{"id":5051,"date":"2020-02-08T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2020-02-08T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T17:46:44","slug":"protests-6-7-and-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/08\/protests-6-7-and-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests 6, 7 and 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My 50 protests in 2020 project continues, but I’ve gotten a cold and feeling somewhat grim, so this round up may be weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local Rebellion: Defend Councils Net Zero<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Less than 1% of new homes built in Britain have an A energy rating. This means that they are badly insulated. Saving carbon with a heat pump is no good if the heat just leaks away in five seconds. Poorly insulated homes cause fuel poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Architects! Climate Action Network was involved in the protest.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Some councils, in an attempt to meet their carbon goals, have declared higher standards for new construction in their areas. However, the central government is trying to impose a national standard which undoes that, called “future homes”. This disempowers local councils and undoes their good work while also increasing pollution and misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protestors engage in a tug of war where one side is “Local Government Net Zero 2025 Targets” and the other side is “Central Government Future Homes Standard”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Energy efficiency and homes of a decent standard of efficiency cannot be treated as luxury goods for the rich. This backwards-looking proposal suggests the government is not taking its carbon commitments seriously. Any chance to bestow favours on buy-to-let landlords would seem to outweigh the global need to cut carbon for the sake of everyone. Rich people will not benefit when their swanky Thames-front flats are flooded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop Cargill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the weekly protest with Climate Save. This week was smaller than the first one, but I expect next week to be much larger and hopefully momentum will continue to build. You can come out next Friday and every Friday after around noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Save in front of Cargill<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cargill’s actions really are shocking. Aside from working with Bolsinaro’s government to weaken standards for Amazon deforestation – their campaigning for him was a direct attack on LGBT people, they also are implicated in child slavery in Africa. Nestle sells the finished chocolate, but Cargill sells them the beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, they didn’t bother covering over their names. The issue of child slavery in chocolate has been widely documented. It’s outrageous and alarming that there can be an office building in central London that’s involved directly with slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Night Pride<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In response to some incidents around London, a group of local queers decided to have a series of Night Pride marches. This one started in Haggerston and went to Dalston. It was a few hundred people (maybe a thousand?) marching joyously while singing along to disco songs. There was, indeed, even a disco ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Night Pride march<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Once we got to the Dalston Superstore, some drag queens spoke and sung outside. The whole event was joyous and lovely. (Also a handsome young man seemed to be flirting with me! Although I think I was kind of feverish by then, so it’s possible he wasn’t)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drag performers at the end of the march<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the groups in the march is a new antifa organisation called the Bender Defenders, who are determined to stop hate crime. They jackets are extremely nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I want to get well soon, so instead of typing out a synopsis of a few upcoming things, I’ll point you at the calendar<\/a> and take a nap instead. https:\/\/fruux.com\/calendars\/public\/a3298190990\/708ec5b4-b3ad-48b1-b2f5-cf816f1d5d28\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 50 protests in 2020 project continues, but I’ve gotten a cold and feeling somewhat grim, so this round up may be weird. Local Rebellion: Defend Councils Net Zero Less than 1% of new homes built in Britain have an A energy rating. This means that they are badly insulated. Saving carbon with a heat … Continue reading Protests 6, 7 and 8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[393,51,364,81],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-climate-change","tag-london","tag-pride","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}