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!
Edinburgh
Four 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
The lovely people at VisionOn.tv are organising a training course tomorrow, “It’s a free short course in fast-turnaround activist news reporting, being held at the Forest Cafe”.
Citizen TV Reporter Training
When: Saturday 24th July 2010 – 10am-6pm Come and meet everyone and watch
some films at 7pm on Friday 23rd July
Where: Forest Cafe <http://theforest.org.uk/>, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
EH1 1EYCost: Free / donation
Places are limited, so please fill in the
application form at http://visionon.tv/training/application. Lack of
experience is no barrier. Commitment to making social change with video is much more important!
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Video Training for Social Change
These reports can be made by absolute beginners, or by people with skills but little time.
Make watchable and effective films for the widest possible audience.
Our training programme is bold and unique. We have taken away the obstacles to making effective films by radically simplifying the whole process. Come to the workshop to learn how to make fast-turnaround video news reports. Our production templates will enable you to make films with whatever equipment you already possess. You can even make videos with no camera at all!
Please bring the items of portable recording equipment you have – video camera, stills camera, mobile phone, laptop computer. We will use them during the workshop.
Please note: to complete your productions, an extra session on Sunday morning (at Forest Cafe) will be necessary.
Remember kids, just because it got rid of the least popular Prime Minister in living memory and lead to you not paying the more tax than your landlord, violence is never justified.
the Tory smear campaign took a turn for the bizarre this weekend, when Tory Vice Chairman Margot James attacked [Scouser] McCluskey for his “Scots accent”!
It’s all part of the bizarre pantomime around the BA cabin crew strike. Clearly BA boss Willie Walsh is a complete cock and the government are also desperate for the strike to fail. But Unite leadership have made some questionable moves from the point of view of the striking cabin crew.
All the false outrage about Unite’s £11 milion to the Labour party isn’t asking the right question. What the hell are the workers getting from it? That money could be doing good in a solidarity fund, a strike fund, or funding a grassroots support campaign. Instead its paying the salary of a New Labour parasites.
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
“Quotes from News At Ten and Newsnight (half an hour later), Feb 2 2009. The striker’s quote is edited in the News At Ten segment to make it appear as if he does not want to work alongside foreigners – to justify an editorial claim that the strike is xenophobic. In the fuller Newsnight report, it is clear that he is saying that he _cannot_ work alongside them, because they are segregated.”
