The Kinder Scout Trespass Anniversary

They should just have stayed at home and had a silent protest in their front rooms. Or else have respected their betters and accepted they owned the land and had a right to it. Or realised that if only they had worked harder they could have owned their own mountain

Seriously Trish great post. Up with activism and protest ?

Yes good for them. Another example of peaceful protest making an impact.
We walked on Kinder Scout several times when we lived in Hull.

I think the problem is maryeliza54 that people don't know their own history and when it is taught it is all about wars and kings. Perhaps some think it's best we don't know that the freedoms we now take for granted were won by people who demonstrated and refused to accept the status quo. After all just think what we might want next.
Anyone walking anywhere in the countryside should remember these people.

They should just have stayed at home and had a silent protest in their front rooms. Or else have respected their betters and accepted they owned the land and had a right to it. Or realised that if only they had worked harder they could have owned their own mountain

Nice one maryeliza ? you nearly had me there! ??

Can't help it Ewan McColl's great song The Manchester rambler to celebrate another great demonstration!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv0OPOZBWxI

When my H was in hospital 3 weeks ago, we could see Kinder from his window.
I thought then about the protest but didn't realise the anniversary was so close.
Good on them all, we have walked parts of it many times.

I like that post maryeliza

Well GG I just get fed up of people moaning about others taking action and what a waste of time or how exploitative or how disrespectful it is. As trish said most people don’t know their own history but I know I wouldn’t have had the life I’d had if it wasn’t for those brave people who marched and suffered before me.

I didn't know about this. Thank you trisher.

It shows that changes can happen if people work together and are determined. Presumably if the Mancunians had not trespassed, there might still be very limited access to the Peak District.

I agree with you that often significant events and people like this, which have had a positive impact on the lives of ordinary people, are not widely marked. I attended a choirs festival recently and we learned a folk song about John Ball, who I'd never heard of. I learned he was an inspirational and brave preacher, executed because he spoke up for ordinary people, who in the main were living lives of servitude and poverty.