Dear all, Everyone has done an incredible job of spreading this petition. We now have over 70,000 signatures and there is lots of activity being planned! If you are free and near Hackney tonight, you may want to attend a public meeting to plan a direct action in response to the Council's PSPOs. It will be held tonight at 7pm, Halkevi Centre, Dalston Lane. Hackney Renters are also organising a demonstration on Monday 22nd June, 6PM, outside Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, E8 1EA London, United Kingdom. Please see the events page here- https://www.facebook.com/events/1403275666667416/ and attend if you can! You can follow Hackney Renters on Twitter by following @Hackney_renters for further updates about this. There has also been a lot of media attention on this, with stories being featured by The Independent, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and others. Singer Ellie Goulding has also criticised the Council's PSPOs which will hopefully raise even more public attention. Here are a few of the articles which have been published: - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/thousands-sign-petition-calling-on-london-borough-of-hackney-to-stop-criminalising-homeless-people-10295269.html - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/04/hackney-homeless-to-be-fined-london_n_7508716.html - http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/04/ellie-goulding-challenges-british-councils-treatment-homeless-hackney-pspo - http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/jun/03/councils-help-rough-sleepers-not-fine-them-hackney You can follow me on Twitter using @ZahiraPatel if you would like to be kept updated on further media stories on the PSPO. I will be in touch soon over the next few weeks about how we can deliver this petition or arrange a meeting with the Council if possible. So far we have done an incredible job of building public awareness of this issue - now let's use our collective 70,000-strong voice to persuade Hackney Council to remove rough sleeping from its PSPOs! Please keep writing to, tweeting or contacting the Council and urge them to follow Oxford City Council's decision to leave out rough sleeping from its PSPO. Thank you once again for all your help and I hope many of you will be able to attend the demonstration. With warm wishes, Zahira Patel.