WEEK OF ACTION ON AGROFUELS
26th January to 2nd February
Click for: Events Legal Poster Leaflets Banner Ideas Cartoons Draft Press Releases Company Information
SEE REPORTS AND COVERAGE OF EVENTS
We are encouraging local groups to organise their own events against agrofuels from large-scale monocultures during that week. This could involve banner protess outside Tesco or BP petrol stations, outside an agrofuel refinery, or the office of a company which invests in monoculture agrofuels, or leafletting, a press release, street theatre in the city centre, a public film show, etc. Biofuelwatch is organising a peaceful banner protest in London outside the office of Greenergy Ltd on Wednesday, 30th January, 12.30-2.30. Any other events will be the responsibility of local groups. We will provide support in the form of information and materials. Please email us at info[at]biofuelwatch.org.uk if you would like particular information or materials not listed on this page.
If you would like a speaker for a public meeting before or during the Week of Action, please let us know and we will see whether we can help.
Please feel free to re-edit and adapt the materials below - if you make any changes, then please replace the Biofuelwatch details with your own group's details.
EVENTS:
Aberdeen:
Banner protest at Tesco, Saturday, 26th January. For more details email aberdeen_climatechange[at]yahoo.co.uk.
Organised by Aberdeen Campaign Against Climate Change
Axminster, Devon:
Banner protest and leafletting outside Tesco, Shand Park, Axminster Thursday, 31st January, 12.30 pm. Please contact Maureen if you can help (Tel 0789-0927136).
Brixton:
Information stall with petitions outside Tesco's. If you can help please email name, phone number and availability to chrisblake1977[AT]yahoo.co.uk.
Cambridge:
Banner protest outside Tesco's, near Milton, Saturday,
2nd February, 1-3pm. Everybody welcome. To find out about banner making session, email cambridge[AT]lists.riseup.net
Organised by Cambridge Action Network.
Cheltenham:
Banner protest outside Tesco�s, Tewksbury Road, (opposite Wickes), Cheltenham, 11:00-12:00, Saturday 26th January.
Organised by Friends of the Earth Cheltenham.
Presentation, film show and discussion, Tuesday, 29th January, 7.30 pm, Cheltenham Centre for Change, 30 St.
George�s Place, Cheltenham.
Organised by Vision 21
Edinburgh:
Thursday 31st January, 1-3pm, Greenergy Bioenergy Ltd, 18b Liberton Brae, Edinburgh, EH16 6AE, See map
Guildford:
Open public meeting about the impacts of agrofuels, Monday, 28th January, 7.30 pm, George Williams room,
Guildford YMCA, Bridge Street, Guildford.
Organised by Guildford and Waverly Friends of the Earth.
London:
There will be a peaceful banner protest on Wednesday 30th January, 12.30 - 2.30 pm, outside the
Greenergy office at 198 High Holburn, WC1V 7BD. Greenergy are one of the largest agrofuel companies in the UK and
use sugar cane ethanol from Brazil, palm oil and soya as well as rapeseed oil.
See also Brixton
Norwich:
A coalition of members from local groups will be doing a banner protest outside Tesco Express in central Norwich. We will protest against protest against Tesco�s investment in Greenergy Biofuels Ltd (who use palm oil, soya and rapeseed oil in their biodiesel) and their role as a major distributor of biofuels. Meet at the Norwich Forum 1200, Tuesday January 29th. Call Mark 07952468675 for more details.
Oxford:
From 11.00am to 1.00pm on Saturday 26th Janyuary at Carfax crossroads, the junction of
Cornmarket Street, High Street, St Aldates and Queen Street at the very centre of Oxford.
Organised by Free West Papua Campaign, contact: office[AT]freewestpapua.org
Stroud
At Tesco's Stratford Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4AG
Further protests on:
Saturday 2nd February and Sunday 3rd February 1300.
Read about last weeks demo at
Ruscombe Green blog
Contact kevin.lister[AT]btopenworld.com for details.
Teesside:
Thursday, 31st January, 12.30, Banner protest outside the office of biofuel company Ensus, The Granary, 17a High Street, Yarm. This is easily reachable from Allens West station on the D'ton to M'bro line. Organised by Cleveland and Whitby Rising Tide
York:
Banner protest and leafletting outside Tesco, Tedcaster Road, close to York Race Course, York
Saturday, 26th January, 10am to 12 noon.
Organised by Friends of the Earth York, contact Guy Wallbanks, 01904 781499
LEGAL AND OTHER:
Your Right to Peaceful Protest
Trident Ploughshares - NVDA Training Handout
An Activists Guide to Exploiting the Media - George Monbiot
VIDEO:
For a free copy of a DVD about palm oil and biodiesel from Indonesia, Lost in Palm Oil by Inge Altemeier, please email us at info[at]biofuelwatch.org.uk. It is also online.
POSTER:
Poster for the Greenergy protest in London.
LEAFLETS:
- Leaflet for the Week of Action: click here
- Leaflet about Greenergy/Tesco biofuels: Version 1 Click here. Version 2 click here.
- Monocultures for biofuels: Stop a climate, ecological and social catastrophe! Please feel free to print, copy and distribute this leaflet. Click here for version with cartoon or click here for version with photos.
- Biofuels: A new threat to climate and climate justice - this is a joint leaflet by 5 NGOs which cannot be edited. click here.
BANNER IDEAS:
“Food prices up - Rainforests down”
CARTOONS:
Marc Roberts : courtesy of http://www.throbgoblins.blogspot.com
Click here for Lumbered - Bio-diversity vs Biofuel
Click here for SUVs and biofuels.
DRAFT PRESS RELEASES:
1) Press release which Biofuelwatch will send out for the London Greenergy protest - please feel free to adapt for your own group.
2) Draft press release for any Tesco protest for groups to adapt.
COMPANY INFORMATION:
For a map of all biofuel refineries in the UK, except for those that solely use waste vegetable oil, click here.
- Factsheet about Richard Branson and the Virgin Group's biofuel investment: from palm oil and soya biodiesel in trains to synthetic biology for aviation fuels. Click here.
Factsheet about Greenergy/Tesco biofuels Click here
Factsheet about Ensus: Click here.
> original material copyright © biofuelwatch 2006