Message from WAR camp:
Finally- lawyers are going into the defense of Wendover Active Resistance camp (& therefore the risk HS2 poses to the aquifer which supplies London's drinking water) with real tenacity.
There's also a 30 minute job that everyone can do to help! (1)
The council have justified their decision to evict based on allegations that residents of the camp are violent. These will be challenged directly. The lawyers have asked for as many emails as possible to be sent to the council explaining clearly that ... (2)
... the protestors aren't the violent ones.
Please write to the council telling them your experiences.
What have you witnessed? You can tell them about all the people who've been assaulted.
Have you been assaulted by HS2/ NET/ TVP? (3)
Please make your emails as relevant to the Wendover Active Resistance community as possible- do you know them? Can you vouch for them?
There has been more than enough of the accusations, dishonestly calling the protectors violent as an excuse to beat them up! (4)
Please send to:
joan.hancox@buckinghamshire.gov.uk (although she is out of office until Weds), so you can also email the following:
Transport Strategy-Suzanne Winkels - Suzanne.Winkels@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Highways Infrastructure Projects-Ian McGowan - Ian.McGowan@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
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For HS2/EWR - Laura Leech - Laura.Leech@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
CC - cedarwood.andrew@gmail.com
It will be sent on to the lawyers.
If you've already emailed, did they reply? Please, follow it up
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This weekend we are continuing to clean up the riverside camp at Denham. All help is gratefully received and massively appreciated.
We always try to stick to the motto "leave no trace."
Sometimes, for example when violent evictions take place, we don't have the opportunity
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to tidy up as we like. (Sometimes we don't even have time to collect our own personal belongings!)
We know this is then used as a criticism against us. Often by vested interests in the right-wing press or HS2's publicly funded PR accounts on Twitter.
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It seems there are even some interesting people out there who think a protest camp in the woods is worse than £200bn of ecocide leaving a scar through the heart of our country.
So, we invite everyone to join us this weekend as we continue to make good on our promises.
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📢Less than 24 hours left to block the government's new anti-protest bill! #ActNow & join us to stop this from happening. Without protest, women would not have the vote; people of colour would not have equal rights; we would not have declared a climate emergency....
...& many of the ancient woodlands currently being protected by #StopHS2 activists would already have been felled. Protest is vital in democracy. This new bill represents a dangerous & frightening lurch towards authoritarianism & fascism....
Is this really the moment we want to be giving the police MORE powers? Did we go through Brexit simply so that our government could begin removing our rights and freedoms without European oversight?
We cannot let this happen.
Read below @MayorofLondon@SadiqKhan's response to an email, urging him to #StopHS2 & protect the lives and rights of the protesters underground at Euston. Clearly shows his brazen lack of care and denial to the present situation happening in the city he is meant to represent:
"No matter what your views are on the construction of #HS2, the excavation of makeshift tunnels at Euston is not a safe way to protest. These protestors are putting themselves, #HS2 staff & the general public in danger, as well as increasing pressure on the emergency services ...
... at a very difficult time. The Mayor believes that tackling climate change & improving rail services across the UK are not mutually exclusive goals & that encouraging greater use of public transport is good for the environment."
We need to continue putting pressure on ...