Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Weekly Round-up: Monday 26th July
The big news of the past week has been the announcement by the CPS that no charges will be brought against the officer who struck and pushed to the ground the innocent passer-by, Ian Tomlinson, by a police officer during … Continue reading
Getting away with it – Security culture and direct action
We can’t get arrested every day. On some actions carried out covertly or otherwise, you may not want to end up getting nicked, charged and convicted. Video and camera footage from independent and corporate media can be obtained and analysed … Continue reading
Building resistance to open-cast mining in South Wales
Last weekend at a brightly coloured community centre in Cardiff, plans were being formed. Tasty food and excitement over ideas for the summer. Tense atmosphere – can we pull this off? A string of good luck. We need legal observers … Continue reading
The Weekly Round-Up: Monday 19th July
First up this week is the utterly awesome track, Ballad of the Black Gold, by Reflection Eternal aka Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek. It’s been on repeat on my laptop since I heard it and the video is great too. Share … Continue reading
Culture Not Oil targets the British Museum
In addition to the action against RBS this morning five activists from Culture Beyond Oil targeted the British Museum to protest against the fact its complicity with oil giant, BP. The activists beautifully and delicately poured oil around the museum’s … Continue reading
The Weekly Round-up: Monday 12th July
There’s a lot of news to update you with in this weekly round-up – most of it split between legal news and forthcoming events. So without further a-do, let’s go… The first – and perhaps biggest – news-story of the … Continue reading
Edinburgh Gathering write-up
We had a wicked gathering in Edinburgh last weekend and are now all busy getting the camp together. We talked about how the camp can support existing struggles in Scotland such as action against open-cast. Many people signed letters to … Continue reading
Nevermind The Bankers – now to download & share
In case you’ve not seen it yet, there’s a beautiful, powerful and inspiring newspaper that’s been created by a group of people involved with Climate Camp. It’s been published ahead of this Summer’s action against The Royal Bank of Scotland … Continue reading
The Weekly Round-up
Welcome to the first Weekly Round-up from the Climate Camp blog.
The idea is that once a week we find and share the latest news, events and action reports from across the web that covers issues of interest to UK-based activists. Without further a-do sit back and feast your eyes on all the great stuff below…. Continue reading
Seven weeks to go!
It’s only seven weeks to go until the camp! Below is some Camp specific information and call-outs followed by a bunch of other events that may spark your interest. 1. EDINBURGH GATHERING THIS WEEKEND The Edinburgh gathering this weekend (Saturday … Continue reading