Eco-village occupation London June 6th

Hel­lo friends,

you may be aware of the eco-vil­lage occu­pa­tion which is being planned for Sat­ur­day June 6th. The idea is to occu­py a dis­used urban site in SW Lon­don near Ham­mer­smith and to start an eco-vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty based on sus­tain­able meth­ods of liv­ing such as veg­etable grow­ing, com­post toi­lets the works. There is a press release below- please can you dis­trib­ute it to all and sundry and tell every­one you know who would want to know that this thing is going down or up? (depend­ing on which way you look at it 😎

Hel­lo friends,

you may be aware of the eco-vil­lage occu­pa­tion which is being planned for Sat­ur­day June 6th. The idea is to occu­py a dis­used urban site in SW Lon­don near Ham­mer­smith and to start an eco-vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty based on sus­tain­able meth­ods of liv­ing such as veg­etable grow­ing, com­post toi­lets the works. There is a press release below- please can you dis­trib­ute it to all and sundry and tell every­one you know who would want to know that this thing is going down or up? (depend­ing on which way you look at it 😎

The land is every­bodys.

For imme­di­ate release…

Back­ground:

In May 1996, 500 The Land is Ours activists occu­pied 13 acres of derelict land on the banks of the Riv­er Thames in Wandsworth, high­light­ing the mis­use of urban land, the lack of pro­vi­sion of afford­able hous­ing and the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of the urban envi­ron­ment. That action grew into far more than just a sim­ple land rights action.

A com­mu­ni­ty grew up on the site called Pure Genius!! over the 5½ months that the occu­pa­tion last­ed for.….

Then and now:

“Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars” Mar­tin Luther King.

In the first three months of 2009, near­ly 13,000 Britons lost their home to repos­ses­sions. Now, per­haps more than ever, the ideas of peace­ful land recla­ma­tion and eco-vil­lages are becom­ing rec­og­nized as the solu­tion to prob­lems such as over­crowd­ing in cities and the destruc­tion of the land due to harm­ful agri­cul­tur­al prac­tices.

Action:

In the spir­it of Pure Genius, On June 6th 2009, hun­dreds of activists will con­verge on a piece of derelict land close by to Ham­mer­smith in south west Lon­don to cre­ate an eco-vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty based entire­ly on sus­tain­able tech­nol­o­gy and con­struc­tion tech­niques.

Come and be a part of this eco-vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty.

Inspired:

This eco-vil­lage occu­pa­tion is inspired by cam­paigns like The Land is Ours which cam­paigns peace­ful­ly for access to the land, its resources, and the deci­sion-mak­ing process­es affect­ing them, for every­one, irre­spec­tive of race, gen­der or age. for more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it:

www.tlio.org.uk

Meet-up:

The exact loca­tion of the site will be revealed on the day. The meet up point is at Water­loo Sta­tion (under the clock in the mid­dle of the sta­tion) at 10AM on Sat­ur­day 6th June. Please try to be on time as we don’t want to be hang­ing around all morn­ing.

If you would like to speak to some­one regard­ing the cam­paign or the occu­pa­tion, please con­tact Car­olyn on: 01727 812369 or Gareth on: 07515 166011 or email: diggers360@yahoo.co.uk