Police barricade whitehall

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i just heard from a friend that the police have barricaded Whitehall and the anti Bush protesters are trying to get through. Some barricades have been removed but the police are bocking the way into Whitehall

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police violence

15.06.2008 21:07

Police at the barricade have been very aggressive all day.

Eventually after lashing out at protestors for leaning on the barrier (leaning whilst being crushed by the weight of the crowd), people started dragging away barricades, and the police started attacking people. Around four protestors have been taken to hospital.

The worst moments were when 100 or so more riot police appeared out of Great George Street, seemingly with the task of snatching individuals. Perhaps 200 protestors left the Whitehall barrier to confront them and there were a number of charges and counter-charges between the two groups, all of which were sparked when police snatch squads grabbed individuals and roughly dragged them behind their line.

police were brutal

15.06.2008 22:34

Just got back from demo. This was no usual anti war demo, there was a ban by the police to march up the strand as a result people there were protest not just against the war but also against infringement liberties. 25 people were arrested and I have footage of two people with bloody head due to police brutally.

This is the first time that their have been confrontation with police on a stop war demo, funny that when there is violence the demo gets front news on bbc site.

I will down edit and download video footage tomorrow night, too tried to do tonight.

keep you posted.

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Any over news so far I heard only stuff from the BBC.

15.06.2008 21:25

Any other news so far I heard only stuff from the BBC. I would have thought someone would've posted some picture or report on here. It appears to forgotten and unpublished event.

loppy

sounds like you could've done with more people.

15.06.2008 21:28

sounds like you could've done with more people, strange don't you think that this event wasn't publish. I sure the old MI5 doing it's old tricks of the trade.

Not forgotten.

16.06.2008 05:31

Why should Indymedia bother to cover something that has full coverage by the mainstream media? It is the stuff that the mainstream ignores or suppresses that is important to show.

Itsme

Hopefully, the protesters will charge the barricades

16.06.2008 06:55

In the US, it's time for the second American Revolution to get rid of these terrorists. The GOP is on its way to stealing a *third* presidential election, with the help of the corporate-owned media.
Cheers,
Lori R. Price
Mgr., Citizens For Legitimate Government

http://www.legitgov.org/

"Hi, mom, this is Mark Bingham... you believe me, don't you?" Mark Bingham - Sept. 11, 2001

http://www.legitgov.org/9_1_1_oddities.html

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Coverage

16.06.2008 09:20

"Why should Indymedia bother to cover something that has full coverage by the mainstream media?" - I would've thought this'd be pretty obvious...suppose it depends how you define "full coverage", if the mainstream media actually did cover ALL aspects of a story there wouldn't be much point in indymedia touching it, but in situations where the mainstream media might just possibly give a biased or distorted picture - i.e., pretty much any situation ever, but especially one involving protestors/radicals/dissent - then it seems worthwhile hearing from people who're actually involved.

Origins of Indymedia

16.06.2008 10:26

"The Indymedia network began with a single news-gathering office and web site set up to
provide alternative ‘from the streets’ reporting of the demonstrations surrounding the
1999 Seattle WTO meetings. The intention was to provide a central location and web site
for collecting and publishing reports by the activists themselves, serving as a counterbalance
to the mainstream media coverage, which was widely expected to present a
traditionally biased interpretation of events both inside and outside of the conference
center (Uzelman, 4 and docs.indymedia.org)."

http://docs.indymedia.org/pub/Global/ImcEssayCollection/Technologies_of_Insurrection_v1-0.pdf

itsme clearly hasn't thought this through....... compare the mainstream media coverage with the accounts on Indymedia - are they telling the same story?

Indymedias frequently provide coverage of large protests - its not just about reporting the stuff that the MSM ignores, its also about reporting the events from the perspective of those involved in the protests.

IMCista

Coverage?

17.06.2008 06:26

To start with, newswire items covering the demo seemed to be mere repetitions of mainstream coverage but the latest efforts, critical of the State and its police, are much better and more to the point.

Itsme