Happy Birthday Camp Titnore! & Brecon pipeline camp news

27.05.2007
CAMP Tit­nore in Wor­thing, West Sus­sex, has this week­end been cel­e­brat­ing its first anniver­sary.
And as well as cel­e­brat­ing the achieve­ment of the last year, it is look­ing ahead by call­ing for more peo­ple to join the occu­pa­tion and for sol­i­dar­i­ty action against the busi­ness­es threat­en­ing to destroy the coun­try­side loca­tion.

27.05.2007
CAMP Tit­nore in Wor­thing, West Sus­sex, has this week­end been cel­e­brat­ing its first anniver­sary.
And as well as cel­e­brat­ing the achieve­ment of the last year, it is look­ing ahead by call­ing for more peo­ple to join the occu­pa­tion and for sol­i­dar­i­ty action against the busi­ness­es threat­en­ing to destroy the coun­try­side loca­tion.

It was at dawn on May 28 2006 that a deter­mined group of envi­ron­men­tal­ists moved onto ancient wood­land off Tit­nore Lane in Dur­ring­ton, near Wor­thing, in protest at plans for an 875-home estate, mas­sive Tesco super­store and new access roads.
After many years of local cam­paign­ing had failed to per­suade Wor­thing Bor­ough Coun­cil to oppose the devel­op­ment, they said direct action was now the only way they could con­tin­ue the fight.
They didn’t real­ly think the camp had any chance of last­ing more than a few days, or weeks at the most. And when the landown­ers won pos­ses­sion in the High Court in Lon­don in August, every­one was braced for an evic­tion, but for­tu­nate­ly it didn’t hap­pen.
The landown­ers, and poten­tial devel­op­ers, then thought they would play a wait­ing game and imag­ined that the pro­test­ers would all melt away, or freeze away, dur­ing the win­ter, but they didn’t.
The fact that the camp is still up and run­ning is tes­ta­ment to the bat­tling, nev­er-say-die atti­tude of all those involved. But now there is a need for more peo­ple to lend a hand and get involved, to ensure that the camp is still there, resist­ing this devel­op­ment, in anoth­er year’s time.
* Peo­ple are need­ed to go and stay at the camp, even just for a week­end.
* Peo­ple are need­ed to spread the mes­sage, raise funds and form sup­port groups.
* The call has gone out for non-vio­lent direct action against firms involved in the scheme, such as Tesco, Heron Group, Bryant Homes/Taylor Woodrow and Per­sim­mon Homes.
More infor­ma­tion can be found online at www.protectourwoodland.co.uk, www.southcoast.indymedia.org.uk and www.eco-action.org/porkbolter. Con­tact the camp on 07913 534083. For tips on DIY cam­paign­ing go to www.schnews.org.uk/diyguide

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Nation­al Grid start the evic­tion process at Bre­con.

26.05.2007
Nation­al Grid paid a vis­it to the protest camp yes­ter­day after­noon with a notice to leave the site.

Nation­al Grid have giv­en the Bre­con protest camp a landown­ers notice to leave the site imme­di­ate­ly. They now need to take the camp to court to be able to serve them with a prop­er evic­tion notice which will then allow the camp to be removed by the police evic­tion teams.

More peo­ple are need­ed at the camp to get it ready for when the time comes as this is now the begin­ning of the last big push to the evic­tion.

Being on site for even a few hours is help­ful, every­thing needs doing from cooking/washing up to build­ing projects. Even if you can’t make it to the site there is still a huge amount to be done, email us if you need more info.

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