[Cja] stuff on 12/10
Tadzio Mueller
tadziom at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 14 08:20:12 UTC 2010
so i asked tom kucharz in spain what's going on for the 12th, he hasn't responded. this person, however, says there's something happening in barcelona for the day of action. does anyone know her/him? i have sent an email to check
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--- On Mon, 9/13/10, Fun Peace <fuspey at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
From: Fun Peace <fuspey at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [climate09-int] short vid for 'Crude Awakening' - day of action against oil - October 16 London
To: "kevin smith" <kevinjgsmith at googlemail.com>, cjn at lists.riseup.net, climate09-int at lists.riseup.net
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:04 PM
can you give us more details about that week of action, links to whats on, both in your local area, and to wider afield. In Barcelona there are things been planned for the 12th, and bit of stuff for the 350 global work party, 2 days before on sunday 10th.
have people got anything organised for 1000 cancuns, if so what, where etc...
solidarity...
From: kevin smith <kevinjgsmith at googlemail.com>
To: cjn at lists.riseup.net; climate09-int at lists.riseup.net
Sent: Mon, 13 September, 2010 17:48:13
Subject: [climate09-int] short vid for 'Crude Awakening' - day of action against oil - October 16 London
hi all
apologies for a UK-centric posting, but done in the spirit of it being part of the international week of action
a short mobilisation vid (people expecting riot-porn may be somewhat disappointed) about 'Crude Awakening' - day of action against the oil industry taking place in London on 16 October as part of the Global Minga week of action
2 minute video here
http://www.youandifilms.com/2010/09/crude-awakening-get-over-it/
and website here where you can sign up for more info
http://www.crudeawakening.org.uk/
and for those who crave ALL the info - the first newsletter with more info about it all
THE CRUDE AWAKENING MASS
OUTREACH EMAIL
A mass action to switch
off oil
Saturday, 16 October
2010, Central London
www.crudeawakening.org.uk
Have
you been thinking it's about time a whole load of
people got together to take mass action against oil in
central London? We thought so. And so it followed that
the Crude Awakening was launched. The mobilization is
now in full swing and everyone is invited to help
publicize and prepare. There is loads to do….please
have a read through this email and get involved!
The email is in three parts:
1. The call out - please
copy and paste and help this get all over the
Internet!
2. Upcoming events and how
to get involved
3. Frequently asked
questions
1. The call out – please
copy and paste and help get this all over the
Internet!
THE
CRUDE AWAKENING
A
mass action to switch off oil
Saturday,
16 October 2010, Central London
Floods
in Pakistan, drought in Russia, huge glaciers breaking
up in Greenland...
Our
climate system is rapidly sliding into crisis, as oil
companies destroy people's lives and the environment
to keep sucking up their profits.
Oil
saturates every aspect of our lives. Oil profits
lubricate the financial markets and its sponsorship
clings like a bad smell to our cultural institutions.
It flows through pipelines to the pumps, airports and
factories of our cities.
The
failure of the UN COP15 process showed us – if there
was ever any doubt – that government and industry
can’t tackle climate change. It’s up to us and it’s
time to up the ante.
As
a movement, our actions against coal and aviation have
made a real difference. Now oil’s time is up.
Together,
on October 16, let's give the oil industry a Crude
Awakening.
Meet
in central London. Be ready to move. Be ready to stay
and stand your ground.
Be
creative. Be prepared. Be there.
Find out more, get involved
and sign up for text alerts at www.crudeawakening.org.uk
Facebook: http://bit.ly/c6S0kg
Twitter: @crudeawake
Part of the CJA global week
of action for climate justice
Supported by: Space Hijackers, Climate Camp, Plane
Stupid, Rising Tide, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of
Insurrectionary Imagination, UK Tar Sands Network
Hope to see you on the
streets,
Crude Awakening
crudeawakening.org.uk
2. How to get involved and build up events
you are all invited to.
Events
already planned are listed bellow:
In
London……
· 17th
September, networking meeting at 6pm just inside the
entrance to the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, a meeting for
people interested in helping to do outreach in the
London area the Climate Camp outreach group are
meeting.
· There is going
to be a London coordinating and planning meeting for
the Crude Awakening very soon, and the details will be
announced shortly.
· Thursday 23rd
September at 7.30pm, Climate Action Film Night, London
Action Resource Centre, Whitechapel (for address see www.londonarc.org)
An evening of
films and discussion about climate activism and the
oil industry, hosted by London Rising Tide.
A screening of
two short films of recent actions against BP and Shell
by Rising Tide and friends, plus Petropolis, a
visually stunning and disturbing documentary about the
Canadian Tar Sands. Followed by a brainstorming
session on taking direct action against the oil
industry in London - including all the latest info on
the Crude Awakening, an oily mass action happening on
Saturday 16th October. For anyone who believes in
climate justice and wants to help make it happen;
anyone hacked off with the greed and irresponsibility
of oil giants like BP; anyone back from the Climate
Camp and looking to get involved locally... everyone
welcome....and there'll be cake!
· The Crude
Awakening London Rabble Rouser – a mass outdoor team
game, warming us up for the big day– date, place and
time to be announced.
· Saturday 2nd October.
MOLASAPULTPARTY FUNDRAISER .... Venue TBC, more
details to follow shortly
· Saturday the
2nd and Sunday the 3rd October Stilt making workshop
for the stilt block on the mass action!....
This
time we're thinking big, we're thinking high, we're
thinking tall.... and we're going as a Stilt Bloc.
Yep, thats right! On stilts!
So in order for this to happen we're having a skill
share weekend in London to build stilts and learn how
to walk on them. The weekend is Sat 2nd and Sun 3rd
October, 10am to 6pm.
And even if you don't want to be up high, each stilt
walker will need a buddy staying on the ground so
there's a place for everyone, young and old, big or
small, high or low...... we need you at this weekend
too!!!
Its all free and lunch is included....
We need RSVPs so we know numbers. Email: stilt.bloc at gmail.com
Oh and its MEXICAN DAY OF THE DEAD theme.....
In
Manchester….
· Sat 9th Oct - Mass Action
training
· Tue 12th Oct - Publicly
announced rouser for CJA international day of action
· Crude Awakening
mobilisation
We
hope that there will be loads more to follow but this
is what is lined up so far. If you are planning a
build up event let us know so we can advertise it
please.
There
is a huge amount to do to mobilize quickly for an
event this big. Maybe you could organise a film
showing or talk (we can probably send a speaker if you
email us). You could put on an affinity group or
action training workshop, or host a fundraiser. You
could book a coach and fill it. You could run a
workshop so people can build practical stuff , for
example a load of disposable bikes to bring along
(email us to let us know if you do make lots of useful
stuff). You could have a stall and hand out flyers at
your freshers fair (again email for materials). You
could make a stencil and graffiti advertise for it all
across your city/ region. Unless everyone gets
involved there is a real danger we won’t get the
numbers we need.
The Crude
Awakening is now on crabgrass! Join it, join a working
group and lets get planning! https://we.riseup.net/thecrudeawakening
(crabgrass is a little bit like facebook for activists
and is a way of organising on line). And sign up for
more information by email and text alerts on the
website. www.crudeawakening.org.uk.
Our facebook page is a little slow to get off the
ground but it will soon be buzzing.
Please
also raise The Crude Awakening as an agenda point at
the next organising meeting at your Social Centre/
Friends of the Earth Group/ Union/ Climate Camp
neighbourhood/ Housing Coop etc. Get people talking
and excited and committed to the idea that they are
going! If you are not already in a group or affinity
group you are of course still totally welcome. You
will probably want to make contact with some like
minded folk to talk things through and make some plans
before the big day. For example you could go to climatecamp.org.uk
or risingtide.org.uk
and find your local active group, or email us and we
can try to signpost you on. At the least try to get a
couple of mates to come with you, so that you have
some support as a group of friends (known by activists
as an affinity group).
3. Frequently asked questions
Q.
Neither the website nor the flyer gives much info.
What is going on?
A.
As you have probably twigged there is also a
deliberate sense of mystery around the action. So
often with recent mass actions we have said exactly
where we are going to go, and the police have had as
much time to prepare as us, making things much more
difficult for people who want to be involved in mass
and effective direct action . With this project we are
experimenting a little bit. The 10 targets are left
unspecified, giving the action more chance of being
successful. But at the same time we can openly
advertise that we all need to be in Central London so
we can get loads of people together at the same place
at the same time for the mass action. And those people
need to be ready to take action and to have fun. This
is not a march and it’s not a camp. This is an action
that needs preparation and we can all be involved in
most of that preparation….although the targets will be
a surprise until much later.
We
can’t be sure that this mix of secret and public
planning will work, but we can give it a go, have some
fun and maybe make some progress…..but maybe, just
maybe we have got it totally nailed and this will be
the best mass action in London ever! If you don’t show
up there it will be difficult for you to know. Our
advice is don’t miss it ;)
Q.
So what do I need to do to prepare?
A.
People need to be ready to move, and to stand their
ground. Don’t bring with you anything that you can’t
easily walk with or get on a tube with. But do bring
with you stuff that will help you and your affinity
group hold a space in what ever way you feel
you want to. Whether you want to bring armtubes,
disposable bikes or a huge slow moving metal and
wooden tower with a papier-mâché rhino head (that can
fit on and off a tube!?); diversity of tactics and
affinity group planning are key to this working.
People can also prepare stuff to make this action look
beautiful; puppets, masks, banners, a portable
molasses fondue……you get the idea.
Q.
Why Oil?
A. For a whole host of
reasons. Here are just a few…..
Because oil companies search for new oil reserves to
make themselves richer while our climate spins into
crisis.
Because the UK government starts wars for oil.
Because of human rights abuses and murder in West
Africa.
Because of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Because of the destruction of wilderness in the Arctic
and the coast of Rosport in Ireland.
Because of UK public money being used by bailed out
banks to fund new oil projects.
Because London is brimming with oil money, oil
sponsorship and oil companies.
Because global energy resources are the peoples
commons.
Because oil companies and the filthy rich people who
profit from them have no place in a sustainable
future.
Because Copenhagen failed and now it’s down to us.
Because oil has had it’s day and it’s time we pulled
the plug.
Hope
that that made things a little clearer. And more
specific information will be sent out soon. If you are
still struggling with the idea, it is a bit like the
Great Climate Swoop of 2009, except where we are going
is kept secret. Remember, you are being asked to come
and move around London, so stay mobile, be creative,
be prepated and be ready to stand your ground. So talk
in your affinity group about the ways in which you are
going to be able to hold a space and equipment and
materials that you might want to bring along to help
you. The action is open, and will be shaped by the
people who are there. Only the targets and how we are
getting to them are secret.
Apologies for cross posting.
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