BLACKWOOD EVICTION UNDERWAY NOW!!!!

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BLACKWOOD EVICTION UNDERWAY NOW!!!! PEOPLE GET DOWN THERE!!!!
by ANARCHOTEAPOT, 13.02.2004 
posted to Indymedia at 11:31am
ref: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/02/285290.html

BLACKWOOD ANTI-ROAD CAMP IS BEING EVICTED NOW!!!! NETWORK IT AND GET 
BODIES DOWN THERE!!!

EVICTION UNDERWAY NOW!!!! 

URGENT request for someone to set up a BREAKING NEWS feature...(don't 
know how to...). Have had phone calls from south wales that Costains 
have, overnight, got a licence to continue trashing the woods even 
though there was an instruction to stop from the Countryside 
Commission for Wales, via the Welsh Assembly, because of dormouse 
colonies (and bat roosts) on the route. Apparently one night is all 
it takes to overcome any legal objections to massacring wildlife. The 
Permanent campers had left site as a result of the dodgy 'Harry 
Potter' injunction brought against them, and so the site was 
unoccupied when the contractors moved in this morning. Unsure whether 
people are still occupying the strip of land which was still in the 
posssession on a local landowner, but requisitioned by Costains for 
their road working...trying to organise getting down to site from 
lancaster...but people need to get bodies down there NOW to see what 
is salvagable. Big modified JCB with tree-crunching arm has made it 
out of its compound and through barricades to camp. Mucho 
destruction. This is an AROOOGA... 

Network it as far as possible but for god's sake get down 
there...more bodies on site before now might have avoided this...


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more info
13.02.2004 11:46

more details from Cardiff, the licence to work on the dormouse 
colonies has definitely been granted (but people are presuming 
they'll have to make some show of moving them (in the bucket of a 
JCB) before trashing those sections of the woods. There is still a 
camp, but as a result of the injunction against the campers, there's 
been something of a 'tactical withdrawal', i.e. shifting the camp 
from where it was (right against the route, across the track which is 
needed for JCB etc access) and up the slopes a bit into the disputed 
strip of land. The call has come out from the people on site, who are 
getting severely burnt out and are now facing the digger with its 
tree-munching arm on their own. They have been advised to stay put in 
section six areas and wait for legal challenges to the injunction to 
move on (how can you be injuncted to stay away from your legal 
home?), but need sorted/experienced campaigners to get down there and 
consolidate the camp before it falls apart.... 

anarchoteapot 



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MORE INFO
13.02.2004 12:00

The camp is still there, it has been shifted up the hill in a 
tactical withdrawal from the costains, injuncted land to the strip 
with disputed ownership, the 'easement' land beyond costain's, which 
they need for working on. The monster JCB with tree-
crushing/snapping/trashing attachments has made it out of its 
compound and down to the woods despite various tactics to keep it in 
its cave, and destruction can now continue apace. the campers there 
need support, in consolidating the shifted camp and trying to stop 
work. get down there people....

anarchoteapot