…they’ve taken a site on RBS’s Gogarburn campus as of 9:15pm:
At 9.15PM tonight Climate Camp took the site on RBS HQ. Get on site as
fast as you can! Defence help urgently needed. Come to RBS Gogarburn
Gardens, off Gogar Station Rd. More info later. x
That’s the 48 or the 35 bus then.
Privatisation for council services, climate-change promoting oil-intensive industries. Opposite concerns? No, linked by the need for the rich to keep making money off of our backs. Fight one, you should fight the other too.
Handily, you can do one then the other, with time for coffee in between 
Join the Lobby of Edinburgh City Council
Thursday 19 August 8.30am, Quadrangle Edinburgh City Chambers.
We will call on the council not to privatise our services and not to cut our jobs and attack our working conditions
STOP THE CUTS – FIGHT FOR EVERY JOB – DON’T PRIVATISE OUR SERVICESEdinburgh Council leader Jenny Dawe said: “The council faces increasingly difficult financial times in the years ahead due to the unprecedented nature and scale of the global recession and the UK budget deficit. This will be starkly reflected in the government settlements we can expect”. Edinburgh City Council aims to cut it’s budget by more than £90 million by 2012 and states it will be forced to “slash” core services. Council chiefs have short-listed 15 firms to take part in talks about running everything from bin collections to school meals and payroll.
” We need to lobby the council and urge them” : NOT TO CARRY OUT THE TORIES “DIRTY WORK”Bring banners, placards, loud hailers but more importantly get others to come along. Already in Edinburgh we have had great victories against school closures, community centre closures, outsourcing of care services and the bin workers have shown great strength in resisting the cut of thousands of pounds in wages by voting recently to reject the councils deal. All our public services and thousands of jobs are at stake, which means we need to raise our level of struggle into a mass coalition of all those prepared to fightback against every attack on services, jobs and against privatisation. JOIN THE LOBBY on Thursday 19th August
And then there’s the Climate Camp “swoop”
SWOOP TO TAKE THE LAND
Thursday 19th August 2010, 12 noon, Edinburgh
This year, once again, there will be an exciting public swoop to take the land for the Camp for Climate Action 2010.
Everyone is invited to join, whether on foot or bike. The more people that join us the more successful it will be.
HOW DO I JOIN THE SWOOP?
1) CHOOSE A MEET-UP POINT Firstly, select your meet-up point in Edinburgh for the day of the Swoop. Each spot will be greeted by a different flag on the day:
- The Castle Gates will be greeted by the Black and Green flag
- St Andrews Square will have the Pink flag
- Bristo Square there will be a Rainbow flag
- The Bike B-loch will be meeting in the car park at Duddingston Loch accompanied by the Skull and Cross Bone flag.
2) SIGN UP FOR SWOOP TEXTS Sign your phone number up to our text messaging alert system. Please do this! It will keep everyone in the loop as we collectively swoop to take the land. Sign up at: http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/swoop and remember your phone on the day!
4) GO TO YOUR MEET-UP POINT Arrive at your chosen swoop point by 12 noon on Thursday 19th August, look out for your flag, and prepare for action!
Stung by criticism that they’ve lost touch with their anti-capitalist roots, the Camp for Climate Action are this year focussing on RBS as the target of their direct action environmentalism. Want to shut it down on the 23rd August, give the workers the day off.
Message and wee video from them.
Camp for Climate Action 2010
Break the Bank!
EdinburghFour days of training and direct action: 21st–24th August
The Camp for Climate Action is a grassroots movement taking direct action against the root causes of climate change. We’ve already had major successes with Heathrow’s third runway and E.ON’s plans for a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth.
This year we’re targeting the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the world’s largest investor in oil, gas and coal.
Last year RBS were bailed out with £50 billion of public money. From tar sands extraction in Canada to coal infrastructure here in the UK, we’re paying to trash our future. These projects are not just causing catastrophic climate change, but destroying the lives and livelihoods of people across the globe. Meanwhile, we’re told there is no money left in the public pot and we should be braced for decades of public sectors cuts.
What are we doing about it? In August, people from across the UK will be converging to take back the power and Break the Bank! Our sustainable and collectively organised basecamp will give you the chance to learn, train up, and meet like minded individuals. Exciting action plans are also underway for those who want to get involved.
More information: www.climatecamp.org.uk
RBS – Give us back our fucking money
VisionOnTV present a stunt almost as barefacedly cheeky as Fred Goodwin’s pension heist.
Where's Bonnie & Clyde when you need them?
This is making people angry, unsurprisingly. Us anarchists usually get stick for being extreme and violent. But who’s this discussing the return of the guillotine for bankers? Economists on the BBC, that’s who (via BoingBoing). Strange days.
With all the talk of “worst economy for a 100 years”, there is some cheer. Classic Depression-era songs like this one are now copyright expired, meaning you can do anything with them. Here’s Woody Guthrie singing “Pretty Boy Floyd”:
Well you say that I’m an outlaw, you say that I’m a thief
Here’s a Christmas dinner for the families on relief[...]
Now as through your life you travel and through your life you go – o
You will never see an outlaw drive a family from their home
