Appeal against possession order to be heard in Court of Appeal, Friday July 9, 10.30am

Appeals have been lodged in the case of Rebecca Hall vs the Mayor of London, and a number of other appellants from the Democracy Village, against the order for repossession granted by Justice Williams on June 29, 2010. The High Court ruled that bye-laws and flower beds mattered more than soldiers’ and civilians’ lives. This judgement threatens peaceful protest on public access land anywhere in the country. Only those with money to pay public liability insurance will be able to apply for permission to demonstrate. Four people from Democracy Village have already been imprisoned for total 41 days for peaceful protest. If the Appeal Court upholds the possession and injunction orders, more people may go to prison simply for assembling on Parliament Square.

The appeals are due to be heard on Friday July 9 at the Royal Courts of Justice. Our case is that the Mayor has no paper title to the land, and therefore cannot lawfully possess it. Further, any eviction order would breach our human rights under articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Should the appeal fail, we will be calling concerned citizens to come to Parliament Square on Friday evening to prepare a campaign of mass civil disobedience, known as Operation Rolling Thunder.

Email:- democracyvillage [at] gmail.com or ring the village mobile 07981 877462, Mike 07799 887008, Camilla 07962 889459 or Phoenix 07769 791387.

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Democracy Village has been occupying Parliament Square since May 1, 2010. The High Court ordered us to leave and served injunctions on us on Friday July 2. That same afternoon we successfully lodged an appeal and our eviction was stayed for at least a week. What happens if we lose the appeal? ‘Democracy Village’ then goes up a level. We become ‘Democracy City’ – a rolling programme of occupations, banner-drops and non-violent direct actions across London. As we said from the very start: we’re not going anywhere until the soldiers come home from Afghanistan.

The EDL might have "common ground" with you in that they want the troops home, support and respect the troops etc. However they are closely linked to violent racists and neo Nazis. The EDL who have been going to Democracy Village [Joel Titus and the EDL youth division EDY] for hours at a time are mostly kids and yes, some of those kids are good kids. They are kids too at the end of the day and most people, normal people, cannot find it them to have anything against a kid. The older EDL on the other hand are not so nice. Chris BNP/EDL Renton, Wayne neo Nazi EDL Baldwin, the EDL who give Nazi salutes, wear Blood and Hounour insignia, have Combat 18 tattoos etc. Never forget who the REAL EDL are.

Come and support,thhere is a peaceniks picnic and music this wed 7pm.
It is very easy to sit on sidelines and comment from cyberspace.
This is an open perimeter protest camp that has people come from all walks of life and areas of our society as well as international tourists.Never doubt we have raised a massive amount of awareness in the last 10 weeks of full on direct action.Much more help needed from activist and peace groups come on down and give support.
The EDL incident referred to was some weeks ago when there was a march past of only about 100-150 EDL.After the main march a small group of younger EDL and one older guy went around the square chanting some agro chants.The activists at the village did not want to provoke any incidents as we are very open and vulnerable to attack at any time.
One younger village member went and threw compost over some of them which led to a 1-2 hour stand off and aggressive close to kick off situation.It was the older 50-60 EDL members just down the road at the pub that were threatening to come that was of concern to all at the peace camp.
After some hours the situation was calmed from what could have been a full on old style football ruck bloodbath and the continued threat of attacks on the peace camp was averted.
The older guy said we had changed some of his attitudes.and brought some of the heavy mob down later saying he had learnt a lot from us.
LETS BE CLEAR most of the residents at THE DEMOCRACY VILLAGE DO not in any way support EDL.But when u are in a frontline situation and some of us have been on years of protest camps and also seen some of the bad old days of football violence ,you must do what u can to ensure the camps safety and security of the brave men and women who choose to be there to support the cause of Peace.
In short, come on activist community and peace groups this is the best opportunity the peace movement has had for change and to affect a swifter end to the war.It is much easier to critisize than to organise.Get out of cyberspace and come on down and support.Network operation rolling thunder ,or help with the democracy city actions if/when we evicted.
This wed 7pm 14th July Peaceniks picnic bring music and support.
Take action and network for a peacefull future.

Dear fellow acitivistas, we need more NVDA (non violent direct actions) like this. The village will be evicted anytime soon. But this should not be the end of such actions.
change can only happen if we are all prepared to do our bit.
Those who cannot come on down to the village, (many cant for various reasons) do whatever else you can to support it and other such actions.
The stop the war organisation cant do it because of insurance and other reasones but that shouldnt stop individuals within STW from joining in.
Organisations such as STW cant do this type of action so its down you, me, us.
Sept 11th 2001 was an excuse to wage wars.Even Thomas Kean one of the 911 commissioners, and John Farmer, legal council for the commission said that at some level of the US govt it was decided not to tell the commission and the public the truth! So 9yrs on and we still dont have a proper investigation as to how and why those attacks happened. On that Anniversary lets do something to bring thislink with 911 and the present indefinte wars along with our loss of civil liberties, to the attention of the masses.

Please can you remove my email address from malatesta's sister post but keep the comment up there. I gave malatesta's sister my permission to use it but she didnt realise you would display it as she is new to computers. Thank you

The Democracy Village in Parliament Square is being evicted tonight at 1.00 by bailiffs backed up by the Territorial Army. All supporters and interested spectators are urged to go down to lend their support. Spread the word. I can assure you that this is their intention, they are doing this on Monday night because they think there will be very few people there.

Great to see the hired goons giving the crustys a good kicking lol.

it was brilliant. you're all an inspiration