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	Dongas road protest group
		The Dongas road protest group were a protest group in England noted for their occupation of Twyford Down outside Winchester, Hampshire.
		The group maintained an involvement in various subsequent road protests (Solsbury Hill, North Wales, Newbury), but gradually morphed into a semi-nomadic 'tribe', travelling the South West of England on foot, squatting various hill-forts and putting on seasonal gatherings in an attempt to reawaken a sense of connectedness with the land.
		The last of the nomadic Dongas were travelling in Cornwall until the end of 1999, after which some of them moved to France to continue their nomadic lifestyle.
	www.ibpassociation.org /encyclopedia/Environmentalism/Dongas_road_protest_group.php (198 words)

	Auto-Struggles: The Developing War against the Road Monster
		These new roads appear to reflect a compromise between transport needs (of both freight and private motorists) and the needs for freedom from transport: the next road is always the solution to the congestion of the last one.
		In Britain and the USA the underdevelopment of the railways means that the roads are in many cases the essential artery for the creation of virtually all commodities and the realization of their value in the market place.
		The proposed road leads directly to Hackney, which has the highest concentration of squatters of any London borough; and all this at a time when squatting is under threat from new legislation to criminalize it.
	www.geocities.com /aufheben2/auf_3_roads.html (15767 words)

	Uncommon Sense, A Book by Gregory Sams. Chapter 28. Positive Protest - get fluffy! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Regardless of where your thoughts lie on the roads issue, it is here that non-coercive direct action was fashioned into an effective working tool; one that the state may never develop a means to “deal with” to their satisfaction.
		A group of earth-loving people visiting the proposed road site, became appalled at the thoughtlessness with which the countryside was about to be destroyed, and were inspired to set up the country's first positively staged protest against a road.
		To protest at the police-state powers granted by the Criminal Justice Act, a “Mystery Excursion” brought several busloads to a picnic held in the garden of the Home Secretary's country house, then held a mock trial in which he was found guilty on various counts.
	www.chaos-works.com /ch28.html (3295 words)

	Paving the Way: the Rise of Direct Action Against Road-Building and the Changing Character of British Environmentalism
		Protesters who were likely to use violence have not been tolerated at the protest camps, but the lack of organisation and the individualist character of the protests made it difficult to prevent some violence from occurring.
		The eviction of the Dongas camp in December 1992 was followed in July 1993 by the imprisonment of seven protesters for breaking court injunctions by attending a demonstration, and then by attempts (unsuccessful ultimately) to sue the protesters for the costs of delays in road building.
		Groups that did not support the priorities of the Conservative Government were excluded and the environmental groups shied away from challenging the priority attached to economic growth.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /docs/pavway.htm (8386 words)

	Dongas road protest group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dongas Tribe were a road protest group in England originally noted for their occupation of Twyford Down outside Winchester, Hampshire.
		This was a protest against the M3 motorway extension which destroyed some "government protected" rich ecological sites and ancient monuments there.
		Some of the Tribe maintained an involvement in various subsequent road protests (Solsbury Hill, North Wales, Newbury bypass), but gradually morphed into a semi-nomadic "tribe", travelling the South West of England on foot, squatting various hill-forts and putting on seasonal gatherings in an attempt to reawaken a sense of connectedness with the land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dongas_road_protest_group (224 words)

	ARTicles: Rene -- Give Up Activism
		The group takes itself to have a unique grasp on truth and everyone outside the group is treated like an idiot in need of education by this vanguard.
		In Marxist groups the possession of 'theory' is the all-important thing determining power - it's different in the activist milieu, but not that different - the possession of the relevant 'social capital' - knowledge, experience, contacts, equipment etc. is the primary thing determining power.
		As is explained in The Bad Days Will End!, many ultra-left groups have recognised that in periods of downturn, they are necessarily going to be minorities and have argued against compensating for this with any kind of party-building or attempts to substitute their group for the struggle of the proletariat as a whole.
	www.16beavergroup.org /mtarchive/archives/000030print.html (6958 words)

	Auto-Struggles
		Roads are becoming increasingly less cost effective; the cost of 'improving' them is going up.
		And as soon as new roads are built and old ones expanded, they fill up because increased road transport is encouraged.
		This inalienable right of movement consequently demands the duty to obey the highway code and traffic laws which is in turn enforced and guaranteed by the state.
	us.geocities.com /kk_abacus/aufanitroad.html (13917 words)

	Jesmond Dene, direct action road protest camp. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Unfortunately one of the rentamob tries to unload fencing through the protesters' bodies- he hurls posts energetically, tries to break one protester's spine by levering him up with wooden stakes etc. Another protester tries to shield her friend and is hit in the chest with a stake.
		Protesters skip gaily round site, pursued by bailiffs; some lie in front of and on earth-movers and are dragged off.
		When the protester comes down to the lower branches of his tree to point out how dangerous this is, workmen saw off the branches he is standing on leaving him dangling by his hands.
	www.eco-action.org /dt/jesmond.html (3697 words)

	Monkeys, Moles p2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is probably fair to say that the Dongas were largely responsible for the New Age mysticism that still lingers around the direct action movement.
		A protester talking about the 'spirit' of a tree is often drawing not from a pagan tradition, but a poetic one.
		This sudden personification of roads protests was recognised almost immediately as a poisoned chalice.
	members.aol.com /allyfogg/Monkeys2.html (2011 words)

	[No title]
		This resounds with us--particularly the thing about the fetishising of action--in left groups the militants are left free to engage in endless busywork because the group leader or guru has the 'theory' down pat, which is just accepted and lapped up--the 'party line'.
		The political group or party substitutes itself for the proletariat and its own survival and reproduction become paramount--revolutionary activity becomes synonymous with 'building the party' and recruiting members.
		In Marxist groups the possession of 'theory' is the all-important thing determining power--it's different in the activist milieu, but not that different--the possession of the relevant 'social capital'--knowledge, experience, contacts, equipment etc. is the primary thing determining power.
	www.impassionedinsurrection.info /giveupactivism.html (3894 words)

	GIVE UP ACTIVISM \| the defenestrator
		More recently, a similar thing has happened in the way in which people drawn to protest sites by the coverage of Swampy they had seen on TV began to replicate in their own lives the attitudes presented by the media as characteristic of the role of the 'eco-warrior'.
		Previously the action of blocking roads was in itself politically significant, in rediscovering their potential as streets, the party became a celebration of a world turned upside down, the liberation of enclosed space.
		This was the theatre of protest married to the spectacle of the party, the unrefined anomic disorder of the dispossessed, frustrated and angry but ultimately controlled, allied to the hedonism of the party scene which often perceives the political as an ‘off yer face - out of mind’ distraction.
	www.defenestrator.org /drp/cluster?q=giveupactivism (6115 words)

	Twyford Down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The road meant a 400-foot wide and 100-foot deep slice through the face of the chalk Down, and protestors weren't going to let it go without a struggle.
		The core of the protest was a group of 15-20 young people who lived on St Catherine's Hill for most of 1992.
		So it was that these young protestors came to be known as 'The Dongas Tribe', a new tribe called by the land as warriors against the bulldozer and the digger.
	www.dragonnetwork.org /campaigns/twyford.htm (295 words)

	Gary's Story - From Printer to Donga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I suddenly became aware that I could live without bills - live in the countryside and take my home with me - and that I didn't have to work another 41 years, retire and then be too old and knackered to enjoy what was left of life.
		The "Dongas" which are ancient trackways going over Twyford Down and heading toward Winchester, 2 miles away downhill, were formed by travelling people and other nomads, marketers and farmers over thousands of years.
		I learnt later that where we - the Dongas Tribe as we were being called by the local paper - were was right in the middle of the proposed route.
	tash.gn.apc.org /gary.htm (1613 words)

	A visit with the Dongas Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One of the teachers at Winchester called the winding paths of Twyford "the Dongas." These very paths were being defended by the tribe.
		The main driving force of the Dongas revolves around the ownership of land, an obsessive transport policy and the general public's naivety towards the energy it consumes.
		The attitude towards the mushrooms was in marked contrast to the stifled paranoia of London Town.
	tash.gn.apc.org /dongas.htm (597 words)

	Defense of Duffer's Drift
		The former, the leader of whom seemed a man of education and some importance, were at first inclined to protest when they were given tools to dig trenches for themselves, showed bundles of "passes," and talked very big about complaining to the general, and even as to a question in the "'House" about our brutality.
		At the same time the men seemed to be dropping much oftener, and I was impressing them with the necessity of keeping up a brisker fire to the front, when I noticed a bullet hit our side of the parapet.
		The numerous small dongas and rifts lent themselves readily to flanking fire, and in many places the vertical banks required no cutting in order to give ideal protection against even artillery.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Swinton/Swinton.asp (14645 words)

	SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service
		Woomera was built out in the desert, five hours from the nearest city and at the end of a closed road.
		DEBBIE WHITMONT: Mark Huxstep says detainees were locked in their dongas, or cabins, for hours on end.
		Today, in Adelaide, a group of ex-Woomera nurses lodged the first claim for damages against their former employer.
	www.phaseloop.com /foreignprisoners/news-aust04e.html (6420 words)

	portland imc - 2003.08.18 - Trying to Make Friends in the Anarchist scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dear Anna, I don't know if this is any consolation, but what you describe is typical of white Portland activist groups of all kinds, not just anarchists--at least, that's been my observation and experience for the 30+ years I've lived here.
		I've probably had fewer "friends" than maybe I would have if I had tried harder to conform....even the radical or subculture groups seem to all have their rules of how you're supposed to be, which is kind of ironic since they all talk about freedom.
		Throughout my life, I've been usually on the periphery of various countercultural and alternative groups of people, and I've never really fit in with any of them, and that's OK. Self-integrity is more important, I think.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/08/269955.shtml (7574 words)

	Auto Struggles: The Developing War Against the Road Monster \| libcom.org
		From capital's point of view, the motor industry is both a vital element in a modern transport infrastructure, necessary for the expanded reproduction of a variety of sectors of the economy, and a locus of expansion in its own right.
		Energy: It might also be argued that, since more 'eco-friendly' alternatives to petrol are viable, oil is best reserved for use in plastics etc. However, this argument does not necessarily mean accepting the 'energy-crisis' thesis.
		Decadence: The Theory of Decline or the Decline of Theory?
	libcom.org /library/auto-struggles-aufheben-3 (14127 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		Protest your government's passivity and demand that they put enough pressure on Israel in order to change its criminal policies and tactics.
		I write to protest your government's support for Israeli collective punishment and other warcrimes in Lebanon and Palestine and request that you immediately take measures to rein in Israel and make it comply with international law.
		I also protest current impunity with which Israeli warcriminals walk free and demand that they be brought to justice for crimes they ordered or committed.
	www.indymedia.org /or/2006/07/843596.shtml (12119 words)

	Reflections - analysis of June 18 part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As role-players we dwell in inauthenticity--reducing our lives to a string of clichés--"breaking [our] day down into a series of poses chosen more or less unconsciously from the range of dominant stereotypes."3 This process has been at work since the early days of the anti-roads movement.
		Similarly, the various networking forums that have recently sprung up around the country--the Rebel Alliance in Brighton, NASA in Nottingham, Riotous Assembly in Manchester, the London Underground etc.
		have a similar goal--to get all the activist groups in the area talking to each other.
	flag.blackened.net /af/online/j18/reflec1.html (5779 words)

	Tribal Voices musicians website tribalvoices.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A unique collection of original contemporary folk songs, poems and chants that reflect the new indigenous tribal culture that has rooted and is now spreading throughout Britain today
		A group of Acoustic Musicians and artists bound by a belief in nature and community, with a range of feelings and experiences through our relationship with the earth in common, with its base in the protest movement and the inspiration to revitalise traditional seasonal gatherings.
		A bunch of dreamers who believe dreams can become manifest in a world where people realise that we are one with all things.
	www.tribalvoices.org.uk (150 words)

	Donga - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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		In South African English, ditch formed by the erosion of soil.
		Campsite accommodation - Small room for living - particularly in mining industry in Australia - A campsite Donga
	www.wikileasing.com /31/Donga.html (122 words)

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