London SOCPA Newswire Archive

12-04-2006 23:17

Freedom Found Guilty - interview with Milan Rai

Watch this video and read riki's report (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2006/04/338174.html) on Milan Rai's Guilty Verdict heard today in London Read more >>

12-04-2006 17:10

milan rai found guilty as organiser of unauthorised demonstration today

'justice not vengeance' founder activist milan rai appeared at bow street this morning to hear the verdict and sentencing in his trial as organiser of an unauthorised demonstration in the designated zone around parliament. his was the first prosecution of an organiser, and he faced up to three months imprisonment (rising to 51 weeks later in the year!) Read more >>

03-04-2006 17:21

Brian Haw high court case

Brian Haw was at the High Court again today as the Home Office appealed the decision that he is exempt from the law banning unauthroised protest around Parliament. Read more >>

03-04-2006 14:59

Naming The Dead - Pictures

Naming the Dead, Mass Civil Disobedience Against the Occupation of Iraq took place in Parliament Square and Whitehall, London on 2 April, 2006. Photographs of the event. Read more >>

01-04-2006 21:21

Reclaim Fool's Day video.

Reclaim Fool's Day parade. London Eye to Parliament Square, ceremony and fairies in Picadilly Circus. Read more >>

01-04-2006 21:06

Fools' Paradise Parade - London

A protest against the SOCPA [Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005] Exclusion Zone around the Houses of Parliament in London on April 1, 2006. Read more >>

30-03-2006 16:58

Reclaim Fool's Day

April 1st will face a massive uprising of Fools, Clowns, and Fairies against everything that is shit and for anything that is YIPPIE. Read more >>

17-03-2006 19:25 | 1 addition

Freedom On Trial

on Thursday, Milan from Justice Not Vengeance was on trial in Bow Street Magistrates Court for organising the two person remembrance ceremony at which Maya Evans was arrested in October 2005 Read more >>

17-03-2006 00:49

Milan Rai court case - first charge as organiser of illegal demo in socpa zone

today, milan rai appeared at bow street magistrates court to argue his case against being found guilty as an 'organiser' of an unauthorised demonstration in the designated zone 1km around parliament. the court adjourned until 12th april for the magistrate, judge nicholas evans, to consider the human rights legal arguments put forward by barrister maya sikand, who was working for 'liberty' solicitors on this case. Read more >>

25-01-2006 20:13

Serious Organised Crime? Ha Ha Ha!

Four Rebel Clowns took to Parliament Square on Monday, 23rd of
January 2006 to address the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
section 132.
Read more >>

24-01-2006 00:30

Video - when is a demonstration not a demonstration?

This video was one of two short films made during a video activism gathering held at the rampART social centre. Read more >>

23-01-2006 10:43

Defiant demonstrators.

Demonstrations in Parliament Square. Read more >>

22-01-2006 17:54 | 1 addition

Serious Crime Act a farce as police refuse to arrest demonstrators

Police are in a state of absolute confusion over when and whether to implement SOCPA Section 132. Sometimes they arrest you, sometimes they don't....
Read more >>

19-01-2006 00:42

socpa court case adjourned today at bow street

the trial at bow street magistrates court today of mark barrett was adjourned to the end of march amidst some confusion. he was in court for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration outside parliament on 28th august last year. Read more >>

09-01-2006 21:51

a socpa mystery - help with identification needed

today, bow street magistrates court started hearing evidence against four of the five people arrested in parliament square on the day the new socpa legislation came into force on the 1st august last year. but it is now clear that seven people were arrested that day, but two mysteriously avoided charges. WHY?
Read more >>

29-10-2005 23:09

Critical Mass 28 Oct video

Short film of the Critical Mass cycle ride, 28 October, 2005. Read more >>

29-10-2005 10:12

critical mass (12 small pics and report)

report on last night's historic critical mass cycle ride in central london Read more >>

29-10-2005 08:48

VIDEO OF LONDON CRITICAL MASS.

The video starts beside the IMAX cinema and ends outside Downing Street. Read more >>

28-10-2005 23:36

Critical Mass pics 2

the evening was warm and the costumes were cool
and the bikes were ridden Read more >>

28-10-2005 23:33

Party at Parliament as Critical Mass has record turnout.

More than a thousand cyclists rode into Parliament Square tonight, sang, danced and stayed free in the first mass challenge to the SOCAT laws curbing the right to free protest. Read more >>