International Day of Action For Rivers: brook leaflets now out

Last Friday was International Day of Action For Rivers and I've had emails from various actions around the world - sadly we missed organising anything for the Ruscombe Brook Action Group (RBAG) - but we have now completed delivering virtually all the 4,000 leaflets we had printed (see pic).

Please let me know if you are in the ward or neighbour the brook and have not had one of our leaflets (kindly paid for by Severn Trent Water). Anyhow here's a couple of actions that I've tried to support:

- Saving Iceland built a small dam in front of Landsvirkjuns office entrance so the workers had either to step over the dam to get inside or use a different entrance. With this peaceful demonstration Saving Iceland wanted to protest upcoming three dams that Landsvirkjun,
the national energy company, hopes to build in lower Þjórsá river. It the first time International Day of Action For Rivers was celebrated in Iceland. Read more here.

- Jean Lambert, a Green MEP, called on the Turkish Government to halt the development of the controversial Ilisu dam project which will devastate the local environment and communities. 78,000 people are likely to be displaced, the historic town of Hasankey will be lost forever and serious pollution is expected to be produced. There are other ways to meet energy needs than this. It isd outrageous that European countries are supporting it. Read more here.