University of London Union
Malet Street
London WC1 7HY
Speakers include\:
Frances O Grady\, TUC Deputy General Secretary
Matt Wrack\, General Secretary\, FBU
Mark Serwotka\, General Secretary\, PCS
Christine Blower\, Deputy Secretary\, NUT
Michael Meacher MP\, Former Environment Scretary
Caroline Lucas\, Green Party MEP
Tony Kearns\, CWU SDGS.
Glyn Robbins\, Defend Council Housing Campaign
Hilary Wainwright\, Editor\, Red Pepper magazine
Nick Rau\, Friends of the Earth
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090106T093440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080125T161300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080125T161300Z UID:http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/2028 URL;VALUE=URI:http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/2028 SUMMARY:Protest against E-on! No to a new coal power station at Kingsnorth! DESCRIPTION:3pm Friday 25 January\, outside E-On London offices\, 100 Pall Mall\, nr
Trafalgar Square
E-On is the company behind the new drive to coal and is a classic corporate
polluter - its coal and gas plants specialist in pumping out CO2 into the
atmosphere. It is the world’s 53rd largest company\, with assets worth a
staggering $168 billion and in 2006 it made a cool $6.4 billion in profit.
E-on have recently one planning permission from Medway council for a new
coal fired power station at Kingsnorth and the application is now sitting on
Week of Action on Agrofuels - 26th January to 2nd February
There will be a peaceful banner protest on Wednesday 30th January\, 12.30 - 2.30 pm\, outside the Greenergy office at 198 High Holborn\, WC1V 7BD. Greenergy are one of the largest agrofuel companies in the UK and use sugar cane ethanol from Brazil\, palm oil and soya as well as rapeseed oil.
For this protest and other events in the UK during the same week\, see
http\://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/actionsjan08.php
The Synergy Project clubnight\, SEOne\, London Bridge (admission £20.00)\, see here.
Line-up includes the following talks\:
Climate Abuse - \\"getting over the addiction!” by Jonathan Essex (02\:00-02\:40)
As well as speaking for Talk Action Jonathan works for bioregional who focus on \\"One Planet Living\\" - creating the possibility from buildings to community actions for sustainable communities based on a visioning framework developed jointly with WWF.