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Cairn energy: the worst oil company you've never heard of

At Climate Camp last week our main target was the Royal Bank of Scotland for it’s part in bankrolling climate change, but a secondary one was Edinburgh based Cairn Energy. Cairn aren’t a famous name like BP or Shell, but right now they’re at the heart of one of the biggest battles that the environmental [...]

HYSTERICAL MEDIA GO ON MISINFORMED RAMPAGE

DOZENS of misinformed media outlets yesterday went on a hysterical rampage – going head-to-head with FACTS and SCIENCE – and causing chaos across the country as they poured an oily slick of lies across the nation’s front pages. At the same time, hundreds of idiots wreaked havoc across the internet, using websites as diverse as [...]

The Mighty Mighty Climate Camp

I’ve just returned from 5 days of occupying the land of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a piece of direct action that yesterday successfully achieved its objective of shutting down RBS’ headquarters. On Monday when we looked across at the building we could see there was nobody working there apart from cops and security guards. [...]

We smashed the banks – no, really, we did.

Some of SSY’s roving reporters are back to civilisation to give YOU all the latest news from climate camp… After an epic amount of pushing, we stormed RBS headquarters this afternoon. Delicious molasses bombs were thrown, windows were smashed and there was a lot of scuffling with the police. Bear in mind that today was [...]

Climate camp is going down: get there!

A few of us SSYers are about to head over to head over to Edinburgh to take part in the camp for climate action. If you’re reading this and can make it, get there! The camp took their site last night, at Gogar Station Road, right next to the Royal Bank of Scotland global headquarters! [...]

Camp for Climate Action

This weekend, Climate Camp is coming to Edinburgh. Anything up to 1000 people are expected to descend on the capital for five days of discussions, workshops, training and direct action, in the fifth camp of its kind in the UK. Following past camps which have targeted airport expansion and coal power stations, this year the [...]

Critical Mass: reclaim the streets!

Last Friday in Glasgow I attended the really fun and empowering event that is Critical Mass, a monthly celebration of cycling that takes place in cities across the world on the last Friday of every month. The basic premise of CM is that dozens, hundreds , sometimes even thousands, of cyclists meet up and cycle [...]

Thousands march for Gaza

Yesterday afternoon saw around three thousand demonstrators take to the streets of Edinburgh to oppose Israel’s ongoing attacks on humanitarian aid missions en route to Gaza. The protesters marched, in soaring temperatures, on a lengthy route around the city, going past both the US Consulate and Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister. The demo was noisy [...]

Jammy Cammy avoids Rammy!

Awritey mah wee chummos! Yur auld pal Lydia here, joost back fae Edinburger again. This time though, ah wisnae houndin’ the auld SDL, bit ah wis greetin’ mah chum best David Wankeron. Welcomin’ ‘um tae bonnie wee Scotland, cause like, presumably like, he’s nevur been here ur anyhin. Tae be fair ‘es prolly seen pichurs [...]

Let's tell David Cameron to GET TAE

New overlord of Great Britain David Cameron is visiting Edinburgh tomorrow. We’re going down to form an, ahem, ‘welcoming party’. Join us! Meet 12.30pm outside the Scottish Parliament – bring flags, banners, yer mates et cetera. For those travelling from Glasgow, meet 11am sharp at Queen St station.