UK Newswire Archive
Reminder - Leicester Rank and File Meeting
08-01-2012 17:57
This is the planning meeting for a later Leicestershire-wide conference. Please try and get to this or forward the details to rank and filers in the area.Public squatting in the U$A on the up
08-01-2012 15:30
Although it is hard to hear what is really happening on the ground in U$A, it appears that recently there has been an increase in squatting in cities across the United States. Obviously, squatting is often a covert activity, but it seems that a few factors have dovetailed to facilitate the emergence of a new, public squatting movement. This short article will provide a background to these events and a report of the actions which we have heard about. Hopefully these are merely the tip of the iceberg....BNP membership list - Leak 2011
08-01-2012 15:08
http://nazi-leaks.net/ published a very recent BNP membership list which has been retrieved in a large-scale hacker attack on fascist webpages at the end of 2011. They could be of interest for U.K. antifa activists. Never again!
Omar Ibrahim March 26th Anti-Cuts Prisoner Blog – 2nd January 2012
08-01-2012 14:55
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The links between Occupy, El Barrio and the EZLN
08-01-2012 13:25
Los de Abajo (the Underdogs)The links between Occupy, El Barrio and the EZLN
Gloria Muñoz Ramírez
Originally published in Spanish in La Jornada
Defend JIB National Unite Rank and File Meeting, Birmingham
08-01-2012 11:16
UK Indymedia and Twitter
08-01-2012 00:16
Since Indymedia started over a decade ago, the web has undergone major changes, with many more people and campaigns using their own blogs and sites. Corporate sites such as facebook and twitter have also become players in the exchange of information. Recent convictions of Facebook users have shown that using corporate sites can mean an increased risk for users, and whilst twitter has been more assertive about challenging police requests for user information, it remains another database which the state can potentially mine for information, for example the recent court request to Twitter for Occupy users IP addresses in the US. At Indymedia UK we still strive to find ways of getting out information about actions and campaigns to as wide an audience as possible, whilst bearing in mind the need to maintain anonymity and to reduce the risks to our users. We are currently reviewing our twitter strategy with a view to expanding the user base and getting information out to as wide an audience as posssible.
No Justice for Kingsnorth Fitwatchers
07-01-2012 18:59
Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive force against three fitwatchers who were trying to identify officers who weren’t displaying their numbers.
However, until recently, there hasn’t been much to report. The IPCC and West Yorkshire Police (WYP) waddled their way through their initial investigation and subsequent appeals, and despite overwhelming evidence, found most of the behaviour and arrests acceptable behaviour aside from a couple of minor caveats such as the cops not identifying themselves being “regrettable” rather than intentional. PC Fisher, the cop who made headline news through using a stranglehold and excessively pressure pointing one Fitwatcher, was the only officer who complaints were upheld against. However, even the findings against him exonerate him of deliberately intending harm or injury through his use of force.
How Police branded @OccupyLSX and @UKuncut as “Terrorists”
07-01-2012 18:07
Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
#OccupyOil
07-01-2012 15:06
Leeds: Rossport Talk & Film - Tuesday 10th January
07-01-2012 14:41
Armed Police Operations in Nottingham arrest man
07-01-2012 02:55
Friday 6th January 2012
Passing the Victoria Shopping Centre at about 3.20pm this afternoon, 2 police cars suddenly arrived next to me on the pavement area at some speed. They contained armed officers.
People asking each other what was goin on. A spoke to a man who said he had just come from the back of the Victoria Centre and there were 4 more police cars there. I was about to go and have a look there, when the police helicopter arrived and seem to spend more time surveying the side where I was. Dog units were also arriving. Then, suddenly, a number of officers armed with the regulation Heckler and Koch's ran past me at speed. Outside the Hilton Hotel in Milson Street they catch up with a man and bark a series of instructions at him. A number of officers had guns leveled at him, one aiming a taser. I could clearly see a red dot from the weapons, 'painted' on his chest. Police then handcuffed him and searched his clothes. Reveiwing the pictures later, all I could see that the police discovered was a walking stick and a folded pen knife.
I guess the police had been informed of arms being involved, but I gather the individual was suspected of robbery in John Lewis's store. After a while, he was lead away in handcuffs.
Police say that the man was arrested for attempted robbery, but later stated that no firearms were used and no one was injured.
It is a fact that police are routinely unarmed in Britain. But it is my experience that I am seeing [and hearing about] an increased frequency of armed operations in Nottingham. Just an hour earlier, in one of the main shopping streets there, I noticed a red post office security van passing. Immediatly behind, a 4xwheel specialist police vehicle, again with H&K guns cleary visible as they passed. Over the Christmas period, I had seen other security vans being similarly protected, I guess because of the increased takings from stores. The media seems to tell me this is true nationally. I wonder at what point the temporary deployment of armed officers on the streets become a routine deployment? Will this happen by an imperceptable stealth, gradually until we reach a 'tipping point' or, will it be decided through a democratic process of some sort? ...... just asking.
some earlier example of Nottinghamshire Police armed operations:
'Armed turnout' of Nottinghamshire Police. [another false alarm]
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/320811.html
Photographer arrested by armed officers [finally, the pictures]
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395750.html
Another Armed Turnout by Nottinghamshire Police
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1743
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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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The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings
06-01-2012 23:30
Details of January screenings of The Crisis of Civilization: a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
We will be adding yet more screenings as they are confirmed, so keep an eye out for further details!
HacktionLab - Hacktivist gathering Bradford winter 2012
06-01-2012 20:10
Workers’ struggles in the private sector in Greece
06-01-2012 17:23
Summary of recent and ongoing action...
