The Gateway project in B.C.'s Lower Mainland is the focus of vigorous opposition from local government, transportation activists and unions. They say the project to twin the Port Mann Bridge will significantly increase single-occupancy vehicle traffic into the centre of Vancouver.

At last it's easier for computer owners to find a responsible way to get rid of their old hardware. Free Geek doesn't dump computer equipment in landfills, or ship it off to Asia to be dumped over there.

Here is the Thursday lunchtime Climate Camp show, available for download. Daily shows are live streamed (at 1pm and 7pm) and archived at  http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio

Last summer a group called the Palestine Media Collective produced a parody of the Vancouver Sun. Six months later Mordecai Briemberg was charged with producing the parody and committing a commercial violation of trademark.

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Short almost 10 minute splice of different voices extracted from mainstream TV coverage of the Climate Camp 08 over the last few days.

There's been so much coverage, with some of it quite well balanced... obviously there's been some rubbish, but i'm pretty impressed overall.

There's been ups and downs what with the police raids and the so called weapons cache and the police feeding out lies, but there's been pretty good coverage of rebuttals from camp, tons of good interviews with campers, and of course the politics and science has also come to the fore, with news stations scrambling to get to grips with the issues. This is just a small sample of the voices that have been heard.

Maybe someone wants to play it on cc radio if people are interested to hear some of the voices?

The audio ends with a short piece from a camper who talks about what it's like at camp, which is the only bit which hasn't been broadcast on TV.

(nb this is just voices, no analysis or anything like the cc radio piece posted a few newswire items earlier)

No city or country has ever made money from hosting the Olympics. The outflow from the public coffers is far greater than the public revenue created. It’s a 17-day event that threatens to leave BC taxpayers with a huge debt.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday July 7th, 2008.

This piece was played as part of Wednesday evenings climate camp radio.

Yesterday (wednesday 6th August) there were more examples of resistance to the blanket stop and search imposed by police around the Climate Camp.

Following the previous days mass 'walk-in', where a large group of people simply walked through the police search area after complaining that 2 hour waits to be searched were not acceptable, on wednesday a group of around 30 people left the camp as a protest and refused to be searched.

It's interesting to note that the Police later lied about this to the media in their latest press release saying:

"More than 30 people leaving the camp on Wednesday morning with their belongings approached police and told officers they do not want to be associated with any criminal activity. ACC Beautridge commented: 'It is unfortunate for all concerned that there appears to be a hardcore minority, intent on criminal activity or unlawful protest, who are diverting attention away from the issues that most people have come here to raise."
(see  http://www.kent.police.uk/News/Latest_News/Climate%20Camp%20talks.html)

This outright lie was refuted by the Climate Camp media team and on the CC website, but of course it hasn't stopped mainstream media publications from running with the story, with The Herald printing the headline "Coal-power protesters shun criminal activity".

The Climate Camp website hit back saying: "This press release is totally consistent with the police's ongoing campaign to disrupt, deligitimise and smear our campaign against building a new coal-fired power-station at Kingsnorth. Climate camper Terry Graves said, "Another day, another totally unsubstantiated claim from top cop Gary Beautridge. None of this is stopping us from having the conversations we need to have to tackle climate change. We won't be distracted."

There were also several other incidents throughout the day with police being heavy handed over the imposition of searches. The pictures below are video captures from Medway Messenger video filmed by Steve Bodycombe as police move against a group objecting to the searches and the long waits to get into the camp in what their reporters described as distressing scenes. Several arrests were made.

Despite the behaviour of the police, people are still arriving at the camp, although several people are complaining that the police action is designed to put off local people visiting the camp.

Fifteen dead bodies are currently lying in a pool of oil blocking the
entrance to RBS London HQ at Liverpool Street [1]. Students are staging a
'die-in' blockade to highlight the devastating effects of climate change.
The protesters are demanding RBS stop funding destructive fossil fuel
projects which will create climate catastrophe. The action is taking
place as part of the climate camp and is co-ordinated by the student
action network PANDA [1].

A round-up of news stories from Canada and around the world.

Here is the Wednesday evening Climate Camp show, available for download. Daily shows are live streamed (at 1pm and 7pm) and archived at  http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio

Here is the Wednesday lunchtime Climate Camp show, available for download. Daily shows are live streamed (at 1pm and 7pm) and archived at  http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio

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