Raiders Of The Lost Archive Vol 1 - the new SchMOVIES DVD - OUT NOW!
Back Issues
SchMOVIES
Feature Articles
Contacts and Links
DIY Guide
Obscurities
About Us
Subscribe
  
Copyleft - Information for direct action - Published weekly in Brighton since 1994

Home | Friday 25th February 2011 | Issue 760

Back to the Full Issue

AIRY (UN)FRIENDLY

Six activists who formed a human chain around the wheel of a jet to protest against the expansion of Manchester Airport in May 2010 were found guilty of aggravated trespass on Tuesday (22nd).

A host of climate change experts spoke for the defence during the two day trial. The relatively light sentences - court costs and a two year conditional discharges, and one case of 80 hours of community service - showed the judge’s sympathy for the defendants’ ‘laudable motives’.

For more see www.manchesterairportontrial.org



 

Subscribe to SchNEWS: Send 1st Class stamps (e.g. 10 for next 9 issues) or donations (payable to Justice?). Or £15 for a year's subscription, or the SchNEWS supporter's rate, £1 a week. Ask for "originals" if you plan to copy and distribute. SchNEWS is post-free to prisoners.

SchNEWS Issue Archive

All articles published by SchNEWS in its weekly newsheets 1994-2014.
See SchNEWS Issue Archive

New email address: schnews@riseup.net
(Ignore all previous email addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers for SchNEWS listed in back issues and old articles).

@nti copyright - information for action - copy and distribute!