Tara Valley Ireland Action Stations — actions & callout for 6th/7th; route walk/action videos — 6th Sept update

22.08.2007

Cul­tur­al Con­ser­va­tion­ists stop work on Tara val­ley, Ire­lands heart of ancient her­itage, by M3 Cli­mate Crim­i­nals.
Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Con­cern actions start ear­ly for front­line Earth defence activists.

Live­ly actions were car­ried out on the route of the pro­posed M3 motor­way being plunged through the ancient astro­log­i­cal city com­plex of Tara in Ire­land .This area is known as the Val­ley of the Kings, it is in fact old­er than the val­ley of the kings in Egypt.

Taras knowl­edge and mes­sage still await full revelation.The destruc­tion MUST BE STOPPED.

On thurs. a medi­um sized possee(12 plus) of con­cerned cit­i­zens took a route walk. This began by Inspect­ing the destruc­tion of the Lis­mullen 8,000 year old henge ( arche­ol­o­gy by record ‚draw­ing plans of where all the posts are then, bag­ging and bull­doz­ing) .

We viewed the henge from the hill­side of Rath Lugh the hill fort of the Fian­na the war­riors and pro­tec­tors of Ire­land whose grave­yards are now being des­e­crat­ed and bull­dozed.

The mag­i­cal mys­tery time trav­el­ling tour then pro­ceed­ed to Barons town and Col­lier­stown. Where a gate was block­ad­ed, songs sung and a live­ly debate was had with site secu­ri­ty. We then head­ed of at a trot fol­lowed by a very small con­tin­gent of secu­ri­ty, we kept ahead and man­aged to delay a dig­ger at work for some time till we decide to move on, the plan had been to keep mov­ing and slow up work in many places gueril­la stylee.
We took a break then rushed back onto site to stop the same dig­ger again this time for longer three peo­ple climb­ing onto the roof singing, ignor­ing the secu­ri­tys calls to get down and bang­ing on the roof of the cab till the dri­ver exit­ed left the cab. We then decid­ed to move as the Gar­dai (police) arrived (reac­tion time about 25–30 mins.)

We kept ahead of most secu­ri­ty and laughed much as their 4 wheel dri­ve got stuck in the deep mud. Mud surfers and dig­ger divers required or cul­tur­al con­ser­va­tion­ists as some media have dubbed the con­cerned cit­i­zens of the Emer­ald Isles.

We returned to the first gate and a few of us rushed into a site where about 4 dig­gers and oth­er big trucks were work­ing, Although health and safe­ty law rec­quires the machines to shut down when we are on site ‚these machines car­ried on, most turn off and are fair­ly ami­ca­ble when talked to .

Many of the secu­ri­ty work­ers and even the Guardai have expressed they do not want the road to go this way.
There is and alter­na­tive Meath Coun­ty mul­ti-way pro­pos­al which includes reopen­ing an unused rail­way, a park and ride alter­na­tive routes around the val­ley which are cheap­er and short­er.

One of the keys is cor­rup­tion: Which groups real­ly have bought up the val­ley and stand to make astro­nom­i­cal prof­its from the devel­op­ments that will be built in the val­ley.

Friends of the Fian­na Fail rul­ing par­ty it seems.In con­tra­ven­tion of Euro­pean law. As well as Cor­po­rate giants such as Dick Cheneys Hal­ibur­ton and the Span­ish mega build­ing com­pa­ny set up by Gen­er­al Fran­co called Far­rovial (Now large own­ers of Lon­dons Tube Under­ground and most of the toll motor­ways in South Amer­i­ca)

The action con­tin­ued as the gar­dai caught up and the cross coun­try run began.The younger fit­ter activis­tas man­aged to keep ahead, and the Guard on foot with 2 secu­ri­ty gave up after a few hun­dred metres of mud and rough ground, how­ev­er the next few gates to the road were cov­ered by secu­ri­ty and police vans as we tried to make our exit .So we head­ed deep­er cross coun­try and by chance came across anoth­er dig­ger on route not work­ing ‚this pro­ceed­ed to run away at slow 4mph speed we laughed and fol­lowed it 300m on there was anoth­er dig­ger which saw us, 2 face paint­ed men one in a kilt and a young women armed with a drum. This fright­en­ing spec­ta­cle caused the sec­ond dig­ger to flee at its ridicu­lous top speed we con­tin­ued to laugh.

We stopped these 2 work­ing for some time then secu­ri­ty turned up we went to leave as a sec­ond land rover screached around a cor­ner we ran. We man­aged to escape by div­ing through 2 ditch­es and 2 hedges a van full of secu­ri­ty that arrived seemed reluc­tant to fol­low the man in a kilt through a thorny hedge so close to clock­ing off time.

Our sis­ter was caught but mirac­u­lous­ly released. She was sur­round­ed by 13 secu­ri­ty who told her to come to wait for the guards. She said she would stay there let them come to her also that they could not move her and that this road was ille­gal .They said by who …she said under EU law. She said she had come to pro­tect land and ances­tors and began to ques­tion them on their actions which must have shamed them as after a few min­utes this cap­tive audi­ence of secu­ri­ty told her she was free to go.

It seems some­times the Gar­dai were reluc­tant to arrest due to media cov­er­age. But not always as over 7 have been arrest­ed par­ti­cilar­ly at the bat­tle of Sol­diers Hill 3 weeks ago. Since which most destruc­tion of ancient sites has occured. Some by bull­doz­ers in the mid­dle of the night. So we all had a a day of high adren­a­lin action and fun and escaped to resist the motor­way mad­ness cli­mate crim­i­nals anoth­er day.

On Fri­day we got up at 6.30a.m. to the sound of Trum­pet drum and calls of por­ridge and coffee..A big pos­see.
We block­ad­ed the gate of the Lis­mullen Henge as the Nation­al Road Author­i­ty spon­sored arche­ol­o­gists arrived sham­ing them. The gate hug­ging was good natured with much singing “u cant kill the spir­it of Tara” and oth­er songs. Except for when a gar­dai pushed a young Irish lad back­wards over the edge of the bridge, nar­row­ly escap­ing falling. His appar­ent crime was to ask the Gar­dai to speak to him in Gael­ic (which all Gar­dai are required to speak).

We then regrouped and got 25 of us into 5 cars and hit the gates of the Roestown site run­ning. We spread out over 7–800 m and dig­ger div­ing occu­pied 7–8 dig­gers stop­ping a total of over 15 machines from car­ry­ing on their destruc­tion and des­e­cra­tion. For pic­tures of what Roestown used to be check www.tarasolidarityvigil.net
This action was high­ly effec­tive after about an hour and a half the gar­dai got peo­ple to leave machin­ery some as slow­ly as pos­si­ble .oth­ers pre­fer­ring to pull out across coun­try.
We met up again for food at the vig­il camp then some of us head­ed to Dublin for a Green man meets the Green Par­ty action .

On Sat. there was a demo out­side the G.P.O. in Dublin hand­ing out over 600 leaflets.
All in all 3 days of high action and adven­ture. Adren­a­lin fuelled earth defense.
Very rem­i­nis­cent of Twyford Down, Sols­bury Hill and New­bury.

Tara urgent­ly needs expe­ri­enced activists. Hear the call of the Ances­tors and the Land. Net­work it NOW
Tara sup­port is crit­i­cal­ly need­ed NOW as the E.U. told Ire­land to stop build­ing in June and is tak­ing the Irish govt. to court on Aug 29th how effec­tive this will be we don’t know as always it is up to peo­ple pow­er and direct action.Ancient sites and knowl­edge being lost for­ev­er dai­ly Bulldozing.Take Action.What will we say to Future gen­er­a­tions of this time. Take action for a clean­er cli­mate. There will soon be an action to replant trees along the Tara Val­ley and ener­gise the pro­posed Unesco World Her­itage Park.

Wish List:Trees, Tarps, structures,tents, food, longer range CBs ‚binoc­u­lars, climb­ing har­ness­es and rope, tools, tech stuff,photocopying, net­work­ing, transport.skillsharing Press and media sup­port, dona­tions, phone cred­it.

Trans­port Links £16 Nat express to Dublin or £26 Rail and sail from Euston Lon­don.
Then 7 Euro Bus to Tara Cross 20–25 mins walk from Tara Vig­il camp.Get there any way u can. As soon as u can
Vig­il Camp 00353(0) 861758557
Rath Lugh Action camp 00353( 0) 867372983

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This is a mes­sage for activists who are up for help­ing the Irish pro­test­ers in their fight to avert the new M3 motor­way away from an extreme­ly ancient site, far pre­dat­ing Ston­henge.

Irish Author­i­ties are over­rid­ing an EU con­dem­na­tion that this part of the motor­way’s con­struc­tion is ILLEGAL and are about to bull­doze a recent­ly exca­vat­ed wood­henge, details below. The deep lev­els of cor­rup­tion involved in the ‘devel­op­ment’ of this area are mind bog­gling.

There has been a small but strong protest camp at Tara since before the new year and now these amaz­ing peo­ple are cry­ing out for num­bers. I’ve lit­er­al­ly just got home to Bris­tol now and will be dri­ving back over
there in 10 days, next Tues­day. It was almost impos­si­ble to leave.

The author­i­ties are propos­ing to start dis­man­tling the henge THIS TUESDAY 28TH AUGUST in the ear­ly hours of the morn­ing so please please please, if you’ve been con­sid­er­ing a trip to Ire­land go now. Even if you haven’t, despite the heart­break of what is hap­pen­ing there, you can’t help being over­whelmed with the atmos­phere of the place. It’s done me so much good to be there. There are 2 camps, one up on the hill of tara itself, and one in the woods at Rath Lugh, where the henge, known as Lis­mullin is sit­u­at­ed.

Direct action is in progress but our help is urgent­ly need­ed.

Road protests are new in Ire­land as we all know it has remained unspoiled for hun­dreds of years, so peo­ple with direct action expe­ri­ence are crit­i­cal­ly need­ed.

Nation­al Express do a fun­fare from Lon­don to Cork via Bris­tol on bus & boat from £15 each way. If there are fun­fares avail­able on dif­fer­ent routes it will offer them if you click on Europe on their home­page and put in your trav­el details.

If you take the Lon­don — Bris­tol — Cork route get off the boat at Wex­ford, take a bus or train to Dublin then the 109 bus from Busaras Sta­tion towards Navan and Kells. Tara is about 50 min­utes down this route. The dri­ver will tell you where to get off. There’s a camp phone num­ber at the bot­tom, or if you want to ask any­thing please get in touch. If you take a night cross­ing you can sleep and be at Tara by lunchtime.

If you can, please get there for Mon 6th/Tues 7th. Oth­er­wise there will be a van leav­ing Bris­tol next week, or alter­na­tive­ly, there is anoth­er wave planned for Sat­ur­day 1st Sep­tem­ber. It would be great to get a van from Lon­don and Bris­tol organ­ised. A cou­ple of surges of num­bers and a huge spread­ing the word could still avert the road plans to any of the oth­er 5, less dam­ag­ing pro­posed routes. But noth­ing i say will com­pare to the feel­ing of being there, and then under­stand­ing why we’d be doing the right thing to pro­tect it.

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Thurs­day 16 August, pro­tes­tors walked the route of the M3 motor­way to view what destruc­tion of the ancient sites in Tara Val­ley have already dis­ap­peared. Then they decid­ed on a lit­tle direct action.

20070816_Tara_Route_Walk_Direct_Action — video/x‑ms-wmv 18M

20070816_Tara_Route_Walk_Direct_Action — video/quicktime 16M

Fri­day 17 August, the Inter­na­tion­al Cul­ture Con­ser­va­tion­ists joined the Save Tara cam­paign in a human block­ade to stop the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny-backed archae­ol­o­gists from enter­ing the site.

20070917_Human_Blockades — video/x‑ms-wmv 18M
20070917_Human_Blockades — video/quicktime 14M

At 6.30am peo­ple rose on the camp to hit the road to the Lis­mullen Henge ear­ly. Using their own bod­ies they stopped all traf­fic enter­ing the site.

The human block­ade was cheer­ful and full of good spir­it. But when the Gar­da arrived one offi­cer grabbed a pro­tes­tor and attempt­ed to throw him over the wall of a bridge.

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Fol­low­ing the archae­ol­o­gist block­ade, the Save Tara activists and Inter­na­tion­al Cul­tur­al Con­ser­va­tion­ists invad­ed the Roestown site to halt work.

Video 20070717_Roestown_Site_Invasion — video/x‑ms-wmv 16M

20070717_Roestown_Site_Invasion — video/quicktime 13M

Quick­time ver­sion of the video.

15 Machines were halt­ed in the action, bring­ing work to a stand­still.

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Text mes­sages received just now, Thurs­day 6 Sep­tem­ber, said more inter­na­tion­als have arrived at Tara, tripods and lock-ons are in place at Rath Lugh.