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Vestas Sit-in: Day 8 Phone Call To The Inside (podcast)

Tuesday, 28th July, 2009 at 3:56 pm, Isle of Wight

Green Issues, Newport, Vestas Sit-In, podcast

Vestas Sit-in: Day 8 Phone Call To The Inside (podcast)Here’s the catch up that we had with Mike on the inside at the Vestas sit-in this morning.

The summary is below, with more detail in the recording below

  • The protesters were concerned that the money announced by the government might not be all new money (NB: we have just received confirmation from an official at the DECC that the £6m announced yesterday is all new money).

  • Vestival Starts: Details of the cinema they’d setup on Sunday
  • Those in the sit-in are trying to find themselves things to keep their minds active
  • Tomorrows court case: They won’t be leaving the building as they wouldn’t be able to get back in
  • If they are able to stay for another six weeks, they will.
  • They’ll “put on a show” for the people coming down from the Big Green Gathering.

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6 Responses to “Vestas Sit-in: Day 8 Phone Call To The Inside (podcast)”

  1. Click if you like this comment Wendy V     says:
    28, July 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Latest from The Guardian:”Isle of Wight police prepare for activists after cancellation of green festival: Thousands of Big Green Gathering ticketholders urged to show support at Vestas wind turbine factory”
    Story here:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/28/big-green-gathering

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  2. Click if you like this comment Ribblesider     says:
    28, July 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Best of luck to the occupying workers!

    What a mad world where we need to reduce carbon, but sack the very workers that can do this.

    http://riversstream.blogspot.com/2009/07/wind-turbine-workers-occupy-to-stop.html

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  3. Click if you like this comment Wendy V     says:
    28, July 2009 at 10:13 pm

    BBC news site has “Turbine sit-in workers sacked” as a main story tonight. Link here
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8171774.stm

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