UK Indymedia

200th 'don't attack iran' petition delivered at downing street

02-07-2008 23:31

maria from 'peacestrike' and parliament square has been quietly delivering petitions to the door of number ten for a number of months now. today, she delivered her 200th petition

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Video of AR Protesters Illegal Arrest at Arromight Hereford. (funny)

30-06-2008 20:54

After telling one activists to stop using the megaphone as it was annoying the workers inside and the activist carrying on, he was arrested for section 5, but with four activists and only two police officers the games began. All charges have been dropped! What a surprise!

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sequani trial talk

30-06-2008 18:42

the accused in the biggest and scariest poitical trial in recent memory talk about their experiences and what they have learned, 7pm at the LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES

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Parliament Square Tent City

22-06-2008 11:27

Campaigners and activists gather in Parliament Square to hold a 'Tent City' in protest at the British Governments continued programme of deportation of people of Iraqi nationality.

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film and pics of today's tent city demo in parliament square

22-06-2008 00:39

voicesuk.org organised a 24-hour unauthorised 'tent city' in parliament square which started soon after midday on midsummer's day, the 21st june. they are highlighting the increasing number of iraqi and kurdish refugees being deported from the uk to a war zone which we helped create

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Tent City Parliament Square.

21-06-2008 15:37

Unauthorised* 24-hour "Tent City" in Parliament Square to Protest Against Ongoing Deportations to Iraq. There are some 15 tents and a Gazebo now pitched on the grass.

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Fight Speciesism! #2 - Out Now

18-06-2008 01:14

The second issue has expanded from 6 to 10 pages because of the quantity of news and analysis that has been published since the first edition.

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Direct Action: Chile, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Spain & UK

17-06-2008 16:28

ANIMALS RESCUED IN LAB RAID (Chile)
HUNTING TOWER DESTROYED (Germany)
UNILEVER, DHL PAINTED IN SUPPORT OF PRISONERS (Mexico)
TRUCK VANDALIZED AT FISH COMPANY (Sweden)
FUR SHOP LOCKS GLUED IN SUPPORT OF JEFF LUERS (Spain)
FELIX SAYS "FREE SEAN KIRTLEY" (UK)
BULLFIGHTING ARENA TARGETED (Spain)
HUNTING TOWER OUT OF SERVICE (Germany)
TOWN CLEANED OF CIRCUS POSTERS (Sweden)
SLOGANS PAINTED AT HOME OF BIRD BREEDER (Mexico)

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Operation Overkill as 11 Police Forces Snoop on Animal Rights Gathering

17-06-2008 13:53

No doubt supremely jealous of animal rights folk meeting together, socialising , drinking lots of tea, helping on the sanctuary and of course workshops the police decided to get their own national gathering together. Being too wimpy to actually camp local hotels (so our sources tell us) burst at the seams with police at the bar, at the gym and comparing camera lens sizes with one another at every opportunity.

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Arrests and police injuries at Bush demo

16-06-2008 16:30

Update from the 25 arrested, eleven people remain in custody and 11 others were released without charge.

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Police brutality and snatch squad at Bush demo

16-06-2008 15:48

For those of you who think we're moving towards a police state, this video will show you that we are already living one.

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Policing of Bush visit (STWC).

16-06-2008 13:48

Yesterday's anti-war protest at Parliament Square and the testing of the MPS's security operation to protect the US president.

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film of bush demo whitehall yesterday

16-06-2008 09:17

8 minute film of bush protests in parliament square yesterday. more than a thousand police blockaded whitehall and brutally foiled any attempt to voice peaceful protest outside downing street while the disgraced war-criminals had their cosy dinner before being consigned to the dustbin of history

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Solidarity actions for Sean Kirtley

14-06-2008 21:22

Sean along with many others had his door smashed in and his house raided by police back in 2006 as part of “Operation Tornado” which was designed to start a case and try and lock up peaceful animal rights campaigners using new SOCPA legislation which was created to protect the vivisection industry from effective campaigners such as Sean and the Sequani defendants.

On May 30th 2008 Sean was found guilty of "conspiracy to interfere with contractual relationships so as to harm an animal research organisation" and was sentenced to four and a half years for his role in running the SSAT (Stop Sequani Animal Testing) website.

Since his imprisonment there have been solidarity actions from Yorkshire, the south west and as far away as Mexico.

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Western Animal Rights Network [WARN] Relaunch!

14-06-2008 12:46

After the conviction and imprisonment of Sean Kirtley for publishing information online that was already available in the public domain the Western Animal Rights Network have re-launched a new anonymous, non hierarchical version of the website and support network.

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McDonalds redecorated for Sean Kirtley & UCLA van torched

13-06-2008 17:00

anonymous communiques:

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Bridge painted 'Free Sean Kirtley'

12-06-2008 16:50

Solidarity is a weapon!

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Serious Implications for Freedom of Speech as Activist Jailed for 4.5 years

11-06-2008 23:41

WARN Press Release: Serious Implications for Freedom of the Net and Civil Rights as Activist Jailed for 4 ½ Years

For immediate release: June 11th 2008

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Direct Action; UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Mexico & Ireland

09-06-2008 17:11

5th-9th June

CHICKEN LIBERATION DEDICATED TO PRISONER SEAN KIRTLEY (UK)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE RAID (France)
HUNTING TOWER TORCHED (Italy)
HUNDREDS FREED (Sweden)
ACTION DEDICATED TO IMPRISONED AUSTRIAN ACTIVISTS (Mexico)
CIRCUS POSTERS DESTROYED (Ireland)
11 CHICKS LIBERATED (Italy)
MORE STOCKHOLM MADNESS (Sweden)
"FREE SEAN KIRTLEY"(UK)

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NETCU and Judge Ross crucify civil liberties.

05-06-2008 15:46

Last week Sean Kirtley was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison followed by 5 years of draconian limits on his everyday life all in all a 10 year sentence. Those of us who have protested alongside him testify that he was never abusive or threatening, he did not cause criminal damage, he did not harm anyone or threaten to. He did what many activists of every denomination do, he handed out leaflets, put posts on an inoffensive website, held a banner (eg stop Sequani animal testing) and vocally expressed his disgust at experiments on animals without the use of expletives or threats.