Climate camps are taking off around the world!

AUSTRALIA: In July (10-15) A Camp for Climate Action will take place in the coal port of Newcastle, Australia. Organised by Rising Tide and Friends of the Earth, it follows on from a week of environmental teaching and learning at the 2008 Students of Sustainability Conference also to be held in Newcastle.

http://www.climatecamp.org.au

http://www.studentsofsustainability.org

A recent report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) points to the livestock industry as the most significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. At 18 percent (as measured in CO2 equivalent), the livestock industry emits more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined. Livestock farming accounts for 9 percent of carbon dioxide emission, 37 percent of methane emissions, and 65 percent of nitrous oxide emissions. Though the agenda of climate change often targets regulating and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, methane and nitrous oxide actually contribute more to the detrimental effects of climate change because of the long-term reactions they cause in the atmosphere. Methane is 23 times more "warming" than CO2.

On December 8, Rally Around the Earth for Climate Justice and a Safer, Healthier Planet!

WATCH THE KYOTO NOW VIDEO: http://youtube.com/watch?v=o1ykJKKolx8

Peaceful protest: Rising Tide climate
protester blockading a trainMedia Release -- 19th November, 2007

Grassroots climate change action group Rising Tide has blockaded a coal train on its way into the world's biggest coal export port, at Kooragang Island in Newcastle Harbour. No trains are able to enter Kooragang Coal Terminal because of the blockade.

RBS-NatWest publicly promotes itself as "The Oil & Gas Bank". They provide the financial fuel that is accelerating climate change. Without these loans to oil and gas corporations the projects would not happen. [2]It is estimate that *in 2006, the bank provided over $10 billion to fossil fuels – more than five times that provided to renewable energy.[3]*

RBS provide oil corporations with loans to build new massively ecologically detrimental drilling rigs, pipelines and oil tankers. [4] And as RBS's profits rise so does the carbon in the atmosphere.

ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, WE WILL TAKE ACTION.

Let Us Know You Are Coming to DC

Join us in Washington, DC, the Nation’s Capitol, to speak truth to power! Join in planning powerful actions so that we can have the greatest impact on U.S. and global policy makers.

Between 14 and 21 August, climate activists are meeting for the 2007 Camp for Climate Action, next to London's international Heathrow
airport, UK. The weak and
limited injunction sought by BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, was unable to deter the gathering.

Actions so far have included
the occupation of Carmel Agrexco,
XL Airways, the
Department of Transport, and Heathrow's
World Freight Centre. Local workers at Nippon
Express Cargo have also called a strike which was supported by Climate Camp activists. Solidarity actions have
been launched at a number of local airports throughout the UK, including Bristol, Biggin Hill and Farnborough.

More mass actions are expected on Sunday and Monday. Besides the protests, the Climate Camp aims to be an example of a low-impact living with hot showers run by solar panels, a grey water recycling system and compost toilets. Indymedia UK reports on the

latest news about the Climate Camp and have setup up a
field IMC
on site, powered by wind generators and solar arrays.

Check the up-to-the-minute
Indymedia UK Ticker (also by SMS, mobile or
phone on 0207 043 3783).

Greetings from Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS),

We have several calls for support that we want to relay on behalf of The People on 'The

Land' (Black Mesa). You may have heard that the decades-long 'Land Dispute' has been

resolved.

Indeed, there have been messages coming from the political establishment that are quite a bit

different from the daily life of the People on The Land but this is nothing new. The Dine’

(Navajo) families that we work with are still struggling under Federally backed Hopi/Bureau

of Indian Affairs jurisdiction.