Protest the met
cable | 08.04.2009 20:57 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles
Our civil liberties and human rights are infringed upon daily, by the politicians in charge they are seen as little more than obstacles to overcome. The police have proven that they cannot stop abusing the anti-terrorism powers they have been given yet they want more, and within the metropolitan police is a culture that has...
* led to deaths in the past
* made where people go into police vans without a scratch on them and come out covered in bruises the norm
* created abuses of terrorist powers where people are kept for several days without charge and released in other parts of the country with no money and no phone
* made it so that they will lie to the media, to the government, and to the public to cover up their crimes
That is why on Mayday at 2pm we will be moving our protest from Trafalgar to outside the offices of New Scotland Yard at, we have 5 demands:
1 - A criminal investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson and the immediate suspension of the officer responsible for his death
2 - An immediate ban of kettling by every police chief across the country and for government to subsequently make it illegal
3 - A Royal Commission into the policing of the recent protests and the abuse of anti-terrorism powers used prior to and during the protests
4 - An immediate end to the London wide application of section 44. The city houses 8 million and has millions more working and visiting every day, why are we all suspects?
5 - For Paul Stephenson to stand down from his position of head of the metropolitan police, he is new to the position but the buck lies with him for perpetuating the current injustices and culture within the met. The protests, the policing, the lies, the cover up, etc... all occurred under his watch and he must take ultimate responsibility.
Be safe people
* led to deaths in the past
* made where people go into police vans without a scratch on them and come out covered in bruises the norm
* created abuses of terrorist powers where people are kept for several days without charge and released in other parts of the country with no money and no phone
* made it so that they will lie to the media, to the government, and to the public to cover up their crimes
That is why on Mayday at 2pm we will be moving our protest from Trafalgar to outside the offices of New Scotland Yard at, we have 5 demands:
1 - A criminal investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson and the immediate suspension of the officer responsible for his death
2 - An immediate ban of kettling by every police chief across the country and for government to subsequently make it illegal
3 - A Royal Commission into the policing of the recent protests and the abuse of anti-terrorism powers used prior to and during the protests
4 - An immediate end to the London wide application of section 44. The city houses 8 million and has millions more working and visiting every day, why are we all suspects?
5 - For Paul Stephenson to stand down from his position of head of the metropolitan police, he is new to the position but the buck lies with him for perpetuating the current injustices and culture within the met. The protests, the policing, the lies, the cover up, etc... all occurred under his watch and he must take ultimate responsibility.
Be safe people
cable
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really bad timing!!
08.04.2009 21:40
Fabbri
rushed and divisive?
08.04.2009 21:55
poor choice of date..
sullivan
Kettled...
08.04.2009 22:55
I don't want to get caught in a walking kettle for hours then have all my photograph and details forcibly taken and a bright light shone in my face thank you very much. If anyone else feels the same as me, go to Brighton!
anon
We're not going to demand anything. We are going to take and occupy.
08.04.2009 23:14
post-capitalist
No hope by official channels.
09.04.2009 09:00
Last week, you will recall the talk of, "This is the New World Order". This is no coincidence and what it is all about. The behaviour of the Police is the start of things to come. It is given tacit approval by those in power and their masters. It will become more extreme in due course.
You would be better reading a certain book written by Che Guevara.
Can anyone build guillotines?
New World Disorder
hmm
09.04.2009 11:31
Also Trafalgar Square is the place the police have possibly the most experience in in London of containing & controlling people, so bad place to meet!
Maybe you are part of a group, though that's not clear, which makes it easier to successfully call protests, and crucially to organise them, but publicity on it's own isn't enough!
nice butt
Please change the date - from Smash EDO
10.04.2009 16:05
any chance of changing it - and we'll come
smashy
There will be another rally at the same time in Trafalger Square!!!!!
10.04.2009 17:26
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