Tag Archives: Climate Camp
News in Brief
A quick look around the news of the day Postal The government has given the contract to provide the outlet for benefit payments to the private sector company Pay Point, undermining its commitment to the Post Office. A quarter of a million benefit recipients, including pensioners and those on disability allowances (who previously relied on [...]
Grass is not always greener
The strange case of the climate activists and undercover cop The trial against six people charged with conspiracy to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in 2009 collapsed on its first day at Nottingham Crown Court as activists exposed that undercover police officer, Mark Kennedy, had been spying on them for seven years, and had actually [...]
Police stop and search tactics wrong
Climate camp activists win massive victory as police admit their actions were unlawful Kent Police have finally admitted their policy of stop and searching climate activists at Kingsnorth power station during the week long protest in 2008 was not lawful and have agreed to pay compensation to three people who challenged the action in the [...]
Revolting Peasants: WAG at the Climate Camp
And so the site of Blackheath was announced as this year’s Climate Camp, a historic venue once graced by Wat Tyler and the Peasants Revolt, in the possible hope that the camp continued the historical struggle from 1381 to the present day. Many mused over Tyler’s opinion on the swooping environmental activists – would he [...]
Changing Our Perspectives To Climate Change
A look at the current issues surrounding climate change with three groups offering different insights on the subject. Camp for Climate Action explain what the climate camp initiative is and what it seeks to achieve, Workers Climate Action on the relationship between workers and climate change, and Anarchist Federation who present an overview of the [...]
Policing Guide For Campers
Here’s our best info at present on the cops’ plan for climate camp. As always things can change and we may have errors in our admittedly scant intelligence operation. Firstly, the camp is on the same bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival. This will be a bigger operation with 11,500 shifts planned and [...]
Strange Adventures in Copland
Climate camp police liaison talk about their role and trip to Gravesend This week, the Camp for Climate Action Police Liaison Team spoke at a ‘briefing afternoon’, at the Metropolitan Police’s Training Centre in Gravesend. Why did they do this, and what on earth could they possibly say to the police? Simon Stanley was at [...]
Battle For Climate Action
This year’s Climate Camp comes out fighting Environmental activists, eco-warriors, anarchists, leftists, green pressure groups and campaigners against climate change of all descriptions, from ex-Vestas occupiers to indigenous representatives from Canada’s First Nations, are gearing themselves up for an August bank holiday weekend of activities, discussions and protests to highlight the need for urgent action [...]
