Dale Farm Bulletin: JOIN US AT DALE FARM!

Look around Dale Farm today you will find a community of increasingly stressed and sleepless but undefeated residents: grandparents, parents, children, and babies living close together, supporting each other, and welcoming into their midst supporters of all ages and backgrounds:

Altogether so many thoughtful, considerate, and inspiring people who are part of many different humanitarian, political, religious, and mutually supportive communities and groups who don’t want to stand by while hundreds of Travellers are brutally and senselessly evicted from their homes.

So join us for the weekend and beyond if you can!

There’s loads to do…

1. Come to Dale Farm – see here<http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/two-communites-celebrating-together/

for a little clip of life on Dale Farm and at Camp Constant. Directions to the site are here: http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/contact/

2. On Sunday, Sept 4th at 12 noon [note time change]: join the "Jewish Solidarity visit to Dale Farm" — it’s important that cultures with a shared history of oppression support each other when our fundamental human rights face being breached.  That is why this Sunday, Jewish rabbis, citizens and activists will be on site for a special blockade in support of
residents at Dale Farm.

3. There is a workshop, on Sunday Sept. 4th, 2pm, at Dale Farm: "Freedom of Movement and the Right to Stay!" This is the rallying cry for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers and of migrants throughout the world. A common thread of persecution, of forbidden lands, eviction and deportation connect the struggles for migrant rights and the rights of Gypsies and Travellers. These realities have met dramatically in the crack-down and deportations of Roma people from France and Italy. Come to the Workshop organised by No One Is Illegal and London No Borders including a speaker who is an activist in Amnesty International’s campaign against the persecution of Roma in Europe.

4. Check the webpage for stuff that’s needed* on site that you could donate/bring along, see here: http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/tat-needed/

5. If you can’t get to us in person, and you are able, please donate http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/donate/ – the residents want to be sure there is a strong and constant presence of supporters on site, and that means feeding and supporting people there.

6. Demonstration Saturday 10th September*, 1pm, Wickford Station - *Stop Basildon Council Tories and the Home Office Wasting Millions Bulldozing Dale Farm. *This is only a week away, and we need help spreading the word to make it as big as possible, on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245406565483199

('the dale farm demonstration'), twitter, email lists, in meetings. For more info see

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/demo/

The demonstration will go from Wickford Station to Dale Farm, leaving Wickford at 1pm. If you can help with transport or need transport from your area, contact savedalefarm@gmail.com

7.   After a lengthy consultation, including evidence presented in person in Geneva by Richard Sheridan of Dale Farm, The *UN have released a statement ( http://dalefarm.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/un-dalefarm_statement-1.pdf ) , condemning the eviction of families from Dale Farm, when no alternative land has been found for the families to live on and so that the community will be made homeless. The UN statement also condemned media misrepresentations of the Traveller community and the situation facing families at Dale Farm. The UN statement asked the UK government to intervene to prevent this injustice.