Posted by: vickim57 | 27 October 2009

Save the planet – eat less meat: Nicholas (Lord) Stern

Lots of climate news today – we can expect more and more stories in the run-up to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen (12-18 December). Nicholas (Lord) Stern, author of the mightily influential Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, has said that we need to eat less meat as part of combating climate change.

Watch a Channel 4 news report on this here.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: vestas, climate change, copenhagen, lord stern

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What we're fighting for

Vestas Blades UK made production workers at their factories on the Isle of Wight redundant on 12 August. 600 jobs have been or will soon be lost. Many more jobs that depend on Vestas will follow. This makes no sense from a green or a labour perspective!
The government has announced a major expansion of renewable energy including wind power. We are calling on Vestas to keep the factories open, saving jobs and offering those who want to leave a better redundancy deal.
We are calling on the government to intervene to save jobs at Vestas - through nationalisation if that is what it takes - to show that it is serious about saving the planet.

What you can do

Organise a visible demonstration of solidarity. Take a photo with a placard that reads “Save Vestas Jobs” and email it to savevestas@gmail.com.
Send a donation from your trade union or other organisation, or make a personal donation. Cheques payable to RMT IOW 2 Vestas hardship & defence fund, and send to Keith Murphy, 57 Well Street, Ryde, IOW PO33 2RY.
Send a motion to your union leadership demanding they actively back the Vestas workers and their demands - see here.
Keep in touch with the Vestas workers' campaign. You can phone the Vestas workers at the picket line on 07756 659234 or email them at savevestascampaign@yahoo.co.uk.
Contact local Labour Parties, and ask them to follow the Isle of Wight Labour Party in backing the workers. Ask them to demand Ed Miliband come to the Isle of Wight to meet the workers.
Lobby your MP and get her or him to sign "Early Day Motion" 1925, put down by John McDonnell MP in support of the Vestas workers. If the MP is Labour, contact local Labour Party activists and Labour-affiliated unions, and urge them to put pressure on their MP.
Contact energy minister Ed Miliband. His phone number in his Doncaster constituency is 01302 875 462, and at Westminster, 020 7219 4778. Flood him with calls for the Government to take over the Vestas factory and keep it producing, under new management.
Sign our petition on the 10 Downing Street website: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SaveVestas/.
Come to the protest outside the main Vestas factory — Monks Brook, St Cross Industrial Estate, Newport, Isle of Wight.

Support groups and local contacts

Birmingham - Alistair alistair_wingate@yahoo.co.uk / 07846 490408

Brighton - John brightonvestassupporters@googlemail.com / 07845 183407

Leeds - Dan leeds.vestas.solidarity@googlemail.com

Liverpool and Merseyside - Daren Ireland nwestnwalesrc@rmt.org.uk / 07787 128498

London (Central and North) - savevestas@gmail.com

London (South) - Nadine Houghton, Battersea and Wandsworth trades council nadine@bwtuc.org.uk / 07946 172461

Manchester - Hugh manc_sfe@yahoo.co.uk

Medway Towns (Kent) - Tipping Point, 46 High Street, Gillingham, ME7 1AZ tippingpointmedway@gmail.com

Newcastle - Ed Whitby ed.whitby@workersliberty.org

Oxford - Kate Douglas kate.douglas@talktalk.net

Save Vestas jobs! Save the planet!

Save the planet – eat less meat: Nicholas (Lord) Stern