Jo Abbess

So, the feared and predicted eviction of the G20 Climate Camp seems to be starting, with the Police using heavyhanded tactics, including terrorising people with a least one helicopter over the camp.

https://twitter.com/climatecamp

Meanwhile, at the very centre of all this whirlwind of oppressive tactical management, lies the blessed little survivor church St Ethelberga’s, hosting the Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, where today they dropped a banner from their roof, reading “We’re all in this TOGETHER”.

And so we are.

The G20 Climate Camp has formed two meetings, one at the north and one at the south of the camp area, where the riot Police have formed inpenetrable lines.

I’m still waiting to hear the consensus decisions of these meetings, but it looks like the earlier tension from Police provocation by incursion has been resolved, and the festival atmosphere has resumed.

The bands play on !

https://twitter.com/climatecamp

I’m sorry to report that I’ve had to leave the G20 Climate Camp because I started to feel very nervous about the tactics of the Police.

I lost my cool a bit, and decided that I didn’t want to do anything I might regret, so I decided to quit before the pen that seemed to be forming became permanent, which would have made me very angry.

I mean, can you call it “non-violent confrontation” and will people understand you if you do ?

The G20 Climate Camp have just phoned me and there’s lots of nice chilled vibes coming down the line.

https://www.climatecamp.org.uk/ccaCity/gallery1/index.html

Well, readers, here I am in an undisclosed location in the City of London, holding the pink, Camp-pink, mobile.

“Hello. Climate Camp. How can we englighten you today ?”

Sitting on a good wi-fi hotspot, pretending to do nothing in particular, fretting a bit as the big Police vans with cages roll by in convoys towards the financial district, where unhappy people, enraged by the bloodthirsty London Press, have taken it upon themselves to fulfill tabloid prophecy and storm the banks, calling themselves the G20 Meltdown.

The G20 Climate Camp would like to reassure Police Officers that it is perfectly safe to drink camp tea, and that a certain uniformed authority person without an identification lapel has only himself to blame for his state of druggedness. We think he “self-medicated” before coming on the beat today…

Flash update : it appears that some European participants in the G20 Climate Camp didn’t synchronise their watches yesterday evening and have pitched up on the roof of the Bank of England or the Climate Exchange already, a whole hour ahead of the 12.30 “swooping” hour…

…this may be an uncorroborated rumour, however.