{"id":11884,"date":"2016-05-14T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:12:49","slug":"ben-westwood-visits-guildford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/2016\/05\/14\/ben-westwood-visits-guildford-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Westwood visits Guildford University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Guildford University at the request of Malcolm Darko to give a talk to the students there as a part of the \u2018Intellectuals Unite\u2019 campaign.<br \/>\nI decided that I would speak about the main campaigns that I &amp; Climate Revolution have been involved in &amp; why.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigns I spoke about all deal with countering the lies &amp; misinformation being told to us by the ruling elite, corporations &amp; the mainstream media, the \u2018official story\u2019. Lies whose intent is to keep telling us that everything is alright, that the world is being run correctly &amp; that we should trust those in authority, let them get on with their business &amp; not interfere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11888 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Guildford-university.jpg\" alt=\"Guildford-university\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Unfortunately the damage being caused by this \u2018business\u2019 is now staring us more &amp; more in the face &amp; if we don\u2019t act against it billions of people will suffer &amp; potentially die.<br \/>\nThe first campaign I mentioned was manmade Climate Change as this is of course mankind\u2019s biggest responsibility &amp; concern for the future &amp; it is within this issue that most of the other campaigns fit. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/globalwarming.berrens.nl\/globalwarming.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Global Warming, our future<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/globalwarming.berrens.nl\/globalwarming.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After this I mentioned the campaigns against Fracking, against drilling for oil in the Arctic, against industrial fishing &amp; polluting the Oceans &amp; about the efforts to save the rainforests of the world.<br \/>\nOther campaigns I mentioned were the ones against TTIP or the Transatlantic Trade &amp; Investment Pact, the campaign to support Julian Assange whose website Wikileaks has given us the true facts behind the \u2018official story\u2019. The campaign against imprisonment without trial or charge epitomised by the US military base Guantanamo &amp; in which we successfully managed to secure the release of Shaker Aamer who had been held there for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned the support for the Junior Doctors dispute currently taking place &amp; finished off with the \u2018Politicians Are Criminals\u2019 campaign which we instigated here at Westwood &amp; which seeks to illustrate the true state of affairs in the modern world &amp; the importance of finding out information for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I impressed on the students the importance of taking part in the affairs of the world themselves &amp; about the effectiveness of campaigning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Guildford University at the request of Malcolm Darko &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/2016\/05\/14\/ben-westwood-visits-guildford-university\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading: Ben Westwood visits Guildford University\" >Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11889,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climaterevolution.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}