Bilston Glen Protest Site update, spring 2004

Here’s a short update from our camp:

Here at Bil­ston Glen Anti-Bypass Protest Site we get more sort­ed for every day that pass­es by. More defences are com­ing up con­stant­ly and the stan­dard of the camp is steadi­ly improv­ing. We have a new kitchen, a new info-space, a well sort­ed and cosy com­mu­nal, a new guest house and a new show­er. We’re cur­rent­ly build­ing a huge com­mu­nal tree-house and some oth­er tree-hous­es are also under­way. For three months we’ve been orga­niz­ing “Sun­day Free Cafes” (open days) the first sun­day every month, which we intend to con­tin­ue with. Spring is here, the birds are singing and the leaves are com­ing out, we’re look­ing for­ward to the sum­mer. The 1–4 of July we’re invit­ing like-mind­ed for a green anar­chist gath­er­ing to dis­cuss how to fight the mega­ma­chine and learn prim­i­tive skills.

The plan­ning per­mis­sion for the road is still there. PPL, the com­pa­ny who where gonna finance the road have gone bust (way-hey!) though, so as it looks now it’s up to the local coun­cil to pay for the road. But PPL has been bought up by Bay­er, the enor­mous bio-tech mon­ster, so they might very well finance the road. Cen­tral gov­ern­ment mon­ey might also come in as Tony & co want to see the biggest bio-tech clus­ter in Europe here out­side of Edin­burgh, and a road for the trans­ports to and from it.

So we still want and need more peo­ple to fight against this part of the hor­ri­ble destruc­tion of our world. You and every­one else who sup­port us is very wel­come to join us!

Save Bil­ston Glen! No More Roads! For a life wild and free!

by Bamse, part of the Bil­ston Glen col­lec­tive

e‑mail: info@bilstonglen-abs.org.uk
Home­page: http://www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk