older IMC Breaking News 11:23 - 13:59
IMCUK | 01.05.2001 16:56
+++13:48 Anti-privatization South London Picnic: protesters began moving off from Elephant & Castle towards Kennington. Police tried to prevent the protesters from moving. People found side streets unblocked and entered them, were temporarily split into two groups of about 300 and 100. One group in a side street was blocked on both sides. All the demonstrators are now heading towards the Southbank area.
+++13:19: Euston: report from a woman just searched: most people still surrounded, police are attempting to photograph everyone from up close [though the right to refuse this can be exercised though impossible when the camera is at a distance], being asked for names and address - but people are refusing and the police are accepting this.
+++12:55: Coutts bank [see below: Cancel all Debt]: 100 people demonstrated. Police prevented later arriving demonstrators from joining. Later dispersed without trouble.
+++ 12:46: Elephant & Castle [Anti-privatization South London Picnic]: 300 protesters and their numbers growing, with banners, pedal bike generated electricity. 'Wombles' are there. A sound system has arrived, people have been moved off the road onto the roundabout, a chilled out atmosphere.
+++ Euston: 150 still surrounded with only one exit, where the police are searching the cyclist one by one for weapons!
+++12:45: Malet Street: 100 people [see below: Student Action Against Fees]: police surrounded the protestors - with the intention of removing peoples revelling masks under a 'Section 60' order. When independent Legal Observers informed the police that they were acting beyond the law the section 60 order was dropped.
+++ 12:35: Euston: people are trying to get out en masse of the plaza.++Trafalgar Square: police have sorrounded the square. Anyone who was earlier feeding the pigeons has been coralled in. [See feature report below]
+++ 12:19: a 'Section 60' has been declared by the police [legally only a search for weapons but illegally used by the police to obtain names etc]. Police reinforcements have been called with the intention of doing a "stop and search" of all the cyclists for weapons! Two groups of about 100 people have broken through police lines, and are cycling around evading the police.
+++ 12:03: massive police numbers are completely surrounding Euston refusing to let people who want to leave pass through police lines.
+++ 11:50: approximately 1000 people in Euston Station plaza. Police blocking them from returning west along Euston Road.
An autonomous news stand has been set up opposite the usual newstand just outside of Angel tube. See Newswire.photo
+++ 11:23: heavy police 'escort' for the Critical Mass along Marylebone Road. Hackney: 1000's of council workers are on strike protesting cuts to low paid workers and services.
IMCUK