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Ethnic Cleansing in Bedfordshire

National Travellers Action Group | 01.07.2002 08:37

We are facing racism and a brand of fascism, and hope we
can link up with you.

Dear friends,

We are facing racism and a brand of fascism, and hope we
can link up with you.

Mid Beds Council, Tory run, is bent on "clearing"
the caravan park called >WOODSIDEWoodside< has until l Nov. So there is time to organize
effectively. Groups of supporters are being formed
in Luton, London and Cambridge ready to go at
short notice and oppose the eviction. Some will camp
overnight on Woodside..

Can you please let people know about this?
Can you give us some local contacts (members)
whom we could approach to join a supporters'
group?

This is no less than ethnic-cleansing UK style.

Our hopes are pinned on Parliament passing
the Traveller Law Reform Bill (first reading 10 July)
which would re-impose an oblication on local council to
build caravan sites and give backing to private (Romani-owned) caravan
parks.

So we feel by backing a determined stand now, over coming months,
we may bring attention to this issue and get the proposed Bill passed.

More info in attachment.


Grattan Puxon
National Travellers Action Group
Trans-European Roma Federation

National Travellers Action Group
- e-mail: ustiben.2@ntlworld.com

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this is a bit like the case of Talley Valley

01.07.2002 15:07

i dont know what became of the old hippy settelement near LLandeilo in Wales which was set up in the late 1960s and which came under pressure from narrow-minded authorities in the 1980s. They too had bought their land, and despite the fact that their preferred dwelling, the Teepee, was a non-permanent structure, they were still harrassed for using them without 'planning permission'. The tragedy is that the people of Wales werent able to see the benefit of working together with relatively innocuous non-conformist hippies (only 'guilty' of a bit of marahuana, nudity and rusty motorbikes).
If anyone knows what became of Talley, do write in here.

Xeroxenron


Where's the attachment

02.07.2002 07:44

I would be interested in helping out and raising support in the London area.

Gary Jarvis

Gary Jarvis
mail e-mail: yesgaryjarvis@hotmail.com


Teepee Valley

25.01.2004 19:08

Went to Teepee valley at the weekend and it was absolutely wonderfull.Still some nice folks living there.

Robbie
mail e-mail: Spidereyesrawb@aol.com