Tara’s Last Stand?

vio­lence on tara
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Tara’s Last Stand?

An open let­ter to all who are inter­est­ed in the defence of the earth and the stand­ing-up to pow­er.
Please for­ward, copy, or cir­cu­late.

Place: Tara Val­ley, Hill of Tara, Coun­ty Meath, Repub­lic of Ire­land
Time: NOW

His­to­ry: Tara Hill and Val­ley are part of an ancient tem­ple com­plex of earth­works, henges, raths (forts), and souter­rains (under­ground tomb cham­bers). Many of the works pre-date the pyra­mids. Tara was used as the crown­ing place of the old high kings of Ire­land. It is still in use for cer­e­monies today, and is par­tic­u­lar­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Samhain (Hallowe’en).

Threat: The Irish gov­ern­ment have sanc­tioned a route through the Tara val­ley of the M3 motor­way. This road will be tolled, is the least-favourable of the five options avail­able accord­ing to prin­ci­ples of road-build­ing and eco­nom­ic sense, will ’save’ fif­teen min­utes of time to the M50 bot­tle­neck (British M25 equiv­a­lent) dur­ing the morn­ing rush hour to Dublin, and is being sit­ed on a stretch of road that is not even that busy. A gigan­tic com­plex of shop­ping malls is planned at an inter­change, due to be sit­ed 1000 yards from the Hill of Tara. Many ancient mon­u­ments have already been destroyed. Many more new and unusu­al find­ings DUG UP DURING THE EXCAVATION OF THE LAND FOR THE ROAD have been either record­ed by record’ (ie made a note of in a book and destroyed) or are being stored in ware­hous­es. Such ancient arte­facts dug up include human bones from old graves.

Actions to date: Around ten to twelve reg­u­lar peo­ple have tak­en it in shifts for the past year in keep­ing an unbro­ken vig­il fire and camp burn­ing on Tara Hill. These peo­ple have held up the progress of the road by direct action, includ­ing dig­ger-div­ing thus far.

Cur­rent Sit­u­a­tion: The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment (EU) has told the Irish Gov­ern­ment that the work they are doing is ille­gal and to cease imme­di­ate­ly. Just after this was announced in the press, many more dig­gers and machines were sent, on Wednes­day July 18th, to a mon­u­ment on the site known as ‘Soldier’s Hill’ for the road com­pa­ny to estab­lish a com­pound. Hav­ing recruit­ed many more dri­vers, and turned them into nom­i­nal secu­ri­ty guards for the day, the com­pa­ny deployed its staff to aggres­sive­ly remove all pro­tes­tors from site. Sev­en pro­tes­tors were arrest­ed for not fol­low­ing a policeman‘s orders and pub­lic order offences. Three were bailed at 500 Euros, with the con­di­tion they cease to go to the sites to protest. A fur­ther four refused those bail con­di­tions and were remand­ed on a week’s cus­tody at Clover Hill prison, Dublin, until a court case pend­ing Wednes­day July 25th. Inter­net footage of the high lev­els of vio­lence utilised by the road company’s men sur­prised even the long-term cam­paign­ers at Ross­port, used to deal­ing with such intim­i­da­tion.

The Last Stand: A court case is pend­ing in the EU court, but the road com­pa­ny, aim­ing to save on much lost time and mon­ey has start­ed a big push, and has now reached the part of the route where a gigan­tic WOODHENGE was unearthed dur­ing the exca­va­tion. This site is cur­rent­ly being ‘record­ed by record’ by state-appoint­ed archae­ol­o­gists. Their work is SAID to need anoth­er two to three weeks to com­plete. The EU court case is due mid-to-late August The Henge is look­ing like the site of the last stand. The com­pa­ny has draft­ed in round-the-clock secu­ri­ty. The Irish Police has said it will arrest any­one found on site, even if they are mere­ly mount­ing a peace­ful protest. The road com­pa­ny and the Irish Gov­ern­ment have con­tin­ued destroy­ing mon­u­ments, even before the ‘record­ing by record’ process has fin­ished. There are cur­rent­ly around ten to twen­ty pro­tes­tors on site.

A Plea: If any­one out there has it in their heart, time, space, trip, what­ev­er to come and lend a hand, the fol­low­ing three gen­er­al areas would love to be catered for:

1. DIRECT ACTION: any­one with any expe­ri­ence of, enjoy­ment in doing and a con­tin­ued desire to do lock­ing-on, tree-house build­ing, rope­way-sling­ing and so on are instruct­ed to make their way to the site as soon as pos­si­ble. This plea is espe­cial­ly direct­ed to those who are part of the vic­to­ri­ous Nine Ladies camp in Der­byshire, who may be at a loose end and may want to get involved in this action. It may only last a month, one way or the oth­er. Although Irish police has said it will arrest any­one on site, there is still the pos­si­bil­i­ty of dig­ger-div­ing and road-block­ing, pro­vid­ed the num­bers are increased.

2. MAGIC ACTION: as part of a psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare front, music, dance, song, par­ty­ing and all the rest of it are very wel­come at this time. This is not only a call for Direct Action peo­ple. The fes­ti­val of Lugh­nasa (Lam­mas or Har­vest Fes­ti­val) starts on Wednes­day August 1st and it is intend­ed to hold cer­e­mo­ny, play games, sing, recite poet­ry, and have a par­ty in the woods, from then and through­out the week­end of July 3rd to 5th, and on and on. Even if you can only make it over for a few days, do come for the par­ty any­way!

3. PRACTICAL ACTION: All man­ner of kitchen work­ers, camp-clean­ers, fire-ten­ders- you-name-it-ers, what­ev­er it takes to main­tain a decent camp. There are always things to do, and there are not real­ly enough there yet to make the stand that is required.

THE NUMBERS GAME:

Expe­ri­enced Direct Action pro­tes­tors reck­on that a good stand could be made at the Henge if there are AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE THERE. If there are TWO HUNDRED, then the posi­tion is that much stronger, while THREE HUNDRED would, it is reck­oned, tip the bal­ance against the road com­pa­ny.

In order for the road to be stopped, AS MANY AS POSSIBLE are plead­ed with to help in any way they can, to come to Tara AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Oth­er­wise, it may be too late.

Thank you for your time.

We Hope to See you on the Hill

yours, in love of the land,

THE FIANNA FAERY (Sol­diers of Faery)
TARA BRIGADE
HILL OF TARA