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LONDON MEDIC TRAINING UPDATE!!!!!

23-03-2005 16:26

MEDIC TRAINING IN LONDON 1st - 3rd APRIL not 2nd - 4th - PLEASE EMAIL IF YOU CAN AS PLACES ARE LIMITED

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Mayday 2001 Protest Detention Damages Case Fails

23-03-2005 14:27

held for over 7 hours
During Mayday 2001, police trapped protestors in Oxford Circus for 7 hours without access toilets, food or water.

Nearly four years later, the High Court has rejected compensation claims by Lois Austin and Geoffrey Saxby who claimed they had been ilegally imprisoned and that their "right to liberty" under the European Convention on Human Rights had been breached when they were held for over seven hours along with thousands of other people.

There are around 150 other claims by people held by the police operation which are depending on the test case outcome.

The pair have been given leave to appeal and say they will do so.

The full judgement will soon be available here:
 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2005/

03/TLQ/0350 Austin v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

03/TLQ/0411 Saxby v Same

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RESIST G8 // 3rd Southeast Assembly - 3rd April

22-03-2005 21:55

RESIST G8 // 3rd South-East Assembly

Date: Sunday 3rd April

Time: 1.30-6.00pm

Venue: RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading, Berks.

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Anti-G8 Gathering 6-10th April - Learn Skills- Network- Get Inspired- Take Actio

22-03-2005 12:00

The Festival of Dissent!
... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct action, and party together.

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Anti-G8 Gathering 6-10th April - Learn Skills- Network- Get Inspired- Take Actio

22-03-2005 11:36

The Festival of Dissent!
... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct action, and party together.

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Anti-G8 - Learn Skills - Network - Get Inspired - Take Action

22-03-2005 11:31

The Festival of Dissent!
... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct action, and party together.

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Anti-G8 - Learn Skills - Network - Get Inspired - Take Action - 6-10th April

22-03-2005 11:27

The Festival of Dissent!... 6th-10th April Lanarkshire.... A chance to form networks of resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct action, and party together.

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Action Medic Training in London, 1-3 April

21-03-2005 23:25

*** CORRECTION: The training is Friday evening through to all of Sunday, NOT Saturday to Monday as previously advertised ***

The medics group will be holding a 2 and a 1/2 day action medic training in London on the first weekend in April (the evening of Friday the 1st to Sunday the 3rd).

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Medic training for g8 in london 2-4th April

21-03-2005 11:36

The medics group will be holding a 3 day action medic training in London on the first weekend in April (Saturday the 2nd to Monday the 4th). to book a place email  medic_g8_2005@lists.riseup.net.

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Trading Freedom and the G8 screening in Brum Tuesday 22nd March

21-03-2005 00:48

Birmingham Indymedia Cinema presents a screening of "Trading Freedom: the secret life of the FTAA" and “Workers Without Bosses” on Tuesday 22 March 2005 at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. The films start at 8:30pm and will be accompanied by a Q & A session with a collective member of the film making team of Trading Freedom and also the launch of a local G8 dissent group. The discussion that follows will help contextualise the phenomenon of mass mobilizations in relation to the G8 protests in Gleneagles in July.

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G8 Independent / Alternative Media Convergence, London May 14-15

20-03-2005 22:35

G8 SUMMIT 2005
INDEPENDENT/ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CONVERGENCE IN LONDON - M14-15

WHERE : London
WHEN : May 14 - 15
HOST : Indymedia UK ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk)

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Report with photos of the Glasgow anti-war demo on Saturday March 19th 2005.

20-03-2005 21:54

Crowd gathering in Royal Exchange Square.
This is a 1,140 word report with 10 photos of the Glasgow demonstration on the International Day of action against the occupation of Iraq.

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"Visibility Policing" on March 19th Anti-War Demo in London

20-03-2005 15:08

Line at Piccadilly Circus 1 (police, barriers, vans)
Quite a few people I spoke to on the large anti-war protest on Saturday March 19th 05, remarked on the style of policing deployed for the march.

While they were not criticising the actions of any police officers, they were keen to point out that there was an increased level of close policing along the route and the increased use of police vans to create road block barriers, both en route and at Trafalger square, where the march ended.

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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army IN GLASGOW next WEEKEND

20-03-2005 01:48

TASTER REBEL CLOWN TRAINING AND G8 WAR ROOM OPENING NEXT WEEKEND IN GLASGOW

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S14 Arrested

19-03-2005 01:27

S14 or S12, either way the entire operation was disorganised and poorly carried out. I think it is likely we will get our bikes back in April.

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Derby G8 Crical Mass / Mass Arrest?

19-03-2005 00:09

4 arrests at critical mass
Were these arrests legal under section 14 ?
Can you ride a bike and protest at the same time?

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G8 Environment ministers Meeting at Derby Piccys Pt2

18-03-2005 23:39

In advance of the main G8 meeting at Gleneagles, there are a number of mini-meetings. This one was for Environment & development ministers meeting at Breadsall Priory Hotel, a few miles north of Derby. However, demonstrations, outside of a market area, within the City of Derby, were banned.

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G8 Environment ministers Meeting at Derby Piccys Pt1

18-03-2005 23:28

In advance of the main G8 meeting at Gleneagles, there are a number of mini-meetings. This one was for Environment & development ministers meeting at Breadsall Priory Hotel, a few miles north of Derby. However, demonstrations, outside of a market area, within the City of Derby, were banned.

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G8: Derby M17 Picture Collection

18-03-2005 15:11

Masks and placards in Derby Main Square
A few snaps from the over policed G8 protests in Derby on March 17th - when marches in the centre of town had been banned by the government and exclusion zones set up in the surrounding villages. 12 cyclists were arrested in the morning - has anyone got any pictures of this or the critical mass protest?

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Bailed away from G8 meetings

18-03-2005 12:28

Two people who stand accussed of minor offences relating to Section 14 of the Public Order Act have been granted conditional bail that prevents them from going with 200 metres of a G8 meetings!