Fluid Action At Tarmac EGM

Seven activists had a top action at the Tarmac Extraordinary General Meeting on the 8th July. After attending Tarmac's meetings as shareholders since 1993, we were fed up with asking pointless questions and getting "greenwash" for answers, so decided to go for all out disruption! It was very liberating to not be distracted by feeling like we had to "justify" ourselves to them.

Once in, our secret weapon was unleashed! We each had an opaque pop bottle full of organic comfrey and nettle plant feed which stinks worse than the Glastonbury loos. Before the meeting started, we rushed the stage and one woman drenched it, the Directors' Table and posh chairs with the stuff. The rest of us poured it all over the hall floor. Security bundled us out with one person receiving a cut eyebrow.

The meeting was delayed for over half an hour as they tried to clean up and decide whether to have the hassle of moving halls. Meanwhile in the lobby, Tarmac's Chairman, Sir John Banham, was spotted and had a jug of milk poured over his head, down his shirt and over his briefcase. Banham's words were "Oh God!" as the suited activist said "That's for trashing people's lives". Despite security threatening to call the police for assault, word came through to let him go. After this the meeting went ahead. We were extremely effective with such a small group - we delayed the meeting for over half an hour, humiliated the chairman and made the Directors sit in slurry throughout their meeting.