Thames Valley Climate Action is a collective taking and encouraging direct action across the Thames Valley to stop climate change. There's a video of some of the stuff we do below, and find out more about us in the about section. Please come along to our meetings or get in touch.
** Stop Press **
This just in ...
(Keep checking Oxford Indymedia newswire for more.)
Corporate sleaze-merchants trying to recruit graduates in Oxford got another
rough ride at the hands of local activists.
This evening [9 March 2010], at the University's Ashmolean museum, the oil multinational Shell attempted to hold a talk on 'The Challenges of the Future' and how bright young graduates can help. We had other ideas...
Despite noticably increased security (police, museum security, Shell staff and even the head of University security), a mixture of blatant blaggery and student infiltration got most of us inside. As usual, we had our own alternative presentation ready, but when they suggested that it would be accomodated at the *end* of the event it was clear we were being fobbed off. So the heckles and awkward questions started.
As more and more of the troublemakers dropped their incognito cover to lambast, interrogate or politely-but-pointedly-query the presenters, it became clear that at least a quarter of the relatively small audience were involved. A wonderful moment came when those of us who already knew each other were pleasantly surprised to discover more undercover allies who we didn't know, intervening at the perfect moment with a human rights report on Shell's crimes in the Niger delta.
Eventually many of the 'genuine' audience members just got up and left, despite the event not being over... until we were left with pretty much just us, Shell, and security. At which point we got to tell them they could expect resistance everywhere, and that their company would ultimately be shut down whether they liked it or not, and left.
Favourite anecdote of the night: the door security guy who, on hearing my name wasn't on the list and I didn't have ID, told me to go and ask his superior if it was OK. I went off in the direction indicated, asked the cops the time to pass a moment or two, and then went back and:
'She said it's fine'
'OK, in you go then'...! :-)
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Next Reading meeting
Thursday 11 March 2010
at 7.30pm
in The Eldon Arms [map]
Find out more about our meetings, or get in touch.
Events (from TVCA & others)
- Film: Crude (2009) Sunday 14 March 2010, 19:30.OARC, East Oxford Community Centre, Princess St (corner of Cowley Rd), OX4 1HU.
- TVCA meeting Tuesday 16 March 2010, 19:00.OARC, East Oxford Community Centre, Princess St / Cowley Rd.
- Low Carbon East Oxford Meeting. Theme: Food Tuesday 30 March 2010, 19:30 - 21:00.OARC, upstairs, East Oxford Community Centre, Princes' St, Oxford.
- Low Carbon East Oxford Meeting. Theme: Business Wednesday 14 April 2010, 19:30 - 21:00.OARC, upstairs, East Oxford Community Centre, Princes' St, Oxford.
Intro video
Random link from Climate change groups & collectives category …
Earth First: The general principles behind Earth First! are non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants. EF! is not a cohesive group or campaign, but a convenient banner for people who share similar philosophies to work under.
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