Posts Tagged ‘demonstration’

Protest at CRT offices 10th May!

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

Following the handing in of the Boats are Homes petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Boats are Homes march, boaters are invited to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds and its Milton Keynes HQ at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 10th May 2016.

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Boaters march to protect their homes

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

On 16th April 2016, over 200 boat dwellers including a group from the K&A marched to Downing Street to hand in a petition against CRT’s policy that threatens boaters without a home mooring with restricted licences and ultimately eviction from CRT waterways.

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National Boats Are Homes demonstration 16th April

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

On Saturday 16th April there will be a demonstration to demand that CRT:

*stops evicting or threatening to evict boat dwellers without permanent moorings based on their travel pattern, because of an arbitrary and unlawful minimum distance ‘rule’ that has been imposed since last May

*stops imposing 24 hour mooring time limits (the law entitles us to stay 14 days in any one place)

*stops any plans for the sale of our waterways,

and instead takes positive action to:

*maintain the banks and towpaths of the waterways

*install more mooring rings where these are needed and

*install more facilities.

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People’s Flotilla Against Austerity demo in Milton Keynes, 7th June

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

A group called the People’s Flotilla Against Austerity is holding a demonstration in Milton Keynes on 7th June to protest against cuts in Government spending and against worsening conditions for all canal users on CRT waterways.

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