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Britain: Activists Facing Jail for Shaking a Fence

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:14:27 +0000

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

Mayday mayhem for London?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000

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!"

Anarchists organising for Mayday?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:39:00 +0000

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.

Saturday May 1st Parliament Square - Mayday festival

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:23:00 +0000

On Saturday the first of May 2010 there will be a massive Mayday festival right in the middle of Parliament Square. This is to mark ten years since the first Mayday anti-capitalist day of action which also took place in Parliament Square. Only this time we will be there in even greater numbers! This years Mayday event also coincides with the forthcoming general election which takes place just a few days later.

(en) Britain, Anarchist Federation Resistance 120, March 2010 - page 6 - I'm A Photographer... Not A Terrorist!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:07:11 +0000

Over 2,000 amateur and professional photographers staged a "shoot-in" at Trafalgar Square on January 22nd in protest against the increasing use of stop and search powers by the police. The protest was organised by the group I'm A Photographer Not A Terrorist! and many carried placards with this slogan. Last April, two Austrian tourists were forced to delete their pictures after being stopped by police in Walthamstow, and Alex Turner, an amateur photographer, was arrested under section 44 after snapping a fish and chip shop in Kent! Jeff Overs, a BBC photographer, was stopped under suspicion of terrorism reconnaissance while photographing St Paul's Cathedral, and another amateur photographer was also stopped by two police community support officers for photographing Christmas lights in Brighton. ...

Active Solidarity freesheet, Jock Palfreeman, and letter writing night

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:26:00 +0000

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 [...]

Edo: Sitting On Defence

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:07:05 +0000

Judge allows war crimes defence in EDO Decommissioners' trial

UK: Greens Launch LGBT Manifesto

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:33:51 +0000

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, [...]