On 3rd May, representatives of corporate energy and politics will be meeting in London at the UK energy summit.
They want to keep on profiteering from fuel poverty, climate change, and trashing on the planet.
We can’t let them.
Come and take the power back.
THE PLAN
Your day of action and your initial meeting place will be shaped by the bloc you join. Assemble at your bloc’s meeting point at 11am. Sign up to a bloc on the website to receive SMS text updates about action plans:
Dirty Energy Bloc
Dirty energy, dirty basslines and dirty business. Get down and dirty with us as we trash the planet in style!
Meet outside City Thameslink station (Ludgate Hill exit) at 11am.
Housing Bloc
For warm homes and community control. Join this bloc if you want to turn up the heat in your homes and turn up the heat on the greedy energy companies…
Meet outside Cannon Hill station at 11am.
Robin Hood Bloc
Join our merry band as we take the power from the Big Six Energy Barons and give it back to the people.
Meet outside St Paul’s tube station, 11am.
Fossil-Free Future Bloc
A family friendly bloc for a future free from fossil fuels. As climate change threatens life on earth join this bloc if you think that the Big Six Dinosaurs are the ones that ought to face extinction. Come and demonstrate for fair democratic, fair and clean alternatives to the prehistoric energy companies fuels and thinking…
Meet outside Tate Modern at 11am.
ACCESS
For any access needs send an SMS text or leave a message on 07432031610.
BRING:
Banners
Food and drink
Big chalks
Music, samba rhythms, and sound systems
Outdoor games
Your mates
THE REASONS:
- People not profit
We want to end the stranglehold that the Big Six Energy Companies have on this country. Corporate control of energy is unfair, insane and short sighted and always puts profits ahead of the needs of people and our environment: the Big Six’s profiteering is killing thousands each winter through fuel poverty and millions across the world through climate change.
- Climate justice
The Big Six energy companies, hand in hand with the government, and pushed by the mentality of growth capitalism, are destroying the climate and the lives of millions of people around the world. Climate justice means that those who have caused climate change should take responsibility for stopping it.
Disabled people and Climate Change
Disabled people are at particular risk of fuel poverty. Government figures published last year showed that 2.75 million households living in fuel poverty were classed as “vulnerable” under a definition of vulnerable which could include an older person, a child or a disabled person within the household. Fuel poverty disproportionately affects disabled people: disabled people spend a greater proportion of their income on fuel because they are less likely to be employed and they also face additional costs of services, such as social care or mobility aids; through having less opportunities to be in employment disabled people spend a greater proportion of their time at home whilst cold environments can aggravate impairments, exacerbate respiratory problems and increase stress. The double suicide in November last year of disabled couple Mark and Helen Mullins was linked to fuel poverty as without income for heating the pair were forced to live in just one room of their home under increasingly worsening conditions. Fuel poverty affects the poorest; often the poorer you are the higher the fuel prices people tend to be as a result of unscrupulous landlords hiking up meter prices for personal profit.
Climate change can, and does, have a massive impact on disabled people across the world. The world’s poorest communities are most at risk from the violent weather conditions caused by climate change and disabled people make up a large percentage of those communities yet are least likely to have the resources to protect themselves. Problems experienced by disabled people on a day to day basis are magnified when there’s a natural disaster. Moreover natural disasters often leave more people disabled than they kill.
www.climatejusticecollective.org/bigsixenergybash
