A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Dale Farm appeal rejected, eviction expected soon

The Court of Appeal has just rejected the residents' right to a judicial review, which means that Basildon Council will be able to come on to conduct an eviction from now onwards. We need activists to come down for active resistance and support roles as soon as possible.

Come down to Dale Farm as soon as possible

The Court of Appeal has just rejected the residents' right to a judicial review, which means that Basildon Council will be able to come on to conduct an eviction from now onwards.

We need supporters to come down as soon as possible to help resist this eviction. We need people to come willing to engage in civil disobedience as well as support residents and activists in resisting the eviction through non-arrestable roles. It may seem like a scary thing to do, but coming down to Dale Farm is one of the most important things we can do for the community here, and to protest the injustice that even the United Nations and Amnesty International have unreservedly condemned. This is a historic moment of resistance- let's do something.

The residents have nowhere to go. They are united in resisting the eviction, and we have been working with them to develop plans and strategies. Travellers in the UK are at the receiving end of state violence. The way the Dale Farm community is being treated is a form of ethnic cleansing which criminalizes a people and a culture, and it is vital that we come together in solidarity to resist it. We are ready to resist the eviction, and we need more people to join us and the residents as soon as you can come down. Bring a sleeping bag, food and resistance paraphernalia. (For a full list of things to bring, how to get here - only 30 min from London- and other important info, see

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/activity/ or call 07583621312).

In addition to getting supporters down to Dale Farm, we still need a lot of funds to cover the work we have been doing so far. Please donate at:

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/donate/

Dale Farm Activist
e-mail: savedalefarm@gmail.com
Homepage: dalefarm.wordpress.com

Comments

Hide the following 4 comments

Essex police

17.10.2011 17:40

Apparently police throughout Essex have been avoiding making many arrests over the past few days in order to free up the cells for the coming eviction attempt.

ACAB

Double standards

17.10.2011 18:39

Look, I fully agree everyone has the right to a place to live.

That said, if the Dale Farm evictions don't go ahead, that sets a precedent for any others who should decide they'll set up home illegally somewhere. Surely, we can't have a UK where anyone can just live where s/he likes, ignoring planning permission laws, etc., just flouting the laws of this land.

There are those who just don't want lots of travellers living right next to them. It seems many non-traveller folk are opposed to the Dale Farm evictions, but would those same opponents welcome, say, a huge crowd of folk blatantly setting up a home site right on their doorstep? Culminating in your residential area becoming flooded with comings and goings from the latest influx of settlers? You see, a coin really does have two sides. Double-standards shouldn't be the order of the day, should they? There are lots of justified reasons for the advent of planning permission laws. Imagine a crowd suddenly building some dwellings right smack around Stonehenge, metres from the henge? Mmmmm? And I don't mean travellers doing it, but anyone and everyone!

Francis Giles

double standards?

17.10.2011 22:38

These people have always been villified for one reason or other. The modern 'solution' (because after all, gypsies will ALWAYS be seen as a problem by our tolerant and diverse society, much as they were by Hitler's Germany) was to force them off the road. These people WERE TOLD to find a permanent place to live. They did. Then the local neurotic nimby councillors went apeshit getting them back on the road. Now tabloids are getting themselves in a foamy-mouthed frenzy about 'these so-called travellers who don't even travel'.

We weren't happy with them on the road, and once they starting to settle down places, we weren't happy with that either. I'm intrigued as to what your 'solution' is? As long as we have gypsies, travellers, whatever, we will always have people who get upset at them being nearby. Where in this tolerant society do you suggest they go, to be allowed to live as they always have traditionally, for FAR LONGER than any law you can quote at me. Every law which we today claim gypsies break, is a law that in its day criminalised the gypsies. They haven't changed, we have and we're outraged they haven't changed with us.

As far as I can see, there's only one possible endpoint you can be after. You want travellers to disappear. To live normal lives. To merge into our society. You want to wipe them out as a social force, as a unique ethnocultural group. A purge. Those that don't sacrifice their identity must sacrifice their security and be perpetually brutalised by the state with its lackies (that's you) in toll.

Compromise

18.10.2011 11:06

I agree what your saying. I said everyone has a right to a place to live.

The travellers aren,t bothing me. I don't despise them. I'm merely saying, albeit myself and lots of folk hate red tape, everybody just surely can't set up dwelling sites just where they please. It's a problem all round. The Basildon Council should give them a site to settle on. I don't think they should be hounded. No one should. I think compromise is a good result.