Two Hundred attend Camp and Rally

Some 200 peo­ple attend­ed the “Stop the Road” Camp & Ral­ly in Combe Haven on 29/30 Sep­tem­ber, cel­e­brat­ing the beau­ty of the val­ley and enjoy­ing an amaz­ing week­end of speech­es, work­shops, shad­ow pup­petry, children’s the­atre, sto­ry-telling, camp­fires, local music and great food. A big thank you to every­one who donat­ed their time, ener­gy, mon­ey and / or veg­eta­bles to the cause, and helped make it such a great event!

The Camp saw the launch of the “Stop the Road – Save Our Val­ley” pledge. You can down­load a copy of the Pledge here.

See below for more pic­tures from the Camp.

An excel­lent film about the event by local jour­nal­ist Jake Bow­ers:

 

Media cov­er­age extend­ed to the nation­al press, with both the Dai­ly Mail and the Sun­day Times (see below) – both run­ning arti­cles link­ing the Camp’s prepa­ra­tions for future direct action with George Osborne’s plans to build hun­dreds of new roads around the UK – and a let­ter from the Defend­ers in the Guardian.

Oth­er cov­er­age includ­ed BBC Sus­sex, ITV Merid­i­an, and local cov­er­age on the Hast­ings [1] and Bex­hill Observ­er web-sites [1] [2]

Cov­er­age in the Sun­day Times

Defend­er Emi­ly Johns and bad­ger friend wel­come walk­ers to the Camp on the Sat­ur­day

Renowned envi­ron­men­tal cam­paign­er John Stew­art leads a work­shop on “How to Stop a Road”

Local group Las Pasion­ar­ias con­tributed some rous­ing musi­cal songs.

Intense dis­cus­sions took place in work­shops on cam­paign strat­e­gy and direct action