London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

23-09-2005 09:25

Techies top cops' terror profile

Allo allo allo - is that an RS-232 cable, sah?

If you think that the police's profiling of terror suspects is something that only happens to other people - think again. Today's panicky Plod doesn't seem to be very discriminating at all. And you could be next.

Techie David Mery has published an account of being arrested, and having his computers confiscated, because he happened to be wearing a rucksack on the London Underground the day after the 27/7 bombings. Or as phone blogger Russell Beattie put it -
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22-09-2005 08:34

Stop the War Demo - full details - be there in London on Saturday 24th Sept.

Stop the War Demo - full details - be there in London on Saturday 24th Sept. It will be huge - be part of history - demand the troops are withdrawn now!. Read more >>

21-09-2005 16:09

Assembly Member's petition to "Condemn Terrorism"

Richard Barnes, a Member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and London Assembly Member for Ealing and Hillingdon has set up an online petition condemning "terrorism and extremism", in addition to calling on ISPs to "block or remove websites that promote or encourage terrorist acts".
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20-09-2005 16:29

Dance for Peace And Liberty!

After the Stop The War national demo "March For Peace And Liberty", come to rampART Creative Centre and Social Space, 15-17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (Whitechapel tube) and party from 9PM till 3AM with DJs, live music & Taybeh Palestinian beer Read more >>

20-09-2005 16:14

Israeli anarchist to speak on the wall and the Gaza pullout

29th September 2005 8pm

At: The Red Rose, 129 Seven Sisters Rd Read more >>

20-09-2005 10:20

Review of the DSEi arms fair last week with pics.

This is a 2,200 word article about the DSEi arms fair in London's Docklands last week. 9 captioned photos are atatched. Read more >>

19-09-2005 11:16

Great Reporter on DSEi demo and arrests

Great Reporter article on the week at DSEi and arrests. Read more >>

18-09-2005 22:26

Video of DSEi demo - The Dorchester

Video of the Thursday evening demonstrations. Read more >>

18-09-2005 20:06

No arms dealers in our peace messenger City - Hove Town Hall Demo this Wednesday

Demo at Hove Town Hall against Brighton Arms Dealers 4-6pm this Wednesday Read more >>

18-09-2005 18:27

Anarchists ‘passed off’ Advertiser, claims editor

10,000 copies of an 8 page spoof of a local paper, 'East London Adversaries', covering the DSEi protests were delivered to about 90% of the Canning Town area.

A downloadable pdf of the newspaper is available here:

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/323198.html

The East London Advertiser has responded to the paper claiming it's own design has been hijacked by anarchists and it's journalistic intergrity has been compromised. Read more >>

18-09-2005 15:42

Even more Dsei pics

More pictures from Tuesday and wednesday Dsei actions Read more >>

18-09-2005 14:10

Full List of DSEi protest Arrests

The full list of arrests over the DSEi demonstrations. Read more >>

18-09-2005 07:17

Reflections on the London terroristic attacks and their aftermath

I'll show in my article, that in contrary to the declarations of the British prime-minister Blair and other Westerm politicians, there are evident causes for the London terrorist attacks dd 7-7. Further I also reflect on the aftermath of the attacks, especially regarding the newly proposed British terrorist-laws and the killing of the Brasilian de Menezes by the British policy.
I'll end with a remembreance poem of Eddie Woods concerning Jean de Menezes. Read more >>

17-09-2005 21:56

Banned stun guns and leg irons were advertised at DSEi arms fair

"Peacekeeping" Perhaps?

More news about DSEi - this from yesterday's Guardian:

Banned stun guns and leg irons advertised at arms fair

http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,1571455,00.html

Richard Norton-Taylor
Friday September 16, 2005
The Guardian Read more >>

17-09-2005 19:13

Why cops failed to prevent disruption to DSEi

What a week, so many cops, so many resources, so few of us, yet still they failed to stop us. Read more >>

17-09-2005 17:50

Video: DSEi solidarity demo in Bristol 14.09.05

A short video (around 5 mins) of the DSEi solidarity demonstration in
Bristol, 14.09.05
Video is viewable in quicktime (.mov), realmedia (.rm) or as a web mpeg (.mpg) Read more >>

17-09-2005 12:25

DSEi Wednesday Demos Part Three

Final video of Wednesday's actions. Read more >>

17-09-2005 12:05

DSEi Wednesday Demos Part Two

Part Two of wednesday's videos. Read more >>

17-09-2005 11:33

DSEi Wednesday Demos Part One

The first of three videos from Wednesday's various actions. Read more >>

17-09-2005 11:23

Arms Dealer Sex Toy Party

Taking one look at the arms industry you will find a lot of middle aged men, surrounding themselves with large phallic objects and imagery, rockets, bombs, cannons, submarines etc. It seems the men who conduct the business of death, must rather be compensating for a "lack of weapons capability" elsewhere. Read more >>