UK Newswire Archive
Nottingham Riots: Canning Circus Police Stn Damage
11-08-2011 15:55
Tuesday 9th August 2011
Nottinghamshire Police mounted an operation across Nottingham City over the last few night.
In a statement, the police say that they had over 800 officers on duty to police the situation. A large number of PSU's were deployed and were added to by units from Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Mounted officers were also deployed.
Damage was done to 5 Nottingham Police Stations. and a number of city centre shops were damaged and now boarded up. On monday night, the Victoria Centre entrance and glass in shops there were also smashed.
Nottinghamshire Police issued a detail statement of events at: http://tinyurl.com/3nd2rw9
They now report 105 arrests. 60 so far have been charged. They say: "The force is actively looking to make further arrests and will continue to gather evidence to do so."
Nottingham Riots: Canning Circus Police Stn Damage
Nottingham Riots: Boarding up + Police Standby
Riots spread to Nottingham [Nottingham Indymedia Feature]
Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the 'riots' [UK Mayday Feature]
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Nottingham Riots: Tuesday pix 2
11-08-2011 15:55
Tuesday 9th August 2011
Nottinghamshire Police mounted an operation across Nottingham City over the last few night.
In a statement, the police say that they had over 800 officers on duty to police the situation. A large number of PSU's were deployed and were added to by units from Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Mounted officers were also deployed.
Damage was done to 5 Nottingham Police Stations. and a number of city centre shops were damaged and now boarded up. On monday night, the Victoria Centre entrance and glass in shops there were also smashed.
Nottinghamshire Police issued a detail statement of events at: http://tinyurl.com/3nd2rw9
They now report 105 arrests. 60 so far have been charged. They say: "The force is actively looking to make further arrests and will continue to gather evidence to do so."
Nottingham Riots: Canning Circus Police Stn Damage
Nottingham Riots: Boarding up + Police Standby
Riots spread to Nottingham [Nottingham Indymedia Feature]
Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the 'riots' [UK Mayday Feature]
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
____________________________________________
"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
___________________________________________
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Nottingham Riots: Tuesday pix 1
11-08-2011 15:55
Tuesday 9th August 2011
Nottinghamshire Police mounted an operation across Nottingham City over the last few night.
In a statement, the police say that they had over 800 officers on duty to police the situation. A large number of PSU's were deployed and were added to by units from Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Mounted officers were also deployed.
Damage was done to 5 Nottingham Police Stations. and a number of city centre shops were damaged and now boarded up. On monday night, the Victoria Centre entrance and glass in shops there were also smashed.
Nottinghamshire Police issued a detail statement of events at: http://tinyurl.com/3nd2rw9
They now report 105 arrests. 60 so far have been charged. They say: "The force is actively looking to make further arrests and will continue to gather evidence to do so."
Nottingham Riots: Canning Circus Police Stn Damage
Nottingham Riots: Boarding up + Police Standby
Riots spread to Nottingham [Nottingham Indymedia Feature]
Summer of Unrest: an indymedia overview of the 'riots' [UK Mayday Feature]
____________________________________________
ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
____________________________________________
"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
___________________________________________
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Clapahm Junction - the aftermath
11-08-2011 15:55
After the riot and the cleanup, a lot of shops are boarded up and the securing was still going on yesterday, while the first windows were being rapaired as well. Smashed up shops included charity shops, and small shops, besides the big chains, phone and betting shops.
Some shops were boarded up, but already open for business again, which seems to indicate that while they had glass damage, the interior wasn't damaged too badly and they had enough stock left to continue trading.
BBC Radio transmission mast destroyed by fire in Bristol
11-08-2011 15:42
As social war erupts in the UK, we torched a BBC Radio transmission mast in the early hours of August 11th 2011. The mast was located in the Bedminster Down area of Bristol and is managed by Arquiva.Video of PEDAL: London to the West Bank
11-08-2011 15:00
PEDAL finish work in the West Bank with Jordan Valley solidarity campaign and launch short video of their journeyMore tax breaks for the rich
11-08-2011 14:18
Another pleasant reminder today that we're all in this together. Father Christmas has surely come early for the super-rich, as shops hit by rioting, including those owned by the corporations that already 'manage' their tax bill down to virtually nothing and who are more than capable of taking this one on the chin, will receive substantial tax breaks.Solidarity with Afghanistan War Refusenik Michael Lyons - Colchester Prison
11-08-2011 14:00
YOUTUBE Speaking Outside Colchester Military Prison - Ciaron O'Reilly from Giuseppe Conlon House/ Catholic Worker, Naomi from "UK Friends of Bradley Manning", Katrina recites a poem, Ben Griffin Afghanistan/Iraq combt veteran "Veterans for Peace", Jill Harris Michael Lyon's mother, Fr. Martin Newell Giuseppe Conlon House , Giorgio Riva Payday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxazNPBw8oo
London Riots: Life in the Rolling War Zone
11-08-2011 13:55
London is on edge, twitchy; a tense atmosphere pervades the city, in the office, on the train, on the streets. The crowds have thinned, people scuttle to and from work, before the darkness descends; shopkeepers stand outside and keep an eye on the situation on the street, while nervous rumours spread, conversation can't keep off the topic, and for the moment at least, London has lost its haughty smugness. Instead, there hangs a heavy atmosphere, perhaps even reflective, as the consequences of the great engine of power's greed and corruption comes back to haunt it. But, at least we haven't heard about the Olympics for a while.
The Met's murder of Mark Duggan last week, and the subsequent attack on a peaceful demonstrator at the vigil, has caused a wildfire – hotter and more vicious than could ever be predicted - that has spread across the capital and beyond; the untouchable Met – responsible for the murders of Ian Tomlinson, Smiley Culture and so many others – are at last getting some comeuppance, having been protected so far by the not-so-independent IPCC. But there is little pleasure in this for most, because people are scared: will I get home tonight, will I be robbed or attacked, why can't all this be over? But maybe we citizens of London are at last coming face to face with what it must be like to live on a bad estate, or even a war zone, faced with the reality that the City forces on to others, in other places, far from view.
The media has up built up a hysterical frenzy, the politicians are back from hols (hope it was lovely), the police are overstretched, the spin doctors coining terms like “criminality”, and now the right-wing Breiviks of the EDL, NF and BNP are declaring themselves guardian protectors of the community. Last night these right-wing fascists threatened to march from Eltham to Lewisham, in Southeast London to spark a full-scale race war (bringing back memories of the 1970's New Cross Fire and the Battle of Lewisham), while the BBC declared that it wasn't covering the event because it “didn't want to encourage rioters” (rather hypocritical since its covering the riots in Eltham tonight). Londoners are stuck between a rock and a hard place – do you get into bed with the distasteful authoritarians and disciplinarians, or face the wrath of the unsettled hornets' nest of youth? We shouldn't have to be faced with this simple choice, so calculated and engineered, the old lesser-of-two-evils trick (eg Labour vs Conservative) that maintains the “elected oligarchy”.
But already people are finding ways to come together to combat threats to small businesses and local streets by forming self-defence units, which the Met has called “vigilantes”, no doubt afraid that their monopoly on community safety will be challenged. These have generally been formed where there already exists a traditional community, whether ethnic or organic (ie built up over time), while the rest of the city locks themselves behind doors trapped by their isolated individualism. Other outcomes have been street cleaning groups and donation centres, where those who have lost their homes in the riots can pick up donated goods; Londoners have sought to direct their fear into positive actions, into mutual aid (a bedrock of anarchism), instead of internalising it into the racial hatred, bigotry and hysteria of the Daily Mail reader.
Regarding the rioters and looters, there seems a cross-section of characteristics, from the polite and helpful (seen in a number on Indy articles, such as those warning others to watch out for their possessions) to the more shark-like (or the fashionable word at the moment, “feral”), who would attack or steal anything from anyone. While the media and bigots would have us believe they are all former, it cannot be doubted that there is a range; nevertheless, if people are to have solidarity with the rioters, then the attacks on small businesses, public transport, homes, cyclists and people must end. There need to be clear ground-rules that these must never be targets, and some sort of code within the rioters themselves that such acts will be prevented or punished. Secondly, attacks on our local areas, which are generally shit-holes anyway, need to stop; sure, they are easy targets but the real wealth of the corrupt oligarchs of West London, the City boys in the Docklands, and all the white-collar criminals in London have remained untouched. If you want people to stand behind you, to cheer you on, and get real loot into the bargain, then these are targets more worthy of the rioters' brilliantly effective tactics.
If these actions are to move beyond the spectacular and become a movement for social justice, for more than just harsher repression after the fires have died away, then rioters need to work more intelligently. By reassuring Londoners that they are not, and will not, be victims of attack, is a start; you will need everyone's solidarity afterwards. By choosing your targets cleverly – like the large supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsburys) who undercut small farmers and local businesses, banks and money shops who steal from us all daily, large retailers who use sweat-shop labour, and so on – the riots become “political” (ie with purpose), which commentators can't dismiss as “mindless” (ie in anger).
Let us hope this becomes something more, something liberatory and not just a flash in the pan, followed by severe repression. Good luck, stay safe and all power to the streets.
Vandalism to back of Victoria Centre
11-08-2011 13:55
Initial damage to the back of the Victoria Centre and sports shop.
In common with Nottingham Post pictures and footage on BBC i fancied taking this picture .... however, this hassled photographer given a hard time by these guys. So, I did them as well
Riot Special: The Circled A Radio show with ALARM
11-08-2011 08:17
Over 1,000 Arrested in U.K. as Anger over Inequality, Racism Boils Over
11-08-2011 07:33
Unrest continues to spread across England after protests erupted Saturday in London when police shot to death Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man. Mobs firebombed police stations and set shops on fire in London, Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. After waiting for several days, Prime Minister David Cameron has cut short his vacation and recalled Parliament from summer recess. Scotland Yard has ordered its officers to deploy every available force to stop the unrest, including water cannons and possibly the use of plastic bullets. London has been flooded with 16,000 officers, the largest police presence in the city’s history. We go to London to speak with journalist Darcus Howe, a longtime critic of police brutality in black and West Indian communities across the U.K., and author and blogger Richard Seymour of the popular British site "Lenin’s Tomb." "There is a mass insurrection. And I’m not talking about rioting; I’m talking about an insurrection that comes from the depths of society, from the consciousness, collectively, of the young blacks and whites, but overwhelmingly black, as a result of the consistent stopping and searching young blacks without cause," says Howe of the uprising. Seymour notes that anti-terror legislation has led to an unprecedented number of stops, predominantly of youth of color, but protests against the stops have been largely ignored by the British media. "A political establishment, a media, and a state system that gives people…the impression that they won’t be listened to, unless they force themselves onto your attention, is going to lead to riots," says Seymour.An open letter to David Cameron's parents
11-08-2011 07:27
Dear Mr & Mrs Cameron,Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?
Solidarity from greece to england 's revolution fighters
11-08-2011 05:54
Solidarity demonstrationRestrictions in legal aid creates criminals
11-08-2011 05:11
legal aid is fundamental to justicelooting in london
11-08-2011 00:55
this side or the other
do you find more disgusting to steal a mobile or to buy it with half your wage?
to rob a betting agency or to bet your savings in it?
to see a police car burning or to see it patrolling?
if you chose the first ones, you're politicians
otherwise, you're human beings
