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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:25:27 +0100 (BST)<br><br>
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<dd>Dear all,<br>
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<dd>There will be a mass trespass on the Brighton Downs on Saturday 24th
July, with a preceding webinar on Thursday 15th July to debate the issues
of access to our countryside.<br><br>
<dd>Check out these links BELOW and make sure you SIGN UP at the website
for further updates and information. Please SPREAD THE MESSAGE.<br><br>
<dd>The day will be peaceful and fun, and with new delights to see
!<br><br>
<dd>dave bangs
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<h2><b>JOIN US FOR A MASS TRESPASS!<br><br>
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</b></h2><h4><b>Saturday 24th July 2021</b></h4>The fate of our Brighton
Downs sharply symbolises the fate of much of our modern private
countryside.<br><br>
Within the lifetimes of our oldest people living today the South Downs
used to be a ‘Landscape of Freedom’, with great open scented, flowery
pastures, rolling, close-cropped ‘sheep walks’ – largely unfenced – over
which people could freely wander, whilst Skylarks made music in the
heavens above our heads.<br><br>
To be sure, the mad economics of imperial food policy and the craziness
of two world wars had seen these biodiverse ‘chalk grasslands’ greatly
neglected in a century of agricultural depression, then turned into army
training ranges, and cleared and destroyed by dig-for-victory and
post-war ploughing.<br><br>
Even now there are nearly two hundred shattered fragments of these
pastures surviving locally… mostly on slopes too steep to plough… mostly
in poor condition… mostly unknown to us all.<br><br>
<b>We lost our freedom to wander. We lost most of this hugely-rich
ecosystem…this ‘rainforest in miniature’.<br><br>
We were driven from the places we’d played in as children.<br><br>
NOW we want our Landscape of Freedom back!<br><br>
</b>This July a new alliance of free walkers, local and national, are
organising a <b>peaceful mass trespass on Saturday 24th July,
10.30am</b>, to re-connect with our local Downland.<br><br>
‘Landscapes of Freedom’ is a new local activist group, organising with
and in support of the national <a href="http://righttoroam.org.uk/">Right
to Roam campaign</a>.<br><br>
This is in the tradition of the campaign of peaceful mass trespasses that
were organised to support government proposals for a limited right to
roam in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000)… and in the
tradition of the famous Kinder Scout mass trespass of 1932.<br><br>
Come join us for fun and celebration of our threatened Downland
wildlife…for:<br><br>
<b>‘What the eye cannot see the heart cannot grieve over’<br>
WE WANT OUR LANDSCAPE OF FREEDOM BACK!<br><br>
<h3><b>THURSDAY 15th JULY</b></h3>Online event / talks, spoken word,
song<br><br>
(More details to follow soon).<br><br>
<h3><b>SATURDAY 24TH JULY</b></h3>All day walk and picnic<br><br>
TIME: 10.30am<br><br>
PLACE: TO BE ANNOUNCED NEARER THE TIME<br><br>
WATCH THIS SPACE: landscapesoffreedom@gmail.com<br><br>
<b>To stay updated, please also visit our social media sites and the
hashtags #LandscapesOfFreedom and #Right2Roam<br><br>
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Supporting the Right to Roam across the South Downs
<ul>
<li><a href="https://landscapesoffreedom.com/blog/">LATEST NEWS</a>
<li><a href="https://landscapesoffreedom.com/about/">ABOUT US</a>
<li><a href="https://landscapesoffreedom.com/about-freeroaming/">ABOUT
FREE WALKING</a>
<li><a href="https://landscapesoffreedom.com/get-involved/">GET
INVOLVED!</a>
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<h1><b>ABOUT US</b></h1>Landscapes of Freedom is an exciting new
collective of people passionate about ensuring public access to the South
Downs.<br>
We believe it is fundamentally wrong that 92% of all of England’s land
and 97% of its waterways are off limits to the general public. We are
campaigning for a Right to Roam so that people across the nation can have
access to the countryside, just like in Scotland today.<br><br>
Here in Sussex the limited right to roam on unimproved down pasture and
heath introduced in the year 2000 has brought only minor enlargements of
access land. Most of our countryside, including most of our Downs, remain
inaccessible. This includes areas which are officially ‘access land’ but
can only be accessed through trespassing!<br><br>
This movement is determinedly non-hierarchical, intersectional and
justice based. We affirm an anti-discriminatory vision and mission. We
know about the brutal legacies of enclosure, slavery and colonialism
which have propped up the British aristocracy for centuries and have
simultaneously severed people, particularly those most marginalised, from
the land, while lining the pockets and expanding the estates of the
richest. Once again, it is those made poor and disposessed who have had
to pay for the crimes of the richest.<br><br>
The countryside belongs to us all and Landscapes of Freedom is committed
to a campaign for public land centered around intersectional justice for
all communities. We are a peaceful campaign which is determined to help
preserve Downland for future generations and which recognises the
importance of biodiversity and people’s connection to the natural world
as being central in the global struggle for climate justice.<br><br>
For more information about fellow organisations also working on land
justice, please visit:<br><br>
<a href="https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/">The Right to Roam</a> – “A
national campaign to expand the Countryside & Rights of Way (CRoW)
Act in England so that millions more people can have easy access to open
space, and the physical, mental and spiritual health benefits that it
brings.”<br>
<a href="https://landinournames.community/">Land in Our Names – LION</a>
– “A grassroots Black-led collective committed to reparations in Britain
by connecting land and climate justice with racial justice.”<br><br>
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