Author: earthfirst

New Year Destruction at the Hill of Tara, Ireland

In fla­grent con­tempt of best archae­o­log­i­cal and eco­log­i­cal prac­tice, a sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign of tree felling, earth clear­ance and mon­u­ment removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is even before the Pub­lic Pri­vate Part­ner­ship (PPP) con­tract for the M3 Motor­way, through the Tara / Skryne Val­ley, has even been signed. Dai­ly protests are tak­ing place, every 7am in the morn­ing at the Hill of Tara car park.

In fla­grent con­tempt of best archae­o­log­i­cal and eco­log­i­cal prac­tice, a sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign of tree felling, earth clear­ance and mon­u­ment removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is even before the Pub­lic Pri­vate Part­ner­ship (PPP) con­tract for the M3 Motor­way, through the Tara / Skryne Val­ley, has even been signed. Dai­ly protests are tak­ing place, every 7am in the morn­ing at the Hill of Tara car park.

The sit­u­a­tion at Rath Lugh: Rath Lugh is “ownedâ€? by Coillte, the State Forestry Board. Native trees are being sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly felled, even though Rath Lugh is a des­ig­nat­ed nation­al mon­u­ment, and strate­gi­cal­ly placed as part of the defen­sive for­ti­fi­ca­tions at Tara, on the north­ern slope of the Skyrne Val­ley. A new area is being worked just behind Lis­mullen. There are oth­er wood­ed areas between Rath Lugh and Blun­del­stown. It is vital that these be pre­served from the van­dal­ism that has already been per­pe­trat­ed. Coillte is legal­ly oblig­ed to pro­tect nation­al mon­u­ments on land in its care.  http://tarawatch.org/?p=234 Coillte’s con­tempt for the archae­o­log­i­cal sites on the land it over­sees has already been dis­played in the case of the Mooghaun hill­fort, which has been dam­aged by Coillte’s plant­i­ng of conifer trees there. Mooghaun hill­fort (Moghane in Irish), locat­ed in Co. Clare, is thought to be the largest hill­fort in Ire­land. Built c.1260–930 B.C., it is sit­u­at­ed “on a low hillock in a fair­ly gen­tly undu­lat­ing land­scape of good agri­cul­tur­al land dot­ted with many small lakesâ€? Gro­gan 1993: 39  http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0392/D.0392.198910240071.html

Coillte is a state body; it is, how­ev­er, behav­ing as if it were a pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion, enti­tled to dis­pose of its “propertyâ€? as it sees fit. Again, Coillte’s record speaks for itself. In March 2001, Coillte approved the sale of 250 acres of land at Bel­lan­aboy, Co Mayo for the Cor­rib Gas Ter­mi­nal. In Decem­ber of 2004 the remain­ing area of 160 hectares was sold by Coillte to Shell for €2.75 mil­lion. Sub­se­quent­ly Coillte grant­ed Shell “wayleaveâ€? per­mis­sion to build a high-pres­sure raw gas pipeline through 3km of adja­cent Coillte land at Augh­oose, Co Mayo.  http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=439
Coillte over­sees more than 1.5 mil­lion acres on behalf of the State, so the stakes are high.

The sit­u­a­tion at Baron­stown:
Baron­stown lies in the heart of the Tara-Skyrne Val­ley, and has been described by the Archae­ol­o­gists who under­took the Dis­cov­ery Pro­gramme sur­vey at Tara as a Nation­al Mon­u­ment. It was how­ev­er, exclud­ed from the Envi­ron­men­tal Impact State­ment (EIS). There is grow­ing evi­dence of improp­er exca­va­tion meth­ods by the pri­vate archae­o­log­i­cal com­pa­nies over­seen by the Nation­al Roads Author­i­ty. Plas­tic bags con­tain­ing bones, lack­ing num­bers or mark­ings, are being found lying in ran­dom places. This in itself is proof of inad­e­quate archae­o­log­i­cal super­vi­sion.  http://tarawatch.org/?p=289

The sit­u­a­tion at Col­lier­stown: Again this was not­ed by the Dis­cov­ery Pro­gramme as being wor­thy of des­ig­na­tion as a Nation­al Mon­u­ment, but was exclud­ed from the EIS. It is a bur­ial site, with many graves of rec­tan­gu­lar shape, edged with stone slabs. These appear to be children’s graves.  http://tarawatch.org/?p=273

The sit­u­a­tion at Roestown:
Here, a com­plex of bee­hive souter­rains has been removed. Anoth­er has been new­ly dis­cov­ered, yet is short­ly to be removed. Tree felling has already occurred.  http://tarawatch.org/?p=304
All of this van­dal­ism is pos­si­ble because the Min­is­ter for the Envi­ron­ment has scrapped the her­itage pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions in Irish law, and sub­sti­tut­ed an Act grant­i­ng him the pow­er to issue licens­es for unsu­per­vised archae­o­log­i­cal exca­va­tion of des­ig­nat­ed sites. Under this con­ven­tion, a host of licens­es have been issued for exca­va­tions in the Tara / Skryne Val­ley.  http://www.sacredireland.org/gallery.html These pic­tures give an indi­ca­tion of the dam­age that occurred in 2005:
The dig­gers move in:  http://www.sacredireland.org/12don.html
Earth Removal:  http://www.sacredireland.org/22don.html
 http://www.sacredireland.org/27don.html
 http://www.sacredireland.org/28don.html  http://www.sacredireland.org/24don.html
The bones of the dead:  http://www.sacredireland.org/bone.html
More exca­va­tor activ­i­ty:  http://www.sacredireland.org/12.html  http://www.sacredireland.org/13.html
Top­soil exca­va­tions:  http://www.sacredireland.org/3.html  http://www.sacredireland.org/18.html  http://www.sacredireland.org/digger.html

Camp Bling at ‘Prittlewel King’ awards

17.01.2007

Southend ‘May­or’ can­cels F5 road widen­ing at ‘Prit­tlewell King’ award cel­e­bra­tions

The cam­paign against the con­tro­ver­sial A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent ‘F5’ road widen­ing scheme took yet anoth­er dra­mat­ic new turn tonight, when dozens of local res­i­dents ‘stormed’ a cel­e­bra­tion at the town’s Clu­ni­ac Pri­o­ry to mark Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil receiv­ing the cov­et­ed British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards 2006 ‘Current Archae­ol­o­gy Devel­op­er-Fun­der Archae­ol­o­gy Award,’ for the dis­cov­ery of the ‘King of Bling,’ in Prit­tlewell in late 2003.

17.01.2007

Southend ‘May­or’ can­cels F5 road widen­ing at ‘Prit­tlewell King’ award cel­e­bra­tions

The cam­paign against the con­tro­ver­sial A127/A1159 Pri­o­ry Cres­cent ‘F5’ road widen­ing scheme took yet anoth­er dra­mat­ic new turn tonight, when dozens of local res­i­dents ‘stormed’ a cel­e­bra­tion at the town’s Clu­ni­ac Pri­o­ry to mark Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil receiv­ing the cov­et­ed British Archae­o­log­i­cal Awards 2006 ‘Current Archae­ol­o­gy Devel­op­er-Fun­der Archae­ol­o­gy Award,’ for the dis­cov­ery of the ‘King of Bling,’ in Prit­tlewell in late 2003.

Amid chaot­ic scenes, Coun­cil­lors and Dig­ni­taries attend­ing the cel­e­bra­tion received a speech from Southend ‘Mayor’ John Smith, who apol­o­gised on behalf of the Coun­cil for their inten­tion to destroy the East Sax­on king’s bur­ial site, promised to return the award received last Octo­ber in Birm­ing­ham, and then dra­mat­i­cal­ly announced the imme­di­ate can­cel­la­tion of the F5 road widen­ing, after hav­ing, ‘finally lis­tened to and tak­en note of the major­i­ty of peo­ple in Southend who have been shown repeat­ed­ly to oppose the scheme.’

Local res­i­dent Pat­sy Link who joined the demon­stra­tors said, ‘This award pre­sent­ed to Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil is said to cel­e­brate the mer­its of devel­op­er fund­ed archae­ol­o­gy, which in the case of the dis­cov­ery of the bur­ial has pro­vid­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to rewrite his­to­ry. Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil now has a site to rival the Sut­ton Hoo ship bur­ial in Suf­folk, but still seeks to bury it under 10 feet of con­crete for the road widen­ing. To cel­e­brate then destroy it is noth­ing short of sheer luna­cy on the part of the peo­ple here tonight at the Priory.’

A deci­sion to fund the road widen­ing has been await­ed from the Depart­ment for Trans­port since a local Pub­lic Inquiry took place in March 2004. Infor­ma­tion from the East of Eng­land Region­al Part­ner­ship Group shows that costs have now risen to an esti­mat­ed £25m for the 870 metre length of car­riage­way, mak­ing it poten­tial­ly, ‘The most expen­sive stretch of road in the world.’

In the mean time local protest site Camp Bling still occu­pies the land above the bur­ial, 4 as it has for six­teen months since first being set up by locals in Sep­tem­ber 2005. It is rumoured that one of the deep­est protest tun­nel sys­tems ever known has since been dug to help defend the camp, and num­bers have grown sig­nif­i­cant­ly as the fund­ing deci­sion is await­ed.

Mabel Jones of Prit­tlewell said, ‘If the local Coun­cil and cen­tral Gov­ern­ment per­ceive that this cam­paign is only about a hand­ful of peo­ple against the road scheme then they need to think again and quick­ly. Tonight has shown that a large cross sec­tion of the local com­mu­ni­ty are not just against the scheme, but will active­ly attempt to stop it if the fund­ing go ahead is now given.’

 http://blingblog.bravejournal.com/

Thrupp Lake (Radley Oxfordshire) update

There were once nine lakes…

Local peo­ple have joined forces with ecol­o­gists and envi­ron­men­tal activists in a pledge to save Thrupp Lake (at Radley, near Oxford), fol­low­ing a deci­sion by Npow­er boss­es to dump 500,000 tonnes of fly-ash on to the site.

There were once nine lakes…

Local peo­ple have joined forces with ecol­o­gists and envi­ron­men­tal activists in a pledge to save Thrupp Lake (at Radley, near Oxford), fol­low­ing a deci­sion by Npow­er boss­es to dump 500,000 tonnes of fly-ash on to the site.

Thrupp lake is a nature reserve as des­ig­nat­ed by Oxford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil, with many rare plants, insects and ani­mals includ­ing water voles and otters.

The plan is to cut down over 1,000 trees so that Npow­er can drain then fill the lake with 500,000 tonnes of tox­ic waste ash from the near­by Did­cot Pow­er Sta­tion. The waste ash is pul­verised fly-ash which can be recy­cled and used in var­i­ous build­ing prod­ucts such as cement and breeze blocks. Past study found traces of many nas­ties includ­ing Polo­ni­um 210!

Npow­er have already destroyed sev­en oth­er lakes in the imme­di­ate area. The locals have been try­ing to save the lakes for many years using all legal means and have failed. Their lat­est chal­lenge is to get the lake des­ig­nat­ed to vil­lage green sta­tus, which would save the lake. How­ev­er, Npow­er have said they will begin work BEFORE this appli­ca­tion will even be heard in court! The locals have wel­comed us with open arms to fight this along­side them.

As part of this, our group occu­pied an emp­ty prop­er­ty on the shore of the lake on Decem­ber 28th with a view to pro­tect the lake and using all non-vio­lent means to resist evic­tion (Lock-on’s and bar­ri­cades etc), whilst also open­ing the build­ing up (com­pul­sary pur­chased by Npow­er) as a field cen­ter for the study of the local ecol­o­gy.

Recent News: Npow­er took us to Coun­ty Court on 10th Jan­u­ary to gain a repos­ses­sion order to evict us, how­ev­er, they did not expect us to have such a great legal team behind us. The order for repos­ses­sion was thrown out as the papers were ille­gal­ly served to us by Npow­er! Local press
head­line was “Squatters win first roundâ€?. We are in court again Weds. 24th Jan. at the Coun­ty Court in Oxford. We have a bar­ris­ter work­ing on the case and are putting up a stiff legal defense.

At present: We are work­ing on defend­ing the build­ing and record­ing and pho­tograph­ing the local ecol­o­gy (we need proof that cer­tain species inhab­it the area as part of the defense). We are still in LEGAL pos­ses­sion of the build­ing and we have mas­sive local sup­port. The house is mas­sive and the lake is absolute­ly beau­ti­ful.

HOW YOU CAN HELP : Vis­it us! Remem­ber we are in legal pos­ses­sion and you are allowed to stay. Stay with us to defend the build­ing if we get evict­ed, or come to do some ecol­o­gy work. Bring your friends! (You may even see the Radley Lake Pen­guin!). Bring us things we need off our ‘Wish
List’. Come and sup­port us in court on the 24th – bring ban­ners etc.

Catch the train to Radley sta­tion (one stop from Oxford), and it is about a fif­teen minute walk to the site. For direc­tions ring the site mobile.
SITE MOBILE NUMBER IS: 07772 0553 384

For more infor­ma­tion see www.saveradleylakes.org.uk or check out our progress on UK Indy­media or Indy­media Oxford.

Watch the video (video/x‑msvideo 34MB)

WISH LIST
Food, Fur­ni­ture, Blan­kets, Duvets, Sleep­ing Bags, Water­proofs, Lad­ders,
Buck­ets, Kitchen knives and cut­lery, plates etc., Rope and Polyprop, Nuts,
bolts, Nails, Screws, Wire mesh, Tools, Span­ners, wrench­es, Sock­et sets,
Bot­tled Water (1 ltr), Ban­ners, Paint, Shov­el, Tim­ber for build­ing, Cable
ties, Climb­ing Carib­i­neers for lock-on’s, Chains, 45 gal­lon oil drums,
Fake ani­mal Fur (Yes thats right),Cash, YOU!

UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE TARGETED BY ANTI-VIVISECTION ACTIVISTS

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“Aberys­t­wyth Uni­ver­si­ty and the Insti­tute of Grass­lands and Envi­ron­men­tal Research (IGER) car­ry out cru­el and point­less tests on ani­mals.

Welsh activists have there­fore been busy with the foll­wing actions to try and per­suade them they should end their involve­ment with ani­mal test­ing alto­geth­er.

anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“Aberys­t­wyth Uni­ver­si­ty and the Insti­tute of Grass­lands and Envi­ron­men­tal Research (IGER) car­ry out cru­el and point­less tests on ani­mals.

Welsh activists have there­fore been busy with the foll­wing actions to try and per­suade them they should end their involve­ment with ani­mal test­ing alto­geth­er.

Japan­ese knotweed is a very destruc­tive weed that spreads very eas­i­ly. Large quan­ti­ties of this was spread over dif­fer­ent parts of the uni­ver­si­ty grounds.

*Over a thou­sand let­ters say­ing “end your involve­ment in vivi­sec­tion” were sent to Aberys­t­wyth Uni­ver­si­ty Freep­ost address

*Butric acid was spread in toi­lets, chang­ing rooms and library
The smell is very hard to remove and boy does it smell

*Over 50 texts were made to uni­ver­si­ty staff home phone num­bers just before a major open day.
When a text reach­es the home phone it con­verts to a sim­u­lat­ed voice mes­sage. It warned of chaos on the open day fol­lowed by oth­er actions.

*Impor­tant peo­ple with­in these insti­tu­tions had mes­sages sprayed in red on their dri­ves and gates.

Also IGER signs were sprayed with red slo­gans.

More impor­tant peo­ple had their per­son­al car details used to apply for lots of car insur­ance quotes includ­ing their home and work phone num­bers and work e‑mails.

Lots more to come until they issue a state­ment say­ing they will stop test­ing on ani­mals.”

LATE NIGHT VISITS FOR NOVARTIS, ASTELLAS EMPLOYEES

received anony­mous­ly:

“Sat­ur­day the 13th Jan­u­ary was unlucky for some. The ALF were out in the dead of night vis­it­ing the homes of those who prof­it from ani­mal abuse at HLS.

Astel­las PA Mar­garet McQuil­lan, 22 Trig­gs Close, Wok­ing, Sur­rey GU22

received anony­mous­ly:

“Sat­ur­day the 13th Jan­u­ary was unlucky for some. The ALF were out in the dead of night vis­it­ing the homes of those who prof­it from ani­mal abuse at HLS.

Astel­las PA Mar­garet McQuil­lan, 22 Trig­gs Close, Wok­ing, Sur­rey GU22
0EJ Tel: 01483 760 058
had all the garages near her spray paint­ed with “num­ber 22 is ani­mal killer”, alf slo­gans and her front door had a pot of red paint thrown all over it.

Novar­tis direc­tor Kevin White, 3 Pip­son Close, Yate­ley, Hants GU46 6JL
had 2 big brick walls sprayed with “num­ber 3 is ani­mal killer” and an alf slo­gan.

Novar­tis employ­ee Christo­pher Gol­un­s­ki, Carthena Dri­ve, Fleet, Hants GU52 7SF Tel: 01252 624 601
had the tyres of the 2 cars on his dri­ve slashed and paint strip­per poured all over them.

Sec­re­tary of Novar­tis UK Pen­sion Trustees Ltd Richard Far­rar of 23 The Bram­bles, Crowthorne, Berks RG45 6EF
had all the tyres of his peo­ple car­ri­er slashed and the vehi­cle cov­ered with paint strip­per.

Novar­tis you are a pri­or­i­ty tar­get for the Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front world­wide. Stop deal­ing with HLS or we will force you to stop by any and all means nec­es­sary. Get ready. The ALF is com­ing after you.

ALF”

Activists stop work on gas pipe line Alltwen, Wales

16th Jan ’07 — At 9am this morn­ing a con­struc­tion site in Alltwen was stormed by activists, climb­ing cranes and lock­ing-on with d‑locks by their necks. Work was stopped on the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline for five and a half hours, adding to the list of recent delays.

Alltwen pipeline protest16th Jan ’07 — At 9am this morn­ing a con­struc­tion site in Alltwen was stormed by activists, climb­ing cranes and lock­ing-on with d‑locks by their necks. Work was stopped on the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline for five and a half hours, adding to the list of recent delays.
The pro­test­ers this morn­ing were met with aggres­sion, one had her cam­era snatched and dam­aged, whilst oth­ers were threat­ened with vio­lence. After one activist climbed a crane, locked on by his neck, the oper­a­tor of the crane then decid­ed to move the crane about, seri­ous­ly endan­ger­ing the activist’s life — watch the video (video/x‑ms-wmv 4.3MB).
Also con­struc­tion work­ers ini­tial­ly kept on using heavy machin­ery on the site despite being advised not to due to health and safe­ty rea­sons.

It is the eighth day that work has been stopped at the Tre­banos camp across the val­ley. Sup­port con­tin­ues to grow for the cam­paign with more num­bers get­ting involved dai­ly.
The pipe, to be 115 miles long rips right through wales, hav­ing dev­as­tat­ing effects on the welsh coun­try­side.
This action is just a small part of a big cam­paign to fight the pipe!
Cur­rent­ly we are occu­py­ing a pub­lic foot­path stop­ping access to the con­struc­tion site in the vil­lage of Tre­banos. We also have a house which is a safe base to do actions from.
Come to wales and be at the front line of britain’s eco-defence! Loads more actions
are planned and more sites too.
con­tact num­bers
07790450747
07733190958

Building to a critical mass, bristol

Just a reminder this is soon,
Can any­one help with putting up addi­tion­al posters? just print them out and stick them up.

Poster here; http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/f/cmposter.doc

What
Crit­i­cal Mass is a month­ly bicy­cle ride to cel­e­brate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.

Just a reminder this is soon,
Can any­one help with putting up addi­tion­al posters? just print them out and stick them up.

Poster here; http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/f/cmposter.doc

What
Crit­i­cal Mass is a month­ly bicy­cle ride to cel­e­brate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.
One Idea is to have com­par­a­tive­ly short (30–40 minute ) rides Bris­tol, hope­ful­ly this will allow us to make our point and com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly with oth­er road users.

When
6:30pm on the last Fri­day of every month. Start­ing on Jan­u­ary the 26th.

Where
Start­ing out­side the Arnolfi­ni, end­ing up at the Hatch­et.

If you would like to help then read about Traf­fic tac­tics http://www.reachoutpub.com/cm/gomass.html and think about what role you can play to make the mass a safe and pos­i­tive expe­ri­ence.

* Bring plen­ty of lights and reflec­tive stuff.

* Print out 2 pages of bike strips and put them on bikes.

* Print out and bring 20 leaflets to hand out on the mass.

More Bris­tol info, maps + posters etc;
http://bristolcm.pbwiki.com/

Gen­er­al CM info:
http://www.critical-mass.info/howto/
http://www.critical-mass.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass

Pipeline protests gather strength

15.01.2007

Active oppo­si­tion is under­way against the South Wales LNG pipeline in three sep­a­rate loca­tions. Objec­tions to Nation­al Grid’s con­tro­ver­sial project are spurred by lack of con­su­la­tion, safe­ty fears, envi­ron­menal issues and cli­mate change con­cerns. Protests grow stronger day by day, sup­port­ed by long term cam­paign­ing, cre­at­ing a spir­it­ed and uni­fied resis­tance.

Pipeline flier15.01.2007

Active oppo­si­tion is under­way against the South Wales LNG pipeline in three sep­a­rate loca­tions. Objec­tions to Nation­al Grid’s con­tro­ver­sial project are spurred by lack of con­su­la­tion, safe­ty fears, envi­ron­menal issues and cli­mate change con­cerns. Protests grow stronger day by day, sup­port­ed by long term cam­paign­ing, cre­at­ing a spir­it­ed and uni­fied resis­tance.

SLOW WALKING

Today saw set­backs to the progress of the South Wales LNG Pipeline for the sec­ond week run­ning. Work was delayed at three sep­a­rate sites along the gigan­tic 115 mile route way, by a grow­ing anti-pipe move­ment. The pipeline is part of a mas­sive Nation­al Grid project to lay a 115-mile pipeline from Mil­ford Haven to Tire­ly in Glouces­ter­shire. The project has sparked con­tro­ver­sy and oppo­si­tion from the onset.

Machin­ery at Tre­banos is denied access by a protest camp upon a pub­lic foot­path. Cur­rent­ly going strong, this has halt­ed work for eight days in a row, much to the ongo­ing frus­tra­tion of Nation­al Grid offi­cials. Active oppo­si­tion first began in Tre­banos last Novem­ber with an occu­pa­tion with­in the pipe itself.

Inspired by this pro­tes­tors in Mil­ford Haven have been camped on a pub­lic foot­path right in the path of the pipe since last Novem­ber.

Mean­while at Cil­frew, res­i­dents are using a walk­ing block­ade along the access road to the site, joined by vol­un­teers from across Britain. This, backed up by a detailed knowl­edge of reg­u­la­tions and the area is prov­ing most effec­tive. Actions are con­tin­u­ing as they have every­day since Thurs­day.

Sup­port­ing writ­ten cam­paigns are at con­stant work to back up the direct actions.

Oppo­nents say their inves­ti­ga­tions have led them to the con­clu­sion that it’s pure­ly prof­it led and dan­ger­ous­ly hasty. By the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive’s own admis­sion there will be a hole in this pipeline dur­ing its life­time. The volatile safe­ty risks, envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion and sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate chaos are the price of Nation­al Grid being left unchecked to line their pock­ets. Cause for a sig­nif­i­cant and ever increas­ing num­ber of cit­i­zens to take action. These include local com­mu­ni­ties the length of the route, cam­paign group Safe Haven Net­work, cli­mate change groups such as Ris­ing Tide and those con­cerned with the des­e­cra­tion of mile after mile of beau­ti­ful land.

This wan­ton destruc­tion of our envi­ron­ment and our basic human rights can­not and will not be allowed to con­tin­ue. The local coun­cil turns a blind eye, hav­ing rid­den roughshod over the very peo­ple who vot­ed them in. Democ­ra­cy has van­ished into the mists. The police have become like Nation­al Grids own secu­ri­ty guards.

This is a bat­tle cry from the val­leys of Wales, come and join us, show the estab­lish­ment they can­not con­tin­ue to ignore us.

These voic­es will not die down. We grow stronger day by day, moral is high and the atmos­phere is over­whelm­ing­ly sup­port­ive. The local com­mu­ni­ty are keep­ing a very warm wel­come in the hill­sides!