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1. kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 21:17:47 UTC kat
   #sheffield Council chamber has been occupied by the people.  There is much dissent in the city, over the running and financing of a road renewal program. The program involves chopping down thousands of healthy trees.  Sheffield has (had?) a reputation of being one of the greenest cities in the #UK.  Also the contractual arrangements around the program are opaque and no allowed to be shared with the people !!!! ???  Which is another cause of anger.
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   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 22:15:45 UTC kat

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     https://indy.im/attachment/1795 https://indy.im/attachment/1794
     @mcscx@quitter.se repeated this.
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 23:36:47 UTC kat

     • zoowar
     @zoowar in the #sheffield case the management and maintenance of the roads has been outsourced to a private multinational - Amey. They declare the trees "antisocial" and "discriminatory" and remove them to repair the roads. One of the issues is that other methods can be used to both preserve the trees and fix the roads, but when this has been pointed out, from recourse to the Councils own "Independent Tree Panel" it's been ignored.
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 23:37:52 UTC kat

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     • zoowar
     @zoowar A better write up is here http://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/issues/streets-ahead-the-battle-for-our-street-trees/ #sheffield
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   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 00:01:11 UTC kat

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     The regional press catches up with the street.  
     https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/video-protesters-occupy-sheffield-council-chamber-over-controversial-tree-felling-programme-and-stage-all-night-sit-in-1-9007025
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 19:16:37 UTC kat

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     Article in the Guardian about #Sheffield #Tree protests https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/25/for-the-chop-the-battle-to-save-sheffields-trees
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 19:30:12 UTC kat

     • zoowar
     @zoowar the council has started legal proceedings against prominent protesters it has identified. One was recently found in breach of an injunction and costs of £16,000 awarded against them.  That's, what, a decade of debt on their shoulders ?