#stop hs2

I miss being 12 and I miss my first selfship I really do

But not like this. This link shaves less than half an hour off a Birmingham to London journey, is costing the UK public billions, and is destroying huge swathes of ancient woodland in a country that has only 11% forest.

Front line activists are putting their bodies on the line to stand against it- living in camps, manning tripods, stringing themselves across rivers and tying themselves to trees in a desperate attempt to stop this project going ahead. It is a thankless and hard way to spend your days.

Please donate to this project to build winter shelters on the camps and help activists fight this disgusting deforestation!

Excerpt from this story from Deutsche Welle/EcoWatch:

Beneath London's Euston Station, climate protester Blue Sandford is chained by the ankle in an illegally dug tunnel. The tunnel, 12-feet deep and 100ft long, is wet and muddy. It is propped up by wooden frames: in places wide enough only for them to lie flat on their stomachs.

The 18-year-old is resisting UK authorities as they try remove her and other protesters.

Under the cover of a tent, the "Stop HS2" activists spent two months secretly digging the tunnel with shovels and buckets before going public and locking themselves inside on January 27.

They're protesting Britain's High-Speed 2 railway project (HS2), which involves clearing ancient woodland to make way for tracks and other rail infrastructure. It will also mean redeveloping Euston Square Gardens, a park in front of the station, they say.

"We're in serious debt here, the whole world, in terms of carbon and gas and methane. We need to start planting trees, not cutting them down," said Sandford, speaking on the phone to DW from the tunnel.

No compensation for 98 per cent of families’ says anti-HS2 group’

Less than two per cent of families blighted by the planned HS2 line will receive compensation, according to an action alliance group.

The government announced an express purchase and rent back scheme in April for homeowners within 60 metres of the line and a voluntary purchase scheme for families living up to 120 metres from the track.

But a report by PWC, following a freedom of information act…