Breakout Groups Summary
The main outcomes of the conference were:
- A Direct Action Pledge and Direct Action training
- Party Conference Flashmob
- Flashmob the opening of Parliament
- Mass Write-In
- Speaker Training
- Sipson ‘Homeless’ Village in Parliament Square
This is the complete list of topics brought up at the 26th July conference. This does not represent the relative weighting of individual issues.
The ideas of all the breakout groups were recorded and then compiled by the facilitators.
Issues to target
Climate Bill and the aviation contradiction
It’s the Economy, Stupid? Winning the economic argument
Demographics of flying – it’s not the poor who benefit from cheap flights
Substituting Short Haul with Rail
Transfer passengers
The revolving door of sleaze – government and corporations working in tandem
Runway alternation
Ghost Flights
Education and Health
Safety issues
Methods
Direct Action Pledge Bank
Legal Challenges
Magnify Local Issues
Targeting banks that support aviation
Targeting the CEO’s of corporations that are heavy flight users
“Live 8” style event
Highlight the democratic defecit
Bring Climate Camp back
Focus on Alternatives
Target travel agents, making them follow the route of the Cooperative travel
Run for parliament
Direct Action Training
Focus on the Key Boroughs
Rolling Blockades of Government Departments
Focus on bodies other than the DfT
Party Conferences
Get 2M to do a health audit
Networking ourselves
International Outreach
Work with more ‘social’ campaign groups
Working with Unions
Climate Camp
West London ‘power elite’
Using the Media
Improving movement presentation – aesthetics
