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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:49:17 +0100 (BST)
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From: "SchNEWS" (schnews@gn.apc.org)
Subject: SchNEWS 219, Friday 9th July 1999
Robert Kett - 450th celebration
GET KETTED OUT
It's the summer of 1549 and a time of uprisings by the dispossessed rural peasantry. Enclosure of common land was leading to starvation, begging was met with whippin', hangin' & mutilation and any help from the Church was forcefully put down. Robert Kett, a landowner seeing the injustice of what was happening to the common folk became leader of a 20,000 strong army, tearing down fences, filling in ditches and returning the land to common ownership. The area was run equitably from under an oak tree in Wymondham for 2 months, and the worst landowners were locked up before defeat by mainly foreign mercenaries at Norwich.
450 years on and this Saturday (10th) The Land Is Ours is organising an occupation against the fight against enclosure of public space.
Privatisation has seen closures & developments grow drastically in number, local councils selling allotments, schools selling playing fields and access to the countryside denied by Forestry Commission & landowners. Meet 12 noon, Haymarket, Norwich. Bring yer camping gear, instruments, pitchforks, etc. Contact 01603 484412
* Ketts celebration info - http://www.paston.co.uk/commonlot/links.htm
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