Concerned about Climate Change? Spring Into Action Now! – an audio piece

Folk from around the east midlands gathered in Nottingham for a week of workshops, discussion and action around the issue of climate change. The event was organised under the banner of ‘Spring Into Action’, and besides a lot of talking, the week ended with some succesful direct action. This is what some of the participants had to say… The piece is about 8 minutes long.

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More info: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368441.html

Climate Sceptic MEP for Notts Calls for Nuclear Solution to Climate Change

Roger Helmer is the Conservative MEP for Nottinghamshire. In 3 days time he will host a ‘Counter-Consensual Climate Conference’, at the European Parliament, in Brussels. The conference is hosting an array of climate skeptics as well as a screening of the documentary ‘the Great Swindle’, recently broadcasted by Channel 4 and highly criticised around the scientific world. Helmer is known to challenge the broadly adapted view of man-made climate change. While pointing out some of the positive consequeses of climate change, he also puts forward some ideas of how to deal with it.

A Radio Piece

I spent the last few days recording and editing a radio piece about the nuclear submarine base at Faslane, Scotland where the UK keeps its nuclear arsenal. The Trident Missile System is up for renewal in 2024 and groups from all over the UK and beyond have started to blockade the base one day each, with the aim of a solid blockade all year round. So far its been really succesful and a big group from Nottingham went on 1st April to do their bit. We turned out, did some recording and I cobbled together this radio piece which might be broadcasted on some community radio stations around the UK this week. The piece is 11 minutes long.

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A Free Paper For Free Kids!

Based in New York and mainly covering US related issues, I still think this something worth sharing. I wrote something short for this month’s issue on climate change. ‘IndyKids is a new free newspaper that aims to educate children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire in children a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8. Indy Kids is produced with the support of Indymedia New York City and individual donations.’ Wicked! For more info and to download the latest issue, see: http://www.indykids.net/