Bristol Solidarity With Vesta Occupation

A wide selec­tion of peo­ple: Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide, Respect Par­ty, Bris­tol Anar­chist Book­fair, FBU, UNITE, Decom­mis­sion­ers and Bris­tol Co-Mutiny took part in a Sol­i­dar­i­ty Demo Out­side the Envi­ron­ment Agency, today, Tues­day 4th August.

Bristol solidarity demo for VestasA wide selec­tion of peo­ple: Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide, Respect Par­ty, Bris­tol Anar­chist Book­fair, FBU, UNITE, Decom­mis­sion­ers and Bris­tol Co-Mutiny took part in a Sol­i­dar­i­ty Demo Out­side the Envi­ron­ment Agency, today, Tues­day 4th August.

On Tues­day 4th August, pro­test­ers descend­ed on the Bris­tol Head­quar­ters of the Envi­ron­ment Agency in Aztec West car­ry­ing wind­mills and ban­ners to sup­port the action of Ves­tas work­ers who have occu­pied the St Cross wind tur­bine fac­to­ry on the Isle of Wight for the last two weeks because of plans to close the site with the imme­di­ate loss of 600 jobs

The work­ers are ask­ing that the gov­ern­ment — who have pledged £100bn towards renew­able ener­gy — nation­alise the fac­to­ry to save it from shut­ting. On the 4th August the Ves­tas com­pa­ny are going to court to evict the work­ers.

Around 20 peo­ple turned out to sup­port the protest and they hand­ed out fly­ers to staff and chat­ted to them about the Ves­ta Occu­pa­tion. Many of the Envi­ron­men­tal Agency staff sup­port­ed the protest and under­stood the con­cerns of the pro­tes­tors and the rea­son­ing for the Ves­ta occu­pa­tion.