Social Control

from avtonom.org, 23 April 2008: Yesterday 18th of April a demonstration from Pushkin square towards Belarus Railway station blocked Tverskaya street between 7:40 and 20:10 PM in Moscow. This was a continuation of reaction to brutal torture at Sokolniky police station 4th of April, legalized action 11th of April finished in a confrontation, provoked by OMON riot police. As legalizing action does not guarantee freedom from police infringement, this time people decided to go without it. more

from GiIn, 23 April 2008: Within their security divisions, each prefectural level police department and the Tokyo police maintain Kidotai, special riot units. These units were formed after riots at the Imperial Palace in 1952, to respond quickly and effectively to large public disturbances. They are also used in crowd control during festival periods, at times of natural disaster, and to reinforce regular police when necessary. Full-time riot police can also be augmented by regular police trained in riot duties. Currently, there are 10,000 in the whole riot force. more

from email, 21 April 2008: "We want our city back from THE CROOKS, THE TOFFS, THE FASCISTS and THE COPS." FITwatch will be concentrating of the cops. 6pm City Hall The Queen's Walk, Tower Bridge South side of the river (look for fitwatch banner) As this years largest anarchist call for May time action, FIT will be looking forward to their annual overtime following predominantly known anarchists around London. This year we plan to make this an unpleasant and unsuccessful venture. more

from email, 14 April 2008: Come to the Tactics Sharing Gathering and let's work out together how we can kick FIT off our protests. Whilst support and advice will be available, this is not a training day. It is an open forum for both newcomers and experienced activists to share ideas and experiences. more

from email, 11 April 2008: 4th of April, 7 peaceful young men were beaten up and illegally arrested by police in Moscow near Sokolniki subway station. These persons were not resisting arrest, as videos made by their friends and other eyewitnesses prove... Arrested were beaten with batons, kicked, beaten with chairs, their heads were beaten to walls and they were given electric shocks all around the body, head and groin included... We ask you to support a week against police brutality from 11th to 20th of April! We ask you to make a picket of solidarity or other action for victims of the police brutality in Russia at the local Russian embassy or in any other place in your city! more

from contra-doxa, 11 April 2008: Romanian Gendarmerie contends that anti-NATO anarchists that came out foundering from the police station have "injured themselves", bumping against the walls. The representatives of the Romanian Gendarmerie have crossed the senseless line when they claimed that the striplings that came out of the police stations with black eyes and with their faces hurt have "injured themselves". more

from the Torgygraph, 11 April 2008: Well, its nice to know its not just the average citizens who are being forced into the database society: the pigs will have to be tagged like naughty children too. Every Metropolitan police officer will be "tagged" so that senior officers can monitor their movements on a tracking system, it has been disclosed. PLUS +++ Every police officer must be DNA-profiled as a matter of urgency to avoid them unintentionally contaminating crime scenes, the forensic science watchdog said yesterday. more

from various sources, 3 April 2008: At approximately 12:30pm today [2 April 2008], hundreds of police descended on the convergence center of the anti-NATO gathering in Bucharest. At this point, some organizers on the scene estimate that 46 arrests in all have been made. All the arrests were made inside the convergence center. There was no demonstration happening. Many of the police were wearing ski masks, and were very hostile to journalists trying to access the scene. Most prisoners have been released now.  more

from email, 2 April 2008: One day before the start of the NATO summit in Bucharest the situation gets worse... Every person coming to or leaving the convergence center is in danger of getting detained (some simply for walking to a nearby shop). The detained are interrogated, photographed and fingerprinted in police stations, and held for up to 24 hours. At the Romanian border several groups of activists, as well as others, have been denied entry into the country. more

posted 31 March 2008: "Police agencies from Alaska and California to the Washington region have poured millions of criminal and investigative records into shared digital repositories called data warehouses, giving investigators and analysts new power to discern links among people, patterns of behavior and other hidden clues. Those network efforts will begin expanding further this month, as some local and state agencies connect to a fledgling Justice Department system called the National Data Exchange, or N-DEx. Federal authorities hope N-DEx will become what one called a "one-stop shop" enabling federal law enforcement, counter-terrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically examine the enormous caches of local and state records for the first time..." more

updated 8 April 2008: 23 Polish antimilitarist activists were violently arrested on Sunday (30/03/2008) at a private flat of one of them morning after coming back from a demonstration after-party in Slupsk in nothern Poland. At least $1400 is needed for initial legal fees. Anarchist Solidarity, Anarchist Black Cross and the Campaign Against Militarism are appealing for help in the form of donations or other shows of solidarity. (Spreading and translating this news, sending nasty faxes, etc.)  more

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