<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<STYLE>.hmmessage P {
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
BODY.hmmessage {
FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt
}
</STYLE>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19046"></HEAD>
<BODY class=hmmessage bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=zeidyj@hotmail.com href="mailto:zeidyj@hotmail.com">zelda jeffers</A>
</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Please if you can get involved help
us, also send to all your contacts, Zelda<BR></FONT><BR>Dear all,<BR>At any
moment, residents of Dale Farm might be receiving a 28 days notice of eviction.
We need to reach as many people as possible in the next several weeks.
Below is an update with some background information on ways people can
support Dale Farm. Please forward it to friends and any relevant email
lists you are on, as well as posting our web and facebook pages on social
networking and other sites. If you organise with any groups, please invite
them to get involved.<BR>Thanks!<BR>===<BR><BR><B>An update on Dale Farm and how
you can support us</B><BR><BR>With cuts in social housing, the homeless are
getting a rough deal from the present Coalition Government, and none more so
than Travellers. They were told a while back to buy their own land and
settle themselves and now Eric Pickles is encouraging councils to evict them
from the places they bought.<BR><BR>This is causing a crisis for many thousands
of families and matters have come to a head at Dale Farm, in Essex. The largest
Traveller community in the UK, Dale Farm is under threat of bulldozing. Some
hundred families face the largest eviction of its kind in recent memory, a
nightmare which will force its residents to camp again on roadsides and
car-parks.<BR><BR>Most of Dale Farm lies on a former scrap-yard about 30 minutes
by train from London. Ignoring pleas from UN bodies, and more recently Amnesty
International, Basildon District Council has set aside 9.2 million pounds for
the eviction operation (more than 1/3 of it's budget). Essex police have
requested another 10 million pounds from the Home Office to cover what they
expect to be a three week battle with resisting residents and
supporters.<BR><BR>This is an act of ethnic cleansing comparable to what has
been seen in France and Italy - and together we aim to stop it.<BR><BR>Dale Farm
residents are expecting to receive 28 day notice of eviction in May. They
are asking people of goodwill to come and spend a night in Dale Farm when the
notice expires. Please join us, by signing up at <A
href="https://smsalerts.tachanka.org/dalefarm/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>https://smsalerts.tachanka.org/dalefarm/</A> (this website may
give you a “certificate warning” but pay no mind). If you're on facebook, you
can also invite your friends to <A
href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170414852985935" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170414852985935</A>
<BR><BR>We'll need people to act as human rights monitors and come to Dale Farm
in the event of an eviction. See <A
href="http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/hrm/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/hrm/</A> for details. Many of
us will be resisting the eviction through civil disobedience, and there will be
training workshops for this. Before the 28 days notice expires (now likely
in June), a supporting camp within Dale Farm will be set up, and accommodation
arranged in family homes. Camping space will also be available. Sign
up to our email bulletins to get the latest news:<A
href="http://lists.ucrony.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dalefarm-solidarity"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>
http://lists.ucrony.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dalefarm-solidarity</A><BR><BR>Dale
Farm Solidarity meets every Sunday in London or by skype. Email us at <A
href="mailto:savedalefarm@gmail.com" rel=nofollow>savedalefarm@gmail.com</A> if
you'd like to help organise with us, or if you're part of a group which can add
it's name to our pledge to spend a night at Dale Farm. We also have
leaflets, films and speaker lists if you'd like to put on an infonight in your
community.<BR><BR>No Pasaran! They shall not pass!<BR><A
href="http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://dalefarm.wordpress.com</A><BR><A
href="https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124229427082" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124229427082</A><BR>_______________________________________________
dalefarm-solidarity mailing list dalefarm-solidarity@lists.ucrony.net
https://lists.ucrony.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dalefarm-solidarity<BR>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>--------<BR>To unsubscribe from this list, go to
http://lists.riseup.net/, put in your email, request a password, then login and
go to 'your subscriptions'.</BODY></HTML>