Burning Planet March report

i am an american, i am ashamed of my government. thank you for the work you people are doing. in britan you seem to still have the freedom to protest that has been taken away from us in america, use it. all we get in america are snippets of news, so if you get any hard numbers on the protestors, id love to know what they are. either way, give that nazi bastard hell. good luck

See some more pics under "Photos of the Burning Planet March Against Bush".

not sure why the reporter thought we were allowd to go down oxford stret - the route went along piccadilly actually. some police were good natured but a few got out of control and were pushing people around on lower regents street.

This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.
I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambista we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

Wee will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get

This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
check:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/280859.html

I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now-at fiirst, I couldn't get me hed 'round it- but

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.

I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambista we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

Wee will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get
This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.
I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media,and of course, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambista we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

Wee will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get

This is a call to all youse lovely people

I saw the police pull a young guy out of the crowd because he was masked up and search him.

Plus there was a good moment when some huge helicopter flew over the crowd and everyone shouted bush go home :-) (timing seemed about right...)

Meacher who started the speeches outside the US Embassy said: "What people in this country and the rest of the world really resent is the selfishness of American policy in opting out when we all need to be part of the process in dealing with climate change, which is the biggest issue facing mankind and threatens human survival in the next two or three centuries."

Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, said Bush was "one of the world's arch environmental villains". He went on to say, "The insanity of the short-term thinking now being inflicted on the planet beggars belief and it is being led by the Bush administration. George Bush ... you will be remembered as one of the world's arch environmental villains. You do not represent the interests of your country's people, and certainly not the people of the wider world. Millions of people will suffer because of George Bush's policies, and it will be the poor countries of the south."

Gerry Wolf from the Campaign Against Climate Change, said "I think climate change is the most serious problem facing the world. America's emissions of carbon dioxide are enormous. I feel the ordinary men and woman have to express their anger about these policies and this is the only option we can use."

There were tons of corporate press there - photographers, tv and radio and most stayed through the pretty long march through to the US embassy.

The whole thing ended with rinky dink bicycle sound system blasting out a tune about cannabis and how we can get most of what we need to replace oil from that most interesting of plants - hemp.

This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
check:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/280859.html

I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now-at fiirst, I couldn't get me hed 'round it- but

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.

I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambista we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

Wee will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get
This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.
I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambista we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

Wee will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get
This is a call to all youse lovely people

I tink some strange is 'appen' when our bloger from Shef tells us that;
"Policing appeared to be light, even sympathetic"
I was there and this is how it was - but given how nasty they was to us when we protested at DSEi- the arms industry not the US President- why are they being so friendly now

I think it's 'cause, with Bush the British 'establishment' has summit to gain from our resistance.
I was just listening to the BBC World Service {as you do}, when I herd them announce that that during BUSH'S VISIT, the Pageantry of the State would be mixed with protest {cue samba sound effects}-
I think in some sections of the media, the Brit elite is making an obvious dig at the current USA system, where a person can only protest in Free Speech Zones far from where anyone might see you or anything is happening.

Putting it bluntly or Blunketly, what the British state is hoping to gain from this mess at this stage, is only some measly capitalist concession on steel quotas-
not justice for working peoples -
not good for the environment -
but that's why the cops and media were nice to us today -
I'm sorry but I can't imagine them bastards talked or cared about our environment at all tonight


Those Brits - they're such good Mangers - better than Yanks

Emm - no thanx
{No Gods No Masters}

Please all psychic witches to direct and channel our nightmare on B'House tonight-

As sambistas we know that it is the organised solidarity of people that makes the difference to a protest feeling half empty or half full

We will not be anyone's useful fools
our resistance is as global as the earth
Love
Life
See
Youse In
The streets

PS
Freedom is like our bodies
The more we uses 'em
The stronger they get

Bush administration guilty of....

The Rejection of the Kyoto Protocol - the only international treaty that will cut the pollution causing dangerous climate change

Attempts to suppress the science of climate change, by colluding with Exxon-Mobil to remove the chairman of a key UN advisory group and by colluding with an Exxon-funded lobby group to hinder distribution of a key study on the impacts of climate change on the USA

The use of trade law to try to flood the world with genetically-modified crops


Full text of speech from Tony Juniper, Director of Friends of the Earth

Good evening and welcome! Thank you, Phil, for organising tonight's rally and for inviting me to speak. Thank you all for expressing your concern about US President, George Bush and his crazy environmental policies.

Can you believe how low the pro-corporate, anti-environment commentators and their New Labour cronies have sunk. Rather than address our concerns, they are accusing us of being anti-American. Yet our protest is not against America. Our protest is not against the American people. Our protest is against George Bush and the corporations who put him in power and sustain him in office.

And there are good reasons to protest against the Bush Administration. There is, for example, his attempt to flood the world with genetically-modified crops. There is his the policy of promoting the interests of US trans-national corporations over the interests of people and the planet - the very selective and self-serving use by his administration of world trade rules. There is, only last week, the export of the `ghost ships `to the UK so that the toxic materials embedded in them can be buried beneath our soil. There is, of course, the aggressive pursuit of the war against Iraq, based on flawed intelligence and unfounded claims about weapons of mass destruction and against the collective judgement of global public opinion

But above even all of this, and above all of the questions raised at so many levels, surely the reason for the gravest concern is Bush's failure to accept the impending catastrophe that is unfolding because of global climate change.

We stand today on the brink of the most rapid and profound environmental change experienced in human history - a change caused by man-made pollution.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that, by the end of this century, average global temperatures could increase by nearly six degrees centigrade. The impacts associated with so rapid an unprecedented change are by definition unpredictable - but what we now know suggests that they will be unpleasant and dangerous.

Sea levels will rise inundating low lying areas, and even whole low lying countries. Storms and floods are likely to be fiercer and droughts more sever. Agriculture and water supplies will be disrupted - potentially provoking famines, migration and conflict. The financial stability of our western economise could be undermined as the insurance industry finds the task of disaster risk management ever more difficult. And, of course, there could be catastrophic impacts on the natural world.

It is for example expected that, by the middle of this century, climate change will dry out the Amazon basin rainforests transform them into savannah and even grasslands. This will release billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as forest biomass declines, and accelerate the loss of species and habitats now taking place around the world, contributing to a rate of extinctions not seen since the dinosaurs disappeared some 65 million years ago.

The insanity of the short-term thinking now being inflicted on the planet beggars belief - and it is being led by the Bush Administration.

Global warming and climate change represent the most serious environmental challenge facing the world today. But just as the rest of the world becomes more aware of the risks that lie ahead, so the world's most powerful country and largest economy has withdrawn from international efforts to fight the threat. It has decided instead to pollute as it sees fit for its own benefit. Not surprisingly, Hans Blix, the UN weapons inspector in Iraq, said he was more concerned about climate change than he was by the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

With five per cent of the world's population, the USA accounts for about a quarter of the world's annual carbon dioxide emissions and is already responsible for the much of the climate change now being felt. Corporations and corporate lobby groups peddling their self-serving, sceptical agenda have ensured that US factories, cars, planes and homes do not have to cut their emissions, but can continue to make it worse.

And while the average annual emissions of US citizens is 17 times higher than that of Indian citizens, the Bush Administration has the breathtaking cheek to claim that the Kyoto Protocol, which demands they make only the modest cuts in their emissions, is unfair, because developing countries like India do not have to do the same.

Millions of Americans will suffer because of George Bush's policies. But it is not they who will pay the highest price when climate change accelerates, it will be the poor countries of the South. During the last four decades, millions of people have died in extreme weather events. 99 per cent have been in the poorer countries. Recent history is likely to provide an accurate guide to the future.

We are not alone in being deeply concerned at the conscious decision of the Bush Administration to walk away from international action on climate change. Many voices in the USA share our views.

The cities of Boulder in Colorado and Arcata and Oakland in California are taking legal action against the Bush Government because of its failure to consider climate change when funding overseas oil projects.

The Attorney Generals of Maine and Connecticut have called on the US Attorney General to investigate Whitehouse staff who colluded with an Exxon-funded lobby group to instigate legal action to stop the White House Office of Science and Technology from distributing a report on climate science.

Many of the leading scientists sounding the loudest alarm come from the USA or have worked for the US Government - people like Michael Mann from the University of Virginia and the British-born, former NASA scientist, Bob Watson That is why the Whitehouse colluded with Exxon-Mobil to remove Dr. Watson as Chair of a key UN climate advisory body.

And many millions of American citizens, like us, call for Bush to do the right thing from the grass roots. All of those people have our respect and support. But not you, George Bush.

George Bush - your climate madness will go down in history. You will be remembered as one of the world's arch environmental villains. You do not represent the interests of your country's people, and certainly not the people of the wider world, or the people who will inhabit the world when you and your oil companies have finished with it.

George Bush, we do not wish our country to harbour environmental villains. We do not wish to honour you. Please go away and do not come back, until you have changed your policies - not only for the sake of environmental justice for the world, but for the sake of environmental justice for your own people.