Forest of Dean occupied eco-school still going strong

[Tony Gosling]

Wilderness Centre Going Strong - Reclaim The Fields
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/03/493399.html
Apok | 11.03.2012 17:11 | Ecology | Education | Social Struggles
The Wilderness Centre Reclamation is stronger 
than ever, with people from the massively 
successful Reclaim the Fields Gathering still at 
the site, helping Protect The Wilderness hold the 
space down, and defend it from the Council and 
the friends in the Property Development "world".
Please come up and help us protect this centre, 
and the surrounding land -which is absolutely 
beautiful- come down as soon as you can. A wider 
project is in the process of being born -more news on that soon!
This fight is FAR from over. We're holding 
strong, Protect the Wilderness has gone all Robin 
Hood on the Council and their thugs, we've been 
busy building Treehouses and other defences to 
help protect the Centre and the surrounding Eco-systems.
Thew whole community of the Forest of Dean wants 
this centre to remain open, and for 
Gloucestershire County Council to say "raise 
£1million, and we'll talk to you", to the people 
of the Forest, is insulting. This is OUR Centre, 
OUR Forests and Wild Flower Meadows and OUR 
education at stake. This sale, combined with that 
of another rare habitat, Northern United Colliery 
will set a precedent, opening The Forest of Dean, 
up for a new wave of Privatisation and so called "Development".
We're are hosting skillshare events daily now, so 
if you want to learn or share your skills with 
the community, come on up whenever you can. 
Treehouse building equipment -rope, wood, chains- 
needed (especially wood) lets show the Council 
that they can't just take our land, our education, and our rights.
STAND UP FORESTERS
They're trying to sell OUR Forests piece-by-piece 
after we scared them off trying to sell it all in one go!


Campaigners 'breach court order' at Forest of Dean centre
BBC - 9 March 2012 Last updated at 17:33
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-17305852
Campaigners occupying a disused environmental 
education centre in the Forest of Dean are 
holding an event, despite a court order.
An injunction was issued on Monday to evict the 
group from The Wilderness Centre, which was 
closed last year by the county council.
Protect the Wilderness is holding a two-day anti-capitalist gathering.
Gloucestershire County Council said the group was 
"in breach of the injunction, which is a criminal offence".
The group Protect the Wilderness claims the legal 
process leading to the eviction was flawed and 
their members intend to stay at the site.
Spokesman Thom Forester said: "The council's 
legal case has so many holes in it and they've 
ignored their own procedures and rushed it 
through, and the judge just rubber stamped it."
The council closed the centre at Mitcheldean last 
August because of budget cuts.

Barrier erected
About 12 protesters from Protect the Wilderness 
have been occupying the property since January.
They say the site "belongs to the people" and 
they want to reopen it to the public.
The Reclaim the Fields gathering, which began on 
Thursday, says it is part of a movement which 
aims to "reassume control over food production".
Protect the Wilderness said about 60 people had turned up to the event.
Some of them erected a barrier at the site in an 
attempt to stop the group being evicted.
Ahead of the gathering Andrew McCartney from the 
county council said: "We're pleased the court has 
found in our favour on all accounts, that 
includes an injunction preventing the planned 
Reclaim the Fields spring gathering from going ahead.
"We will now be working with the court bailiffs 
and the police to take the next steps and remove the squatters from the site.
"We hope that they will adhere to this order and 
leave the site peacefully as promised."
A separate campaign group, Friends of the 
Wilderness, challenged the council's decision to 
close the centre last year in the High Court, but the challenge failed.
It is currently in discussions with the council 
about buying the centre with a view to reopening it.

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