Workers in occupation at Vestas

From Derek’s blog:

Save Vestas – Defend Jobs, Save the Planet – Support the Occupation

Workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.

PLEASE TEXT AND CALL EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

There is a large picket of support starting outside the factory. This will be crucial in giving people confidence inside. We want hundreds of people by morning.
If you are not working, come now, by car, bus or train.
If you are on the South Coast and working, come for the night and go to work exhausted and proud.

If you can’t come, call up friends and offer to pay the fare or petrol money for someone else to come down. Or part of the fare.
Don’t just call the environmental and union activists you know. Call your friends and ask them who they know. Call your brother’s friends or your children’s friends. Text everyone. Get your friends calling and texting.

WE WANT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE NOW.
SAVE THE JOBS – SAVE THE PLANET.

The workers want Gordon Brown to step in as if it was a troubled bank and save the jobs and keep making wind turbine blades. They gave the bankers trillions. They say they care about climate change. He has talked about creating 40,000 “Green Jobs”, the first step should be protecting these 600.

The workers will need solidarity – donations of money, food and other assistance. In the first instance please send messages of solidarity to savevestas@gmail.com

We will suggest other forms of solidarity soon. Do this now. Reach for your phone

NB: Website see here

Crisis in Rape Crisis: Boris gets blocked!!

Clare Solomon confronts Boris Johnson

We blocked  Boris Johnson leaving the GLA from a back exit at around 2pm onwards.

Boris blustering

 Clare Solomon and Boris Keep Your Promise (I don’t know the woman’s name who was representing them) stopped Boris from moving, everytime he moved we blocked him.  They confronted him about his election promise and he blustered and blundered like the buffoon he is when answering.

Outside the back exit of the GLA: A job well done!!!!

Boris argued that there will be 3 more Rape Crisis Centres in London (btw there is only one Rape Crisis and that’s based in Croydon) but didn’t give a timescale nor any indication where the funding will come from.

Outside the GLA

Boris Johnson made an election promise that 3 new Centres would be funded. A strategy paper was launched in April 2009 calling ‘for action to end violence against women’. The strategy is open for public consultation until 20th July 2009 (today).

"Boris keep your promise"!

Great day, vibrant and dynamic, lots of chanting, with some direct action thrown in, it certainly put a spoke in Johnson’s wheel!

 Met some lovely women involved in the campaign and good luck for the protest outside the Miss England final tonight. Further objectification and commodification of women.

See as well The F Word.

Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/21/campaigners-johnson-rape

Below is video footage Boris being blocked….