{"id":84,"date":"2009-09-03T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:06:25","slug":"earth-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/09\/03\/earth-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth First!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holidays almost over, and the urge to sit in front of a computer reasserts itself in my priorities, elbowing the taking of exercise out of the way. \u00a0I did manage some fresh air and walking during the break, however, and on one of these expeditions, came across <a href=\"http:\/\/earthfirst.org.uk\/actionreports\/\">Earth First<\/a>!'s summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk\/\">gathering<\/a> at Seathwaite farm in Borrowdale.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I came across their high-handed usurping of scarce car parking space around the farm, and only afterwards found the training \/ education programme which, from what I saw of it, seemed lacking in pedagogical flair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-89\" src=\"http:\/\/bathblogs.wpengine.com\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2041_2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2009\/09\/IMG_2041_2.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk\/2009\/programme.html\">workshops<\/a>, however, are informed by a striking example of Lawton's selection from culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Alas, despite its urging for all to \"come by public transport if at all possible\", like many another NGO that\u00a0parades its virtues in this way, Earth First! then relied on those who dared to come by car and motorhome to use that transport during the gathering to ferry folk around to venues away from the farm. \u00a0Hypocrisy is not going out of fashion too quickly it seems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">However, maybe the University needs its own Earth First! group. \u00a0After all, it only takes two or three, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthfirst.org.uk\/actionreports\/whatisef\">Earth First! website<\/a> explains. \u00a0It might have one already, of course, with all that emphasis on fairtrade, the disruption of car-parking, ... . \u00a0It's not for me, though. \u00a0I've given up vegan cake for life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holidays almost over, and the urge to sit in front of a computer reasserts itself in my priorities, elbowing the taking of exercise out of the way. \u00a0I did manage some fresh air and walking during the break, however, and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}