BIG SIX ENERGY BASH! -

THE BIG SIX ENERGY BASH

On May 3rd, representatives of corporate energy met in London at the UK Energy Summit. Around 400 anti-cuts and climate campaigners rom around the country gathered to confront them, attempting to push through police lines to gain access to the conference.

The UK Energy Summit involved CEOs of the Big Six energy companies, who have recently come under widespread criticism for drawing in record profits whilst one quarter of UK households have been pushed into fuel poverty. The event took place place at The Grange Hotel, near St Paul's Cathedral.

Billie Blackwood, from CJC said: “The UK Energy Summit is a classic 1% stitch up. It is corporate elites, including the government, conspiring to keep the status quo of high energy prices, soaring profits, growing climate instability and disaster capitalism. This conference is the wrong people asking the wrong questions and proposing the wrong solutions.”

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The Big Six Energy Bash is supported by:

Biofuelwatch
Bristol Energy Cooperative
Campaign Against Climate Change
Disabled People Against the Cuts
Fuel Poverty Action
Global Women's Strike
Kick Nuclear
London Coalition Against Poverty
London Rising Tide
Occupy London
Rising Tide UK
Stop Nuclear Power Network
UK Tar Sands Network
UK Uncut

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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 below 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), 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 Canon St. train station, 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. Come prepared to
demonstrate the colour and creativity of the democratic, fair and clean
alternatives to the Big Six Energy Dinosaurs' prehistoric fuels and thinking…
Meet outside the Tate Modern, 11am.

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DISABLED ACCESS:
For queries about access, call or text the
access contact line on: 07432031610

BRING:
Banners and colour
Food and drink
Big chalks
Music, samba rhythms and sound systems
Outdoor games
Your mates

INFO ABOUT THE UK ENERGY SUMMIT:
http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/event/uk-energy-summit-2012/5964

THE TARGET

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THE REASONS

1. People not profit
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We want to end the stranglehold that the Big Six energy companies have on energy in this country. Corporate control of energy is unfair, insanely short sighted, and always puts profits ahead of the needs of people and our environment: the Big Six’s profiteering is killing thousands in the UK each winter through fuel poverty, and millions across the world through climate change.

2. Climate justice
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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.

3. Energy democracy
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There is an alternative. It is down to ordinary people to take action against corporate control and create an affordable, sustainable, community-controlled energy system. We all have the right to access to clean energy.

CLIMATE JUSTICE

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