Mayday Media War: Police spin Internet angle
meeja hor | 23.02.2001 18:54
The same internet story as last year (and post j18) being used by police to keep the 'they're organising a violent mayday riot' story infront of the press.
I mean look at the url they've given the story for fucks sake and mayday 2001 is still months away!
It's also amazing that they keep refering to 'mayday riots' - which let's face it is not what happened last year.
more on mayday media propaganda at:
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1726
I mean look at the url they've given the story for fucks sake and mayday 2001 is still months away!
It's also amazing that they keep refering to 'mayday riots' - which let's face it is not what happened last year.
more on mayday media propaganda at:
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1726
Police chief fears May Day violence
http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010223/britain/18riot.shtml
(tv video version at:
http://itn.co.uk/news/20010223/video/riotvt.ram)
London's top police officer has warned anarchists are using the Internet to plan a repeat of last year's May Day riots, reports ITN's new media correspondent Fergus Sheppard.
Metropolitan Commissioner Sir John Stevens said: "There's intelligence to suggest that a variety of anarchists and other groups are organising anti-capitalism protests on May Day.
"There are strong indications to suggest that planning by protest groups is well advanced and that their intention is to disrupt the everyday workings of London life."
Last year dozens of people were arrested after shops were smashed and protesters clashed with police.
A number of London landmarks - including the Cenotaph - were vandalised during the riots.
One former top policeman, ex-Flying Squad commander John O'Connor, said the Internet was a fertile recruiting ground for hard-core activists.
He said: "I think it is a recruiting ground. Certainly, the main organisers won't be discussing tactics and plans over the Internet.
"That stuff is being fed out for the benefit of those who may want to get involved, and also for the benefit of the police - they are telling them one thing whereas what they do on the day may be something totally and utterly different."
However, some campaigners said the London police chief was overreacting.
Phil Carr, a director of GreenNet - which hosts the Reclaim the Streets website - said: "I think that's an enormous exaggeration.
"I think that the Internet is used to organise demonstrations, and I could think of hundreds of demonstrations that are organised every week in the UK, and thousands world-wide, that's don't involve any violence whatsoever."
http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010223/britain/18riot.shtml (tv video version at:
http://itn.co.uk/news/20010223/video/riotvt.ram) London's top police officer has warned anarchists are using the Internet to plan a repeat of last year's May Day riots, reports ITN's new media correspondent Fergus Sheppard.
Metropolitan Commissioner Sir John Stevens said: "There's intelligence to suggest that a variety of anarchists and other groups are organising anti-capitalism protests on May Day.
"There are strong indications to suggest that planning by protest groups is well advanced and that their intention is to disrupt the everyday workings of London life."
Last year dozens of people were arrested after shops were smashed and protesters clashed with police.
A number of London landmarks - including the Cenotaph - were vandalised during the riots.
One former top policeman, ex-Flying Squad commander John O'Connor, said the Internet was a fertile recruiting ground for hard-core activists.
He said: "I think it is a recruiting ground. Certainly, the main organisers won't be discussing tactics and plans over the Internet.
"That stuff is being fed out for the benefit of those who may want to get involved, and also for the benefit of the police - they are telling them one thing whereas what they do on the day may be something totally and utterly different."
However, some campaigners said the London police chief was overreacting.
Phil Carr, a director of GreenNet - which hosts the Reclaim the Streets website - said: "I think that's an enormous exaggeration.
"I think that the Internet is used to organise demonstrations, and I could think of hundreds of demonstrations that are organised every week in the UK, and thousands world-wide, that's don't involve any violence whatsoever."
meeja hor
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