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Climate Camp, Heathrow

category international | environment | feature author Saturday August 18, 2007 00:10author by John Report this post to the editors

Some impressions of a short visit to UK Camp for climate action near Heathrow airport

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There' something about airports and August which draws media like flies to...In Ireland we're ignoring the Guantanamo slots while we fight for our right to fly to London. In the UK august 2006 saw the establishment of a climate camp at Drax power station in North Yorkshire. This year it is at Heathrow and the standard injunctions, terrorist legislation and media hysteria are being brought to bear. Indymedia.ie has received this report from a short visit to the camp:

This years climate camp is now well underway. About 1000 people have set up camp on a squatted field just north of Heathrow airport. The aim of the camp is to raise awareness of and take action on the causes of climate change. (See main body for rest of report.)

UK Indymedia is providing excellent coverage including reports from the public internet access tent which is open for a total of four hours a day, over two main time slots and is running on a mixture of wind and solar power.

Related Links: Airport Watch Watches Mainstream Media Coverage | Scouts at Climate Camp | Children from school due to be demolished by 3rd runway at climate camp | Indymedia UK News ticker | RTE repeats reports of 'anarchists' in and around the climate camp |

It's a pity that there's not more Irish folk here cos some of this information is really important and directly relevant to our own gas and oil issues. There is a strong, convincing argument that those reserves off our shores should stay there, under the sea which is a point of view that hasn't really been aired within or outside the Shell to Sea campaign for fear of sounding anti-progress (heaven forbid!). In a nutshell from an unscientific mind it goes like this:

A global temperature rise of between 1.5-2C is enough to tip the climate into a feedback loop that can't be stopped aggravated by things like a darker planet surface absorbing more heat, causing much worse than the flooding we have already seen. We have very little time to sort this out and we cannot afford to take half measures, to do it we will have to learn to communicate and cooperate on a global scale in ways that I can't even imagine right now. Enough of that for now.

The camp is run along similar lines to the Horizone antiG8 camp in Stirling with a horizontal decision making structure, regional neighbourhoods, renewable power supply, compost toilets, good food, entertainment and workshops on everything from activist trauma support, the money behind climate change, seed saving and food security, direct action and our very own Shell to Sea. Also present on the camp are local people from the village of Sipson who are campaigning against the construction of a third runway at Heathrow.

The run up to the camp has been characterised by the usual and expected scare stories in the media with tales of bomb scares, runway invasions and the usual, as well as an attempted, and failed injunction by BAA (British Airports Authority) against most of the population of southern england. There have certainly been a number of actions and some arrests so far but these have focussed private flights and have not been limited to Heathrow - check uk indymedia for details. The cops have done the usual intimidation and control tactics, searching and filming people travelling to the camp though are being fairly laid back at the moment evidently feeling they have the situation under control. We currently have the surreal situation where 4 cops are allowed on site at any one time though only when accompanied by campers so you see 'em walking around in pairs shadowed by activists in a bizarre role reversal.

There was a moment in a meeting last night when the frightening reality of climate change and strategies for dealing with it were being outlined to the assembled throng, as a police helicopter hovered overhead, that the full on craziness of the situation hit home to me. This feels like a gathering where people are genuinely doing something, beyond changing light bulbs and insulating houses and buying "green " products, actually working for deep systemic change and in many cases prepared to risk our freedom to do so and here we have the government whilst saying they're in favour of stopping climate change, throwing the full force of the state against these people in case we damage the economy. "Fk that sht!" say I. The more I see of this type of thing the more convinced I become that what passes for the law is an irrelevance at best, an obstruction at worst to the real work of radically changing society so that we can continue to live on this planet.

Related Link: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Related links     Cloud Busting    Sat Aug 18, 2007 14:13 
   west staines mob     diogenes club    Sun Aug 19, 2007 00:12 
   STUPID COMMENT     holymugger    Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:27 
   O Leary is coining it.     aer lingus    Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:56 
   Michael o Leary is coining it/Climate Camp Day of Action.     Michael O Leary    Sun Aug 19, 2007 18:53 
   Updates from Sister Kerosene (amongst others)     Cloud Busting    Mon Aug 20, 2007 14:57 
   unecessary travel     Dr Nick    Mon Aug 20, 2007 18:38 
   Considering that over 3% of London's population are Irish - it is sad more didn't turn up.     ethnicist    Mon Aug 20, 2007 21:09 
   linkie     Cloud gazer    Mon Aug 20, 2007 21:33 
 10   Campaigners stick it to the Government     Mary Kelly    Tue Aug 21, 2007 18:24 
 11   new chapter has opened up for the worlds social movements: campS for climate action     dunk    Wed Aug 22, 2007 14:35 
 12   encounters of a worst kind     mr piggy    Wed Aug 22, 2007 15:14 
 13   how come...     Dave    Wed Aug 22, 2007 15:18 
 14   re: how come     mr piggy    Wed Aug 22, 2007 15:25 
 15   the first spark?     dunk    Wed Aug 22, 2007 23:29 
 16   Mr Piggy     Dave    Thu Aug 23, 2007 08:50 
 17   oil consumers     Mr piggy    Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:26 
 18   Climate camp(s) 2008 and beyond...london, germany, oz, barcelona, ireland.........     dunk    Sat Aug 25, 2007 21:19 
 19   Noel Dempsey has been busy     Cloud Gazing    Wed Aug 29, 2007 19:59 
 20   mainstream details of T2     cloud gazing    Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:22 
 21   enough with the corcodile tears     shannon realist    Fri Aug 31, 2007 04:59 
 22   having lived in the region for many years     Cloud Gazing    Fri Aug 31, 2007 09:40 
 23   Aussie Action on Climate Change... + further mechanisms to WIN     dunk    Mon Sep 10, 2007 13:37 
 24   as in Australia, French activists have also started a climate & housing camp.     iosaf    Mon Sep 10, 2007 14:11 
 25   rough translation of french article + info re "Climate refugees"     dunk    Mon Sep 10, 2007 14:57 
 26   Direct Action gets massive result this week - 3rd runway put on hold     dunk    Mon Oct 12, 2009 19:09 
 27   Re: Direct action and cancellation of 3rd runway at Heathrow     Terence    Tue Oct 13, 2009 00:26 
 28   3 wins in 1 week? The campaigners have gathered support from all ends of the spectrum     Dunk    Tue Oct 13, 2009 16:23 


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