| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/20, 8:00 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Today, anti-fracking protestors from Reclaim the Power have targeted Cuadrilla at locations across the United Kingdom,
shutting down their headquarters in Lichfield, their PR company in
London and the Balcombe drill site. Campaigners condemned violent
policing at the gates of the drill site, where police charged, shoved
and kettled a group that included children, people in wheelchairs,
pensioners, journalists and Member of Parliament (MP) Caroline Lucas.
“This an outrageously aggressive response to a day of principled civil disobedience,” said protestor Ewa Jasiewicz, who was at the kettle. “All
of our actions have safety, dignity and respect at their core.
Cuadrilla and the government were desperate to discredit fracking
opponents. We offered them no aggression, so they are creating it
themselves.”
Actions began at 8 a.m., when the central London headquarters of Bell Pottinger, the PR company behind Cuadrilla’s controversial fracking
operation in Sussex, were blocked by six activists using superglue and
reinforced arm tubes. Another activist climbed the building and unfurled
a banner reading: BELL POTTINGER—FRACKING LIARS. The campaigners used a
sound system to play an undercover recording in which a Bell Pottinger
spin doctor admits the company’s pro-fracking PR offensive “sounds like
utter f###ing bulls###.”
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