This is just a temporary Smooth Over, but it can be the catalyst for radical change!

Climate camp goes to Barclays

I hadn’t planned to have an afternoon that involved advertising climate camp on the DLR, holding a banner in with a drunken banker, and coming home with a pocket full of free limes. But having stepped outside of the camp gates I got swept up in the enthusiasm of the 100 or so campers on their way to the Barclays Bank headquarters, right in the middle of the canary wharf complex which has become the familiar backdrop of our camp. Barclays invest heavily in coal, the most climate polluting fuel, as well as the arms trade.

This land is our land...

If only common land really was common and everywhere we looked - but the mass privatisation of land that took place under the enclosures took care of all that. There is still a lot of common land - retained through local rebellion, or rejected by the 18th century privatisers because it was poor quality. And you can find it all over England. I loved the freedom of wandering on Blackheath as a teenager, after being caged up in school all day, seeking open space and a way to get out of the house. Now I feel the same need for liberty walking on Port Meadow by the Thames in Oxford.

Mexico and Argentina Enact Drug Decriminalization, US Drug Policy Increasingly Out of Step

Short title: 
Martin Jelsma on decriminalisation of drugs in Mexico and Argentina
Where published: 
StoptheDrugWar.org

In the last eight days, the decriminalization of drug possession has gone into effect for 150 million Latin Americans.

Letter to Blackheath residents from Climate Camp

Dear Resident,
This letter is from the Camp for Climate Action. The camp is setting up on Blackheath from 26 August to 2 September.  This letter is just to explain a little about the camp, and to invite you to come along and visit.
The Camp for Climate Action is a diverse bunch of people who want to see more action about climate change.

Climate camp targets carbon trading

This year’s Camp for Climate Action pitched up their tents on Blackheath in London yesterday. There are around 1,000 people there already, with more expected as the weekend gets closer. Along with the workshops and demonstrations of sustainable living, there will also be non-violent direct action during the week, and some climate campers have kicked this off already with an action-cum-street theatre outside the Climate Exchange on Bishopsgate.

Camp for Climate Action

26 August 2009 - 2 September 2009

Speaker(s)

Oscar Reyes
TNI
Oscar Reyes, Joanna Cabello, TNI researchers
Carbon Trading, Heathrow & Kingsnorth: an intro
SM1 Fri: 16:30-18:30
Everything you wanted to know about carbon trading (but were afraid to ask). If you don't yet know your cap-and-trade from your offsets, come along and find out the basics about carbon markets and why they fail.

Location

London, UK