Squall 10

'Sowing The Seeds'

'Magazine for Sorted Itinerants'
Summer 1995 (52pp tabloid)

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The State It's In / Job Seekers Allowance / Amsterdam squatters / Travellers under pressure with CJA / Hulme Estate / The Culture Cash-in On Raves And Festivals / Riot Police violence against road protestors / Squatters at the Grange / Housing Bill / Exodus / The Land Is Ours occupation / Reclaim the Streets / Stanworth Valley / Ploughshares / Childbirth on the road / Agenda 21 / Lofty Tones / Lets Trading / Internet Itinerants / Letters / Contacts, regulars and more...

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Contents

2. The State It's In
The 'new politics of protest' is now a phrase branded about in mainstream media.

10. Compulsory Reprogramming
Beware of the in-coming Job Seekers Allowance Bill. By Andy Johnson

11. Actors Of Parliament
Starring Sir Graham Bright MP and Exodus

12. A Nightmare On LWT Street
Road protesters stitched up on Richard Littlejohn chat show, then attacked by riot police. By Jim Carey

13. News Of The Skews
The Times, The Telegraph and Daily Mail champion the squatters!

14. A New Housing Bill
Homeless people vs the private rented sector - the new Housing Bill is reviewed by Joe Oldman

15. Exodus - Keep Up The Momentum
New political twists, turns and dances with the Exodus Collective

16. The Roots Of Sustainable Development
Local Agenda 21: doing it anyway. Andy Johnson investigates

17. Populating The International Promise Of Agenda 21
Will the Government act on its Agenda 21 commitments? By Jim Carey

25. Born On The Road
You better get born in some place else - move along get along - the children of travellers. By Debbie Shaw

26. The Land Comes Alive
'Land Is Ours' occupation of St Georges Hill in Surrey - shovelling land issues back into the political arena. By Jim Carey

28. Fruit Of The Earth
The wine and wisdom of Sutton Eric, at the Land Is Ours occupation at St Georges Hill - as told to Jim Carey and others

28. Lofty Tones
A post-alternative look at alternative energy from Tony Allen

29. Going Round In Circulars
The lip-service and reality of site provision, prejudice and planning. Jim Carey reports on the affect on travellers of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act

31. The Jewel In The Mud Award
Battle of the Beanfield in the media ten years on, report by Neil Goodwin

32. Travelling Under Pressure
Manoeuvres to erode the travelling community in an ethnic whitewash

33. Nine Great Conspiracy Theories
...To explain the Criminal Justice Act

34. No Place Like Hulme
Travellers, squatters and tennants in Hulme, the inner city Manchester estate. By Ally Fogg

35. Juxta-Posing

36. Culture Cash-in on Raves and Festivals
Seamus O'Conner takes a look at the so-called 'new age entrepreneurs' cashing in on the current political climate for festivals

39. Netrogressive

45. To Do The Right Thing
Andy Johnson interviews Chris Cole, currently in prison for hammering £100,000 worth of damage to BAe military equipment as part of the Swords Into Ploughshares peace movement

46. 50th Anniversaries And All That
50 years after VE Day, and therefore 50 years of the post-war squatting movement in Britain. By Jim Paton

47. Letter From Latin America
The lack of land, housing and peace in Gutemala, sent in by Emma Eastwood

48. LETS Trade
Alternative economics, co-operation stylee: Lorna Russell looks at LETS local economies

49. Are You Well Red?
A review of books about the Criminal Justice Act, by Sean McSweeney

49. Letters

50. Contacts