Tara

Nice to talk to so many great people at the conference today....see some you in Reading next weekend for Green Party conference...the last GPEW conference condemned the motorway through Tara. Lets keep up the pressure.

Stonehenge demolished to make way for billion $ housing estate...the Pyramids for a new Asda Walmart...Jerusalem smashed for a car park...Europe's prehistoric jewel nixed for an autobahn....people get ready and stop this.

This is from Schnews, I love them more than organic chocolate:




HENGE AND RACKET

The battle to stop the motorway set to trash the area around the Hill
Of Tara, Ireland (see SchNEWS 585, 597), is getting more urgent by the
day as a third of the roadworks is already done - ahead of schedule
even. In some of the worst archaeological trashing since US tanks
trampled over 5000-year-old Sumerian relics during the Iraq invasion,
the Hill Of Tara is one of the most important sites in Europe, yet
suffering carnage. A motorway junction is being built which plows through
a complex of monuments going back from 2000BC to 1200AD, including
burial mounds, a henge, and other religious enclosures.

This week a high court action was launched aimed at protecting the
Lismullin national monument near Tara. Gordon Lucas is seeking an
injunction and declaration that the National Monuments Act 2004 - which
gives the loopholes for such developments - is in breach of EU law.
Meanwhile, as we speak there is digging equipment on the Lismullen henge -
discovered only last year - which contains building work more than
4000 years old.

See www.themodernantiquarian.com
www.tarapixie.net and www.tarawatch.org

URGENT CALL OUT: People with bottle are urge to go and take direct
action to stop the destruction now! There are protesters on the ground
but numbers are low. Benefit gigs are planned to contribute towards
transport costs getting people over to Tara. If you're interested in
going please email us schnews@brighton.co.uk