Effective Direct Action Campaigning - a workshop with John Stuart

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Lessons from the anti-roads and anti-aviations campaigns in the UK

Effective Direct Action Campaigning - 'Lessons from the anti-roads and anti-aviation campaigns in the UK'
John Stuart is a life-long activist supporting environmental direct action campaigns accross Europe. The Independent on Sunday has named him Britain's most effective green activist, and by friends 'the greatest eco-warrior of our age'.

Stewart at Heathrow: 'I think the coalition - or parts of it - has got to become more threatening... There are differences in the movement as to whether violence against property is justified'

Effective Direct Action Campaigning - A workshop with John Stuart
'Lessons from the anti-roads and anti-aviation campaigns in the UK'
Tuesday 18th August 2009
11am-1pm
Venue: The Climate Camp, Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly, Ireland

This workshop is one over 70 workshops on direct action, sustainable living and campaigning that are happening between 15th-23rd of August, at the Climate Camp in Co. Offaly
www.climatecamp.ie

John Stuart is a life-long activist supporting environmental direct action campaigns accross Europe. He chaired Alarm UK, the umbrella group of hundreds of communities opposed to Tory road-building plans in the 90s, fought the M11 extension in Wanstead, north London, at times from a chestnut tree, and was in front of the bulldozers at Twyford Down. He was one of only three people injuncted not to go near Heathrow in 2007 when 3,000 activists camped at the airport. For a decade, John Stewart has fought the third runway at Heathrow, creating in the process one of the most formidable civil coalitions Britain has seen. He's devoted more than 20 years to environmental causes, from roads to airports. The Independent on Sunday has named him Britain's most effective green activist, and by friends 'the greatest eco-warrior of our age'.

WATCH John Stewart on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQiGx6EWVQ

Read an interview with John Stewart

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-....html

John Stewart: A one-man eco-industry

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Stewart at Heathrow: 'I think the coalition - or parts of it - has got to become more threatening... There are differences in the movement as to whether violence against property is justified'

Where would you expect to meet a man described by an awe-struck fellow campaigner as "one of the great eco-warriors of our age"? Swinging through the rainforest, maybe? Riding the bows of a boat into battle against whalers? Not eating a sandwich in a very dull hotel on the edge of Heathrow. But there he is, John Stewart, the most influential environmental activist in Britain, revealed today to be top of The Independent on Sunday's Green List. Step aside, Prince Charles. Make way Zac Goldsmith. Bow down Joss Garman, co-founder of the direct action group Plane Stupid, who gave the quote above and says of Stewart: "He is a total hero of mine, an absolute inspiration to the movement as a whole."

Read more here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-....html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/10/inter...igner