CLIMATE CAMP WALES

Chwimia eich arse at Cymru! Or, in other words: get your arse to Wales! The first UK Climate Camp of the season kicks off on the 13th August til the 17th, hitting out again at the open cast coal miners currently desecrating most of the Welsh countryside. This year the campers plan to take on another coal baddie somewhere in the south of the country after last year’s targeting of Ffos-y-Fran, the largest mine of its type in Europe (see SchNEWS 687, 688).

Environmentalists keen to get in on the Welsh action should meet in Cardiff outside Merthyr Crown Court at 2pm on the 13th to get the week started with a solidarity demo for the 13 people who blockaded the railway at Ffos y Fran opencast mine in April (see SchNEWS 720). The 13 are being sentenced so could do with a bit of support from all those planning on going to the camp this year.
Keep your eye peeled for more info on the UK Climate Camp (19th-25th August, Edinburgh) in the next couple of weeks.

* See www.climatecampcymru.org for info on Climate Camp Wales or www.climatecamp.org.uk for the national event