Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders' London Summit. Join us!

Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn't do bailouts.


First the city traders speculated with our homes, jobs and money – with disastrous results. Now they are speculating with our climate and the very future of life on earth – and once again our governments are cheering them on.

By creating a brain-bending system of carbon pollution licenses, fossil fuel companies and trading firms have found a way to keep on churning out global warming gases and to reap huge windfall profits at the same time. Meanwhile, the UK government is justifying a third runway at Heathrow and a coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth by saying that these new “carbon trading” schemes will magically make all their emissions vanish.

They are handing control of our climate over to the same people and systems that caused the financial collapse. All the workable and fair alternatives aren't getting a look-in.

We need to stop this foolishness.

We've camped against the Heathrow runway, we've camped against the Kingsnorth coal power station. Now its time to camp against the over-arching problem: absolute faith in unfettered markets and endless economic growth. On April 1st the G20 leaders arrive in London. At a time
of climate crisis their response to the market meltdown is emergency loans to car manufacturers, increased spending to encourage consumption, and bailouts for the very people who got us into this mess - just the things that will make the climate crisis worse.

Don’t let them get away with it: join our camp in the Square Mile! Gather at noon, April 1st, at the European Climate Exchange, Hasilwood House, 62 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AW.
Bring a pop-up tent, sleeping bag, wind turbine, mobile cinema, action plans and ideas...let’s imagine another world.

Don't let the financial and fossil fools make the rules!

For updates, information or to get involved, visit:
ClimateCamp G20
or subscribe to announcements at:
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To get more involved, come to our planning meetings:

February 14th in London. Arrive at the Library House, 52 Knatchbull road, at 1 pm for a 1:30 start and bring food to share:
http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/

March the 6th/7th in Nottingham.

Keep an eye on http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20 for the latest details.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

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... “We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis!”

On Thursday 2nd of April the G20 (or G22) are descending on the city in a Summit to address the current global Crisis, and to discuss how to “re-stabilise” the world economy and how to re-write the rules of global Capitalism, whilst thousands of people are losing their jobs and homes on a daily basis.

Amid the biggest police operation to be launched in London for over a decade, many UK wide groups and organisations have joined forces for several days of protests and events starting on Saturday 28th until Thursday 2nd, to show a clear rejection to the G20’s ‘solutions’, as well as to propose ways out to the current economic and social situation that go beyond the ‘logic’ of Capitalism.

See: Full Listing of Protests, Events, Locations Map



Callouts by:

* G20 Meltdown www.g-20meltdown.org
* Graveyard www.graveyard.at
* London Anarchists: www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423717.html
* London Classwar www.londonclasswar.org
* Climate Camp www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20
* Fossil Fuels Day www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org
* Put People First! www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk
* Rampart www.therampart.wordpress.com
* Stop Climate Chaos www.stopclimatechaos.org
* Stop the War Coalition www.stopwar.org.uk
* DISSENT www.bristol.indymedia.org/article/689962



Meanwhile, and as it has become the norm, mainstream and corporate media have been involved in an unsubstantiated scaremongering campaign prior to the six days of protests and events.

Some fine examples of this include: The Daily Express’s MI5 Alrert On Bank Riots, The Telegraph’s Activists plot G20 summit mass protests against bankers in City and Police brace themselves for ’summer of rage’ against economic crisis, and the Evening Standard’s Anarchists plan City demo for G20 leaders’ arrival in London.

For a comprehensive listing of mainstream media related articles see the Climate Camp’s Press Articles section.