CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART THREE: SUFFOCATING SPACES OF RESISTANCE

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, BLM, campaigning, compulsory purchase orders, Crackley Woods, criminalising trespass, direct action, featured, HS2, Jellytot, land justice, occupy, privatisation, protest, public land, resistance, right to protest, right to roam, Stonehenge, Swampy, TINAAR, trespass, XR.

by Tesni Clare

For those who don’t know – and there are many who don’t, because the press have been worryingly silent on the matter until recently – there are a number of small, self-organised communities of activists living in tents and treehouses between London and Birmingham, along the proposed route of high speed railway HS2. The railway, and the protest camps, thread through some of this country’s last remaining pockets of ancient broadleaf woodland. Whilst many have been evicted, some camps have been there for over a year.

CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART TWO: OUR RIGHT TO ROAM

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #righttoroam, class, countryside, criminalising trespass, enclosure, featured, green belt, law, Nick Hayes, norfolk, private property, property, public health, rambling, right to roam, The Book of Trespass, trespass.

by Yali Banton-Heath and Tesni Clare

As part one of this series warned, the Conservative government are pushing to make trespass a criminal offence, rather than a civil one. This iron-fisted extension of the long arm of the law would not only endanger – and indeed criminalise – certain groups and their ways of life, but it would also serve to stifle our collective sense of curiosity and affinity with the natural world which surrounds us. It has the potential to jeopardise our age-old freedom to roam.

CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART ONE: SEDENTARIST IDEOLOGIES AND THE OUTLAWING OF TRAVELLING LIVES

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged Bristol, commons, criminalising trespass, featured, gypsy, new age travellers, nomads, Priti Patel, private property, privatisation, rambling, right to roam, Roma, travellers, trespass, van dwellers.

by Tesni Clare

Something strange is happening. Certain ways of life are slowly, quietly being enclosed, along with the land on which those lives depend.

Last year Priti Patel opened a consultation on ‘Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments’ ; in short, the government hopes to criminalise the act of trespassing when setting up an unauthorised encampment in England and Wales. The consultation is now closed and responses are being reviewed. The decision came as no surprise, considering Patel’s draconian desire for control over minority ways of life, along with the Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto commitment to ‘make intentional trespass a criminal offence’.

right to roam

CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART THREE: SUFFOCATING SPACES OF RESISTANCE

CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART TWO: OUR RIGHT TO ROAM

CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART ONE: SEDENTARIST IDEOLOGIES AND THE OUTLAWING OF TRAVELLING LIVES

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