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Protest: Undercover is no excuse for abuse

12-03-2015 15:52

6pm @Cardiff Central Police Station on the 24th of March 2015

#TIMETOACT2015 Climate Change March 7/3

10-03-2015 07:09

7th March, 2015 was the day of the first big march of the year in London. It started in Lincoln’s Inn Field. The sun was with us and so was the party atmosphere. A band was playing some cracking music, food was being served and it felt like it was already summer. Despite the hot weather a group of Polar Bears had decided to join the march. An immediate hit with the crowd they had travelled over from Heathrow Airport having completed a direct action against the third runway. (Video of Heathrow Action -

https://vimeo.com/121598803 )

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Dining With Vultures: Bristol Anarchists & the UK Media

06-03-2015 07:39

The purpose of this piece is to better understanding of mass media's relationship to rebels (including anarchists of all stripes), in general as well as in the context of a repressive atmosphere in Bristol. As well as raising local specifics, it hopes to encourage stronger awareness around wider issues of representation and counter-insurgency.

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Curo Housing to monitor tenants using remote-controlled worker drones

05-03-2015 07:40

Curo, the not-for-profit housing & support organisation based in Bath, is becoming one of the first in the country to look at using drones as part of its tenant management tool kit.

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Smash EDO response to supreme court ruling on surveillance

04-03-2015 21:26

This morning John Catt lost his case in the supreme court to have his details removed from the 'domestic extremist' database. Smash EDO have issued the following statement in response to the verdict. For more info see Network for Police Monitoring's analysis here:

https://netpol.org/2015/03/03/catt-judgment-supreme-court/ and

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/04/secret-police-file-90-year-old-campaigner-lawful-court-rules for mainstream coverage.

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Cameron's Child Sex Abuse Announcements Tuesday 3 March 2015

03-03-2015 14:04

Child sex abuse and violence against children in several English local Council areas and David Cameron's highly-publicised stunts staged today

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UG#704 - Legal Restrictions as Fictions (The Deep State's Passion for Big Data)

28-02-2015 03:10

This time we hear a pair of talks from 31C3 - the latest Chaos Computer Congress - both by insiders with extensive experience on the subject of mass surveillance. First, NSA expert, James Bamford, on the relationships between the NSA and the big telecom companies. Next we hear Caspar Bowden, on the legal basis for the NSA's mass surveillance program, PRISM. Microsoft summarily dismissed him from his job of 9 years as head of privacy after he raised this issue, and he has spent the last 3 years alerting people to the danger ever since. In essence, he says, the deliberately complex legal regulation of data privacy, which he summarised at the very start of the show - gives Europeans no effective rights against NSA surveillance, whilst affording Americans rights against spying by other nations. Although neither speaker seems to have much idea about the deep state, their talks nevertheless provide useful information.

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Victor da Cunha Curo Housing seeks advice from senior military officer

25-02-2015 21:12

Victor da Cunha Curo Housing Group Chief Executive invites senior military officer to teach him how to translate the leadership of a disciplined environment like the army into the housing world at The Curo Groups Inspire 2015 forum.

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Operation GRhone and the Badger hunt

20-02-2015 19:39

Repost of our article about police repression in Bristol, and our response...

Original:

https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/operation-grhone-and-the-badger-hunt/

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Borough of Hatred, Tower Hatred as the news headlines say

11-02-2015 17:10

The claim that the Metropolitan Police are too close to Lutfur Rahman is revealing

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When will the ITUC investigate one of its "own"?

10-02-2015 12:17

ITUC’s Sharan Burrow criticises FIFA.

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Melanie Shaw - Shocking story of child abuse whistleblower being victimised

08-02-2015 13:51

Harrowing case of how Nottingham police and Nottingham council abuse and harass an innocent person in attempts to silence her from speaking out about institutional child abuse rings.

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Open Letter to Dave Cameron about Tower Hamlets cc the Police, et al

07-02-2015 16:08

Dear Dave Cameron

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IMF Plan Offers $170 Million in Debt Relief for Ebola-Impacted West Africa

05-02-2015 19:02

IMF Debt Facility Can Aid World's Poorest Countries

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Julian Assange should be free to go where he wants

08-01-2015 16:09

Julian Assange, the founder and editor of Wikileaks has been a virtual prisoner in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past two and a half years. What, pray, is the nature of Julian Assange’s crime? He has spoken the truth to power and power does not like it might be one answer.

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Solidarity demonstration Brixton Prison New Year’s Eve 2014-15

03-01-2015 12:31

Solidarity demonstration Brixton Prison New Year’s Eve 2014-15

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/c8Vuk2w2OVs

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Nikos Romanos wins: ends hunger strike pending release for studys with leg ring

10-12-2014 14:02

Nikos Romanos has ended his hunger and thirst strike after 31 days, as he petitioned to study university on release. The law that will be applied is that he will wear a bracelet to control his movement while studying out of prison.

Solidarity with you comrade, on your long recovery!
Solidarity with everyone arrested and accused for the 6th!
Solidarity with the Syrians and migrants of Greece!

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Revenge4Rémi, StreetFires4NuclearIndustry, PrisonSociety&GreenCapital

25-11-2014 18:01

(November 25th in Bristol:)

French police have killed Rémi Fraisse while they try to rout a combative forest occupation that prevents the Sivens dam. We have burned a vehicle in the service of the French multinational GDF (who work towards the new nuclear reactor not far away at Hinkley Point on top of other nuclear projects in many countries, force dams on irreplaceable Amazonian indigenous lands with the support of Brazil's military, provide facility management for the police force in this region, run utilities on the Shetland Islands for one of the biggest oil and gas terminals in Europe, manage multiple French prisons, and all around design technologies which attempt to disguise industrial capitalism as sustainable development for the same banks and commercial entities as always).

This was in the Long Ashton area, where we then also burned an audacious 4x4, two luxury sports cars, and a vehicle of OCS (who are considered one of the top security companies in the UK, providing guard personnel, patrols, CCTV instillation and monitoring, etc.).

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Does Theresa May's latest statement on domestic coercion she's fit for Purpose?

23-11-2014 16:40

Interior Minister (UK Home Secretary) Theresa May got a good outing via SkyNewsPressPreview last night (Saturday 22 November 2014) with the Personal Profile plug via the Mail on Sunday.
That would come in handy when she has to sell the main wares gearing the State up with more powers to exercise control on the lives of the innocent majority!
How does her planned law change on curbing domestic coercion fit in with that Agenda?

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Demo Against Police Harassment at Bristol CID (report)

18-11-2014 12:15

Last month a statement was released about police harassment in Bristol and the South West -

https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/statement-against-police-harassment/ . On Saturday, some anarchists in Bristol decided to pay the police a visit of their own...

(for advice on dealing with police harassment, please see this guide -

https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/defendant-solidarity/police-harassment/ )