Daily Advisory: Information on the Day of Action Against Climate Change

“Friday 8th June 2007

International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8.
Direct Action for Climate Justice – Resistance is Self Defense!

We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by
2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and
Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines – the G8 have had over 30
years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing
trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our
planet and our future. And while the G8 continues to line their pockets,
island states disappear and hundreds of thousands die as a result of the
freak weather conditions caused by their irrational and uncontrollable
obsession with never ending economic growth.

We have a ten-year window to act. As the megalomaniac G8 leaders meet in
Germany, masked behind a barrier of fences and soldiers, intent on
leading us further towards catastrophic and irreversible climate chaos,
we must shout, scream and roar „no more“. Now is the time to take direct
action and shut them down, them and their climate criminal industry friends
!

The 8th of June International Day of Action Against Climate Change and
the G8 has been called by the International Rising Tide Network. This is
a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town,
city, or local area. Use this international day of action to support
local struggles against oil refineries, gas pipelines, strip mines and
coal-fired power plants. Disrupt the financial backers of the fossil
fuel industry. Organise workshops to spread sustainable post-petroleum
living skills. Find a weak point in the infrastructure of resource
exploitation and throw a literal or symbolic wrench in the works. It’s
time to visit your local polluters and give ’em hell!

We already know of actions planned across the UK, North America,
Germany, Canada and Australia and that’s just the start! By 8th June
actions will be planned around the world. Pass this call out on to all
environmental justice, climate action, radical sustainability and
related movements in all the G8 countries and the Global South.

Rising Tide will create a collection of outreach and agit-prop materials
(including this call out in five different languages) that can be used
by groups around the world to organise locally. These materials will be
downloadable from www.risingtide.org.uk and
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org.
Direct action and civil disobedience are the rational response in this
time of crisis. Support the 8th of June International Day of Direct
Action against Climate Change and the G8! Tell us about planned actions
for climate justice being planned in your community. Contact us -
info@risingtide.org.uk and contact@risingtidenorthamerica.org"

At the beginning of June 2007, the governments of the seven most
important industrialized countries and Russia will meet for the „G8
Summit“ at the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany. In recent
years a rising tide of international resistance against this
self-appointed informal world government and its agenda of neoliberal
globalization has forced it’s meetings into further secluded areas,
employing security forces of historical proportion.