The Beltane Fire Society celebrated every year the start of summer on the 30th of april on top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh with Theatre show and Fire Shows.
This year, due to the spiralling costs mainly due to the Council, the celebrations have been cancelled.
However, although the official celebrations have been cancelled, the police and the council try to prevent anybody to have a private pagan celebration by police force...
Here is a call of Resistance!
This year, due to the spiralling costs mainly due to the Council, the celebrations have been cancelled.
However, although the official celebrations have been cancelled, the police and the council try to prevent anybody to have a private pagan celebration by police force...
Here is a call of Resistance!
RECLAIM THE HILL!
Tonight's Evening News reports that Edinburgh City Council are banning access to Calton Hill from 6pm to 6am on Beltane night/ May Day morning. Security guards, council staff and police are being deployed to prevent unofficial celebrations. This follows the Council effectively preventing the Beltane Fire Society staging their usual celebrations.
This is outrageous. The Council spend a fortune on commercial tourist oriented festivals, eg at Hogmanay, to fill the pockets of hotel, restaurant and bar owners and boost business profits.
Now they are spending our money to try and stop the citizens of Edinburgh enjoying ourselves on our own hill!
They must not get away with this. Reclaim the hill!
Gather at the entrances to Calton Hill on Beltane, wed 30 April, at 10pm.
Some folk are meeting at ACE first, between 8pm and 9pm.
tel 557 6242.
Bring torches, warm clothes, drums, instruments, whistles, noisemakers, vacuum flask, what you hope to find.
As we reported in our last e mail, a contingent are going to the Hill as part of the ongoing resistance to the occupation of Iraq and Palestine - made even more urgent by the latest news that US soldiers have shot dead 13 people during a demonstration in Iraq.
Evening news web site
http://www.edinburghnews.com - article on tues 29 april
AN E MAIL FROM THE AUTONOMOUS CENTRE OF EDINBURGH
17 west montgomery place , off Brunswick Road.
0131 557 6242
Tonight's Evening News reports that Edinburgh City Council are banning access to Calton Hill from 6pm to 6am on Beltane night/ May Day morning. Security guards, council staff and police are being deployed to prevent unofficial celebrations. This follows the Council effectively preventing the Beltane Fire Society staging their usual celebrations.
This is outrageous. The Council spend a fortune on commercial tourist oriented festivals, eg at Hogmanay, to fill the pockets of hotel, restaurant and bar owners and boost business profits.
Now they are spending our money to try and stop the citizens of Edinburgh enjoying ourselves on our own hill!
They must not get away with this. Reclaim the hill!
Gather at the entrances to Calton Hill on Beltane, wed 30 April, at 10pm.
Some folk are meeting at ACE first, between 8pm and 9pm.
tel 557 6242.
Bring torches, warm clothes, drums, instruments, whistles, noisemakers, vacuum flask, what you hope to find.
As we reported in our last e mail, a contingent are going to the Hill as part of the ongoing resistance to the occupation of Iraq and Palestine - made even more urgent by the latest news that US soldiers have shot dead 13 people during a demonstration in Iraq.
Evening news web site
http://www.edinburghnews.com - article on tues 29 april AN E MAIL FROM THE AUTONOMOUS CENTRE OF EDINBURGH
17 west montgomery place , off Brunswick Road.
0131 557 6242
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28.09.2003 12:57
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Angel in Hertfordshire sad as no people on the hill to look after!
04.01.2007 18:28
I came to Edinburgh for the first time on Dec 3rd 2006 and by rule of thumb I usually feel dreadful in cities, esp coming from Se. London, but what a beautiful place to be, I did not want to leave on the 6th . Being a crystal and angel healer and of interested in becoming more in tune by celebrating mother nature's miracles, I was excited when I was told by a wonderful young man in The Royal Mile Whiskey's that The Beltane Fire festival was an amazing celebration, as the energy was vibrant, and when I also heard that there would be a protest about the occupation of forces in Iraq and Palestine I really wanted to show my support.
I come from a very family of 8 who are all peace loving healers, activists, animal lovers and anti-war demonstrators (all of us work as hard in 9-5 occupations but derive pleasure from giving what we can of ourselves to the local community and of course further afield in our spare time) It is heart warming to know that there are so many like-minded individuals out there tirelessly campaigning for peace!
I will still come and stay in Edinburgh and I shall bring who I can to the hill to help you promote love, tolerance and understanding about this catastrophe of a war. I hope the Govt have not become to vigilante by the 30th April to chill out and let us express how we feel.
God bless each and every one of you and may you get your message across peacefully.
With much love and admiration
Anna AKA (Angel) xxx
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