[Stones] From Drax to Drax

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"No one is doing anything about it because no one - until now - has had the courage to stand up and say "stop". But after ten years of dormancy, the direct action movement is rising again. In the early 1990s, the scuzzy, uncivilised people (I was one) who sat in trees on the routes of new motorways helped catalyse a surge of public revulsion against the Conservatives' road-building programme. The government was forced to cut its roads budget from £23bn to £4.5bn. 
"Now the movement intends to do the same for global warming: by keeping the issue in the news and by showing that people are prepared to risk being beaten up or imprisoned for their beliefs, the protesters will help ensure that climate change can no longer be ignored. Anyone who cares about the health of the planet should wish them luck."*

Well said, and anyone who cares about the health of our ancient sites, whether at Silbury, Stonehenge, Thornborough or anywhere else, should do the same - perhaps the time has come for civil action of the disobedient kind.

* http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_monbiot/2006/08/drax.html
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