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Gypsies and Travellers Under Threat From New Policing Law?

The UK’s Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities are voicing deep concern about the Government’s new policing bill, with many saying it is a threat to their way of life. The law will make trespass a criminal offence and give the … Continue reading

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We will not go quietly into the history books. We will not be going at all.

Feature for Morning Star by Romany Journalist Jake Bowers With thanks to the Robert Dawson Archive Today is Romany holocaust memorial day, yet ask most lifelong anti-racists what the significance of August 2nd is, and they will be puzzled. For … Continue reading

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My pictures of events that day: GRT Travellers Protest [Kill the Bill], London. 7th July 2021

GRT Travellers Protest [Kill the Bill], London. 7th July 2021. https://www.facebook.com/tashuk/posts/10158632025681799

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Drive 2 Survive rally to protest anti-Traveller law ‘makes history’

14 July 2021 https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2021/07/drive-2-survive-rally-protest-anti-traveller-law-makes-history The Drive 2 Survive rally kicked off with an explosive start in Parliament Square last week as campaigners warned of a ‘summer of discontent’ against the new racist police bill which will “wipe out” Gypsy and Traveller and other nomadic … Continue reading

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March with horse to Europe House

Drive 2 Survive demo

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Romany Gypsy John Doe brought his horse and trolley

Romany Gypsy John Doe brought his horse and trolley all the way from Dorset to join the Drive 2 Survive Rally on July 7th. In this video he explains why.

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Fight for Travellers rights at Drive to Survive demonstration in London

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Drive2Survive July 2021 : Travellers’ Times Films

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Tash’s Speech at the Kill the Bill demo, Nottingham

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Nice to see photographer Tash (@tashuk) namechecked from the platform at today’s #KillTheBil

Nice to see photographer Tash (@tashuk) namechecked from the platform at today’s #KillTheBill @Drive2Survive3 rally and to chat with him later. He has a fantastic archive of traveller/festival/protest images … well worth checking.RonF

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Scuffles as travellers’ ‘Kill The Bill’ demo ends in clashes with police in London

Scuffles as travellers’ ‘Kill The Bill’ demo ends in clashes with police in LondonTravellers, gypsies, and squatters gathered in London on Wednesday (July 7) to protest against a new government bill which, if passed, will criminalise trespass with the intention … Continue reading

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‘The police bill is wiping out a culture’: New Travellers take a stand

If it becomes law, residing on land without permission would be a criminal offence, threatening a way of life for communities across the UK by Harriet Grant Guardian, Mon 5 Jul 2021 14.45 BST “Iam worried that not everyone knows what … Continue reading

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The Police Bill – new threat or just lazy racism?

Johnny Eastleigh looks at 500 years of attempts by parliament to create outlaws of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller population It’s no news to any of us anymore that Romany people were targets of the Egyptians Act 1530. The Act went … Continue reading

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Resisting Anti-Trespass

An exploration by two Brighton artists on the potential effects of criminalising trespass in the UK.3rd year student project. University of Brighton

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Tweet – KillTheBill

Police & Crime Bill is currently before parliament. Wide variety of folks are opposed to it because of restriction on enviro, protest, unions, attacks on travellers & criminal trespass. Please organise. Recent speech at protest youtu.be/Kx0_4Nf5Y28 @NottmGreenFest #killthebill

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Speech at the KillTheBill Protest today : the video

video, thanks to kthtrnr

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Speech at the KillTheBill Protest today 2

Tash in action again [photo: Laura Wilson]

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Speech at the KillTheBill Protest today 1

Tash in action again [photo: Laura Wilson]

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Policing, Crime, Sentencing + Courts Bill

Below these were the notes I produced back in June last year. I am alarmed and think that opposition on the scale of the anti-CJA actions and protest is required. I sense however, that there just doesn’t seem to be … Continue reading

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