The Drawing Room art gallery in Hay (beside the old HSBC bank) organised an auction of original artwork by Stephanie Lamb yesterday in aid of the people from Hay who have gone down to London to join in the Extinction Rebellion protests (I only saw the post on Facebook this morning). The money is to help to pay any fines and travel expenses they have if they are arrested.
At the protest in the spring, Justin Lewis Preece was arrested. He sings in English and Welsh and plays guitar at the Globe open mics, and also sometimes comes to the Baskerville acoustic sessions. He was fined £355 and lost four days work, as he had to travel down to London to appear in court twice. At the present protest, he is there again, as a legal observer.
I haven't heard of any arrests among the seventeen people from Hay who have gone down to London this time, but Sean O'Donoghue has set up a Just Giving page just in case. They're trying to raise £1,000.
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