London Climate Action

Welcome to London Climate Action

Hi! Welcome to the London neighbourhood page.

The London neighbourhood has returned from the national camp in Edinburgh with lots of new energy and ideas! The next few months will allow us the space to develop as a neighbourhood & dream up amazing actions such as the global day of action for climate just on the 12/10 or the Crude Awakening on 16/10. Now is a great time to come along to our weekly organising meetings if you havn't previously done so! The people putting on the Camp for Climate Action are all volunteers, lots of us learning how to do it as we go along. Everyone is welcome!

DAYS OF ACTION

  •  Global Day of Action for Climate Justice [12/10, Everywhere!]

Change the system, not the climate!
 The Latin American network ‘Global Minga’ called for an annual day of action in defence of mother earth on October 12, reclaiming the day that used to be imposed as ‘Columbus Day’. Responding to this call, and the demand for a day of action for ‘system change, not climate change’ made in Copenhagen by global movements, Climate Justice Action is proposing a day of direct action for climate justice on October 12, 2010.
 
We invite all those who fight for social and ecological justice to organise direct actions targeting climate criminals and false solutions, or creating real alternatives. This is an open callout, we are not picking targets. But it is not a day for marches or petitions: it is time for us to reclaim our power, and take control of our lives and futures.

  • Crude Awakening, [Saturday 16/10] CENTRAL LONDON

Ten targets

One thousand people

One crude awakening!

Our climate system is rapidly sliding into crisis, as oil companies destroy people’s lives and the environment to keep sucking up their profits.

Oil saturates every aspect of our lives. Oil profits lubricate the financial markets and its sponsorship clings like a bad smell to our cultural institutions. It flows through pipelines to the pumps, airports and factories of our cities.

The failure of the UN COP15 process showed us – if there was ever any doubt – that government and industry can’t tackle climate change. It’s up to us and it’s time to up the ante.

As a movement, our actions against coal and aviation have made a real difference. Now oil’s time is up.

Together, on October 16, let’s give the oil industry a really Crude Awakening.

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1. Come to an event

  • London Nieghbourhood Post Camp Debrief, [Sun 19/09/10, 10:00 - 17:00]

As ever after a camp, we're going to have a debrief to talk about what worked, what didn't work so well, where next and lots more! This is a really great opportunity to come together after a big event like a camp and hopefully lots of people will make it along. Whether you could make it to Edinburgh this year or not, this is the opportunity to discuss what happened and think about the coming few months.

VENUE: At the moment, we have a possible venue in London Fields (East
London) but ideally we'd love to be more central so if anyone else has links
to a venue that we can be loaned for the day/hired for a small budget, that
would be awesome (pls reply off list rather than to everyone).

london[@]climatecamp.org.uk --- for more information
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  • How to set up a London Housing Co-op, [Wed 22/09/10, 19:30 - 21:30]

Setting up housing co-ops is one of the most practical and direct things we can do to take more control of our lives and continue the process of building a better world - in the present it gives us supportive and secure places from which to continue activism, means that there's no landlord to frustrate all those energy efficency improvements or permaculture garden dreams, and in the future (when mortgages etc are paid off) provides an even more useful asset.

A group of us are interested in helping to get co-ops started in London and have convened this meeting where people can find out more about what is required and form into groups to actually go out there and do it. I say groupS because in a place as big as London there will probably be people who are interested in starting something in different geographical areas at different timescales or in other different ways - so please don't be put off if you think "nobody wants to live where i want to live" or "i'm interested, but not quite yet"

Come along, and tell all your friends!

Where? | Seven Dials Club 42 Earlham Street |

                 http://www.sevendialsclub.com/contact/location-2/

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  • Past Events

The London neighbourhood has organised lots of amazing events in 2010 that have included an RBS and Oil teach-ins, direct action trainings, fund-raising gig nights, welcome events, event stalls and more.

Recently we held the London Neighbourhood gathering on Saturday 27 March in Hackney Wick, east London. For full details see the regional gathering page. You can also read the minutes from the January London gathering, and the flipcharts from Sunday's discussions (PDF, 952k).

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2. Come to our organising meetings

We have organising meetings every Tuesday evening from 7pm-9pm, in association with the SOAS Green Society. The venue is:

School of Oriental and African Studies
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

Nearest tube: Russell Square
Map of where SOAS is | Map of which one the Old Building is

PLEASE NOTE: We are waiting to confirm which room our meetings will be from September 2010. We'll update this page when we know. Plus there will be NO MEETING on 31 August.

3. Join us online

Email updates
To subscribe to our weekly email bulletin, send a blank email to climatecamp-london-bulletin-subscribe@lists.riseup.net (or click here). This is the best way to keep up to date on what's going on in London with a single email a week.

Twitter and Facebook
You can also join our Twitter feed here and our Facebook group here.

Planning email list
For those wanting to get involved in decision making we encourage you to join our planning list by sending a blank email to: climatecamp-london-subscribe@lists.riseup.net (or click here). NB. This list can be high traffic.

4. Invite a speaker

Would you like someone to talk to your group about Climate Camp and how you can get involved? This is a great way to inform and inspire your community group, activist or faith group, union branch or workplace. Get in touch for more information.

Contact us

Email: london[at]climatecamp.org.uk