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Inside the Heathrow climate change protest camp

Published Tuesday, 21st August 2007

protestEnvironmentalGraffiti sent one of their reporters to the Heathrow protest camp this week, giving the inside view on life inside.

Get the dirt on everything from heavy-handed police, the challenges of ‘consensus decision-making’ and dealing with different loos for weeing and pooing…

“As we approached the footpath leading from the field to a quiet side street, our path was blocked by riot police screaming “Get back, get back”, and any attempt to leave the field was met by force, police striking protestors with their metal truncheons.  When myself and a friend, two clearly unarmed women, approached a section of fence to climb through to the road, we were met by a riot policeman shouting “If you climb over that fence I will hit you very hard,” while pulling on black gloves.

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