DWI supports Greenpeace Arctic Campaign

Deal With It presented our colleagues in Canterbury Greenpeace with a cheque for £200 for their 'Save the Arctic' campaign today at the Astor. 

The money was the proceeds from the very successful film show 'Chasing Ice' at the Astor at the end of November.

John Halladay from Greenpeace said "

The Arctic is a precious, beautiful region that faces an unprecedented threat. Oil companies are moving north, seeking to exploit its resources, while climate change is causing the Arctic to change beyond recognition. Three-quarters of the sea ice has melted since summer 1980, and scientists
predict the Arctic Ocean could be ice free in the next few decades. If that comes to pass it will be the
first time since humans developed our civilisation.

The only reason oil companies can drill there is because the ice is retreating. They’re drilling for the
oils that caused the melting in the first place. It’s crazy. We have to draw a line in the ice and say to
the oil companies, ‘You come no further’. That’s why Greenpeace has held peaceful protests in the
American, Norwegian, Greenlandic and Russian Arctic.

The Arctic is a region that could not cope with an oil spill of the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon
disaster. It is forbidding, with darkness six months of the year, and ice returning every winter. BP
needed 6,000 boats to deal with the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico blow-out, but the Arctic
does not have an infrastructure to react at anything like that level.

The money raised by Deal With It will help to fund actions and campaigns to protect the Arctic - before it's too late."

More details on Greenpeace's campaign  can be found out at their website http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/arctic

'Chasing Ice' - Film Show Deal 17th Nov

Deal  With It has organised a screening of the award winning film 'Chasing Ice' on Sunday 17th November at 7:30pm at the Astor Community Theatre. Cost is £5

Chasing Ice is an extraordinarily stark and beautiful film by acclaimed photographer James Balog.

Proceeds of the film show will go towards Greenpeace's 'Save the Arctic' Campaign which is trying to protect this fragile environment.

Colleagues from Canterbury Greenpeace will be doing a short talk after the 76min film ends and will have a stall with campaign material.

In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

For more details on the film see their website - Film Trailer below:




http://youtu.be/VIdkgZVGhWc

Deal With It are very grateful to the support from the Astor Community Theatre for staging this event. The theatre bar will be open from 7pm.

Astor Community Theatre is in Stanhope Road Deal CT14 6AB

Box Office: 01304 370220 http://www.theastor.org/

Canterbury Climate Fair

The Canterbury Climate & Fairtrade fair this weekend was bigger and better than last year's, and that was pretty good!

Great stalls, atmosphere and music - much of it coming from Deal. There was a great 'Flash Mob' on the saturday.... see it here

Well done to Canterbury Greenpeace for organising it.

 Deal With it had a successful stall. Big thank you for Sarah, Rose, Charles, Jeremy, Alan & Steve for organising and special thank you for Driftwood for doing a busk at the stall

The Big Climate Reconnection April 16th - Route Details

THE BIG CLIMATE RECONNECTION – APRIL 16TH

Route

11.am Ride starts at Dover Priory Railway Station (Rendezvous 1 – the Early Birds). Aim to be there by 10.45 for a prompt start. We will be cycling from Dover to Deal and apart from the accent up the cliff on the alternative wheeling route, the journey to Deal is virtually downhill all the way and follows NCR1.

12.15-12.30pm - Arrive Walmer (Rendezvous 2 – for late joiners)

12.30 Dover and Deal Conservatives, 54 The Strand, Walmer, Kent CT14 7DP. Letter delivered to Kent Conservatives (see Appendix 2)

1pm – Lunch (bring your own)

1.30pm - Out of Deal on miner's cycle path and to end of it where left.  At TJ turn right direction Snowdon and right after 20 yards to Finglesham.  Forwards up hill and down to turn right at Ham Sandwich sign.  Uphill and roads bears left.  Turn right to Blazing Donkey pub. 

Forwards and downhill and up again to crossroads in Eastry. Straight across and down and uphill to crossroads at windswept tree (sic).

Left and then right to Rowley.  Cottages on right and turn left uphill to top and turn left to crossroads.  Turn right and forwards to Wingham road.  At TJ turn right and 20 yards on turn left downhill.  Forwards to Wingham Well to meet main road at The Haywain.  Cycle through pub car park and turn left at pub.  50 yards on turn right and follow up hill to meet Adisham Bekesbourne road.

Turn right and downhill to turn left after Archbishop's Palace to Patrixbourne.  At water splash turn right to mini RAB and left and immediately right up Cycle route 16 to Canterbury. Follow cycle route through Northgate and Pound Lane.

Drop off points along the way as the route touches the railway.

4.00 pm Rendezvous 3  at Guildhall, Westgate Towers, Canterbury. Presentation of pledge to Mayor (see Appendix 1).

4.15 pm – ‘Green Benediction’ by Greenpeace

Additional Logistics

Trains from Canterbury arrive at Dover Priory at 9.48am, 10.27am and 10.48am.

We have a large van which will be following us along the route, just in case anyone needs a rest.

Joining Points

Deal is a good option for those who are slightly uncomfortable in the saddle to return to Canterbury via Dover by train.

Another alternative is for people to catch a train from Dover to Deal and start their cycle ride there.

Spokes will be bringing hand held radios which have a 5 mile range and will be used by the leader and backstop on the ride. Like most Spokes rides we aim to go at the speed of the slowest rider and the speed of the ride will be dictated by the backstop.

Leaving Points

We pass close to Deal, Adisham, Aylesham and Bekesbourne stations for those who want to leave the ride along the way.

Big Climate Reconnection - 16th April

On April 16th the Stop Climate Chaos Big Climate Reconnection takes to the road. Cyclists from Greenpeace, Oxfam, UNA, Fair Trade, Christian Aid, SPOKES, and other members of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition will cycle from Dover to Walmer to deliver a petition to our MPs. We will then cycle back to Canterbury to deliver a message to Canterbury City Council: they must take action to clean up air pollution in Canterbury. Everyone is welcome.

Contact: canterburygreenpeacegroup@hotmail.com.

Something fishy....

Two very successful campaigns underway:

(1) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has made a plea for support for a campaign to try and stop wasteful fish discards.

Half of the fish caught in the North Sea is thrown back overboard dead due to the current quota system imposed by the EU Common Fisheries Policy.

The Fish Fight Campaign will officially launch with a broadcast of “Hugh’s Fish Fight” presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in January 2011.
Thousands have already signed up to support the cause, and Client Earth is also on board.

If you are at all interested in the future of our oceans, and the future of fish as food, then please go to www.fishfight.net and check out phase 1 of the campaign.

 2) Greenpeace's Tuna Campaign. As you may have read we were all set to take action against Tesco this weekend when the unexpected happened. We have produced a league table of the best and worst offenders against tuna (fishing with fish attraction devices, seine purse nets etc) and had identified that Tesco were the worst own-brand supplier. When Tesco learned of this, and that Greenpeace were preparing a nationwide weekend of direct action against them, they agreed to change all their own-brand tuna to rod and line by the end of 2012. Good for them. But it means our campaigning has to take a different tack. We will be doing it a bit differently but will now target Princes tuna in the hope of making them see the light.

The Tesco result is great news, it really shows that we can make a difference.http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Canterbury Climate Fair - Video is now out

A video made on the very successful Greenpeace Climate Fair in Canterbury this May is now out...

Unfortunately its some 94mb & 27minutes long - so one to be downloaded and savoured at home rather than watching it online - http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/node/39775

(Steve has a copy on CD...)

Canterbury Climate Fair 15th & 16th May

All things Green took over central Canterbury on Saturday and Sunday.

The Canterbury Climate Fair organised by Canterbury Greenpeace generated a lot of interest over last weekend with dozens of stalls - including our own Deal With It one with our new banner - and a constant stream of folk music.

Not to mention several Polar Bears, Tigers and Orangutans (as part of the Nestle Palm Oil campaign - which it was announced today that Nestle are backing down here)

Well done Canterbury Greenpeace !

Canterbury Climate Fair 15th & 16th May

Canterbury Climate fair is next weekend - 15th & 16th May in Central Canterbury (The Parade and St George’s St ) between 10am  - 4pm. Organised by Canterbury Greenpeace.

There will be eco-traders, NGOs, ethical exhibitors and green entertainers. Stalls include CPRE, Greenpeace, Dover Bees, Fairtrade, Oxfam, Eternal Energy, Slow bread, Greener alternative, FOE, Canterbury Plants, People & Planet, Sustrans/Spokes, Wildwood, Friendly Soaps, Driftwood, Conker Conservation, WEDG, UKC, Moven Smooth and New Internationalist

Deal With It will be having a stall there on Sunday 16th - so call in and say hello....

Deal Folk Club is suppling a number of the Entertainers including Adrian O, Driftwood, Deal Hoodeners and many other favorites from the Friday sessions in Walmer


http://www.canterburyclimatefair.org

Early warning: Canterbury Climate Fair 15/16th May

Canterbury Greenpeace are organising a two day Climate Fair on the 15th & 16th May - Deal With It hope to have our stall there. More details to follow...

The Climate Fair will run from 9am to 5pm on the Saturday and from 10am to 4pm on the Sunday.
There will be campaign stalls, entertainers, Fairtrade and organic produce stalls, and displays stretching along The Parade and St George’s Street between the ancient clock tower and historic Rose Lane.

Canterbury Climate Fair website: http://www.canterburyclimatefair.org/
Canterbury Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/canterbury