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G20: PS Smellie due in Court

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

The police officer charged with assaulting a protester at the G20 demonstrations in London, is due in court on Monday 22nd March. more >>

Open Letter to My Friends Regarding the Pittsburgh Freedom School

Source: Anarchist News Dot Org

First Published to the NEAN and Northeast-SDS Lists. Open letter to my friends, First, I love you all. The fact that I know I have you to back my ass up has kept me from doing many irrational things Joe Stack-style (with a better communique). The lessons and experiences we have shared have given me the strength to pull through months of homelessness, tragedy, poverty, anger, frustration, and the depths of my existence. A few men from SDS, NEAN, and IWW recently have been voicing concerns about the Pittsburgh Freedom School idea that a few of my dearest organizer friends and I cooked up to bring a bunch of groups and radicals together in Pittsburgh for a weekend of trainings. Contrary to some reactions, the PFS is not the G20. Whatever your opinion is of the PFS idea, although most of them have been positive, I encourage you to contact me personally instead of (or at least before) launching accusations and criticisms of this very dear project of ours. Especially PLEASE don't try to barbecue me and the idea on list servs in front of hundreds of my friends before you've talked to me. That's not fair and I can't tell you how much that hurts. read more more >>

Political leader warns of massive UK unrest

Source: The Vast Minority

BRITAIN could face massive political and social unrest on a scale similar to Greece, a political party leader has warned.The Guardian reported that Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg was concerned that the next government might not successfully rally the public behind plans to slash public spending and cut the state's £178bn deficit.So far, the UK has only seen symbolic protest against the excesses of neo-liberalism, such as the anti-G20 protests in London last year (pictured), but Clegg, a self-confessed admirer of Margaret Thatcher, apparently has something on a much larger scale in mind.The report says that in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank, Clegg will say a new government could be 'torn to pieces' if it tries to 'ram through' spending cuts without wider public consent."He will argue that the scale of the cuts needed to tackle the deficit is so great that it will be essential to engage the public in the process."If the structural deficit in the public finances is to be eliminated without further tax increases, at some point in the next eight years government spending will have to fall by as much as 10%."That means there is an enormous risk ahead. In a democracy, dramatic change cannot be imposed from above or it will fail. It has to be led by a process of political engagement," he will say."You only have to look at the scale of industrial unrest in Greece to see that it is impossible to reduce a public deficit quickly if you do not find a way to persuade people to go along with the process."If we do not find a way to take the people of Britain with us on this difficult journey of deficit reduction, we will not be able to make the journey. We will instead follow Greece down the road to economic, political and social disruption."If a government tries to ram through major change to public spending solely through the usual Westminster combination of machismo and threats from the whips, it will not only fail, it could find itself torn to pieces." more >>

Tortuga House: Arrest Affidavit finally released by state

Source: Denver Anarchist Black Cross

Finally the state of Pennsylvania has decided to unseal the affidavit which lead to the arrests of the “Twitter 2″ at the Carefree Inn outside of Pittsburgh, PA on September 24th during protests against the G-20. The affidavit which is signed on September 24th, 2009, by State Troopers Glenn D. Hopey and Gregg J. Kravitsky (who [...] 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 >>

Bristol - RBS attacked with rocks & fire over Tar Sands project

Source: After Trikala

Wednesday February 24, 2010 author by Carlo Giuliani - Black Bloc Report this post to the editorsIn the early hours of Tuesday 23rd February 2010, anarchists attacked the Royal Bank of Scotland HQ in the heart of developing Bristol, UK.Despite road traffic and proximity of security, the mob succeeded in breaking windows, smashing paint-bombs against upper floors and setting fire to tyres in the middle of the road.A litany of abuses by RBS or any other bank could continue for pages, but it is enough to state that every bank is part of the financial prison which incarcerates and impoverishes all of us.These actions will escalate and multiply.We dedicate this action to all indigenous fighters and their allies struggling against the Tar Sands project in Kanada which RBS is an investor in, and also all those who fight against the 2010 Winter-Olympics.This action is also in solidarity with Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Polykarpos Georgiades, Vaggelis Chrisohoides, Giannis Dimitrakis, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, the entire London G20 defendants/prisoners and all other prisoners in struggle.For international struggle against capitalism and the state more >>

Trying to make sense of the G20 protests

Source: Autonomous Nottingham

There have been ominous signs of it coming for some time but it seemed protesters were still unprepared for the level of police violence that was unleashed in London yesterday. The infamous kettling tactics of the British police have claimed their first life and there are numerous reports of head wounds, crushing and unprovoked attack. [...] more >>

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