tions of 1994.
For more than months, campaigners na pesares. ne sere began on Tuesday afternoon and only ended late communication. on Thursday night.
Barricade People were barricaded into tree-houses, roofspaces and bunkers or chained to roofs. Hundreds more simply occu- tal. pied the street until chased out by police chances.
2 years ago the core of first the No MIl Link Road Campaign was 20-30 evicted. residents of Leyton and Leytonstone, many part of an artists' housing as- stop here. sociation, in nouses bought under Compulsory rurchase urders Dy the Department of Transport.
Over 1,000 people cooo o ose nomes.
We held jumble sales, street parties and benefit gigs, and offered help and advice. Security men bullied and ocasionally attacked residents in the Tront garden. streets; empty houses were guarded by security men and quickly demolished.
Community We started an "East London Community Action league" and rescued a few, but we just didn't have enough people.
Support grew when darity. residents of leafy Wanstead started to worry about their chestnut Trees. In the wake of Twyford ple.
This changed when the riot police cut the cargo netung stung between terraces and trees for Accidents and dangerous behaviour by police and bailiffs stirred up tension. The bailiffs and riot police were increasingly threatening and bruMany people who came out to defend houses left anter seeine ine violent tactics used against the Endess summer: M11 people be Doesn'tstop The campaign doesn't ine enemy s weapons were biased law-courts, the threat of lega vio lence and control of the media. Ours were non-violence, humour and innovative methods of resistance, such as roof occupation at the Houses of Parliament on 4 November and a party in Michael Howard's We are heartened by the strength of resispsychiatric examination and separated from loved ones, all for the crime of having sex when they wanted to.
Gay men additionally risk being sent to adult jail, as the age of consent for them is higher.
All age of consent laws should be abolished, but the absolute first step must be to fight for an equalization of the age of consent for gay men.