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Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

I'm Matthew Price.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today, would the Stanstead 15 chain themselves to a plane again? You, I said 15 we are with you.

We are with you.

We are with you.

We are with you. We are with you. This is a story about how far you all go to stand up for your beliefs.

The two women were going to hear from decided it was worth breaking the law, worth cutting through an airport security

fence, worth chaining themselves to an airplane in order to stop a group of people being deported

from the country. Now these two women, along with the 13 other people

that they did this with, they're now known as the Stanstead 15, they've been found

guilty and it's been hanging over them for almost two years.

When you talk to them, you can see the stress and the worry on their faces.

Their names are Ruth Potts and Mel Evans. We'll find out in a bit whether they would chain themselves to another plane.

But before we get to that, how did they do it in the first place?

We gathered that morning to rehearse setting up the

tripods and lining up the arm tubes that we were going to use to arrange our

peaceful blockade. We'd put together our plan two days earlier and gathered the

materials and you know we sat around in a circle at the beginning of the day and just

reminded for each of us why this was the right thing to do, what else had been tried, that people we knew were trying to help these people and how we could do this safely and

calmly communicate with everyone there that we're there and this is why we're

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