Bristol Actions in Solidarity with Rising Tide’s Call to Action: August-September 2007

GOLF COURSES
Parts of 3 golf cours­es were dug up: Tra­cy Park, Wick; Knowle, Stock­wood; and Fil­ton. In Knowle a mes­sage was sprayed up near the club house read­ing “Deca­dent waste of water”.

MOBILE PHONE MAST
A mobile phone mast at Broomhill, Bris­ling­ton, was sab­o­taged.

NON-PASSENGER RAILWAY LINE
The sin­gle track rail­way line that runs from the Roy­al Port­bury Dock in Avon­mouth to Par­son Street in Bed­min­ster was sab­o­taged. This non-pas­sen­ger line trans­ports cars and fos­sil fuel to the Mid­lands. In a wood­ed area on a straight sec­tion of the line the track was cut three quar­ters of the way through in two places and marked with high vis­i­bil­i­ty paint. A warn­ing ban­ner read­ing: “Stop: Trees on line” was fixed across the line sev­er­al hun­dred yards in front of this on the line. A pile of wood was placed across the line next to the dam­aged part.

This held up the trans­porta­tion of cars for only half an hour, but the repair to the line took at least anoth­er 4 hours.

4x4s
with­in the last 6 months both front tyres punc­tured on 40 4x4s in and around Bris­tol.

A “cor­po­rate enter­tain­ment” com­pa­ny called 4‑Play, which pro­vides off road dri­ving for 4x4s in the south west, had vehi­cles spray paint­ed “4‑play — blow-job the plan­et”.