Did the Met Police use Agent Provocateurs/ Police Agitators during the G20 Meltdown festival? While this may seem far-fetched to the casual observer, it is a commonly-used technique for "protest management" by riot police across the world. It provides the justification for heavy-handed retaliation by the police and media over-reaction. More importantly, those now charged with breaking and entering…
As Parliament was sitting again after having been absent from Westminster for Easter holidays, Tamil people and their supporters in London stepped up their protests on Monday 20th against the military onslaught in the Tamil areas of northern Sri Lanka. Thousands of people blocked Parliament Square for the whole day, whilst large numbers of police and riot TSG forces in standby-by kept a close eye.
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There is a feature currently running at IMC-UK that is covering the ongoing autonomous action that has settled at parliament square after blockading Westminster bridge for almost a day and night/.
The series of events that followed has been eclipsed steadily by the determination of the ongoing hunger strike.
It is not intended to take focus away from the two lives dangling so dangerously in hung…
Forwarded article from witness who attended Tamil protest in London. Reports of chemical attacks not in mainstream media. More information to follow from source in India.
Yesterday and into this morning Tamil Tiger protesters continued their demonstration outside the houses of parliament in a stand against the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The protest, which at its peak numbered 3000 people, was very peaceful and included in its numbers a large amount of picnicking families, with crisps and water bulk bought by the protesters to feed the crowd.
Police Brutality last Thursday at Bank - people gathered for a minute's silence in memory of Ian Tomlinson and this is what happened to them.
http://www.stopwar.og.uk
US Embassy, Grosvenor Square to Trafalgar Square * Get the troops out of Iraq & Afghanistan * End the siege of Gaza free Palestine * Create jobs not bombs * Stop arming Israel * Abolish all nukes
Called by Stop the War, CND, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative
On Saturday I participated in a one-man act of civil disobedience that is not yet reported in any paper to my knowledge. To co-incide with the Put People First march through London I climbed over the railings and into the grounds of the Houses of Parliament/Palace of Westminster.
Londoners take matters in their hands and lock up criminal Israeli goods sold in Whitechapel and Bethnal Green Tescos.
The Put People First march is now making its way into Hyde Park. The first half of the march showed up about an hour ago, the second half was delayed due to the police joining the march and keeping a slow-moving cordon of cops in front of the anarchist Militant Workers Bloc, presumably to deny them mobility in case they decided to overthrow capitalism today.
Many media outlets have been publishing various lists and maps of G20 protest events,
(eg. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2009/mar/23/online-guide-to-g20-protests
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LI118029.htm )
So here's a more accurate one of confirmed events and initiatives so far from various groups and coalitions (*more events are being announced).
For a GOOGLE map of events,…