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?