http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/n...ew/full/108667
We're in the final weeks of the battle to stop the racist eviction of a long-established traveller community and the fight is hotting up.
Basildon Borough Council has ridden roughshod over every single opposing argument in its determination to evict the residents of Dale Farm.
It has shrugged off the estimated £17.5 million cost of throwing hundreds of people out of their homes and ignored the still greater social and financial price of making an entire community homeless.
It has ignored every dissenting voice - from local residents to solidarity activists to Jewish communities who see chilling parallels with their own historic treatment.
It has even ignored UN experts and Amnesty International.
And if the prospect of breaking international law doesn't stop Basildon council, that leaves only one course of action.
The Dale Farm community needs the support of every single person who can lend their strength to the fight.
Today supporters petition Downing Street. On Saturday the Solidarity Long Weekend will muster forces for a permanent camp to stop the evictions.
And in future it may take non-violent resistance to keep the bailiffs out of Dale Farm.
The travellers can still keep their homes with the help of the one weapon Basildon council can't ignore - people power.