Europe

from email, 1 July 2009: "On Monday (29 June 2009), the French legislature passed a radical new law making it illegal to be part of a "gang" - if it's one that has been or may be violent. Earlier this month, France banned the wearing of masks during public protests. The new anti-gang law says that anyone identified with a group, formal or informal, known by police to have committed criminal acts, or is intending to, may be subject to a three-year sentence or a 45,000 euro (US$63,000) fine..." more

via clandestinenglish, 30 June 2009: "Social polarisation, which is seen by many as a result of the December Uprising, peaked again last week with yet another urban guerrilla attack by the Sect of Revolutionaries, a group that had attacked a police department and a TV station with automatic weapons last winter..." more

via grauniad, 30 June 2009: "A senior police officer who investigated the death of Ian Tomlinson told his family that the officer who struck him at the G20 demonstrations could have been a member of the public "dressed in police uniform", it emerged last night. The City of London police investigator made the comment at an emergency meeting with Tomlinson's family and the Independent Police Complaints Commission on 8 April 2009..." more

from the Self Organized University Collective, Naples, Italy: 29 June 2009: "They said we wouldn't have the heart to be there. But we always have the heart to be on the side of those who are struggling and suffering.

In those days we are going to be shaking the streets. We are going to be part of the national march on the 10th of July, to bring out our reasons, those of the oppressed and fighting populations. To show that we have not bended, to ruin their parade. We have grown up but the future is still ours! See you in L'Aquila... more

from hsn, 29 June 2009: "This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there. The report documents widespread mismanagement and a lack of resources devoted to ensuring that health and safety standards are maintained. Police intimidation of workers and harassment union activists is also documented..." more

from email, 27 June 2009: "We, social activists, natives and migrants, flex workers, builders of indipendent ways of life, jealous of our sincere and convinced political indipendence, anticapitalists and antifascists as much as antiauthoritarians and antimilitaristics, antiracists and antisexists, support the final demonstration in L'Aquila... more

from Czytelnik CIA, 25 June 2009: "The 4th Musta Pispala will offer practical and theoretical workshops, parties, sauna, book fair and children's activities in the unique setting of Tampere, Finland.

Through the workshops in the festival you can get familiar with topics such as basics of anarchism and anarcha-feminism. There will be a couple of workshops on anarchist parenting and unschooling. Anti-psychiatry criticizes mainstream views on mental problems, and offers alternatives for mental care...

Our analysis is not limited only to human relations. It also includes our relationships with non-human beings. Our aim is to strengthen critical views and empowerment in the form of taking control of our lives. Kill the police within!..." more

from bbc, 23 June 2009: "There was a hint on anarchy on the breeze over the waters of Lough Neagh recently with the scattering of the ashes of an American man. They belonged to Harold Thompson, who died in jail last October at the age of 66 after being sentenced to life plus 50 years for murder and robbery in 1979.

His supporters describe the man he was convicted of killing as a police informer who had killed the mother of one of Mr Thompson's children and threatened the life of another. His robberies are described as "expropriation activities" on an anarchist support website..." more

from notts-imc, 23 June 2009: "Nottinghamshire Police face scrutiny after mass pre-emptive arrests, tasering a man 3 times and killing a black man in their prison cells... Nottinghamshire Police attracted national media attention when a video was released onto the internet showing officers from the force assaulting a member of the public in Nottingham City Centre. In the video the four officers can be seen shooting the man with a Taser stun gun and punching him repeatedly..." more

Updated daily: Articles from external newwires filtered for the following keywords: Calais, Sangatte... more

from m&c, 17 June 2009: "An anti-terrorist policeman was shot dead in central Athens Wednesday 16 June while guarding a witness in a protection programme, in the worst attack since riots in December launched a wave of violence in Greece. The officer had been guarding a witness who was placed in a protection programme after testifying against the now inactive People's Revolutionary Struggle (ELA) group in 2004..." more

from email, 14 June 2009: "In order to support the Italian mobilization we are organizing for the 4th of July a demonstration in Berlin which has as its motto: “Quake G8 2009 – We are your crisis!” We are calling for pushing ahead in cross-border mobilizations in 2009 the development of a transnational struggle against the „architectures of security“ no matter if they shall be constructed by NATO, G8 or the EU. Smash security architectures! Shake G8 – Quake G8! La storia siamo noi! 4th of July 2009 14.00 pm Oranienplatz, Berlin..." more

via antifa, 13 June 2009: "They returned from war hailed as heroes. But the demobbed British Jews who won medals defeating Hitler were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain. In April 1946, 43 men and women – war heroes including Gerry Flamberg, who won the Military Medal at Arnhem, and Tommy Gould, a submariner who won the Victoria Cross – formed the 43 Group. Last week, around 40 of the surviving street-fighters who fought British fascism to a standstill in a five-year guerrilla war held a last reunion to consider their achievements..." more

from friends, 12 June 2009: "Earth First! gathering - first details & location announced - book your travel! Never has halting the destruction of our planet been so important… Learn how to make them stop! Earth First! is a network of people and campaigns who fight ecological destruction and the forces driving it. We believe in doing it ourselves rather than relying on governments or industry. Direct action is at the heart of what we do, whether we're standing in front of a bulldozer, shutting down an opencast mine or ripping up a field of GM crops..." more

from email, 5 June 2009: "Over 250 people have registered to attend the first conference of anarchists in UK since Bradford 1998. It is a chance to look at the anarchist movement and decide collective ways to become more effective in fighting for radical change.

Anarchist Movement Conference09 is being held on the weekend of 6-7 June 2009 at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

Below is an interview by Freedom newspaper with one of the organisers of the conference..." more