A. Greenwash Guerillas, London Brigade, Detection Platoon #1 – Prepped for Action
London Rising Tide's Greenwash Guerillas Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, moved into action on Monday morning at 08:00 hours – targeting dirty great energy corporation Électricité de France (EDF) at the central London headquarters (HQ) of their UK subsidiary EDF Energy.
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B. Target Acquired – EDF's UK HQ @ Victoria, central London
C. Ingress Interdicted – da security fella, he say "They Shall Not Pass!" 
Video 1: Initial Deployment – Security Drone Escorts Guerillas to Public Pavement
London Rising Tide used to meet fortnightly, but the wild success of the massive Climate Camp 08 outside the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station [1] has boosted the veteran climate change campaign to even higher levels of participation and direct action. I attended a 'Film Night for Newcomers' on Thu 18 Sep 08, as did a whole bunch of folks new to Rising Tide, and such was the upswing of enthusiasm, energy and creativity, we've been meeting weekly ever since.
D. Initial Scan – Alert! Greenwash Detected!!
E. Environmental Scan – Caution! Multiple Greenwash Leaks Detected!!
Video 2: Make Some Noize – Corporate Greenwash Audio Alert reaches pedestrians, cyclists, bus+coach passengers & motorist
Inspired by our sisters and brothers in France demonstrating against new nuclear power, we chose to target EDF's attempts to muscle in their FALSE nuclear solution to the looming disaster of catastrophic climate chaos. Testing the mettle of seasoned campaigners, we newbies chose 08:00-09:00 on a Monday morning to kick up a stink about the dangers to the biosphere, humanity, and REAL renewable energy solutions posed by the nuclear fission industry rearing its ugly head.
F. Detect & Deflect Squad – our very own Three Graces
And inspired by the response of our Argentinean sisters and brothers to having their life savings stolen by the banks, we made ours a Noize Demo [2] – pots and pans, whistles and samba bells echoed off the blank face of the bland corporate architecture at No.40 Grosvenor Place, drawing the attention of EDF bosses inside and thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, bus+coach passengers, van+truck drivers, and motorists outside to the greenwash bullshit leaking out of their stone-n-glass bastion. And in return, scores of vehicle horns saluted our protest, sounding a general public approval for protest against Nuclear Capital's dirty machinations for new nukes.
G. Division of Labour – Rubbish Cleansing Workers tip each other the nod
H. New Nukes? – No Way José!
Video 3: Panz-N-Whistlez – Noize Protest Piques Pedestrian's Interest
If you feel inspired to take action for a future free from the threat of catastrophic climate chaos, you'll be welcomed with open arms and a cup of something hot and refreshing at London Rising Tide's next meeting: Thu 23 Oct 08, 19:30 to 21:00, at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1ES – and down t'pub after (optional ;-).
Peace & Love
Tim Dalinian Jones
PS: if you're disappointed I've not yet uploaded my pix-&-vids reports from the 'March on the City!' on Fri 10 Oct, the 'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' protest on Sat 11 Oct, and 'The Climate Rush' on Mon 13 Oct – I do apologise for the delay, but a bit of a backlog has built up while I filled the boots of an AWOL webmeister for the Anti-Capitalist Halloween Street Party that is Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism! Please consider yourself invited to the most exciting and moving anti-capitalist event in London in a decade – I'll be a Dark TechnoWizard, what costume will YOU wear? And by then, all these missing reports should be up on the new all-singing-all-dancing IndyMedia London Newswire (for which many thanks to the IMC programmers – top notch job, well done).
Footnotes
[1] The massive Climate Camp 08 outside the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station: over a week long, 3000+ folks involved, and targeting the proposed site for the first new coal-fired power station in 30 years – proposed by filthy energy corporation E.ON who continue as Top Target of the UK Camp for Climate Action movement. London Rising Tide will be supporting the national DoubleDay of Action against E.ON on Fri 28 and Sat 29 Nov 08.
[2] Noize - sick-n-tired as I am of telling US spell-checkers NOT to use a Z where an S should be, it's time to get my own back. In Mar 1973, I was 11 and Tim Slade-Jones at home, "Sladey" at school, and loved Slade's music, when "Cum on Feel the Noize" became their fourth #1 single - entering the UK singles chart at that position (the first time that had happened since The Beatles with "Get Back" in 1969). Here's three versions on video at YouTube:
• Slade perform "Cum on Feel the Noize" live in 1983
• Cover version by Quiet Riot (#5 on the US Billboard Hot 100, Nov 1983)
• Cover version by Oasis (B-side to their 1996 #1 single "Don't Look Back in Anger")
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