Mainshill Solidarity Camp solidifies as local support grows
Mainshill Solidarity Camp | 20.06.2009 11:06 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces
Local people have shown enthusiastic support from the start. Many culinary delights have already been donated and gratefully received.
People turned up throughout the day to show their support. One local resident exclaimed, "We're so glad you're here!"
There will be a Tea Party and open day on Sunday 28th June, from 3pm. Families and others from the surrounding areas will be invited to partake in fun and games whilst learning about how a protest site is run and about what can be done to protect the local environment and prevent runaway climate change.
Banners visible from the road have been erected at the site, highlighting the fundamentally anti-democratic way in which the planning process has ridden roughshod over the wishes of the local communities.
Activist Marcus Anderson comments, "Mainshill Solidarity Camp highlights how community resistance and direct action go hand in hand in securing a future for generations to come".
The site will continue to grow as awareness increases of what is being done to the people and environment of Scotland, and what can be done by people themselves to stop catastrophic climate change.
Mainshill Solidarity Camp
e-mail:
coalactionedinburgh@riseup.net
Homepage:
http://coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk
Comments
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masking up can have a point...
20.06.2009 13:29
in solidarity
hiding in my armchair
google........
20.06.2009 22:30
anon
agreed
20.06.2009 22:40
It's pointless masking up if you are gonna do it like that.
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Community relations...
21.06.2009 16:59
I've just returned home from the site and have been pleasantly surprised at the gratitude from the locals who are 'sick and tired of being shafted' by the corruption and lack of attention paid to their needs as a community.
I've never seen so much help being established so quickly at an action site - one local lady delivered us chocolate cake for breakfast and others are regularly handing in equipment with food and water.
Well done guys!
Support is needed for early tomorrow where threats have been made to enter the land and start using machinery...
Dragon