Information & News on Anti - Colonial/Capitalist Campaigns plus Patriotic & Popular Protests in Wales and World for Humanitarian & Environmental, Social & Economic Justice. Not least on behalf of small nations and minority peoples particularly such ignored by mass media and fashionable liberal left causes of the moment.
This could be the first step in WAG furthering it's power within Wales at expense of local autonomy, another reason to Abstain To Abolish The Assembly and seek instead true devolution in more local autonomy - All Power to the Cymydy/Community Councils as final destination - All Power to the People!
23 Jan 2007 ... He then surrenders but the ''Gwerin Owain - Partisan Outlaws'' continue the struggle for many more years in the wild woods of Wales. ... owain-glyndwr-embassyllysgenhadaeth.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html - Cached
The threat of selling off of ancient wood land forests is once more on the agenda but, this time seriously so! In England there is a major campaign in development but, in Wales little being done or said. A search of the web and I came up with one related item, see below link:
5 Jan 2011 ... Click here to visit our Facebook page! ... any new administration to engage in a grandsell-off of Wales's publicly-owned woods and forests. ... www.cambrian-news.co.uk/comment/i/13317/ - Cached
What concerns me is that as with the sell off, of Welsh Mountains and large rural acres of Welsh Land as at Vyrnwy and the Brecon Estates there will be little Welsh protests or more pro - active demonstrations. As with the passive campaign against Wind Turbines although there is much more protest, at least verbally and sorry to say as windy as wind turbines. By this I mean much is written convincing us that Wind Turbines are useless money wasting projects and no more than industrialising of the Welsh Landscape. Good economically for subsidised farmers maybe but not so good for people, communities or Tourism on which we are going to come to depend on much more regards grim Socio - Economic times ahead. It really is time for action as called for in Welsh Remembrancer:
10 Jul 2010 ... Campaign' against CADW - Conquest And Defeat Wales - The Final Conflict.... TARIAN GLYNDWR DEFENDS HYDDGEN FROM WINDMILL FARM: The Struggle ... welshremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../tierra-y-libertad-aka-land-and-liberty.html - Cached
For goodness sake what does it take to get the Welsh not so much 'up in arms', just simply somewhat more than annoyed or angry but bloody active against something? After all if the English can do it why not the Welsh or is it the case that Cultural Nationalism has only made a people concerned about Valleys being drowned and faiiled TV businesses as S4C? Other than that the Welsh Assembly Government appears as useless in defence of Wales as it is at keeping jobs in Wales! Whatever, take inspiration from across the otherside of Ofa's Dyke:
The Save our Forests petition urges “Don't sell them off to the highest bidder, don't let private companies chop down our woodland, protect trees for...
The petition text: "Save our forests - don't sell them off to the highest bidder". Don't let private companies chop down our woodland. ... www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/save-our-forests - Cached
22 Jan 2011 ... Ministers plan huge sell-off of Britain's forests ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/8276327/Save-our-forests-say-celebrities- ... www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Save-our-forests-say-celebrities-and-leading-figures.html
15 Jan 2011 ... Chairman of the group, Anne Mason, added: “Selling off the forest would narrow the use enormously because there will only be access to ... saveourforests.co.uk/.../local-news-fears-over-norfolk-forest-sell-off/ - Cached
15 Jan 2011 ... Save Our Forests. Search: ... Local News: Fears over Norfolk ... saveourforests.co.uk/.../local-news-coalition-mp-voices-concern-over-sell-off/ - Cached
23 Jan 2011 ... Save our forests! Dame Judi Dench and Annie Lennox join campaign to ...Singer Annie Lennox is opposing Government plans to sell off some of ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Save-forests-Dame-Judi-Dench-Annie-Lennox-join-campaign-stop-Government-selling-woodland.html
Save our forests – don't sell them off to the highest bidder. By admin, on January 12th, 2011. The government is planning a massive sell off of our national ... chesterlibdems.org.uk/.../save-our-forests-dont-sell-them-off-to-the-highest-bidder/ - Cached
15 Dec 2010 ... “The government is getting ready for a huge sell-off of our ... Please click here to add your name to the “save our forests” petition ... www.housmans.com/blog/?p=600 - United States - Cached
Name Save our forests; Location London; Web http://www.facebo... Bio We do not supportselling off Britain's forests to pay for the deficit. Simple. ... twitter.com/savebritforests - Cached
The last conservative government wished to sell off the FC, but couldn't find a way to do it profitably, the only way for this government to ... www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=440451 - Cached
Jim Hume MSP launched the campaign to Save Our Forests and condemned the SNP's ... to effectively sell off publicly owned Forestry Commission forests to ... www.scotlibdems.org.uk/saveourforests - Cached
Yawn! Pretty Boring Launch, kind of like watching paint dry. If the 'Yes' Campaign thinks keeping politicians out of the front line will fool anyone, they are wrong and personally I would not think it a good tactic but perhaps a sign of moral cowardice? After all those self serving politicians who stand as A.M's to WAG should have the guts to face the people and justify why WAG should have more powers and what they going to do with them? Why? it was decided to launch the campaign in Barry I can only guess as either being a nod to Gwynfor Evans or maybe Gavin and Stacy? As for the evening launch at the University of Glamorgan, this appeared to be particularly dreary and even more down beat. Personally I do not think the Choir helped, why not a Rock Band to attract a younger voting element and not the same emphasis on 'old' stuffy looking usual 'Taffia/Crachach' suspects? The biggest problem both campaigns will face is apathy and the bigger attraction of that Royal Wedding getting in the way of the campaigning as well possible bad weather which will keep the 'Foot Soldiers' in doors and not on the door step. The other big problem is of course convincing the people of Wales, that is post Industrial Wales that they and their children have a sound Social - Economic future in a land very much in decline where it rains a lot.
The Economy of Wales. In 2007, according to ONS provisional data, headline gross value added (GVA) in Wales was £44333m, making the Welsh economy the tenth ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Wales - Cached - Similar
Sure, it's the economy lets not bury our head in the sand and lets have some 'home truths' and not avoid some basic issues. For a while just forget political and cultural correctness and perhaps stop whinging about the past, does remembering 1282 or 1831 have any use to the present and future. Maybe we do desperatly need more spirited 'Entrepreneurs' rather than Patriots and Politicians, Cultural and Social Activists?
2 Jan 2011 ... Wales's 2011 Challenge. In Economy & Employment, Government ... but that is little comfort to the unemployed and low-paid of today. ... thisismytruth.org/2011/01/02/waless-2011-challenge/ - Cached
On top of all this the majority of Welsh People just have so little interest in Welsh News and current affairs, this and London media's more than likly disinterest and lack of coverage do not look toward making the campaign popular amongst the masses which will of course be to advantage of my 'Abstain to Abolish' position. That's all it is, a personal position as I am not part of a campaign or launching such end other than these early statements here and, in my Welsh Patriot blog (see below). It is a fact that if the 'Yes' campaign fails misarably to make the earth move on this issue, then Plaid Cymru whose great ideal it all is will be too blame for a number of reasons; failing for over 40 years to be a real nationalist party, leading a real Nationalist Movement and Struggle. On top of this they have failed by making no effort to make 'English Speaking' Welsh more 'Natiionalist' or at least 'Nationally Minded'. Instead for over 40 years as a right wing rural Cultural/Business party they have been more interested in advancing the cause of a declining rural petite bourgeosie to make of them 'Y Crachach Newydd' - England's Client Tribe in Wales. They are still at it with 'ShamelessS4C' with no care at all about English Speaking Wales getting a fair crack of the whip as far as programming for they is concerned. Certainly those involved in the 'Yes' campaign need to be more transparent on issues concerning S4C and the Welsh Language Industry, in these desperate times WAG needs to hold a moritorium on the future of the native language, it's percieved culture and the present Welsh Language Industry . Otherwise, such will become a major 'Bone of Contention' in years to come unless the whole nation as a say in matters of concern here as related to economic issues.
3 Dec 2010 ... IS it time for the Wales Assembly Government to come out from behind its “S4C is not a devolved matter” shield? www.walesonline.co.uk/.../wag-needs-to-stop-hiding-over-s4c-issue-91466-27758340/ - Cached
New Welsh Language Powers = More Money for some as translators and teachers, civil servants and of course the Cultural, Media and other 'Crachach'. But lets get real what about the Cymraeg speaking Post Industrial youth of the Council Estates in the many towns of 'rural' pura Wallia? Plus those in Southern 'Ysgolion Cymraeg' who do not have 'Crachach' perants, is there a 'level playing field' here? CyIG aka Plant Crachach dig in their heels and ignore certain testified to truths as even 'Cymraeg Speaking' youth do not watch S4C or use 'Cymraeg' as much as they possibly should. Yet, Plant Crachach continue to expect the rest of us to fund a failed business empire other wise known as S4C and it's 30 odd years Gravy Train.
We know that Welsh Language translation is far more than simply switching ... other languages for a wide range of documents in various fields of industry: ... www.wolfestone.co.uk/welsh.php - Cached - Similar
Another reason I am motivated against WAG is the potential that Cymru/Wales will be doomed to have coaltion governments in perpetuation, no thank you not with all the cronyism and back room deals such involves. As it is look at the situation now at the Assembly where we have Plaid's Dafydd Ellis Thomas, Ieuan Wyn and Alun Ffred Jones representing a minority party with none to big a share of votes in a so called 'One Wales' Coalition which without doubt is built on comprimise. The irony is that both WAG labour and Plaid criticise the Central Government Coalition but what's stopping Plaid going in to Coalition with Tory or/and Liberal A.M's? Wales in these times needs a Socialist Assembly but that's not guarenteed and, anyway I am of the oppinion that democracy will be best served by decentalisation. That is devolving power downward to the community and not placed in the hands of distant self serving politicians be they in Westminster or Bae Caerdydd, such would no more be in interest of Pobl Gwynedd or any other part of Cymru/Wales. Not least my ideal of a Successionist Sepratist Siluria', an 'Hwntw' Southern Home Rule Movement, seeking it's own Gwledydd/Regional Assembly. See below link:
As the Yes campaign launched at the Atrium building in Cardiff, ... But Brian Morgan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Uwic, argued that more powers should ...
4 Jan 2011 ... A Yes vote in a referendum would enable the assembly to have ... "Politicians are asking the people of Wales to give them more powers as a vote of confidence, ... Wales Online Yes for Wales campaign launched 15 hrs ago ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-12110370
4 Jan 2011 ... The group aiming to persuade voters in Wales to back more powers for the assembly in March's referendum is to officially launch its campaign ... www.brightonwired.co.uk/.../119618-Official-launch-of-Yes-Campaign-in-Wales
27 Nov 2010... launching the Yes campaign for next year's referendum on more powers for the ... Worries over Yes-campaign launch for National Assembly ... www.walesonline.co.uk/.../worries-over-yes-campaign-launch-for-national-assembly-91466-27725769/ - Cached
4 Jan 2011 ... Today say the launch of the Yes campaign for the upcoming referendum on further legislative powers for the Welsh Assembly. With the referendum scheduled for March 3, and True Wales ... Could the WAG get more powers? ... theoryofdevolution.wordpress.com/2011/.../yes-campaign-wales-referendum/
25 Nov 2010 ... Worries over Yes-campaign launch for National Assembly. ... campaign for next year's referendum on more powers for the National Assembly. ... www.silobreaker.com/worries-over-yescampaign-launch-for-national-assembly-5_2263892866411528259 - Cached
4 Jan 2011 ... The No campaign has yet to launch and is being led by True Wales. ... A Yes vote in a referendum would enable the assembly to have law-making ... the people of Wales to give them more powers as a vote of confidence, ... www.bristolwired.co.uk/.../119693-Yes-campaign-promises-no-excuses-culture-for-Wales
4 Jan 2011 ... The group aiming to persuade voters in Wales to back more powers for the assembly in March's referendum is to officially launch its campaign ... www.liverpoolwired.co.uk/.../119618-Official-launch-of-Yes-Campaign-in-Wales
True Wales - No More Law-Making Powers for the Welsh Assembly. Our Wales is a beautiful, ... Wales stands for equality What True Wales campaign for: ... www.truewales.org.uk/en/ - Cached
True Wales is determined. ✦ to ensure that the Welsh public has the opportunity to hear the case against autonomy for the National Assembly for Wales and ... www.truewalesnocampaign.org.uk/ - Cached - Similar
24 Feb 2009 ... David Wales of True Wales answers key questions on his campaign to ensure Wales travels no further down the devolution road.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/wales.../7811897.stm - Cached - Similar
21 Nov 2010 ... THE group campaigning for a No vote in next year's referendum on more powers for the National Assembly has suffered huge embarrassment after ... www.walesonline.co.uk/.../wales.../hack-attack-leaves-true-wales-red-faced-91466-27686981/ - Cached
1 Jan 2011 ... THE WELSH PATRIOT. A journal of Radical Nationalist Writtings ... ABSTAIN IN THE ASSEMBLY 'MORE POWERS; REFERENDUM on 3 MARCH 2011. ... welshpatriot.blogspot.com/2011/.../welsh-patriots-last-post-more-powers.html
What do you think of the referendum question? .... But the Yes campaign must not be distracted by the dog whistle tactics of the 1970s. ... www.tomorrow-wales.co.uk/blog/?cat=50&language=en - Cached
27 Nov 2010 ... Former Labour minister Kim Howells says next year's referendum on extra powers for the Welsh assembly is "partial and daft". www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11851054 - Cached
26 Sep 2008 ... "True Wales" my arse. If they were true Wales they'd be building a wall down Offas and putting passport booths on the Severn bridges ;) ... miserableoldfart.blogspot.com/2008/.../true-wales-untruths.html - Cached - Similar
19 Feb 2010 ... The True Wales campaign says it is against more powers for the Assembly because of the so-called. waleshome.org/2010/02/time-to-challenge-the-big-lie/ - Cached
