Liverpool Repression Newswire Archive

17-02-2012 14:09

Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solidarity and support!

A call for coordinated actions around the world on March 16–18, 2012

Friends and comrades! We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), appeal to concerned people around the world. The political police (the Center for Combating Extremism or Center “E”) have fabricated a criminal case against our comrades. Anti-fascism has been outlawed in our city. We need your solidarity and support! Read more >>

28-01-2012 14:39 | 8 comments

Daisy lane eviction,north wales

With evictions up and down the country we can see a clear pattern of ethnic cleansing in action, excluded from society and looked upon as second rate citizens,the caravan act of 1968 to provide camp sites is no longer in force councils do not have to comply, so folk buy there own land ,but planning applications are often refused. Read more >>

19-01-2012 16:57

Peaceful Anti-cuts Demonstration in Liverpool Attacked by Merseyside Police

I arrived at the demonstration just after 4pm. Exchange Street West, to side of town hall, was already closed off by police, presumably to “facilitate” the demo. Councillors had already entered the building and there was around 100 people outside, more milling around than anything. The atmosphere was subdued compared to recent protests in the same location. The council meeting began a little later and the demonstration moved along the side street to be closer to the council chamber windows and to make itself heard to those inside. After some time elapsed with protestors shouting slogans and demanding answers from those within the council chamber, but basically milling around in the barricaded area on the side street, an attempt was made by the police to kettle the demonstration using officers on foot and mounted officers, and the situation immediately became tense. Read more >>

19-01-2012 00:33 | 1 addition

Merseyside Police violently attack peaceful anti cuts protesters 18.01.12

About 30 anti cuts demonstrators from various activist or community groups in Liverpool gathered outside the town hall to protest against the public spending cuts being implemented by the council on behalf of the ConDem government. Read more >>

17-01-2012 20:23 | 4 additions

Liverpool Census Refuser cases: two adjournments, one 'guilty' verdict

Some photos and a short report from today's census refuser court hearing and solidarity vigil in Liverpool.

Two cases adjourned pending the outcome of judicial review in the High Court. One defendant found guilty.
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16-01-2012 17:43

Important Update: Census Refuser Trials Tue/Wed this week in Liverpool

***IMPORTANT UPDATE***

Support still needed at court on Tuesday morning but two cases adjourned pending outcome of judicial review. Read more >>

12-01-2012 23:55 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Census Refuser Trials Liverpool 17 & 18 Jan. Solidarity and support needed

Sarah, Derek and Andy (possibly with others) are in Liverpool Magistrates Court on Tuesday and Wednesday 17 and 18 January for their trials. All are being prosecuted for refusing to complete the 2011 census and all have cited weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin's involvement in the census data processing among their reasons for refusal. Their initial hearings were on 8 December [see report and photos plus background].

Join us inside and outside the court to offer solidarity and support to all the defendants. Vigil and demo outside the court from 9.30am both days. Continue the vigil or watch the proceedings in court from 10am.

09-01-2012 14:34 | 2 additions

Police Harass Occupy Liverpool at Legal Squat

Earlier today Occupy Liverpool posted an urgent message on their Facebook wall calling for support at their new location as it had been surrounded by the police so I decided to go down and show a little solidarity.

URGENT CALL OUT FOR HELP! POLICE HAVE SURROUNDED THE NEW LOCATION! THE NEW LOCATION IS THE OLD CHURCH IN PRESTON STREET (OFF DALE STREET BY MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS LIVERPOO[L] CITY CENTRE). WE URGENTLY NEED AS MANY PEOPLE TO GET DOWN THERE ASAP! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN

- Occupy Liverpool

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyLiverpool/posts/249099251830522 Read more >>

09-12-2011 19:20

8 Dec. Census Refuser court hearing and Solidarity Demo: Report

Report from yesterday in Liverpool. See also: Photo report and link to BBC news item, Call-out, Call-out with downloadable flyer, Feature, Count Me Out website. Read more >>

02-12-2011 21:56 | 4 comments

Flyer for 8 Dec Solidarity action, Liverpool: Census refuser in court

Here's a flyer to print out and share.

Sarah Ledsom is at Liverpool Magistrates Court on Thursday 8 December for refusing to complete the census on the grounds of Lockheed Martin's contract to process census data. Sarah's objections relate particularly to the use of Lockheed Martin weapons by Israel on the people of Palestine. Solidarity demo from 9.30am on the 8th. Read more >>

14-11-2011 12:46 | 3 comments

8 December, Liverpool: Another Census Refuser's Court Hearing

Sarah Ledsom, 56, of Bromborough, Wirral, a grandmother who suffers with a disabling chronic condition, is due to appear at the Magistrates Court in Liverpool on Thursday 8 December to answer a charge of failing to complete the 2011 Census form. Sarah's objections to completing the census relate to the contract with arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin for processing census data. Sarah refers in particular to the use by Israel of deadly Lockheed Martin weaponry on the people of Palestine. Read more >>

13-11-2011 23:19 | 1 comment

More photos from Friday's Census court hearing and Remembrance

Some photos and a short report from Wrexham, where anti-war and anti-Lockheed Martin conscientious census objector Judith Sambrook appeared in court on 11/11/11. Read more >>

19-09-2011 15:03

Communique from the Buenos Aires Support Network for Freddy, Marcelo, and Juan

We never forget our imprisoned comrades. We don’t mystify our respect for them but neither are we indifferent to their everyday experience. Solidarity is not, as has been demonstrated on several occasions, just a beautiful word or a slogan, but a practice inseparable from our struggle. This can be expressed in many diverse ways, and there are moments when an idea takes shape with forcefulness and continuity. Given the delicate situation (in court and in prison) that faces our comrades Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda, and Freddy Fuentevilla Saa, who are currently held captive in prisons of the Chilean state, several individuals from Buenos Aires have decided to form a new support network in order to provide updates and disseminate information about their situation, as well as hopefully assisting in their return to the streets. Read more >>

30-08-2011 23:27

The rising tide of islamophobia in France.

The neo fascist Front National party in France is riding a wave of anti-immigrant and anti-muslim sentiment in France as the latest manifestation of this shows. Read more >>

29-08-2011 10:47

A few quick clarifications on the recent riots

In light of these conflicting interests it is puzzling to see so many - among them Anarchists - defending "communities" and denouncing attacks on them. These communities are not communes, no free associations of producers and consumers, not groups with common interests, but ensembles of conflicting ones. Shop owners, workers, estate kids, council workers, small and large scale capitalists, they do not have the same interests, many of them have directly conflicting ones. The call for community spirit in disregard of what these communities are is, in essence, the same as a nationalist call for unity: a call to subject ones' own interests to that of the "common good". A common good that asks for subordination and restriction. This appreciation of the moralistic collective is what appeals to right-wing, left-wing and some radical writers alike. Read more >>

20-08-2011 13:26 | 4 comments

Coda to an open letter

Three follow-up comments on the London riots, drawn in part from astute comments from friends and strangers. Read more >>

16-08-2011 21:05 | 4 comments

Riot Graffiti !

something from exeter
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13-08-2011 19:52 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)

First, this recurrent accusation of "materialistic" signals a broader refusal not of consumerism - with which you are well familiar and for which you cheerlead full-throated - but of the material fact of social disruption. To speak, with disdain, at the materialistic nature of these days is to speak, beneath your tongue, of a desire that people should go back to "protesting" in ways that remain representational: be counted, be seen, be ignored, go back to the places they live, remain there. It marks your horror at what it looks like for "protest" to become material, and, at that point, no longer protest. Read more >>

13-08-2011 19:48 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)

Dear you all,

I fear we have nothing to say to each other.

What follows may therefore represent one half of a dialogue in the way that yelling at a jukebox made of ice does. Perhaps the sheer exertion of speaking - a certain quantity of hot air - will soften the surface a bit, but it's a pretty one-sided discussion. And it doesn't mean you can or will stop repeating the records you have been given to play, those looping phrases and evasions. Read more >>

28-06-2011 11:02

Leeds ABC Benefit Night

Sunday 24th July. Read more >>