From Our Forests
Observer Predictable Awards – misses biggest campaign victory for decades!
Hmm, rather a predictable bunch that meet typically narrow media stereotypes – not one real grassroots campaigner amongst them. Where are any of the non-NGO, non-celeb, non-commercial, non-luvvy & lunch-friendly, local activists who forced the Government into its first, major policy U-turn i.e. halting the sell-off our public forests? THE major conservation campaign victory of the past 20 years! Shame on you, Observer – should have been at least one short-listed nominee from Save Our Woods, Hands Off Our Forest! or any of the many small, local community groups that came out in defence of their patch of England’s public woods & forests!
See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/observer-ethical-awards/campaigner-of-the-year-shortlist
Seeing the woods for the trees: vision, revision and real politick
February 2013 January ended up being a good month for England’s woods and forests