Goldie at Save Stonehenge Heritage Action Protest Camp Jan/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.

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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Free public transport. Turkey & Syria earthquake. PMQs Big Brother Watch on Brigade 77 and other Government spying groups. Dan Sabbagh Guardian article – criminalising free speech – National security bill will have ‘chilling effect’ on investigative journalism in UK Guy Black, deputy chair of Telegraph newspapers, says draft legislation sets too low a bar on what constitutes spying The UK’s proposed national security bill could have a “chilling effect” on investigative journalism because it sets too low a bar on what constitutes spying, the deputy chair of the Telegraph newspapers has warned. Guy Black told the House of Lords that he was concerned the draft legislation could “potentially criminalise” reporters and whistleblowers because it says simply that a crime is committed if it “may materially assist a foreign intelligence service”. The Conservative peer highlighted a string of investigations that he feared could be at risk, including the Panama Papers, published by the Guardian and others, which revealed how the global rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes. Others that could fall foul of the new law, if unamended, Lord Black said were “straightforward reporting, such as that by the Telegraph on Chinese influence in the UK,” an account in the Mail of the “horrific experiences” of female submariners or a BBC report about “a spy who used his status to terrorise his partner”. “You could see how arguments might be made about any of these being potentially of use to a foreign intelligence service,” Black told peers debating the bill at committee stage. The problem arose, he said because of “the wide definitions” used at key points in the bill. An offence is deemed to have occurred if a person “engages in conduct that it is reasonably possible may materially assist a foreign intelligence service” and “knows, or ought reasonably to know, that it is reasonably possible their conduct may materially assist” such a spy agency…..

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