Weird Load visits leafy Chiswick

23.02.2008
After Jan­u­ary’s thou­sand strong meet­ing against Heathrow expan­sion, protest con­tin­ues apace.

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23.02.2008
After Jan­u­ary’s thou­sand strong meet­ing against Heathrow expan­sion, protest con­tin­ues apace.

This week saw a 50,000 leaflet door­drop, and today local cam­paign­ers were joined by Baroness von Reichardt, part­ner Mr Spunky and mem­bers of her World Famous Treat­ment Rooms.

WEIRD LOAD

Sat­ur­day morn­ing shop­pers — more accus­tomed to bump­ing into Richard Briers or Ant’n’Dec than an anar­chist art troop — were hand­ed leaflets head­lined “Last Chance to Stop This”, encour­age­ment to turn up and show their oppo­si­tion at West­min­ster’s Cen­tral Hall this Mon­day at 7pm

A straw poll out­side Marks and Spencer indi­cat­ed a like­ly show­ing of around 500 res­i­dents promis­ing to meet up at Turn­ham Green Sta­tion for a mass move on West­min­ster. Past expe­ri­ence of active oppo­si­tion in W4 how­ev­er means that might well be an under­es­ti­mate.

They join res­i­dents from all over Lon­don and the Heathrow vil­lages — 6 coach­es have been reserved from Sip­son already — trav­el­ing to hear speak­ers as diverse as Lib Dem top banana Nick Clegg, Green MEP Car­o­line Lucas, Cli­mate Change guru Mark Lynas and Plane Stu­pid­’s Leo Mur­ray.

This is a bat­tle that can and will be won by the peo­ple, but only if the peo­ple act togeth­er. Do every­thing you can to be there on Mon­day and show the gov­ern­ment and the cor­po­ra­tions what they’re tru­ly up against.