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Following the success of the Westminster rally on 25th February (see below), several other events are planned to maintain the Government's awareness of the height of feelings against Heathrow expansion. Any support you can give to these events would be much appreciated.
The next event, on the evening of Thursday 6th March, is as follows (further details can be found here) :
An
Evening of Music and Words
This
timely event, staged jointly by Stop Heathrow Expansion and Stop
Stansted Expansion, comes just after the Heathrow consultation has
ended and around the time the decision is due on whether
Thursday
6th March
Grosvenor
Chapel,
6.45pm
for 7.30pm start
Speeches
from Zac
Goldsmith and Terry
Waite CBE will be interwoven with A
Musical Programme of English choral music.
This
will include works by Purcell and Elgar and Bach's E Major Violin
Sonata, performed by members of the "Ground Bass" Ensemble.
A new composition will also be premiered during the evening: a setting
of poems from Tagore's Gitanjali. Musical accompaniment by Alexandra
Reid (violin) and Jonathan Galton (piano).
Light
refreshments available at the start and during the interval.
Tickets
available in at
the door - £5
The opening of Terminal 5 takes place on Thursday 27th March, and this may be the focus of further publicity.
A march and rally are being planned for Saturday 10th May - please keep the date free !
The Westminster rally on 25th February (earlier details below) was a great success, with a respectable contingent from Chiswick and an overall attendance of around 3,000, filling the original venue and requiring a secondary overspill meeting. Read the reports from the Evening Standard, BBC news and Yahoo news.
A significant rally was organised at 7pm on the evening of 25th February at Central Hall, Westminster, to mark the end of the Government consultation on expansion plans for Heathrow. It was essential that we achieve the largest possible turnout in order to demonstrate to the Government the level of opposition to any expansion. Here is our original factsheet on the plans for the rally.
While all groups opposed to expansion participated, we were particularly keen to ensure a good turnout from Chiswick, to demonstrate the height of local feelings. Chiswick area residents met at Turnham Green tube station at 6pm, with a secondary meeting point opposite Central Hall at 6.45pm for anyone travelling via a different route or coming direct from work. We also produced button badges for the occasion, so that we would be a visible group, as shown below.
Caroline Morgan led a small sub-group who left early in the hope of meeting up with local MP's Andy Slaughter and Ann Keen in Central Lobby at the House of Commons ahead of the rally. Anyone interested in joining Caroline met up at Turnham Green tube station at 4.50pm, St. Stephen's entrance of the House of Commons around 5.30pm, or in Central Lobby (W4 badges were on display).
The CRASH button badge for 25th
The following leaflet was the latest official update on the rally, and is also available in Word format.
Stop
Heathrow Expansion
End-of-Consultation Rally
Central
Hall,
corner
of
25th
February 2008, 7pm
The
rally to come to! It is a
great chance to show the breadth of opposition there is to the expansion
proposals. Bring yourself!
No charge! Bring your
friends!
Be
part of the thousands of voices saying ‘No’!
A
wide range of speakers! Live
Music! Campaign videos!
Speakers already confirmed include:
Mark Lynas, climate change specialist and author of three books on the subject
Peter Ainsworth MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment
Caroline Lucas MEP, Principal Speaker for the Green Party
John McDonnell MP, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington
Brian Paddick, Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor
Councillor Barbara Reid, Hounslow Council cabinet member, representing the 2M group of local authorities
Leo Murray, Plane Stupid
Geraldine Nicholson, Chair No Third Runway Action Group
John Stewart, Chair HACAN
Mark Lynas
–
‘High Tide: News from a warming world’ (2004), ‘Carbon Calculator’
(2007) and ‘Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet’ (2007). Six
Degrees is published in the