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Login or Register What's coming upWatch this space for events in 2010! SCAN members will be attending the Wiltshire World Changers networking event at Wroughton on January 23rd - if you are going along, say 'Hi!' What you missedTuesday 22nd December, Swindon South MP, Anne Snelgrove, had a meeting about the Copenhagen Summit. Several SCAN members attended and feedback forms submitted for Ed Miliband. Copenhagen - UN Climate Emergency Conference - Andy and Gina from SCAN travelled by coach (24hrs there, 24hrs back!) to spend the weekend of 12 - 13 December in Denmark. Andy was interviewed on Heart radio news in the Swindon area. He was also on BBC Wiltshire radio talking against Swindon council's plans to remove cycle lanes in favour of increasing car parking spaces.... Saturday 12th December - a candlelit vigil in Swindon town centre as part of the Avaaz campaign to focus on the Copenhagen summit. See the photos. Saturday 5th December: A coach load from the Swindon area joined The Wave in London ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. SCAN regulars marched alongside others from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, church groups, Green Party and others. Wiltshire Wildlife also laid on coaches from elsewhere in the county, Marlborough Climate Pledge were there too, as was Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon.
From further afield, we bumped onto SCAN founder Ruth Baker (as was) who had come up by train from Exeter, with very young daughter in tow. Other marchers had left Liverpool at 5am, Penzance at 4.30am and Holyhead at 4am!! And coaches were waiting from all across the country - Aberystwyth, Stockport, all over the place! Somehow, four from SCAN got priority passes and after the march went to a Q&A session with Ed Miliband, Minister for Energy & Climate Change. Poppy from SCAN even got to ask a question!
BBC & ITV news gave good coverage to the march on their main evening news.
Tuesday 24th November SCAN and Swindon Film Society presented a showing of the film 'The Yes Men Fix the World' at The Victoria, Old Town. About 40 people came along on what was a cold and wet evening. Described as funny and satirical with a broadly environmental theme and the blurb says “a screwball story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off a couple of pranks that expose how corporate greed is destroying the planet”. There is a trailer on their distributor’s website: www.dogwoof.com 17th October: The Great Persuasion. Climate change campaigners and faith groups gathered for a lobby of Anne Snelgrove MP ahead of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December. See the photos. 15th March: Age of Stupid people's premiere.
14th February 2009: SPARK (Save the Park And Ride Campaign) held a photo call at the threatened Groundwell park & ride site and were interviewed along with Michael Wills MP, by ITV News. See some photos and a video. 22nd December 2008: The Beehive's Charity Christmas night was held in aid of Swindon Climate Action Network. See some video clips from the night here. 6th December 2008: Campaign against Climate Change march and rally in London - read about it, see the photos and watch the videos here. You've missed the SCAN TALK on October 15 2008: Lead Councillor for Highways, Peter Greenhalgh, on transport policy for Swindon: read about it here and watch the video here!
Last Modified 13 Jan 2010 09:20
by jezcope
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