back to brecon protest camp

on saturday we went back to the protest camp at brecon. there was a march and rally in trebanos in the afternoon and i had taken the van with me this time to move some tat for the protesters. i also took up with me a van full of pallets from work, a couple of blankets, some clothes and rope all gathered from gloucester freecyclers :-)

we did a run to the local industrial estate to gather some boards that had been dumped. the full-time camp dwellers had been told to help themselves to them so we loaded them into the van and took them back to camp. on our second trip we saw an old lorry tarp that had weeds growing over it and looked dumped on the side of the road. we took that too and went back to camp.

as we arrived back at camp the feds turned up who promptly arrested my friend for theft of said tarp and got me to drive the van to the cop shop with the evidence in the back. i had to drive sandwiched between two police vehicles in case i made an escape :-0

my friend was charged although it looks like it will be dropped as they couldn't actually establish who owned the tarp so it doesn't look like it will lead to anything but the nightmare was spending all afternoon in brecon police station and missing the march in trebanos! we got there for the rally at the clubhouse for a couple of drinks although some greedy anarchists had eaten all the food :-( LOL

we spent saturday night at the protest camp in the van listening to all the cars beep their horns in support as they drove past the camp. sunday morning was spent chatting round the fire before heading home ready for going out to see the mighty diamonds in cardiff that evening. more on that next time!

please go and show support at the site if you can, failing that add them as a friend on MYSPACE and message them words of support. cheers :-)

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