The Hunger Striker of Parliament Square 2010

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'. 22/07/2010

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'. 22/07/2010

As the last remaining Democracy Village protesters are being evicted from the other side of the fence, Len Miskulin continues his hunger strike on the Parliament Square Gardens pavement.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

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Len Miskulin on the 23rd day of his hunger strike in Parliament Square. He has been surviving on water and vitamin supplements. Once a week he treats himself to a cup of coffee.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.
Len hopes that Parliament Square is the place where his campaign cannot go unnoticed.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

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Len Miskulin with his petition, on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

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Len Miskulin with his petition, on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.
Though not part of the Democracy Village peace camp, Len Miskulin has established a mutually supportive relationship with the protesters.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

Not everybody notices the Parliament Square hunger strike.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.

Though not part of the Democracy Village protest, Len Miskulin coexists peacefully on the margins of the peace camp.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.

On the eve of the Democracy Village eviction, Len Miskulin is exhausted and has an early night.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square.

Manhandled by bailiffs during the eviction when he was neither a Democracy Village protester nor part of the eviction order, Len, into his 25th day of hunger strike, collapsed on the ground.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square.

Manhandled by bailiffs during the eviction, when he was neither a Democracy Village protester nor part of the eviction order, Len, into his 25th day of hunger strike, collapsed on the ground.

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As the last remaining Democracy Village protesters are being evicted from the other side of the fence, Len Miskulin continues his hunger strike on the Parliament Square Gardens pavement.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.
Manhandled by bailiffs during the middle of night eviction, and into his 25th day of hunger strike, strain begins to show on Len.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.
Len refuses to stop his hunger strike or to be taken to hospital. He has agreed to be exhamined inside the ambulance, where it is established he is 'made of stern stuff'.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights and is a founder member of 'Live Beat Dads UK'.

Not every Parliament Square protester is impressed with Len's presence.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.

As Len's tent has been removed during the eviction night, the Democracy Village protesters lend him one of theirs and help to erect it.

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Len Miskulin on hunger strike in Parliament Square since 26 June 2010.

After the Democracy Village eviction, Len continues his hunger strike on the Parliament Square pavement.

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Len Miskulin has been on hunger strike since 26 June 2010, surviving on water and vitamin supplements.

Len (59) resorted to the desperate measure as the one remaining means of making his story heard, and the Parliament Square as the place where it cannot be ignored.
Jobless and homeless, having had his assets seized by the state, he has been denied access to his two children and has not seen them for 10 years. He has been campaigning for fathers and children’s rights ever since and is a founder member of a Live Beat Dads UK.

Manhandled during the eviction of Democracy Village from Parliament Square Gardens, when he was neither part of the protest nor part of the eviction order, Len, into his 25th day of hunger strike, collapsed on the ground surrounded by protesters and bailiffs.
Len continues his hunger strike on the Parliament Square pavement.

Len’s campaign demands:

1 removal of gagging order
2 promise to deal with (state) criminals involved in his case
3 return of his assets
4 complete review of family law and to put a stop to family courts conducting their business behind closed doors and in complete secrecy.