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Update on the EDO Decommissioners

Some fairly urgent updates on the Bristol EDO Decommissioners Firstly, as Elijah ‘James’ Smith approaches 14 months locked up on remand, without a trial of course, he’s been given a new prison number – A3186AM. Do please sned in your letters of support and solidarity, and news of any campaigns and stuff you’ve been involved in. Send [...] more >>

Britain: Activists Facing Jail for Shaking a Fence

Source: Mostly Water

SchNEWS - Friday 12th March 2010 | Issue 713 After nearly two years of stressful legal wranglings, five Smash EDO activists are facing possible imprisonment for allegedly shaking a crowd barrier at the Carnival Against the Arms Trade in June 2008 in Brighton...Some of them were seriously assaulted by police during the demo, and then suffered multiple arrests, house searches and changes of charges. read more more >>

Mayday mayhem for London?

Source: The Vast Minority

MAYDAY chaos looks set to return to the streets of London, England, in the run-up to the country's General Election.An Election Meltdown mass protest has been called by the same groups behind last year's anti-G20 protests during which newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson was killed by the police.Says the event website: "On International Worker's Day, Saturday 1st May 2010, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will take to the streets again at the head of four Mayday Carnival Parades."All four Parades will converge on Parliament Square at 2:30pm, and the carcasses of the four party leaders will be hung, drawn and quartered, or guillotined in accordance with the wishes of the assembled multitudes in a Mayday Carnival. "The Carnival will set up a Direct Democracy Village to occupy the Square until the General Election likely to be on Thurs May 6. "A People's Assembly will convene on the green, where people can meet as equals to decide what we really want. "Can we oust the bankers from power? "Can we get rid of the corrupt politicians in their pay? "Can we guarantee everyone a job, a home, a future? "Can we establish government by the people, for the people, of the people? "Can we abolish all borders and be patriots for our planet? "Can we all live sustainably and stop climate chaos? "Can we make capitalism history? "YES WE CAN! "DEATH TO THE OLD, CORRUPT ORDER – POWER TO THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY!" more >>

Anarchists organising for Mayday?

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

Are there any anarchist groups organising for Mayday. The only thing I can find is Chris Knight trying to recuperate some of the lime light he received last year. Horrendous. more >>

Active Solidarity freesheet, Jock Palfreeman, and letter writing night

Source: Bristol ABC

Our friends at the long running Brighton ABC group have just released the latest issue of their Active Solidarity freesheet. You can download it as a pdf here Active Solidarity_Mar10 and do pass it on. One of the political prisoners they feature is Jock Palfreeman, whose case we featured back in December here. Jock is serving [...] more >>

Edo: Sitting On Defence

Source: SchNews

Judge allows war crimes defence in EDO Decommissioners' trial more >>

UK: Greens Launch LGBT Manifesto

Source: Gays Without Borders

Greens launch LGBT Manifesto London and Brighton – 5 March 2010 The Green Party has launched its LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) Manifesto for the upcoming general election. The launch took place in Brighton, with keynote speakers Caroline Lucas Green MEP, and LGBT human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. The Greens claim they are offering “the strongest, [...] more >>

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Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"

from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more

Poland: Demonstration in support of the Rozbrat squat, Poznan, 8 March 2010

from email, 9 March 2010: "On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the officials were forced to turn back..." more