[Cc-webedit] [Fwd: [CoalAction09] facebook mail out]

[Jon Leighton]

Any objections to making this a blog post?

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Guy <ehouk1 at gmail.com>
> To: Coalaction09 at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: [CoalAction09] facebook mail out
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:52:08 +0100
> 
> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> below are is the text for the mail out to facebook event. If there are
> no objections I will send it out tonight. Also if there is anything
> which needs adding email me
> 
> Cheers- Guy 
> 
> The Great Climate Swoop is coming to…. Ratcliffe
> 
> So after last minute voting at Climate Camp in London,
> Ratcliffe-on-soar coal power station (owned by that nice company e.on)
> was chosen (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOhr6369pZE).  
> 
> As the camp packed down on Wednesday intrepid campers broke past the
> fences to set up camp inside Ratcliffe warning ‘Climate Camp is
> coming’ (see: http://london.indymedia.org/tumbles/2170) just to show
> its possible. But lets be honest the vote was only there to take the
> piss out of voting between 2 bad options (which of course we would
> never have I reality…). 
> 
> Now the important bit starts, getting a huge number of people together
> and then acting together, all of us, to shut this monster down!
> 
> So what can you do now? 
> 
> -       Invite all your friends to join this event, tell them about it
> and get the excited and bring them on the day! Get a group together
> and plan what you want to do on the day. The first rule of the Great
> Climate Swoop is tell EVERYBODY about the Great Climate Swoop.
> 
> -       Take this back to any green, justice, community or whatever
> groups you may be part of and get them to join in.
> 
> -       Come to the planning session to work out what this day is
> going to look like. It’s at the Sumac Centre, Forest Fields,
> Nottingham on Sept. 12. This is where we get all the crazy ideas
> together (a penguin bloc, a stilt bloc, picnics, sound systems) get em
> all down on paper and dream how we are going to move beyond coal.
> 
> Standby for:
> 
> -       signing up for travel, we are planning how we are going to get
> people to the Swoop, we could be putting on coaches from major cities,
> standby for more info.
> 
> -       A kickass speaker tour going around the country, hopefully
> stopping at your uni and/or city. If you want to host an event
> contact: info at thegreatclimateswoop.org
> 
> -       New updates on the website (www.thegreatclimateswoop.org) to
> inspire you and get you all the important info. 
> 
> We are excited, and hope you are too, but there is a lot of work to do
> before October 17th!
> 
> The Great Climate Swoop
> 
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