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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous!

16-10-2012 23:04

Our sister organisation, the Network for Police Monitoring, is launching their ‘Don’t End up on a Database’ campaign this month. In response to this, FITwatch will be producing a series of simple, easy-to-understand guides designed to help you defend your anonymity and stay off police databases this October 20th . We believe these steps should form an integral part of any protestors’ activities on the day, regardless of tactical or ideological preferences. We cannot mount a serious challenge to power until we are able to move and associate freely, without state intrusion.

Some of this may be new to you, some of it may be old. But we encourage all our readership to watch out for these blog posts in the run-up to the demonstration:

1) Refusing information
2) Masking up
3) Affinity groups
4) Fashion Tips for Dissidents
5) Block & Disrupt!

Please use social media to share and retweet this essential information.

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Hashtags: #staysafe #fightingFIT #oct20

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First mass action in badger cull zones

15-10-2012 23:49

Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release October 14th 2012

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Anarchist Zine about NI

15-10-2012 23:38

Troubled; An Anarchist Primer on the Occupation of the North of Ireland

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Drone Warfare: Watching You, Watching Me...

15-10-2012 23:28

Considering the idea of R/C helicopters to ensure evidence of Police wrongdoing in protests.

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Call out for Submissions: Post-Prison Zine

14-10-2012 19:39

We live in a Prison Society. Last year Her Majesty’s Prison Service incarcerated over 87,000 people in England & Wales alone (not including Scotland and Northern Ireland). Prison has long been used as a tool of oppression against anybody who does not fit in to society’s idea of a “good citizen”. The aim of Prison is to silence those people trapped within it’s walls, they seek to lock them up and throw away the key, effectively removing them from society. Not all Prison sentences are permanent though any many people will eventually return to the outside world.

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Why we need to NOT kick-off on Oct 20

14-10-2012 14:45

Please read all these points carefully before posting responses -

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Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner Candidate Calls For IPCC Investigation Into Sussex Police

13-10-2012 13:54

Following the announcement by the Independent Police Complaints Commissioner (IPCC) to conduct an investigation into the Police handling of the Hillsbourough disaster, Matt Taylor says “It's time to do the same with Sussex Police.”

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Israeli Company seeking to stop protest in the UK

12-10-2012 18:38

The CEO of Soda Club, an Israeli company with a production facility in the settlement industrial zone of Mishor Adumim, has vowed to stop the protests happening outside its UK shop.

Daniel Birnbaum told local paper The Argus today that the firm will take legal action to clear the protesters from in front of their store.

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Henry: Bristol's first victim of Ken Clarke's squatting criminalisation

09-10-2012 23:01

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Audio production resource archive for Dialect Radio in Bristol, UK. Public service provided by the Bristol Radio Co-op.  http://www.dialectradio.co.uk/

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Gremlin Alley EVICTION RESISTANCE happening now in Cardiff, South Wales

04-10-2012 11:14

Occupied Spin bowling - now Gremlin Alley, City Road, Cardiff
This morning activists and anarchists have rallied round to defend Gremlin Alley, the squatted bowling alley and cinema on City Road, in Roath, Cardiff.

The eviction resistance is also in solidarity with Alex Haig, the 21 year old squatter who was the first squatter sentenced to prison under the new anti-squatting law, which began on September 1st this year.

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Autumn in Parliament Square – Barbara Tucker arrest number 46

02-10-2012 13:15

Autumn in Parliament Square – Barbara Tucker arrest number 46.

The peace campaign opposite the British Houses of Parliament continues with Barbara and a number of supporters. Now in its 12th year it is a permanent thorn in the side of the establishment.

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Agent Provocateurs & Radical Violence

02-10-2012 09:12

George Edwards mocking the executed revolutionaries
The British State has been using agent provocateurs since at least the early 19th century

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Sussex police Liaison Officers, Explain Unannounced Visits

29-09-2012 14:35

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After facing accusations of Sussex Police 'Protest Liaison Officers' being used for Intelligence gathering by Police watch dogs on twitter, I went to Sussex Police & got their side of the story direct from them.

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SchNEWs: Haigh Stacked

28-09-2012 07:44

The first squatter to be sentenced under the new squatting law has been imprisoned for twelve weeks after being arrested in a long-term empty flat in Islington, London on 2nd September.

21-year-old Alex Haigh had been living in the property for a couple of months before the law came into force, along with other squat-mates – two of whom are now facing the strong arm of law too. One received a fine while the other is awaiting sentence and a possible jail term. A long way from media caricatures of long-haired posh drop outs - Alex is an apprentice bricklayer from Plymouth and had moved to London looking for work

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Direct Action in Belarus

25-09-2012 22:20

Anarchists in Belarus are getting ready to rumble with the regime again.

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Case dismissed for Occupy London’s #M12 five

23-09-2012 06:54

Unable/unwilling to explain S14

Five Occupy London supporters viewed as a threat to the reputation of the UK economy have had the cases against them thrown out of court – with every single arrest deemed unlawful by the presiding judge.

District Judge Lachhar at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court in West London dismissed the case this week (19 September) against the M12 five who were arrested by the Royal Exchange, just over the road from the Bank of England on 12 May, at a peaceful Occupy London event.

This event, dubbed ‘Meet the 1%‘, aimed to highlight how City institutions which helped to cause the economic crisis are continuing to profit whilst the rest of society faces austerity cuts, and was timed to coincide with an international day of action marked in over 380 cities worldwide. [1]

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Norwegian activist: Breivik trial has taught us a lot about far right networks

22-09-2012 00:45

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BCfm's weekly politics show. At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers. For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

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EDL arrest over Manchester police killings

21-09-2012 14:22

Dale Cregan Stephen Garvey EDL
According to reports in the Daily Telegraph, an EDL supporter has been arrested in connection with the killing of two female police officers in a gun and grenade attack in Manchester eariler this week.

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Two cops executed in Manchester

20-09-2012 11:51

Criminal and anti-social vendetta against the police -

pics prisonislanduk.noblogs.org

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TV Licence Enforcment - An Open Letter to the BBC

19-09-2012 10:10

As a consequence of the BBC's failure to address the many shortcomings of its TV Licence enforcement operation, we have taken the unusual step of issuing an Open Letter regarding our concerns to the BBC Executive, with copies to MPs and the Press.