Category: Squatting / Free Spaces / Protest Sites

Camp Titnore needs your help!

Camp Tit­nore near Wor­thing in Sus­sex could do with some com­mit­ted cam­paign­ers to come and lend a hand. Com­ing up to a year in res­i­dence (May 28) the camp could do with some new blood. Be part of group aim­ing to stop Tescos and oth­er scum-bags trash one of the last remain­ing ancient wood­lands on the Sus­sex coastal plain.

Camp Tit­nore near Wor­thing in Sus­sex could do with some com­mit­ted cam­paign­ers to come and lend a hand. Com­ing up to a year in res­i­dence (May 28) the camp could do with some new blood. Be part of group aim­ing to stop Tescos and oth­er scum-bags trash one of the last remain­ing ancient wood­lands on the Sus­sex coastal plain.

We could do with some new camp mem­bers down Tit­nore way. This is a very well defend­ed site, but vet­er­an anti-road cam­paign­ers as well as new blood would be real­ly wel­come. With sum­mer round the cor­ner this is a beau­ti­ful part of the coun­try and the camp ben­e­fits from a well organ­ised sup­port group in the near­by estate, Wor­thing and Brighton. The for­est eco-sys­tem, plus lake is threat­ened by 850 homes, a new Tescos and attached busi­ness units. An evic­tion order has been in place since Novem­ber, but as devel­op­ment plans are stalled, an actu­al attempt­ed evic­tion could be months fur­ther down the line.

http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

Demonstration and Carnival against the Pipeline- Saturday 24th March, Trebanos

As part of the ongo­ing cam­paign against the pro­posed 150 mile liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas pipeline run­ning through South Wales at a dan­ger­ous­ly high pres­sure, there will be march through the affect­ed vil­lage of Tre­banos, fol­lowed by a ral­ly at Tre­banos RFC club­house.

Stop LNG pipeline bannerAs part of the ongo­ing cam­paign against the pro­posed 150 mile liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas pipeline run­ning through South Wales at a dan­ger­ous­ly high pres­sure, there will be march through the affect­ed vil­lage of Tre­banos, fol­lowed by a ral­ly at Tre­banos RFC club­house.

We invite any­one who wish­es to express their con­cern at the envi­ron­men­tal impact and safe­ty con­sid­er­a­tions of this devel­op­ment, or who wish­es to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple who’s lives are being affect­ed by it.

Meet 2pm at the Lidl Carpark in Pon­tar­dawe to LEAVE FROM THE BOTTOM OF GLYNMEIRCH ROAD AT 2:30PM

Please bring ban­ners, music, colour, flags, fan­cy dress, friends, fam­i­ly and pets.

For more info check out:
http://www.fightthepipe.co.uk
http://www.safehavenpembs.co.uk
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/bristol/pipeline

There will be a minibus from Cardiff, tak­ing peo­ple direct­ly to the start of the march.

Times from car park at the rear of Cardiff Cen­tral train sta­tion: 10.00 am & 12.00 noon.
Times from Tre­banos RFC club­house to Cardiff Cen­tral: 4.00 pm & 6.00 pm

Tick­ets for a return jour­ney are £5. Please con­tact Amy on 07828671422 or email neverwork@riseup.net to book your place on the minibus.

Please note: there is a lim­it­ed num­ber of places so please make sure your place in secured by no lat­er than Tues­day 20th. If mon­ey is a prob­lem for you, we still may be able to find you space — get in touch!
http://www.fightthepipe.co.uk

Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!

Faslane Peace Camp recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 23rd year of direct action to oppose the Tri­dent nuclear sub­marines sta­tioned 30 miles north of Glas­gow. Vis­i­tors are always wel­come, for a day, a week, or longer!

Faslane Peace Camp recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 23rd year of direct action to oppose the Tri­dent nuclear sub­marines sta­tioned 30 miles north of Glas­gow. Vis­i­tors are always wel­come, for a day, a week, or longer!

Direc­tions: Train from Glas­gow Queen Street or 216 bus from Jamaica Street to Helens­burgh Cen­tral. Then catch the 316 bus to the peace camp.

For more info and to check the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion: 01436 820 901
faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com

URGENT! PEOPLE NEEDED AT ANTI-PIPELINE TREE CAMP!

Lots more peo­ple are URGENTLY need­ed at the protest camp near Bre­con. Trees are now being felled in the area around the camp and evic­tion is expect­ed with­in the next two weeks. We need peo­ple, it does­n’t mat­ter if you can’t stay for long, we still want you!

Lots more peo­ple are URGENTLY need­ed at the protest camp near Bre­con. Trees are now being felled in the area around the camp and evic­tion is expect­ed with­in the next two weeks. We need peo­ple, it does­n’t mat­ter if you can’t stay for long, we still want you!

The ancient wood­land is sched­uled for dec­i­ma­tion by Nation­al Grid to clear a path for the 48″ high pres­sure gas pipeline. The pro­test­ers aim to stop the destruc­tion of yet more ancient wood­land by Nation­al Grid and it’s con­trac­tors.

Peo­ple on site are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, espe­cial­ly beams for build­ing, tarp, rope, nails, D‑locks, heavy chains, stuff for lock-ons (sand, cement, grav­el.), har­ness­es and oth­er climb­ing gear, scrap met­al, cud­dles etc etc etc.
We can use almost any tat…

The spring is spring­ing, the flow­ers are start­ing to cov­er the wood­land and it’s the most beau­ti­ful time of year. As Nation­al Grid are sched­uled to be trash­ing this land in April, this is your last chance to see it.

DIRECTIONS:

The protest camp is in ancient wood­land at Pen­pont, 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church.It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525. There is a bus going from Cardiff coach sta­tion to Bre­con town (X43, takes aprox 1hr, costs around £4). From the bus stop you get off at in Bre­con (the only one there) there is anoth­er bus that goes right past the camp (£1.60, aprox 10 mins- ask dri­ver for tree camp,you will prob­a­bly see ban­ners).

Map link :- http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-3.49420&GridN=51.94540&lon=-3.49420&lat=51.94540&place=Penpont%2C%20Powys&db=freegaz&scale=100000&search_result=Penpont%2C%20Powys〈=&keepicon=true
http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/churches/brecon/5844.html

http://fightthepipe.co.uk

London Climate Campers update

Only four months to go till the 2007 Camp for Cli­mate Action — are you get­ting involved?

Get inspired, watch the Reclaim Pow­er movie about last years camp at the ram­pART social cen­tre tonight from 8pm. (see https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364997.html). Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

Only four months to go till the 2007 Camp for Cli­mate Action — are you get­ting involved?

Get inspired, watch the Reclaim Pow­er movie about last years camp at the ram­pART social cen­tre tonight from 8pm. (see https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364997.html). Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

The Lon­don cli­mate camp group had a meet­ing last tues­day and among the issues dis­cussed was the lack of strength in terms of peo­ple com­mit­ting at this stage. This raised the prospect of join­ing forces with oth­er groups from the South East to organ­ise a neigh­bour­hood rather than try to have Lon­don as an enti­ty in it’s own right. Con­tact has been made with the Brighton group but no fur­ther news yet on that.

The Lon­don group is plan­ning on organ­is­ing a fundrais­er for April 28th. If you can help or have con­tacts with good DJs, bands, etc to draw crowds; who know about good venues; etc get in touch!

The Lon­don group has vol­un­teered to organ­ise the May gath­er­ing and host it in Lon­don. The dates will be the 19th and 20th May so put it in your diary now. Venue is yet to be decid­ed. Help will be need­ed with the gen­er­al organ­i­sa­tion (kitchen, facil­i­ta­tion, etc), so step

In the mean­time, this week­end is the nation­al cli­mate camp gath­er­ing in Bris­tol. Min­utes of pre­vi­ous meet­ings can be found on the cli­mate camp web­site http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/meeting.htm

The next Lon­don meet­ing will be on Mon­day 26th March at the Insti­tute of Edu­ca­tion cafe. Up to now the meet­ings have been fort­night­ly, but there are plans to skip April 10th as this will be East­er tues­day and then make the meet­ings week­ly from Tue­day 17th Apri. It would be great if more peo­ple could make the meet­ings so that Lon­don can have a vibrant gath­er­ing and neigh­bour­hood.

New Squatted Centre, Camberwell South London

A bunch of local south lon­don­ers have opened up a build­ing in Cam­ber­well, South Lon­don and are fix­ing it up to run as a social space. Right now, lots of work fix­ing and repair­ing is going on towards get­ting the space ready for a caff, and social nights with films.

Camberwell squat flierA bunch of local south lon­don­ers have opened up a build­ing in Cam­ber­well, South Lon­don and are fix­ing it up to run as a social space. Right now, lots of work fix­ing and repair­ing is going on towards get­ting the space ready for a caff, and social nights with films.

There will be a small ‘work-in-progress’ Potluck Caff and B.Y.O on SUNDAY 18th MARCH from 2pm onwards. So bring food and drink to share and come on down. This event will also give folks a chance to see the space, meet the res­i­dents and oth­ers involved, here the plans and sug­gest ideas. Become occu­pied and be involved!

CAMBERWELL SQUATTED CENTRE
192 Warham St
Cam­ber­well SE5
opp Union Tav­ern on Cam­ber­well New Rd
bus­es: 36, 436
tube; oval
There is a evolv­ing web­site up at:
www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

Sol­dar­i­ty, Love and Rage

Cam­ber­well Squat Cen­tre
http://www.56a.org.uk/warham.html

Climate Camp Meeting this weekend in Bristol, and Film

Last year saw 600 peo­ple gath­er in the shad­ow of Drax Pow­er Sta­tion for the ten day Camp For Cli­mate Action. This week­end in Bris­tol is the next nation­al plan­ning meet­ing, Sat­ur­day 17th and Sun­day 18th March. The venue is Bar­ton Hill Set­tle­ment which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Sta­tion.

Last year saw 600 peo­ple gath­er in the shad­ow of Drax Pow­er Sta­tion for the ten day Camp For Cli­mate Action. This week­end in Bris­tol is the next nation­al plan­ning meet­ing, Sat­ur­day 17th and Sun­day 18th March. The venue is Bar­ton Hill Set­tle­ment which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Sta­tion.

Any ques­tions, sug­ges­tions or pro­pos­als for the meet­ing can be sent to gath­er­ings [at] climatecamp.org.uk.

Last years camp was cap­tured on video and turned into a doc­u­men­tary by Cine Rebalde called Reclaim Pow­er. Copies are now avail­able on DVD in this coun­try from Ris­ing Tide and local groups work­ing towards this years cli­mate camp.

Those in Lon­don can check out the cli­mate camp film as part of two evenings of cli­mate chaos relat­ed films at the ram­pART social cen­tre (see http://rampart.co.nr for details). Also show­ing is the epic doc­u­men­tary The Plan­et, plus Glob­al Dim­ming and The Denial Machine. Addi­tion­al­ly there will be speak­ers and info.

More info on film at http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_rubrique=22&lang=en
More info on camp for cli­mate action at http://climatecamp.org.uk

On The Ground, Ireland: New Cops, New Violence Parts One & Two

Mon­day morn­ing, 12 March 2007, saw the trans­fer of a new con­tin­gent of guards to police the Shell gas ter­mi­nal refin­ery con­struc­tion site at Bel­lan­aboy, Coun­ty Mayo, North West Ire­land.

Video 120307_New_Cops — video/x‑ms-wmv 12M

Mon­day morn­ing, 12 March 2007, saw the trans­fer of a new con­tin­gent of guards to police the Shell gas ter­mi­nal refin­ery con­struc­tion site at Bel­lan­aboy, Coun­ty Mayo, North West Ire­land.

Video 120307_New_Cops — video/x‑ms-wmv 12M

Sev­er­al pro­tes­tors, both young and old, stepped in the road to peace­ful­ly block­ade trucks and bus­es going into the site. The guards imme­di­ate­ly jumped on them with increas­ing vio­lence, end­ing in all out unpro­voked attacks.

Many of the new guards are list­ed as “U” on their lapels. This jour­nal­ist was informed by a local this means the guards have been draft­ed in from Dublin.

Offi­cer U235 was the guard who drop-kicked the young man at the end of the video.

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Tues­day 13 March, the sec­ond day of new guards at the Shell Gas Ter­mi­nal con­struc­tion site at Bel­lan­aboy, Coun­ty Mayo, North West Ire­land, again saw police vio­lence esca­late fur­ther.

Video 130307_New_Cops_P2 — video/x‑ms-wmv 14M

One pro­tes­tor attempt­ed to block a bus car­ry­ing Shell work­ers into the site.

In response the guards attacked every­one, knock­ing Mary, wife of Ross­port Five Willie Cor­duff, to the ground. Peo­ple suf­fered var­i­ous attacks from shoves, punch­es, kicks and grabs to the throat, includ­ing this jour­nal­ist.

Again the main aggres­sor was guard U235, who was the hand that pushed Mary and insti­gat­ed a sec­ond attack on an elder­ly gen­tle­ma, who was thrown to the ground with a spe­cif­ic mar­tial arts leg sweep. The man fell back hit­ting his head and his glass­es were bro­ken. Luck­i­ly he sus­tained no seri­ous injury.

Bath Climate Camp Meeting (15.3) & Info

The next Bath Cli­mate Camp meet­ing will be this Thurs­day (the 15th) at 7.30 down­stairs in the Hob­gob­lin, 47 James’s Parade, Cen­tral Bath

At the last meet­ing, we decid­ed on the fol­low­ing actions/ideas

The next Bath Cli­mate Camp meet­ing will be this Thurs­day (the 15th) at 7.30 down­stairs in the Hob­gob­lin, 47 James’s Parade, Cen­tral Bath

At the last meet­ing, we decid­ed on the fol­low­ing actions/ideas
*The camp will be set up on the after­noon of Thurs­day the 19th of April (vol­un­teers need­ed, please e‑mail if you’re up for help­ing)
* Fri­day, all day, Blockade/protest/autonomous actions in and around Land and Marine HQ (the com­pa­ny build­ing the Welsh pipeline)
*Sat­ur­day — ‘Par­ty against Petrol’ — protest/action/party at rel­e­vant places througout Bath
*We decid­ed on plen­ty of oth­er things, such as hold­ing work­shops, kids activ­i­ties, evening enter­tain­ment and a camp kitchen, but we still need more ideas, enthu­si­asm and bod­ies to make the camp a suc­cess.
For any enquiries, or to be sent posters/booklets/leaflets etc, or to be kept in touch about the camp, please e‑mail bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk

Hap­py camp­ing!

bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk

Titnore tree protest camp appeals for help (& audio report)

SPRING is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees and Tit­nore Woods in Sus­sex is once again a love­ly place to be…

With the end of a tough win­ter, the protest camp near Wor­thing has today appealed for help in a spring offen­sive aimed at mak­ing sure it is in fight­ing fit shape as its first anniver­sary and anoth­er rebel sum­mer approach.

SPRING is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees and Tit­nore Woods in Sus­sex is once again a love­ly place to be…

With the end of a tough win­ter, the protest camp near Wor­thing has today appealed for help in a spring offen­sive aimed at mak­ing sure it is in fight­ing fit shape as its first anniver­sary and anoth­er rebel sum­mer approach.

It was set up in May last year to oppose plans for a 875-home estate, access roads and new Tesco mega­s­tore on ancient wood­land and green fields in West Dur­ring­ton.

Top of the wish­list at the moment are pal­lets, long sup­port beams for tree­hous­es, climb­ing equip­ment (not har­ness­es) and climb­ing rope. Also some­one with a van or sim­i­lar vehi­cle who would be able to help clear away rub­bish from the site.

Most of all, of course, there is a plea for more peo­ple! Whether you can spare five min­utes, five hours, five days, five weeks or five months, your phys­i­cal pres­ence in any sup­port­ive capac­i­ty is always appre­ci­at­ed.

Why not get down there your­self and dis­cov­er the kind of envi­ron­men­tal direct action that they thought had gone out of fash­ion after New­bury?

The camp is in woods just north of “Som­er­set Lake”, a fish­ing lake east of Tit­nore Lane. How­ev­er, Tit­nore Lane is very dan­ger­ous for pedes­tri­ans and eas­i­est access is from Ful­beck Avenue, off Tit­nore Way. Take the path at the far east of Ful­beck Avenue, then turn left until there is a large gap in the hedgerow on the left, oppo­site a cleared square of ground on the right, and cross right over to the far side of the field, keep­ing the clump of trees to your left.

It can also be reached via the car park at Tesco’s in Dur­ring­ton, served by the “Pulse” bus route from Wor­thing town cen­tre. Basi­cal­ly head straight on from the entrance to the fields at the back end of the super­mar­ket car park, reach­ing the gap in the hedgerow men­tioned above.

Near­est rail­way sta­tions are Dur­ring­ton and Gor­ing by Sea on the main South Coast line with direct trains from Brighton, Portsmouth and Lon­don.

There is a camp phone — 0780 4245324.

More info: www.eco-action.org/porkbolter
www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

Indy­media Glob­al Report arti­cle on Tit­nore — mp3 5.5M
a piece about the camp made for the Indy­media radio show