Twyford Down was the birthplace of ecological direct action in the UK and environmental campaigns of today have been shaped by the events that took place there. In this new, and inspiring history of the Twyford Rising, it is the activists who tell their story through words, photographs and leaflets. It is the best kind of history.
As co-author and activist Helen Beynon says “”What happened at Twyford Down was one of many beginnings for an enviromental movement that now takes confidently to the streets on issues of climate change and the extinction of species. The people who stopped the bulldozers there, who camped on the route of the road, who developed tactics for blockading and locking themselves to machinery, see the legacy of their actions now in a growing chorus of voices demanding to be heard.”
Twyford Down is in southern England, near Winchester, which was designated as part…
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