R.I.P. ANITA VENABLES
Cymric patriot Anita Venables has sadly passed
away this morning. Although Anita, along with her husband Phil, has been
a Cymric activist for decades, we, personally, did not get the opportunity to
meet the couple until last year when, as part of the South Cymru Balchder Cymru
group, they joined up with Embassy Glyndŵr to fight the Stryveland campaign
against the windmilling of Mynydd y Betws and the rest of Cymru. During this
campaign, we had the opportunity to talk quite a lot with Anita and Phil and
found them both to be exceptionally pleasant as well as being
genuine and dedicated Cymric patriots who were prepared to work tirelessly
in order to do their bit for Cymric freedom. During the Stryveland campaign
alone – and although they did not have access to a car, they travelled from
Pembroke by train to Swansea to participate in picketing the docks and in
protest rallies on a number of occasions and in all types of weather - although
Anita was, quite obviously, in pain throughout. And for use during both
the picketing and protesting, Anita came equipped with large bed sheets covered
in relevant slogans which she busied herself with tying to fences. Not only
this, Anita (along with Phillip) on that day stressed their eagerness to carry
out an act of passive resistance there and then, by sitting down in front of
the Turbine Transports. But we advised against doing it then considering it
possibly best to do so in the centre of Pontardawe at a more public place and
where more aggravation could be caused to the Turbine Transportation
to Mynydd y Betws. This opportunity was not to arise due to the fact that not
enough ‘patriots’ were ever at Pontardawe during the transportations to carry the intended 'sit down' protest out but, we
have no doubt that if Anita could have been there during the transportations,
she is one brave patriot that would have had the courage of conviction to have
committed to such radical patriotic action. She
was definitely a great example as to what ‘activism’ is all about and Cymric
youth today, if they are serious about a free Cymru, should follow her example.
Anita is now with other good and dedicated
Cymric patriots in Ogof Glyndŵr – and we are confident that we will meet again
there one day, in the meantime, my thoughts are with Phil and the family at
this terribly sad time. R.I.P. Anita.
‘Cofiwn’.
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