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Subject:

FW: [mayday2000] Fwd: [McLibel] McLibel Crisis - Send Protest Ema ils Today

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"Halfacree K.H." <[log in to unmask]>

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Halfacree K.H.

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Thu, 17 May 2001 16:55:16 +0100

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If you have a spare 5 mins....

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Tansley
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 17/05/2001 15:57
Subject: [mayday2000] Fwd: [McLibel] McLibel Crisis - Send Protest Emails
Today




>From: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [McLibel] McLibel Crisis - Send Protest Emails Today
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:17:13 +0100
>
>17/05/01
>
>URGENT ACTION URGENT ACTION URGENT ACTION - please send on to other
lists..
>
>
>McLibel Crisis As Defendant And Office Fight Eviction Threat On
Tuesday.
>
>Please send solidarity/protest emails TODAY to the leader of Haringey
>Council calling on them to suspend the eviction:
>[log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>McLibel Support Campaign c/o London Greenpeace 5 Caledonian
>Rd, London, N1 9DX, UK. Tel/Fax +44-(020) 7713 1269
>[log in to unmask] www.mcspotlight.org
>
>ACTION CALL - SUMMARY                    17th May 2001
>
>McLIBEL CRISIS AS DEFENDANT AND LEGAL OFFICE FIGHT EVICTION
>NEXT TUESDAY - in the middle of the European case against British
>government
>
>International Messages Of Protest And Support Being Urgently
>Sought (see below)
>
>The long-running McLibel case entered a new phase today. The
>McLibel legal office is run from the home in North London of
>McLibel defendant Dave Morris. But he is now fighting an imminent
>threat by Haringey Council to evict him and his son Charlie, aged 12,
along
>with the McLibel office on Tuesday 22nd May. The council, who
>have a statutory duty to house Mr Morris and Charlie, have said
>they can only offer 'Bed and Breakfast' accommodation and to put
>all their belongings into sealed storage. They have lived there
>since Charlie was born. They are determined to stay and have
>mounted a campaign, backed by their local residents' association,
>to get the council to suspend the eviction.
>
>This crisis comes at a bad time. The McLibel defendants,
>Helen Steel and Dave Morris, who without legal aid defended
>themselves against the $40 billion dollar McDonald's Corporation
>in the longest trial in English history, are currently in the
>middle of an application against the British Government at the
>European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. They are arguing
>that unfair and oppressive English defamation laws contravene the
>European Convention on Human Rights.
>
>On May 2nd they served their full submissions and are
>currently awaiting for an interim decision from the European
>Court. If, as expected, it is ruled in the next few weeks that
>the applicants' case is admissable then the British Government is
>expected to mount a strong defence of its notoriously
>controversial libel laws. There will follow further complex
>submissions from both sides.
>
>     * * * * *
>
>In 1993, after the defendants unsuccessfully applied to the
>European Court to overturn the British Government's denial of
>legal aid in defamation cases, the McLibel legal office was set
>up in a tiny room in Mr Morris's home. Inside are 40,000 pages of
>court documents, 20,000 pages of trial transcripts, a
>photocopier, computer and a wide range of research and
>administration material to conduct the case. Mr Morris's
>co-defendant, Helen Steel, lives in one room in a shared house
>nearby. Many of her own files are in storage and so the McLibel
>legal office is absolutely essential for the conduct of their
>case. Any forced closure of the office would make it impossible
>for them to fight the European case adequately.
>
>Mr Morris has lodged an '11th hour' application at Edmonton
>County Court - 10am on Monday 21st - to suspend the eviction.
>This will be done if the council agree to it. He has written to
>the Leader of the Council, Cllr George Meehan, explaining the
>whole situation and demanding that he agree to the suspension.
>Protests are planned at Cllr Meehan's surgery on Saturday,
>10.30am. An 'anti-eviction party' is planned for Tuesday at 10am
>when the bailiffs are due. Mr Morris is calling for international
>support in his efforts to protect his family and the McLibel
>legal office.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------
>
>Dave Morris issued a statement this week: ' All over the world people
have
>to fight to defend our families and our homes, and our ability to
campaign
>for a better society. Our solidarity is our strength. Join with me and
my
>son to demand that our eviction be suspended - negotiate a sensible
>agreement: a new tenancy at 380, or rehousing on the Tower Gardens
estate.
>Also, we must end the scandal of bed and breakfast accommodation while
>there
>are 100,000 homes in london left empty - decent homes for all! '
>
>
>* Please write to leader of the Council, Cllr George Meehan
>at the Civic Centre, N22 (and send us a copy of your letter).
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>* Protest on Saturday 19th
>May, 10.15am outside Cllr George Meehan's surgery, George
>Lansbury Hse, Progress Way, N22 Media welcome.
>
>* Come to an all-day anti-eviction party at 380 Lordship Lane on
Tuesday
>22nd
>May (bailiffs due 10am). Media welcome. '
>
>
>
>
>---- the McLibel mailing list ----
>
>McDonald's, McLibel, multinationals
>http://www.mcspotlight.org
>
>get on: send blank mail to [log in to unmask]
>get off: send blank mail to [log in to unmask]
>help: send blank mail to [log in to unmask]
>human: send meaningful email to [log in to unmask]
>submit: send stuff to [log in to unmask]
>

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