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Today! Urgent! Help stop racist evictions in Epping Forest!

Ake vriama, usti Rom akana! | 16.06.2004 06:31 | Anti-racism | Cambridge | London

A young mother with triplets and an elderly couple, who have lived on their own land at Paynes Lane, Lower Nazeing, Essex, for l4 years, along with other families face eviction today. (Wednesday 16th June).This ethnic cleansing comes just days after the fascist BNP won three seats on Epping Forest District Council, with their neo-nazi pledge to drive out the local Gypsy people. Further info taken from  http://easf.org.uk

Today! GET DOWN TO PAYNES LANE, LOWER NAZEING, ESSEX . NEAR BROXBOURNE STATION . OFFER YOUR SOLIDARITY!

The fascist BNP has failed to achieve their much hyped breakthrough in the Euro-elections, being largely snubbed by the electorate. However, one exception to this trend was in Essex. Here the BNP won three seats on Epping Forest District Council. (Although even here they also lost their first recently gained Essex seat in Thurrock, as more voters begin to learn through experience).

But while still marginal, the BNP have been able to provoke a wave of officially sponsored 'ethnic cleansing' in Essex. In Epping this virulent fascist party have been trying to promote their sinister agenda vowing to "evict travellers/gypsies from private or council lands". Following the June 10th election the council is now collaborating with this agenda by stepping up its evictions of, and attacks on the local gypsy population of Epping Forrest.

Boosted by the BNP, the council is this week trying to move some people off their land Paynes Lane, Lower Nazeing, Essex . This land has been owned and lived on by the travellers for over 15 years!
This eviction follows years of harassment by the council. Paynes Lane residents have been denied water or electricity. The entrance to the lane was blocked off - preventing access by the emergency services.

Hitler's Nazis also exploited fear and ignorance of travelling people to gain power. European Roma and travelling people suffered the same extermination and concentration camps as Europe's Jewish population, alongside the continents gays, communists, freethinkers and Trades Unionists.

Today, across Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, Roma and travelling communities are once more increasingly persecuted and violently attacked by neo-Nazi groups and skinheads, as they are made scapegoats for the economic crisis.

Here, across East Anglia, the BNP have tried to exploit the fears of middle class residents worried about property prices. The media and local politicians encourage a succession of 'nimby' campaigns of racism towards travellers.

Many groups of travellers own their own land, and wish to live discreetly on it. They cause no more problems than any other community. But prejudice against travellers is a form of racism that government officials, local mainstream politicians and the media can often openly promote without being challenged.

This must change!

Stop the fascists! Defend the travellers!
For Land and Liberty! People Not Profit!

GET DOWN TO PAYNES LANE, LOWER NAZEING, ESSEX . NEAR BROXBOURNE STATION . OFFER YOUR SOLIDARITY!

Ake vriama, usti Rom akana! Another World Is Possible!

Ake vriama, usti Rom akana!
- Homepage: http://www.easf.org.uk

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