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riot cops and baliffs eviction travellers

bury me standing | 30.06.2004 10:30 | Repression | Social Struggles

Riot cops along with around forty baliffs from constant and co, arrived at bulkington travellers site in nuneaton this morning. Some people have been beaten up, arrested and removed from the site. Solicitors are on their way now to try to lodge a high court injunction


Bulkington was the scene of a famous resistance eviction in January, when travellers behind a giant banner which read STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING and also behind a massive burning barricade stop the baliffs and cops from evicting the site. The travellers own the land, they are being evicted because they do not have planning permission to place their caravans on the land. More than 90% of applications ,made by travellers get turned down. Yesterday the evening standard carried a seriously racist article about the crays hill traveller site in Billericay Essex, the day before the Daily Mail carried an equally hateful article.

The forces of reaction are coming down heavy on travller because they value their freedom and refuse to live boxed in.

Support your local travellers!!!

Get down yer local site.

Get in touch with Nuneaton Council

Let them know we have no time for ethnic cleansing


EVICTION THIS MORNING

Some 40 bailiffs, believed to be from Constant
and Co., THIS MORNING (8am) have just given
Gypsies families who own the BULKINGTON FIELDS
caravan park, near Bulkington village (Nuneaton)
twenty minutes to get off their own land.

Contact: Grattan Puxon 01206 523 528

A few months ago, the 100 Gypsies at
Bulkington dug ditches and staved off
an eviction by Nuneaton council, Constant
and the police by nonviolent resistance.

PROTEST TO:

 planning@nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk

 legal@nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk

PHONE: 0247 6376376

bury me standing

Comments

Display the following 9 comments

  1. Well Duh ! — Rack
  2. I wish I had more sympathy, but .... — Hmm
  3. ???????? — m
  4. its ethnik cleansing not enviromentalism — bury me standing
  5. It's OK ... — Anok-4-U2?
  6. People don't move off their arse for less — non-ethnic
  7. Freedom and Responsibility — Mmm
  8. Language — point
  9. mash up da baliffs — 2 much police not enough justice