30/10/2007: London Mexican Embassy Protest, The World is STILL Watching
Oscar Beard | 31.10.2007 19:54 | Oaxaca Uprising | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | London
Tuesday 30 October 2007: Protestors returned to the London Mexican Embassy one year on from the scenes of police violence that greeted them on the 2006 protest.
Even though the protest was small, the message was still there, The World Is STILL Watching. We will not forget what, and who, killed William Bradley Roland and those who died in last year's civil uprising against the corrupt Oaxaca State government, then led by Ulises Ruiz.
During yesterday's protest armed diplomatic police arrived, first three, the six, then back to three when they realised the embassy was not being stormed by anarchism, as was alleged last year.
A video of last year's protest is here, in which one journalist had his camera flash smashed and this journalist was batoned across the leg.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/355202.html?c=on#c180446
The police were very unhappy at first about being filmed and halted my filming, but as protestors and myself explained the reason behind the protest they calmed down and actually began to take an interest in the story.
Then as things calmed down the police decided to use stop and search powers on several of the protestors. Another two police, believed to be from last year's protest, arrived. The male officer really didn't like me, glaring, then smiling, then making a gesture to his baton.
During yesterday's protest armed diplomatic police arrived, first three, the six, then back to three when they realised the embassy was not being stormed by anarchism, as was alleged last year.
A video of last year's protest is here, in which one journalist had his camera flash smashed and this journalist was batoned across the leg.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/355202.html?c=on#c180446
The police were very unhappy at first about being filmed and halted my filming, but as protestors and myself explained the reason behind the protest they calmed down and actually began to take an interest in the story.
Then as things calmed down the police decided to use stop and search powers on several of the protestors. Another two police, believed to be from last year's protest, arrived. The male officer really didn't like me, glaring, then smiling, then making a gesture to his baton.
Oscar Beard