Smash EDO's Mayday! Mayday! Street Party on 4th May looks set to be the next stop on the summer of rage. The mobilisation has been linked firmly to a new wave of resistance against global capital. A map has been published showing the location of EDO's key investors and business partners in Brighton. The list includes highstreet banks, BP, American Express and Mcdonalds. The message is clear, EDO cannot operate in a vacuum; it is propped up by the state and a network of global corporations.
Despite all this the police seem to be firmly on the back foot after the media backlash, triggered, by the killing of Ian Tomlinson, against police violence and repression at the G20. Sussex Police have been told to 'behave' by Chief Constable Richards who fears that “People’s confidence in policing has been shaken by things they have seen on their TVs and read in their newspapers". All this must be rather difficult for Sussex police as they have been gearing up for some serious repression of Smash EDO for quite sometime. Dick Barton, a Sussex Police officer seconded to the Home Office who was responsible for training Iraqi police recruits in Basra and Baghdad, has been given the dubious honour of coordinating investigations of 'crimes against EDO'. Past police tactics have included following 'organisers', supporting a dodgy injunction, engaging in ridiculous conspiracy cases, attempting to cultivate informers and attacking mass demonstrations
...and debate with the thick blue line.
Sussex police, desperate for information, have written to people they perceive to be organisers, saying that the policing of the demonstrations will not be repressive if organisers negotiate with the police. Smash EDO responded, in an open letter, giving the example of the Camp for Climate Action who engaged in dialogue (see here) with the Met before their G20 protest but were still subjected to brutal attacks. The police have told the Argus that they plan to target suspected 'ringleaders'. The Gold commander for Mayday! policing has taken to posting appeals for information on Indymedia.
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who wrote this
02.05.2009 23:40
eh... no.... how did you come up with that piece of fantasy?
shit
Sussex police behave?
03.05.2009 00:21
John Smith
the climate camp did meet the police
03.05.2009 01:23
lessons should be learned, the police aren't our friends.
solidarity with the decomissioners.
good luck on Monday
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Climate Camp comments
03.05.2009 08:03
smashy
Shining the shoe that kicks your arse.
03.05.2009 13:25
1. To gather intelligence
2. To use that intelligence against the demo
Why hand the means to shut down the demo to them on a plate!?
Of course there is always scope for providing misinformation, but doing this publicly makes you look even more underhand than they are, to the casual observer... doing it indirectly is another matter.
Shame however, Sussex Police couldn't expend as much resource investigating war crimes, and it then people would be having to sneak around doing their jobs for them.
I wonder how many will be asking themselves on Monday if they really signed up to protect the interests of war criminals.
Black Kettle
Thanks for the consideration...
03.05.2009 20:33
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climate camp and the cops
04.05.2009 01:40
acab
Climate Camp and the state
04.05.2009 07:11
AC(and politicians)AB!
pointless
04.05.2009 22:55
rex
Innocent Targets
05.05.2009 14:51
Police horses have died in riot situations in this country - please think about these innocent victims when you are lobbing stuff.
Anyone agree?
Louis
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05.05.2009 16:36
JP
thats right
05.05.2009 19:54
Ratamahatta
Horses
06.05.2009 13:38
I get the fact it's all to easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment. However, it's not the horse's fault and it's not what we are about. Justifying silly attacks on innocents is what states do!
I hope we come to a consensus that attacks on horses will not be tolerated! Let's be creative in our actions in out smarting the cops (as the majority were) and not just follow the idiotic media stereotypes of nasty thugs attacking animals like a tiny minority did (probably not even activists just people from town).
We should remove (after a warning) those that stupidly attack animals on demos.
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