Ratcliffe on Trial Info Night- Saturday 13th November after People's Kitchen

In the early hours of April 13th 2009 a highly expensive and widely
condemned policing operation saw 114 climate campaigners arrested on
suspicion of conspiring to commit aggravated trespass and criminal
damage. In what has been deemed the largest ever ‘pre-emptive’ arrest,
hundreds of police burst into a meeting room where plans were being made
to safely shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the UK’s second largest coal
fired power station.
All charges were dropped for the majority of the 114, but 26 have been
committed to Nottingham Crown Court on a charge of conspiracy to commit
aggravated trespass. All entered a plea of not guilty.

20 are on trial from November 22nd 2010 and admit that they planned to
shut down the power station, but argue that they are not guilty because
they were acting to prevent the greater crimes of death and serious
injury caused by climate change.

Six others are being tried in January 2011 and are pleading not guilty
since they hadn’t decided to take part in the action at the time of
arrest.

We'll hear two defendants from the first trial discuss their experience
over the last 18 months, find out how the legal process happens in the
case like this, and what the issues are. There will also be some
discussion of the issues surrounding the second trial.