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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 13:47:55 +0100
From: Earth First
To: roadalert@gn.apc.org
Subject: Action Update - June email edition
YOU'LL NEVER STOP IT YOU KNOW
You won't need much analytical skill to work out the victory at Stringers
Common where Surrey County Council have completely backed down and abandoned
their plans to widen the A320. They faced a protracted battle in the trees
and tunnels of five camps on the site and decided that it just wasn't worth
it. This saves them quite a bit of cash but more importantly the
determination and committment of the Direct Action movement in this case has
saved an SSSI, a pond and 221 mature trees all held together in an
established eco-system.
Part of the success has to go to the growing acceptance that people are
right to fight for real progress and that it's not something which is going
to go away. One of the campaigners at Stringers Common said, "the public
are waking up to the realisation that more roads can only be bad news for
the environment and our health.
This is a victory not only for the local people around Stringers Common
but for everyone that has dared to stand up to car culture, from Twyford
Down, to the M11 through to Newbury and the proposed Bingley Bypass. If
the camps had not been here this road would have gone ahead. The cost of
evictions has made it impossible and direct activists arrived leaving the
common safe for future generations of people and wildlife.
road protests 1997
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