UK

A statement calling for urgent action on climate change has been issued by doctors, health professionals and military personnel participating in a London conference on the health and security implications of climate change convened by the British Medical Journal.

The statement warns that "Climate change poses an immediate, growing and grave threat to the health and security of people in both developed and developing countries around the globe."

Related: A Stark Choice between climate justice and climate war where Canadian journalist Naomi Klein discusses militarism and climate change - Peoples Conference on Climate Change, Bolivia, April 2010.

Gloucestershire's skies were darkened again by the Royal International Fairford Air Tattoo as some of the world's worst climate criminals and human rights abusers compared their best killing machines. This is an event about the glorification of everything that a civilised society should feel repelled about.

Asylum has been high on the agenda recently as 24 Iraqi refugees went on hunger strike in Campsfield House.

FIGHT MOVES UP A GEAR

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Direct Action Against Agrofuels Plant in Scotland– Monday 16th May

Note – the environmental assessment for the Forth facilities describe their plan to import wood from north america, especially from the Southeastern US.  Many of these big burners in Europe are located in ports for ease of shipping access, but smaller facilities there and here in U.S.

16 October - OIL REFINERY BLOCKADED

Climate activists launch blockade of the UK's busiest oil refinery Hundreds of Crude Awakening protestors board trains to join the blockade. 12 climate activists have blocked the sole access road to Coryton oil refinery in Essex, the UK's busiest oil depot and the largest supplier of oil to London. The all woman group, affiliated to the Crude Awakening, are locked to immobilized vehicles on both lanes of the road, preventing oil tankers from leaving the refinery to deliver oil to London.

Related: UK Indymedia: Crude Awakening Blockade | UK Indymedia Climate Feed | Youtube video | Flickr photos

Indigenous campaigners join UK "Climate Camp" to target Royal Bank of Scotland


Two indigenous representatives from Canada's First Nations
representing the North American based Indigenous Environmental
Network (IEN), will be joining the Climate Camp in Edinburgh,
Scotland this week [1]. They are coming to team up with UK climate

Two activists scaled the BP building today in protest at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.  

Published: 7:18AM BST 20 May 2010

Round the world protests against coal mining, export and power generation are growing with actions in the Czech Republic, Scotland and Australia occurring on March 22.

Canadian Government’s visit to London greeted by Tar Sands protests March 17, 2010 by tarsandsinfocus