People Get Ready: Dale Farm Eviction II + Fight For Sites Mass Action & Public Meeting
Hi all, a busy autumn ahead! For up to date details check the website travellersolidarity.org or contact travellersolidarity@riseup.net. In this issue: 1) FIGHT FOR SITES: a) Thursday 20th September – FFS Public Meeting, London b) Friday 19th October Dale Farm Anniversary Mass Action – Evict DCLG! c) Action Pack now available online 2) DALE FARM … Read more
Day of Action in Basildon: Saturday 14th April
For centuries Travellers have been persecuted and harassed across Europe. Now part of Dale Farm, a Traveller site in Essex, has been devastated in a brutal clearance planned by Basildon Council. People have been driven off their own land by bailiffs and riot police and are now stuck on Dale Farm’s private road, without a … Read more
Key Court Case Coming Up for Dale Farm families- come along!
MARY FLYNN, JOHN SHERIDAN & BARBARA O’BRIEN v BASILDON in HIGH COURT Tomorrow and Thursday – Feb 29/March 1, The Rolls Building, 100 Fetter Lane, London EC4 This hugely significant appeal regarding the issue as to whether Basildon must provide plots to those initially offered, but refusing, bricks and mortar is now to be heard … Read more
Tony Ball’s Acceptance Speech: ‘Community Wrecker Of The Year’
Don’t forget that tonight Tony Ball is nominated for ‘Council Leader of the Year Award’. Join the Traveller Solidarity Network outside Westminster City Hall at 7pm, to present him with our much more appropriate ‘Community Wrecker of the Year Award’. Here’s the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/302201269839478/
Tony Ball: Community Wrecker of the Year Award Ceremony
7PM // Monday 27 February // Westminster City Hall Tony Ball, leader of Basildon Council, has been nominated for the award of Council Leader of the Year by the Local Government Information Unit “in recognition of his role spearheading the eviction of Travellers from Dale Farm”. The award ceremony takes place on Monday 27 February … Read more
An Update on the Roma Community in Redbridge and Ilford
Thanks to the research and work done by a member of TSN we have for you a detailed introduction to the issues surrounding the presence of Roma from Romania in Ilford and Redbridge. For a taste of the vitriol and panic surrounding their presence you may want to look here or here. In truth, as … Read more
Criticism Grows for Channel 4 Advert
There has been vocal condemnation of Channel 4′s advertising campaign for ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’. Below are two examples of what some people from Leeds have decided to do about it! ‘Subvertising’ at its finest!
Updates from Traveller Solidarity Network
1) TSN national meeting and Dale Farm debrief feb 25th & 26th, Cambridge 2) London TSN Meeting 19th Feb 3) 27th Feb, 7pm – Tony Ball: Community Wrecker of the Year Award 4) 8th April – Roma Nation Day Action planning 5) 1st-29th March – TSN national info-tour 6) Pennies from heaven: Dale Farm needs … Read more
Dale Farm: Pennies From Heaven?
Appeal for funds to cover new planning appeals and dig away bunding barriers Basildon Borough Council has £20m to draw in pursuing its policy of ethnic-cleansing aimed at driving Travellers out of the district. Much of it was spent on the violent eviction last October, backed at Westminster by the pro-bankers coalition. In response supporters raised £3,600 last year, which was divided between Camp Constant … Read more
