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May
Ongoing - Climate Camp in Lewes
South Coast Climate Camp has set up in a disused school in Lewes. St. Anne’s, a school for children with learning difficulties, was deemed “surplus to educational requirements” and has been closed since 2007. Now it has been reoccupied by climate change activists in order to provide an example of how positive community action can work to a country and a planet which is having difficulty learning that the time to act on climate change is NOW.
People are strongly encouraged to come down, get involved and perhaps stay for a while in order to defend the site and help this new community space flourish. Do get in touch if you can help in any way. E-mail southcoastcamp@riseup.net or call the site phone 07743 218521.
Website: http://brightonclimateaction.org.uk/ Thursday 12th May – Banner Protest at the Forestry, Biomass &Conference;
Meet at 8am outside the Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability Conference. This conference will be a scary mix of carbon traders, plantation investors, investment funds interested in plantations and biomass, and energy companies. Key companies to highlight for a protest are: Forth Energy and Green Resources. Green Resources is a Norwegian plantation company grabbing land for timber plantations in East Africa and focussing on trying to get carbon offsets for them (successful so far in the voluntary carbon markets, while aiming for CDM offsets too). Green Resources receive substantial direct funds from the Norwegian government, but that government has also agreed to purchase carbon offsets from them. Timberwatch published an in-depth study of Green Resources plantations in Tanzania. The plantations have non-native species (pine and eucalyptus) established at the expense of highly biodiverse grasslands, taken from local communities without their full, prior and informed consent, resulting in greater poverty and the depletion of freshwater on which communities depend. You can find the report on this site
Location: Dexter House, Royal Mint Court, London EC3 9th - 15th May – Week of action against Atos Origin
Disability activists, claimant groups and anti-cuts campaigners have called a week of action against poverty pimps Atos Origin beginning on Monday 9th May at 2pm with a picnic and party in Triton Square, London, home of their head office. Both announced and unannounced protests are set to take place around the UK outside the offices and testing centres operated by Atos Origin (a list of Atos Origin's corporate offices can be found here: www.uk.atosorigin.com/en-uk/about_us/locations). For more information on the nation-wide protests see: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/05/478815.html Saturday, 14th May - Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
With stalls from PM Press, AK Press, WSM, RAG, Irish Labour History, IPSC, Choice Ireland, IBT, HOPI, Manchester AF, S2S, LASC. An interesting array of workshops and meetings including: 'Peripheral Visions: a range of speakers from the peripheral countries of the EU that are being targeted for IMF/ECB intervention' and 'Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution? with Wayne Price (NEFAC).' www.nefac.net/ 10am to 6pm
Location: Liberty Hall, Eden Quay
Website: www.wsm.ie/bookfair Saturday, 21st May - Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
We live in a time of crisis. An economic crisis, an environmental crisis and, if the government gets its way, an impending social crisis. When the only thing that is on the political agenda is cuts, cuts and more cuts it is all the more important to explore the alternatives. And there is an alternative - anarchism. Anarchists argue we need a society ruled not by profit and greed but organised on the basis of social solidarity and human dignity. If you’re a hardened political activist or just a bit “anarcho-curious” we welcome you to our second annual anarchist book fair. Events like this have run for years in cities from San Francisco to Zagreb. They’re a great starting point into the ideas, activism, ethics, creativity and history of the contemporary anarchist movement, with publishers comix, zines, film, art, food and fun stuff. Open all day from 10am - 6pm.
Location: Bank Street Arts, Bank Street, Sheffield S1
Website: www.bookfair.org.uk/ Monday 23rd May – Fuel on the Fire book launch
Oil lies at the heart of Iraqi politics. Yet in the eight years since the bombs began to fall on Baghdad it has been a taboo subject. In Greg Muttitt’s gripping and far-reaching new investigation, Fuel on the Fire, we are taken behind the scenes of the occupation to answer one of the war’s most pressing questions: what is happening to Iraq’s oil? The book draws on previously unreleased government documents, and interviews with key American, British and Iraqi players.
War on Want and PLATFORM are hosting an evening of debate and discussion, with Author Greg Muttit and War on Want's Executive Director John Hilary, to launch Fuel on the Fire. 6.30pm at Khalili Theatre, SOAS, Thornaugh Street, WC1H 0XG.
Website: www.waronwant.org/news/latest-news/17251-fuel-on-the-fire
www.fuelonthefire.com/index.php?page=home May - June – Dale Farm Solidarity
Dale Farm residents are expecting to receive 28 day notice of eviction in May. They are asking people of goodwill to come and spend a night in Dale Farm when the notice expires. Please join us, by signing up at https://smsalerts.tachanka.org/dalefarm/ (this website may give you a “certificate warning” but pay no mind). If you're on facebook, you can also invite your friends to https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170414852985935 We'll need people to act as human rights monitors and come to Dale Farm in the event of an eviction. See http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/hrm/ for details. Many of us will be resisting the eviction through civil disobedience, and there will be training workshops for this. Before the 28 days notice expires (now likely in June), a supporting camp within Dale Farm will be set up, and accommodation arranged in family homes. Camping space will also be available. Sign up to our email bulletins to get the latest news: http://lists.ucrony.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dalefarm-solidarity Dale Farm Solidarity will be meeting every Sunday at 2pm at Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX (next to the KFC near Aldgate East tube station). Please come along if you would like to get involved! June 4th - 6th June - Party Against the Pipe Festival
Come & join us in celebrating over a decade of resistance to Shell's Corrib gas project...it's gonna be a good party! Bands, music, circus, dance, comedy, performance, crafts, kid's activities. Camping area. More details to follow. If you can perform, help out, lend equipment or offer support of any sort, please get in touch....many thanks!
Email: partyagainstthepipe@gmail.com
Location: Pollathomas, Co.Mayo
Website: www.shelltosea.com/content/party-against-pipe-festival-june-bank-holiday