London Repression Newswire Archive

07-10-2007 18:06

Put The FIT Team On Trial - Call for solidarity and resistance

9th October, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, 9am Read more >>

07-10-2007 03:44

Boycott for Burma: targets

Call from 88-generation Burmese resistance groups. Read more >>

07-10-2007 01:50

Pictures from the Burma march in London

Saturday's London march for Burma from Tate Britain to Trafalgar sq Read more >>

06-10-2007 17:10

London march for Burma October 6,2007

it's a slide show Read more >>

06-10-2007 11:32 | 2 additions

Prepare now for emergency protests! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Prepare now for emergency protest at the US Embassy in London!

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther Party spokesman, supporter of the MOVE
organisation and an award-winning journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless”. He was
framed up in 1982 on false charges of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Sentenced to death
based on his political history and beliefs, Mumia has spent 25 years on death row for a crime
he did not commit.

See below, contact the PDC or visit www.partisandefense.org for more information.
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06-10-2007 06:41

Police ban London antiwar march

The Metropolitan Police have banned a demonstration by the Stop the War Coalition in central London. Police spokesmen have indicated that this is in response to pressure from the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Read more >>

05-10-2007 22:51

East London Muslims Caged Guantanamo-Style

Two British Muslims are locked-up in a cage, chained and hooded for 6 days and nights without basic amenities and comfort in a busy traffic junction corner on the Whitechapel Road (East London) ... Read more >>

05-10-2007 21:57

ATTN: Commissioner of police of the Metropolis

Application has been made for return of Brian Haw's display/property, stolen by the met, before Southwark Crown Court. Read more >>

05-10-2007 21:34

Fighting Fit

A personal account of taking on the FIT.... Read more >>

05-10-2007 10:24

Prisons await a judgment

A report by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody found that there were 600 deaths in prisons, police cells, secure hospitals and young offender institutions last year, 200 of which were self-inflicted. While the numbers of suicides in prisons fell marginally (from 78 in 2005 to 67 last year), more could still be done to protect prisoners. Read more >>

05-10-2007 08:24

Burma solidarity: Total Oil HQ protest ongoing

Burma solidarity protesters are picketing Total oil's HQ in Cavendish Square, London to highlight the company's complicity in the brutal regime's bloody hold on the Burmese population. Read more >>

04-10-2007 13:20

Hackers: Unite For Burmese Freedom!

One very effective way of removing power from a despotic regime is by taking over the tools of control. You can bring down the 'master' using the master's tools - you just have to be clever about it - and persistent.
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04-10-2007 12:51

Solidarity with housing rights activsits in FRANCE

Impressive police operation target an action planned on the 3r of October ,
International Day for the Right to Housing and against property speculation
in Paris.

http://www.globenet.org/dal/
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03-10-2007 16:52 | 1 addition

We Will Defy Government Ban on Anti-War March

Stop the War President Tony Benn has delivered a letter to the
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to make clear why our Troops Out
demonstration at Parliament on Monday 8 October will take place,
despite the ban by the government and police. It is essential
that the voice of the antiwar majority in this country is present
at Parliament when Gordon Brown makes his long awaited statement
on Iraq. Read more >>

03-10-2007 10:54

Protest Total Oil this Friday in London

CALL TO ACTION: 'Die-in' and demo at London TOTAL Oil HQ over Burma links
FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER
8:30 - 10:30 am
33 Cavendish Square, London, WC1
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02-10-2007 21:02

Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'

So Britain lectures Burma on the right of people to protest, the U.N., sends an envoy there and the U.S. - whilst behaving in Iraq and Afghanistan as Burma's Junta, shooting, beating, torturing, imprisoning without trial - go in to broken record mode about the right to peacefully demonstrate and 'freedom and democrocy'. Meanwhile, the British government, under the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer write the cheques for the Iraq and Afghanistan bloodbaths) has instructed the police to ban a peaceful march and Lobby of Parliament - on 8th October, the day that Parliament re-convenes after the summer break - demanding that British troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more >>

02-10-2007 17:06

Deaths in Mental Health Custody

As deaths in mental health custody rise in British hospitals, the family of a woman who died a year ago today carry on a campaign for justice. Sandra Jean Allen died on 2nd October 2006 after systemic problems with her mental healthcare. Supporters of the campaign are urged to join at

http://justice4sandra.blogspot.com or to email

steven.allen@gmail.com Read more >>

02-10-2007 14:35

Schnews on Burma: a response

The only thing to say about the title is we’re glad it won’t be easy to find if you’re googling for information on Burma. The actual details of the uprising are clearly unimportant to the authors or it might get more than half a scanty paragraph before USuk is invoked and the true purpose of the article is revealed. Read more >>

02-10-2007 11:48 | 1 addition

Account of AR UK 2007 & police raid

The UK Animal Rights Gathering 2007 was taking place at a sanctuary in Kent last weekend. Over 200 people attended for workshops and discussions on various issues relating to animal rights, and to scoff Veggie's food. The entire event was peaceful and good natured, and made a mockery of a police who raided the site on Sunday. Read more >>

02-10-2007 00:53

Syrian Kurds to protest in London against 45 years of discriminatory policies

Tens of Syrian Kurds from across the UK will gather in London on Friday, October 5th, to remember the 1962 exceptional census, which stripped around 120,000 Kurds of their nationality and civil rights. The demonstration, called by the Syrian-Kurdish community in the UK, will start at 13:00 and last for about two hours. A delegate will then go into 10 Downing Street to hand the Prime Minister's office a letter explaining their problems and demands. Read more >>