Klimatrörelsen i Storbritannien har utsett megaflygplatsen Heathrow utanför London till plats för årets klimatläger.
2 000 aktivister väntas till lägret som under en vecka kommer genomföra en rad direkta aktioner mot flygplatsen.
Så här skriver antiflyg-organisationen Plane Stupid:
Last summer, 600 people took mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax power station in Yorkshire – the single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK. A new grassroots movement on climate change was born. Since Drax, groups have invaded an airport runway, occupied airline offices, and chained themselves to the coal belts at a climate-wrecking power station.
Plane Stupid is one of the groups that make up the ‘Climate Camp’ movement and are one of those helping to mount this summer’s action.
Campaigner for Plane Stupid, Leo Murray, explained:
“Gordon Brown has a fight on his hands. His plans for airport expansion show total contempt for democracy and fly in the face of the science.”
He added,
“We know that peaceful direct action can get the goods. The anti-roads movement of the 1990s made that clear. Brown has been warned. We are simply not going to sit by and let emissions from binge-flying make dangerous climate change become inevitable.”
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