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PEOPLE TOO launch their WEBSITE - www.peopletoo.org - aimed at defending local democracy from centralisd bureaucrazy in rural Scotland“People the Forgotten Species” was the brainchild of Kirsty Macleod. A very successful meeting was held under this title in the Dewars Centre, Perth, Scotland on 12th October 2001. Some 180 delagates attended from all over Scotalnd for a full day’s programme of papers and discussions all centred around concern for people living and working in rural areas and what is happening to them. Indeed there were more delagates at Kirsty’s conference than there were at the Annual Conference of SNH held at Battleby or the Annual Conference of the Scottish Landowners Federation that year. The standard of the papers and the level of disucssion at “People the Forgotten Species” was far more interesting, enlightened and lively than in the case of the other two conferences just mentioned. The reason why this was the case was because there was a lack of confidence in either of these two formal organisations regarding their competence and effectivness in addressing the concerns of those who were trying to make a living by working the land and surrounding waters in rural areas. There was also resentement among those who have traditionally worked and cared for the land and who are now being increasing dominated by a central bureacrazy, too often with little practical experience and much pseudo or frankly erroneous (or misapplied) science. Following the success of the Perth conference “People the Forgotten Species” got itself formally constituted into “People Too”. It now has its own website (www.peopletoo.org), together with its satirical cousin www.freshair.uk.net. Land-Care congratulates “People Too” and recommends that readers support their websites to the full. They are sure to provide interesting and informative reading. The inaugural page of www.peopletoo.org is reproduced here with permission. |