The Power of Community – with Rossport Solidarity Camp and Shell to Sea Campaign
Tuesday 8th November 2011
at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
We are please to announce we are doing a special screening of the most inspiring film ‘The Pipe’ which will start at 7pm after a short introduction. The Pipe is a compelling documentary film four years in the making, It tells the story of the small Rossport community in Ireland which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The film will be followed by special guests, from the Shell to Sea and Rossport Solidarity Camp, who will talk about the campaign and the people involved with a Q & A session afterwards. Read our events listing…
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Posted by Jeni on 18 April 2011
Take action before the RBS AGM!
Join our photo petition today by sending a message to RBS to stop investing our money in companies extracting oil from tar sands.
Submit your photo to the RBS photo petition today in three easy steps:
- 1. Write your message on paper, your body, your bank card…
- 2. Take a photo of you and your message
- 3. Email the photo to gone32hint@photos.flickr.com
And in 5 or so minutes your photo will appear below.
Please try to reduce the size on the picture to below 1Mb before you email it, there are many ways but an easy guide to doing this is here (for XP) or here (for Vista).
We will be bringing these photos to the RBS AGM so please send us your photo by 18 April 2011, the evening before the RBS AGM.
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Posted by Jeni on 12 April 2011
Vote NO to tar sands at the ‘People’s AGM’
Monday 18 April, 7-9pm, Edinburgh University
Indigenous people in Canada are fighting ‘the most destructive project on earth’ – the extraction of oil from tar sands and the building of a super-pipeline through their ancestral lands. RBS is financing companies mining tar sands and planning the pipeline.
Hear powerful first-hand accounts of the destruction caused by tar sands extraction and the fight to stop the Enbridge pipeline, and help stop RBS making it worse with our money.
Read all of ‘RBS : Back to Black’
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Posted by Rhian on 30 September 2010
Fossil fuel fanatics, and bailed-out bank, RBS are investing our money in the most destructive project on earth; tar sands mining in Canada. They’re fuelling climate change and trampling on human rights.
Indigenous activists from Canada joined us in protests at the RBS 2010 AGM. Watch our film, be inspired and join us in the fight for climate justice! http://www.wdm.org.uk/tarsands
Email the chancellor today: http://www.wdm.org.uk/tarsands
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Posted by Rhian on 23 September 2010
Take One Action is Scotland’s global action cinema project celebrating the people and movies that are changing the world.
The festival runs from 20th September until the 5th October in Glasgow and Edinburgh. For more information and to see the programme, visit the Take One Action website.
Find out how to make your own Film Festival
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