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LEAN DEAN FIGHTING MACHINE

The Forest of Dean is under imminent threat as once again the Government proposes to put it on the market. The Public Bodies Bill, a far-reaching piece of legislation already in the House of Lords will enable the sale of Forestry Commission land.

Over 3,000 people mobilised on Monday (3rd) to express their dissent and vow to protect one of Britain’s most ancient woodlands and largest oak forest. The crowds marched, belted out songs and burned an effigy of Big Ben to illustrate their view of Westminster. A petition with more than 110,000 signatures is in circulation against the coalition’s future plans for the Forestry Commission.

The Forest of Dean is one of thirty crown forests that are scheduled to be emancipated from the Forestry Commission’s evil clutches and delivered into the loving arms of power hungry, profit-seeking developers. According to the Government, the plan is to both cut the overall number of public bodies and make year-on-year savings of £1bn by reducing the cost of ‘bureaucracy’.

Unfortunately its not just gonna be paper cuts this time round. Large chunks of the 650,000 acre Forestry Commission land may be sold to real estate developers and construction companies that will limit access to the forest and hack down as many trees as possible.

Check the website for HOOF (Hands Off Our Forest) campaign for more information on preventing the forest sell off and updates.

* See www.handsoffourforest.org



 
 

The following comments have been left on this story by other SchNEWS readers...

Added on 18th January 2011 at 06:48 by STEPHEN BARTRUP

LEAVE YOUR HIPPY PACIFISM AT HOME, THIS IS GOING TO BE A REAL FIGHT, WILL THE BRIGHTON MOB REALLY FIGHT ,AND I MEAN FIGHT, I AM, FUCKIT, ITS A GOOD DAY TO DIE FOR MOTHER EARTH


Added on 9th January 2011 at 18:47 by Warren Peace

The Forest of Dean and other forests belong to us all, so anyone near any public forest should also rally around it... we've lit the first beacon in the Forest of Dean, now it's your turn. Stop them from stealing OUR green lungs


Added on 9th January 2011 at 14:28 by Dean Forester

We'll fight 'em among the beaches,
We'll maim 'em in amongst the yews,
Make tremble, these fiat renting leaches,
Launch more with raging temper, than projectile shoes.

Yes we'll protect our forest, our boar and dear its true,
If ya try to end our nature, our nature will end you.

They must have been too busy buggering each other in robes at Eton to read the history of dissent and rebellion in the Forest of Dean.


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