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SOLIDARITY DEMO IN SUPPORT OF THE HOMELESS CAMP TOMORROW AT 1PM ON ST ANNE’S SQUARE
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Star date: 31st July 2015
Campaigners are calling for anyone in the whole world to bring their tents, sleeping bags and gazebos to St Anne's Square in Manchester at 1pm tomorrow to show solidarity with the many street homeless people who have been living at the camp.
Full details here…
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Tomorrow the regions street homeless people and homeless campaigners are organising a solidarity demonstration and rally in St Anne's Square, Manchester at 1pm.
The demo comes on the back of yesterdays hearing at the Civil Justice Centre in Manchester where the Homeless Camp lost its fight against eviction and an injunction preventing them from setting up camp anywhere else in the city centre. This came after the Legal Aid Agency denied funding for homeless people from the camp on Wednesday. (see previous Salford Star article – click here)
Manchester City Council's injunction is designed to stop both the street homeless people and protesters in the camps in St Anne's Square and Castlefield from setting up any temporary form of accommodation in Manchester City Centre. The ruling is an Injunction Contra Mundum and effectively means that any person in the whole world will be in breach of the injunction order were they to erect a tent in the city centre.
The homeless camp and their supporters are responding to the ruling with a call for everyone to bring their tents, sleeping bags and gazebos to St Anne's Square tomorrow.
Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett, who visited the camp last month, is backing the call for the demonstration tomorrow on St Anne's Square.
"I am very disappointed by this ruling, which demonstrates that Manchester City Council is simply trying to move the problem of homelessness out of sight, rather than dealing with the clear and pressing need for appropriate accommodation and support services that I saw first-hand when I visited the camp. I would urge everyone who can to support the call for a demonstration of solidarity tomorrow. I believe many residents of Manchester want to see a caring city that supports the vulnerable and give them a hand up, rather than pushing them aside. Tomorrow is a chance to show that."
Wesley Dove, one of the people named in the injunction, who has been street homeless for a year following the breakdown of his relationship says:
"Everyone who knows the court ruling is wrong and who wants to do something practical to help, please come to St Ann's square with your tents sleeping bags gazebos whatever tomorrow for 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The court judgement never considered the lives and well-being of the people of the camp and where they are supposed to go now. We did not create the homelessness problem, but we are a vital part of the solution."
Danielle, aged 19, who is living in St Anne's Square and who became street homeless following domestic violence from her ex-partner says:
"Please come and be with us tomorrow. It is terrible how we are being forced to live on the streets. This has to stop. Everyone has an individual story."
Dave, a former Buckingham Palace Guardsman, who was living on Trinity Way, Salford, under a railway arch for three years before he joined the camp says:
"Please come tomorrow to show your solidarity, support and welfare concerns for the people of this camp."
HOMELESS CAMP SOLIDARITY RALLY /DEMONSTRATION
Saturday, August 1st, 1pm
St Anne's Square, Manchester, M2 7LF
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Happy Camper wrote
at 07:09:28 on 04 August 2015 |
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| Plenty of places to camp. I think they should stick their tents on the lawns outside the Trafford Centre personally. |
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RoughSleeper wrote
at 16:43:39 on 03 August 2015 |
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| Thanks everyone that has supported us.
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joanne cole wrote
at 09:38:00 on 01 August 2015 |
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I might be on streets myself soon
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. I will show support |
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