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Heathrow expansion: the fight back begins

by Amy Judd | January 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm

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Three climate change activists from Plane Stupid against the Heathrow expansion project, carried out a night-time attack on the Department of Transport in London as they hurled bricks through the window and threw paint all over the front of the building.

A spokeswoman said: "The government has opened the flood-gates for radical action. Yesterday they sacrificed all of our futures and spat in the face of democracy. The third runway is unwanted and is a global threat. When they make democracy meaningless what other reaction could they expect?"

"We have less than ten years to turn climate change around. Women cannot just stand by and let this government treat our futures as a joke. We fight for the safety of humanity, and if the government will only listen to the smash of windows, then so be it."

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Bernard Burns

at 17:04 on January 16th, 2009

I took part in the related Flash Mob event (pictured) on the opening of Heathrow Terminal Five - hundreds of us revealing our Stop Airport Expansion tee-shirts at the same moment. See more at www.t5flashmob.com

There was no violence involved in this action, but like the planestupid activists, we are searching for ways to get across the message to a government intent on ignoring the majority of parliament, let alone the majority of the public.

Bernard Burns has contributed a photo to this story.