Aug 27-Sept 2 Climate Camp returns to London

[winjer]

"Bleak Heath", scene of 1381 Peasants Revolt. Get ready for the middle class version.

@paul_lewis

 

[TopCat]

are you suggesting a lynching

im in

You could not lynch a deal leg of lamb you pussy.

 

[smokedout]

i could have chris knight any day

 

[paolo]

First at the scene after the campers?

The police? No, an ice cream van.

 

[jæd]

Heh... Apparently Rio Tinto moved six months ago.

 

[Kanda]

Blackheath Tea Hut will be busy!!

 

[claphamboy]

Blackheath revealed as Climate Camp location, innit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/26/climate-camp-location

 

[Kanda]

Blackheath revealed as Climate Camp location, innit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/26/climate-camp-location

It was confirmed as Blackheath 2 hours or so ago (Also up there^^)

 

[ajdown]

Hope they've cleared out of my bit of London so I don't get disrupted trying to get home.

 

[TopCat]

I'm off for a look see.

 

[editor]

I see the cops are already off on one:

Today police said that everyone attending the protest would be photographed for their records. In a national opinion poll commissioned by the charity Christian Aid this week, 33% of people said that recording protesters was a breach of their privacy, while 18% said they had been put off going to environmental protests by police tactics.

 

[Kanda]

There's bugger all police presence at the moment, apparently they're standing back and letting them setup the camp.

 

[Pickman's model]

& presumably photographing everyone as reported on the guardian website

 

[claphamboy]

It was confirmed as Blackheath 2 hours or so ago (Also up there^^)

Yes, but it didn't come with a link to a national newspaper site story, did it?

 

[Kanda]

Yes, but it didn't come with a link to a national newspaper site story, did it?

Sky News are still reporting it as Greenwich Park.

It was confirmed by the organisers on twitter and by text.

 

[claphamboy]

Sky News are still reporting it as Greenwich Park.

Sky first with news and ever wrong for long.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Congrats to all involved. Be there tomorrow.

 

[PacificOcean]

Blackheath?

What has that to do with climate change?

Sounds like a week long excuse for a woodstock hippy festival thing?

Maybe the BBC picked her on purpose, but their spokeswoman on BBC Breakfast the other morning was some middle class woman who wasn't quite sure what they were protesting against painting meaningless slogans on her banner.

 

[Kanda]

Blackheath?

What has that to do with climate change?

Sounds like a week long excuse for a woodstock hippy festival thing?

Blackheath has been at the centre of rallies and revolts for hundreds of years. The sight of Climate Camp protesters converging on the wide expanse of open grassland in south east London evoked the spirit of the first popular rebellion in English history. Wat Tyler's so-called Peasants' Revolt against unpopular taxes took place on the heath more than 700 years ago and tens of thousands of protesters are believed to have flocked to London. The revolt is remembered by Wat Tyler Road on the heath and was followed in 1450 by Jack Cade's Kentish rebellion against the weak leadership of King Henry VI, unfair taxes, corruption and the damaging effect of the loss of France. Blackheath has since been the meeting point for a series of battles, revolts and demonstrations. Cornish rebels pitched camp there before being defeated in the Battle of Deptford Bridge, sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath, on June 17 1497. During the 17th century, the heath was also a notorious haunt of highwaymen who targeted stagecoaches travelling along Watling Street across the heath to north Kent and the Channel ports. It also has associations with the suffragette movement, with Emily Wilding, who died by throwing herself under the hooves of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, being born there

nicked from Gaurdian.

 

[PacificOcean]

nicked from Gaurdian.

Yes, but that was the good old days.

Now, Blackheath is a busy A-Road and slip road for the Blackwall Tunnel.

 

[Kanda]

It's got a good tea hut

 

[Thora]

I will be popping down there tomorrow afternoon

 

[Diamond]

Plenty of nice pubs in Blackheath/Greenwich

 

[PacificOcean]

It's got a good tea hut

And I had my first "shag" there, but I don't see what point they are making by decamping there apart from boosting the presses view of a stereotypical idea of a load of hippies in a field eating mung beans.

Sit outside BP or Eon if they really wanted to make a point.

 

[PacificOcean]

I will be popping down there tomorrow afternoon

To do what?

How does that affect climate change?

 

[Thora]

And I had my first "shag" there, but I don't see what point they are making by decamping there apart from boosting the presses view of a stereotypical idea of a load of hippies in a field eating mung beans.

Sit outside BP or Eon if they really wanted to make a point.

Not much space to camp outside BP.

 

[PacificOcean]

Not much space to camp outside BP.

It would make more of a point than sitting in some field in South East London (with a good tea hut though).

The only people they will annoy is Greenwich Council for not getting a permit first.

 

[Thora]

It would make more of a point than sitting in some field in South East London (with a good tea hut though).

People have staged sit-ins in trees outside BP, but the climate camp is a different activity (and getting a lot more media coverage). There's more than one way to do things.

 

[Pickman's model]

People have staged sit-ins in trees outside BP, but the climate camp is a different activity (and getting a lot more media coverage). There's more than one way to do things.

yeh more than one way to skin a copper

 

[PacificOcean]

People have staged sit-ins in trees outside BP, but the climate camp is a different activity (and getting a lot more media coverage). There's more than one way to do things.

The only reason for the media coverage was they were expecting some big camp outside somewhere important.

The fact they have decided on Blackheath means that I don't think that even the Guardian will report this tomorrow.