Following a call from London NoBorders, a second 'Life Is Too Short To Be Controlled' [pics 1 | 2 | 3 | vids 1 | 2 | 3] demonstration started in Piccadilly Circus this afternoon. Around sixty people gathered to "connect two locations in London which are symbolic places of both the border regime and surveillance". After a couple of speeches, people started marching through central London street…

Related reports from IMC-London wires:

• Life is too short ... one demo is not enough!
• Piccadilly Circus: CCTV controlling your life
• Life is too short - pics and report
• Demo Connecting Border Regime & Surveillance: pics

Videos:

• St Pancras out of control
• Life Is Too Short: Demo Arrives in St.Pancras
• IMC-London interview to No Borders
• Trailer for "Life is too short - part II"

The demonstration eventually made it to Kings Cross, and it quickly moved into the Eurostar terminal. It kept moving around the terminal until it eventually made its way to the check-in desks and border control. A group of people managed to go throgh the check in and into the border area, which provoked a quick, and quite freaked-out, response from the security personnel. After a while people …

Following a call from London NoBorders, a second 'Life Is Too Short To Be Controlled' demonstration started in Piccadilly Circus this afternoon. Around sixty people gathered under the constant sight of hundreds of CCTV cameras to "connect two locations in London which are symbolic places of both the border regime and surveillance". After a cuple of speeches, people started marching through central…

Some pics of the march today. Weather was nice, cops hardly any hassle until the end. Passers by were happy to take the flyers, and some cheering in support. Starting at Piccadilly Circus we went the long way round to St Pancras, where the march didn't stop, but went right on. Some folks even got through the border at the Eurostar check in, which seemed to puzzle some and freak out others.

Investigation of the street level environment of the spooky CCTV centre below Piccadilly Circus, on occasion of the second Life is too short to be controlled demo by NoBorders.

Lovely.

"Life is too short to be controlled - part II" , 30th October 2010, short video snippet of the demo arrives in St.Pancras International Terminal.

While the migration regime is fortifying itself and setting up rings of defence around European wealth, inner control is tightening to keep public order, at a time where the nation state already seems to be a dead corpse. And with an economy which exploits the most virtual property, the need to control even the remotest parts of people's lives is increasing. At the beginning of the year we we…

London Indymedia got London No Borders to tell us about the up coming action 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' at last weekends Anarchist Bookfair. 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' takes place this Saturday afternoon, 30th October, at Picadilly Circus at 3pm.

Read the Part 1's report here

Life is too short to be controlled - part 2.

30 October 2010, meet 3pm Piccadilly Circus/Corner Coventry Street.

http://london.noborders.org.uk/lifestooshort

The Ratstar, 298 Camberwell Road, Camberwell SE5

meet 3pm Piccadilly Circus/Corner Coventry Street.

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel E1 1ES

Saturday 23rd January 2010, about two hundred people took the streets of London in protest at ever more draconian immigration controls and this countries pervasive surveillance culture.

This 16 minute video contains speeches and footage from the march. (320x240 mpeg4 ~64MB)

Further Indymedia coverage of the demo is available here:

• Peter Marshal photos - https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/445…

On Saturday, 23 January 2010, demonstrators took the streets of central London as part of the 'Life's too short to be controlled' demonstration called by No Borders. This article contains links to audio from the demonstration, including the speeches made at the start of the demonstration, in front of the entrance to St Pancras Station and at the end, near the Eros statue in Picadilly.

Today's 'Life's Too Short to be controlled' demo that was called by London No Borders attracted over 150 people that gathered at St.Pancras international terminal from 2pm. Whilst people were arriving banners were being unfurled, speeches were given over the mobile sound system, and bandanas specially made for the demo that read 'cctv operating at all times - life's too short to be controlled' and…

After a few speeches have been given in Saint Pancras, over 150 people - many covering their faces with bandanas specially made for the demo - were marching towards Picadilly today 23rd January at about 3 o'clock. They passed The British Museum at about half past three. At about quarter to four, the demonstration, taking on the road on Shaftesbury avenue, were arriving at Picadilly, and all the wa…

The Library House, 52 Knatchbull Road, Brixton, SE5 9QY.

Central London