Green wedgers strike again

PRESS RELEASE: 9TH MARCH
VANDALISM ESCALATES AGAINST GREEN WEDGE DEVELOPMENT

Over the week­end the green wedgers struck again, this time against the future devel­op­ers of the green wedge:

Sum­mer­field Devel­op­ment
Taunt­field
South Road
Taunton
Som­er­set
TA1 3ND
Tel: 01823 257961

We climbed over the pathet­ic excuse for a gate pro­ceed­ing to glue the door lock, spray paint slo­gans such as ‘hands off vivary wedge’ ‘cut the con­tract’ and ‘scum’ before paint strip­ping a car that was left there. Hope­ful­ly the vehi­cle belonged to an exec­u­tive of the com­pa­ny, either way we expect them to pick up the bill for it.

Since the ‘pub­lic debate’ con­cern­ing the green wedge has closed all that is now left is direct action. No longer will we leave our trust in coun­cils and politi­cians that have for too long failed our com­mu­ni­ty. Our inten­tion is for the com­pa­ny to end their involve­ment with the project due to the sub­stan­tial costs in clear­ing up the mess, thus can­cel­ing the plans to build on our green land. These com­pa­nies care more about their pock­ets than the envi­ron­ment so that is where we will hit them.

How­ev­er for Coun­cilor Ross Hen­ley to say we are ‘dam­ag­ing the envi­ron­ment’ with our actions is an attempt to detract atten­tion away from the envi­ron­ment he is plan­ning to destroy! Fur­ther more our eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage is far from point­less; rather it is an effec­tive non-vio­lent tac­tic recog­nised with­in social move­ments.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with ALF and ELF pris­on­ers, we will be back.