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First arrests of fuel picketers

whyyouwannaknow? | 13.09.2000 15:41

3 tankers made it out of Texaco's distribution centre in the Sunderland port.
Two picketers were arrested for obstruction at the refinery.

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they should count themselves lucky (so far)

13.09.2000 17:21

Last year campaigners outside an oil refinery in Essex were
charged with obstruction of the highway, even though they were standing on the verge. Today's protesters, far from being arrested on sight, seem to have been able to bring the whole system to a standstill merely by turning up and shouting.

Not bad really, but it certainly betrays some double standards going on here.

Ned