London Repression Newswire Archive

09-08-2008 20:39 | 1 addition

Climate Campers Continue Search For Missing Teenage Girl Snatched by the Police

The teenage girl illegally assaulted and snatched by the police at the conclusion of the day of mass action at the Camp for Climate Action is still missing. Read more >>

08-08-2008 16:47

Letter to police about their abuse of stop and search powers sent on 6 August

Police have set up a search regime for every single person visiting the camp that is unknown at any border checkpoint in the world other than Israel / Palestine. It is analogous to that faced by visitors to prison. It assumes anyone going to the camp is a potential criminal, whereas the legal power used requires them to have actual suspicion that they are. Read more >>

08-08-2008 16:37

Legal support Letter to Police re. Police confiscations

Police have thieved vast quantities of materials trying to either scupper the camp or prevent effective direct action taking place. This is clearly unlawful, but for various reasons we unfortunately failed to find a way to use the law to prevent it happening. It may be that such a challenge happens yet - if you have had property seized in suspicious circumstances like those outlined below, please contact us Read more >>

07-08-2008 20:47

Climate camp - talking to locals

I talked at length to locals near the camp today. Interesting stuff. main point is, they are almost as pissed off with the police as us! Read more >>

07-08-2008 19:41 | 1 addition

bowl court evicted!?

i just received the following information on an email list.

it seems to suggest that the bowl court social centre has been evicted this morning.. Read more >>

07-08-2008 14:34 | 1 addition

Hoo Section 60

Local press claims Section 60 in force on Hoo peninsula Read more >>

07-08-2008 09:45

Demonstrate on Sunday to remember Pauline Campbell

Prisoners’ Justice Day demonstration

Sunday 10 August 1-3pm, outside Styal prison, Wilmslow, Cheshire (nearest stations Wilmslow and Manchester Airport).

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06-08-2008 22:14 | 1 addition

Climate Camp - Police Demonstrate Excessive Force At Stop And Searches

Here is a short video from Kent Online, showing the police using excessive force against a some female climate campers and a legal observer. Read more >>

06-08-2008 17:47

Tibet Activists scale Tower Bridge on Eve of Olympics

Two campaigners have climbed London's Tower Bridge to unfurl banners in protest at China's occupation of Tibet on the eve of the Olympics. The banner-hang was linked to similar actions internationally, most notably the unfurling of free Tibet banners within metres of the 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium in Beijing. The activists are linked to the group Students for a Free Tibet. Read more >>

06-08-2008 13:11

Climate camp: BBC buys into police propaganda

A BBC reporter buys into police propaganda and fails to report campers' side of an issue Read more >>

06-08-2008 11:33

Tuesday at climate camp.

Some snaps and a short report from tuesday at Climate Camp. Read more >>

06-08-2008 10:40

Climate Camp: Pics of Police Confiscating Bikes from Car Park

Screen grabs from the video showing police cutting locks off bicycles next to the Climate Camp and confiscating them.

Video and report at:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405517.html Read more >>

06-08-2008 02:50 | 3 additions

Psyops, terror and policing of the climate camp

Police mounted an outrageous terror attack on the camp in the early hours of Wednesday 6th, sounding sirens, circling their helicopter over the site, cutting the flood lighting, then deploying van loads of tooled-up riot cops at the gates in the darkness and getting them to number off and yell 'get up, get up' into the camp.... Read more >>

05-08-2008 22:30

Clapham South Total Oil Protest for Burma

On 30th July six protesters from www.totaloutofburma.org held a demonstration at the Ridge Total Service Station, 40 - 50 Balham Hill, Wandsworth, London SW12 9EL (near Clapham South). French Total Oil funds the brutal Burmese junta with 500 million dollars a year from the Total operated Yadana gas field, fuelling oppression and great cruelty in Burma. Next August 8th will mark the 20th uprising of the 8-8-88 protests in which 3,000 peaceful Burmese protesters were murdered by the Burmese junta. Read more >>

05-08-2008 15:11

Highway robbery

Across the country local councils are committing highway robbery, robbing people blind with unlawful traffic and parking schemes.
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05-08-2008 10:25

PHILIPPINES: Open Letter to the NPA General Command and the NDF

We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent spate of killings of farmers and farmer-leaders in Masbate, perpetrated by individuals identified as belonging to the local command of the New People’s Army.

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04-08-2008 14:12

Binyam Mohamed: judges grill MI5 agent and question fairness of Guantánamo trial

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on the explosive developments during last week’s judicial review, in the British high court, of the case of British resident and torture victim Binyam Mohamed, imprisoned in Guantánamo and facing a trial by Military Commission. Read more >>

04-08-2008 10:29

Artists jailed for bringing colour to shitty cities.

Members of the DPM crew were jailed for up to 2 years for making dull shitty city scapes brighter and more colourful spaces.
As they start a prison sentence, pictures of their work are to be exhibited in a New York art gallery. So are they vandals or frustrated artists?

myspace page explaining more www.myspace.com/supportdpm

Petition to present at appeal to try and get reduced sentences here

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/graffiti-artists.html

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04-08-2008 08:13 | 1 addition

5 o'clock and the police try and drive through main gate to climate camp

Climate Camp main gate duty meets and repels a van load of police at 5am Read more >>

04-08-2008 08:05

New libel threat against Uzbekistan solidarity

Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, is threatened again with libel action to prevent the publication of his new book.
In this book, Murray plans to expose the methods of mercenary commander Tim Spicer, one of those who has made a fortune with supplying his private, unaccountable army, to Iraq. [Fuck the War action]