[Cc-webedit] FW: E.On videos are sent

Tue Oct 13 23:29:12 BST 2009

CC-ing the website list as requested. Below is a draft propsoed blog post to go up if e.on post some vides we've made challenging their greenwash Talking Energy YouTube channel.

Simon

From: simon_collister at hotmail.com
To: emily at emily-james.com
CC: j at jonathanleighton.com; doug.paulley at kingqueen.org.uk; s.l.lewis at leeds.ac.uk; james at very.org.uk; james at dogmanet.org; rainbow_fnord at hotmail.co.uk; mediateam at lists.riseup.net; tim_ratcliffe at hotmail.com
Subject: RE: E.On videos are sent
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:26:06 +0000

OK. Here's the proposed blog post 1 - presuming e.on post our vids. I haven't gone for a massive exposition - stayed close to the press release. But if others want to chip in then feel free. But would recommend keeping it shorter and sweeter rather than overly long. Definitely no more than 500 words IMHO :)

Climate
Camp has upped the ante in our bitter battle with energy giant E.on, by
occupying its flash new YouTube channel, Talking Energy, which its using as its
flagship PR tool to cover up its greenwash in an attempt to rebrand it as
‘dialogue’.

Three
Campers have created a series of video messages that we’ve posted to E.on’s
YouTube channel. We want to make these videos became the most viewed items on
the channel [YouTube??] and help the facts about climate change, and E.on’s
appalling failure to act, go viral. 

In
some ways it’s funny to see a dirty, old company like E.on pay a PR company tens
of thousands of pounds to come up with such bad content, such as those
hilariously clunky wooden videos. But it loses its funny side when you think
about the fact that their main activity – burning coal to produce electricity –
could destroy the planet and its people, plants and animals.  [NEEDS FINESSING A BIT]

You
can watch each of these short films below and please take a minute to head over
to E.on’s site post a comment and forward on to your friends.

[VIDEO
EMBEDS]

The
videos have been posted days before hundreds of people are expected to swoop on
E.ON’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham and undertake a real-life
occupation of the power station that emits about 8m tones of CO2 each year –
the equivalent to Ghana/Costa Rica’s total annual carbon emissions. [LINK] 

If
you’re coming to the Great Climate Swoop [LINK] this weekend then you can join
Climate Camp using social media tools like Twitter [LINK] and YouTube [LINK] to
coordinate the takeover of Ratcliffe-on-Soar on October 17th.

We’ll
be using these and other online tools to provide live, minute-by-minute
coverage of the action as it happens. Keep checking back to the Climate Camp
blog for news and updates – or subscribe to our RSS feed for realtime updates. 

As
one of the Climate Campers, XXX, who appeared in the film,
said “E.on are right about one thing, the need for a debate on how to radically
reduce carbon emissions to avert a climate catastrophe. But they are wrong to
think that their Ratcliffe power station can stay open – every year it pumps
more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than many developing countries. To
slash emissions as much as we need to, it has to close.”

Join
us at Ratcliffe-on-Soar or online and help take the power back.

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:56:41 +0100
Subject: Re: E.On videos are sent
From: emily at emily-james.com
To: simon_collister at hotmail.com
CC: j at jonathanleighton.com; doug.paulley at kingqueen.org.uk; s.l.lewis at leeds.ac.uk; james at very.org.uk; james at dogmanet.org; rainbow_fnord at hotmail.co.uk; mediateam at lists.riseup.net; tim_ratcliffe at hotmail.com

SImon, I think you should feel free to add as you see fit. We have time for something to go through process tomorrow, so take some liberties if you feel inspired - I'd say anyway.

My 2p: think about how the videos weave into the blog. There will be three separate embeds with each of the three videos, and you could have text above, below, between, etc.

And links (climatecamp.tv for watching the swoop live over the weekend, the virtual sit in, etc.)

Also, how do we get them posted on the CC YouTube account. Who has the password for that? Or should we put it on the CCTV youtube?

E

2009/10/13 simon collister <simon_collister at hotmail.com>

I can have a go on the train to work tomorrow... but really, I am going to be using the press release text but woven together in a way that people normally talk rather than the media expect - and adding links to build our argument. I won't be adding anything substantial at all. Promise.

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:46:31 +0100
Subject: Re: E.On videos are sent
From: emily at emily-james.com
To: j at jonathanleighton.com

CC: doug.paulley at kingqueen.org.uk; S.L.Lewis at leeds.ac.uk; simon_collister at hotmail.com; james at very.org.uk; james at dogmanet.org; rainbow_fnord at hotmail.co.uk; mediateam at lists.riseup.net; tim_ratcliffe at hotmail.com

Jon, 

Fully intend to respect process on this.

We will want it to go up more or less immediately when we are ready, because the embed of the videos in the blog is the place that we will be promoting for people to go watch them, and it will be in the press release.

So the bolg has to go up even before anything else.

Simon, I know you said that you didn't want to draft anything until we knew what E.On were going to do, but is there anyway that you could draft enough together to send around the web group for approval?

Jon, would something like that work for this?

Emily

2009/10/13 Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 20:20 +0100, Emily James wrote:

> Simon C is going to write the bolg post, but Jon, can you set him up,

> because he doesn't have access to post that... does it need to go

> through process of some sort or can he be free to use the press

> releases as a basis and just post it as soon as we hear from them?

We reviewed the process for blog posts at the Leeds gathering. This is

straight from the minutes:

Blogs should be as immediate as possible

Regular contributors should be able to post blog entries without going

through websiyet group.

Non-regular bloggers to send blog or suggestions to the website group

Non-regular posts should be circulated for 24 hours for objections on

website list

Regular bloggers should mainly be representing working groups, but we

also need to accommodate people blogging personal perspectives.

I think we can probably shorten the 24 hours for something urgent, but

it would be good to see a rough draft before it "needs" to go up so that

we can at least try to stick to this process.

Cheers

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