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Thousands of people have converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest. The organisers managed to keep the specific site a secret until Wednesday afternoon when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous suburb in South East London. Recently climate camps have taken place most famously at London’s Heathrow airport and also at the, Drax power station in Yorkshire and the Kingsnorth power station in Kent. A spokesman for the Climate Camp is quoted as saying 'One of the main aims of the Climate Camp is to take direct action against the route causes of climate change. The City of London represents the epicentre of a failed economic system whose obsession with endless growth makes it impossible for us to move forward and deal with climate change. The targets have been chosen because of their enormous impact on climate change because of their promotion of failed market logic like carbon trading” Now the site is secured and the protestors are settled in for a series of workshops and meetings with the occasional incursion into the outside world to protest. The police are showing a low profile perhaps after recent criticism in the media of their policing of the G20 protests in London in April and the previous climate camps.

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London Climate Camp 2009 at Blackheath London;

Thousands of people converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous...

by Terence Stokes in United Kingdom on 30/08/2009

On Wednesday thousands of people converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest. The organisers managed to keep the specific site a secret until Wednesday afternoon when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous suburb in South East London. Recently climate camps have taken place most famously at London’s Heathrow airport and also at the, Drax power station in Yorkshire and the Kingsnorth power station in Kent. A spokesman for the Climate Camp is quoted as saying 'One of the main aims of the Climate Camp is to take direct action against the route causes of climate change. The City of London represents the epicentre of a failed economic system whose obsession with endless growth makes it impossible for us to move forward and deal with climate change. The targets have been chosen because of their enormous impact on climate change because of their promotion of failed market logic like carbon trading” Now, day three of the protest the site is secured and the protestors are settled in for a series of workshops and meetings with the occasional incursion into the outside world to protest. The police are showing a low profile perhaps after recent criticism in the media of their policing of the G20 protests in London in April and the previous climate camps.

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London Climate Camp 2009 at Blackheath Day 3

On Wednesday thousands of people converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath...

by Terence Stokes in United Kingdom on 28/08/2009

Today circa 100 protesters left the climate camp at Blackheath South East London to march on the HQ of Barclays Bank in Canary Wharf. Other than a few British Transport Police at Canary Wharf and the occasional patrol car stopping traffic the police were notable by their absence. There were however no shortage of security guards. The Climate Camp Twitter feed, says : “Why Barclays? Loans worth 6 billion to coal companies and to arms trade'. Earlier this week, Wednesday thousands of people converged on London for the annual Climate Camp protest. The organisers managed to keep the specific site a secret until Wednesday afternoon when the various bands of supporters were led to Blackheath, a prosperous suburb in South East London. Recently climate camps have taken place most famously at London’s Heathrow airport and also at the, Drax power station in Yorkshire and the Kingsnorth power station in Kent. A spokesman for the Climate Camp is quoted as saying 'One of the main aims of the Climate Camp is to take direct action against the route causes of climate change. The City of London represents the epicentre of a failed economic system whose obsession with endless growth makes it impossible for us to move forward and deal with climate change. The targets have been chosen because of their enormous impact on climate change because of their promotion of failed market logic like carbon trading” Now, day three of the protest the site is secured and the protesters are settled in for a series of workshops and meetings with the occasional incursion into the outside world to protest. The police are showing a low profile perhaps after recent criticism in the media of their policing of the G20 protests in London in April and the previous climate camps.

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London Climate Camp March on Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf

Today circa 100 protestors left the climate camp at Blackheath to march on the HQ of Barclays Bank in Canary Wharf. Other than a few British...

by Terence Stokes in United Kingdom on 28/08/2009

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