Incinerator Protest Song Aims To Set Charts Ablaze – Global Day of Action

IT WAS MADNESS

Incinerator Protest Song Aims To Set Charts Ablaze – less than a fortnight to iTunes release.

The countdown has started to the release of Scottish-based film-maker Ro J Goodwin’s incinerator protest song on Monday 28 September, 2009.

The song “It Was Madness”, recorded under the name Ro J, is being released to coincide with Global No-Burn Action Day, and will be sold online via iTunes.

Ro J will perform an acoustic version of the song outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Thursday 1 October at 1pm where he will join Scottish Communities gathering to mark No-Burn Action Day.

Join the 2009 Global Day of Action on Waste and Incineration

UKWIN is working in partnership with many others, especially The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives / Global Anti Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) to invite our members and allied groups to join the 8th Global Day of Action against Waste and Incineration on September 30, 2009.

About the latest anti-incineration song, Ro J said:

I wrote this song to spread far and wide the insanity of burning our waste, and to help communities faced with a fight like our own in Invergordon. We want lots of people to buy it, and help to set the charts on fire!

Ro J’s song is a folk/rock song inspired by the campaign he successfully helped to fight in his hometown of Invergordon in the Scottish Highlands, with truly impassioned lyrics and a memorable folk tune likened to ‘a rocking Cat Stevens with a cause’.

…keep up the good work!!

- Richard Jobson, TV Presenter & Film Director

Ro is a stalwart…this song could go on to be the ‘universal anthem’ against incineration.

- Catherine Richmond, Leader, Invergordon Campaign Group

A delightfully well written account of looking at the consequences of our actions before it is indeed too late

- Karen Mackey, Scottish Midwife

A taster is available on http://www.wix.com/itwasmadness/RoJ and CD’s are available on request.

The 2009 Global Day of Action on Waste and Incineration will once again focus on GAIA’s Waste and Climate and Change campaign to strengthen awareness on how wasting contributes to climate change.

We will do this by highlighting the following messages:

• Materials flow in the human system is responsible for more than half of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. To address this, it is necessary to drastically change our production, consumption and disposal habits.
• Dirty Technologies and quick-fix solutions like incineration and landfills do not just contribute to climate change but also impact human health and the environment.
• Zero waste is an essential strategy to combat climate change.

According to the IPCC Fourth Assessment report on Climate Change:

Waste minimization, recycling, and re-use represent an important and increasing potential for indirect reduction of GHG emissions through the conservation or raw materials, improved energy and resource efficiency and fossil fuel avoidance.

Hence the theme: “Zero Waste for Zero Warming”

To register your activities for the Global Day of Action (GDA) visit the GAIA website