[IMC-UK-Features] proposal - climate rush feature

[ben gringo]

Somebody else will have to tidy this up and upload it as I can't.  
Also, there are phone numbers in press release in the newswire that  
should not have been published so could somebody please remove them.

Title:
UK Coal Industry Retreats From Climate Rush
or
Climate Rush Prompts Landmark Decision

Photo:
http://indymedia.org.uk/images/2009/02/423017.jpg
(not the best but it shows the rush inside the hotel)

Abstract:

Climate Rush tackled more climate criminals last week when the UK coal  
industry got together for their annual 'coal awards'. In a protest  
timed to coincide with the UK Coal hosted awards, around 15 climate  
activists paid a visit to their Doncaster headquarters, dressed in  
Edwardian style complete with red sashes with the words 'No New Coal'  
written across them. A banner reading 'Leave it in the Ground' was  
suspended across the entrance.

In London, faced with the prospect of being exposed by the modern day  
climate suffregette movement, the dirty coal pushers bailed out,  
canceling their booking at the plush Landmark Hotel and hurrying  
through their ceremony earlier in the day at Lords Cricket grounds  
instead.

At the hotel, around a hundred activists rushed into the hotel through  
a fire exit while police blocked the main entrance. Inside an  
alternative awards ceremony began, based on the ecological damage that  
the coal industry is inflicting on the environment. When ejected from  
the hotel, a couple more attempts were made to gain entry and one  
arrest was made. The alternate awards continued outside. The Landmark  
hotel management were less than happy about the righteous fury brought  
down on them by the climate criminals and invited a couple of the  
protesters inside to prove that the event had been cancelled. He then  
pledged that the hotel would not be accepting bookings from such  
damaging industries again.

Related newswire photo reports:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422948.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422965.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423010.html
(audio to follow)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423079.html

Previous related actions:
<a href="/en/2009/01/418697.html">'climate suffragettes' smashed the  
windows of the Department of Transport</a>
<a href="/en/2009/01/418802.html">500 flash mobbed at Heathrows  
terminal 5</a>
<a href="/en/2009/01/418227.html">Climate Rush Heathrow images,  
12.01.09</a>
<a href="/en/2009/01/418245.html">Heathrow Terminal One Climate Rush  
Picnic a success!</a>
<a href="/en/2009/01/418328.html">Northern Climate Rush at Manchester  
Airport</a>
<a href="/en/2009/01/418361.html">Northern Climate Rush Photos</a>
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/10/410761.html Rush  
Parliament
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410864.html Rush Parliament


Previous related features:
Resistance escalates with Airport 'Green' Light
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418105.html


Body:

Climate Rush  "Canary in the Coalmine" awards:

Science Fiction award
went o the most unbelievable technology not yet available to stop CO2  
emissions, Carbon Capture and Storage.

Financial Fool award
went to the Royal Bank of Scotland, for helping to raise $16 billion  
in loans to finance the worldwide coal industry over the past two years.

LIfetime Achievement award
went to Drax coal fired power station, for the Greatest Emissions in  
the UK, equivalent to that of the 54 poorest countries in the world.

Best Supporting Role
went to the biggest Climate Coward, Gordon Brown, for his useless  
leadership over Climate Change.

Best Newcomer
went to the next likely "factory of death", Kingsnorth coal fired  
power station in Kent.

and finally...

UK Coal Personality of the Year
went to Paul Golby, CEO of energy company E.ON, for outstanding  
services to Greenwash (whilst plotting to build Kingsnorth)

Bonus Victory

As a result of the protests, the Landmark hotel vowed that companies  
and organisations which contribute to climate chaos will no longer be  
welcome to use their facilities for corporate promotion and  
entertainment. The hotel say they will now deny companies such as the  
Royal Bank of Scotland (the biggest single investor in coal and oil  
industries) and oil companies, such as ESSO, BP and Shell, as well as  
the coal industry from using their ballrooms and banquet halls to  
promote their cause. The manager also pledged to communicate with the  
24 other five star hotels in its’ group to suggest they do the same.

A spokeswomen for the Climate Rush explained, "For too long  
profiteering from climate change has been sold to the public as a  
necessity of ‘business as usual’. But with global temperatures rising  
and climate chaos running riot in the form of drought (Africa and  
Australia) and flooding (low lying lands all over), we all need to  
work together. We applaud the Landmark for their good sense and the  
vision to say ‘enough is enough’. They rightly don’t want to be  
associated with the corrupt system that needs overturning. We welcome  
the Landmark to play their role in the new way of doing things so  
needed.”

Climate Rush will work with the Landmark Hotel to ensure the right  
companies are blocked, to send a clear message to polluters: they’re  
not welcome.



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