The Guardian, Gardening Blog
Diary of a window box garden: The urban grower as activist
2nd February 2012
Daily Mail
Royal wedding arrests: 20 detained win right to challenge Police operation
11th November 2011
New York Times
British Squatters Rejuvenate an Abandoned site near Heathrow Airport
5th October 2011
The Huffington Post
Plans to criminalise squatting: hurting the homeless or protecting homeowners?
21st August 2011
The Ecologist
Tools of resistance: the insiders guide to grassroots direct action
6th July 2011
Heathrow Skyport
Environmental campaigners gather at Grow Heathrow gardens
14th June 2011
The Guardian
Anarchists have civil liberties too
2nd May 2011
Transition Heathrow compared with Tarnac community in France.
ITV London Tonight
28th April 2011
BBC News
‘Squat raids’ ahead of royal wedding ‘disproportionate’
28th April 2011
New Internationalist
Squatageddon – Cops raid UK social centres
28th April 2011
Uxbridge Gazzette
MP slams police after 40 officers fruitlessly raid vegetable garden
28th April 2011
The Guardian
Police raid five squats before royal wedding
28th April 2011
The Ecologist
Reclaim the fields: a fight for the landless generation
28th March 2011
Grow Heathrow mentioned again as playing host to the UK Reclaim the fields gathering. Paragraphs two and three.
The Guardian
Lets rediscover the spirit of the diggers
12th March 2011
Grow Heathrow mentioned in the Guardian as the host to the reclaim the fields gathering.
New Internationalist
Where now for direct action on climate change?
8th March 2011
Dave Cullen from Manchester Plane Stupid mentions Transition Heathrow as an example of a self-reliant resilient community.
Dissident Island Radio
Reclaim the Fields at Grow Heathrow
March 7th 2011
The Ecologist
Heathrow Transition activists celebrate one year stay at community garden
March 3rd 2011
Uxbridge Gazzette
Green activists celebrate Sipson market garden birthday
March 2nd 2011
Dissident Island Radio
Grow Heathrow Eviction Reprieved
September 3rd 2010
Lily from Transition Heathrow talks to Chickpea from Dissident Island Radio about what’s happening at Grow Heathrow, the outcome of the court case, and what the future could hold.
Here’s the link to the interview
Uxbridge Gazzette
“Grow Heathrow” activists live to fight another day
September 2nd 2010
West Drayton Gazzette
Sipson activists threatened with eviction
September 1st 2010
The Heathrow Villager
Grow Heathrow Site Visit in Sipson
July 10th 2010
On March 1st 2010 community activists from Transition Heathrow swooped on an abandoned market garden site in Sipson. 4 months on and the site has been transformed from a derelict mess into a beacon of community strength and a great example of how to live sustainably on this planet. 30 tons of rubbish has gone, the greenhouse windows have been replaced, plants and vegetabales are growing, kitchens and compost toilets have been built, workshops have been held and locals are paying regular visits and donating anything and everything.
On Sunday July 18th from 3-6pm, everyone in the local communityis invited to come and visit the site to find out who we are and what we are doing with the piece of land. There will be guided tours, talks and lots of tea and cake. This will be the perfect chance for locals to get an idea of who Transition Heathrow are but also to voice any of your own ideas for what the land could be used for. The site address is Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, West Drayton, UB7 0JG and for directions you can check our website at www.transitionheathrow.com
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Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times
Market Garden Open Day in Sipson
July 7th 2010
Hillingdon Times
No Third Runway campaigners defend community
March 1st 2010
Full Story HERE
Morning Star
Feb 20th 2010
Comments from Joe Ryle on Transition Heathrow:
An earnest and conscientious young man, Ryle has built his life around his activism. Last year he moved into a house in Heathrow to set up Transition Heathrow, a community-based project working with local residents to fight the expansion of Britain’s largest airport.
The group aims to “create a more sustainable Heathrow through empowering the local community to build their own solutions to climate change,” he explains.
What does he make of the Conservatives’ pledge to scrap the third runway at Heathrow if they win the general election?
He is sceptical. “Who is to say in two or three years time that they won’t go back on their word?”
In addition he highlights how “the Tories are promising to drop the third runway, which is getting all the public attention, but at the same time they are planning to expand about 20 regional airports around the country.”
The Independent
War at Home: The local eco-warriors making a big noise
Feb 14th 2010
Shivering atop a power-station chimney certainly makes a dramatic eco statement. But is direct action the best way to combat global warming? Robin Barton meets the climate-change campaigners who like ‘big and bold’ and the green communities who prefer ‘slow and steady’
Comments from Joe Ryle on Transition Heathrow:
Both strands meet in the form of 19-year-old Joe Ryle and his six fellow Plane Stupid activists, who recently launched Transition Heathrow, and are bringing direct-action training to Sipson in preparation for a planning application due to be lodged by BAA later this year. “I have given up on governments taking the action which we need to see. I feel that empowering communities to create their own solutions to tackling climate change, directly controlled by those impacted on the ground, is much more important than trying to lobby the Government.”
Uxbridge Gazzette
Sipson Twinned With Manchester Village
February 9th 2010
Heathrow Villager
Sipson Residents twinning with Manchester
February 6th 2010
Residents who live in the area threatened by the construction of BAA’s 3rd runway at Heathrow, will attend an event on the 7th Feb- ruary where they will be ‘twinned’ with the threatened homes of Hasty Lane, at the edge of Manchester Airport. Campaigners opposed to the expansion of Manchester Airport’ s freight terminal, which will demolish homes and a large section of the historic Hasty Lane, will organise a live video link-up with the village of Sipson, which will be demolished if Heathrow Airport is given the green light to build a third runway.
The ‘twinning’ of these two communities is a statement of solidarity against the unnecessary expansion of aviation. The afternoon event will also see local campaigners ‘adopt’ a local Hasty Lane resident, copying the previously launched model at Heathrow, and pledge to stand with them in resisting the demolition of their historic homes and acres of greenbelt land. The afternoon will start with an introduction to the campaign so far and the situation the residents find them- selves in. Residents will then unveil a sign stating “ Sipson Village – twinned with Hasty Lane , next to Manchester airport. Both Places threatened with demolition due to wreckless airport expansion. Both Places fighting back”
Finally the twinning ceremony will be conducted in conjunction with Sipson via the live video link up. Hasty Lane resident Peter Johnson said: “Together with Sipson residents, we are going to fight these irresponsible and unnecessary plans. Our local councillors all opposed the plans, but they were overruled. The council has let us down, but we’ re not going to give up that easily.”
Sipson resident Tracy Howard, 35, who made the trip up north for the twinning event said: “The story of Hasty lane is a way too familiar story to ours. Local communities suffering from a big airport that is destroying our homes, our health and the climate. If a 3rd runway at Heathrow is built I face losing my home, my job and my grandmother’s grave will be dug up. This is why I have been adopted by a Plane Stupid activist as there direct action tactics could be all we have left.”
Hounslow Chronicle
Protesters offer activist training
January 20th 2010
