Roads, Runways and Resistance
Roads, Runways and Resistance From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. Roads, Runways and Resistance…
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Roads, Runways and Resistance
From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. Roads, Runways and Resistance draws on over 50 interviews with government ministers, advisors and protestors - many of whom, including 'Swampy', speak here for the first time about the events they describe. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher's government announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.' This is the inside story of the thirty tumultuous years that have followed.
Today, as a new wave of road building and airport expansion threatens to bust Britain's carbon budgets, climate change protestors find themselves on a It is a story of transport ministers undermined by their own Prime Ministers, protestors attacked or quietly supported by the police, and smartly-dressed protestors who found a way onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament.
Roads, Runways and Resistance
Medieval Roads and Tracks
Oppression and Resistance
Beyond Power and Resistance
HAMPTON ROADS
BRICS and Resistance in Africa
CROSS ROADS
Mountain Roads
Resistance