Post on 31-Oct-2014
description
Dale Farm Gypsy & Traveller evictionsLegal observer activation and organising by
SMS
Background• Dale Farm is the largest
Gypsy and Traveller site in the UK
• Threatened with eviction after 8 years by Basildon Council
• Brutal anti-gypsy bailiffs Constant & Co breached human rights and health and safety legislation during evictions at Hovefields in September
More resources
•Save Dale Farm website
•Follow @savedalefarm
•Guardian article: 'We won't just get up and leave'
Recruiting observers
People text ‘OBSERVER
’ to FrontlineSMS to sign
up
Text ‘INFO’ for auto-
reply with basic
information
!Text ‘ALERTS’ to sign up foralert when
evictions begin
Eviction alerts
Observers Dale Farm
!SMSSMS
Observers attend
Reports
Observerson site
SMS
Reports can be
collated, sorted,
backed up remotely
Legal advice
Observers text
‘ADVICE’and their question
Legal advisorsreply directly
SMS SMS
Auto-forwards to designated email address
‘You’re legal - stay put!’
Security
•SMS accounts on web-based services have been mysteriously shut down
•with FrontlineSMS you can swap in a new SIM card in a couple of minutes and blast out a new message to let observers and residents know the new number
•The FrontlineSMS hub can be anywhere in the UK - under the bed, back of a car...
Next steps
•The observer list exists, the organisations is already working
•We just need someone to administer the FrontlineSMS hub. Any takers?