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why are climate camp legal team refusing to help people arrested at bank?

riot girrrl | 12.04.2009 09:00

I sent a statement to the legal team at climate camp cos I was nicked for violent disorder. They told me that they couldn't help because I was at bank, not Bishopsgate.

Come on, aren't we all mean't to be on the same side? Climate camp legal team seem happy enough to get info about the guy who died, so why won't they help other people like me who've been set up by the cops?

riot girrrl

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Contact LDMG

12.04.2009 09:13

You should contact LDMG at:

 ldmgmail@yahoo.co.uk
or by post:
Legal Defence and Monitoring Group
BM Box HAVEN,
London, WC1N 3XX

They are co-ordinating alot of the support for those arrested and are mostly anarchists.

a


Climate camp and LDMG agreed to split it this way

12.04.2009 14:52

heya,
as was mentioned in the climate camp update, climate camp and LDMG had a meeting and agreed to split things this way, just so each could concentrate on specific events. I.e. LDMG would help with the bank protest, and climate camp legal would help with climate camp... makes sense!
contact ldmg at  ldmgmail@yahoo.co.uk, and contact climate camp legal via  legal@climatecamp.org.uk

punter


Bust card number

12.04.2009 22:16

Hey
The bust number on the LDMG bust cards was 07659 111192, for a solicitors called Hodge Jones & Allen. The LDMG contact details have been given above.

There was a split between the work of LDMG and the Climate Camp legal people, much of this was geographical, with one covering the anti-bank actions and the other the climate camp. From experience though there is another split, in that LDMG will give uncritical support to any defendant (ie regardless of the charge), whereas its suggested that with the CC people this aint always the case…

In practice, on the day, at least during the afternoon, quite a number of CC legal observers came down to the anti-bank action as the situation at the CC was clearly calm, although that obviously changed after night fell. Indeed at around 4pm I approached 3 CC Legal observers standing outside the BofE, about 30 metres from the front line near the trashed RBS, and one of them introduced himself as a member of parliament (I forget the name…).

LDMG had 4 or 5 teams of 2/3 people on the anti-bank protests, with several thousand bust cards. However they cant be everywhere at once, especially with the multiple cop lines all over the place – hence the need for people to sort themselves out as a poster above has pointed out. The legal support organisations also need more people to get trained up so they can help on the day.

Remember too that legal observing is hard work – there’s no down time, no drinking, no dancing, the cops give you no preferential treatment at all, indeed by now they know whose side LDMG are on, even if some protesters don’t seem to get it. LDMG usually stands down its observers when darkness falls, because the work becomes impossible in the dark. The CC people did try and carry on til later at the CC.

Anyway, if you got nicked, get advice and support from the info given on these posts and on the London IMC site. Failing that then at least ask around your contacts for details of a sympathetic firm of solicitors. And if you got injured/want to sue, then you should get/have got witness details, medical reports, fotos etc.
Good luck, and don’t give up.

observation


LDMG / arrests / witnesses / suing the cops

13.04.2009 01:18

LDMG bustcard on the wall at Earl Street convergence centre
LDMG bustcard on the wall at Earl Street convergence centre

> It might help if the LDMG clearly showed how people can contact them
> and how they plan take to things forward.

From the website:

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G20 Follow-up - Who to contact

If you were arrested at the G20 please contact us by email.
If you witnessed an arrest at the G20 please contact us by email.
If you were attacked or assaulted by the cops and want to bring an action against the police then we suggest that you contact Bhatt Murphy  http://www.bhattmurphy.co.uk/ solicitors, as they have a lot of experience and have had good results in the past.

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G20 Defendants' Meeting
Tuesday April 7th
7pm

Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley (right next to KFC)
84b Whitechapel High street
London E1 7QX

We will be holding a meeting for all those arrested during the G20 demonstrations.

The point of the meeting is to gather and share information, take people through the legal process and hopefully reassure them about the situation they are facing. If you were arrested please bring any and all documents concerning your arrest and detention. If you know anyone who was arrested please inform them of the meeting.

This is for those arrested only, anybody who witnessed someone being arrested (even if you don't know who they are) please write a detailed account on the incident as soon as possible and forward it to LDMG via email:  ldmgmail@yahoo.co.uk
or by post:
Legal Defence and Monitoring Group
BM Box HAVEN,
London, WC1N 3XX

All information will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
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LDMG
mail e-mail: ldmgmail@yahoo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.ldmg.org.uk/


Comments

Display the following 7 comments

  1. this is movement wide! — @rchie
  2. ldmg — a
  3. I demand more!!! — @rchie
  4. having your cake & eating it — anon
  5. More needed — Stroppyoldgit
  6. get involved — justme
  7. Climate Camp legal observers had an MP as a volunteer?! — co-option by the establishment?!