Did a little bit of naughty exploring this lunchtime. Quite why all this is off-limits on a bike is beyond me. #right2roam #trespass #cycling

Other historical mass trespasses include the 17th century Diggers who attempted to reclaim common land in Surrey, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Buckinghamshire (and they claimed in at least six further counties), where they were met with murderous violence from land-lords and the state. Their presence was erased so thoroughly that historians are unable to trace exactly where Diggers lived. Today St George's Hill is a 4 square km (965 acre) private gated community with some of the most expensive housing in the UK - in 2014 at least 72 properties, £282+ million of assets, were registered offshore in tax havens.

Before the Diggers squatted St George's Hill it was probably "Crown land" acquired by the monarchy through invasion, conquest, confiscation, English "clearances", the Harrying of the North, and evictions from newly enclosed "Crown land" such as "royal hunting forests". Which brings us back around to the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on land kept exclusively by the ruling classes for hunting and intensive farming of birds for shooting. /end thread

In 1649, to St. George's Hill,
A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will.
They defied the landlords. They defied the laws.
They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs.
"We come in peace," they said, "to dig and sow.
We come to work the land in common, and to make the waste land grow.
This Earth divided we will make whole so it will be a common treasury for all."

Nancy Kerr sings The World Turned Upside Down, by Leon Rosselson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJlWymJFY7k

#FolkMusic #FolkSong #Folk #music #rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #UK #England #Surrey #WorkingClassHistory #EnglishHistory #diggers #commons #TaxAvoidance #TaxEvasion #TaxTheRich #AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing

The 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass wasn't the first, although its ripples were significant. There were trespasses involving over ten thousand people up Winter Hill in Lancashire in 1896: “Will yo' come o' Sunday morning, for a walk o'er Winter Hill? Ten thousand went last Sunday, But there's room for thousands still! Oh the moors are rare and bonny, And the heather's sweet and fine, And the roads across the hilltops are the people's - yours and mine!”

#rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #UK #England #Lancashire #WorkingClassHistory

On the anniversary of the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass, which also happens to be St George's Day for those who celebrate, it's important to ask why we commoners have been dispossessed of our land rights: the right to roam; the right to forage for and grow our own food; the right to living space; and the right to stop ecocide and ecocidal action.

Variations of the following poem have been recorded since at least the 19th century but land theft by enclosure began centuries earlier.

The law condemns the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.

The Askew Sisters - Goose & Common

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJk9EutQ6s

#FolkMusic #FolkSong #Folk #music #rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #UK #England #WorkingClassHistory #ecocide #ClimateCrisis #commons #StGeorgesDay

I've watched this three times now... a short, fun, song filled, documentary about the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass, by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley, for the anniversary tomorrow. I've mentioned all the individual songs in the above post except The Great Tomorrow by the Young'uns (on their concept album The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff)

From mine and mill and field and shipyard, from behind the company door,
From the playing fields of Eton to the warrens of the poor,
From Helsinki to Buenos Aires our reasons are the same,
From Melbourne to Vancouver now we have come to Spain,
For if you sing a song of freedom then it does not matter where,
If your song is freedom then you sing it everywhere.

The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout (20mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LNS2mv0fc

#FolkMusic #FolkSong #Folk #music #rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict #UK #England #WorkingClassHistory

I've watched this three times now... a short, fun, song filled, documentary about the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass, by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley, for the anniversary tomorrow. I've mentioned all the individual songs in the above post except The Great Tomorrow by the Young'uns (on their concept album The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff)

From mine and mill and field and shipyard, from behind the company door,
From the playing fields of Eton to the warrens of the poor,
From Helsinki to Buenos Aires our reasons are the same,
From Melbourne to Vancouver now we have come to Spain,
For if you sing a song of freedom then it does not matter where,
If your song is freedom then you sing it everywhere.

The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout (20mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LNS2mv0fc

#FolkMusic #FolkSong #Folk #music #rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict #UK #England #WorkingClassHistory

✊#right2roam

Swimmers poised for biggest mass #trespass so far at Kinder reservoir https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/22/swimmers-poised-for-biggest-mass-trespass-so-far-at-kinder-reservoir?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Anniversary of the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on Sunday 23 April so here's Commoners Choir with From Below. If you want more related folk songs then there's Manchester Rambler by Ewan MacColl, and the rearranged version by John Tams, and Trespassers by the Young'uns (on their album Tiny Notes on Bandcamp). And there's a short, song filled, documentary about the Kinder Scout trespass by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley on youtube. If you can't find links for any of these let me know and I'll post them.

For every footprint on the land,
For all the banners and the banned,
Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no!
‘Cos real change comes from below.

From Below - Commoners Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkIlWD1PKs

#FolkMusic #FolkSong #Folk #music #rambling #hiking #RightToRoam #trespass #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict #UK #England #WorkingClassHistory

This #Cop Got @walmart Sued For $10,000,000!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzFhEAbXUs
#police #trespass #walMart #ACAB

🥁 STEAL SOMETHING FROM WORK DAY - TODAY ✊🏿
Saturday 15th April 2023
#StealSomethingFromWorkDay #FuckCapitalism #AntiCapitalism #Steal #Trespass #Dissent #Resist

WHO OWNS ENGLAND?
Isn’t it time to make a little more room in England’s woods for us peasants – and a little less for the pheasants? https://whoownsengland.org/2020/11/02/who-owns-englands-woods/ #RightToRoam #Trespass #ResistAntiTrespassLaws #BanPheasantShooting #BanShootingEstates #BanBloodSports

Having a good morning so far. Walking out in the drizzle with new #Trespass DLX jacket and trousers. Toasty warm and dry. Expensive kit but brilliant. Hopefully I’ll get the walking trainers next week to complete the ensemble.
Sneaked in a crafty #Costa at the half way point. 6000 steps in so far. Hopefully that’ll help make up for going out each day last week for lunch. Maybe.

Fairbanks DUI Driver Flees on Foot, Found at Previously Trespassed House 2.5 Miles Away
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According to Alaska State Troopers, they responded to a traffic collision on Badger Road near Lowood Street just after midnight on Wednesday morning. But, when they arrived at the scene, they found that the driver had fled the scene on foot.

Troopers would track the...
https://alaska-native-news.com/66719-2/66719/
#charles earhardt #fairbanks #dui #trespass #dv #refusal #accident

"The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others." — Dwight Eisenhower — — — #DwightEisenhower #quote #quotes #freedom #rights #equality #trespass #protect #defend

Great little morning walk across Pigford Moor. Totally deserted. Found a dinning table...🤷🏻‍♂️ and finished with a trespass as we headed over towards Oakenclough...
#RightToRoam #Trespass #ThisLandIsOurLand ✊🏻

Consequences of trespassing

Circa 2021

#handcuffs #handcuffed #cuffed #public #outdoors #trespassing #trespasser #trespass #privateproperty #punishment #punishments #punished #spidergag #spidergagged #gagged #sign #flipflops #ringgagged #ringgag #openmouthgag #croptop #ponytail #caught #humiliated #humiliation #shaming #shame #publicshaming #freeuse #bondage #boundandgagged #kink #fetish #kinky #publicplay #dudeindistress #guyindistress #GiD #belly

Last post on The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes is about this racist anti-gay divide-and-rule propaganda from page 333: "Thomas Beckford was the richest man in Europe as a direct result of the African people his father enslaved. To the binary judgement of the fence, he was a villain. But lift that definition from his life and you can see a more complex picture: in the gay community, he is celebrated as a hero, an icon."

1. Which "gay community"? Because "the" gay community includes Black descendants of enslaved people who don't "celebrate" Beckford either at all or as a man who inherited his extreme riches from racist enslavement.

2. The reason Beckford might be "celebrated" by "the gay community" is that he was gay, not that he was rich through racist enslavement.

3. Why is Hayes trying to conflate a celebration of gayness with a celebration of riches/racism/enslavement? This is vile racist propaganda on behalf of racist enslavement and the rich inheritors of enslavers, falsely conflated with "gay" "celebration".

4. Hayes is a Cambridge educated communications professional. I find it difficult to believe his repeated propaganda against multiple disprivileged and oppressed social groups in this book isn't as deliberate as it is consistent.

Conclusion: I've posted my reservations about this book. If you want to read The Book of Nick Hayes then this is it, with his personal experiences and opinions of trespass in England, and he expands on these at length, but don't be fooled by that length into believing this is a serious piece of social history or a comprehensive work of any type. That said, populist nature writing is often framed as memoir and this is in the genre, but it also fits into the mould of nature memoir being written by and for posh white men who exclude other perspectives. There are other options available. I'm just saying.

#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #reading #books #racism #BlackHistory #LGBTHistory #SocialHistory #UK #DivideAndRule

I've now read to page 332 of The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes and realised there's a 100% chance this was written by a public school "educated" person so I googled and, yes, he's "public school and Cambridge".

On page 332 Hayes berates the poors for "dehumanising" the rich, without giving any relevant examples, and in the same paragraph dehumanises the non-rich as "robotic" in his characterisation of plans for fair taxation as "tired, robotic resentment". Then in the next paragraph he dehumanises the culture of English poors as a "stagnant pool of loosely defined resentment" to erase our humanity and intellectual culture, as he has done throughout the book to the working classes, GRT people, Black people, women, and everyone else who dares to deviate from the permitted straight and narrow path of Posh White Men Like Nick Hayes.

Hayes also claims that what he acknowledges as a humorous slogan, "Eat the Rich", is an unfair "focus on the character of the rich"... I mean, yes, if the characteristic is "rich" because that's the point, lmao. How else can we focus on the fact that extremely "rich" people shouldn't exist in a fair society without describing the fact of their economic privilege? Another example of Hayes trying to ban useful words and terms, exactly as he tried to erase "patriarchy" and "racism" earlier in the book (antizygonist racism against GRT people first, which he claimed is about "mobility" not racialisation/ethnicity, and then anti-Black racism, which he claimed is about the economics of enslavement - erm, yes, that incentivised codifying anti-Blackness but anti-Blackness already existed in medieval European culture and before, just read the literature). I don't want, for example, Richard Drax taxed fairly because he's an unpleasant character, I want him taxed because it's fair and reasonable to tax the rich. (And a solution to overconfidently ignorant ex-public school boys is to tax public schools as businesses and tax businesses fairly.)

This book is poor-hating classist propaganda which erases whole groups of disprivileged and oppressed people. Hayes has been employed as a "communications" professional and presumably knows what he's doing when he dehumanises working class people as "robotic" "stagnant pools", while he reaps rewards from the interests he's serving: bestselling book and media jobs (and probably an Order of the British Empire if he stays on this career path).

P.S. For some reason these 386 pages of propaganda notably fail to record successful challenges to the status quo... almost as if the author doesn't want you to know change is real and we can make it ourselves together.

#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #RightToRoam #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #SocialHistory #UK #classism #ClassWar #EatTheRich #taxation #dehumanisation

I've read up to the Greenham Common section in The Book of Trespass, which begins on page 176. On 173 Nick Hayes mansplains to feminists why "patriarchy" is the wrong word to describe the "rule of the father" and what he believes we actually mean is "paternalism" "Because what characterised these witch-hunts was not just gender but this particular structure of power." Lol, no shit sherlock. Hayes then imposes his own paternalism on the women who protested at Greenham Common, amongst others. He truly believes he knows more about patriarchy/paternalism than several generations of feminists. And having introduced his ill-defined term "paternalism" on page 173 he then manages to crowbar it into the remaining 213 pages 11 more times, to reinforce his power of defining other people's experiences (which, ironically, is the power he pretends to be opposing).

Greenham protest: "The camp became a howl against the paternalistic hierarchy" (Greenham's "patriarchy" = 4 syllables, Hayes' "paternalistic hierarchy" = 8 syllables). Protesting: "a world that had defined and confined women into roles written by men" [... oh the irony...] "Theirs was a space where womanhood was self-defined". (Who's going to tell him what he's done there? Lmao.)

While I'm critiquing, I'll also mention that I find his knowledge of the social history subjects he's tackling inadequate to the task he's set himself. I note his repeated descriptions of ruling class people as individuals with personal histories while he elides working class people into an undifferentiated mass of "commoners" in opposition to the central and centred ruling classes. And, of course, "The" Book of Trespass exclusively covers England, mostly the south east of England (Hayes is a child of Berkshire and it shows). The one true subject of this book is Nick Hayes, and his intended audience appears to be men like himself.

#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #UK #books #reading #mansplaining #patriarchy #feminism #FeministHistory #WomensHistory #semantics #SocialHistory #WorkingClassHistory

Allen Clarke, 1920s, on the Lancashire moors: "Sit down here, on a summer’s day, on the green moorland under the blue sky, and though you own not a yard of land nor a stick of property, you are on a throne, and king of the world – a happier and far more innocent king than any ruler who ever held tinsel court and played havoc with the destiny of nations – you are monarch of all the magic of the moorlands, of healthy air for the lungs, of Nature’s pictures for the eye, of Nature’s music for the ear..."

#reading #UK #Lancashire #rambling #hiking #WorkingClassHistory #RightToRoam #trespass #StreetLiterature #NaturalHealthService #nature