Another Hometree destroyed - Dale Farm eviction

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This serves as a reminder that it is not just happening in remote areas in South America to people we call indigenous. Violent actions to drive people off the land they regard as their home happens also here in Europe:


This is from the eviction of a close-knit community of travelling people, who have been forced to stop travelling and instead find a place to settle. They settled in a place that was not designated for building houses, but that was instead a waste dump and barren land. They restored the land and made it their home. The government did not care about their resoration efforts but only looked at the fact that they lived permanently on a piece of land that was not zoned for that purpose. A long struggle over 10 years followed (legal battles, people resisting eviction, protesters gathering in solidarity), but in the end they lost. Now they are homeless again but still are not allowed to return to their traditional travelling lifestyle.

This eviction as can be seen in the pictures was extremely violent. The people living there probably had not much of a chance ("going up with bows and arrows against gunships") in the face of a 18 million GBP expense that was put into the eviction. Still they resisted with all they had and now are pretty much broken (physically and psychologically). I cry for them.

Here are some more pictures:
Dale Farm evictions - in pictures | UK news | guardian.co.uk