Some pics from outside selfridges (3rd august 2002).

Outside the store people handed out leaflets and a small band added noise. People marched up and down the pavements of oxford street and blocked the road for a couple of minutes here and there.

The last time this happened (around 3pm I think) police shoved everyone back onto the pavements just outside selfridgres itself. A couple of cops then continued shoving people while they stood on the pavement and a woman playing one of the drums was grabbed by police and pulled across the road. She was detained by being pushed against a tree and was handcuffed before being put into a police van and driven away. People were shouting she'd done nothing but the police were pretty aggressive, punching one photographer in the balls - several people tried to block the path of the police van when it began to drive away - unsuccessfuly as the van continued to accelerate, with people sprinting ahead of it down the street.

Following this incident things calmed down and people dispersed over the next half hour, some going to the police station the girl had been taken to, to show solidarity and support.

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Victory to the Intifada Group which took part in the Selfridges event also holds weekly pickets of Marks and Spencer on Oxford St as well as in other towns and cities.

SCOTLAND

Marks & Spencer pickets: Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street all from 1-3pm on Sundays: 18 August, 1 September, 8 September, 15 September, 22 September, 29 September.

For further details of events in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, contact Scotland FRFI on 07899 810 735 or e-mail  scotlandfrfi@yahoo.com or write to FRFI, Unit 111, 36 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1DL.

NORTH WEST

Marks & Spencer pickets: Manchester, Market Street: Every Saturday throughout August and September 12-2pm.

Liverpool, Church Street: Saturday 17 August 12-2pm.

Manchester FRFI Victory to the Intifada group meets every other Monday at 7pm, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street: 5 and 19 August, 2 and 16 September.

For further details of all these events, contact 0781 654 7066 or e-mail  victory_intifada@yahoo.com

MIDLANDS

Marks & Spencer pickets (all 12-2pm): Leicester Gallowtree Gate: Saturday 10 and 24 August, 7 and 21 September.

Birmingham, High Street: Wednesdays 7 August and 4 September.

Lincoln, High Street: Saturday 14 September.

For further details, contact 07803 939 713 or  midlandsrcg@hotmail.com

LONDON

Marks & Spencer pickets: Oxford Street (Marble Arch end) every Thursday evening 6-8pm and every other Saturday 12-2pm: 10 and 24 August, 7 and 21 September.

FRFI Victory to the Intifada group meetings: Wednesdays 14 and 28 August, and 11 and 25 September at Room G1, 20 Kingsway, WC2, starting 8pm. Nearest tube: Holborn.

For more information, phone 020 7837 1688 or e-mail  victoryintifada@hotmail.com

FRFI FORUMS

Manchester: Saturdays 10 August and 14 September, starting at 2:30pm in Friends Meeting House, Mount Street.

Midlands: Defend prisoners of the Bradford, Burnley and Olham uprisings - meeting with speakers from the defence campaign. For details of venue and date, contact 07803 939 713 or e-mail  midlandsrcg@hotmail.com

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! education series (Scotland). Part 2: The nature of capitalism, Thursday 29 August, 7pm. Part 3: Capitalism and crisis, Thursday 26 September, 7pm. Both at Glasgow City Halls, Albion Street entrance, Merchant City.

Reading packs available from FRFI, BCM Box 5909, London WC1N 3XX, price £2.50 each including p&p. Payable to Larkin Publications.

For anyone still in any doubt as to US interference in the middle east, blatant siding with Israel, and failure to express regret at the death of innocent Palestinians then read this piece of Whitehouse propoganda by one George Bush.

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html