[Cc-webedit] [Fwd: website and RBS-camp press release]

Wed Apr 21 11:56:46 UTC 2010

We have been working in parallel hence the confusion. Don't worry it's
ready to go up tomorrow as soon as we get the text.

In peace Neil
> Hi, looks like we're working in parallel, I got the email below from Neil.
> We're trying to sort out some text via the media team list to put in the
> main box, just to make sure it's up there by tomorrow morning when the
> press
> release goes public.
>
> n
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <website at climatecamp.org.uk>
> Date: 21 April 2010 09:47
> Subject: Re: website and RBS-camp press release
> To: Natalie Szarek <nszarek at googlemail.com>
>
>
> Hi
>  I think a change to the front page is best as the Fortnight of Shame is
> over. I think this picture says it all
> http://photo.climatecamp.org.uk/rbs/source/_dsc8985.html We need some
> text to go on the page it points to, not our job, can someone put
> something together. Pllease send the Press Release so it can go up for
> Thursday. Ben and Agis blogs are welcome and definitely go up please
> forward them or get copies sent here.
>
> In peace Neil
>
> On 21 April 2010 10:43, Richard Braude
> <richard.braude at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> That sounds great Brad.
>>
>> The Feature box could have the picture, a top link to the press release,
>> and a link to http://photo.climatecamp.org.uk/rbs/index.html
>>
>> Neil, here's the Press Release:
>> _____________
>>
>> PRESS RELEASE
>> Camp for Climate Action
>> EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01, THURSDAY 22ND APRIL
>>
>> CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION TO TARGET RBS IN 2010
>>
>> - Bank will be targeted over its massive fossil fuel investments
>> - Announcement made one week ahead of RBS AGM
>>
>> The Camp for Climate Action has announced today that it will be
>> targeting
>> the bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010.(1). The location has yet
>> to
>> be revealed, and the group are promising that thousands will take action
>> against the UK’s most controversial bank.
>>
>> RBS received the biggest bail out of any bank worldwide and has long
>> been
>> criticised for being the UK bank that is the most heavily involved in
>> financing fossil fuel companies around the world. In 2006, a report
>> calculated that the emissions embedded in its oil and gas portfolio were
>> greater than that of Scotland itself. More recently, RBS was identified
>> as
>> the UK bank most involved with financing companies engaged in Canadian
>> tar
>> sands extraction with the devastating impacts on the climate and on the
>> lives of indigenous communities. (2)
>>
>> Sonia Tiller, a spokesperson for the group said:
>>
>> “The government refuses to do anything to prevent RBS from pouring
>> billions
>> of taxpayers’ money into incredibly destructive fossil fuel projects
>> around
>> the world. So it’s up to ordinary people to come together again and stop
>> these climate crimes from being committed, just like we did at
>> Kingsnorth
>> and Heathrow.”
>>
>> Climate activist Sean Freeman from Leeds said:
>>
>> “It’s bad enough that RBS were funding some of the dirtiest fossil fuel
>> developments to happen around the world - now they are using tax payers’
>> money to do this. First, banks caused the financial crisis, and now they
>> are
>> dragging us headlong into the climate crisis too.”
>>
>> The announcement was made a week before the RBS AGM which is to be held
>> on
>> 28 April in Edinburgh. An indigenous woman from Canada, Eriel Deranger
>> will
>> be attending the AGM to question RBS executives over the impact of their
>> investments in the destruction of her home and community. (3)
>>
>> The announcement of the secret location for the focus of the action is
>> expected to be made in the next month.
>>
>> For info/interviews, contact:
>> 07040 900905
>> press at climatecamp.org.uk
>>
>> ENDS
>> ___________
>>
>> NOTES
>>
>> (1) The Camp for Climate Action is the UK’s most high profile direction
>> action movement, which has previously organised camps at Drax Power
>> Station,
>> Heathrow Airport, Kingsnorth Power Station, the G20 and Blackheath
>> Common.
>> It aims to build a social movement of radical climate activists in the
>> UK
>> and presents a critique of the economic/political system underpinning
>> the
>> climate crisis.
>>
>> (2) For more information on RBS’ fossil fuel finance, see the reports,
>> “The
>> Oil and Gas Bank” [Available from
>> peopleandplanet.org/dl/ddd/rbs_report.pdf], “Cashing in on Coal: RBS, UK
>> Banks and the Global Coal Industry” [Available
>> fromwww.oyalbankofscotland.com/cioc/pdf/cashinginoncoal.pdf] and
>> “Cashing
>> in on Tar Sands: RBS, UK Banks and Canada’s ‘Blood Oil’” [Available from
>> http://platformlondon.org/files/cashinginontarsandsweb.pdf].
>>
>> (3) The NGOs that are organising the protest at the RBS AGM are the
>> World
>> Development Movement Scotland, Amnesty Scotland, Scottish Education and
>> Action for Development, People & Planet, Rainforest Action Network,
>> Indigenous Environmental Network and Platform. There will also be
>> protests
>> outside RBS branches across the UK on Saturday 24 April and Wednesday 28
>> April organised by the World Development Movement. These groups are also
>> holding a “Public Shareholders Meeting” in the Mercure Hotel (6pm – 8pm)
>> in
>> Edinburgh on the evening of the AGM. These groups are entirely separate
>> entities to the Camp for Climate Action.
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