March on Worthing Police Station in support of Titnore, 17th Feb

A PROTEST march on Wor­thing Police Sta­tion has been called for Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 17 in the face of police intim­i­da­tion of Tit­nore Woods cam­paign­ers.

A state­ment from Tit­nore Emer­gency Action (TEA), released on Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 18, said:

A PROTEST march on Wor­thing Police Sta­tion has been called for Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 17 in the face of police intim­i­da­tion of Tit­nore Woods cam­paign­ers.

A state­ment from Tit­nore Emer­gency Action (TEA), released on Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 18, said:
“In the run-up to Christ­mas, sup­port­ers of the Tit­nore Woods cam­paign were try­ing to bring in food and cash dona­tions to the camp, for obvi­ous rea­sons.

“How­ev­er as you may have heard, on no less than two occa­sions Wor­thing Police offi­cers attend­ed the stall and threat­ened with arrest our friends mak­ing the col­lec­tions.

“This is noth­ing short of polit­i­cal harass­ment of Tit­nore sup­port­ers and flies in the face of local democ­ra­cy, par­tic­u­lar­ly the fact that the cam­paign has won the sup­port of thou­sands of local peo­ple, who vis­it the stall to make their con­tri­bu­tion to the tree house heroes.

“In protest at this dra­con­ian and unnec­es­sary action, which has stopped vital fund-rais­ing at a vital time, we call for a MARCH ON WORTHING POLICE STATION on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 17, head­ing off at 2pm from Hold­ers Cor­ner, Mon­tague Place [near Mac­Don­ald’s], Wor­thing.

“This will also be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to express ongo­ing sup­port for the camp and the fight to Save Tit­nore Woods.

“We hope as many of you as pos­si­ble will be there to lend your sup­port for the efforts of our our friends on the stall and in the woods.

Tit­nore Emer­gency Action (TEA)”

Mean­while, cam­paign­ers say they have received some infor­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that an attempt­ed evic­tion of the Tit­nore camp might be very immi­nent. The source also sug­gest­ed that Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Army per­son­nel would be involved.

Wor­thing eco-action added: “While we do not want to “cry wolf” by sound­ing the alarm bells too often, we thought peo­ple should be aware of this. If any­one has any oth­er infor­ma­tion either sup­port­ing or con­tra­dict­ing this rumour, please get in touch with us, Pro­tect Our Wood­land or the camp. Or come to Thurs­day night’s Wor­thing Alliance meet­ing (Jan­u­ary 25). If there are plans to evict soon, there may be a con­nec­tion with the recent heavy-hand­ed treat­ment of Tit­nore sup­port­ers.