Press Release - for immediate release Following the UK government's decision to scrap HS2 Phase 2 and commit £36 billion to new transport initiatives, environmental activists and community groups call…
Anti-HS2 activists who spent 47 days in underground tunnels have been jailed for up to a year
Campaigners resisting HS2 are spending a record 44th day in a network of underground tunnels in Staffordshire.
HS2 Court Injunction Undermines Democracy Today, 26th May 2022, HS2 are in the High Court seeking a route-wide injunction, which will effectively criminalise peaceful protest and remove any possibility…
Press Release from Bluebell Woods as protestors occupying tunnels are denied air and safety equipment by HS2.
HS2 Limited are seeking impunity from all protests through a route wide injunction, criminalising anyone who steps on land in possession of HS2. They are seeking an end to lawful protests against HS2 including protest camps, actions against HS2 and monitoring of HS2’s activities - but they are also creating a dangerous and risky situation for anyone who walks, lives and exists around the area owned by HS2.
Today four peaceful protectors have been acquitted of Aggravated Trespass at High Wycombe Magistrates Court who found that HS2 was at risk of committing wildlife crimes.
On Monday 21st February 2022 at 10 am, two activists are due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court charged with criminal damage and aggravated trespass. This follows a protest in February 2020 when the two activists, including the partially sighted Paralympic gold medallist James Brown, allegedly climbed onto HS2’s 100ft drilling rig in the Colne Valley, West London.
Nationwide Day Of Action Against HS2 - 24th January 2022HS2 is costing the Earth - financially and environmentally. Today, a Bill to expand HS2 beyond Crewe will be laid in…
On Saturday 6th November between 4pm and 8pm, we will be holding a vigil in support of our incredibly brave tunnellers. On this day which also marks DAY 28 of the Wendover Eviction and DAY 21 of the Subterranean Protest, we wish to show our support from the community to our 5 very brave and deeply committed activists who are putting their lives at risk to protest HS2.