Category: Squatting / Free Spaces / Protest Sites

Huntington Lane court papers served – Eviction Imminent

July 12, 2011
The camp site has been served a court notice ear­li­er today with sum­mons for a hear­ing on the 15th of July – this Fri­day.

Court time is @ 10.am, The Telford Coun­ty Court, Telford Square, Malins­gate, Telford,TF3 4JB

July 12, 2011
The camp site has been served a court notice ear­li­er today with sum­mons for a hear­ing on the 15th of July – this Fri­day.

Court time is @ 10.am, The Telford Coun­ty Court, Telford Square, Malins­gate, Telford,TF3 4JB

We are send­ing an URGENT CALL OUT for as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to come down and sup­port us in what­ev­er way they can!

http://defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com

Camp Frack — Weekend of 17th-18th September 2011

Join the resis­tance to the “frack­ing” inva­sion! Stop the mas­sive expan­sion of shale gas extrac­tion in the UK! We need renew­ables and pow­er­down — not anoth­er source of fos­sil fuel!

Join the resis­tance to the “frack­ing” inva­sion! Stop the mas­sive expan­sion of shale gas extrac­tion in the UK! We need renew­ables and pow­er­down — not anoth­er source of fos­sil fuel!

Camp Frack will take place adja­cent to the UK’s first frack­ing oper­a­tions at Sin­gle­ton, near Black­pool (near­est train sta­tion Poul­ton Le Fylde). It will be organ­ised with the sup­port of a local farmer who is pro­vid­ing the land. It will involve locals, grass­roots groups, indi­vid­u­als and NGO’s in work­shops and dis­cus­sions on shale gas and on form­ing effec­tive UK wide resis­tance against it. It will involve rais­ing local aware­ness about the prob­lems with shale gas and an action day of protest against the drilling activ­i­ties cur­rent­ly in progress in the Black­pool area.

More details will be cir­cu­lat­ed in August regard­ing venue etc. To be kept up to date or for any ques­tions email campfrack@gmail.com

on why to oppose frack­ing and poten­tial drilling sites in the UK, see http://nofrackinguk.com/

http://www.campaigncc.org/fracking

The swoop cometh! Glos eco-village:meeting list.

Greet­ings all,

The begin­ning is nigh…

Hope­ful­ly this will be the last meet­ing list, so the next thing you’ll hear from us will be the swoop info.. any­one want­i­ng to help out with the swoop, on the day- please get in con­tact now… Oth­er­wise you’ll only be giv­en short notice as to the date/location etc…

Greet­ings all,

The begin­ning is nigh…

Hope­ful­ly this will be the last meet­ing list, so the next thing you’ll hear from us will be the swoop info.. any­one want­i­ng to help out with the swoop, on the day- please get in con­tact now… Oth­er­wise you’ll only be giv­en short notice as to the date/location etc…

We could do with a few more peo­ple on the ground, with a knowl­edge of the area to help out on the day- So get in touch if you would­n’t mind help­ing to guide peo­ple in, and with some of the organ­i­sa­tion­al aspects on the day and short­ly before the swoop.

I’ll need some help get­ting the mes­sage out a few days before- spread­ing the news through activist networks/list and via SM…

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Wednes­day 13th Glouces­ter @ 1:30pm, Meet in Glouces­ter City, pub or park!
Web 13th… For­est of Dean @ 3pm — Off to the For­est of Dean for a for­age-about and nature walk. We’ll try to spot some Deer, or Wild­boar, as we dis­cuss the project.
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Sat­ur­day 16th Glouces­ter City @ 1:30pm — A con­tin­u­a­tion of last months gueril­la gar­den­ing [see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/06/480854.html ] weath­er per­mit­ting- if not, we’ll go to a park or pub for the meet­ing.
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Wednes­day 20th West Lon­don, var­i­ous sites @ times tba — Net­work­ing with oth­er eco-vil­lages, recruit­ing some extra hands for the day. Core groups mem­bers, want­i­ng to move over short­ly before the swoop of the main site- will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do so then. These peo­ple will then be able to help oth­er mem­bers of the core group, with any geographic/logistical ques­tions that arise on the day. (it is easy to get lost, round ‘ere)
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Get in touch for fur­ther details, and con­tact info…

Oth­er news…
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Rad­i­cal Artists call-out… Any artists/ painters/ decorators/ spray-painter­s/ Art teach­ers want­i­ng to take the class out and do some­thing exciting/ any oth­er cre­ative­ly mind­ed peo­ple at all, want­i­ng to help turn an ugly, unloved space into a vibrant and beau­ti­ful free­space, WE NEED YOUR HELP. Email the address giv­en with “rad­i­cal artist here” (or some­thing sim­i­lar) in your emails title, and come down to help us bring some col­or to an oth­er­wise drea­ry area.
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A plan to join forces with some of the more active wood­land pro­tec­tion cam­paign­ers around Glouces­ter­shire is cur­rent­ly being worked on. Any­one net­worked with local or nation­al wildlife pro­tec­tion groups, for­est con­ser­va­tion activists ‑not of the arm­chair vari­ety- or any oth­er rad­i­cal tree-top-camper, please put me in touch with them regard­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­tect an area of mixed/native wood­land from fur­ther felling.
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I’ve start­ed set­ting up a social media type web­site to allow peo­ple already involved, or inter­est­ed in this project and oth­ers sim­i­lar in nature, to com­mu­ni­cate, share knowl­edge, net­work and col­lab­o­rate on projects ‑it’ll have a forum, media/file shar­ing, wiki, subgroups/ friends fea­tures. I’m look­ing for any­one inter­est­ed in help­ing out with this, I’ve got every­thing I need bar enough time to get a work­able beta up-and-run­ning any-time close to the swoop, so if you’d like to get involved ‑as much, or as lit­tle as you can- drop me an email.
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Peace and Love,

Apok
admin [AT]] apokaluptein [dot]] org [dot]] uk

Stokes Croft Freeshop Eviction

7th July 2011

The pop­u­lar squat­ted Freeshop and attached Empo­ri­um Gallery on Stokes Croft were evict­ed this morn­ing. Bailiffs entered the build­ing with sledge­ham­mers at around 6am, sur­pris­ing the occu­pants, and had man­aged to secure the build­ing before sup­port arrived.

7th July 2011

The pop­u­lar squat­ted Freeshop and attached Empo­ri­um Gallery on Stokes Croft were evict­ed this morn­ing. Bailiffs entered the build­ing with sledge­ham­mers at around 6am, sur­pris­ing the occu­pants, and had man­aged to secure the build­ing before sup­port arrived.

One occu­pant was arrest­ed inside the build­ing. The rest were allowed to leave with a sin­gle per­son­al bag each. Bailiffs, with the full sup­port of the police, then refused to fetch a bag con­tain­ing vital doc­u­ments for an occu­pant who had been out at the time. One sup­port­er was arrest­ed for hold­ing up a ban­ner out­side, and the ban­ner was con­fis­cat­ed. The arrestee was man­han­dled by an unbadged stew­ard from Delta Secu­ri­ty, and peo­ple attempt­ing to help or advise were threat­ened with batons and pushed into the road. Police also pre­vent­ed a pass­ing traf­fic war­den from tick­et­ing the ille­gal­ly-parked Sitex vehi­cles near­by.

The build­ing has now been ful­ly evict­ed, but the project will con­tin­ue in a new space, and plans to buy the build­ing may still go ahead. Both arrestees have been tak­en to Trin­i­ty Sta­tion, and we’ve made sure they have access to solic­i­tors. Par­ties direct­ly involved in the evic­tion seem to be the local Coun­ty Court Bailiffs, Delta Secu­ri­ty (not sure exact­ly who as SIA badges hid­den), local police, and our old friends Sitex Orbis.

The Age of Evictions … and Resistance!

Two dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties. One liv­ing in Clifton Man­sions, an inner city block of long term squat­ted flats in Brix­ton, south Lon­don.

Two dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties. One liv­ing in Clifton Man­sions, an inner city block of long term squat­ted flats in Brix­ton, south Lon­don. The oth­er made of 90 fam­i­lies part of the UK’s largest Trav­eller com­mu­ni­ty in Dale Farm, a for­mer scrap-yard pur­chased by the Trav­ellers ten years ago near Basil­don, Essex.

They both now face one com­mon prob­lem: the threat of evic­tion. Dale Far­m’s long bat­tle has now reached a crit­i­cal point as Basil­don coun­cil yes­ter­day served a final notice of evic­tion giv­ing fam­i­lies until mid­night on August 31st to aban­don their homes. The com­mu­ni­ty of squat­ters of Clifton Man­sions have learnt that the police is plan­ning to block off Brix­ton’s Cold­har­bour Lane on Tues­day 12 July to enforce the evic­tion of all the peo­ple liv­ing in the 22 flats.

See calls from both com­mu­ni­ties for sol­i­dar­i­ty in resist­ing the planned evic­tions: Clifton Man­sions | Dale Farm

Clifton Man­sions:

Clifton Man­sions On Cold­har­bour Lane is a com­mu­ni­ty of squat­ters in the heart of Brix­ton. Squat­ted since the 1990’s the 22 flats are home to a large and diverse group of peo­ple. The res­i­dents have repaired and main­tained the prop­er­ties after Lam­beth Coun­cil left them emp­ty and neglect­ed. Clus­tered around a cen­tral court­yard Clifton Man­sions is a safe and vibrant com­mu­ni­ty where vio­lence and abuse are not tol­er­at­ed.

On Tues­day 12 July 2011 the police plan to block off Cold­har­bour Lane and enforce the evic­tion of all the peo­ple liv­ing in Clifton Man­sions. Mak­ing the aston­ish­ing claim that evict­ing Clifton Man­sions will some­how solve the prob­lem of drug crime in Brix­ton, the police failed to con­sult with local coun­cil­lors before push­ing ahead with this plan. Clifton Man­sions res­i­dents have received only two weeks notice that they are to be evict­ed from their homes.

Fol­low­ing the evic­tions, Lam­beth Coun­cil will pay Camelot, a pri­vate com­pa­ny, to pro­vide “live-in guardians” to occu­py Clifton Man­sions. The squat­ters have been pro­vid­ing a free guardian ser­vice for years. Why make peo­ple home­less and then pay a multi­na­tion­al com­pa­ny to occu­py their homes?

Even­tu­al­ly Lam­beth wants to sell Clifton Man­sions to prop­er­ty devel­op­ers, fur­ther reduc­ing Lam­beth’s social hous­ing stock in cen­tral Brix­ton. Clifton Man­sions will be turned into lux­u­ry flats priced well beyond the means of the local com­mu­ni­ty.

Please con­tact the coun­cil and the police to let them know what you think.

Show your sup­port on evic­tion day:
12 July – 8am – Clifton Man­sions – 429 Cold­har­bour Lane

They’re clos­ing the street so lets have a par­ty!

Dale Farm:

Dale Farm, in Crays Hill, Essex, is the UK’s largest Trav­ellers’ com­mu­ni­ty, con­sist­ing of near­ly a hun­dred sep­a­rate prop­er­ties, lying well out­side the vil­lage and made up of extend­ed fam­i­ly plots or yards.

Most are owned by Trav­ellers of Irish her­itage, although some Romani fam­i­lies also own yards. The estate is divid­ed in two sec­tions, the front part (about 45 plots) has plan­ning per­mis­sion; while the back part (52 plots) despite numer­ous appli­ca­tions and appeals, has been refused plan­ning con­sent, even though the site was pre­vi­ous­ly a dis­used scrap yard! 90% of trav­eller plan­ning appli­ca­tions are ini­tial­ly reject­ed com­pared to 20% over­all.

Cav­ing in to racial prej­u­dice, Basil­don Dis­trict Coun­cil (BDC) has set aside 9.2 mil­lion pounds to demol­ish the homes in the back 52 plots and have asked the Home Office for 10 mil­lion more. This could hap­pen as ear­ly as June. We view the destruc­tion of half this com­mu­ni­ty as eth­nic cleans­ing.

The plan­ning his­to­ry of the area has shown that the site had been used with­out plan­ning per­mis­sion since ear­ly 1990’s for a vari­ety of indus­tri­al uses. In 1992 BDC issued Enforce­ment Notices against var­i­ous unau­tho­rised com­mer­cial activ­i­ties that were being pur­sued on the site. Part of the land at the east side of the site was pre­vi­ous­ly the sub­ject of two tem­po­rary con­sents for the break­ing of motor vehi­cles, sale of vehi­cle parts and deal­ing in scrap met­als. This use ceased fol­low­ing the vaca­tion of the?land by the busi­ness pro­pri­etors in 2001.

When the unau­tho­rised devel­op­ment of the appli­ca­tion site first came to the Council’s atten­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2003, the land to the east of the site had been used as a scrap yard from 1978 until 2001 under a per­mis­sion grant­ed by the Coun­cil to be used as such. If an excep­tion was allowed for the scrap met­al yard, sure­ly an excep­tion can be made for a vul­ner­a­ble minor­i­ty group to con­tin­ue to live there, par­tic­u­lar­ly giv­en that many of them have already been through trau­mat­ic expe­ri­ences of forced evic­tion.

In May 2005, the BDC vot­ed to take direct action, set­ting aside some three mil­lion euro for an evic­tion and demo­li­tion oper­a­tion. Res­i­dents sought a Judi­cial Review of this deci­sion and won in the High Court. This judg­ment was over­turned by the Court of Appeal on 22 Jan­u­ary 2009. An appeal to the House of Lords was denied on 14 May 2009. After exten­sive research into the needs of Trav­ellers and Gyp­sies in the UK, on 20 July the Depart­ment for Com­mu­ni­ties and Local Gov­ern­ment informed BDC and the Gip­sy Coun­cil that the Dis­trict Coun­cil is required to pro­vide suf­fi­cient land for 62 (six­ty two) addi­tion­al pitch­es. This require­ment can be eas­i­ly met by BDC if it decides to grant plan­ning per­mis­sion for the 52 (fifty two) unau­tho­rised pitch­es already in exis­tence at Dale Farm.

As men­tioned before, the main desire of the fam­i­lies is to not move from Dale Farm; they wish to get plan­ning per­mis­sion for per­ma­nent res­i­dence to con­tin­ue liv­ing in the site they pri­vate­ly own.

We say no to home demo­li­tions, and no to eth­nic cleans­ing!

Activists temporarily halt work at Huntington Lane

On Tues­day 5th July activists from the Telford no new coal (aka Defend Hunt­ing­ton Lane) protest site halt­ed ear­ly morn­ing oper­a­tions by storm­ing the open cast mine. Two pro­test­ers dead locked on to heavy plant machin­ery, dis­rupt­ing the destruc­tion caused by them. Activists have been on the site for 15 months and are await­ing evic­tion papers.

On Tues­day 5th July activists from the Telford no new coal (aka Defend Hunt­ing­ton Lane) protest site halt­ed ear­ly morn­ing oper­a­tions by storm­ing the open cast mine. Two pro­test­ers dead locked on to heavy plant machin­ery, dis­rupt­ing the destruc­tion caused by them. Activists have been on the site for 15 months and are await­ing evic­tion papers. The camp is sit­u­at­ed in what would be the road between the cur­rent mine site to anoth­er, and in an area of nat­ur­al beau­ty

https://wmclimateaction.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/activists-temporarily-halt-work/

ITALY : Repression against NO TAV movement & No TAV press conference

4 july 2011

4 july 2011
After a crowd­ed torch­light march on the night between June 26th and 27th, the Free Repub­lic of the Mad­dale­na in Pied­mont was bru­tal­ly assault­ed by a full-scale mil­i­tary oper­a­tion per­formed by around 2000 forces that turned the place into a bat­tle site : tear­gas thrown at eye lev­el, bull­doz­ers and heavy vehi­cles used to evict the camp, water jets against pro­test­ers, beat­ings, tents and equip­ment smashed up. In the near­by town of Venar­ia, a riot police vehi­cle on its way to the site ran over and killed “by mis­take” an elder­ly woman. Demon­stra­tions, pick­ets and sev­er­al oth­er ini­tia­tives were organ­ised all over Italy to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with the NO TAV move­ment that for years has been fight­ing against the con­struc­tion of a high speed train line between Turin and Lyon in France. A nation­al demo was called out for today 3rd July, and it’s still going on as I’m writ­ing this. It’s about 8.40pm and it’s dif­fi­cult to have a clear idea of what’s been hap­pen­ing at the Mad­dale­na today, but what is clear is that there have been hun­dreds of peo­ple injured on both sides (but it’s only one side that I care about). Police have been using rub­ber bul­lets and at least one young man is seri­ous­ly injured after being shot in the face. Pro­test­ers have com­pared the mil­i­tary oper­a­tion to the repres­sion in Palestine…check out some of the videos to make your mind up : video 1, video 2,video 3 (and more on the same web­site).

The Val di Susa (Susa Val­ley) has been one of the most impor­tant polit­i­cal cam­paigns of the last few years, organ­is­ing resis­tance and fight­ing to pro­tect the local ter­ri­to­ry and the locals’ health, that gov­ern­ments and com­pa­nies would like to sac­ri­fice once more in the name of prof­it. The TAV project (where TAV stands for High Speed Train) is basi­cal­ly a trans­fer of pub­lic mon­ey to a group of pri­vate com­pa­nies unit­ed under the name Impregi­lo – mul­ti­mil­lion­aire com­pa­nies such as FIAT, Benet­ton and oth­ers. After con­struc­tion, these com­pa­nies would be allowed to set up and run their own pri­vate rail ser­vice in com­pe­ti­tion with the State Rail­ways (just in case they didn’t make enough mon­ey already). Despite not being fin­ished yet, the busi­ness enter­prise has already earned its con­trac­tors (all of which are mil­lion­aire busi­ness­men) a very high income.

Sources for this arti­cle : Indy­media Pied­mont and the new Italy Indy­media site. Cool post­card images also found on Indy­media sites – thank you unknown artists !

https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/17884

http://italycalling.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/brief-history-of-the-no-tav-movement/

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NO TAV press con­fer­ence – “This is the people’s resis­tance”

In the midst of the riot porn that can be found on the inter­net about the NO TAV protests of Sun­day 3 July – and that I’m not going to post here because a) you can find it any­where and b) you can have too much of it – I’ve found a sto­ry that I think is much more impor­tant. On the Mon­day after the protests, the NO TAV net­work held a press con­fer­ence in Chiomonte. So what?, you might ask. Well, it could’ve been a dis­as­ter. In 2001, after the fero­cious state vio­lence of the G8 sum­mit in Genoa, the Genoa Social Forum made the big mis­take of retreat­ing: instead of stay­ing unit­ed, some groups left the alliance, oth­ers stayed but dis­tanced them­selves from the “bad pro­test­ers” (name­ly the Black Block) and blamed them for the vio­lent reac­tion of the police. The State, the police and the media had won their war: they had want­ed to tear the move­ment apart and they suc­ceed­ed. So, you can imag­ine what a joy it was for me to read the NO TAV net­work state­ments:

“It wasn’t the Black Block, it was just peo­ple, and the major­i­ty of them locals. We came pre­pared with hel­mets and masks after what hap­pened on the 27th June (see my pre­vi­ous arti­cle), but we came with bare hands. After the police start­ed attack­ing us with tear­gas, stones and water jets, we defend­ed our­selves in any way we could. We couldn’t do any­thing else”, declared Mau­r­izio Pic­cione, who opened the con­fer­ence. Anoth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tive said “Pop­u­lar resis­tance is our way of doing things. The only accu­sa­tion we will agree with is that we resist­ed against a sit­u­a­tion that wasn’t cre­at­ed by us. The Black Block is being used as a scape­goat, because peo­ple can’t accept the fact that a whole val­ley wants to resist. We must thank the Val­susa res­i­dents for resist­ing, and we’re proud of this”.

The peo­ple’s Resis­tance in the Susa Val­ley

Despite it being a press con­fer­ence, the mar­quee was crowd­ed with about 50 peo­ple, not just rep­re­sen­ta­tives and del­e­gates of the dif­fer­ent groups, but also peo­ple who want­ed to tell their ver­sion of the sto­ry. When a jour­nal­ist of the right wing paper Sec­o­lo XIX asked about the Black Block, a per­son just replied “I was there and I’m not the Black Block”. The jour­nal­ist was chal­lenged and final­ly left the con­fer­ence. Oth­er jour­nal­ists left “in sol­i­dar­i­ty” with their col­league. Gone for­ev­er are those times when jour­nal­ists in Italy (or any oth­er coun­try) would lit­er­al­ly risk their lives to speak The Truth. Now they just mouth the words of those who stuff their mouths with gold.

The Catholic groups in the No TAV alliance crit­i­cised Susa’s local bish­op for clos­ing down the cathe­dral and obey­ing the prefect’s order of keep­ing the priests under him qui­et. A local wine farmer described his by-now dai­ly expe­ri­ence of hav­ing to trav­el into the mil­i­tarised ter­ri­to­ry to get to his vines. Every­one was unit­ed in their rage and out­rage at the lies per­pe­trat­ed by the media, and expressed sol­i­dar­i­ty and sym­pa­thy with the pro­test­ers injured and arrest­ed. At the moment there are 4 peo­ple still in prison – they were going to know today if their arrests would be con­firmed or not, but the meet­ing has been post­poned, so they’re still in. To send them cards and let­ters:

Mar­ta Bifani / Rober­to Nadali­ni / Sal­va­tore Soru / Gian­car­lo Fer­rari
Casa Cir­con­dar­i­ale Lorus­so Cutug­no
Via Pianez­za 300
10151 Tori­no
Italy

Looks like there’ll be a protest camp at the end of July and an inter­na­tion­al one in August, so…stay tuned!

Arti­cle based on this text - if you under­stand Ital­ian you can watch some videos of the press con­fer­ence. This is a good web­site in gen­er­al, and it’s got a page with Eng­lish trans­la­tions, so take a look!

Translated by Italy Calling

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Roll on down to the EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing in mid-August.

Paint-throw­ing, blockad­ing, riot­ing, board­ing up offices and gath­er­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands togeth­er — all ways to try and defeat the Nuclear Behe­moth.

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Bilston Glen Protest Site 9th Birthday Party

25 June at 12:00 — 26 June at 23:30
Loca­tion: Bil­ston glen woods, Mid­loth­i­an

25 June at 12:00 — 26 June at 23:30
Loca­tion: Bil­ston glen woods, Mid­loth­i­an

More info
To cel­e­brate the 9th year of resis­tance to the destruc­tive and unnec­es­sary A701 bypass, we at bil­ston glen protest site invite you to 2 days of work­shops and enter­tain­ment, on sat­ur­day 25th and sun­day 26th june there will be work­shops and food through the day and music and mad­ness by night, with punk, acoustic, folk and elec­tro per­form­ers . if you plan on spend­ing the week­end please remem­ber to bring a tent and all your nice friends!

Bands (more t.b.a)

OI Pol­loi
Total Bloody Chaos
T34
X And The Apes
Dad­dy No
Pud­dock Stew
Malakan­dra
Mali­cious Mis­chief
Buff
Over­spill
Per­ma­nent French
Fre­sa’s Mag­ic Per­form­ing Hat 😉
Chris Hay­worth

Any bands wish­ing to per­form please mes­sage us, but please be aware that this event is to try to raise some funds for site so we can­not pay for fuel etc. for bands.

HOW TO FIND US!!!
By bike — from city cen­tre, go down the bridges / nichol­son street towards cameron toll. turn right at cameron toll and take the A701 towards Pen­nicuik & you´ll get to Bil­ston. There is a met­al gate on your left, oppo­site the VW garage and right next to the first bus stop in bil­ston…

by bus — take the 37, 47 or X47 from Edin­burgh (bridges/clerk st/nicholson st) towards Penicuik, get off at the 1st bus stop in Bil­ston oppo­site a VW garage, the met­al gate is right next to the bus stop.…..go through the wee met­al gate & down the path till you come to the bridge & you’ll see us!

by car- Bil­ston is locat­ed on the A701, abot 6 miles south of Edin­burgh city cen­tre, the best place to park is on the bil­ston glen indus­tri­al estate, to get into the ind. est once on the A701 turn onto the A768 towards Loan­head then onto dry­den road, the bil­ston glen indus­r­i­al estate is quite well sign post­ed so it should be easy enough to find

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Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011

This year’s Earth First Sum­mer Gath­er­ing takes place in East Anglia this year, start­ing on the 10th of August and run­ning for five days. With six work­shops tents we have space for over 100 dis­cus­sions, pre­sen­ta­tions and work­shops. The spaces are fill­ing up fast, but there is still time to book a spot.

This year’s Earth First Sum­mer Gath­er­ing takes place in East Anglia this year, start­ing on the 10th of August and run­ning for five days. With six work­shops tents we have space for over 100 dis­cus­sions, pre­sen­ta­tions and work­shops. The spaces are fill­ing up fast, but there is still time to book a spot. So if you’ve got an idea you wish to high­light, whether it’s relat­ed to eco­log­i­cal defence or social resis­tance here is your chance. The gath­er­ing is attend­ed by hun­dreds of indi­vid­u­als inter­est­ed and par­tic­i­pat­ing in strug­gles around the UK and Europe.

To get in touch just email efsummergathering2011announce@riseup.net with a blurb of for you work­shop or dis­cus­sion and we’ll do our best to fit you in.

For month­ly email updates for the gath­er­ing sub­scribe to efsummergathering@lists.riseup.net