NBTA wins energy support scheme for itinerant boaters
NBTA wins fight over energy support scheme for some itinerant boaters
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/12/nbta-wins-energy-support-scheme-for-itinerant-boaters/
#Boaters #CRT #EnergySupportScheme #NBTA

‘No Mooring Zones’ are social cleansing
The ‘No Mooring’ Zones policy is designed to make life difficult for many boaters and could ultimately drive them off the water and out of their homes.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/08/19/no-mooring-zones-are-social-cleansing/
#BoatsAreHomes #CRT #NBTA #WaterSafetyZones

How we fund our "commons" https://nbtalondon.co.uk/2023/08/02/crt-accountable-to-whom/ a look at our waterways #NBTA

@hakan_geijer

A few examples:

The right - the "grassroots" insurrection at the capitol, the right would normally have tanks and an army.

The left in London #londonboaters and #NBTA doing fluffy activism in the face of the #deathcult pushing them off the water they live on.

Yes you can find exceptions but as the "left" drop direct action as a tool, the "right" have picked it up is worth looking at.

@bob on a positive side the "policeman" of the waterways #CRT are pretty incompetent, slowing their neo-liberalism based privisation of the remaining inland water commons. And the is a relatively affecter grassrootish counter force in #NBTA who "react" to slow the privatisation.

BUT this might not service the inrush of non boaty types who won't cheap flats on water and happy go with the #CRT agenda as then they can pay to keep their boats static. Pushing out movement.#

Boat dwellers protest new waterways “Safety Zones” proposal aimed at gentrification of waterways
Last Saturday, Broxbourne’s Canal in Hertfordshire was filled with a flotilla of boats, all protesting against Canal and River Trust’s (CRT) absurd and falsely named new
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/20/boat-dwellers-protest-new-waterways-safety-zones-proposal-aimed-at-gentrification-of-waterways/
#CanalandRiverTrust #gentrification #London #NationalBargeeTravellersAssociation #NBTA