On Swampy ground: a brief history of protest tunnelling in the UK
On Swampy ground: a brief history of protest tunnelling in the UK Diane Taylor © Photograph: Reuters Environmental activist Daniel Hooper, AKA Swampy, in a tunnel dug in the path of a planned expansion at Manchester airport in 1997. Protest tunnelling, back in the spotlight thanks to subterranean anti-HS2 demonstrations in London, became a national preoccupation in the 90s when environmental activists dug a complex series of tunnels in the path of an extension to the A30 in Fairmile, Devon, resisting attempts at eviction by police. Swampy, the nickname of the well-known env...
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