For tomorrow there is a call out for people to come to Parliament Square as part of World Homeless Day

Finally, see also today's New Statesman
 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/democracy-village-160-square

Please spread the word

Following the Democracy Rally and People's Assemblies held today, Oct 9, in St James' Park, Democracy Villagers reoccupied Parliament Square. At 6.30 p.m. a section 6 legal notice was attached to the large tent previously occupied by Boris Johnson's bailiffs. After 40 villagers went under the fence to reclaim the Square, they noticed the bailiffs' tent had been left vacant temporarily, and decided to move in. The bailiffs removed their belongings. The police told the bailiffs that this was a civil matter, and that the tent appeared to be legally squatted.

The villagers then set about dismantling the fence around Parliament Square and succeeded in taking down about a dozen panels, when two villagers were arrested, purportedly for criminal damage. Around fifteen other villagers hung on to the pair who had been arrested and would not let police take them away, during a stand off which lasted 90 minutes. Not until around 30 TSG officers arrived to break the deadlock, by arresting everyone, were the police able to snatch the original pair. Once they had been taken away, the police dearrested the fifteen others.

Six villagers were staying overnight in the bailiffs tent, but at around 11 p.m. the bailiffs illegally began to dismantle the tent with people sleeping inside it. Villagers were forcibly carried out of the Square.

is this Democracy Village hijaking yet another campaign to get its name publishised/

After 40 villagers went under the fence to reclaim the Square, they noticed the bailiffs' tent had been left vacant temporarily, and decided to move in. The bailiffs removed their belongings. The police told the bailiffs that this was a civil matter, and that the tent appeared to be legally squatted.

SO what you're saying is that when i go to work and find that a squatter has taken over my house - they are in the right and i'm not allowed to live there anymore (even though i'm paying the mortgage).

Bollox..... no wonder everyone fucking hates squatters
I doubt that law will be existance for much longer the way you are abusing it

i see Democracy Village is using yet another cause, for it's own means, shame on you

Dan, I'm genuinely intrigued by your comments. Maybe you just like to make divisive remarks and wind people up, but if you too are genuine can we have a little more depth?

Which campaign is being hijacked, by, whom, for what end, and when has this been done before. Also what do you think they hope to gain from it, if anything, and what damage is being done.

I'm interested in solidarity among campaigns, and yet I often see quite bitter sniping on Indymedia pages. I don't really understand why people don't focus on the rather more obviously common enemies, instead of making veiled accusations and disparaging remarks about small campaigns.

Since you've taken the trouble, apparently in anger, to post two similar comments here, perhaps you could sit down, have a proper think, and then calmly put forward your constructive thoughts about what you'd like to see happen to overcome whatever problems you clearly feel so strongly about.

Those who struggle to change things for the betterment of all life see each other as comrades in a wider struggle, others who aren't involved in those struggles or may hate radical change because it might destabilize their miserable existence post mindless shitty comments on indymedia. Simple.

"Those who struggle to change things for the betterment of all life see each other as comrades in a wider struggle, others who aren't involved in those struggles or may hate radical change because it might destabilize their miserable existence post mindless shitty comments on indymedia. Simple."

I don't understand what other campaign has been hijacked. There was another protest over 'Joint Enterprise' which took place at exactly the same time (report being prepared now) but that wasn't hijacked.

Dan, can you please tell us what you mean please?

is most likely Barbara Tucker,Brian Haw or Charity Sweet from parliament square peace campaign (see the new brainhaw.tv website which is totally devoted to their campaign to end war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran etc... err no actually its all a paranoid rant about Democracy Village and Maria G' with a few quotes from David Icke thrown in, the pspc campaign objective is clearly to drive everyone else away from the square, lets face the truth its a long time since they campaigned about anything other than themselves, poor Brian

Fuckhead, don't worry! If you leave your house temporarily and people occupy it, the law does not protect them and they can be turfed out very fast. Squatting law only covers abandoned property.

People got over-excited or don't know the law I guess, mis-using the law to claim squatters' rights. Whether the police knew the law or not, they seemed to have made a tactical decision.