A climate camp has set up on Blackheath, a couple of miles from where I live. This is where Wat Tyler's peasants' revolt came to a sticky end in 1381, and the Cornish Rebellion came to an end in 1497, so there are some nice historical resonances and continuity with the tradition of protest.
I went up there yesterday evening to have a look. Here's one of my pictures; I'll try and post a few more later today: http://www.web-options.com/L1001029.jpg It's quite interesting and seems to have the support of most of the locals, who are mostly bourgeois liberals like me. The camp is right next to an army barracks, where the police have set up a cherry-picker loaded with cameras and videos overlooking the protesters. They are apparently photographing everyone who visits, which is rather a waste of taxpayers' film if you ask me. Some of the news reports: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/26/climate-camp-location http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6094838/Climate-C hange-camp-formed-at-Black-Heath.html Bob "At my age if you don't wear a suit people think you're homeless" --- Leonard Cohen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
