Eco Terrorists; Defending the earth, our kids, and maybe yours too
Yep, call us ECO TERRORISTS if you want, its what the cops in England define us as...
Theres always been people talking about the dangers of our present unsustainable system, how its bound to crack soon (in fact many of us feel 2008 was that crack when the financial system´s bubble burst, hence the "crisis" we are in now) and how we need to change things, QUICK.
Unfortunately, due to 30 years of unresponsible global governance (There is no people, never mind those crazy eco people) we now have lots of rain in Ireland, fires in Southern Europe, messed up agriculture and ever growing climate chaos...
So with all this, YES, people are waking up, taking action, looking for attention, trying to raise an awareness with people about the severity of the situation, as well as continuing to take action to deal with the main causes of climate change...
CLIMATE CAMP MOVEMENT
4 years ago, people in england tried to shut down a power station, the year aften more joined in the struggle, we targeted heathrow, last year we targeted Kingsnorth coal burning station in england, and this year, we had our first climate camp in ireland, to brings people attention to irelands destruction and burning of our bogs...
Whats it all about? heres a short vid from last year
from that days action you can see how the
Kingsnorth 6 have gone on to get the Queens legal system to give them the thumbs up for the action "indeed, this station will lead to the deaths of millions if it goes ahead" (paraphrasing for the success in arguing "lawful excuse") - The guardian has a nice vid about their struggle - the hows and whys of why people become "eco terrorists"
Anyway, onto Ireland and the goings on - reports here:
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'Give Peat a Chance'- Climate Camp Shannonbridge 2009
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For Peat's sake: Ireland joins the CLIMATE CAMP movement, expect NVDA and much craic
And as to the goings on of the wider English movement, last week they SWOOPED on the city of london, and yes, they carried out a hi number of attention seeking actions, why, because unfortunately most people either
A- dont get it yet, its adapt or die (2 degree change and we enter vicios feedback loop, probably end for humans soon enough), OR
B - People do get it, and simply dont care
Anyway, thankfully the movement(s) are growing, COP 15 in Denmark is the next big talk about how to sort the problems...
It affects all of us, of course, including mr clarkson.
its not as easy as just flipping ones entire life around, no, it takes little steps.
So yes, for another while you can expect more of these actions.
By the way, not all actions hit the "eco terrorist" bar, some even have grannys involved and you get involved too;
http://vimeo.com/5751928
(film from this article;
Nurturing and reclaiming our city, our commons, our communities)
Enjoy your adventure
