Jonathan Moses: Right To Roam Skillshare, Hamilton House, Bristol 08 Feb 2023
Channel: NOT The BCfm Politics Show, Bristol, UK
Date: 2023-02-15

Jonathan Moses, from Right to Roam, on his skill sharing course on your rights to roam. Discussion about GDP being made to increase as basic living costs are forced up, not due to increased productivity at all any more. UK just avoids recession – economic growth. Michael Hudson – low GDP lifestyle can be a better quality of life. The Right to Roam is an ancient custom that allows anyone to wander in open countryside, whether the land is privately or publicly owned. In countries such as Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Scotland it has existed as a common right, a defining concept of nationhood, and has only recently been codified into law. Central to all versions of it across Europe is that: 1) there are sensible, listed exceptions and modifications to this right; and 2) this right only comes with strict responsibilities to both the ecology and community of an area. The Right to Roam is really just a definition of private property that is different to England. There are still major landowners in Norway, Counts in Sweden, Lords in Scotland who own many hundreds of thousands of acres. Their ownership of the land, however, while it allows them to take rent, mine and make money from the land, does not include the right to exclude every other member of the public. In these countries, the Right to Roam is considered so important to the health and mental well-being of a nation, that it supercedes that peculiarly English stipulation of property: the right to exclude. Instead, every person has a right to explore these vast open spaces, to sleep there, to kayak, swim, climb, ride horses and cycle.

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2023/02/09/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-126/

Hardcore winter occupiers at the Stonehenge Protest Camp: Goldie from Save Stonehenge Heritage Action Protest Camp - Stonehenge Heritage Action Group (SHAG) is an autonomous, eco-anarcho protection camp based within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. We are resisting the proposed 'Stonehenge tunnel' First off, big ups tk everybody who has supported this space in realising it's intentions and values, and finding a voice. We are grateful for all of the invisible and visible work that has gone into this camp and campaign. For every dish washed up, every skill shared and all the FINT-hours maintaining the camp! - We have been blessed by everyone who has passed through our gates (even you Toby!) and every sunrise in this landscape. We did not expect to have two years of building community and we have loved every moment. - SHAG feels like part of an ecosystem of resistance and is the first space that has felt like a home for lots of us.

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