The fence of the Climate Camp, Blackheath with its message 'Nature Doesn't Do Bail-Outs' and tents
Climate Campers converged from six locations around London onto the common at Blackheath on Wednesday afternoon. It's a large area of common land fairly close to the centre of London, with stations nearby at Greenwich (DLR and Overground), Lewisham and Blackheath, and which is used occasionally for other festivals and fairs, in particular an annual kite festival and a fireworks display, and is far enough away from local housing to cause no great nuisance. The Climate Camp has a good record for putting in the necessary plumbing and other necessities and also for cleaning up sites well when the camp is over. this was the site where radical cleric John Ball made what is described as the first speech against class oppression, with its famous "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" and urged his peasant audience to "cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty." The Peasant's Revolt of 1381 ended unhappily, and Ball was hung, drawn and quartered the following month. There were many activities taking place across the site which seemed to be well organised and very democratic. Some of these pictures were taken while I was working for a day as a member of the site's media team. There were no uniformed police on the site, and no need for them. This was almost certainly the most caring and most law-abiding part of South London, with no crime, no drugs and very little alcohol around. I was followed by a plain clothes officer for around ten minutes after I left the site after taking pictures.
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Location: Blackjheath Common, Blackheath, London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: action, anti-capitalist, bail-outs, banner, blackheath, camp, change, climate, direct, environmental, environmentalist, london, message, nature, protest, protesters
