"Turning Trespass from a Crime into a Right" Right to Roam Campaign
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English - October 10, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBPolitics News green new deal climate change environment environmentalism socialism politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you've taken a walk in England chances are you've seen a sign that says "private property" or "trespassers will be persecuted". Turns out over 90% of the land in England is in private hands and our access to the green and pleasant lands are minimal. So how do we get it back?
This week on the show we are joined by Right to Roam campaigners Nadia Shaikh and Harry Jenkins. We discuss the history of Right to Roam campaign and the trespassing laws, why the language of trespass is framed against the working class, the hypocrisies of government ministers on access rights and why connecting back to the land is so important in building the climate coalition.
LINKS
The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers
The Twitter thread on mass trespass that inspired this episode
https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
Shout outs
indigenous peoples stewarding 85% of all biodiversity in the world.
and Evie Muir(@xeviemuir) from Peaks of Colour (@PeaksOfColour)
Lilly Hill - save rybanks fields
Lilly's article on the rybanks fields campaign.
Ruth Sullivan - GRT activist
Our very own Dan Weegmann @DanLdnMcr for his cracking design work.