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From: "Jo Makepeace" - webmaster@schnews.org.uk
Subject: SchNEWS 519, Friday 4th November, 2005
St Agnes Place under threat of eviction - November 2005
London's longest surviving squatted street - St Agnes Place is under threat. It's not just that 200 people could be left homeless as winter approaches because St Agnes Place is a 30 year old ethnically diverse community which is the focal point for many Rastas in London, and home to the International Rastafarian Headquarters - a place Bob Marley frequented during the 1970's. The council want to redevelop the street with new social housing, and claim St Agnes Place is riddled with crime, yet it has a much lower average crime rate than neighbouring areas.
This street resisted eviction several times in the late 1970s and more recently in 2003, but now the council have permission to begin sending bailiffs in, which could happen from any time now. The community are asking that people get down there and help if and when a mass eviction begins - SchNEWS and others will keep you posted.
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