Archive for the ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Category
Dale Farm: Eviction
Channel 4 News: Dale Farm Eviction
Wednesday 19 October 2011. At 6.56am hundreds of riot police stormed the barricaded Dale Farm Irish traveller site in Basildon, Essex. For the first time taser weapons were discharged during a public order incident. Two protestors were shot during the eviction.
Jess Hurd Dale Farm Photogallery
Guardian: Dale Farm eviction – police fire tasers at protestors
Channel 4 News: Dale Farm Clashes as site cleared
Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction
Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm
© Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk
Dale Farm: Eviction Looming
Shot 17 and 18 October 2011, scenes of Kathleen McCarthy’s speech outside the High Court in London following the collapse of the final appeal, to the Dale Farm Irish Travellers site in Essex the day before the eviction.
Ethnic Cleansing: “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group.” – United Nations.
Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction
Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm
© Jason N. Parkinson/reportdigital.co.uk
Dale Farm: Living Through The Eviction
Shot between Thursday 15 to Monday 19 September, these scenes of life on Dale Farm document the days leading up to the planned eviction.
Chalets are emptied of belongings, separated into two parts and removed from the Irish travellers site to be sold on, as they are considered too large to continually move around. With no place to go the owners sell up to invest in smaller, more mobile homes. Smaller caravans are also moved off the site and put temporarily in empty plots on the legal side of the site to protect them from damage by bailiffs.
Barricades spring up as protection to each street on Dale Farm. Police helicopters patrol overhead. Travellers and activists man the main gate barricade and await the outcome of the last minute court hearing, which puts a suspension on the eviction.
Basildon Council Concreted Over Dale Farm
This is Ray Bocking, former owner of Dale Farm. Here he explains how Basildon Council concreted Dale Farm and used it as a car scrap yard and road works waste site, dumping unused tarmac and hardcore for more than a decade.
Despite this evidence being crucial to the Dale Farm eviction on the grounds of the land being Green Belt and various media outlets interviewing Mr. Bocking, not one television news outlet has reported the story so far. At the end of this film you see the ITV East news team cut Bocking short for their live feed and flounder when asked if they will report it.
Last night the Guardian newspaper online was the only outlet to release an article on Ray Bocking’s story.
