UK Indymedia

Disconnecting the police state: Sabotage@Vodafone

29-11-2013 11:48

The night before last night we attacked the electronic communication net in Berlin (Germany). Our act of sabotage took place at a Vodafone radio tower and is meant as a symbol against total surveillance by governments, secret services and transnational corporations. Vodafone was chosen because it is eagerly engaged in cooperating with the british secret service GCHQ. GCHQ cooperates with the american secret service NSA. And NSA in turn cooperates with german secret service BND. Secret services collect patterns of normality and compare particular behaviours in order to find out if you could plan something deviant before you know it yourself. The collaborations of secret service industry and the industry's secret services secure the conditions of profit and power for both of them.

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Out of control police!

27-11-2013 12:09

miffy's avin it!

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Report from Cannafest 2013 in Prague- Cannabis Trade fair

25-11-2013 17:26

A video report from one of Europe's largest Cannabis trade fair

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Shame of Camden council vote to ban spontaneous music and to control busking

20-11-2013 21:54

On Monday 11th November, Camden Council voted to introduce a draconian new licensing scheme to tightly control busking and street performance in a controversial move that will likely change the face of the popular tourist destination by introducing a heavy-handed ban on spontaneous music from any public area. The policy is backed up with enforcement fines of up to £1000 and the power to seize and sell musicians’ instruments!

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Mark Kennedy sought advice from STRATFOR

18-11-2013 23:07

One of many STRATFOR emails published by Wikileaks shows former spycop Mark Kennedy making enquiries.

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Extraordinary up-date on 'Pensioner Attacked' story

14-11-2013 09:56

Mr. David Joe Neilson, the main witness in the Katrina Taylor murder of 1996, has received a response as to why a 1.8 meter high fence was erected outside his house, providing the cover for an assailant to approach him unseen and attack him within an inch of his life.

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November 5th “Million Mask March” in London

09-11-2013 19:01

As part of the more than 400 reported Anon events globally, billed as a “million mask march”, thousands of protestors amassed outside Parliament and then marched through London, while a few hundred joined the ‘Coalition of Resistance’ for their staged civil disobedience on Westminster Bridge.

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Another squatting case collapses on appeal at Crown Court - defendant acquitted

07-11-2013 09:26

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.

Ten days ago, squatters occupied a residential council property in Southwark in protest at the sell-off of council houses and the criminalisation of squatting under s.144. Last week, a Brighton squatter was acquitted on appeal as the prosecution failed to prove he was living at the property. His two co-defendants had previously been acquitted on the same charge.

Yesterday, another case collapsed when the Crown Prosecution Service presented no evidence at Mold Crown Court against Tristan Dixon who was appealing his conviction under s.144.

Tristan's supporters set up a protest about homelessness and squatting on the court forecourt, complete with cardboard, sleeping bag, visual statistics about empty homes, teddy bear and a friendly dog on a piece of string. Flyers were offered to everyone entering or leaving the court. The protest proved very timely as no fewer than ten repossession cases were being heard that day in the County Court in the same building, four of them brought by the local Flintshire County Council.

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President Martin Schulz Corruption, religious bias in selection for NGO funding

06-11-2013 11:49

The European Parliament is Biased and Bigoted. It favours the norms and that is still right wing religious bigots and criminals and now LGBT and Feminist bigot groups. Any attempt to get justice for the people who as children and including children of to day who were used as weapons in the war for inclusion and acceptance gets you nothing but excuses and a deaf ear. Shame on you all.

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Police complaint D.I. Walker attempts cover up CSA again.

05-11-2013 23:44

Police officers admit perjury by their colleagues and attempt to cover up the crimes and further destroy the chances for justice.

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Repeal Schedule 7 – demo on Wednesday against “anti terror” detentions

04-11-2013 18:22

Demonstration 10:00am, Wednesday 6th November outside the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London WC2A 2LL

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Section 144 appeal successful! Calling Mike Weatherley a coward case continues

01-11-2013 14:25

We won the appeal!!

Brighton: A squatter convicted under s144 had the conviction unanimously overturned for lack of ANY evidence. Our barrister was ninja and the judge laid down some stringent guidelines on what the police must do to establish proof that someone lives in a squat. Unfortunately he refused to define what constitutes residential…

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Yet another arrest at NSA Menwith Hill - call out for support next Tuesday

24-10-2013 20:49

More trouble from the Ministry of Defence police at NSA Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire...

Please consider coming to the Tuesday pm demonstration at Menwith Hill – held each week from 6-8 pm.

This Saturday, you can join the growing movement in the US calling on the government to get out of our private lives, at the biggest protest yet against NSA spying. But we could do this on Tuesday next week: STOP SPYING ON US – please bring a sign.

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Life After Prison Evening at Hydra, Bristol - Sun 27th Oct

21-10-2013 17:56

Bristol ABC have organised a launch evening for our new publication ‘On the Out’ a zine about life after prison. Articles include pieces around license conditions and social control, tagging, the emotional affects of repression, supporting someone leaving prison and more.

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On the Out – New Zine about life after prison

16-10-2013 12:59

A new publication has recently been produced by Bristol ABC. On the Out is a collection of writings by ex-prisoners and their supporters on life after prison.

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Kazoo protest over Camden’s draconian new busking bye-laws

14-10-2013 22:40

This afternoon, Mark Thomas joined a ‘Citizens’ Kazoo Orchestra’ of buskers in Camden, to highlight and protest proposed new bye-laws criminalising street music of all kinds. The presence of senior officers and intelligence suggested to me the possibility of future use against protestors.

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The strange case of Herts Hunt Saboteurs

08-10-2013 16:01

A look at the Herts Hunt Sab group and its campaign to stop support of the national Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

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Harssament, illeghal eviction: what does the dpp of engalnd do?

08-10-2013 10:28

The English DPP Kier Starmer QC is on his way out. He is often given unchallenged platform.

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Disabled Pensioner Murder witness Attacked

08-10-2013 09:03

Who cares?

The bottom line is that a disabled OAP is being denied his human rights and left to die. Guerrilla Democracy calls on Sussex Police, Katy Bourne, Age UK, Social Services, The Evening Argus and the world to take notice and HELP THIS MAN!

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Builders force entry to damage 195 Mare Street – help needed

07-10-2013 14:46

Today at approximately 10:05 a.m. as two of us were returning from scavenging fruit and vegetables a group of about a dozen builders forced entry into the social center. They then proceeded to affix a notice board to the wall declaring that the building was a construction site. We notified them that the property was legally occupied in accordance with the 1977 Criminal Law Act and that they had committed an offence by breaking into the building while it so occupied. Apparently unconcerned that their conduct was illegal, they proceeded to begin gutting the building while we were inside it. They also proceeded to disconnect the buildings water, by cutting the pipe connecting to the water main.