London Repression Newswire Archive

08-09-2006 22:54

Sack Parliament! Benefit Gig 16th Sept rampART

Benefit night for the October 9th Sack Parliament actions featuring Rass Smallmoney (conscious hip-hop), boogie knight, Stuart P (Hit or Miss), Sarah Bear & Josh (Sunday Sounds), Mad Scientist (Burning Spear), El Crisis (reggae), Excentral Tempest and Vendetta (Fun-Da-Mental).

Saturday 16th September 8pm til 1:30am. Donations welcome.
rampART, 15-17 Rampart Street, London, E1 2LA Read more >>

07-09-2006 23:21

SOCPA - latest news on barbara tucker and steve jago

when barbara attended charing cross police station on bail, she had no idea she would be held for 24 hours, and obstructed from getting legal representation. her witness friend steve jago, ended up in cells after being violently assaulted. the men behind the continual harrassment of peaceful anti-war protestors, chief inspector robinson and superintendent terry, have recently stopped attempting to use socpa legislation and instead bring ever more bizarre charges against their victims. Read more >>

07-09-2006 19:19

SOCPA - report on tuesday's brian haw adjournment hearing

brian haw appeared at marylebone magistrates court on tuesday afternoon to ask for an adjournment of his socpa trial while a judicial review investigates the lawfulness of police actions. the end of the hearing descended into farce as superintendent terry ran from the court and called for two units of back-up after brian accused him publicly of his involvement in harrasment and intimidation of an innocent woman. Read more >>

04-09-2006 18:57

SOCPA - support brian haw tomorrow (short version)

five years of parliament square anti-war vigil and still there. brian haw is in court at marylebone court tomorrow afternoon. supporters are welcome outside the court and in the public gallery.

(short version of previous post) Read more >>

04-09-2006 17:00 | 2 additions

SOCPA - recent news and analysis - support brian haw tomorrow

if you ever had doubts that the socpa law restricting protest round parliament was political, then read on. faced with legal challenges, police are showing their true colours by trying all other means of deterring peaceful protest against the genocidal and illegal policies of this government. Read more >>

31-08-2006 19:59

Report: 11 Hour Blockade of Israeli Company

UK Headquarters of Israeli Company Blockaded to Gain Ruling on Legality of Trading with Settlements Read more >>

30-08-2006 19:07

Protest by Baloch commuinity against Pakistan on Killing of Nawab Bugti

Protest by Baloch commuinity against Pakistan on Killing of Nawab Bugti Read more >>

29-08-2006 20:45 | 3 additions

New unlawful 'stop & search' tactics used this weekend.

Over the weekend, I experienced a new variation on unlawful police 'stop and search' tactics in London. They looked like a trial run for Israeli-style 'check-points' being used in Britain, setting a worrying precedent. Read more >>

29-08-2006 13:31

Police bullyboy tactics @ critical mass-25/08/06

The police used imtimidatory tacticts at fridays critical mass,one police officer D360 was ready to use CS gas on a cyclist. Read more >>

27-08-2006 21:12

Urgent: 40+ Asylum Seekers to be Deported Back to Iraq on 5 Sep

40+ Iraqi Kurds, locked up in Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow, have received letters from the Home Office saying they will be forcefully removed to Northern Iraq on 5th September, 2006. Unconfirmed reports have it that there will be a 'charter flight' from Stanstead airport on that day.

The letters, in Kurdish, said that, when returned, deportees will receive a $100 'assistance' as well as accommodation for one month only. The faild Iraqi asylum seekers had been asked to sign 'voluntary return' agreements with the IOM but had refused to do so. There is also unconfirmed news that other Iraqis will be deported tomorrow, August 28th.

27-08-2006 16:42

Bleeding Clowns

Report on the events of Monday 21 August 2006

What was to be a civilised cocktail party became a bloody mess as four clowns
from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army became injured and started
dying whilst serving drinks outside the Foreign Office.
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21-08-2006 21:18 | 3 additions

FOREIGN OFFICE BLOCKADE REPORT: Monday 21st August

Anti-war activists blocked entrance to the Foreign Office for two hours Monday morning in a protest against British foreign policy.
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21-08-2006 08:56 | 6 additions

quick early report on foreign office blockade this morning

clowns, samba and lebanese dancers took part in a blockade of the foreign office in king charles street this morning. their theme was 'bringing the war home" and they were hoping to disrupt the workings of the war machine for a while Read more >>

17-08-2006 08:58

Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare

A British court on Wednesday extended the warrants for 23 people held since August 10 in connection with the alleged plot to blow up commercial airliners flying from Britain to the US. An additional person was arrested Tuesday. The judge issued his ruling late in the evening following a closed-door hearing that lasted most of the day. Read more >>

16-08-2006 09:11

The US media and the London terror scare

Since August 10, when British authorities arrested two dozen individuals in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a number of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean, the American mass media has worked ceaselessly to create a climate of fear.
For the first several days after the news of the alleged plot broke, American news programs were virtually unwatchable. The lurid logos and wild, unsubstantiated allegations made a mockery of claims that the networks and cable channels are in the business of “news-gathering.” Read more >>

15-08-2006 13:38

G-Had In the UK

I’m strapped up ’cross my chest, bomb belt attached
Deeply satisfied with the plan I hatched
Electrodes connected to a gas cooker lighter

Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental talks Angela Saini about the All is War (The Benefits of G-Had) album....
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14-08-2006 10:29

Islamophobia and censorship in Britain

The Sun calls him the suicide bomb rapper, MPs want him arrested and his record company refuses to support his latest album. But would his treatment be the same if he were white?

Aki Nawaz says Exposing the inherent colonial mentality of the British
State is an honour and worth any consequence in any shape or form.
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12-08-2006 23:07

hackney critical mass against the occupation

this afternoon hackney corporations were targeted in a small critical mass of a dozen cyclists with a sound system. the local population were very receptive and loads of leaflets were handed out. Read more >>

11-08-2006 05:37

Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered

The claim that American and British security forces have thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up commercial flights between Britain and the United States should not be accepted uncritically. It is impossible to determine at this point whether or not such an attack was in the offing, although the mass media have, as usual, reported the assertions of the British and American governments as indisputable fact, without bothering to ask for any specific information that would substantiate the official story. Read more >>

10-08-2006 12:35

No to hysteria - Yes to real security

There can be no justification for terrorist attacks but they cannot be stopped by turning Britain into a police state. Read more >>