Reasons to be Fearful… 1,2,3+ by Tina Rothery
Like so many in this movement, my sister Julie and I have waded through huge amounts of research over the years …lots of late night sharing and morning cuppa chats that tear pieces out of the subject till they make some sense. I thought I’d pause and[…]
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By December 2, 2017 Category: Fracking News No Comments 
To all at Preston New Road… we’ve faced this situation time and again for 6 years as evidenced in this beautiful memory showing the welcome from residents of Balcombe …to Protectors at BALCOMBE COMMUNITY PROTECTION CAMP.
Misinformation in the press, agitators sent by PR companies to divide us, challenges never before encountered and[…]
By August 4, 2017 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
The Lock-On Song by Tim Williams
The people have said no you know
And that’s how it’s gotta be.
You stand there in your power
It’s a moment of destiny.
You simply will not let them
Desecrate the earth
You know you cannot let them
Release their deadly curse.
Something deep inside of you
Knows[…]
By August 3, 2017 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
We can’t stop this industry by just locking-on or jumping on trucks by Tina Louise Rothery
We can’t stop this industry by just locking-on or jumping on trucks – BUT we don’t stand a chance at all, if we don’t take direct action. Since fracking companies started threatening our communities over 6 years ago… we[…]
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By August 1, 2017 Category: Fracking News No Comments
By Melanie
The lesson of history is that radical social change is achieved by people working together and confronting the dominant power structures over a sustained period of time. The suffragettes, the civil rights activists, LGBT movement, to name a few, have all employed direct action to achieve recognition of their rights. The[…]
By May 19, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News, News, Press releases No Comments
“..if you succeed in de-carbonising Europe, our crops will have no natural gas to grow from. We have to have carbon dioxide. This is madness. Absolute madness what you are suggesting and our industry – our agriculture industry – is going to suffer heavily if we attempt to bury carbon dioxide in the ground. It[…]
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By April 8, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News No Comments
New report: Health & Fracking: the impacts & opportunity costs
Excellent new report by public health charity Medact – health professionals demand immediate moratorium to fracking due to its extreme health risks. They stop short of demanding a full ban but the implications of the report lead to that conclusion – fracking is inherently dangerous[…]
By April 4, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News No Comments
Gold Plated Human Rights? By Ashman Dan
Human Rights were created to protect the people from the power of the state in acknowledgement of the scale of harm that too much concentrated power can cause. When the state is ordering those who are meant to enforce human rights not to respect them in order for[…]
By March 30, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News, Legal, Occupy Law No Comments
The climate crisis is the defining issue of our times and will take centre-stage in world politics in 2015. Our economic system puts profits before people and is destroying the natural systems that keep us alive. It has brought us to the precipice of catastrophic climate change. Because the real solutions empower people and threaten[…]
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By March 29, 2015 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News, Livestream, News, Stop TTIP, CETABlockers, TISA No Comments
