London Repression Newswire Archive

19-06-2008 12:04 | 1 addition

Urgent Action: Control Order Detainee on Hunger Strike til Death or Deportation

In a London hospital Mahmoud Abu Rideh lies in a critical condition from a hunger strike against the Control Order conditions which he has lived under for more than three years. Following an attempt on his life more than a month ago, he has been refusing food, and much of the time even ice cubes or water for 31 days. Wheelchair-bound, he is now coughing and excreting blood. Disillusioned with the injustice he has encountered in Britain, all Mr Abu Rideh requests is allowance to leave the UK and be deported to Syria, or for his Control Order to be lifted. Read more >>

18-06-2008 12:07

Tibetan Demonstration not Thursday Now saturday

The Tibetan Demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy is now not on Thursday 19th June But Saturday 21st June, this is to coincide with the arrival of the torch in Lhasa which has been moved to Saturday Read more >>

18-06-2008 08:51

Fitwatch at anti-bush demo

Report of fitwatch at sundays demo Read more >>

17-06-2008 17:32

UNISON's witchhunt of anti-New Labour activists intensifies

Excellent chance of it all hitting the fan at Unison conference today: the four left-leaning union activists that the union bureaucracy is presently trying to expel are holding a special protest meeting. It’s a meeting which anybody who is anybody in Unison has a substantial stake in.

The union bureaucracy’s witchhunt of these four respected officers is easily the biggest issue at conference this year. There are those who think that the union’s future is written in this battle. Either left or the right in the union must win. Read more >>

17-06-2008 17:08 | 1 addition

British Government rejects Scientology petition - again

Earlier this year, a petition was submitted to the British government calling for an investigation into links between UK Police and the Church of Scientology, a notorious international cult with an array of front groups at its disposal. The petition was dismissed out of hand, with a quote from a representative not even involved with the forces in question.

More recently, a second petition was submitted, this one calling for the British government to refrain from granting the Church of Scientology religious (and therefore tax-exempt) status. Today Number 10 issued its response. Take a guess what it was. Read more >>

17-06-2008 15:42 | 1 addition

Atenco Political Prisoners

On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart. Read more >>

17-06-2008 13:08 | 1 addition

Charged - "Fitwatchers" arrested at STWC March, March 15. Update

Having been arrested under Sec 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 for "intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise" towards the FIT team, 3 of the 4 arrestees have now been charged with the less obscure charge of Obstruct Police. Read more >>

17-06-2008 11:44 | 1 addition

FIT at londonfete

While protesters were beaten and arrested at Whitehall, the police still had enough manpower and resources to take pictures and notes of individuals attending a public meeting, and eventually arresting two people for holding a banner. What's that smell? Not democracy. Read more >>

16-06-2008 20:56

Somalian protest against US-backed Ethiopian invasion, 15.06.08

Alongside the more talked about anti-Bush protest in Parliament Square on Sunday was another less well-known protest, whose protesters were happy to be swept up by the anti-US throng.
This was the Somalian protest against an Ethiopian invasion into their country- an invasion which is publicly backed by the USA because they see the Somalian rebel leaders as dangerous terrorists associated with al-Qaida. Read more >>

16-06-2008 17:01

StWC 'will not co-operate' with police

Stop the War Coalition has written to the Home Secretary protesting the decision to ban yesterday's anti-war march and the "violent policing of the demonstration." The letter, signed by Andrew Murray and Lindsey German, warns: "there can be no question of any further co-operation between the Stop the War Coalition and the Metropolitan Police in regard to future protests until these concerns are addressed to our satisfaction." Read more >>

16-06-2008 16:30

Arrests and police injuries at Bush demo

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

16-06-2008 15:48

Police brutality and snatch squad at Bush demo

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

16-06-2008 13:44

Pix from Bush demo Sunday

Can't seem to upload pix for some reason, so flickr link will have to do, pix over 3 pages. Comments welcome:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bolshie/
Read more >>

16-06-2008 13:25

Fast for justice in India

I want to alert folk in the UK to a couple of campaigns that are happening right now. Both relate to India and both are of particular interest in that they are using the technique of fasting as a way of drawing attention to the struggle. I have pledged to support the first campaign by participating in the fast; others may be interested in how they can offer their support.
Read more >>

16-06-2008 09:17 | 3 additions

film of bush demo whitehall yesterday

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 Read more >>

16-06-2008 07:23

Tibetan supporters vigil outside Chinese Embassy London June 19th

Once again, TCB calls its entire members on Thursday, for an important vigil at the Chinese Embassy 19th June from 15:30 to 19:00 heralding the Olympic Torch's possible arrival in Lhasa. Please make an effort to join the vigil during the Embassy's opening hours so that our voices are heard. Read more >>

15-06-2008 22:06 | 5 additions

Blood on the streets as Bush enters via Brown's back passage.

As demonstrators clashed on the barricades to Whitehall today, George W Bush snuck into Downing Street via the St James Park entrance. Riot police blocked the road from Parliament Square to the park, but few realised what had happened anyway. Read more >>

15-06-2008 21:02

Guantanamo bay / Binyam Mohamed Protest, London 15.06.08

Images from the protest in London appealing for solidarity with Binyam Mohamed - the last UK resident in Guantanamo bay threatened with the death penalty.
Binyam Mohamed is a refugee from Ethiopia, who was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, was seized in Pakistan and rendered to Morocco, then sent to Afghanistan, and then Guantanamo Bay.
Read more >>

15-06-2008 12:29

Treasurer shifted and more financial chaos as cash disappears into BNP pit

More chaos down in Welshpool Read more >>

14-06-2008 16:39

Oxford Professor Resigned Over Vivisection

As laboratory vivisectors around the world are being picketed at their homes,
it is good to remember that Ruskin resigned from Oxford over vivisection
and that Wagner recommended frightening vivisectors.

Queen Victoria, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Dickens, Tennyson,
Browning, Ruskin, Voltaire

on opposing vivisection Read more >>