resistance is fertile and everywhere

Lately i'm not able to get time to internet and to post some news about the amazing places i've been visiting...

Towards carfree cities conference

The ecotopia biketour continues, and there are new twitters every day in the blog, after the conference in York we cycled to Stapleton to visit the Brotherhood Church community, an amazing space that started with pacifist dissidents from the first world war!! more than 90 years ago!

we passed 3 coal power plants in one day :-/

Brotherhood Church community

After we were hosted for 2 nights in a radical housing co-operative Cornerstone Housing Coop in Leeds, the cooperative is running already for 18 years and already has 2 houses, they repair and maintain, have a garden, workshop, bikeworkshop, co-op printing workshop (where i spend an afternoon printing flyers for the No To NATO No To War campaign) and more, this way of co-operative housing is quite popular between the radical movement and it was a completely new concept for me, quite interesting to explore...

printing workshop in CornerstonePeak District

Across the Peak District we cycled, up up up up, down, down, down, to Telford where we stayed in this amazing resistance place - Huntington Lane Camp - where a group of locals and activists squatted a part of the forest where UK Coal plan to dig 2 open air coal mines, in order to resist and give the most economical damage possible to this dirty company tree-houses, tunels, nets and other forms of active resistance are being built and people will stop the destruction of another forest with their own lifes and freedom...

Huntington Lane Camp fortField where UK Coal wants to open one HUGE hole to dig out bad-quality coal
Beautiful old tree with a tree bunker on top where we climbed rappelled down :Dresistance net to sit on top of Highest trees when the eviction team comes

3 days climbing trees and digging tunnels and we left to visit (very short, sadly) EarthWorm Housing Co-operative a radical Post-peak-oil-permaculture-vegan-anarchist-DIY-motor-free community, started 30 years ago by animal-rights activists, bicycles and experiments everywhere, ultra-organized and inspiring place - truly utopian...

EarthWorm entrance, they planted trees in the entrance road to avoid cars to ever enter :D

Yesterday we came to Canon Frome Court, another Co-op, more mainstream, where they have 40 acres of land, produce most of their food for 30 adults and 20 children :D in ecological way.

After this blog entry i'll head to an organic farm in Wales, this is the last day in england ;)

London and first days in Ecotopia Biketour

Mare st social centre

WE moved to RatStar Camberwell Social Centre, a recently squatted place... amazing what they have been doing in such short time...

Seb's tandem with Sound system trailer!!!action against BP financing Tate museum - Art not Oil Campaing

in 5 days we built 2 bikes out of pieces we found in DIY bike workshops... Recovered from the garbage...amazing how organized people in projects are...

RatStar

we visited loads of projects and actions, specially 56a, an infoshop and DIT (Do-it-Together) Workshop.. Met Valentina and seb several times...

56a's Bike working day and infoshop

so much to tell and i just have 20 minutes of laptop battery...critical mass in london was pretty incredible... the rocket stove melted yesterday :-/... skipping in london is crazy... squatting is pretty established...

Capitalism isn't working... another world is possible...
plans to build a rocketstove

now i'm in York, for the Toward Carfree Cities Conference, after visiting Clow Beck Eco Centre in Darlington and a community for mental disabled people in Botton.

Critical Mass in London
Biketour first rideEcocentre in Darlingtonfirst biketour dinner with our hosts

back on the adventure

is kind of fun that i never really posted the last day of my trip... in a way i just didn't want to close it...so that official "return to Porto" post will now never be published...

but that's not really what i wanted to write now, with this post i'm now starting a new chapter of this way of "traveliving"... many things happened since I return to Porto, some little travels in the middle, loads of projects... still escaping work... trying to postpone voluntary slavery...

from saturday on we will be travelling again! our fuzzy plan is to hitchhike to London, find a bike there and join Ecotopia Biketour 2010...

this time i doubt i will be making a daily blog, but will try to write something from time to time... this biketour is going to be really intensive, loads of projects to visit, climate action camps, workshops and conferences... you can see the planed route in: http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/route

resistance is fertile ;)

in PORTO

OK.... i'm back "home", althought right now i feell my tent and my bike more a home than this one.... will try to update last days in some days and give more news...

(i forgot my scellphone in a coffee in Pocinho so don't try to contact me... but i want to meet my friends around here now!!!!!)

finally starting

after some hesitation and delays to start this trip... I'm on my way to start a different trip in my life... i'm starting on the 3rd of November, in direction of south (to have a little help of the northern winds ;)

I've started a trip without limit on time or space (at least not a very short one) on my bicycle and any other mean of transportation that carry both of us despite the plane (after taking a self pledge not to use these exorbitant "form of transport" that kills the earth and possible relations better perceived when in slower motion... some reason not to use the plane http://www.lowflyzone.org)

thanks everyone who helped me in starting this trip...

i will try to post where i am and what I've been doing... will try to post at least one picture of everyday (the ones who explain the best moments of that day) everytime i can and i didn't forget to take pictures of it (I'm not a very avid photographer)

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