UK Newswire Archive
South London action pic 4
02-05-2001 11:25
South London action pic1
02-05-2001 11:19
Oxford Street Pressure
02-05-2001 10:40
Street pressure building in Oxford St yesterday, full riot gear in action, this man was being provoked into a confrontation, as I observed the situation.
Over-provision of aggressive police ruins peaceful day
02-05-2001 10:16
If the police had stood back, observing and letting us get on with it, only reacting when necessary instead of trying to control our movements, the day would have gone down in the positive annals of history.RM Network Filters Waco, Texas.
02-05-2001 09:41
A great big slap in the face for personal freedom
02-05-2001 08:35
A lone girl's take on a semi-hellish day
A great day for the British public
02-05-2001 05:33
Mayday in Medellin, Colombia: initial report
02-05-2001 02:00
This is a provisional report (Tuesday evening) so not the full picture. The annual Mayday march in Medellin went through the city centre this morning with at least 18 arrests, and a small but lively anarchist presence. RTS style face masks are gaining popularity. Paramilitary activity has undermined community particpation in public demonstrations like this.An Account- Street Battles, Then Boxed in Holles St.
02-05-2001 01:53
I arrived on Oxford Street a little before 4pm. Heading west towards Oxford Circus and seeing the tremendous number of cops up ahead, me and my friend ducked up a pedestrian walkway to the north and found ourselves in the middle of a chaotic street battle in Market Sq./Eastcastle St./Great Titchfield St. intersection. Demonstartors launched firecrackers and flares along with plastic and glass bottles at the lines of police who were busy attacking unprotected people with shields and batons.response to 'weareeverywhere.org' thugs
02-05-2001 01:37
why not do something positive instead - donate the money from the lighter fuel and matches you wanted to buy to a 3rdworld charity.
The smell of rebellion
02-05-2001 01:15
The ghost of anticapitlism haunts oxford street.Local residents smell the spirit of rebellion.
Police Repression and Brutality Used as a Means of Deterring Democracy
02-05-2001 01:04
The realities of the Quebec City FTAA protests were consistently ignored by the mainstream corporate media. Those of us who spent many hours at the wall that Friday and Saturday witnessed police tactics employed in third-world dictatorships. Chemical weapons and potentially lethal projectiles were used to strip us of our democratic rights. Yet mainly the protestors throwing rocks were condemned as "hooligans". The police were praised for exercising "restraint".Birmingham
02-05-2001 01:01
The protest in Birmingham was limited to a improvised march, a rolling press conference and a downright hefty police presence..AWOL RTS IN MELBOURNE
02-05-2001 00:30
Pentonville Prison Solidarity Action Ambushed!
02-05-2001 00:12
HMP Pentonville Prison Solidarity ActionJust after 2pm, a group of about 15 people had gathered and were
immediately detained upon arriving at the prison walls off Caledonian
Road. Two unmarked police vans quickly rolled up and loads of coppers
poured out ordering everyone against the wall.
Today I was a womble
02-05-2001 00:08
Being a womble is about exposing a lie the authorities expend all their energy trying to maintain: human beings have the power to hange the world and upset "known facts". The police are neither right, nor good, nor invincible.
