The Crude Awakening

Event published by Crude Awakening

Event date: October 16, 2010 10:00

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Places: london

 

THE CRUDE AWAKENING

A mass action to switch off oil

Saturday, 16 October 2010, Central London

 

Floods in Pakistan, drought in Russia, huge glaciers breaking up in Greenland...

Our climate system is rapidly sliding into crisis, as oil companies destroy people's lives and the environment to keep sucking up their profits.

 

Oil saturates every aspect of our lives. Oil profits lubricate the financial markets and its sponsorship clings like a bad smell to our cultural institutions. It flows through pipelines to the pumps, airports and factories of our cities.

 

The failure of the UN COP15 process showed us - if there was ever any doubt - that government and industry can't tackle climate change. It's up to us and it's time to up the ante.

As a movement, our actions against coal and aviation have made a real difference. Now oil's time is up.

 

Together, on October 16, let's give the oil industry a Crude Awakening.

Meet in central London. Be ready to move, to HOLD A SPACE and to leave that space in a way that shows we've been there.

 

Be creative. Be prepared. Be there.

 

Find out more, get involved and sign up for text alerts at

www.crudeawakening.org.uk

 

There are a whole host of build-up events up and down the country and details can be found on the website, along with further explanation.

 

Facebook:  http://bit.ly/c6S0kg

Twitter: @crudeawake

 

Part of the Climate Justice Action

Climate Justice Action global week of action for climate justice.

 http://www.climate-justice-action.org/

 

Supported by: Space Hijackers, Climate Camp, Plane Stupid, Rising Tide, Liberate Tate, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, UK Tar Sands Network and Earth First

 

See you on the streets

 

Crude Awakening

crudeawakening.org.uk

Contact email: crudeawakening2010@gmail.com <crudeawakening2010>

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