London Repression Newswire Archive

14-08-2007 19:41

Zapatista Communities Attacked

Following the recent Encuentro at Caracol de Oventic Zapatista communities have faced further violence against them. Read more >>

14-08-2007 17:39

Oaxaca: Catalan Four Released Without Charge, No Reason For Incarceration

The Catalan Four arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened were released last night, Monday 13 August 2007. Read more >>

14-08-2007 06:22

A lesson for the Camp for Climate Action on FIT

I was stopped by the FIT at a G8 protest. It revealed a tactic of the FIT to get real-time inteligence on the protests, by using up front close up harrasment to take messages, written or verbal from their infiltrators. Read more >>

13-08-2007 20:58

A Letter From The Catalan Four: Still Detained In Oaxaca, threatened & beaten!

This letter was received from the four Catalan detainees still incarcerated in Mexico DF.
First is the rough English translation, then the original Spanish. At the bottom is a list of authorities you can write to in order to assist in their release.
A previous article asked for no one to demonstrate, but to write to demand release:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html Read more >>

13-08-2007 12:51

Another deportation 'charter flight' to DR Congo

A number of Congolese detainees have now received "removal directions" for Thursday 30th August, stipulating flight number PVT616 and 'Operation Castor'. Read more >>

13-08-2007 11:58

Are cops being allowed to stay on site?

Can someone at camp confirm whether the following article is true

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6943549.stm Read more >>

13-08-2007 06:33 | 1 addition

Climate Camp Sunday afternoon

The video and pics shows FIT team and Camp. Read more >>

12-08-2007 21:48

"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

The Catalan four arrested and imprisoned in Oaxaca have asked that no one makes protest for them, as they were not doing anything political.

First in Spanish, then the English translation. Read more >>

12-08-2007 21:00

Attack on IWW Solidarity March in Providence, RI-Support Needed!

On Saturday, August at 11, 12pm EST, the Providence I.W.W. organized a march on Jackie's Galaxy, which is a restaurant chain that is being supplied by HWH in New York City, a supplier who is notorious for its slave labor conditions of up to 110 hours per week without basic labor rights (minimum wage and overtime).
Roughly 30-40 wobblies and supporters (including Providence and Boston SDSers) were marching towards Jackie's Galaxy in North Providence when the police began following them en mass. They told the marches to move to the sidewalk, while this was initially ignored, the marchers listened to the police and began slowly moving to the sidewalk.
The police then surrounded the marchers in their squad cars and began getting out. With the police in full force, they began attacking the marchers, one fellow worker, Alex Svoboda, was pinned down by the police during her arrest and suffered a broken and dislocated leg and ruptured blood vessel in the knee. These injuries will require at least two surgeries and extensive rehab and even then may not completely repair the damage. Jason, another wob, was arrested in during the police' attack. Ashley, a supporter from Boston, was also severely maced during the attack, suffered chemical burns and required medical treatment. Read more >>

12-08-2007 20:09

Video of Climate Camp.

Very quick edit. Read more >>

12-08-2007 18:42 | 1 addition

FIT Watch at Climate Camp

FIT Watch will have an active presence at Climate Camp from Tuesday morning both at Staines Station and the camp itself.

We are also hoping to form a rota of people to stand outside camp trying to prevent FIT from taking photos, and adding to our own database of police photos.

Please help us and get involved – let’s show we will not accept their repressive policing.

We will have a workshop on Tuesday at 4:30pm at the camp to set up a rota. This workshop will also deal with the legalities of dealing with FIT Teams and will discuss how we can resist them in the future.

Read more >>

11-08-2007 16:03

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

It’s been a tough two weeks. From election coverage, police monitoring to murder for timber.

But now, as I should be on a bus out of this hellhole masquerading as a happy tourist resort, but a zone of paranoia for an undercover journalist, I am compelled to get all this down. For one thing, purely to document the situation should I not make it out of here. Read more >>

11-08-2007 08:42

NUJ takes tough line on review of police powers

The NUJ has argued strongly in its submission to the current review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) that there must be no further erosion of the position of journalists.

In its response to the consultation, the union has stressed the importance of the freedom of the press to report and to photograph in their crucial role as the eyes and ears of the public, as recognised in the European Convention on Human Rights. Read more >>

09-08-2007 16:40

East End campaigner and G Galloway party activist Carole Swords arrested !

East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway ‘RESPECT’ party activist and well known campaigner for the protection of public sector provisions in the East End and for a democratic Tower Hamlets Council Carole Swords was arrested in the East End of London outside polling station being used for today’s council by-election for a vacant seat in the Shadwell Ward.

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09-08-2007 09:19 | 2 additions

Heathrow's Injunction - What it means

Everything you needed to know but didn't have a clue what to ask about Heathrow's injunction against protesters. Designed for the lay person, it is essential reading for climate campers. Read more >>

08-08-2007 21:45

SOCPA - not a good day for freedom of speech

the monday edition of 'the independent' claimed 'a good day fro freedom of speech' on its front page. it was far from it. Read more >>

08-08-2007 20:30

International Action Day in solidarity with Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi

Mansour Osanloo, chair of the bus driver's union in Tehran, was abducted by the Iranian authorities and is now incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran. Mansour was snatched from a bus on July 10th and the order to arrest him is thought to have come from Revolutionary Court Judge Saeed Mortazavi. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has vowed to secure Mansour's release.

Mahmoud Salehi, a leader of an independent bakers union in Iran's Kurdistan province, was arrested in the city of Saquez along with 6 other union activists and is now in prison. His life is in grave danger because the authorities will not allow him to receive medical assistance. Mahood suffers from chronic kidney disease, and his health is failing rapidly. He has only one functioning kidney and requires dialysis to prevent the other from shutting down. Without treatment, he will die.

There is a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy in London on Thursday 9th August at 12:00-3:00 pm. Read more >>

07-08-2007 15:14 | 1 addition

Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video

Four internationals were arrested on the evening of the election, 5 August, by Federal Police for the crime of watching a video of last year's riots on a television screen set up in the in Zocalo. Read more >>

06-08-2007 09:35

The War Against Iraqi Women

In other words, “Women had to pick up the pieces” because the men were either mentally or physically damaged by the war, with the situation being exasperated by the “drastically worsened economic situation, as victims of the pauperisation of Iraqi society.”
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05-08-2007 11:40 | 1 addition

Shut Down Guantánamo! Weekly Demo, London

The London Guantánamo Campaign has been protesting outside the US Embassy in Mayfair every Friday evening at 6-7pm since February 2007. Come and join us! Read more >>