Dale Farm eviction "will weigh heavily on Britain"
@letdalefarmlive | 19.10.2011 07:05 | Dale Farm | Anti-racism | Social Struggles
Early this morning riot police and bailiffs stormed the Dale Farm community in a dawn raid. Police violated the court order and used sledgehammers to smash through the walls of a fully legal plot on the site in order to force entry. Human rights observers reported several injuries of residents and supporters from police action as they forced their way onto site.
Police are using tasers on those protesting the eviction.
Residents and supporters remain inside the site, many locked on to blockades and caravans together in order to resist the eviction. Police breached the perimeter to initiate the eviction.
Burning Barricade via Fitwatcher
People in trees and on rope walkways at back entrance of #DaleFarm
"The memory of Dale Farm will weigh heavily on Britain for generations- we are being dragged out of the only homes we have in this world. Our entire community is being ripped apart by Basildon Council and the politicians in government"
Natalie Fox, a supporter said:
"The Traveller community is being criminalised- it has been made illegal for them to travel, but they are not being allowed to settle. If Traveller families are not allowed to make their home on a former scrapyard, then where will they be allowed to live?"
Lily Hayes, a human rights observer, said:
"Basildon Council are violating the court order by smashing in the walls of a fully legal plot on the Dale Farm site. They are also acting unnecessarily brutally, using tasers on people protesting the eviction"
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Emergency injunction sought in response to 'unlawful' police operation
19.10.2011 08:18
Despite Basildon Council's claims, human rights observers have reported that the police are conducting a brutal, dangerous and unlawful eviction.
Mary Sheridan, a Dale Farm resident who has taken her children off site and is staying in a relative's lawful plot, said:
"The only premeditated violence has come from the police- they knew exactly what they were doing when they started beating and tazering people. This is not how a community should be treated by its own Council. It's illegal for us to travel, but illegal for us to settle down here. We're getting hit by the police but we've got nowhere else to go."
Instances of police violence reported by trained human rights observers and witnesses include:
-Witnesses report the use of tasers by police from the beginning of the eviction
-Police forced entry onto the site by using sledgehammers to break down a wall of a fully legal plot on the edge of the site. This is not only in violation of court order and constitutes criminal damage, but it is also highly dangerous. Vulnerable and elderly residents had stayed on that plot expecting to be safe as it is protected through court decisions, and were highly traumatised as police sledgehammered through the wall. At least two women residents sustained head injuries.
-Batons have been used on supporters and residents from the beginning of the eviction
-Severe injuries of residents and protesters have been witnessed by human rights observers and the press. One woman sustained such serious injuries from police that she had to be admitted to hospital.
- The plot of a resident who needs a breathing machine to survive has had it's electricity cut.
Natalie Fox, a spokesperson for Dale Farm Solidarity supporter group, said,
"Far from being the dignified eviction that Basildon Council is claiming, this is set to be one of the most brutal evictions on record. The Council know that there are elderly and vulnerable people on site, as well as children, but they have gone in with a full frontal and brutal approach which is already resulting in injuries. The world is watching. "
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photo of police 'using tasers'
19.10.2011 07:32
8.18am: Here's a shot of police using tasers earlier this morning
Still waiting to hear from Essex police on what equipment they're using at Dale Farm
the extended curly wire held by the /);& on the left is what carries electricity to victims body, for those unfamiliar with tasers.
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OCCUPY dale farm
19.10.2011 07:56
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Great
19.10.2011 08:44
Pleased
@ Pleased
19.10.2011 08:47
I'd engage with your arguments if for one moment I thought you were a flexible thinker and showed some consideration in what you write to fellow human beings.
Go boil your head.
displeased
@ Pleased
19.10.2011 09:31
They aren't just concreting over those mythical rolling green fields where the bunny rabbits frolic. That kind of behaviour is reserved for things like supermarkets or slaughterhouses.
Also you'd know that since most of the common land was stolen from the people by the rich, councils have a legal duty to provider spaces for travellers. And virtually all of them currently break the law by not providing those spaces. So would you rather they live on an old scrapyard, or get pushed from pillar to post, stopping on random bits of land they can find until they get evicted?
I'm not sure you've really thought this one through in your enthusiasm for ethnic cleansing.
anon
Reply to idiot
19.10.2011 10:12
These people BOUGHT land that was a former SCRAP YARD, and over 50% of Dale Farm residents have planning permission to build on land which in 100% of cases is legally theirs, and the police have smashed through plots that do have planning permission in order to violently assault people on plots that don't.
Troll Hunter
Your comments and insults do not change the facts
19.10.2011 10:45
This is Green Belt land, they bought the land as agricultural land that has an automatic ban on housing development.
The scrap yard comprised about 20% of what is now the illegal encampment at Dale Farm, the rest was open green land
The people there have been offered alternative accomidation - they refused it
Green Belt land must be protected and building on it must be resisted. If this was a Tesco development would Indy readers still be defending this building ? No of course not.
Pleased
@ displeased
19.10.2011 10:49
I wouldn't if I were you as you would lose. The rules about Green Belt land are clear and transparent. All of the arguments concerning Dale Farm come down to one simple fact
This was Green Belt land when they bought it, they knew it was Green Belt land and they knew that they were not allowed to build on it but they built anyway.
They rolled the dice, they lost
Also pleased
Cops get pissed on
19.10.2011 11:30
Update from local paper:
"10:13: Protesters urinate on police as they try to remove flammable liquid from behind the barricade"
Sweet :)
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Question
19.10.2011 11:39
Israel
Dale Farm eviction "will weigh heavily on Britain"
19.10.2011 11:45
I should think it will be forgotten by the time the next episode of X Factor starts
Realist
Lets sort out this bullshit trolling once & for all
19.10.2011 11:46
- It was Basildon council which actually concreted over the land in the first place
- One of the most vociferous campaigners, next door neighbour Len Gridley, has a massive plot of land a smiliar size to Dale Farm to himself. It recently transpired he himself had done building work on his plot without planning permission. Next door hundreds of people live on a patch of concrete. Sorry, lived.
- The surrounding area is made up of large plush gated houses, a very busy motorway, a big Tescos complex, and some fields. This is not exactly pristine wilderness.
- Have you actually been to the area to see for yourself? No? Then shut ur piehole
Troll hunter
Lets sort out this bullshit trolling once & for all - YES Let's do just that
19.10.2011 11:57
- When the residents bought the site it was a concrete scrapyard. So basically that makes the resident's actions in moving there all those years ago about as environmentally destructive as you moving into a house in the city.
>> Wrong - about 20% of the site was a concreted scrapyard that had been built illegaly in the first place by other travellers. The rest was woodland and a corn field.
- It was Basildon council which actually concreted over the land in the first place
>> Lie - Dale Farm have been pushing this lie for about eight years, it has been disproved time and time again
- One of the most vociferous campaigners, next door neighbour Len Gridley, has a massive plot of land a smiliar size to Dale Farm to himself. It recently transpired he himself had done building work on his plot without planning permission. Next door hundreds of people live on a patch of concrete. Sorry, lived.
>> Strawman argument. What somebody else does is irrelevant, the Dale Farm residents are illegal, simple as that. If my neighbour breaks the law is it ok for me to do the same ?
- The surrounding area is made up of large plush gated houses, a very busy motorway, a big Tescos complex, and some fields. This is not exactly pristine wilderness.
>>> None of which are on the Green Belt land that the Dale Farm site is. By your argument is it ok to build a Tesco on Green Belt land if there is a Waitrose next door ?
- Have you actually been to the area to see for yourself? No? Then shut ur piehole
>> Yes. I wrote an advisory paper to Basildon council detailing the effect on wildlife in the area of the development.
Pleased
Oi, idiot drink of water.
19.10.2011 12:24
I wouldn't if I were you as you would lose. The rules about Green Belt land are clear and transparent. All of the arguments concerning Dale Farm come down to one simple fact
This was Green Belt land when they bought it, they knew it was Green Belt land and they knew that they were not allowed to build on it but they built anyway.
They rolled the dice, they lost."
I lived in Basildon for about 20 years before I moved away. Best decision I ever made. The council are corrupt, the people drug taking losers, massive benefit fraud and tax evasion is rife in the town and lawlessness is ordinary and normal. If you lived in the town, you would quickly realise that the people of Basildon don't give a rats arse about Green belt land. They are too busy concreting over the whole place in search of a quick buck.
They have a giant open park with football fields and a big lake, its the only open common space they have in the entire town. But even this has been sold off for development and they have just built a sports centre on what was green land smack bang in the centre of this park. Yet the people of the town are slobs and will never use it!
All this talk of the law abiding majority and the beauty of green belt is complete garbage. The people of Basildon see green belt land as money for old rope and they are too busy not paying taxes, claiming benefits they aren't entitled too, smoking cannabis and abusing alcohol to be concerned much about the law.
Basildon plod is the slum assignment that every copper in the whole of Essex dreads being assigned to.
Its hardly a surprise that the media are being fed cobblers about protesters being violent and having weapons. The people of Basildon are fundamentally as thick as shit at the best of times so are well placed to buy into that crap. They don't like protesters, they don't like the idea of standing on your own two feet, they like the idea of dependency and obediance to nanny government. They don't want the travllers in the town because they are gippo's. It has nothing at all to do with the law or the countryside. You have to understand that the people of Basildon are effluent from the East end of London. They see the gippo's as Irish and scroungers. They see in the travellers something that reminds them of themselves...and they don't like it. So they want them gone for good.
Hmmm, interesting that you talk about rolling dice and losing. The dice has been rolled, all 5 million quid of it, most of it going to bent council staff and bent coppers and even more bent bailiffs. Nobody has come along to offer to buy the land on behalf of the travellers, which is what the council were secretly hoping for. The operation has gone ahead and the police and bailiffs will be putting in a bill for it many many times more than what it actually cost them. On top of that, Basildon council won't be able to pay back the loan they got from the government due to a serious shortfall in its financial affairs that has been building for almost 15 years of financial irregularites and unnoticed corruption.
I don't think it'll be the travellers who lose here. It will be the people of Basildon. But who the hell cares about slum dwellers?
As for your comments, you don't live in Basildon. You have never lived in Basildon. Your comments are drivel and made from arrogance and obediance to that which you perpetually live in fear of. The only reason you make them is because you have something to hide!
Bolus
Jew Baiting.
19.10.2011 12:47
The Jews wouldn't want to live in that shit hole Basildon. Even they have SOME standards!
Lord Hanningfield, writing from prison.
@ Bolus
19.10.2011 12:49
I too lived in the area for a while (it was six years ago) and I found a pleasant community mostly desended from the East End of London whose parents and grandparents had moved out to live in a more rural area. Community spirit was strong and crime no better or worse than other areas of the UK. I've no idea if the Council is corrupt, when I was there the bins got emptied, the schools were ok and the general area seemed ok.
Bolus = Bollox
I doubt it
19.10.2011 13:12
"I wonder of the readers of Indymedia would be so supportive of this development if it had been a community of Jews as opposed to one of Travellers ?"
I doubt it, I expect we would have seen Feature Articles on why Green Belt land must be preserved and why the Jewish travellers must leave.
Lenny Godber
HA HA HA HA.
19.10.2011 13:19
He he he he. That's funny dude. Fucking hilarious!
Nope, you aint never lived in this town in your entire sodding life. You know what, you haven't even visited either!
Bolus.
for Bolus.
19.10.2011 13:34
Get off your keyboard, enbrace life, say hello to a stranger, help a person with a heavy bag, smile at a passerby but most of all - Go away as you are very boring and childish and the adults have things to do
Like is not a computer
Use of the word "dude"
19.10.2011 13:43
Have you thought of trying to just be your age ?
bolus = bollox
Bolus - not sure why you are here ?
19.10.2011 13:52
May I suggest you move along Indymedia may be a little too thought provoking for you.
IMCister
Lets sort out this bullshit trolling once & for all - YES Let's do just that
19.10.2011 14:17
- When the residents bought the site it was a concrete scrapyard. So basically that makes the resident's actions in moving there all those years ago about as environmentally destructive as you moving into a house in the city.
>> Wrong - about 20% of the site was a concreted scrapyard that had been built illegaly in the first place by other travellers. The rest was woodland and a corn field.
- It was Basildon council which actually concreted over the land in the first place
>> Lie - Dale Farm have been pushing this lie for about eight years, it has been disproved time and time again
- One of the most vociferous campaigners, next door neighbour Len Gridley, has a massive plot of land a smiliar size to Dale Farm to himself. It recently transpired he himself had done building work on his plot without planning permission. Next door hundreds of people live on a patch of concrete. Sorry, lived.
>> Strawman argument. What somebody else does is irrelevant, the Dale Farm residents are illegal, simple as that. If my neighbour breaks the law is it ok for me to do the same ?
- The surrounding area is made up of large plush gated houses, a very busy motorway, a big Tescos complex, and some fields. This is not exactly pristine wilderness.
>>> None of which are on the Green Belt land that the Dale Farm site is. By your argument is it ok to build a Tesco on Green Belt land if there is a Waitrose next door ?
- Have you actually been to the area to see for yourself? No? Then shut ur piehole
>> Yes. I wrote an advisory paper to Basildon council detailing the effect on wildlife in the area of the development.
Pleased
The reality.
19.10.2011 15:06
It was a tip to start with, long before the travellers got there. Its basically scrubland that was never properly re-classified after the A127 was built, one of the busiest arterial roads in England, next to the A13 which runs a parralel to it a couple of miles to the south. When that road was built the whole area on that side became unusable. Before the A127 was built, it was beautiful.
Then they built the large commercial park across the other side, this contains a Tesco, a large garage, a retail park with maybe ten or fifteen large scale retail outlets, factories and a large US credit card processor with huge car-park. Behind that is a very run down industrial park covering maybe 75 square acres.
It can't really be classed as green belt land as most of it was being used for agriculture so the land is dead as far as the natural environment is concerned. But the small scrapyard was there for years and that means sump oil, petrol and used car parts all being left to rot on the ground.
Green belt designation is really pushing the boat out.
Fundamentally, what this is about is the council being unable to generate income from the site, or to provide its services under the Council Tax income stream. On top of that, the land cannot be developed for other projects the council would want to build.
Once the travellers have gone, Basildon Council will re-designate it and build houses on it anyway.
Basildon Council have been under constant pressure to make land available for extra housing stock to be built. At one time years ago under Labour, the Council were being asked to make space available for an extra 100,000 private dwellings in and around the district. At the time, this was dismissed as ridiculous but the pressure remained for some sort of housing buffer to be created. The travellers are in the way of the council's plans to execute government housing policy.
This is a Conservative run council, and a Conservative run government.
TB
I think you may be confused
19.10.2011 15:26
People keep using this spurious argument that there is development nearby so its ok to develop this land, it's not. That's the point of Green Belt it's a fireroad against further development. Basildon Council has already made clear its plans for the area once the site is cleared, a return to agricultural land and a small alottment development for local residents.
What ??
The travellers are in the way of the council's plans to execute government housi
19.10.2011 15:34
Basildon person
Basildon needs extra housing development.
19.10.2011 16:10
I have no idea why you would claim that they would build allotments there. Its next to one of the busiest arterial roads in England, access is almost non existant and you could count the residents on that side of the arterial on the fingers of two hands. All of the residents on that side of the arterial have enough land to grow whatever they want. They would have no use for allotments and the other residents in the town itself wouldn't want to drive the twenty minutes it would take them to get there. They would almost have to drive to Wickford, in the next town, in order to get back behind the site in order to get access to it. Thats nothing to say of the fact that in rush hour, the A127 can be a nightmare. It could take you an hour or more just to get across town.
The only other residents who might have use for an allotment site are people who live in Noak Bridge, but they have their own allotments.
I don't think people are saying that just because the area is, in reality, heavily developed already, that that alone is sufficient reason to develop more. In Basildon, the A127 acts as a dividing line between the major developed town to the south, and the non developed area on the north side. The travellers are on the northern side almost butting up against the arterial road itself. On the other side of the road, across four lanes of traffic, the town is very heavily developed as commercial and industrial zones.
But that is as it may be. Government policy is what it is. Local authority policy is what government policy dictates it to be.
The housing stock has to be put somewhere and Basildon District Council will simply make the space available. Whether that be on green belt land or scrubland doesn't really matter much. Policy is policy.
Basildon Council have no intention, whatsoever, in returning the land to its previous state or of developing the land for anything other than new residential developments. This is something that has been ongoing between the council and the government for the past decade. Basildon is constantly pestered by government to make space. Basildon is the major town in the Thames corridor before you hit Southend and it is in serious need of extra housing stock. I think waiting lists for housing in Basildon are currently somewhere around fifteen years on a points system.
TB.
Not so.
19.10.2011 16:13
Oh, if I had a pound for everytime Basildon District Council claimed one thing, only to do the exact opposite later when the fuss died down. I would be able to afford to buy my own house by now.
TB
Housing on the site
19.10.2011 16:25
Nick
Very very disturbing indeed.
19.10.2011 16:39
I'm not really in it to argue.
I know what I know. The travellers are being evicted from that land in order to make way for extra housing development which the council will undertake on behalf of government house building policy.
I think the wider argument here is that this policy is being enacted by force, using public order policing which is clearly violent and deeply disturbing. Its very shocking that people on that site were being tasered this morning. Tasers are dangerous weapons that should not be used.
I've been involved in witnessing major citywide rioting throughout the UK, Germany, Mexico and seen public order policing first hand in Belfast. What has happened today is very very disturbing indeed. It could not be any more an over-reaction.
Let me ask you, do you think this is acceptable behaviour for a council that only want to build an allotment? Or perhaps could it be likely that the council have other plans, which they have so far have failed to make clear to you?
TB
Comment deleted at CIF
19.10.2011 19:23
I am coming to think the British public are as bad as the police - which perhaps explains how the police can continue to act like Britain is a totalitarian regime, even though there's formal democracy in place.
Today we have police putting elderly women in hospital for peacefully sitting down.
We have police torturing people with tasers, supposedly for resisting police violence (as they have every right to do).
We have people ripped from their homes over petty zoning laws, because local racists hate their way of life.
And we have an outpouring of whining, law-loving bigots screaming that they love their oppressors and that everything they do is right. People who are quite happy to live in a world where we can all be beaten, tortured and shot at will, by any individual who happens to wear a uniform.
human rights defender
Dale Farm, the reality of Industrial Basildon.
19.10.2011 21:55
Dale Farm and Industrial Basildon.
BBC version.
Basildon District Council version.
This image shows at the bottom the traveller Dale Farm site which has not been extended beyond the perimeter that you see here. The site is pretty much the same now as it was back then, although recent images do appear to show some depopulation. You can also see at the top, large-scale development including a retail park, sports playing field's, and in the top right hand corner, a large industrial park containing factories, businesses and some large international corporations. The rent paid by these businesses and corporations is way and above enough to help find the travellers a place to go. The dividing line between these developments is the A127, a very busy arterial road that runs from London right through to Southend on Sea. It is one of the busiest arterial roads in England.
The land at the top of the image beyond and including the developemts is excusively under private ownership so there are no public spaces or right of way there at all.
This image is one you are unlikely to see printed in the MSM because it shows clearly that the general area is already in a state of advanced development. The images you will see printed and online in the MSM, will only show the traveller site looking in the opposite direction. This is because the traveller site can then be placed with a green countryside background emphasising the 'green belt' angle which the MSM wish to show. This is probably because the MSM doesn't particularly want to burn its bridges with the government, which clearly is fully backing the violent and shocking behaviour we have seen today.
The second image is from the BBC, that bastion of competency and fair mindedness. This image shows a directly overhead view that clearly isn't of any real value. Although it does helpfully allow you to make a judgement about what bit of the site is good, and therefore, what bit is bad.
The third image is taken from Basildon Council's own website and is clearly a litle more helpful, although is still taken from an angle looking away from the bulk of industrial development in the town.
TB
travelers?
20.10.2011 06:26
Traveling means some sort of ability to move from one place to the next...
Oh and the previous poster rants about the locals being racist against a way of life...er If your talking about a race ie.the roma of central europe who have decendents here then there is a small chance you are right, but as far as I could see when I stuck my nose into the place there was no one of that genus. So are the locals being racist against middle class sociology and media arts students?
anon by right
Photos by TB
20.10.2011 08:30
Of course I condem the heavy handed police operation but we have to protect our green land.
Was confused, now much clearer
Green belt preservation and violent policing.
20.10.2011 12:19
Of course I condem the heavy handed police operation but we have to protect our green land."
Good to here you condemn the actions taken by police and Basildon Council in forcibly going onto the site by using offensive weapons under the remit of public order policing. This is a small town where local police and council staff do not possess either the skills or experience to do this competently. Basildon police have gone onto the site and used taser weapons offensively to gain access. This is not only illegal, but highly irresponsible and dangerous. Clearly, local police have been attempting to model this operation on national policing operations and, as a result, have completely failed to uphold the law in cogent form. Taser weapons are a last resort to protect the public safety, and are not to be used routinely and offensively in order to gain access to property on behalf of private sector employees.
Of course the area is clearly already heavily industrialised and this development would have been initialy on green belt land. Much of this industrialisation now means that large-scale business and international corporations operate in the area and are paying substantial rent to the local authority, not to mention council tax. This means the council have large-scale revenue coming into its coffers which supplement its income. This is more than enough to provide funding for things like local schools, public services and set asides for traveller communities.
Tony Ball has again stated that Basildon District Council have 110 sites in and around Basildon set aside for the travelling community but this is clearly very false indeed. Basildon District Council do not operate anywhwere near that number in reality and will not be able to competently prove this on demand.
As far as preservation of green belt land is concerned, Basildon is the largest town in the northern area of the commercial Thames Corridor. It has been growing since its original inception. It will continue to grow and the land you see here in these photos, will continue to develop with extra housing provision. The Council will facilitate this as a result of government policy, not local authority policy. Mr Ball is not in a position to make any coherent statements regarding that. Basildon will make land available for extra housing as and when government need arises.
The land you see here, where the travellers are situated, will certainly be developed in the near future. Firstly because there is a requirement for it, and secondly because the local council do not control government policy and, therefore, are not in a position to resist it.
There is clearly a deliberate policy of misleading the public about the status of green belt land in that area and this deception forms the basis of the public discourse. I'm afraid it just isn't enough to claim that the eviction of the travellers is taking place under the remit of protecting green belt land. Neither the council, nor government will ever act to preserve this belt given Basildon's status, or the current economic environment. The eviction of the travellers has nothing to do with this preservation, and has everything to do with clearing the area of people that Basildon Council cannot wring income from or are occupying land that has been set aside for housing development.
If you are truly concerned with the protection of green belt land in that area, you could hardly do better than protect and stand fast with the travellers. They are the only thing standing in the way of chronic industrial development of that land by Basildon Council acting as proxy for the governments house building program.
TB
TB photos
20.10.2011 12:48
I hope you don't mind but I have posted them on my blog and to a number of websites illustrating why the eviction of Dale Farm was regretfully necessary even though it was done in a violent manner that we should be highly critical off.
I appreciate you having the guts to do this on a site like Indymedia where you can expect to get a lot of grief for telling the truth.
Thanks again
Use of photos
20.10.2011 13:47
I have today used your pictures to illustrate to my class the importance of the Green Belt and how it relates to the Dale Farm dispute. My children who are of many ethnic backgrounds had been divided in their opinions of the Dale Farm situation but your photos help them understand how town and city developments are contained by green belts and why the Travelers had to leave the site.
It is important for children to understand these big news stories outside of the context of the mainstream media.
Thanks
Jake
London teacher
I claim copyright on those photos
20.10.2011 14:48
TB
Response.
20.10.2011 20:19
Which of course is why it is so important to recognise how government policy of creeping housing development into the green belt requires that pre-existing structures be removed to make way for that development. Which is, in and of itself, a threat to the protection of the Green Belt.
"I have today used your pictures to illustrate to my class the importance of the Green Belt and how it relates to the Dale Farm dispute. My children who are of many ethnic backgrounds had been divided in their opinions of the Dale Farm situation but your photos help them understand how town and city developments are contained by green belts and why the Travelers had to leave the site."
I am sure the children you are teaching will have been shocked to see such violence being undertaken by Essex police and Basildon District Council in service to a violent forced entry of the Dale Farm site, and will no doubt look to you to explain to them why this did not proceed peacefully, despite assurances that a peaceful resolution was the desired result. Perhaps your teaching materials will give your children a coherent understanding about how planning law, along with criminal law, can be successfully merged to further industrial development and building projects.
I would also imagine that, being in a multi-ethnic environment, your children will be very familiar with how ethnic groups can be targeted by other majority groups along lines of race and ethnicity, usually for reasons they are all too familiar with. I do hope they will be able to come away from your classroom with a coherent understanding of what ethnic prejudice means in practise.
It now appears that the travellers have shown their true colours and have left the site, peacefully, and with their dignity stridently intact. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for either Essex Police or Basildon District Council, both of whom are now busy tearing down the traveller homes at very considerable expense to the tax-paying public, at a time of financial hardship for all.
One can only assume that the travellers will be settling on another local site in severe circumstance just as winter arrives, and will now be forced to claim not only benefits, but hardship payments as a result of being forced into homelessness by Basildon District Council, along with other neccessary payments by way of compensation. From here, they will be guided and taught how to seek effective redress, along with how to prepare evidence of the violence they have been subjected to.
One other point, it appears somebody else has taken it upon themselves to restrict usage of the images I have posted above, along with a bizaare complaint about conditions of use. The images are of course in the public domain and are available under the public interest, for reasons of preventing the public from being misled by statements and acts that are, also, comprehensively in the public domain.
TB
@TB
21.10.2011 23:29
What a twat! They arn't yours to copyright dickhead
Who cares anyway. The protestors have all left
anon
Copyright claiming.
22.10.2011 13:47
The person called TB who took the image which has been posted here, is NOT the same TB that has attempted to claim copyright over them.
Two different people, the first genuine, the second not.
Just in case there is a copyright claim in the future, and this web page is used as evidence to support it. The claim to copyright is made by the plaintiff themselves, acting as imposter for the purpose of filing a claim.
TB
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