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Response to The Sunday Times article
The Sunday Times article on Climate Camp (30/8/09) reported someone at the camp responding to a passerby who shouted “Get a job”, saying, “actually we’re not dirty gypsies we just believe in a sustainable future for the planet.”
Bike-Powered Smoothies
This is just a temporary Smooth Over, but it can be the catalyst for radical change!
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.
Letter to Blackheath residents from Climate Camp
We're also having a public meeting: 3.30 - 5pm, Saturday 29 August, Greenwich Community and Arts Centre, 141 Greenwich high Road, SE10 8JA
I came, I swooped, I camped
We teamed up at Kings Cross Station coming from five points across the capital, by train, bicycle and bus. Once we’d all checked that we had the Climate Camp legal support phone number written on our arms and our wellies tied firmly to our backpacks, we set off from Aldgate tube station on the Northern Line.
The night before swooping
'Twas the night before swooping, on the eve of events, All the campers were stirring, and packing their tents...
Climate Camp Cymru: Ffos-y-Fran mine action
What would it be like to live just 37 metres from the gaping chasm of an opencast coal mine. Seems unimaginable eh? Surely it's not possible? Who would choose to live this way?