Bollocks To The Countryside Alliance

The Countryside Alliance, as you probably know, a disgusting bunch of fox-huntin, land-owning rich bastards who should have had there heads docked when they were born. Unfortunately, they weren't, so we're going to have to fight them in the here and now. Their main focus at the moment is their campaign to stop a ban on hunting, as this would be a challenge to their power and 'right' to chase small furry animals over miles of countryside before watching them being torn apart by a pack of hounds.

In the process they are pretending to represent the whole of the countryside, despite the fact that they are responsible for much of them in the first place! In reality though, they represent the interests of the land owning rich, which are by their very nature opposed to the interests of the rest of us. Mean while, they expect the rest of us in the countryside to keep quiet and let them get on with pretending to be us, and expect those living in the towns and cities to sit back and let them march around in their shit dress sense. Well, we say "BOLLOCKS TO THAT!"

However, it is not enough to say bollocks to the Countryside Alliance (although it is quite fun and satisfying), we have to take action to oppose them. To this end, Stroud Valleys' Anarchists are launching a campaign to oppose them in our area, in the hope that other areas will follow suit, or that it will at least give the rest of the CA a scare. We intend to bring in elements from successful animal rights campaigns such as the Surrey Anti-Hunt Campaign which has reduced the number of places local hunts can meet from 19 to 4, and the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign which in only a couple of years has brought animal abusers HLS to their knees, along with other ideas, and obviously adapted to our circumstances and resources.

But this is NOT simply an animal rights issue, and meat eaters and anyone else is welcome to join in (unless you are right-wing scum of course). This is above all a class issue, and therefore our campaign also aims to address the real problems in the area (and is tied in with all our other work). Below are the various stages and parts of the campaign, please join in in any way that you can and want to.

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