At 3pm British Summer Time on July 30th around 100 climate activists took an uncultivated field around a kilometer from Kingsnorth Power Plant in Kent. The 2008 Climate Camp has begun.

The exact location of this site was a closely guarded secret until it was taken, so as to avoid police obstruction. Now that the site has been taken everyone has been taken, everyone is invited so if you are in the UK…get down there! (travel guide)  I`ll see you in a couple of days–me and many kilograms of audio visual recording equipment! I`m hoping to record as many of the over 200 workshops (full program) as i possibly can.

The Camp for Climate Action is in its third year in the UK and judging by past years it will be an exciting, educational and above all inspirational event.

Hannah Abbots puts it succinctly:

“We have a future to protect, and today, in setting up the climate camp, we’ve drawn a line in the sand at Kingsnorth. We will not allow companies like E.ON drag us over the edge of climate catastrophe.”

To that I will add only that it is hugely inspirational to see our comrades in the US fighting, and winning battles against coal power all over the country. If the yanks can do it then so can we!  We are nearing a point at which coal power is fully recognised by politicians across the  world as the destructive and archaic power source that it really is.

I`m hoping that we will have Internet access on site as we did last year if so then I will post an update live from the camp, i`m also planning to post video directly from the camp to our new youtube channel.