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Leave it in the Ground… in Court and a protest

Leave it in the Ground | 26.06.2008 22:51 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Last week papers were served on the occupants at Bodge House to appear in Court on Monday 30th June at Derby Combined Courts, The Morledge Derby.

Come and show your support with a fun little protest at 9 am












Under the cover of darkness on 18th June, climate campaigners from ‘Leave it in the Ground’ occupied the UK Coal’s Lodge House site in Derbyshire by barricading themselves in a disused farm building and taken to the trees on the site of the proposed open cast mine.

Activists secured themselves in the Prospect Farm building, on the site which is about to be devastated by huge machines, according to one local we have stopped 30 people from working on the site, who are eagerly waiting for the go ahead to start stripping the earth away so the timing was spot on! The protesters have claimed squatter’s rights.

The proposed open cast mine is a 122 hector area and will have 1 million tonnes of coal ripped out of rural Derbyshire

For the latest info check the blog  http://leaveitintheground.wordpress.com

Leave it in the Ground
- e-mail: derby@earthfirst.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.leaveitintheground.org.uk

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  1. EUROPES OPENCAST — Davey
  2. Green jobs — idler
  3. beginnings of important conversation — stuffit
  4. jobs or...a planet to live on???! — Rabid environmentalist
  5. Enlist the workers in saving the planet — idler
  6. both sides need to come out of their ghettos — green socialist
  7. coalitions between unions and ecology — stuffit
  8. you have got it wrong. — Fly Posters
  9. Playing into the nuclear lobby's hands — anti-nuke
  10. Urgent Dialectic — Squatticus