video HOW TO COMBAT THE CUMBRIA COALMINE AND OTHER RETROGRADE ENERGY PROJECTS

 

GREEN LEFT OPEN MEETING 7/2/2023

HOW TO COMBAT THE CUMBRIA COALMINE AND OTHER RETROGRADE ENERGY PROJECTS

SPEAKERS

 

ELLEN ROBOTTOM

The carbon capture-hydrogen-biomass complex: not too big to challenge!

TINA ROTHERY

'Pulling Ourselves Together' informing, engaging and activating within our communities.

 ALLAN TODD

Opposing new coal: from courts to Blockadia’ 

Chair  - Danny McNamara

Ellen Robottom is active with Leeds Trades Council, the regional Climate Justice Coalition and the Stop Burning Trees Coalition. She is on the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) Steering Group, and contributed to the booklet Climate Jobs: Building a Workforce for the Climate Emergency produced by the CACC Trade Union Group.

 Tina Rothery is a writer, activist environmental campaigner, focusing on resisting fracking. She co-founded Nanas against Fracking and conducted direct action against fracking projects. She was previously involved in Occupy London and works with Zero Hour on their Climate and Ecology Bill.

Allan Todd is a climate and anti-fascist activist; a member of Left Unity’s National Council; and author of Ecosocialism Not Extinction (Resistance Books), Revolutions 1789-1917 (CUP),  Trotsky: The Passionate Revolutionary (Pen & Sword), and the forthcoming Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary

Green Left, an ecosocialist group within the Green Party of England  and Wales

references

https://cafs.org.uk/the-potential-for-green-jobs-in-cumbria/

SLACC:

https://slacc.org.uk/west-cumbrian-coal-mine-slacc-legal-challenge-lodged-at-the-high-court/

https://slacc.org.uk/decision-made-to-proceed-with-legal-challenge-to-government-decision-on-coal-mine/

https://www.facebook.com/SLACCTT

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/challenge-the-cumbria-coal-mine/

FoE:

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/legal-challenge-filed-over-cumbrian-coal-mine

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/legal-challenge-launched-over-cumbrian-coal-mine

BLOCKADIA:

Naomi Klein, 2014, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate 

https://thischangeseverything.org/the-documentary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhflH4alO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0jtOh0GzA

ECOSOCIALISM

Michael Löwy, 2015, Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

Christian Zeller: 

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/the-earth-is-burning-the-earth-system-is-crumbling/

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/converting-and-dismantling-industries-through-social-appropriation/

Alan Thornett, 2019, Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism 

https://resistancebooks.org/product/ecosocialism-not-extinction/

ACTIVIST ORGANISATIONS:

https://www.coalaction.org.uk/2022/12/23/santa-christmas-coal-to-gove-for-whitehaven/

https://www.coalaction.org.uk/

https://www.coalaction.org.uk/about-us/

https://twitter.com/NWOGaction

https://twitter.com/NWOGaction/status/1612758972548669441

https://reclaimthepower.org.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/ReclaimThePower/