High-tension attention.

Contact with the press continues today. We've had interest from The Portugal News and Get Real, who both hope to follow the story as it unfolds. The latter part of this week, and throughout next week, we'll be making contact with Portuguese press and television. We need to keep feeding information through as our story develops so if anyone has an angle that they think would be good then let us know.

Any ideas for a photoshoot? Toby has finished making a wooden pylon as a prop for a photograph which combined with a few of our signs and us as a group would be good to send on to the papers. Would anyone be up for doing an "angry residents" groupshot tomorrow?(Thursday)

Posters. As we speak, Brian is busy cutting up boards for our posters which we hope to start putting up at the end of this week and over the weekend. We need to spread the word and get as many people as possible involved in this action. Once again, speak to any neighbours/friends/relations/dogs/cats that would be interested in putting one up on our behalf. We could also do with a hand sticking posters onto boards and varnishing them so they're waterproofed....

Movimento Contra as Linhas de Alta Tensão em Zonas Habitadas. Yesterday we had a call from Helena Carmo of the national pressure group campaigning for a change in the law on placement (which is currently a minimum of 50m from any habitation) and legislation of high tension power lines. We'll be sending her details of our objections to date and a summary of the correspondence (or lack of!) that we've had with the relevant bodies. Her organisation is meeting with Ren and Government representatives on the 29th of this month to discuss further the potential changes in the law; she said she would be happy to raise our case at this meeting.

Public meeting. Mimi has spoken with Flaviano, who is happy for us to hold a public meeting at his bar (and said that we could place posters and any additional info there ....it looks like this will be the best place for a drop-in info point as it's local and everyone knows it). At present it looks like the best time for a public meeting will be the middle of next week. TBC.

Protest in Lisbon. The provisional date for this was the 23rd of this month, I wonder whether it wouldn't be best to move to the following Monday (30th of this month), in order to be sure of a large number of bodies? Ideas?