[Imc-uk-features] POSTED: Essex Travellers feature

[Yossarian]

I have posted a revised version of this text to the front page of the 
site, hopefully nobody has any trouble with this - this request was made 
a few days ago and I am not quite sure if I am supposed to offer my 
revisions and wait another 24 hours or if it's cool to put it up right 
now, but I am going for it for two reasons:  (a) the front  page of 
imc-uk is currently topped by a lot of content about Venezuela and 
Palestine, and (b) I am sick of the insanely racist press coverage about 
Travellers in East Anglia and would like to do something about it...

Edit it if you think it needs help, or take it down if you think it's 
terrible and then we can discuss,
Yossarian

ps thanks to evol for writing this up, if you have problems with the way 
I edited the text then please jump in and let me know here on this 
list.  You are just as welcome to contribute your thoughts as anybody 
else...

evol at c6.org wrote:

> please make any ammendments (the opening is a bit too sensational but its
> true) and send onto IMC for a feature article. the rally is next week so
> pleeeease put this up asap....
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> thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING IN ESSEX
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> Paynes Lane rally is ON AGAIN!
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> Travellers have faced oppression, murder, sterilisation and genocide from
> succesive European governments, including the Nazis and the current
> regimes. In Essex, Britain, the situation is worsened with the British
> Nationalist Party having won 3 seats on Epping Forest District Council,
> with their neo-nazi pledge to drive out the local Gypsy people.
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> A young mother with triplets and an elderly couple, who had lived on 
> their
> own land at Paynes Lane, Lower Nazeing, Essex, for l4 years, along with
> other families were evicted in June. The council now hope to evict the
> last remaining couple from that land on 22nd August, despite the fact 
> that
> they have been paying council TAX for over 10 years!!!
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> So please attend on 22nd August, A dignified, peaceful event for the
> opening of the temporary Memorial Field for victims of racism.
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> Lat week, Peter Robb. one of the Travellers from Paynes Lane, was sent to
> prison for 28 days for living on his own land.
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> And a judge is threatening to imprison his wife and children if they 
> don't
> move, from land they bought at Colney Hatch.
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> So please come to Paynes Lane, on Sunday, 22 August (12 noon) for this
> supporting event to help stop the closing of Paynes Lane.
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> Due to be "cleared" on Monday 23 August - which would fulfil BNP election
> pledge.
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> The Memorial is being created with 500  plastic bags each
> with the name of a victim. A bender-tent will be burned
> in a traditional Romany ceremony for the dead.
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> EXPO on the Nazi genocide against Roma
> and present-day ethnic-cleansing
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> David Blunkett said recenly the official
> Holocaust event in London should help all
> focus on present racism - well, this is our intention
> here and we're drawing a line in the sand.
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> MUSIC and food  (bring your own too!)
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> Call  01206 523 528 if you need more details.
> Come to BROXBOURNE station, Herts, close
> to Paynes Lane.
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> Also see:
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> http://www.irr.org.uk/2004/june/ak000012.html
> http://ourmayday.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ethnic_Cleansing
> www.travellersupport.org.uk
> www.easf.org.uk
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> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/07/35503.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/08/295897.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/45444.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/45289.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/07/35503.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/10/44845.html
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