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London Vigil for Tristan Anderson

18-03-2009 19:35

When I got to Kensington High Street at about 3.30, BS 280 was hassling the handful of attendees to cross the road to the 'designated area'. "Perhaps you can help me out," I said. "For years I've been trying to find out what law you use to dictate where we can practice our freedom of expression, and now you're about to tell me". Strangely enough, he couldn't. BS were very appropriate letters for his epaulettes. It wasn't very plausible -the side of the road he was trying to send us to has a narrower pavement and lots of shop doorways. Where we were, there was a railing behind our backs. He tried for a bit longer and then gave up.

Having got over the habitual hassle from cops, I reflected that irritating as the nursery school teacher persona that British bobbies habitually don at political events can be, they pale into insignificance when compared to the hassle that demonstrators face in other parts of the world. Like Ni'lin with its weekly protests against the wall, which has had four of its young people killed since July 2008, and where fellow IMCista and ISMer Tristan Anderson was hit in the face with a gas cannister on Friday March 13th. Tristan is now in a critical condition in an Israeli hospital, and it was in solidarity with him and the people of Palestine that we were stood around the corner from the Israeli Embassy.

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RBS in the stocks – Fred Goodwin slimed with green custard

18-03-2009 18:06

Manchester People and Planet placed a mock representative of former RBS bank chief Fred Goodwin in some medieval stocks outside the RBS regional headquarters in Manchester. Members of the public were invited to get their own back on Fred for refusing to give up his £700,000 a year pension despite the financial crisis and irresponsible funding of climate damaging projects such as new coal fired power stations.

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Shell to Sea supporters occupy Shell office in Belmullet in Support of Maura Har

18-03-2009 18:04

Monday, 16th March 2009, seven members of the Rossport Solidarity Camp occupied the Shell office in Belmullet, County Mayo, for over an hour, in support of Maura Harrington. Maura has now been in jail for six days of her thirty day sentence.

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Greek prisoner dies during prisoner transport.

18-03-2009 17:45

Re-posted from

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

According to various newssite reports,prisoner Katerina Goulioni, prisoner and militant prisoners’ rights activist, has died in police custody this morning.

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Invade Jersey Now! Mark Thomas at the MoD, London

18-03-2009 17:18

Around a dozen demonstrators protested outside the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday lunchtime (17 March) calling for a British invasion of Jersey, and the recover of the deeds of the war office from that tax haven. Most of the visitors and workers going in and out of the building refused to take the leaflets Mark Thomas was handing out, though some were amused. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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End Child Poverty - 10 Years

18-03-2009 17:03

The Campaign to End Child Poverty organised a demonstration in Parliament Square today (17 March) to remind Gordon Brown of his pledges about the eradication of child poverty in the UK. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Palestine Today 031809

18-03-2009 16:19

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 18th, 2009.

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Things turn nasty for the Tesco 2

18-03-2009 09:48

The 'Tesco 2' Dee Murphy and Greg Wilkinson began a campaign to boycott Israeli produce by going into their local Tesco store filling up a trolley with dates grown on illegal settlements in the West Bank, walking out without paying, tipping the dates on the ground, smearing them with red dye and then waiting for the police to arrest them. Dee was arrested and is due to appear in court in early April. For reasons best known to themselves the police did not arrest Greg at the time, but things have taken an ominous turn. This is the e mail I received from Greg on March 12th

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Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building UPDATE

18-03-2009 09:28

There is a meeting as i write, over 30 staled the night,, Talks ongoin regards where next etc..

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Britain’s insane secret terror evidence

18-03-2009 08:17

A month ago, when Britain's Law Lords ruled that three men who have each spent between six and eight years imprisoned without charge or trial, or held without charge or trial under strict bail conditions amounting to house arrest, could be deported to their home countries, even though there was a risk - or, perhaps, even a probability - that they would be tortured or subjected to ill-treatment, the British media briefly woke up to the story. This was almost exclusively because one of the men was Omar Mahmoud Othman (more commonly known as Abu Qatada), a man routinely described as "al-Qaeda's spiritual ambassador in Europe," even though this claim has never been tested in a court of law.

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Support Nicole Vosper - Green Anarchist / SHAC Prisoner

18-03-2009 00:37

Nicole was remanded into prison today (19/3/09). Please show her your support by writing to her on the address below or sending a message to her myspace page and we will print it out and pass it on.

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Support Bryan Griffiths - Charged with murder over hunt death

18-03-2009 00:32

Two Hunt Monitors were in a privately owned Gyrocopter. The Gyrocopter landed for fuel and at least one of the hunt suppoters went up to confront the Hunt Monitors. Sadly in doing so the hunt supporter was hit by the gyrocopter and died. Sam Butler, of the Warwickshire Hunt, said it was a "tragic but fatal accident".

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Tinsley House blockade ends with arrests and deportees taken to airport

17-03-2009 18:28

Nine people have been arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) following this morning's blockade of Tinsley House immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport. Six of the arrestees had locked and glued themselves to the prison's gate to prevent Iraqi refugees from being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, later today. All nine have been taken to Crawley police station. They are expected to be released on bail later tonight or remanded overnight and taken to court tomorrow morning.

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Activist Critically Injured in Demonstration Against Israeli Wall

17-03-2009 15:59

On March 13th, 2009, Tristan Anderson, from Oakland, California was critically wounded in the village of Ni'lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a high-powered tear-gas canister. Tristan is a dedicated activist and reporter who has long been committed to social and environmental justice in the U.S. and abroad in places such as Oaxaca, Iraq, and Palestine. Tristan has posted his reports to Indybay since 2001.

Reports: 1 | 2 | 3 | Video | International Solidarity Movement

Recent Indybay Coverage By Tristan (he also posted as "Eric Blair" and "Cricket"):
Four Demonstrators Shot and Wounded in Ni'ilin, Palestine | Last Four Oak Grove Tree Sitters Forced Down | Reclaim The Streets SF | March 19 - A Day of Many Actions

More Of Tristan's Indybay Reports Over the Years.

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Palestine Today 031709

17-03-2009 15:50

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 17th, 2009.

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William Johnston Back on Hunger Strike

17-03-2009 11:50

A while ago we were asking people to write letters of complaint on behalf of William Johnston. He was on hunger strike for nearly two months before the medical staff at Glenochil prison would give him painkillers, that had been prescribed to him for life by his GP, for a crippling spinal condition.

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Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building

17-03-2009 09:57

Sheffield students showing solidarity with the people of Palestine have staged an occupation of the Hicks Building, close to the centre of the campus of the University of Sheffield.

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Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

17-03-2009 07:49

Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.

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CWU demo against privatisation

16-03-2009 22:42

On Saturday 13th March, the Communication Workers Union organised a march through Bilston, Wolverhampton in protest against government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.

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The not-so-Great British Circus hit by protest again

16-03-2009 21:12

Protesters from around the north of England gathered in Scunthorpe on Sunday 15 March to voice their opposition to the Great British Circus and its enslavement of wild animals. There is no chance of anything resembling a natural life for the elephants, lions, tigers, and others paraded around by the circus, which has finished its run in Scunthorpe and is now moving on to Louth, Skegness, and beyond. Protests have been following it every step of the way.