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Climate Camp: Camp for Social Justice
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Friday October 09, 2009 13:20 by Dave Donnellan
The Climate Camp held recently in Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly highlighted the urgent need to address the issue of peat bogs in Ireland and the dangerous effect their exploitation by Bord na Mona and the ESB has on Climate Change.
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Jump To Comment: 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1November 24 at 6:29pm report that the climate camp vid was broadcast on dublin community tv.
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if so, wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy hhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy,
well done dave, campers, all involved
be the media
http://www.dctv.ie/main/
350 international Day of action
read all at http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/08/14/o...24th/
CJA Is umbrella group, under which climate camp organise and take action...
related infos
350 the most important number in the world?
For more information go to http://www.350.org/
This saturday - 4227 actions in 170 countries. – that’s how many actions are happening around this planet this Saturday, as the movement for climate justice kicks into action
vids
350.org - In every corner of the globe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqof641pWys
2 mins
350 PPM CO2: Earth's Tipping Point? - Bill McKibben
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Citd9RH7kbU&NR=1
3 mins
Thom w/ Bill McKibben - Why is 350 the most important number in the world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToK-73-KT7w
11+ min
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350.org - In every corner of the globe...
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Bill McKibben - Why is 350 the most important number in the world?
Well, this year was no exception – there were talks about how this recession was coming to an end, and how to promote a more stable world economic system. Returning to a global gold standard instead of credit based (fiat) currency wasn't discussed. (This would have something to do with the problem.) Instead, the G8 decided to talk up doling out financial aid through the U.S. Treasury and personal loans out of the International Monetary Fund – and treating symptoms instead of the disease. The G8 had another summit this summer, and just like usual, they haven't accomplished much. The G8, or the 8 wealthiest nations of the world, have a summit every year to talk about how great they are.
more about it here: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/10/07/pers...very/
Thanks for the kind words Paul. It was very much a team effort.
Cool. So when can we have nuclear energy in Ireland, as Jim Lovelock suggests?
This is worth reading - http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/lovelock-online_chat-00.htm
(Note that Lovelock suggests small scale nuclear development, and not the supernukes we've seen blighting the UK in the past).
Excellent work Dave (again)....Keep it up man....'Age of stupid' is an understatement...
Just sticking in a still from the film to act as a temp image for the doc, Dave, have are you working on 1 for posters etc and links on blogs, facebook etc...
I posted a feature on p.IE re the win against kingsnorth, found here
Direct Action gets results; E.ON Shelves Kingsnorth
If indeed this is an eco war, then this surely is another great win in the battle for (y)our future
http://www.politics.ie/environment/111536-direct-action....html
an interesting piece from the ecologist magazine about the rise of cliamate camps globally points out its origins, many readers here will remember those days in scotland...
Climate Camp: saviour of the environmental movement? (the ecologist mag)
Climte Camp - Early inspiration
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/296747/c....html
Climate Camp Ireland - documentary image
E.ON shelves plan to build Kingsnorth power plant as activists plan to take control of second power station
Wednesday, 7 October 2009: Climate activists celebrated victory against carbon intensive coal power last night, as energy company E.ON announced they were indefinitely delaying building a new power station in Kent. The Camp for Climate Action targeted the Kingsnorth site in August 2008 1 as coal is one of the most environmentally destructive ways of generating electricity.2
E.ON’s anouncement comes as hundreds of activists prepare for the Great Climate Swoop on 17th October, when they plan to take control of Ratcliffe-on-Soar3, another coal-fired power plant operated by E.ON 4. Activists will be co-ordinating the protests through text messages and twitter, which were also used to plan the G20 protests.
Activist Dennis Stevens said: “This is an amazing victory which shows how ordinary people can take back the power from corporations and government which do not value people and the environment. We need a social movement to develop community control of our energy supply and our society; not our current system which ignores the needs of people and the climate.”..
read all at
Victory for Climate Camp: E.ON Shelves Kingsnorth
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/10/08/v...orth/
Further commentry on old imc.ie feature from 2008 climate camp at kingsnorth
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88625&comment_limit=0&c...60680
Firstly thanks Dave for putting this documentary together. When in Shannonbridge, we discussed showing the premiere of the doc when it got made in lukers bar, have ye any plans of a screening down there???
By the way, the next big town, ballinasloe has its own money in circulation, which is one of the themes of transition; local economy resiliance, theirs is LETS (Local Exchange Trading System- http://www.ballinasloecreditunion.ie/LETS.html ), that might be something to talk about, along with all the rest.
Post camp indymedia feature - 'Give Peat a Chance'- Climate Camp Shannonbridge 2009
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93749
related articles to climate camp:
For Peat's sake: Ireland joins the CLIMATE CAMP movement, expect NVDA and much craic
http://www.politics.ie/environment/94431-peats-sake-ire....html
Irish Times - Destroying bogs to produce uneconomical energy (Thursday, August 13, 2009)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0813/1....html
related to climate change etc
S21-S22 : A world awakening out of its "age of stupid"
http://www.politics.ie/environment/106415-s21-s22-world....html
- The Global Wake-Up Call 210909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrstBidAXg
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hub/?cl=335865944&v=4114
- AGE OF STUPID 220909
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4ItfrIuYE
http://www.ageofstupid.net/
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The Global Wake-Up Call
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AGE OF STUPID
30 second point of veiw video of Garda violence at climate camp parade.
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Like the way it covers the the organising of event, gets the views of local people. Very good educational resource