***STOP PRESS 13th March: The Metropolitan Police has withdrawn its application to strike out women's case as the legal battle continues. Solidarity picket on Tuesday 18th March will go ahead as planned.***
Five of the eight women taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police, due to undercover police officers deceiving them into long term intimate relationships, will be opposing Scotland Yard's attempt to have their cases struck out on Tuesday 18th March. The women and their Police Spies Out of Lives support group have called for a solidarity picket outside the Royal Court of Justice, The Strand, at 9am on Tuesday 18th, as part of a week of action (17th - 21st March).
On the Newswire: Outrage as High Court permits secrecy over undercover policing | Abuse of women by undercover police must stop now! | Three undercover political Police unmasked | Undercover and over-the-top: The collapse of the Ratcliffe trial | Mark 'Stone/Kennedy' exposed as undercover police officer
Other Links: Police Spies Out Of Lives | Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance
Read more >>Section 144 of LASPO may prove unenforceable in practice
Resistance to s.144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012 that outlaws squatting in residential buildings is growing. Ultimately, the law may prove unworkable and unenforceable. There have been a number of successful prosecutions under the new law, including the widely publicised conviction and imprisonment of 21 year old Alex Haigh who came to London looking for work and stayed in an unoccupied housing association flat. He pleaded guilty, but it has since become clear that where a not guilty plea is entered by defendant, it may be difficult if not impossible for the prosecution to prove the charge. After some notable acquittals, we have a better idea about the obstacles facing hapless prosecutors and some of the ways in which well-informed residential squatters might go about successfully defending themselves in court. Read on.
On the newswire: Brighton acquittals 1 | Brighton acquittals 2 | Moelfre acquittal | Squatting as protest in Southwark | Mike Weatherley is a coward case | Alex Haigh conviction | Henry: Bristol's first victim of squatting criminalisation
Other links: Squatters Legal Network | Advisory Service for Squatters | Rooftop Resistance | SQUASH
While the London 2012 Olympic open ceremony was underway on Friday 27th July, there was a massive police and military operation underway, which included the use of CS gas, to contain and eventually arrest 182 London critical mass cyclists. The cyclists were held in a police kettle for two hours, handcuffed in buses for three hours and held in a police cell from six hours to two days. Out of 182 cyclists, only 3 have been charged with any offence. However, all have bail conditions imposed on them until September 18th 2012 restricting their freedom to move, assemble, associate and live their lives. Some groups have issued advice that the bail conditions may breach Articles 10 & 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. They point out that "breaching bail conditions is not a criminal offence."
A petition for justice for the 182 has been launched with the following demands:
Articles: Olympic critical mass - report and pics | Arrests in Critical Mass during Olympics ceremony | Mass Arrest | Critcal mass | SchNEWS: Mass Arrest of the Week
Read more >>"Teams of 12 specially trained officers will form a Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) who, operating in uniform, will seek to build a "rapport" with "street activists" so that people "likely to provoke disorder can be identified early in an event"
The FIT first surfaced in the early 1990s, as part of the Public Order Intelligence Unit (CO11), a section of the Public Order Branch of the Metropolitan Police. They were initially targeted at football fans but were soon extended to cover a wide variety of political events, and their tactics have more recently been used in town centres as part of the "community policing" strategy. Sometimes they are deployed outside of the Metropolitan area, as at the G8 in Scotland for example, and most UK police forces now have officers trained in their methods.
IMC Links: FIT hunting NoBorders activists at rampART | Protest at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham. | Policing FIT for "serious and sustained" terror? | FIT watch at Disarm DSEi meeting. | Counter-FIT: some thoughts. | Resisting the FIT teams: a proposal for action. | FIT at Convergence Centre. | Fit Team vs the Grey Bloc. | Backwards Intelligence Team. | Fatuous Intimidation Team strike again! | FIT intimidation at rampART. | The FIT team at work. | Police Harassment Bayswater Rd. | Indymedia and British Intelligence Services. | Where are the London cops? | Mayday march and protest at Canary Wharf. | Mayday in London 2007. | Unprecedented police harassment operation against Wombles. | G8 Employment Ministers Protest In London. |
Other links: Defective Inspectors. | WANTED! | Europol. | The Empire Strikes Back. | Fairford Coaches judgement. | Anarchist Mayday Cricket. | Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. | Defend the Intifada. | What really happened in London. | The police paparazzi. | Public order training and tactics reviewed. | We are heartbroken and furious! | G8 Employment Ministers Protest In London. | Bank Robbed! | All about my 'BIG BROTHER' ...! | NETCU Watch. | FIT Watch. |
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Dover demo 2 April
11-04-2016 16:44
Bailey Gwynne The Untold Truth
16-03-2016 08:52
Carlo Neri exposed as an undercover police officer
18-01-2016 21:19
Crooked Judge Knighted
03-01-2016 02:13
CRAIG CANTWELL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
15-11-2015 16:22
Never Mind The Labour Party, Come To The Fucking Fuck Parade
16-09-2015 20:04
Establishment Judge heads UK abuse enquiry
14-07-2015 04:54
Defend Chelsea Manning & all whistleblowers!
25-06-2015 09:57
LATEST LIVE FEED OUTSIDE OF THE KETTLED LONDON PROTEST -
09-05-2015 18:50
pary-style protest in london today:
09-05-2015 17:44
Dear Tree: Letters to a Tree, George Green, Wanstead, NoM11, London
08-05-2015 11:20
The BBC, Ricky Dearman And Mind Control Agenda
26-04-2015 18:27
Yorkshire Ripper Cover-up / Never Ending Story
15-04-2015 15:27
Supporting The Whistleblowers @OccupyDemocracy Protest at the Ecuadorian Embassy
05-04-2015 13:48
Why we boycott the Sun Newspaper. Don't buy it, don't read it!
22-03-2015 19:37
Protest undercover police
13-03-2015 20:00
#TIMETOACT2015 Climate Change March 7/3
10-03-2015 07:09
Curo Housing to monitor tenants using remote-controlled worker drones
05-03-2015 07:40
Cameron's Child Sex Abuse Announcements Tuesday 3 March 2015
03-03-2015 14:04
Borough of Hatred, Tower Hatred as the news headlines say
11-02-2015 17:10
Open Letter to Dave Cameron about Tower Hamlets cc the Police, et al
07-02-2015 16:08
Julian Assange should be free to go where he wants
08-01-2015 16:09
Solidarity demonstration Brixton Prison New Year’s Eve 2014-15
03-01-2015 12:31
Does Theresa May's latest statement on domestic coercion she's fit for Purpose?
23-11-2014 16:40
Execution of "Occupy Democracy" and the Banality of Evil
29-10-2014 13:05
Yorkshire Ripper farce - new fake TV documentary
27-10-2014 13:30
Occupy Democracy – The Battle of the Tarpaulin
19-10-2014 15:58
Cops at the door - a Bristol anti-repression statement
16-10-2014 15:34
policeman thinks he doens't need concent of home occupant;
08-10-2014 04:09
SOCPA7 Events taking place this week
08-09-2014 19:54
Report and media analysis of march on NATO Newport Thursday 4th September 2014
08-09-2014 13:47
Theresa May has got to stop the Morton Hall lies over Rubel Ahmed
07-09-2014 22:07
NATO banquet at Cardiff Castle Thursday 4th September 2014
06-09-2014 14:05
NATO banquet at Cardiff Castle Thursday 4th September 2014
06-09-2014 11:15
20 photos of build up to NATO conference 2014
04-09-2014 10:13
Support the Socpa 7
21-08-2014 15:16
A Way Out of the Embassy for Julian Assange?
19-08-2014 19:23
High Court rules against Met's 'Neither Confirm Nor Deny' policy on spy cops
05-07-2014 21:28
Put your hands up and slowly step away from the wheelchair.
02-07-2014 20:53
Trying to bring Rebekah Brooks to book in 2003
27-06-2014 11:42
Tower Hamlets - could the BBC & Private Eye be leaving out 'UK National' angle?
16-04-2014 16:23
Met Police Laughing Stock as Anti-Fascists Released
16-04-2014 02:46
#137: Breaking the Frame & politics of technology, rant on Irish policing...and
09-04-2014 09:21
Demonstrators Storm Spanish Embassy in London in Solidarity with Sub-saharan Migrants
28-03-2014 18:35
“Fracked Future Carnival” at London Shale Gas Forum on Wednesday
22-03-2014 16:59
The Battle For Britain's Children And Their Justice
13-03-2014 08:59
Week of Action : Police Spies Out of Lives
10-03-2014 19:56
Worldwide March Against Corruption – London pics and report
03-03-2014 09:50
Water Cannon “Consultation” at London City Hall 17th Feb 2014
21-02-2014 12:37
Charges dropped against DSEi protestors
21-02-2014 10:09
Launch of Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS): 27 February 2014
18-02-2014 22:54
Dissident Island Radio - Episode 133 - Subversions of justice...
18-02-2014 00:25
MET plans to criminalise homelessness in 6 boroughs – Protest 26th February 10am
12-02-2014 23:38
Citizen journalists and video activists beware
31-01-2014 20:26
Campaigner followed from home by Counter Terror Command
28-01-2014 13:05
Stop G4S campaign convergence
24-01-2014 17:34
Dissident Island Radio - 13 December 2013 - Episode 131 - Safe city cycling
15-12-2013 14:42
For once, a huge police mobilisation didn’t beat students up! - #copsoffcampus
12-12-2013 22:25
#copsoffcampus protest attacked by police, with yet another mass arrest
06-12-2013 01:21
Report from Cannafest 2013 in Prague- Cannabis Trade fair
25-11-2013 17:26
Shame of Camden council vote to ban spontaneous music and to control busking
20-11-2013 21:54
November 5th “Million Mask March” in London
09-11-2013 19:01
President Martin Schulz Corruption, religious bias in selection for NGO funding
06-11-2013 11:49
Police complaint D.I. Walker attempts cover up CSA again.
05-11-2013 23:44
Repeal Schedule 7 – demo on Wednesday against “anti terror” detentions
04-11-2013 18:22
Kazoo protest over Camden’s draconian new busking bye-laws
14-10-2013 22:40
Harssament, illeghal eviction: what does the dpp of engalnd do?
08-10-2013 10:28
Builders force entry to damage 195 Mare Street – help needed
07-10-2013 14:46
UK Uncut and DPAC block road in Legal Aid Cuts protest
06-10-2013 15:51
Arrests at Greek Embassy solidarity protest yesterday
22-09-2013 14:12
refuse to collaborate!
14-09-2013 19:48
Protests at Arms Dealers’ Charity Dinner – report and pics
12-09-2013 23:54
Mass arrest – an abuse of power
10-09-2013 08:23
DSEI Arms Fair ‘Critical Mass’ and Blockade – report and pics
08-09-2013 23:12
SchNEWS: Tower Power
08-09-2013 20:28
The High Court bid by the EDL yesterday. Do the EDL respect democracy?
07-09-2013 07:04
EDL marcher with Aryan Terror Brigade / Combat 18
31-08-2013 00:22
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Stop The War protest in Whitehall turns to civil disobedience – report & pics
28-08-2013 23:41
Demonstration against Stop & Search and Justice for Jason O’Connor
14-08-2013 09:25
The Arrest of Claudio Fonnesu
10-08-2013 07:45
Ian Tomlinson was condemned by BBC News presenter Chris Eakin within minutes
06-08-2013 01:27
London protest for Trayvon Martin and CA Hunger Strikers
30-07-2013 19:30
Jason Bishop – new allegations of undercover policing of protest
26-07-2013 08:40
Police Spies Fashion Show
19-07-2013 08:14
Rushcroft Road Eviction Resistance
18-07-2013 07:27
Violent Arrest in ULU
16-07-2013 16:11
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Arrest at ULU
16-07-2013 13:43
OathKeeper Movement Ignites U.S. White House Fireworks Freedom Anyway
03-07-2013 21:52
America OathKeepers White House July 4th 2013 Rebellion Ignites
03-07-2013 20:56
Thin Blue Crimes: The History of the Police's Special Branch
02-07-2013 09:56
MET show interest in ACAB scavenger hunt
27-06-2013 16:48
Police powers finally kettled by High Court
19-06-2013 10:49
You are all Eichmanns. We are free.
17-06-2013 00:51
huge turkish solidarity protest in harringay as taksim square cleared
16-06-2013 00:23
'they owe us' - canary wharf - J14 - pics and words
15-06-2013 23:26
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G8 london carnival against capitalism - report n pics
12-06-2013 00:31
16 June: Anniversary Gathering at Ecuadorian Embassy for Julian Assange
10-06-2013 18:37
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How Many Police in the BNP?
06-06-2013 08:01
Alconbury & Brampton Surgeries Betray Patient Confidentiality To Protect Nazi In
29-05-2013 03:24
First ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival to take place in Hertfordshire
02-05-2013 00:06
EDL-Brighton Watch; The Argus Brighton local rag online version:
21-04-2013 11:31
The roll-out of tasers will make minority groups targets once again
15-04-2013 23:17
ukuncut london millionaire eviction - report and pics
14-04-2013 21:04
london 'bedroom tax' protest - report, pics and analysis
31-03-2013 15:48
Summer action camp against Shell
28-03-2013 13:17
Bomb Diffused Close to Next G8 Summit Hotel
25-03-2013 11:56
Admiral Duncan Bomb Victims Betrayed by MI5
14-03-2013 12:44
Police Liaison Officers – Intelligence gathering, self-policing and the dangers of talking to the police
14-03-2013 11:22
Critical Mass Trial Starts this coming Monday
22-02-2013 15:41
Court report on baton use at student demonstrations from Meadows retrial
16-02-2013 18:25
Information on "Rod Richardson", suspected undercover cop
06-02-2013 21:56
Hunger Strike in Parliament Square - day 25
20-01-2013 00:32
Vauxhall Squat Raids
05-01-2013 10:00
Barbara Tucker now on hunger strike: started Thursday 27th
31-12-2012 16:36
MI5 Betrayed Bomb Victims
27-12-2012 10:48
Critical Mass Defence: Urgent Callout
30-11-2012 19:44
Abuse of Process: Factors in Prosecution Denial of Assange London Interview.
30-11-2012 16:19
Alfie Meadows set for third trial after second aborted over delays
20-11-2012 17:03
Why we need to NOT kick-off on Oct 20
14-10-2012 14:45
Next london abc meeting
11-09-2012 18:47
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