Newcastle Save Vestas
Event date: September 17, 2009 16:00
Published by group:
Climate Camp Yorkshire Neighbourhood
Tagged as: environmentalism social_struggles
March to government offices, Gallowgate
Assemble Newcastle Civic Centre 4.30
Workers and supporters at the Vestas wind turbine factory in Newport on the Isle of Wight are attempting to stop the remaining blades being shipped out of the factory.
Places: newcastle
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Judi Bari, one of the organisers of the protest, said: "We feel that it is important to voice our support for the workers who's jobs Vestas are cynically taking away. We are concerned that unemployment is very high on the Isle of Wight and about rumours that powerful interests intend to similarly attack the North East's renewable energy industry. It is also our intention to build a working class movement to resist fossil fuelled industrial capitalism and to create a more economically just and environmentally appropriate society. Everyone who supports the workers action in occupying their workplace at Vestas should join this protest which is part of a national day of action called by the workers themselves."
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