Party at the Pumps 2

PARTY AT THE PUMPS PART 2... THIS TIME ITS SHELL!
MASS ACTION CALL OUT

When: Saturday, 15th May
Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus
Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Oxford Circus meeting point map: http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap

Shutting down a petrol station for 5 hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon was so much fun were going to do it again. Shells Hell in the tar sands and beyond - is next in the firing line.

Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.
See here for a video of Party at the Pumps Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6-tdxd12M

And for all you cyclists out there, there will be a special Party at the Pumps Critical Mass making its way to the party. Meet 1PM at Marble Arch (under the arch).

Get ready for sunshine, music, and dancing on the forecourt!

Why target Shell?

Party at the Pumps Part 2 is taking place just three days before Shells AGM, where the company will come under fire from shareholders over its plans in the Canadian tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride, which will link two communities in Wales and Ireland resisting fossil fuel extraction.

Party at the Pumps is in solidarity with communities around the world who are resisting Shells destruction of lives and livelihoods, poisoning of lands and waters, and fuelling of climate chaos. In Northern Canada, Shells tar sands projects are ignoring First Nations treaty rights, causing rare forms of cancer and killing wildlife (http://www.ienearth.org/tarsands.html). In Rossport, Ireland, a dangerous onshore pipeline and massive refinery are transforming an area of outstanding natural beauty into an environmental disaster zone with serious public health and safety implications (http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org). And in Nigeria, where Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were hung by the Nigerian state for campaigning against Shells devastation of the Niger Delta, resistance to Shell and Big Oil continues (http://www.remembersarowiwa.com).

These struggles may be happening in distant places, but they are driven from Shell HQ. On May 15th, we bring the resistance to the heart of London.

This action is jointly called by London Rising Tide/London Tar Sands Network and Climate Camp London.
http://www.no-tar-sands.org
http://www.risingtide.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/london

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• climate
• climate camp
• shell
• tar sands

[GroddGuerrilla]

What the fuck was the point of this? Really, what did dancing and shouting repeated rederick get accomplished? I'm gonna guess absolutely nothing. I wonder what will be different at the next complete waste of time.

[NormaPalen]

No matter what you feel about our oil consumption the fact is BP was more interested in saving a few million out of their billions in profit then to make sure the well was safe and had a back up plan of action. So very sad and irresponsible on BP's part. They need to be held accountable and criminal charges need to be filed.

[elvispreseli]

@quigglebat yeh..... dontcha just love 'em?

[quigglebat]

Bloody Hippies

[JohnnyCellachan]

I'll see you there!

[alasdeverdad]

Love and Rage - all the way!! Well done!!

[Thomcostello]

The song is by The King Blues.

[Naskeleng]

Great stuff!

Who's this awesome track by?

[morganic88]

Great see yous there xx

[morganic88]

Great, see yous there (-;