PNR
UPDATE (28/09/2018)
The HUGE news, of course, is
that earlier this week, the Fantastic Four truck surfers of July 2017, were handed down
prison sentences for their actions to protect our planet and its climate:
In case anyone has forgotten,
their actions were undertaken to prevent what we saw this summer - an
unprecedented global heatwave that was such an extreme piece of evidence of
dangerous global warming that even the tabloids felt it necessary to carry front
pages that drew attention to the mounting Climate Crisis:
Yet, in this bizarre and
increasingly undemocratic corporate state that the UK has become, those who try
- peacefully - to help the government meet its carbon-reduction ‘commitments’
are now put in prison, whilst the perpetrators & facilitators of the
climate crime that is fracking remain outside prison.
It is worth bearing in mind
that this is the first time, since 1932, that anyone has been imprisoned for
peaceful civil disobedience. Since 2016, when the Tory government went back on
its election ‘promises’ about ‘Big Government’ and over-ruled Lancashire County
Council’s decision to refuse Cuadrilla planning permission to frack at Preston
New Road & Roseacre, several more democracy lines’ have been crossed:
·
planning regulations have been altered to make it possible for dirty energy
companies to by-pass democratically-elected local councils
·
an increasing number of injunctions have been granted by High Courts to
prevent effective peaceful protests designed to protect Planet Earth and all
the species that live on it.
But these prison sentences are
arguably the most serious crossed line of all - I, for one, shall certainly be
re-thinking about ‘upping the game’. Having been privileged this summer to be
part of two Greenpeace actions which ‘disrupted the days’ of facilitators and
perpetrators of various climate crimes, I’m thinking that the time has well
& truly come to disrupt the days of all those facilitators of fracking
whose offices are not covered by the injunction.
To slightly misquote James
Larkin:
“The powerful only seem powerful because we are on our
knees. Let us rise!”
Only maybe we should be
thinking more of sitting down - in HUGE numbers - and linking arms, rather than
standing up: the former is much harder for the police to deal with!
However, one piece of
encouraging news is that, even if the Tories haven’t understood the seriousness
of the Climate Crisis, Paul McCartney has!
His new LP, Egypt Station, has a 7-minute
track about the Climate Crisis, entitled ’Despite
Repeated Warnings’. You can listen to it via this link:
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Forthcoming Green ‘Mondays’:
1 October - As you will have seen from
the covering email, the 100 Women
are taking their climate & democracy campaign to the Tory Party Conference
in Birmingham on Monday.
However, as planned, Emeritus
Professor Terry Sloan, of Lancaster University,
will still be the main speaker on this Green Monday.
Although his main specialism
has been physics, he has also written much on fossil fuels and global warming.
So, if you’re not going to
Birmingham with the 100 Women, PLEASE make a big effort to come to PNR on
Monday:
He will be speaking at around 12.30pm.
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8 October - We are very pleased to
announce that the main speaker on that day will be Clara Paillard, the President of the Public
and Commercial Services Union’s (PCS) Culture Sector Campaigns Group:
She is also the Green Officer
for Merseyside TUC, an active ‘green’ member of the Labour Party, and has
written several articles about the Climate Crisis and the need for climate
jobs. The more Greens & Reds reach
out to, and join with, each other, the greater our chances of stopping fracking
- and getting rid of this neoliberal Tory government. As was said during our
1st. Green Monday Anniversary, we need a new ‘Gathering of
the Tribes’!
She is expected to be speaking
outside the gates at around 12.30pm.
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22 October - We are pleased to announce
that, on this Green Monday, we’ll be having
a MYSTERY speaker (or two!) from
Friends of the Earth! Don’t miss out on the surprise!
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Other speakers, for other Green Mondays, are currently experiencing a
renewed deluge of emails & Tweets - as soon as they ‘capitulate’, they’ll
be advertised here! However, once fracking actually begins at PNR, our plans
may change somewhat.
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All the
best
Allan
Todd
Membership
Secretary
Allerdale
& Copeland Green Party
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