Mainshill Solidarity Camp Gathering round-up: workshops, walks, sabotage and lock-ons

The past weekend saw numbers swell at the Mainshill Solidarity Camp, with people traveling from far and wide to support the ongoing struggle to stop Scottish Coal opencasting Mainshill Wood. The number of people occupying the site reached numbers seen at Mainshill when the Camp for Climate Action set up on the site in August, showing how this issue is not going away. 

Nick Griffin Recieves Eggstatic Reception in Hamilton

BNP leader Nick Griffin faced angry scenes yesterday when he arrived in Hamilton for an interview with local radio station L107 FM.

Banner at anti-Griffin protest

Edinburgh Manual Worker Dispute Continues Despite Council Claims

Street cleaners have hit out at Council leaders’ claims that they are “set to give up their protest” in the long-running dispute over wages and conditions. 

“It’s absolute nonsense. There’s no truth in it at all,“ a Council street cleaner said. “Everybody I spoke to today at work was of the same opinion.”

Loggers Stopped from Felling Forest For Coal

Early this morning residents of the Mainshill Solidarity Camp in South Lanarkshire stopped logging for the day by putting their bodies and ingenuity between machinery and the trees.

[Coal Action Scotland | Mainshill Solidarity Camp ]

Sabotage and digger-diving – work stopped twice in two days at Mainshill Wood

For the past two weeks Scottish Woodlands and others contracted by Scottish Coal have been devastating parts of Mainshill Wood, those beyond the Solidarity Camp.

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