Drax Defence Fund

I am forwarding this request for financial aid to help those Drax power station protesters saddled with a huge legal bill. They deserver our support.

hi all

some very good friends of mine were part of an action last Summer that involved stopping a coal train on its way to Drax power station and spending the day decarbonising the train, they were just found guilty today - they wont get custodial sentences, but they are going to have to come up with many thousands of pounds of court costs and fines - we are talking the ball park figure of £30,000

they had a very tough time with the trial - the judge wouldnt let them talk about the context of why they did (ie being scared shitless about how we are not moving forward at all on climate change) and was very prejudicial with the jury,

You can read about it here (and see a bit of a video): http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/drax-coal-train-trial-guilty

There is a big push to do a bit of a whip round to cover their fines - they have already been through so much in doing this - they are all already out of pocket many times over, so they really need help in paying this huge fine.We are trying to get people to pay what they can, or £29 - a pound for every person who was charged. the Drax 29 Legal Defence Fund Midlands Conservation Club Sort Code 30-98-00 Account number 02911400

please pass it on to anyone else who maybe sympathetic