Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the climate snatchers...
1st May 2008 - A Day of Climate Action, everywhere
Action Reports
Coal Cleaning Company target E-on in London
At 07.45 this morning E.ON offices on Pall Mall were targeted by the new upstart Coal Cleaning Company as part of a nationally co-ordinated Day of Climate Action against False Capitalist Solutions.
The Coal Cleaning Company launched their enterprise with E.ON as their first customer. According to the chatty cleaners, “There’s no mess too big! We make coal Fossil Fuel Fresh ™”.
The climate activists targeted E.ON for their promotion of
‘false
capitalist solutions’ to climate change. E.ON is exploiting the idea
of a future Carbon Capture and Storage system to justify building a new
coal fired power station at Kingsnorth - where the utopia of low-impact
living // education // high-impact direct action that is the Climate Camp
will spring up this August.
CCS requires up to 40% more coal per unit of electricity than coal generation without CCS. So more coal needs to be burnt; increasing the overall pollution caused. It also neglects to address the wider problems of over consumption or deal with coal’s other social and environmental impacts.
The Coal Cleaning Company can be contacted on 07790 430 620 for onsite interviews and updates.
For more images see UK Indymedia
RBS Banner Protest in York
People from groups across the city and both Universities took part in a banner protest outside Royal Bank of Scotland's central branch in the city. Leaflets were handed out sumarising RBS's climate crimes.
If the action was unimpressive in and of itself, then the fact we've finally
broken the inertia around actions in York was probably a success in itself.
The rain managed to hold off (only just) and even the passing cops had nothing
whatsoever to say on the matter.
The action was held today because, well, its Mayday and its the day of action against False Capitalist Solutions, of which investment in new oil is perhaps the dimmest idea of the lot!
Green Living show Inspected in Canada
Green Living show inspected and greenwash flyers handed out yesterday in Toronto Canada.
For pictures of the stalls on display visit here
Urban development sabotaged
The Earth and its inhabitants are being raped of their natural resources by the Corporate-State Complex. This is why for the Day of Climate Action we sabotaged this smooth operation in the early hours of April XX
Members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front joined forces to carry out an action against unnecessary urban development in the south-west. Ecoteurs broke into the construction site that is building yet another bridge for the transport of motorized vehicles. A 4x4 was found, paintstripped, all sides completely scarred, tyres damaged, whilst a truck and JCB had logos removed and sides stripped. The flawed concept of "building our way out of congestion" will no longer be tolerated at the expense of the rivers wildlife and £8 million of tax payers money spent on this project.
No Compromise in Defence of Mother Earth.
INRA- French agricultural research -chalked about biofuels
The words AGRO-CARBURANTS = DANGER were chalked on the side of the French Agricultural Research institute, as were various cars throughout paris.
May 1st, international workers day, has traditionally been a day to challenge the capitalist system and a celebration of solidarity and workers' struggle for a more just social system.
On this day we are calling on people to make the link between capitalism, economic growth, climate change and social struggle.
As climate change is starting to hit people around the world, a huge number of techno-fixes are forming a new economic sector: from biofuels to nuclear power, carbon-trading to hydrogen fuel cells, carbon capture and storage. Everywhere corporations are seeking the elusive elixir which allows us to continue business as usual. All this whilst our planet is burning and people are loosing their homes, their livelyhoods and their lives to climate chaos.
All of these technologies are a distraction from the root cause of climate change: an economic system based on endless economic growth not only at the cost of the environment we live in but also based on an exploitative social system.
Many of these technofixes are also directly counterproductive to stopping climate chaos and pose new threats to people's livelyhoods and the survival of the planet.
Agrofuels expansion is direcly responsible for subsistence farmers being cleared of their land, food shortages and enormous price rises, whilst doing nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Nuclear power is heralded as a green fuel, but the environmental hazards of uranium extraction, radiation leaks during use and storage, the danger of melt-down and fatal applications in warfare are as dangerous as they have always been.
Scientists promise genetically engineered wonder plants to cope with climate changes, but people in third world countries have yet to see any benefits and fight against the patenting of the genes of traditionally used plants, whilst multinationals are lining their pockets.
The real solution to climate change must be a massive reduction in our consumption, the end to economic growth and a society based on equality and mutual aid.
Technofixes are not the answer to climate change - what we need is far reaching social and economic change!
