Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down:

Marking twenty years since Twyford Down | Campaign for Better Transport

Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down:

10 September 2012: Becca Lush Blum writes about her experiences at Twyford Down and the threat of new road-building plans. Join our protest on 29th September to commemorate the anniversary. It’s now 20 years since I first chained myself to a digger when the M3 motorway was bulldozed through Twyford Down in Hampshire, near where I grew up. Whilst I’ve changed a lot in that time, unfortunately this current Government still seems wedded to roadbuilding. The incendiary protests at Twyford Down in 1992 lit the fuse of the modern environmental direct action protest movement. The roots of the current climate protests stretch right back to these early road protests. We were protesting against the Conservative’s ‘Roads for Prosperity’ plans, which they said were the “biggest road-building programme since the Romans”. The M3 through Twyford Down was the most destructive of the schem...

Full article: http://bettertransport.org.uk/blogs/roads/100912-twyford-20

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@RichardHebditch » 26 Sep '12, 12pm
RT @manukaclub: 20th anniversary of Twyford Down protests. Read the story here or join the rally this w/e [link]
@manukaclub » 26 Sep '12, 12pm
20th anniversary of Twyford Down protests. Read the story here or join the rally this w/e [link]
@Roads2Nowhere » 19 Sep '12, 4pm
@christt ...details on Becca's blog here: [link] And do get in touch - [email protected]
@Roads2Nowhere » 15 Sep '12, 7pm
Mark 20 years since Twyford Down with us in two weeks, and help stop a new wave of destructive new roads: [link]
@CleanAirUK » 11 Sep '12, 2pm
RT @Roads2Nowhere: Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down: [link]
@Roads2Nowhere » 11 Sep '12, 1pm
Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down: [link]
@jossgarman » 11 Sep '12, 12pm
20 years since the Twyford Down roads protests. Nice blog from Becca Lush who was jailed for her part in the actions [link]
@StephenJoseph7 » 27 Sep '12, 1pm
RT @manukaclub: 20th anniversary of Twyford Down protests. Read the story here or join the rally this w/e [link]
@CBTransport » 11 Sep '12, 2pm
RT @Roads2Nowhere: Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down: [link]
@griffinkate » 11 Sep '12, 2pm
RT @Roads2Nowhere: Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down: [link]

Marking twenty years since Twyford Down | Campaign for Better Transport

Come and join our protest this month about new roads - marking 20 years since Twyford Down:

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